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## Book 1 I. Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, n…

ENCHIRIDION ## Section I There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond our power are body, property, reputation, office, and, in one word,…

## The Rubaiyat I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. II. Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "…

## Kaiúmers According to the traditions of former ages, recorded in the Bastan-námeh, the first person who established a code of laws and exercised the functions of a monarch in Persia, was Kaiúmers. It is said that he dwelt among the mountains, and that his garments were made of the skins of beas…

THE AENEID by Virgil Translated by John Dryden ## Book I THE ARGUMENT. The Trojans, after a seven years’ voyage, set sail for Italy, but are overtaken by a dreadful storm, which Aeolus raises at the request of Juno. The tempest sinks one, and scatters the rest. Nep…

THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVID Vol. I--Books I-VII LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS by HENRY T. RILEY, M.A. With an Introduction by EDWARD BROOKS, JR. Copy…

## [BOOK I] [THE CHIKHAI BARDO AND THE CHÖNYID BARDO] HEREIN LIETH THE SETTING-FACE-TO-FACE TO THE REALITY IN THE INTERMEDIATE STATE: THE GREAT DELIVERANCE BY HEARING WHILE ON THE AFTER-DEATH PLANE, FROM 'THE PROFOUND DOCTRINE OF THE EMANCIPATING OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS BY MEDITATION UPON THE PEACEF…

## Chapter I — INTRODUCTORY Thus have I heard. Once upon a time the Lord was staying at Rafagrfha, on the Gmlhrakft/a 1 mountain, with a numerous assemblage of monks, twelve hundred monks, all of them Arhats, stainless, free from depravity, self-controlled 2 , thoroughly eman¬ cipated in thought a…

## The Larger Prajnaparamita-Hridaya Sutra ADORATION TO THE OMNISCIENT! This I heard: At one time the Bhagavat dwelt at Ragagriha, on the hill Gridhrakuta, together with a large number of Bhikshus and a large number of Bodhisattvas. At that time the Bhagavat was absorbed in a meditation, called…

## Chapter 1 Thus have I heard concerning our Lord Buddha:— Upon a memorable occasion, the Lord Buddha sojourned in the kingdom of Shravasti, lodging in the grove of Jeta, a park within the imperial domain, which Jeta, the heir-apparent, bestowed upon Sutana, a benevolent Minister of State, renow…

## Dramatis Personae Prometheus. Vulcan. Strength. Force. Oceanus. Hermes. Io. Chorus of sea-nymphs. ## Scene I — The Binding of Prometheus Scene in European Scythia. Rocks facing the Euxine Sea. Prometheus, Vulcan, Strength and Force. Strength. We have attain'd the utmost bound of earth, The…

## Prologue — The Sisters' Debate ANTIGONE Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT Antigone, daug…

## Prologue — The Plague at Thebes OEDIPUS THE KING Suppliants of all ages are seated round the altar at the palace doors, at their head a PRIEST OF ZEUS. To them enter OEDIPUS. OEDIPUS. My children, latest born to Cadmus old, Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands Branches of olive fill…

## Prologue — Dionysus in Thebes THE BACCHAE OF EURIPIDES DRAMATIS PERSONAE DIONYSUS, THE GOD; _son of Zeus and of the Theban princess Semelê_. CADMUS, _formerly King of Thebes, father of Semelê_. PENTHEUS, _King of Thebes, grandson of Cadmus_. AGAVE, _daughter of Cadmus, mother of Pen…

## Poimandres — The Shepherd of Men [1] IT chanced once on a time my mind was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, the senses of my body being held back — just as men are who are weighed down with sleep after a fill of food, or from fatigue of body. Methough…

Tis true without lying, certain and most true. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracle of one only thing. And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this…

file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) CHUANG TZŬ [Illustration] _Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer_ TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE BY HERBERT A. GILES…

## Introduction A Translation of the “Ko-ji-ki,” “Records of Ancient Matters.” By Basil Hall Chamberlain. [Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan April 12th, May 10th, andJune 21st, 1882.] Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries o…

THE MABINOGION TRANSLATED BY LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST CONTENTS Introduction The Lady of the Fountain Peredur the Son of Evrawc Geraint the son of Erbin Kilhwch and Olwen The dream of Rhonabwy Pwyll Prince of Dyved Branwen the daughter of Llyr Manawyddan the son of Llyr Math t…

*This translation is not currently available.* Leyenda de los Soles ("Legend of the Suns") is a sixteenth-century Nahuatl manuscript recounting the Aztec cosmogony of successive worlds destroyed and reborn. No complete pre-1929 English translation of the Nahuatl text exists; later renderings remai…