mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Alexander Pope

A word must be said in closing as to the merits of The Rape of the Lock and its position in English literature. In the first place it is an ...

mobi | | 1999-10-15 | Author:John Milton;Burton Raffel

1 Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood 2 Praying, for from the mercy-seat 5752 above 3 Prevenient5753 grace descending had removed 4 The stony from their hearts, and made ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-04 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

Canto 27 [1] ‘Al Padre, al Figlio, a lo Spirito Santo,’ cominciò, ‘gloria!’, tutto ’l paradiso, sì che m’inebriava il dolce canto. [4] Ciò ch’io vedeva mi sembiava un riso ...

mobi |eng | 2006-03-30 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

CANTO 24 1 In quella parte del giovanetto anno che ’l sole i crin sotto l’Aquario tempra e già le notti al mezzo dì sen vanno, 4 quando la brina ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

Charles came to Italy, and—to make amends—he victimized Conradin. Then he sent Saint Thomas back to Heaven—to make amends. I see a time, not far off, that brings forth another ...

mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Kathleen Krull

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Rice, Anne [Rice, Anne]

CHAPTER NINE I STOPPED. I FOUND MYSELF IN A NARROW MUDDY LANE, overcome with the stench of the filth flowing into the gutters. I thought again of trying to reach ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:David Bodanis [Bodanis, David]

17 Frederick FLANDERS AND PRUSSIA, 1740–1741 In June 1740 Frederick's father did finally die, which meant that the young, timid Frederick was now king, and Voltaire could begin his plan. ...

epub |eng | | Author:POUND, EZRA

III EMOTION AND POESY Obviously, it is not easy to be a great poet. If it were, many more people would have done so. At no period in history has ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Marlowe

140 be damned here. What? Walking, disputing, etc.? But leaving off this, let me have a wife, the fairest maid in Germany, for I am wanton and lascivious and cannot ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Anne Rice [Anne Rice]

CHAPTER NINE I STOPPED. I FOUND MYSELF IN A NARROW MUDDY LANE, overcome with the stench of the filth flowing into the gutters. I thought again of trying to reach ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Sarah Dunant [Dunant, Sarah]

PART V A Father’s Grief Rather, had we seven papacies we would give them all to have him alive again. POPE ALEXANDER VI, JUNE 1497 CHAPTER 27 Mid-June. The days ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...