author: plutarch

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato Charles Darwin Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson Izaak Walton John Bunyan Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith John Milton Aristophanes Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Penn Philip Sidney Francis Bacon Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Ben Jonson John Woolman Sydney Smith Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Thomas Babington Macaulay Miguel de Cervantes Friedrich von Schiller Pliny the Younger Saint Augustine

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature: All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato Charles Darwin Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson Izaak Walton John Bunyan Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith John Milton Aristophanes Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Penn Philip Sidney Francis Bacon Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Ben Jonson John Woolman Sydney Smith Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Thomas Babington Macaulay Miguel de Cervantes Friedrich von Schiller Pliny the Younger Saint Augustine

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

Harvard on the Beach: The Complete 71 Volumes of Harvard Classics (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction): The Infamous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato René Descartes Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Izaak Walton John Bunyan James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 Volumes: The Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato René Descartes Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Izaak Walton John Bunyan James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition: The Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Carlyle Theodor Storm Plato Theodor Fontane René Descartes Gottfried Keller Mark Twain Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Henry James Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Addison Jane Austen John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Alphonse Daudet Thomas De Quincey Guy de Maupassant George Eliot Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana Henry Fielding John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bret Harte George Sand John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Washington Irving Izaak Walton John Bunyan Juan Valera Alfred de Musset James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Edward Everett Hale Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Ivan Turgenev Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Charles W. Eliot Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson Honoré Balzac Alexander L. Kielland

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Carlyle Theodor Storm Plato Theodor Fontane René Descartes Gottfried Keller Mark Twain Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Henry James Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Addison Jane Austen John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Alphonse Daudet Thomas De Quincey Guy de Maupassant George Eliot Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana Henry Fielding John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bret Harte George Sand John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Washington Irving Izaak Walton John Bunyan Juan Valera Alfred de Musset James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Edward Everett Hale Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Ivan Turgenev Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Charles W. Eliot Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson Honoré Balzac Alexander L. Kielland

... bore him, and bathes him in lukewarm water, and anoints him all over with ... chamber where he finds the tables set out in such style that he is filled ... dauntless, gentle, patient, and have learned to bear hardships, imprisonments, and ...

The Harvard Classics Shelf: All 51 Volumes of Essential Classics + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Carlyle Theodor Storm Plato Theodor Fontane René Descartes Gottfried Keller Mark Twain Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Henry James Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Addison Jane Austen John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Alphonse Daudet Thomas De Quincey Guy de Maupassant George Eliot Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana Henry Fielding John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bret Harte George Sand John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Washington Irving Izaak Walton John Bunyan Juan Valera Alfred de Musset James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Edward Everett Hale Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Ivan Turgenev Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Charles W. Eliot Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson Honoré Balzac Alexander L. Kielland

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

The Complete Harvard Classics Shelf: 51 Volumes of Essential Classics + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Carlyle Theodor Storm Plato Theodor Fontane René Descartes Gottfried Keller Mark Twain Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Henry James Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill Victor Hugo David Hume Joseph Addison Jane Austen John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Alphonse Daudet Thomas De Quincey Guy de Maupassant George Eliot Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana Henry Fielding John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bret Harte George Sand John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Washington Irving Izaak Walton John Bunyan Juan Valera Alfred de Musset James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Edward Everett Hale Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Ivan Turgenev Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Charles W. Eliot Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson Honoré Balzac Alexander L. Kielland

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction - The Classic Literature & The Greatest Works of Fiction from Antics to Modern Age

Plutarch John Langhorne William Langhorne

... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...

Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch

... rest of Athens , and putting themselves under the protection of Sparta . The ... its operations on the con- hands , and he was the more ready to give credit ... admired and for this reason he was never suffered to for his manner of living ...

Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek with Notes, Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato Charles Darwin Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson Izaak Walton John Bunyan Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith John Milton Aristophanes Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Penn Philip Sidney Francis Bacon Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Ben Jonson John Woolman Sydney Smith Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Thomas Babington Macaulay Miguel de Cervantes Friedrich von Schiller Pliny the Younger Saint Augustine

... Sparta within the bounds of Pelopidas , to whom she communicated her suffer ... admired him still more ; and , as kings seldom conceal their inclinations ... the rest of Greece from Xenophon , who says that his name was Lathicles . If ...

Harvard on the Beach: The Complete 71 Volumes of Harvard Classics (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction): The Infamous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

... Tutola), advised them to do neither, but, by a stratagem, avoid both fighting and the giving up of such pledges. The stratagem was this, that they should send herself, with other well-looking servant-maids, to the enemy, in the dress of ...

Plutarch's Lives: Themistocles.-Camillus.-Pericles.-Fabius.-Alcibiades

... Tutola , or Philotis ( call her as called None you will ) did climb up to the top of a wild fig- Capro- tree , from which she shewed a burning torch unto tinæ the Romans , having made shift to hang somewhat behind her , to keep the ...

Plutarch on Sparta

Two more of Plutarch's lives, covering the careers of the Spartan kings, Agis and Cleomenes.

On Sparta

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta ...

On Sparta

Plutarch's writing brings to life the personalities and achievements of Sparta. Revised edition includes a new introduction , a new essay on Plutarch, notes, a glossary, updated further reading, and an index.

Sayings of the Spartans

In this compilation from Plutarch's Moralia of famous sayings from over sixty Spartans we are shown that not were these ancients brave warriors in battle but had a complete philosophy of life which guided all their actions.

Lives that Made Greek History

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato René Descartes Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Izaak Walton John Bunyan James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson

In this compilation from Plutarch's Greek Lives, James Romm gathers the material of greatest historical significance from fifteen biographies, ranging from Theseus in earliest times to Phocion in the late fourth century BCE.

Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 Volumes: The Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato René Descartes Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Izaak Walton John Bunyan James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Brinsley Sheridan Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson

... Egmont is discovered sleeping on a couch. A rustling of keys is heard; the ... imagination and belief. Silva (takes the sentence from an attendant, unfolds ... Egmont. Can the king transfer that authority? Silva. "We declare, after a ...

Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Anthology: The Greatest Works of World Literature

... sweet wee Donald, Picture o' the great Clanronald; Brawlie kens our wanton Chief Wha gat my young Highland thief. Leeze me on thy bonie craigie, An' thou live, thou'll steal ... score o'kye, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Feeding on you hill sae high, ...

Selected Essays of Plutarch: Vol. 1

... Do away with her, and they count for nothing. There is an end also to our honouring the gods. Men will thank the Sun ... Dionysus be Boon Giver, if we need nothing that he gives? What sacrifice or libation shall we make? What offering of ...

Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato René Descartes Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Izaak Walton John Bunyan James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Brinsley Sheridan Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson

... Cethe'gus , companion of Cat'iline , Cæ'sar , 1393 ; Ca'- to the Younger , 1510 ; Cic'ero , 1709 , 1710 , 1711 , 1714 , 1715 , 1723 . Cornelius Cethe'gus , consul B. C. 204 , Marcel'lus , 591 . Pub'lius Corne'lius ( Cethe'- gus ) ...

Harvard Classics (All 51 Volumes)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Carlyle Plato Charles Darwin Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill David Hume Joseph Addison Leigh Hunt Epictetus Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana John Dryden Pedro Calderón de la Barca John Ruskin Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson Izaak Walton John Bunyan Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith John Milton Aristophanes Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Penn Philip Sidney Francis Bacon Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Ben Jonson John Woolman Sydney Smith Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Richard Steele Thomas Browne Thomas Babington Macaulay Miguel de Cervantes Friedrich von Schiller Pliny the Younger Saint Augustine

... bore him, and bathes him in lukewarm water, and anoints him all over with ... chamber where he finds the tables set out in such style that he is filled ... dauntless, gentle, patient, and have learned to bear hardships, imprisonments, and ...

The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature: All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Thomas Carlyle Theodor Storm Charles Dickens Plato Theodor Fontane René Descartes Gottfried Keller Mark Twain Immanuel Kant Charles Darwin Martin Luther Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Euripides Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Lamb Henry David Thoreau Henry James Samuel Johnson John Stuart Mill Victor Hugo Joseph Addison Jane Austen John Locke John Fletcher Francis Beaumont Leigh Hunt Epictetus Alphonse Daudet Thomas De Quincey Guy de Maupassant George Eliot Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jonathan Swift Christopher Marlowe Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm William Hazlitt Marcus Tullius Cicero Daniel Defoe Aesop Richard Henry Dana Henry Fielding John Dryden Philip Massinger Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bret Harte George Sand John Ruskin Oliver Wendell Holmes Ernest Renan Robert Burns David Garrick Ralph Waldo Emerson John Webster Washington Irving Izaak Walton John Bunyan Juan Valera Alfred de Musset James Russell Lowell Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Edmund Burke Plutarch Molière Aeschylus Michael Faraday Sophocles William Makepeace Thackeray Benjamin Franklin Edward Everett Hale Pierre Corneille Jean Racine Voltaire Robert Browning Oliver Goldsmith Thomas Dekker John Milton Aristophanes Blaise Pascal Virgil Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon Newcomb William Penn Walter Bigges Philip Sidney Herodotus Walter Raleigh Francis Bacon Giuseppe Mazzini Francis Pretty George Berkeley Thomas Hobbes Adam Smith Alessandro Manzoni Abraham Cowley Michel de Montaigne Ben Jonson John Woolman Benvenuto Cellini Sydney Smith Jean Froissart William Henry Harrison William Harvey Marcus Aurelius Hans Christian Andersen Thomas Malory George Gordon Byron Thomas à Kempis Ivan Turgenev Richard Steele Thomas Browne Archibald Geikie Thomas Babington Macaulay Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Tacitus William Roper Hippocrates Miguel de Cervantes Thomas More Friedrich von Schiller Philip Nichols Louis Pasteur Joseph Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Pliny the Younger Charles W. Eliot Edgar Alan Poe Saint Augustine Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Francis Drake Edward Haies Niccolo Machiavelli Ambroise Paré William A. Neilson Honoré Balzac Alexander L. Kielland

... Dana, John Dryden, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Izaak ... Bracy! bard Bracy! your horses are fleet, Ye must ride up the hall, your music so sweet, More loud than your horses ...

The Harvard Classics Anthology: 51 Volumes of Nonfiction Books + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction

... Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Bret Harte, George Sand, John ... Bracy! bard Bracy! your horses are fleet, Ye must ride up the hall, your music so sweet, More loud than your horses ...

Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 2): The Rise and Fall of Rome: The Greatest Works of the Roman Classical Literature

... free - for everyone despised him . So a shepherd chains up a dog and fattens ... Olympus , was it thy humour to make such mockery of mankind ? He who was not ... blood himself first stained that tyrant's altar with his own and fell a ...

Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 1)

... blood , for it was not the feeblest of the Achaeans who struck him . The sire of gods and men had pity on him , and ... Olympus were in a fury , but they could not reach you to set you free ; when I caught any one of them I gripped him ...

Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men: Corrected from the Greek and Revised

... had repelled them , with some loss , from their defences . This provoked ... no title to victory ; the event had been only an evidence of the power of fortune ... the city that it was never legally made , and the agreement 98 CAMILLUS .

Ploutarchou Nikias

... 4 πολλαχόθι , in multis locis : π . τῆς πόλεως 13 7 13 πολλαχοῦ , ' in many ... persona : τοῖς π . 4 3 πόνος , labor : τοῖς πόνοις ἐμ- μένοντος 26 4 ... 3 ; 20 1 ; ἐπράχθη οὕτως 9 2 ; τὸ πραχθέν 13 2 ; τούτων πραχ θέντων 18 4. postulari ...

Yale Classics (Vol. 1)

... wrath against the Immortals , for now she contrives a mighty deed , to destroy the feeble tribes of earth - born men by withholding the seed under the earth . Thereby the honours of the Gods are minished , and fierce is her wrath , nor ...

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... full armour to bestride him . As a cow stands lowing over her first calf ... dauntless of all creatures , than are the proud sons of Panthous . Yet Hyperenor did not see out the days of his youth when he made light of me and withstood me , ...

Yale Classics - The Greatest Works of Ancient Greece

... wrath against the Immortals , for now she contrives a mighty deed , to destroy the feeble tribes of earth - born men by withholding the seed under the earth . Thereby the honours of the Gods are minished , and fierce is her wrath , nor ...

Yale Classics - Ancient Greek Literature: Mythology, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Theater (Including Biographies of Authors and Critical Study of Each Work)

... wrath against the Immortals , for now she contrives a mighty deed , to destroy the feeble tribes of earth - born men by withholding the seed under the earth . Thereby the honours of the Gods are minished , and fierce is her wrath , nor ...

The Greatest Classics of Ancient Greece: Mythology, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Theater (Including Biographies of Authors and Critical Study of Each Work)

... wrath against the Immortals , for now she contrives a mighty deed , to destroy the feeble tribes of earth - born men by withholding the seed under the earth . Thereby the honours of the Gods are minished , and fierce is her wrath , nor ...

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