Found 100 results for "Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries"
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.
Milton's Poems
by John Milton
Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...
Christmas Books (Battle of Life / Chimes / Christmas Carol /...
by Charles Dickens
MARLEY was dead, to begin with.
Godfrey of Bulloigne
by Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri
ARMS, and the chief I sing, whose righteous hands
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
by John Dryden, John Dryden
As there is music uninform'd by art
Maximes
by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stuart D. Warner
I AM of medium height, well set-up and proportioned, my complexion dark but fairly uniform; my forehead is lofty and rea...
An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indi...
by Bartolomé de las Casas, Franklin W. Knight
All the things that have taken place in the Indies, both since their marvellous discovery and those first years when Spa...
The writings of Henry David Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau
I find that I conciliate the gods by some sacrament as bathing-or abstemiousness in diet-or rising early-and directly th...
Samuel Johnson
by Samuel Johnson, Fleeman, J. D.
MICHAEL JOHNSON, a bookseller and stationer at Lichfield, in Staffordshire, having late in life married Sarah Ford, a la...
The wild Irish girl
by Lady Morgan, Sydney Owenson
If there are certain circumstances under which a fond father can address an imprisoned son, without suffering the bitter...
