Sentence examples for read the epic from inspiring English sources

His wandering arrested by this tragedy, he establishes an unlikely friendship with the Indian hotel owner, who wants Henry to read the epic poem her late husband left behind.

You – which is to say, I – wouldn't complain if Paul Chowder returned for at least a third account of his pursuit of Roz, as long as we never have to read the epic poem about Senator Cabot Lodge.

(Read the epic and welcome piece of reporting by John Horn, Nicole Sperling, and Doug Smith in the Los Angeles Times that confirmed what many suspected about the Academy: they "are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male…. Blacks are about 2% of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2%. Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. People younger than 50 constitute just 14% of the membership").

Read the epic tale of Morris's travels across the world.

But the dominant Gelugpa sect, which had political control of Tibet in the past, banned monks from reading the epic and strongly discouraged ordinary Tibetans from even listening to it.

Now largely out of print and seldom read, the lengthy epic poem of love and hate and revenge in rhyming couplets was, in its day it, hugely successful.

When you actually read the Ossian epics, you find that they are shaped entirely to neoclassical tastes.

UPDATED CLASSICS: PARIS N HELS 4EVER -- Homer's ancient Greek poem "The Iliad," the basis for the Hollywood blockbuster "Troy," has been compressed for a new generation too lazy to see the film let alone read the 24-book epic that runs to more than 15,000 lines, Reuters reported.

On first encounter, a good mid-morning's read into the epic, Tara appears in very rudimentary outline, as "a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the green incline of pasture land running down to the river".

I'd call it an epic task, if I hadn't just read the succinct explanation of Epics, from Gilgamish to Star Wars.

When I read the second book of the epic, aged 15, I remember discussing, in class, a section where Aeneas struggles with the dilemma of whether to stay in Troy – and go down fighting – or leave and follow his god-allotted path.