Ancient & Medieval Literature
epub |eng | | Author:Martial [McLean, Susan]

11.105 You used to send a pound; now it’s decreased to a quarter, Garricus. Pay me half, at least. 11.106 If, Vibius Maximus, you’ve time for greetings, read just this; ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Virgil

ECLOGUE VII The goatherd Meliboeus soliloquizing remembers how he happened to be present at the great singing-match between Corydon and Thyrsis. He then quotes from memory their actual songs (six ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )
epub |fra | 2008-09-20 | Author:L'Isle-Adam, Villiers de [L'Isle-Adam, Villiers de]

V Exhumation Lugete, O Veneres, Cupidinesque! CATULLE. --Voici, nasillait Edison avec la voix d'un commissaire-priseur: voyez: Ici reposent la ceinture de Vénus, l'écharpe des Grâces, les flèches de Cupidon. Voici, ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dougal Jerram

7Igneous intrusions – a window into volcano plumbing When a modern volcano, erupting hot lava at the surface, is observed the complex plumbing beneath the volcano is masked. Much like ...
( Category: Earth Sciences March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

IV. Montaigne; or, The Sceptic Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one ...
( Category: Classics March 13,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-05-02 | Author:Andrew Joynes [Joynes, Andrew]

The Ghost of Beaucaire Part III, Chap. CIII It often happens that we have to endure the mockery of many people when we tell them about infernal punishment. For them, ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Graphic Design March 12,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:M.C. Howatson [Howatson, M.C.]

I Ia’cchus A supposed Greek deity, invoked by the cry Iacch’ O Iacche during the procession of the initiates from Athens to Eleusis to celebrate the Eleusinian *mysteries. Iacchus was ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:Damon Runyon [Runyon, Damon]

What, No Butler? To look at Ambrose Hammer, the newspaper scribe, you will never suspect that he has sense enough to pound sand in a rat hole, but Ambrose is ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Thomas Aquinas & Ralph McInerny [Aquinas, Thomas & McInerny, Ralph]

QUESTION 58 ON THE MODE OF ANGELIC KNOWLEDGE We now take up the mode of angelic knowledge and ask seven questions in its regard: (1) is the intellect of the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Horace

mos et lex: custom and law, the unwritten and written bonds of society; cf. 3.24.35–6 quid leges sine moribus | uanae proficiunt; trag. inc. fr.117 Ribb., cited by Cic. Att. ...
( Category: Poetry March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Yannis Ritsos

I can’t, though. And yet I’ve always liked observatories – a dark staircase, the clock, the telescope, those snapshots of stars in postures entirely domestic, swordless Orion, pants down, Berenice ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Plato [Plato]

By all means, he said, tell us about the child, and you shall remain in our debt for the account of the parent. I do indeed wish, I replied, that ...
( Category: Philosophy March 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Herodotus [Herodotus]

BOOK V THE IONIANS REVOLT, THE ATHENIANS ASSIST 1. IN THE MEANTIME THE Persians who had been left behind in Europe by Dareios, of whom Megabazos171 was the commander, had ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Hugo, Victor [Hugo, Victor]

( Category: Graphic Novels March 6,2018 )