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  • Quotes – Page 41 | Just Great DataBase

    I have been used to consider poetry as “the food of love” said Darcy.”Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 269 The…

  • Of Mice and Men Summary

    We meet our heroes, George and Lenny, somewhere in California, on a hot afternoon. It’s 1930s, the years of the Dust Bowl that thrown people to the bottom of poverty. Lennie Small and George Milton are friends on their way to rancho, where some work for them was promised. George, small and sharp-minded, had already…

  • Quotes – Page 259 | Just Great DataBase

    It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote 5 I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished. I knew that I was…

  • The office manager

    The office manager is the chief clerk at Gregor’s office. Trustworthy and powerful, he hints at the fact that Gregor works poorly. He has come to see why Gregor missed the early train. The Samsa family and the office manager are aghast when they see Gregor’s new form, but Gregor continues to attempt to defend…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 113 | Just Great DataBase

    Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit. William Shakespeare Richard III 0 That which we call a rose      By any other name would smell as sweet; William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet…

  • Quotes – Page 379 | Just Great DataBase

    During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to shine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s attention to his wishes,…

  • fewer than 1000 essays – Page 24 | Just Great DataBase

    Language in Catch-22 Language In Catch-22 Catch-22 is a witty novel written by Joseph Heller that covers many aspects of World War II that usually go untouched. Unlike most war novels, Catch-22 shows the irrationality of war and its negative affects felt by soldiers. It is not the usual novel where hero’s are marked… 732…

  • The Once and Future King Essays

    The Once and Future King “There is nothing,” said the monarch, “except the power which you pretend to seek: power to grind and power to digest, power to seek and power to find, power to await and power to claim, all power and pitilessness springing from the nape of the neck.” … “Love is a…

  • King Lear Study Guide

    King Lear Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: The Tragedie of King Lear Characters: Regan, Cordelia, Goneril, Leir of Britain, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Albany, Earl of Kent, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, King Lear Published: Published 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 1603) ISBN 074348276X (ISBN13: 9780743482769) A magnificent tragedy “King Lear”…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 75 | Just Great DataBase

    Marianne’s abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor’s. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 1 Elinor now…