"[T]he history of the barbarians, specifically the Goths, can be understood entirely as a response to Roman imperialism."

"Gothic history, as it appears in every modern account, is a story of migration. Traditionally, it begins in Scandinav…"

"The only recent treatment of Gothic history to dissent from the Vienna school and its focus on aristocratic tradition…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"