[PDF] Atalantas Race Other Tales F eBook

Author : William 1834-1896 Morris
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781360446080

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Author : William Morris
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230258133

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...And in his black beard gathered specks of gray. Now so it chanced, upon a May morning, Wakeful he lay when yet low was the sun, Looking distraught at many a royal thing, And counting up his titles one by one, And thinking much of things that he had done; For full of life he felt, and hale and strong, 20 And knew that none durst say when he did wrong. For no man now could give him dread or doubt, The land was 'neath his sceptre far and wide, And at his beck would well-armed myriads shout. Then swelled his vain, unthinking heart with pride, Until at last he raised him up and cried, ' What need have I for temple or for priest? Am I not God, whiles that I live at least?' And yet withal that dead his fathers were, He needs must think that quick the years pass by; 30 But he, who seldom yet had seen Death near Or heard his name, said, ' Still I may not die, Though underneath the earth my fathers lie; My sire indeed was called a mighty king, Yet, in regard of mine, a little thing ' His kingdom was; moreover his grandsire To him was but a prince of narrow lands, Whose father, though to things he did aspire Beyond most men, a great knight of his hands, Yet ruled some little town where now there stands.- The kennel of my dogs; then may not I Rise higher yet, nor like poor wretches die? ' Since up the ladder ever we have gone Step after step, nor fallen back again; And there are tales of people who have won A life enduring, without care or pain, Or any man to make their wishes vain: Perchance this prize unwitting now I hold; For times change fast, the world is waxen old.' So mid these thoughts once more he fell asleep, so And when he woke again, high was the sun; Then quickly from his gold bed did he leap, And of his former thoughts remembered...

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618051540

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Retells the myth of the Greek princess, rejected by her father, raised by bears, won in marriage in a race by Melanion, and then changed into a lioness by an angry Aphrodite.

Author : Justine Fontes
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0822565692

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A retelling, in graphic novel form, of the story of the independent girl whose resolve to never marry is tested when her father insists that she choose a husband.