Found 75 results for "Envy in literature"
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...
by Gustave Flaubert
FOR half a century the good ladies of Pont-l'Eveque envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.
by Seamus Heaney
So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.