Ancient & Classical
epub |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Molière [Molière]

SCENE IX.-SGANARELLE, VALÈRE, ERGASTE. SGAN. (Thinking himself alone). Oh, thrice and four times blessed be the law which forbids extravagance in dress! [Footnote: It is remarkable that Louis XIV., who ...
( Category: French October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Robertson [Robertson, Robin]

AN AMBUSH None survived. The platoon had forgotten the fable of the patient fox, waiting for the night's sudden drop to zero. A minute is all it takes and the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Lattimore, Richmond & Martin, Richard & Homer, [Martin, Richard]

BOOK FOURTEEN Now Nestor failed not to hear their outcry, though he was drinking his wine, but spoke in winged words to the son of Asklepios: “Take thought how these ...
( Category: Greek April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 1753-01-02 | Author:Homer & Robert Fitzgerald [Homer & Fitzgerald, Robert]

“Telémakhos, what am I to do now? Return alone and lie again on my forsaken bed— sodden how often with my weeping since that day when Odysseus put to sea ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Lucretius

BOOK V COSMOS AND CIVILIZATION Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1884-01-02 | Author:Anonymous; Andrew George

1 THE COMING OF ENKIDU GILGAMESH went abroad in the world, but he met with none who could withstand his arms till he came to Uruk. But the men of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

where, turned towards us, Beatrice stood. ‘Make sure,’ they said, ‘you do not spare your eyes. 115 We’ve placed you here before these emeralds, from which Love aimed his arrows ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:Homer & Peter Jones & D.C.H. Rieu & E.V. Rieu

‘My dear friend, your father Menoetius gave you instructions that day he sent you from Phthia to join Agamemnon. I and godlike Odysseus were in the house and we heard ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1948-01-02 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer; DAVID WRIGHT; Christopher Cannon

The remedy’s not working; certainly, If you could see, you’d never talk like that. You have some glimmerings, no perfect sight.’ ‘I can see’, said he, ‘as well as ever ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stéphane Gerson

No single inhabitant shall remain: Des habitans un seul n’y demourra: Its walls & women, churches & nuns raped, Mur, sexe, temple, & vierge violée, All dying by sword, fire, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 24,2014 )