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Ovid's Poem on the Roman Calendar.

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Ovid's guidance to aspiring lovers, in the tricky game of love.

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...ion declined in the 19th century, he is now considered the most canonical poet of his era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire. This edition of his poems collects all of his major work, and most of his minor and early poetry as well....

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...ature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right: But as the slightest sketch, if justly traced, Is by ill col’ring but the more disgraced, So by false learning is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools: In search of wit these lose their common sense...

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..., Daphne Windsor Forest Paraphrases from Chaucer January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale The Wife of Bath The Temple of Fame Translations from Ovid Sappho to Phaon The Fable of Dryope Vertumnus and Pomona An Essay on Criticism Part I Part II Part III Ode for Music on St. Cecilia’s Day Argus The Balance of Europe The Translator On Mrs. Tofts, a Famous Ope...

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Ovid's help for lovers trying to escape from love.

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.... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native country. At the same time some researchers ( Jacques Sarthou, Dan Tarchila, Doru Motoc and even... Ion Rotaru) declared ...

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...800-521-0600 http://www.umi.com/bod/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2001 by American Research Press and the Author Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322,... ...www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm Frontcover painting by Florentin Smarandache, from his cycle intituled: Kachina, the Gre... ...tten about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the... ...d prolix artist in many creations, he often succeeds to polish little gems in poetry, prose and theatre. Frankly and simply in expression, he becom... ...where the shock of matching, the contrasts, the oxymoron, the paradoxism in a poetry of great sensibility 8) . Florin Vasiliu agrees, citing C.M.Pop... ...e way of George Anca). 11 The eleven pages of the play are full of so much poetry that involuntary we remind of Ion Barbu, who concluded, basing... ...ore the literary achievements of his precursors. “Florentin Smarandache- said Ovidiu Ghidirmic- is a great poet too, that has not to be seen only fr... ...inent analysis of the one-verse smarandachian poems, made by the poet-essayist Ovidiu Ghidirmic seizes the art essence of these poems, in comparison... ... paradox that suspends the history” 20) . We insisted on this aspect because Ovidiu Ghidirmic tends to consider this volume as ...unparadoxist, “ e...

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...inci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 62...

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...irety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist. Bartlett’s writing has been praised by many leadin... ...ES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns.” GRACE FLANDRAU, author and historian: “..... ...ritten with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...brilliant, colorful.” eaders of this book who would l... ...to acquire the bound illustrated volume can do this through any bookstore by giving the store the published book’s ISBN, which is ISBN 978-0-6151... ...shed a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from... ...rnal When the Owl Cries Adiós Mi México Forward, Children! POETRY Wherehill Spokes for Memory NONFICTION The Haciendas... ...“Mornings, weather permitting, I hunt or snare thrushes, reading Dante or Ovid to make the hunts more agreeable. After lunch, I visit an inn and thro... ... by the wrong magnet, I returned for more Roman punishment. Tibullus and Ovid were there. I opened their pages and read. But my optical experiments... ...le, a good study, in good light. He insisted on having a book on his lap. Ovid. I remember he said: “ ‘In Amboise, I have a collection of fine boo...

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...d friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions and humours, and by that meanes reserve more whole, and more lively foster the knowledge and acquaintance they have had of me. Had my intention beene to forestal and purchase the world's opinion and favour, I would surely have adorned myself...

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... Montaigne's Essays MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on th... ... Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It... ...n 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique t... ... their losses, to have been transformed into a stone; Diriguisse malis: --Ovid. Metam. 1. vi. 303. And grew as hard as stone, But miserie and moan... ...able of Contents. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was pr ovided by Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the p... ...as a thing best fitting his fortune; but be greatly laboured by meanes of Poetry, to assume high commendation unto himselfe, howbeit he had but litt... ...s homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo, supremaquefun era debet. --OVID. Met. 1. iii. 135. We must expect of man the latest day Nor ere he d...

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... across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the...

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...dles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the senior orators, Hin-... ...de reached President Hoji- kina' housn on the return marol). when a charge by the sophomores upset things. Most of the trans- [jaroncios informed 1900... ...nt. He is in the laboratory trying to register an earthquake shock, caused by Clough walking across the camp- us. If Herzfeld had not stopped talking ... ...bruary 28, He was horn in Romulus, N. Y. on May 4, 1838 and graduated from Ovid Acad- emy. Ovid, N. Y'. in 1857 with the rnnk of eidutatoiian. After s... ...y one turns from it a little surprised that it is not better. Contemporary poetry, both in the Lit. and out of it, is, to my thinking, spending too mu... ...rose. The Scotch elders in " The Little Minister " would certainly call it poetry, because every line begins with a capital letter. It contains, moreo... ...s pursuits; translation, the writing of books, magazine arti- cles and bad poetry, travel, teach- ing and lecturing. As an educator, his rank is high....

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...tter understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. B... ...about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to t... ...opaganda. It is dressed up in ritualized, sanctified, choruses and songs and poetry. See if you could make a movie of the same plot today. See i... ...ne… The ancient lyricism of Greece: its legends, myths, words and music, and poetry etc; are all sweetened lies. Sugarcoated lies. Whitewashed li... ...heir own questioning. Why are human truths so poetically linked? Because poetry, songs, and all expressions of human culture: contain subconsci... ...n Greek mythology. According to some ancient sources - such as the roman poet Ovid - he was the son of Hypnos, the god of sleep. Morpheus briefly app... ...Ovid - he was the son of Hypnos, the god of sleep. Morpheus briefly appears in Ovid's metamorphoses:’ “King Sleep was father of a thousand sons - ... ...recisely and the words they use most frequently. But he mimes only men..." ‘Ovid therefore suggests that Morpheus only sends images of humans in dr...

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...The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world through mythologi...

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Classics (antiquity), Ancient Texts, Myths/Legends, Poetry

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...rupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading playwrights took to penning languorously erotic poetry to make ends meet: so we have Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece - and Marlowe’s blazing masterpiece, Hero and Leander. Marlowe’s poem became more notorious than either of Shakespeare’s, due not only to its homophil...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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... THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING ...................................................................................................................................................................... 37 SUMM...

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...DER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... .................................. 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV ...... 32 SPRING .......................... ...ord, near Winchester; and while there, read Ogilby’s “Homer” and Sandys’s “Ovid” with great delight. He had not been long at this school till he wrote... ...t, where for several years he did nothing but read the classics and indite poetry. He wrote a tragedy, a comedy, and four books of an Epic called “Ale... ...g from some criti- cisms which the youth ventured to make on the veteran’s poetry, crept in between them. Walsh of Abberley, in Worcestershire, a man ... ... olume One suitable to his genius than Homer. Horace or Lucretius, or even Ovid, would have been more congenial. His imitations of Horace shew us what... ...y with the elaborate fancy, although not with the meretri- cious graces of Ovid. But with Homer, the severely grand, the simple, the warlike, the love...

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...RY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic ... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State... ...al, persisting in enacting through life the part of Hero; and, divested of poetry, this was but a little wrinkled old man, pock-marked, and with a gre... ...lack eyes with wonder when I made one of my fine speeches out of Waller or Ovid. Poor Nancy! from the midst of far-off years thine honest country face... ...s time young Esmond, who had a knack of string- ing verses, turned some of Ovid’s Epistles into rhymes, and brought them to his lady for her delectati... ...an here.” “The men who wrote your books,” says my lady, “your Horaces, and Ovids, and Virgils, as far as I know of them, all thought ill of us, as all... ...scerning latent beauties and hidden graces of books, es- pecially books of poetry, as in a walk she would spy out field- flowers and make posies of th... ...e favor from any one of them; whereas Tom Tusher, who had no more turn for poetry than a ploughboy, nevertheless, by a dogged perse- verance and obseq...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...77 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ........... 319 4 Essays: Book III ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...cus, habet;” [“No power on earth can sanction treachery against a friend.”—Ovid, De Ponto, i. 7, 37.] and that all things are not lawful to an honest ... ... anything whatever, and will, out of curiosity, have their share in books, poetry is a diversion proper for them; ’tis a wanton, subtle, dissembling, ... ...caped the Capharean rocks, ever takes care to steer from the Euboean sea.”—Ovid, Trist., i. i, 83.] ’Tis folly to fix all a man’s thoughts upon it, an... ...d by the glittering apple, stops her career, and seizes the rolling gold.”—Ovid, Metam., x. 666.] He did the same, when he saw his time, by the second... ...ount of charity; nor go about to represent to him the tragical events that poetry attributes to this passion. I left that behind; and I busied myself ... ...ntly for verse) shines throughout with the lustre, vigour, and boldness of poetry, and not without some air of its fury. And certainly prose ought to ...

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...Excerpt: ORLANDO. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for ...

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...vania State University is an equal opportunity university. As You Like It by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. As You Like It by William Shakespeare, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facul... ...to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis; art work: William Blake (1757 - 1827) Pegasus Copyright ' ... ...E: I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths. JAQUES: [Aside] O knowledge ill inhabited, wor... ...deed and word? is it a true thing? TOUCHSTONE: No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what they ... ... the most feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign. AUDREY: Do you wish then that ...

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...assics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University... ... transmission, in any way. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Electronic Classi... ... opportunity university. 3 The Battle of the Books And Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces THE PREFAC... ...r hands. It is I who have deposed wit and knowledge from their empire over poetry, and advanced myself in their stead. And shall a few upstart Ancient... ...the rest. CHAPTER V BAUCIS AND PHILEMON IMITATED FROM THE EIGHTH BOOK OF OVID In ancient times, as story tells, The saints would often leave their c... ... to a trunk be turned, And branches issue from the arms. Thus Daedalus and Ovid too, That man’s a blockhead have confessed, Powel and Stretch the hint... ... Fletas, Bractons, Cokes. First to a dapper clerk she beckoned, To turn to Ovid, book the second; She then referred them to a place In Virgil ( vide ...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...E ............................................................................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ......................................................................................................................

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...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...77 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ....................................................... 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY V ARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END....................................... ...e, he delivered to his fellow-men in a book. Eloquence, rhetorical effect, poetry, were alike remote from his design. He did not write from necessity,... ...erly been confined in its area of operations; and it may be the reason why poetry once lost favour with the more judicious. However this may be, it ca... ...formed into a rock— “Diriguisse malis,” [“Petrified with her misfortunes.”—Ovid, Met., vi. 304.] thereby to express that melancholic, dumb, and deaf s... ... should be; but he took very great pains to get a particular reputation by poetry, and yet he was never cut out for a poet. A man of the legal pro- fe... ...d to our last day: no one can be called happy till he is dead and buried.”—Ovid, Met, iii. 135] THE VERY CHILDREN know the story of King Croesus to th... ...et inter opus.” [“When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed.”— Ovid, Amor., ii. 10, 36.] I would always have a man to be doing, and, as mu...

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Excerpt: Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versit... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ....... 125 Spoon River Anthology 11 Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters The Hill WHERE are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charle... ...the queen-bee, Life! 80 Spoon River Anthology Thomas Trevelyan READING in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, sla... ...ugh a long sickness Coughing myself to death I read the Upanishads and the poetry of Jesus. And they lighted a torch of hope and intuition And desire ... ..., 73 Over and over they used to ask me, 34 P Passer-by, 56 R Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, 80 Reverend Wiley advised me not to divo...

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..., to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis; art: William Blake. Portrait of Shakespeare, c. 1800 180... ...Roman. ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS & CHIRON : sons to Tamora. AARON: a Moor, beloved by Tamora. A Captain, Tribune, Messenger, and Clown; Romans. TAMORA: Que... ...DRONICUS, aloft, with the crown .] MARCUS ANDRONICUS : Princes, that strive by factions and by friends Ambitiously for rule and empery, Know that the... ...nelia never with more care Read to her sons than she hath read to thee Sweet poetry and Tully’s Orator. MARCUS ANDRONICUS : Canst thou not guess wher... ...: Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so? Young LUCIUS : Grandsire, ’tis Ovid’s Metamorphoses; My mother gave it me. MARCUS ANDRONICUS : Fo...