Les Grecs dont parle Juvénal mettaient au service de leur ambition une merveilleuse souplesse de caractère, leur devise était: Tout à tous, ...

Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument With the blank uneasiness which one might feel In the presence of a logical lunatic." ...

As Nothing is not Something, so every thing which is not Something, is Nothing; and wherever Something is not, Nothing is (...) For instanc...

To our grandparents, a ‘house’, a ‘well’, a familiar steeple, even their own clothes, their cloak, still meant infinitely more, were still ...

A patient noticed the waiter in the coffee-house; he skipped past him so quickly and uncannily. He noticed odd behaviour in an acquaintanc...

...Darum geht im Liede und der lyrischen Stimmung das Wollen (das persönliche Interesse des Zwecks) und das reine Anschauen der sich darbi...

... and giving to one of his old acquaintances his wallet, books, and opistographs, away went he out of town towards a little hill or promon...

The Seductiveness of the Interval catalogue is available from the Renaissance Society Bookstore, at the University of Chicago

Caelius Calcagninus (1479-1541) Ast ego magnanimum culicem quo carmine laudem? Certe huius rara est gloria, rarus honor. Cetera quaec...

Politian (Angelo de'Ambrosini da Monte Pulciano) (1454-1494) O mihi quanta datis fallacia gaudia, somni! Invideo, Endymion, Latmia...

Georgio de Chirico, Mélancolie (1912) Qua de caussa Melancholicorum risus rarior ille quidem, sed immoderatus esse solet? Certum est:...

Cur nullus possit seipse titillare? Titillatio risus species esse videtur, etsi nesciam maximis quibusdam Philosophis placere verum risu...

Aeschylus in Sicilia moenibus urbis, in qua morabatur, egressus, aprico in loco resedit: super quem aquila testudinem ferens, elusa splendor...

The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves. The sky showed him a flock of ...

Etenim oculi, qui nunc colorum venustatem, concinnasque membrorum symmetrias studiose demirantur, multaque quae referre non lubet, nec lic...

from Johannes Kuhl Marpurgensus, Theses de risu, fletu, et locutione Risus est diductio oris in transversum, facta ab homine, propter ...

Stimmung , A.I. Blyth, 2006

Ctenocaphalides felis , A. I. Blyth, 2007 Hieronymi Angeriani Erotopaegnion De Pulice Pulchra pulex tenerae penetrat dum membra puell...

Hi sunt qui descendunt mare in navibus, facientes operationes in aquis multis. Ascendunt usque ad coelos, & descendunt usque ad abys...

Q. An Tartarus sit aliquid, utrum vero nihil? R. Est aliquid nempe locus cruciatus Luc. 6 [sic.]. Est nihil de quo Plato in Phaedone. Sic ᾅδ...

Both S. Basil , and S. Chrysostome put this difference in that place, between the labour of the Ant, and the Bee, That the Ants worke but...

A godly father sitting on a draught, To do as need and nature hath us taught, Mumbled (as was his manner) certain prayers, And unto him ...

That then there is damnation, and why it is, and when it is, is cleare enough; but what this damnation is, neither the tongue of good Angels...

12 March, the Repose of St. Symeon the New Theologian

Doctrina XII , De timore et poenis inferni (Migne, Patrologia Graeca , 88, 1752) Through the body, the soul is distracted from its pa...

That great Library, those infinite Volumes of the Books of Creatures, shall be taken away, quite away, no more Nature; those reverend Manu...

As to those that fall away from God, I wonder where it is they exist, those that are far removed from Him that is everywhere, and verily, ...

Depiction of the torments of the damned in the Buddhist sub-hell of Nyôfunjo (Dung Pit), or the shifunsho (place of excrement), one of ...