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In Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 2

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Sir Thomas Malory

Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the…

Quatrains 1-20

In The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

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Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. and Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a speci…

15 - Book 5, pt 3 - The rudeness of the early life of men. The invention of spe…

In On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)

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Titus Lucretius Carus

Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…

Part 11

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 3

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Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Graybeard and Goldhair

In The Song of Hugh Glass

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John Neihardt

This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of…

00 Prefatory

In The Divine Enchantment

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John Niehardt and John Neihardt

When the princess Devanaguy falls into a deep trance-like sleep, she is visited by the god Vishnu: who causes her to fall pregnant with his …

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