Search

Search results

Displaying 141 - 150

Brewer's: Die

The die is cast. The step is taken, and I cannot draw back. So said Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon. I have set my life upon the cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.…

Katha-Upanishad: Fifth Valli

  Fifth Valli 1. “There is a town with eleven gates belonging to the Unborn (Brahman), whose thoughts are never crooked. He who approaches it, grieves no more, and liberated (from all…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 5

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 6 5 'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave, and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world; even as the…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book IX

Book IX Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit, Was known in Heav'n;…

James Winthrop: Agrippa IV

Agrippa IVJames Winthrop3 December 1787by James Winthrop, AgrippaTo the People.Having considered some of the principal advantages of the happy form of government under which it is our…

Brewer's: Coup de Grace

The finishing stroke. When criminals were tortured by the wheel or otherwise, the executioner gave him a coup de grâce, or blow on the head or breast, to put him out of his misery. “The…