History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2001-10-11 | Author:Julia Annas [Annas, Julia]

* * * Differing views of Socrates ‘Mankind can hardly be too often reminded, that there was once a man named Socrates, between whom and the legal authorities and public ...
( Category: Philosophy August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:George Herbert [Herbert, George]

Arise sad heart; if thou dost not withstand, Christ’s resurrection thine may be: Do not by hanging down break from the hand, Which as it riseth, raiseth thee: Arise, arise; ...
( Category: Poetry August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:e. e. cummings

for hope of hope must coo or boo may strut or creep ungenerous who ape deftly aims they dare not share) such make their names (this poet made war whose ...
( Category: Poetry August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hobson Woodward

Plans to develop an upriver settlement were delayed by an event that occurred soon after the expedition returned to Jamestown. The colonists had long feared they would encounter the Spanish ...
( Category: Americas August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Michael Alexander

[1590] And above, the wise men who watched with Hrothgar the depths of the pool descried soon enough blood rising in the broken water and marbling the surface. Seasoned warriors, ...
( Category: Poetry August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Michael Holroyd [Holroyd, Michael]

* Beatrice had wished for closer intellectual intimacy with Shaw through the New Statesman. But his ‘big brain’, she became convinced, had been spoilt by Mrs Patrick Campbell. ‘He is ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Mayhew

You say the predominant trend of nineteenth-century intellectuals was collectivist and statist. But didn’t Nietzsche advocate individualism? What’s your estimate of him? It’s a low estimate, philosophically. I disagree with ...
( Category: Philosophy August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dara Downey,Ian Kinane,Elizabeth Parker

Section II Liminal Identities Chapter 6 Figures in a Foreign Landscape Aspects of Liminality in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival Melanie Otto Much of Shaun Tan’s work revolves around the question ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Geller, Markham J.

A somewhat different view of medical incantations is provided by an Assur text, KAR 73, now BAM 7 9–10 (see Böck 2008: 307f.). This single-column tablet contains two poetic incantations, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-02 | Author:Joseph Brodsky [Brodsky, Joseph]

Whereupon, however, having already marked by means of these nightingales (inevitable attributes of the standard lyric love poem) the nature of the scene and the space at any point of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K.]

Fads and Public Opinion A FOREIGNER IS A man who laughs at everything except jokes. He is perfectly entitled to laugh at anything, so long as he realises, in a ...
( Category: United States August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Rick Worland

The story’s sexual dynamic turns complicated, however, when Clyde rejects her advances explaining, “I ain’t much of a lover boy,” and indeed avoids or is unable to consummate their relationship ...
( Category: Americas August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Gwendolyn Brooks [Brooks, Gwendolyn]

The colored people will not “clown.” The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak, Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, ...
( Category: Poetry August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-10 | Author:Nathanael West

“Jeepers Creepers! Where’d ya get those peepers?…” She trucked, jerking her buttocks and shaking her head from side to side. Homer was amazed. He felt that the scene he was ...
( Category: Classics August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Lloyd Webber

PLOTTING EXERCISE The plot of a story is a causal sequence that results in change that engages the reader. It is beneficial for me personally to have a good amount ...
( Category: Creativity August 11,2018 )