epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Barbara Graziosi

Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-18 | Author:Silius Italicus [Italicus, Silius]

BOOK XVI ARGUMENT HANNIBAL MOVES ABOUT IN THE BRUTTIAN COUNTRY (1-22). THE CARTHAGINIANS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF SPAIN: MAGO IS DEFEATED AND FLEES TO CARTHAGE (25, 26). HANNO IS TAKEN ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Daljit Nagra [Daljit Nagra]

‘Did not once a mere two-shoulder man called Parasuram once coop this mighty ten-headed Raavana till he was weeping for release?’ Sudden the old man’s blood shot up. He ground ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anonymous Anonymous

22 BEOWULF SEEKS GRENDEL’S MOTHER. Beowulf answered, Ecgtheow’s son: Beowulf exhorts the old king to arouse himself for action. “Grieve not, O wise one! for each it is better, His ...

azw3 |eng | 2017-06-26 | Author:Anonymous,

* * * 66 After the killing of the monster and Grendel’s decapitation. 67 Hrothgar. 68 The blade slowly dissolves in blood-stained drops like icicles. 69 Spear. 24 BEOWULF spake, ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2014-10-26 | Author:Jeramy Dodds

OF SINFJOTLI’S DEATH Frá dauða Sinfiotla Sigmund, son of Volsung, was king in the land of the Franks. His oldest son was Sinfjotli, Helgi was the second, and Hamund was ...

mobi |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:Anonymous

XXIII ’MID the battle-gear saw he a blade triumphant, old-sword of Eotens, with edge of proof, warriors’ heirloom, weapon unmatched, - save only ’twas more than other men to bandy-of-battle ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Dante Alighieri

CANTO XVIII Había terminado sus razones mi alto doctor, mirando atentamente si en mis ojos mostraba mi contento; y yo, a quien nueva sed atormentaba, callaba, mas por dentro me ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Derek Walcott [Walcott, Derek]

II Seven Seas asked him to rake the leaves in his yard. The pomme-Arac shed so many the rusted drum filled quickly, and more were falling as he carried each ...

mobi |es | 2010-04-26 | Author:Italo Calvino

Tras Rodomonte los sarracenos asaltan el muro como las moscas del verano asaltan las mesas bien puestas, o como en otoño los pajarillos asaltan las viñas. Pero el muro no ...

epub |eng | 2001-02-16 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]

gold unrīme, grimme gecēapod; ond nū æt sīðestan sylfes fēore bēagas gebohte: þā sceall brond fretan, ǣlad þeccean, nalles eorl wegan māððum tō gemyndum, nē mægð scȳne habban on healse ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dante Alighieri

Peschiera sits at the circling shore's descent, 70 'Gainst Bergamese and Brescians built for cover, A goodly keep; there all the effluent Benaco's bosom cannot hold, spills over, 73 Slipping ...

epub |eng | | Author:Edmund Spenser

CANTO IX The Squire of low degree releast Pœana takes to wife: Britomart fightes with many Knights Prince Arthur stints their strife. 1 Hard is the doubt, and difficult to ...

epub |eng | 1892-04-29 | Author:Dante Alighieri [Alighieri, Dante]

None for the second waited nor the third. Meantime as on I pass’d, one met my sight Whom soon as view’d; "Of him," cried I, "not yet Mine eye hath ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Keats, John [Keats, John]

To Chatterton O CHATTERTON! how very sad thy fate! Dear child of sorrow–son of misery! How soon the film of death obscured that eye, Whence Genius wildly flashed, and high ...