Found 28 results for "Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval"
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
Pharsalia
by Lucan
Of wars across Emathian plains, worse than civil wars, and of legality conferred on crime we sing, and of a mighty peopl...
The Ramayana
by Ramesh Menon, Vālmīki
"Holy One, I wonder if any man born into the world was blessed with every virtue by your Father in heaven."
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...
30. St. Augustine on the Psalms, Vol. 2 (Ancient Christian W...
by Dame Scholastica Hebgin, Dame Felicitas Corrigan
1. [Verse 1] Unto the end, a Psalm for David himself in ecstasy.
Echoes and imitations of early epic in Apollonius Rhodius
by Campbell, Malcolm Ph. D., M. Campbell
Prolegomena ad Homerum, sive, De operum Homericorum prisca e...
by Friedrich August Wolf, Anthony Grafton
