We are informed that the poem consists of six Books and a Supplemental Book; and that it comprises 500 cantos and 24,000 couplets.
English Literature
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to...
While I was falling back to the low place, before mine eyes appeared one who through long silence seemed hoarse. When I saw him in the great desert, "Have pity on me!" I cried to him, "whatso thou art,...
This then was the Un-Dead home of the King-Vampire, to whom so many more were due. Its emptiness spoke eloquent to make certain what I knew. Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my...
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown...
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The Bill of Rights
Thomas Paine: Profession of Faith
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
Mark Twain: An American's View of Europe
The first significant thing is the essentially artistic quality of all literature. All art is the expression of life in forms of truth and beauty; or rather, it is the reflection of some truth and beauty which are in...
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Milton – Lycidas, Paradise Lost - Book 9
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Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country churchyard
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Sonnets No 18, 30, 116
Alexander Pope – Rape of...
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