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On Power (Penguin) by William Shakespeare
epub |eng | 2009-08-27 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

PRINCE HARRY: O pardon me, my liege! But for my tears, The moist impediments unto my speech, I had forestalled this dear and deep rebuke Ere you with grief had ...
( Category: Shakespeare April 5,2020 )
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Plato [Plato]

‘You really mustn't think,’ I said, ‘that I have any aim in asking you all these questions beyond a simple desire to investigate; to investigate all aspects of being good, ...
( Category: Medieval April 5,2020 )
Georgics (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

480 and are the why winter suns dash to dip themselves into the ocean and are what causes long nights to last and linger. But if I am not the ...
( Category: Medieval April 5,2020 )
River Cafe London by unknow
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:unknow

Fish Stock Makes about 8½ cups (2 liters) 1¾–2¼ pounds (780g–1kg) white fish bones 2 medium red onions, peeled and cut into quarters from root to tip 2 medium carrots, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 5,2020 )
Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue (Oxford) by Marquis de Sade
epub |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Marquis de Sade [Sade, Marquis de]

In my terror I had unfortunately forgotten to tear up the Comtesse’s letter. Suspecting I have it, he asks me for it, and I am about to deny it, but ...
( Category: European April 5,2020 )
A Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev [Koren, Yehuda & Negev, Eilat]

Just as she was sealing the envelope, she heard the key turning in the front door. She quickly pushed the letter under the sofa but David caught the quickness of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 5,2020 )
Stung With Love by Sappho
epub |eng | 2009-07-04 | Author:Sappho [Sappho]

Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned Aphrodite, let me win this round! This song breaks down into the tripartite structure of a kletic hymn (see Introduction, p. xxvi). ...
( Category: Renaissance April 5,2020 )
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Timothy Morton [Morton, Timothy]

QUEER DUCKS These questions extend Turing’s proposition that if a machine walks like a mind and quacks like a mind, it might as well be one.107 The uncanny and uncertainty ...
( Category: Ecology April 5,2020 )
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm by Alberto Manguel
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

Like Hamlet, Horatio too is a young intellectual (a word that acquires its modern meaning in Shakespeare’s time), a student at the University of Wittenberg who, in spite of confessing ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 5,2020 )
The Suspended Passion by Marguerite Duras
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Marguerite Duras [Duras, Marguerite]

It was as though the word I wrote already contained its image within itself. To film it was to pursue the discourse and amplify it. It was to continue writing—on ...
( Category: Modern April 5,2020 )
Fragments (Penguin) by Heraclitus
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Heraclitus [Heraclitus]

FRAGMENTS The Collected Wisdom of HERACLITUS 1 The Word proves those first hearing it as numb to understanding as the ones who have not heard. Yet all things follow from ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 5,2020 )
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
epub |eng | 2020-02-25 | Author:Anne Carson

Enter Norma Jeane on wind phone, hand to ear. Dear Hermione, I dreamed of you. I saw you floating face down. Every day is a struggle here, I woke up ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 4,2020 )
For the Guild by J E Mueller
epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:J E Mueller [Mueller, J E]

7 I had barely gotten back home and into my room when I noticed a message from Cat. Surprised to already see one, I opened it. SkepticalMouse: I need your ...
( Category: Mental Health April 4,2020 )
Poems by Sextus Propertius
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Sextus Propertius [Propertius, Sextus]

‘Guilty as charged, Propertius – but I won’t hound you. I ruled your books – you gave me a long run. I swear by the Fates, whose thread can’t be ...
( Category: Love Poems April 4,2020 )
Socrates by William J Prior
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:William J Prior [Prior, William J]

Crito agrees that we ought to follow the advice of the wise person, if one exists. The part of us that is improved by just actions and destroyed by unjust ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 4,2020 )

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