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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 |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 ...

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, ...