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The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited

The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester is a seminal compilation that gathers together the extensive body of work by the author Joshuah Sylvester. This volume includes poetry, prose, and other literary forms, showcasing Sylvester's versatility as a writer. The collection has been meticulously edited to provide a cohesive and accessible reading experience for contemporary audiences. more

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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, a French poet, was born in Bordeaux, France in 1544 and died in 1590. His poetry is characterized by its profound religious and philosophical themes and is considered one of the representative figures of French classical poetry. more

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“What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.”

“In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.”

“Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.”