"It is the old man who reared him! he calls him 'my child!' it will make him mad! enough! enough!" ...
2011-11-26
Then four heralds, chosen for their width of chest, went out with great clarions, and speaking thro...
posted in front of them, close to the walls, being unwilling to move. Then from the direction of Ar...
taken before the defection of the Tyrian towns; and, to reciprocate the courtesy, Rome was now send...
incombustible. The women and children went to procure stones on the strand, and gathered earth with...
relatives and friends who had died far away during the war. Waxen statues with clothes and hair wer...
Numidians, for he knew that he was behind the Barbarians, and ready to fall upon them. But Narr' Ha...
mantle, and scarf. "I hasten thither!" she cried; and making her escape Salammbo disappeared. At f...
alone. Throwing down the bridle and letting my head fall on my breast, I rode for a long time, and ...
2011-11-25
He stopped on the threshold; he would gladly have pressed my hand . . . and, had I shown the sligh...
not of one man only: he is a composite portrait, made up of all the vices which flourish, full- gr...
"So you will not marry Mary? You do not love her? . . . But she thinks. . . Do you know, she is ma...
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES Grandeur and gallantry never...
learned the intention of these gentlemen to make a fool of me by causing me to fight a duel with b...
all the conversations he had had with Queen Elizabeth, and in conclusion advised him to push his fo...