Found 145 results for "John Henry (Legendary character)"
by William Shakespeare
THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
by Howard Pyle
IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
by Publius Vergilius Maro
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern 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 Louisa May Alcott
"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
by H. G. Wells
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...
by William Shakespeare
IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...
by William Shakespeare
Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...
by Euripides
To one side, a road dips steeply into lower background, lined by the bodies of crucified slaves mostly in the skeletal s...