Horatius at the Bridge 1
Ancient Rome
It is a commonplace of literary history that Roman art was largely imitated or derived from the Greek, and in particular that Roman...
The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse 1
Jesop (6th Century, B.C.?)
Jesop was “not a poet,” says Gilbert Murray, “but the legendary author of a particular type of story.” This type is...
Eumieus` Tale 2
The story below has been copied from docappadocia.com. You can read the rest of the story on Eumieus Tale.
Homer (About 1000 B.C.)
The first mention...
The Lost Phcebe part 14
Moonlight and shadows combined to give it a strange form and a stranger reality, this fluttering of bog-fire or dancing of wandering fireflies. Was...
The Lost Phcebe part 13
That particular lull that comes in the systole-diastole of this earthly ball at two o`clock in the morning invariably aroused him, and though he...
The Lost Phcebe part 12
Another thing that puzzled him greatly after a time and after many hundreds of inquiries was, when he no longer had any particular door-...
The Lost Phcebe part 11
For several years thereafter then he was an odd figure in the sun anti rain, on dusty roads and muddy ones, encountered occasionally in...
The Lost Phcebe part 10
She bustled about, meditating on the uncertainties of life, while old Reifsneider thrummed on the rim of his hat with his pale fingers and...
The Lost Phcebe part 9
“Well, I`ll be switched!” he said aloud to himself. “He`s clean out`n his head. That poor old feller`s been livin` down there till he`s...
The Lost Phcebe part 8
“I guess I could find yuh ag`in,” he had always said. But her cackling threat had always been:
“Yuh`ll not find me if I ever...
