epub |eng | 2015-10-18 | Author:Aers, David; [Aers, David]

That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. (East Coker, ...

epub |eng | 2007-10-04 | Author:Procopius

Such was his statement. And the woman replied by intoning, ‘Patrician So-and-So’, and the chorus of eunuchs chanted their response: ‘That’s a mighty big hernia you’ve got there!’ When the ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Anonymous

‘Father,’ said Thorstein, ‘Don’t say anything now that you’ll live to regret later.’ ‘I’m not going to say as much as I’ve a mind to,’ said Thorarin. Thorstein got to ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:John Mandeville

Next to Chaldea is the land of Amazoun [the Amazons], which we call the Maiden Land or the Land of Women; no man lives there, only women. This is not ...

epub |eng | 2004-05-27 | Author:Thomas Malory

Book XIV CHAPTER 1: How Sir Percival came to a recluse and asked her counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt Now saith the tale, that ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Jesse L. Byock

7. Victory runes shall you know If you want to secure wisdom, And cut them on the sword hilt, On the center ridge of the blade, And the parts of ...

epub |eng | 2005-04-28 | Author:Snorri Sturluson

50. Hakon returns to Norway HAKON now left Denmark and went back north to his estates in Norway. His kinsman, Earl Orm, was dead by then. Hakon’s friends and kinsmen ...

epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...

epub |eng | 1957-07-14 | Author:ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE

(iii) Tares and Wheat Our survey of encounters between contemporaries1 has made us aware that the only fruitful results of these encounters are the works of peace, and most mournfully ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-08 | Author:Ben Waggoner [Waggoner, Ben]

BIBLIOGRAPHY Andersson, Theodore M. “An Interpretation of Þiðreks saga.” Structure and Meaning in Old Norse Literature: New Approaches to Textual Analysis and Literary Criticism. John Lindow, Lars Lönnroth, and Gerd ...

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Warner, Marina;

Fig. 29 A few examples of statues called zemis, which were used to mobilize powers of prophecy, healing, and fertility, survived the iconoclasm of the missionaries (zemi, from Jamaica, izoo—1500). ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-24 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer [Chaucer, Geoffrey]

THE SQUIRE’S TALE. THE PROLOGUE. “HEY! Godde’s mercy!” said our Hoste tho,1 1then “Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro’. Lo, suche sleightes and subtilities In women ...

epub |eng | 1996-06-14 | Author:Chevalier, Jean

LADDER myth of the centre of the world. However, all holy places can become centres and thus make contact with Heaven. 'The Egyptians preserved in their funeral texts the expression ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Derek Attridge

epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...