_Octavillas
italianas_ (8-syllable verse).
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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I now hate the
recollection
of the time I passed with Celine,
Giacinta, and Clara.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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There was a city living here long ago,
Of all that city
There is only one stone left half-buried in the marsh,
With
characters
upon it which no one now can read.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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He smiled at the
platitudes
of Horace Vernet, and only shook his head
over the Schnetzes and other artisans of the day.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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29
the mediocre positing
themselves
as the end and meaning of all things.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Each poet gives what he has, and what he can offer;
you spread before us fairy bread, and enchanted wine, and shall we turn
away, with a sneer, because, out of all the multitudes of singers, one is
spiritual and strange, one has seen Artemis
unveiled?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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1689), all contributed to the criticism
given for the most part in an old Latin translation, and restoration of the text; and in more modem
and the inscriptions prefixed to the extracts, and times, Biener, Witte, and the
brothers
Heimbach,
referring to the work and the author, are either im- have similarly distinguished themselves
perfect or wanting.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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What art can
do, I have
exhausted
on him.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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When a certain soldier averted his eyes from his face and was asked by him why he so behaved, he answered: "Because I am unable to bear the
lightning
of your eyes.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The-ordetf of the subject, leads next to an inquiry into the
principles
upon which a national bank ought to be or- ganized.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Good and evil therefore are prop- erly referred to actions, not to the
sensations
of the person, and if anything is to be good or evil absolutely (i.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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"
"Dumped down in
paradise
we are and happy.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Ter vocata audis,
adimisque
letho.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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All material principles, then,
which place the determining ground of the will in the
pleasure
or pain
to be received from the existence of any object are all of the same
kind, inasmuch as they all belong to the principle of self-love or
private happiness.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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t The
affirmatives
were, Bland, Fitzsimmons, Gorham, Hamilton, Wilson.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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122 What We Demand from France
village towards the Rhine has often to make long
detours through bushes and rolHng stones, past
morasses in which the Rhine
formerly
had its bed,
and he is not unf requently detained for an hour by
the riverside, until a wretched boat ferries him
across to one of the castles of the KaiserstuhL
But, after all, no greater difficulties beset the in-
tercourse between the high-lying lands of Baden
and the Uberrhein than that between the Baden
and the Bavarian Palatinate, or between Starken-
burg and Rhenish Hesse.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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volad a hartar
nuestros
deseos;
Las más hermosas nos darán su amor,
Y no hallarán nuestros semblantes feos,
Que siempre brilla hermoso el vencedor.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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He
might by chance be
answered
thus ; " Why fearest thou lest
He should turn aside from thee in anger?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Le douloureux mystère de
cette
impossibilité
de jamais lui faire savoir ce que j'avais appris et
d'établir nos rapports sur la vérité de ce que je venais seulement de
découvrir (et que je n'avais peut-être pu découvrir que parce qu'elle
était morte) substituait sa tristesse au mystère plus douloureux de sa
conduite.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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During his stay there he concluded just naturalization treaties with
Germany, and in a
masterly
way won from the Emperor, William I.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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"
Uprose the merry Sphinx,
And crouched no more in stone;
She melted into purple cloud,
She silvered in the moon;
She spired into a yellow flame;
She flowered in
blossoms
red;
She flowed into a foaming wave:
She stood Monadnoc's head.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ver e ch'altra fiata qua giu fui,
congiurato da quella Eriton cruda
che
richiamava
l'ombre a' corpi sui.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Amidst us all
Standing, the
beauteous
Goddess thus began.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It seems that a householder of Savatthi prepared a
donation
of all
the requisites for the Buddha and for the Order.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Nor does it lie in inherited
privilege
or recent accumulation of power.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The elimination of so many of
these little connecting words, whilst it produces an effect of
compactness, has also the effect of slowing down the movement
of the line by the greater
tightness
of verbal texture.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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When your
Catullus
stays away?
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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VIII
The world is cold and gray and wet,
And I am heavy-hearted, yet
When I am home and look to see
The place my letters wait for me,
If I should find ONE letter there,
I think I should not greatly care
If it were rainy or were fair,
For all the world would suddenly
Seem like a
festival
to me.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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J’avais toujours à portée de ma main un plan de Paris qui, parce qu’on
pouvait y distinguer la rue où
habitaient
M.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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”
Jem was
scratching
his head.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Le gouffre a toujours soif; la
clepsydre
se vide.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus, it has an indis- soluble
connection
with universal matter.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Each play was
doubtless
an independent and complete work
of art, so that the number is indeed surprising.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had
neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor
quaintly
turned
versions of Irish idioms.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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--From powders and
perfumes
keep free;
Then we shall smell how sweet you be!
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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In rare and isolated
cases, it may really have happened that such a Will to Truth--a certain
extravagant and adventurous pluck, a metaphysician's ambition of the
forlorn hope--has participated therein: that which in the end always
prefers a handful of "certainty" to a whole
cartload
of beautiful
possibilities; there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience,
who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an
uncertain something.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Special
students
of the Pane-
gyric, however, have long seen that the Gallic and Egyptian
campaigns are well known to the clever writer, and are most
skilfully introduced into the poem by way of prophecy (vati-
cinium ex eventu}.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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He was a man of very
expensive
habits, and on this account he used to go from city to city, and at times he would contrive the most amazing devices.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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1va and the
EmaeAvp-u' receive a joint vote of thanks for their
management
of the
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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She ministered as a cook in the kitchen, and
prepared
food, which she served to the workmen.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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* * * * *
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE
EPISTLES
OF HORACE.
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Horace - Works |
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PeterSloterdijk 199
An academic idyl, as I said; at the same time, it remains the regula- tive idea of any enlightenment which does not want to
surrender
the
goal of reconsiliation.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Such is the law,--the idea first, the pure
idea, the
understanding
of the laws of God, the theory: practice follows
with slow steps, cautious, attentive to the succession of events; sure
to seize, towards this eternal meridian, the indications of supreme
reason.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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responsa
quod ardua semper 295 Eois dederis, quae mox effecta probasti—
1 Africa belonged to the West.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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One would move Love by rithmes; but witchcrafts charms
Bring not now their old feares, nor their old harmes:
Rammes, and slings now are seely battery,
Pistolets
are the best Artillerie.
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Donne - 1 |
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of the spirits in
Paradise!
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Jose Zorrilla |
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An'
"Ma, she was a Beebe, 's I said afore; but she might 'a' ben
'most
anything
else, for there wa'n't any strong Beebe ways to
her.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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1745
Criseyde
loveth the sone of Tydeus,
And Troilus mot wepe in cares colde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He stuck the letter in an
envelope
and went out and posted it at the post office on the
comer, spending his last three halfpence on a penny stamp and a halfpenny stamp out of
the slot machine.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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And that is Babel with the
antichrist
on earth.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Prosthesis' is the
addition
of a letter or syllable at the be-
ginning of a word; as Gnatus for natus, gnavus for navus,
tetuli for tuli.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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' Instead of trying to
be the hero of his own history, he seeks to be the
spectator
of his own
tragedy.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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The follow ing were some the chiefs who
accompanied
him,
by
by
it
of
(in
in on ofi.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Tully - Offices |
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Because revolution
constituted
a translation of revelation into political practice, however, it shared its risk of excessive haste.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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365
It was the third of April, before he
recovered
1668.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Though now in her old age, in her young age
She had been
beautiful
in that old way
That's all but gone; for the proud heart is gone,
And the fool heart of the counting-house fears all
But soft beauty and indolent desire.
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Yeats |
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To think how eager we are in
building
our houses!
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Whitman |
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Among these he rummaged
and read, with
intervals
of note-taking and of meditation, until
we were past Reading.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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"Come, my little
brother!
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Will your oxen of their own accord yoke
themselves
for the deep plough-lands and draw the earth-cleaving share through the fallow, and forthwith, as the year comes round, reap the harvest?
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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32101 059160232
PUBLICATIONS OF THE
UNIVERSITY
OF
MANCHESTER.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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NGUYỄN NGUYÊN CHẨN 阮原稹50
người
huyện Thanh Lâm phủ Nam Sách.
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stella-01 |
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Thrice,
Our Father, and Hail
26 that it should be Papebroke adds,
very desirable to see authentic records, regarding those foundations for Masses, as they might lation that accompanies them,
commence
furnish so good an argument for the anti-
Mary.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Suppose it to be NECESSARY, for
FORM’S
sake,
to scold, and to set everyone right, and to shower around abuse (for,
between ourselves, Barbara, our friend cannot get on WITHOUT abuse--so
much so that every one humours him, and does things behind his back)?
| Guess: |
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
|
Tout casses
Qu'ils sont, ils ont des yeux
percants
comme une vrille,
Luisants comme ces trous ou l'eau dort dans la nuit;
Ils ont les yeux divins de la petite fille
Qui s'etonne et qui rit a tout ce qui reluit.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
To begin with I
wasn’t
working today.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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“Gentlemen, this is becoming tedious,” I said to them loudly: “if we are
to fight, let us fight; you had time
yesterday
to talk as much as you
wanted to.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
|
But he gives a very distinctive twist to the Kantian posi- tion, by maintaining that our embodiment is integral to the role of a priori
concepts
in sense experience.
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| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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He lives in that little
settlement
beyond the town dump.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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then and there,
Falling upon them all, and among them all,
enveloping
me with the rest,
Appeared the cloud, appeared the long black trail;
And I knew Death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of Death.
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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Ông vốn là Lý Tử Tấn vì đời Trần có lệ kiêng huý chữ Lý và họ Lý phải đổi làm họ Nguyễn; mặc dù đến đầu đời Lê có lệnh cho khôi phục họ cũ, nhưng do đương thời đã quen gọi, nên văn bia này vẫn ghi là
Nguyễn
Tử Tấn.
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stella-02 |
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Professor Lynd puts it as follows:
Both bigness and monopoly are normal antecedents to the stage of planned
provision
for the needs of society which we are now entering, and there is no longer any point in attacking either.
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
in FW
involves
the dormess brouant OVOI the land by Luc>.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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and Coleridge seems to have a special
the romantic
inspiration
of Chatterton
moves steadily to his inevitable doom.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
|
"
The voice returns like the
insistent
out-of-tune
Of a broken violin on an August afternoon:
"I am always sure that you understand
My feelings, always sure that you feel,
Sure that across the gulf you reach your hand.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
He was in extreme old age when iEneas, carry-
ing with him the
fortunes
of the future Eome, landed
on the Latian shore; and he gave to the struggle the
support of his first alliance.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
But he was by no means
a robust man, and at the age of forty-five had to
In his new state of sobriety he found his hard labour worse than
give up
drinking
strong liquors.
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WILL HITLER SAVE
DEMOCRACY?
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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O foul disgrace, of
knighthood
lasting stain,
By men of arms a helpless lady[261] slain!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Or to sum up the distinction in one word, Sir Walter Scott is
the most
_dramatic_
writer now living; and Lord Byron is the least so.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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The Seniors of the Convent, when
they found the Story to be no Fable, for it is certain that _Reuclin_
dy'd at the very Instant that the holy Man had this Vision, they
unanimously gave Thanks to God, that
abundantly
rewards good Men for
their good Deeds.
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Erasmus |
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And then
suddenly, without a word uttered, without a check in his
step, without the changing of a line in his face —
suddenly
the camouflage would be down and bang!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then ceased the music, and the little one
Was silent, with the
multitude
assembled
Hearkening; and when of Father and of Son
He spoke, the pastor's deep voice broke and trembled.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
"Your
experience
has been a most entertaining one," remarked
Holmes, as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a
huge pinch of snuff.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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I ken thy friends try ilka means,
Frae wedlock to delay thee;
Depending
on some higher chance--
But fortune may betray thee.
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Robert Burns |
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Ptolemy was
exceedingly
pleased by this, and he called the boy Memphites, because he was born in the city Memphis at the time of his solemn inauguration.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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A third was the other Pylagoras, Thrafycles, being
elefted to fuperintend the Affairs of Re- fick,
j^ifchines
was defired to defend
ligion.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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