Then, as though with a swift impatient gesture,
Flashing
from distant stars on sweeping wing,
You come, and over earth a magic vesture
Steals gently as the rain falls in the spring.
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Then I salute thee from
the rocks
Which witnessed our
encounter
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Of the
sciences
only a single one manifested vigorous life, that of Latin philology.
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Of the
sciences
only a single one manifested vigorous life, that of Latin philology.
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Why cowl thy face beneath the mourner's hood,
Why waste thy sighs, and thy
lamenting
voices,
Image of Image, Ghost of Ghostly Elf,
That such a thing as thou feel'st warm or cold?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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, Harvard
University
Press, 2002)
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Now the weary fight is done,
Ne'er again to be renewed;
Time's wide circuit now is run,
And the mighty town
subdued!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Ichabod tells of his
disappointment with the church after the
recovery
of 1660.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Tum niger in porta
serpentum
Cerberus ore
Stridit, et oeratas excubat ante fores.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Here begynneth the
introductory
to wryte, and to pronounce Frenche oom-
pyled by Alexander Barcley compendiously .
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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He took off his hat,
spilling
a pool of water from the
brim, and went round to join her.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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F urther off is a
temple to F austina, a
monument
of the weak ness of Mar-
cus A urelius.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Gnatho [to himself] —
Immortal
Gods I how much does one man excel another I What a difference there is between a
136 BRAGGART AND PARASITE.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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My child has veiled eyes,
profound
and vast,
and shining like you, Night, immense, above!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Henry was
returning to England with a
numerous
train, and
many ships; one of which, called the White Ship, was
allotted to the prince and his retinue.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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An unwarranted
ascription
to John Clerk has been marked
out in the MS.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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In
proportion as she becomes
niggardly
in her gifts, she
exacts a greater price for her work.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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His constitutive fluctuation relates not to al- ternative philosophical doctrines, but rather to the pre-philosophical choice of the antinomy of death; and this fluctuation incorporates the
simultaneously
necessary and impossible choice between meta- physics and non-metaphysics.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Poor wives of
fishers!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Emperor,
Emperor!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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You must not, however, bring upon the
stage things fit only to be acted behind the scenes: and you must take
away from view many actions, which elegant
description
may soon after
deliver in presence [of the spectators].
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Horace - Works |
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Cobham comes, and floats them with a lake:
Or cut wide views through
mountains
to the plain,
You'll wish your hill or sheltered seat again.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[Footnote 1: Willie is Nicol, Allan is
Masterton
the writing--
master.
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burns |
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It is by Finn's coming again (Finn-again)--in other words, by the reappear- ance of the hero--that
strength
and hope are provided for mankind.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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how oft does
goodness
would itself,
And sweet affection prove the spring of woe!
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burns |
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Dieter and Karin Claessens, Kapitalismus als Kultur: Entstehung und Grundlagen der
biirgerlichen
Gesellschafi (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1979).
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Oppose the
arrogant
and prove your courage:
Only blood may redeem this outrage;
Kill, or die.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The wonder was the tents weren't
snatched
away
From over you as you lay in your beds.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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The
Calendar
of Cashel
applies this name to him.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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But by practicing the utmost propriety in all your actions, you have shown that you are a philosopher and you are
honoured
by God on account of your virtue.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Count Chigi and the Italian
authorities
propose to proceed to an annual music week devoted each year to the work of one insufficiently known Italian creator or to a group of related composers.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Ultimate truth describes the true and
unmistaken
mode ofall things.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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All the circumstances under which the combat took place were to the disadvantage of the Romans: the soldiers,
as they had demanded battle a little before, fought ill;
Varinius
was completely vanquished; his horse and the insignia of his ofi’i'cial dignity fell with the Roman camp itself into the enemy’s hand.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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I cannot lop away those twelve swift,
changeful
years that are gone.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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With pitiless
logic he criticized their extravagance and pretension; and actively
anticipating the spirit of modern science, he accepted no fact,
he
subscribed
to no theory, which he had not examined with a cold
impartiality.
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Lucian - True History |
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And all had been ruined
by an unhappy
mistake!
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Crushed by the overwhelming cloud
Depth of basalt and lavas
By even the enslaved echoes
Of a trumpet without power
What
sepulchral
shipwreck (you
Know it, slobbering there, foam)
Among hulks the supreme one
Flattened the naked mast too
Or that which, furious mistake
Of some noble ill-fate
All the vain abyss spread wide
In the so-white hair's trailing
Would have drowned miser-like
The childish flank of some Siren.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A Boredom, made desolate by cruel hope
Still believes in the last goodbye of
handkerchiefs!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With pitiless
logic he criticized their extravagance and pretension; and actively
anticipating the spirit of modern science, he accepted no fact,
he
subscribed
to no theory, which he had not examined with a cold
impartiality.
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Lucian - True History |
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—" God," " the immortality of the
soul," "salvation,"a "beyond"—to all these notions,
even as a child, I never paid any
attention
whatso-
ever, nor did I waste any time upon them,—maybe
I was never naif enough for that ?
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Interruptions
are the ravens
which bring food to the recluse.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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We are alone among animals in
foreseeing
our end.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Would it not be
wonderful?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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God thus presented himself in art - and from his own
perspective
rather than the distorted perspective from which earthly beings could look at him.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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" I pledge that the reference should be not only to "artifacts
produced
by human beings in the past" but also to artifacts produced in cultures other than our own.
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"
He was
answered
by the most humble appeals for time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Next to jewels and gold
we were the most
valuable
things he had.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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The displacement of a single electron by a
billionth
of a centimetre at one moment might make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later, or escaping.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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"So you have a
grandmother
who knows three winning cards, and you
haven't found out the magic secret.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Snatch at the reins in my dead hands and push me
Out of my saddle, blow my
labouring
pony
Across the track.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Mais le chemin de Monsieur Case le ramenait derrière la gare, et les pas de revenir, quatre ou cinq, petite
griffure
furtive, aux oreilles de Watt, qui jaillissaient de part et d'autre de sa tête comme celles d'un ?
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Samuel Beckett |
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A
phrase may be found here and there in the book which is out of
harmony with the taste of our day; but ninety years make con-
siderable difference in such matters, and all must admit that these
seventeenth-century touches are not
unnatural
in a youth whose early
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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how shall he maintain them, who
receives
nothing
from you, and has nothing of his own 1 From the skies ?
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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how shall he maintain them, who
receives
nothing
from you, and has nothing of his own 1 From the skies ?
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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40 The last two, with
participations
in the Empire State Building, were in many deals with the Baird foundations.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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It must suffice to mention his
criticism
of Words-
worth in Biographia, and that of Shakespeare, as dramatist, in
various courses of his lectures.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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The Pole is, in fact, treated as the
despised
and
/ detested alien in the country that has belonged
[ to him centuries before Prussia rose into exist-
* ence.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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For under feyned names of Goddes it was the poets guyse
The vice and faults of all estates too taunt in convert wyse
And
likewyse
too extoll with prayse such things as doo deserve.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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The wife bewails his mad murder of their children, and gently hints that the mother might give her more sympathy in her sorrow if she would not be for ever
lamenting
her own.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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The wife bewails his mad murder of their children, and gently hints that the mother might give her more sympathy in her sorrow if she would not be for ever
lamenting
her own.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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In
addition
this use of the bare thought with its retreats, prolongations, and flights, by reason of its very design, for anyone wishing to read it aloud, results in a score.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Against the
aforementioned
background oflanguage
50 !
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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X
Across the twilight's violet
His curtained window
glimmers
gold;
Oh happy light that round my love
Can fold.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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How the Further Tantra and the Revelation ofthe Hidden
Intention
explain
s:::
s?
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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The first re-evaluation of all values
therefore
concerned weight.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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A few nights after this public chiding he was walking with a letter
along the
Drumcondra
Road when he heard a voice cry:
--Halt!
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Getting the marrow, and
receiving the Dharma,
invariably
come from sincerity and from belief.
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Shobogenzo |
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You yourself show by your actions that you are most worthy of
admiration
through the help of God who makes you care for these things.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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'
We have
preferred
to pass lightly over his much-bruited quarrel
with Byron, the fault of which was mainly Byron's.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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I
broidered
him a knightly scarf
With letters of my name
Margret, Margret.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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NON-IMPORTATION 215
Albany, the Rhode Island ports and
Pnrtgtnnn^
fmm rV1>>
nnn-itpportatinn rnmhinatjrm The merchants of Albany
rescinded their agreement on May 10 in favor of the non-
importation of tea alone; but when, after a few weeks, they
learned that Boston and New York remained steadfast, they
hastened to resume their agreement and to countermand the
orders which had been sent to England in the meantime.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Les désirs, les plaisirs
inconnus
que ressentait
Albertine, une fois j'eus l'illusion de les voir quand quelque temps
après la mort d'Albertine, Andrée vint chez moi.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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535
But when thou famous victory hast wonne,
And high emongst all knights hast hong thy shield,
Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shonne,
And wash thy hands from guilt of bloudy field:
For blood can nought but sin, and wars but
sorrowes
yield.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Puelle_ GRBVen || _aequalis_ T: _equales_ O:
_equale?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The
thousandth
time may prove the charm.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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' Without a word of
farewell
he
went out, almost groping his way.
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Yeats |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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For we have little chance of attaining enduring
amity among the peoples of the earth if
national
and
racial prejudices remain as virulent as during the first half
of this twentieth century.
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Even pain
Pricks to
livelier
living, then
Wakes the nerves to laugh again,
Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Augustine described the nature of God as a
circle whose centre was
everywhere
and its circumference no-
where.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Before I left for America in 1943, I had to go through five days of Kuomintang
training
in Chungking before I could get my passport, and had to write a short essay of two hundred words on the advisability for local officials to visit the central govern- ment.
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Frankfurt
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After his arrival he continued as a common slave about seven weeks, when Lord F , having heard some account of him, feeling for the
hardships
he suffered, kindly re ceived him into his house, treated him with great regard and humanity, and allowed him a horse to ride.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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She went as quiet as the dew
From a
familiar
flower.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Chinese
literature
as affected by
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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"
Here is keen satire of the allegorical method uncontrolled by
reason and accurate knowledge, a satire addressed, with a final
thrust, to Frater
Dollenkopfius
(Dunderhead).
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A Clergyman’s Daughter 287
Outside, m the swimming heat, she mounted her bicycle and began to ride
swiftly homewards The sun burned m her face, but the air now seemed sweet
and fresh She was happy, happy 1 She was always extravagantly happy when
her morning’s ‘visiting’ was over, and, curiously enough, she was not aware of
the reason for this In Borlase the dairy-farmer’s meadow the red cows were
grazing, knee-deep in shining seas of grass The scent of cows, like a
distillation of vanilla and fresh hay, floated into Dorothy’s nostrils Though
she had still a morning’s work m front of her she could not resist the
temptation to loiter for a moment, steadying her bicycle with one hand against
the gate of Borlase’s meadow, while a cow, with moist shell-pink nose,
scratched its chin upon the gatepost and dreamily regarded her
Dorothy caught sight of a wild rose, flowerless of course, growing beyond
the hedge, and climbed over the gate with the intention of discovering whether
it were not sweetbriar She knelt down among the tall weeds beneath the
hedge It was very hot down there, close to the ground The humming of many
unseen insects sounded m her ears, and the hot summery fume from the
tangled swathes of vegetation flowed up and enveloped her Near by, tall stalks
of fennel were growing, with trailing fronds of foliage like the tails of sea-green
horses Dorothy pulled a frond of the fennel against her face and breathed m
the strong sweet scent Its richness overwhelmed her, almost dizzied her for a
moment She drank it in, filling her lungs with it Lovely, lovely scent-scent of
summer days, scent of childhood joys, scent of spice-drenched islands m the
warm foam of Oriental seas'
Her heart swelled with sudden joy It was that mystical joy m the beauty of
the earth and the very nature of things that she recognized, perhaps
mistakenly, as the love of God As she knelt there in the heat, the sweet odour
and the drowsy hum of insects, it seemed to her that she could momentarily
hear the mighty anthem of praise that the earth and all created things send up
everlastingly to their maker All vegetation, leaves, flowers, grass, shining,
vibrating, crying out in their joy Larks also chanting, choirs of larks invisible,
dripping music from the sky All the riches of summer, the warmth of the
earth, the song of birds, the fume of cows, the droning of countless bees,
mingling and ascending like the smoke of ever-burning altars Therefore with
Angels and Archangels' She began to pray, and for a moment she prayed
ardently, blissfully, forgetting herself m the joy of her worship Then, less
than a minute later, she discovered that she was kissing the frond of the fennel
that was still against her face
She checked herself instantly, and drew back What was she doing 5 Was it
God that she was worshipping, or was it only the earth 5 The joy ebbed out of
her heart, to be succeeded by the cold,
uncomfortable
feeling that she had been
betrayed into a half-pagan ecstasy.
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