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...An enclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology based on Project Gutenberg's edition of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M.Berens with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons. ...

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..............................................................................................................38 -3- Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology Alcmæon (alk-mee ́-on)...........................................................................................................................38 Alcmene (alk-mee ́-ne)........................................

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...The book analyzes the relations between the Hungarians and the Romans in the Transylvanian region, showing that the tensions between the two ethnic groups have roots in the past, cultivated for more than 150 years by some people (from secret services, political parties, public institutio...

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...Until 1848 the Romans and Szeklers lived in peace, and the tensions were the basis of the competition between the churches in the area (Orthodox, Catholic, Reformed). The political events in Europe at that time created a nationalism that ha...

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...Im Jahre 1880 im Perthes-Verlag, Gotha, erschienenen ersten Heidi-Roman wird erzählt, wie das Waisenmädchen Heidi zu seinem einsiedlerischen Grossvater auf eine Alp oberhalb von Maienfeld (Kanton Graubünden) gebracht wird, wo es in Zukunft leben soll. (Zusammenfassung aus Wikipedia)...

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...Tom Playfair; Or Making a Start is a book by a Roman Catholic priest, originally published in 1890, and written for youth ages 9-12. The story opens with 10-year-old Tom Playfair being quite a handful for his well-meaning but soft-hearted aunt. (Tom's mother has died.) Mr...

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...of Stirling, has heard his father men- tion that there had been ‘something romantic’ about Alan’s marriage: and, alas! he has forgotten what. It was e... ...aled to, and perhaps first aroused, a pro- found and enduring sentiment of romance: I mean the at- traction of the life. The seas into which his labou... ... page of experience, his perpetual quest, and fine scent of all that seems romantic to a boy, his needless pomp of language, his excellent good sense,... ...ular pleasure and reward of his existence; that he had in him a reserve of romance which carried him delightedly over these hardships and perils; that... ...have perceived its merit, and it has been named (with flattering wit) ‘The Romance of Stone and Lime’ and ‘The Robinson Crusoe of Civil Engineering.’ ... ... stone, three casks of pozzolano, three of sand, three of lime, and one of Roman cement, together with three bundles of trenails and three of wedges, ...

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...C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine. L'auteur lui-même accorde une grande importance à ce roman et écrit en mars 1862,...

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...C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine. L'auteur lui-même accorde une grande importance à ce roman et écrit en mars 1862,...

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...Le tome 5 des Misérables , dédié à Jean Valjean, clôt ce roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine. (résumé par Nadine)...

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...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...its own cell divisions. Secondly, this cynicism that a woman, spellbound in romance, robbed a man of his sperm to produce a baby by which to devote h... ...red their heads. Their long boots were entrenched in mud. According to his romantic perceptions of them, each one was august, unpretentious, and mel... ...y that existed was her own self and the natural forces that beamed onto her. Romanticizing the sun that burnt her face and could end up giving her ski... ...recognizes the pheromone spray of a much earlier dog. She did not mind. Non-romantic conclusions were non-confining. They were spring breeze declari... ...t to join him on the swing set. "Y-e-s!" said Gabriele in a tone of affected romanticism of the trivial, kicking the air beneath her as his swing lost... ... "I thought being with you might make me feel more desire for women, be more romantic, and get her back into my life again. I hope you don't think I'v... ...0 in the morning. She told herself that if a client was giving her spurious romantic notions she needed to distance herself. She needed a break from ...

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...ed an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Eight years later, after weighty consideration, Robert Benson converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1904 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest and took up residence in Cambridge, where he ministered to Roman Catholic students as their unofficial chaplain. In 1911, he was made a monsignor. Despite the...

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...gleam in the sun; the whole land glows in the burning heat. T races of the romantic charm of Spain and the south hover about the en- chanting spot. Th... ...ures the place against intrusion, he will wonder how it happened that this romantic old place was set down in a savanna of corn-land, a desert of chal... ...in great cities. She was twenty-six years old. At that age, with plenty of romantic illusions still left, the mind loves to dwell on the thought of de... ...d fringes of lime avenue. The long rows of buildings beside it, in genuine Roman style, are the public granaries. Beyond, again, on the very last plan... ...thing enough; but in the light of after events I saw that it meant a whole romance in the past, a whole tragedy to come. The little brown-haired maid ... ...n this same road, Louis Quinze built a delicious summer villa for Mlle. de Romans, and the curious in such things will discover that the wayside casin... ...o have degraded her, as it were, in her own eyes, and according to her own roman- tic standard. This change in her demeanor dated from the day of read... ... 139 Balzac “For some time past your daughter has grown extraordi- narily romantic and strangely high-flown in her ideas. In spite of the pains I hav... ...med as they were to a life of battle, storm, and tumult, they recalled the Roman children in David’s Brutus, watching the fighting and bloodshed with ...

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... in the present day. The boys hissed ev- ery attempt of their sisters at a romantic name, and then Harry wanted it to be Atalantis! At last Dr. May an... ...y how they will both be remembered, and their self- devotion would inspire Romans to all posterity, and shout with a noble voice!” said Norman, repeat... ...and indulged in a reverie. She had heard in books of girls writing poetry, romance, history—gaining fifties and hundreds. Could not some of the myriad... ...o much outward sorrow as he had expected. Even their father laughed at the romance of the white “rothe,” and declared Blanche was a dangerous young la... ... them will help you, and keep your 71 Yo n g e high things trom being all romance. I know dear mamma used to say so; that the trying to conquer them ... ...r of not managing her rightly. If those high purposes should run only into romance like mine, or grow out into eccentricities and unfemininesses, what... ...curred, and Ethel had to go down to breakfast with a mind floating between romance, sorrow, and high aspirations, very unlike the actual world she had... ...TER CHAPTER CHAPTER VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII “Tis not enough that Greek or Roman page At stated hours, his freakish thoughts engage, Even in his pasti... ... you to see the beautiful conservatory. It is a real bower for a maiden of romance, with its rich green fra- grance in the midst of winter. It is like...

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... damped the zeal of Nicho- las in the service of his kind patrons—not even romance, which has seldom business habits—he cheerfully assented. On the ve... ...ir,’ rejoined Snawley; ‘the elevated feel- ing, the feeling of the ancient Romans and Grecians, and of the beasts of the field and birds of the air, w... ... one arm, and his own under the other, walked slowly and sadly out. ‘Y our romance, sir,’ said Ralph, lingering for a moment, ‘is destroyed, I take it... ...eir astonishment lessened by the 235 Charles Dickens discovery that these romantic sounds certainly proceeded from the throat of some man up the chim... ...cture, if one may say so. I am not very learned in noses. Do you call it a Roman or a Grecian?’ ‘Upon my word, mother,’ said Nicholas, laughing, ‘as w... ...e so unlike what I am now, and shall have so outlived my days of youth and romance—though not, I am sure, of love for her—that even I feel how visiona...

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...fectly delightful. It was very sweet, but there was wanting that flower of romance which is generally added to the heavenly draught by a slight ad- mi... ...England; and I know that this is shown to be the result of many causes—the Roman Catholic religion being, perhaps, chief offender; but, neverthe- less... ...te compatible with—with heaven only knows what delights of superterrestial romance, from which I, as being an English thick-headed lump of useful coar... ...nt. But I wish that some learned pundit would give us a good definition of romance, would describe in words that feeling with which our hearts are so ... ...h of po- etry it has latterly uttered little that was original. Poetry and romance! They are splendid mountain views seen in the distance. So let men ... ...h I write, I have never once had occa- sion to complain of a deficiency of romance either in Maria Daguilar or in Maria Pomfret. To return to the Elec...

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...lished in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans 12:19 Contents Part I 1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...setting, but one can’t tear oneself away,” said another lady. “If I’d been a Roman woman I should never have missed a single circus.” Anna said nothin... ...ad already in her imagination begun constructing a de lightful and touching romance about them. But the princess, having ascertained from the visitor... ...aces and was in despair at not finding you. She says you’re a real heroine of romance, and that if she were a man she would do all sorts of mad things ... ...htest importance for him personally, but would only perhaps detract from his romantic character in the eyes of others. “But apart from that, however m... ...it?” he said. He had imagined riding on a steppe horse as something wild and romantic, and it turned out nothing of the sort. But his simplicity, part... ...beautiful than either of her sisters. And the most passionate and impossible romances rose before Darya Alexandrovna’s imagination. “Anna did quite ri...

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...d him, and then determined on a carouse worthy of the palmiest days of the Roman Empire. He plunged into dissi- pation as recklessly as Belshazzar of ...

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...im,—except the girl herself. He would find no other friend so generous, so romantic, so unworldly as the Duchess had been. It was clear to him that La... ... most pernicious courtship,—if she had encouraged it,—a repetition of that romantic folly by which she had so nearly brought herself to shipwreck her ... ... had been married. There was an absence in it of 85 Anthony Trollope that romance which, though he had never experienced it in his own life, was alwa... ...or a husband, there could be nothing of the tremulous delicacy of feminine romance; but it would be better than standing at a stall in the market till... ...hould come. It never occurred to him that the delicacy, the innocence, the romance, the bloom might all be preserved if he would give his girl to the ... ...e remained. She had quite related the du- ties of life, had had her little romance,—and had acknowl- edged that it was foolish. ‘I do so hope that you... ... in the House of Commons. I had assisted humbly in the emancipation of the Roman Catholics, and have learned by the legislative troubles of just half ... ...upon her. Did girls break their hearts in such emergencies? Was it not all romance? ‘Men have died and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. ’ He... ...uld obliterate the first,—which might still leave to her the memory of the romance of her earlier passion. Then this boy had come her way! With him a...

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...A central work in medieval culture and modern scholarship, the Romance of the Rose was among the most consistently illustrated of medieval secular texts. Consequendy, interpretation of the visual evidence has played a significant part in elucidating the poem and its derivatives. This vol...

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...e of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the tenth edition of the first volume, The Age of Fable. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and “eastern” myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is su...

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...rough rivers and storms, under sea and over iceberg, is still a classic, wonderful children's adventure. Summary by Cori Samuel. Music from Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture at http://www.musopen.com/view.php?type=piece&id=195 musopen.org...