"Benvenuto, the figure cannot succeed in bronze," so spoke the patron Duke. Cellini, stung to fury, passionately burst out: "You do not understand art." Feverishly he began the casting of the statue --- but read his own account of the tilt with the Duke. (Volume 31, Harvard Classics)
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
Poems (To a Mouse and Tam O’Shanter), by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book XII), by Homer
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
The Art of Persuasion, by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Pierre Corneille
Polyeucte (ACT I), by Pierre Corneille
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: John Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes, by John Keats
Introductory Note: Edgar Allan Poe
The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe
Introductory Note: Aristophanes
The Frogs, by Aristophanes
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 1), by Benjamin Franklin
Introductory Note: Æsop’s Fables
Æsop’s Fables, by Æsop
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