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De Rerum Natura

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Titus Lucretius Carus

An exposition of Epicurus atomic theory and the ethical tenets based upon it. Drawing upon this materialist philosophy, Lucretius cites the …

Epistulae Morales Selectae

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the pres…

Georgica

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Virgil

Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC.…

Aeneidis Libri XII

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Virgil

Aeneas flees the destruction of Troy, abandons Dido, queen of the Carthaginians, and wends his way to Latium in Italy, where slaying Turnus,…

De Agricultura

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Marcus Porcius Cato

Noted for being the most extensive piece of early Latin prose, it abounds in archaic imperatives and shows an almost total lack of subordina…

10 - Chapter 05, Byzantine Palaces, part 1

In The Stones of Venice, Volume 2

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John Ruskin

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …

First part, chapter II, part 1: Captain Cook’s predecessors, 1a

In Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2

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Jules Verne

This volume, entitled "The Great Navigators of the 18th century", forms the second of three volumes under the general title of &qu…

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten Beauty

In The Wind Among the Reeds

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from a…

The Adventures of John Dietrich Part 1

In The Fairy Book

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The sleeping beauty in the wood -- Hop-O'-My-Thumb -- Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper -- Adventures of John Dietrich -- Beauty and …

Book II, Chapter V: Containing strange revolutions of fortune.

In Amelia (Vol. 1)

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Henry Fielding

This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must…