epub |eng | 2005-12-26 | Author:Paget Toynbee

DANTE AND HIS BOOK From the picture by Domenico di Michelino, in the Duomo at Florence 1“To every captive soul and gentle heart Unto whose ken these present words shall ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Joe Lee [Lee, Joe]

Brutus is the black mouth’s meal and Cassius, the white. To us it may seem strange to have these two almost equal with he who propelled the sacrifice of Christ, ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

CHORUS Is it the truth, or but an idle tale To give false comfort to our fears, That the soul lives on when the body is laid to rest, When ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1998-05-27 | Author:Apuleius [Apuleius]

BOOK 8 Tragic deaths of Charite and Tlepolemus – their slaves decamp in panic with the animals – misadventures on the way – Lucius sold to the priests of Atargatis ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Plutarch

OF LOVE. FLAVIANUS AND AUTOBULUS, SONS OF PLUTARCH. 1. FLAVIANUS. Was it not in Helicon, dear Autobulus, that those discourses were held concerning Love, which — whether thou hast already ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Plutarch

As he came out of the boat, when he was struck with a sword, he said nothing; but gave one groan, and covering his head submitted to the murderers. Cicero. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Plutarch

Besides, Homer makes not one of the heroes lie with his wife or mistress in the daytime, but only Paris, who, having shamefully fled from the battle, sneaked into the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Plutarch

as if the light of the sun fell not upon another star, but upon night and darkness. And as for what Posidonius says, that the depth of the moon’s body ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Adam Roberts [Roberts, Adam]

The story of The Lord of the Rings is that even ‘the little people’ (which is to say: people like you and me) have their part to play in the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris [Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris]

M * * * MACHPELAH was a double-chambered cave in western Hebron, which Abraham bought for a family burial place. Ragan’s web of war drops “with crimson gore with the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anonymous

- XX - Hrothgar replied, the ruler of the Scyldings: “Ask not about gladness! Grief is renewed for the Danish people. Aeschere is dead, the elder brother of Yrmenlaf the ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:Anita Kinley

Chapter Five Lucas knew he was akin to a man driven. Driven by an inferno. It was the same fire that he had described to Dylan. Remembering the exact words, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:John Berger

THE AMBASSADORS BY HOLBEIN 1497/8–1543 It is painted with great skill to create the illusion in the spectator that he is looking at real objects and materials. We pointed out ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-24 | Author:Irwin, Robert [Irwin, Robert]

Essentially the same pneumatic image can be reconstructed from the Nights. When, in ‘The Tale of Omar bin al-Nu’uman’, the Muslim warrior Sharrkan wrestled with the Christian princess Abrizah, he ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:J.K. Rowling

— CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO— The Unexpected Task ‘Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?’ Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and Ron ...