mobi |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:George Santayana

* * * IV. GOETHE'S FAUST * * * In approaching the third of our philosophical poets, there is a scruple that may cross the mind. Lucretius was undoubtedly a ...

epub |eng | 2004-04-03 | Author:Homer

declared to him some prophecy from Zeus, all right: then let him send you into battle! Let the battalion of Myrmidons follow you! Victory light for Danáäns you may be! ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Aeschylus [Aeschylus]

ΧΟ. πεπλήγμεθ’· εὔδηλα γάρ· 1010 ΞΕ. νέᾳ νέᾳ δύᾳ δύᾳ· ΧΟ. Ἰαόνων ναυβατᾶν κύρσαντες οὐκ εὐτυχῶς. δυσπόλεμον δὴ γένος τὸ Περσᾶν. 1014 ΞΕ. πῶς δ’ οὔ; στρατὸν μὲν τοσοῦτον τάλας ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Dante

87. The metaphorical vineyard (fairly obviously the Church) turns gray with rot if its keeper (obviously the pope) does not take good care of it. This reference to Boniface VIII ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Dante

67–69. Nino comments upon the unknown and unknowable purpose of God in bringing this living human soul into the immortal realm. He is content to accept the quia, the sheer ...

mobi |eng | 2013-03-29 | Author:Hesiod

ΘΕΟΓΟΝΙΑ (THE THEOGONY) Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ’ ἀείδειν, αἵ θ’ Ἑλικῶνος ἔχουσιν ὄρος μέγα τε ζάθεόν τε, καί τε περὶ κρήνην ἰοειδέα πόσσ’ ἁπαλοῖσιν ὀρχεῦνται καὶ βωμὸν ἐρισθενέος Κρονίωνος· 5 καί ...

mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Flaccus, Horace Quintus Horatius [Flaccus, Horace Quintus Horatius]

ARS POETICA (VERSE) Translated by John Conington TO THE PISOS, FATHER AND SONS. HUMANO CAPITI. Suppose some painter, as a tour de force, Should couple head of man with neck ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-09 | Author:Aristophanes

Στρεψιάδης Τί δῆτ᾿ ἐκεῖνον τὸν Θαλῆν θαυμάζομεν ; 180 Ἄνοιγ᾿ ἄνοιγ᾿ ἁνύσας τὸ φροντιστήριον καὶ δεῖξον ὡς τάχιστά μοι τὸν Σωκράτη. Μαθητιῶ γάρ. Ἀλλ᾿ ἄνοιγε τὴν θύραν. Ὦ Ἡράκλεις, ταυτὶ ...

epub | | 2007-05-01 | Author:Christine Warren [Warren, Christine]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Abby paused outside the door of Rafael De Santos's office on the second floor of the club and took a deep breath. The taste of crow was becoming ...

epub | | 2007-10-30 | Author:Christine Warren [Warren, Christine]

Graham took the news about as well as Walker expected, which meant that his bellow would have the police department in Albany fielding noise-disturbance calls for the rest of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

As though to match our fourfold loss – to gain, Who with his nephews are compared, with reason; Knights such as these are few at any season. 58 ‘I do ...

mobi |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Joseph Bédier

THE FORD Mark had awakened his chaplain and had given him the writ to read; the chaplain broke the seal, saluted in Tristan’s name, and then, when he had cunningly ...

mobi |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Apollonius Of Rhodes

a bride, bewailing in the marriage chamber the absence of the blooming youth on whom 870 (658)her parents and her brothers had bestowed her— how, out of shame and shyness, ...

mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:VIRGIL

BOOK 8 When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs, His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs; When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar, Had giv'n the signal of approaching war, Had ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Aeschylus [Aeschylus]

ATOSSA Alas, their ruthless fate, unhappy friends! But in what manner, tell me, did they perish? MESSENGER Full against Salamis an isle arises, Of small circumference, to the anchor'd bark ...