She wept against
his breast, angry with him, hating him, and yet
clinging
to him like a child.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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" And after a pause he added: "You know how popular those babes-in-the-wood games are in bed: people who could murder their real
siblings
fool around as brother- and-sister babies under the same blanket.
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_" Being
afterwards
prest by Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Television
beats a path to the doors of second-rate conjurors masquerading as psychics and clairvoyants.
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ois-Henri Turpin, La France illustre, ou le
Plutarque
franc?
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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So with the bourgeois; his instruments are out of order; he sees the chain and knows the
gratuitousness
of his ends.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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It is so perfectly natural that Milton should
have written this sequel that, perhaps, some people may hardly
look further; and it is equally natural that some time should
be allowed to pass between the
successive
publications.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
American Union has no _centre_, and it is
impossible
now to make one.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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" Ultimately the work of one single author can serve as a rival project and foil to Nietzsche's own, one
who the author of The Gay Science himself inci dentally named "a glorious, great nature," not without adding that to date the most ingenious
philosophical
writer of the 1 9th century had been
/ 73
an American, namely Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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best
motili share ouch
potentialities
with IhQ
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This is the end that he that
dresseth
the vine, and
he that takes upon him either to tame colts, or to train up dogs,
doth aim at.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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The only trial we had, was that upon the Varian Law; the rest, as I have just observed, having been
intermitted
by the war.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Later, indeed, he acquires
distrust of the whole metaphysical method of explaining things: he then
perceives, perhaps, that those effects could have been attained just as
well and more scientifically by another method: that physical and
historical explanations would, at least, have given that feeling of
freedom from personal responsibility just as well, while
interest
in
life and its problems would be stimulated, perhaps, even more.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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--
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hereafter?
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If I now
choose to compare myself with those
creatures
who
have hitherto been honoured as the first among men,
the difference becomes obvious.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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[49] A tragic poet, apparently
proverbial
for feebleness of style.
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Aristophanes |
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_
When Freedom, from her
mountain
height,
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The fire the brigade was incurring
had not yet come to be of that
crushing
sort which mows down
half a troop in one instant, and for some time a steady pace
was maintained.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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The
illusion
ended that one could control one's age from a single metropolis, whether called Moscow, Paris, Berkeley, Frankfurt, or Heidelberg.
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' I rather think, however, that what
Donne means is 'a scourge against which we all at sea always forget to
pray, for to pray for wind at sea is
generally
to pray for cold under
the poles, for heat in hell'.
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Donne - 2 |
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Thou must not in the mean while here forgot
Lie in this
miserable
loathsom plight 480
Neglected.
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Milton |
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The sterility of
prostitutes
is attributed to this cause, but
I doubt it being the only one.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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If a
concatenation
of events centred in one great action--events which
gave birth to the present commercial system of the world--if these be of
the first importance in the civil history of mankind, then the Lusiad,
of all other poems, challenges the attention of the philosopher, the
politician, and the gentleman.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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II I was not afraid of Monsieur Leuret's authority and
punishment
I would bring you something to eat; I am prepared to take this risk if you give me a little reward.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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10Girri's books
published
between 1946 and 1962 are: Playa sola (1946), Coronacio?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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It may be easily supposed, while this
Was going on, some people were unquiet,
That passengers would find it much amiss
To lose their lives, as well as spoil their diet;
That even the able seaman, deeming his
Days nearly o'er, might be disposed to riot,
As upon such
occasions
tars will ask
For grog, and sometimes drink rum from the cask.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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It would Iud you 10 believe t1ut he had in mind
rymbolism
or ideafum, the .
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Though this same ]oseph could have become a respected shepherd at the fountains of Israel if his brothers had left him alone, or an olive farmer listening in pious
serenity
to the growing of the trees, there were other career options for him in Egypt - assuming the newcomer were able to turn his involuntary immigration to his advantage.
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116
Al re d'Algier come cingial si scaglia,
e l'urta con lo scudo e con la spalla;
e in modo lo
disordina
e sbarraglia,
che fa che d'una staffa il piè gli falla.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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This departure need not be
understood
as active leave-taking.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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if we dream pale flowers,
Slow-moving pageantry of hours that
languidly
Drop as o'er-ripened fruit from sallow trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Indeed, I think the reader
will easily excuse me, if I touch very slightly on the poetic manner, in
the common and narrow sense, of the poets whom I shall have to mention;
since these
qualities
have been so often and sometimes so admirably
dealt with.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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His famous
categorical
imperative enjoins us to 'act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law'.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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"
He spurs his horse, that on with speed doth strain;
Which should forfeit, they both
together
came.
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Chanson de Roland |
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by the sale of the premises, and opened fine shop in Norwich, supplied with drugs of all sorts, from London, with an
apparatus
for cutting for the stone, &c.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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chterne
und begeisterte, tiefe und
oberfla?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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It
happened
to him one day
of great heat that whilst he was carrying a heavy load, he
became exceeding weary and sweated profusely; the heat and the
weight alike oppressing him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Have you by any chance heard how that mystical, strange celebration
Followed
victorious
troops back from Eleusis to Rome?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Although the ancients did not fail to perceive
the economic connection between
agriculture
and the rear ing of cattle, and in particular the importance of producing manure, the modern combination of the growth of corn with the rearing of cattle was a thing foreign to antiquity.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Luhmann, Niklas, The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal
Structures
in Modern Society , Social Research, 43:1 (1976:Spring) p.
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But there was a zooming
noise from behind the houses, and
suddenly
a fleet of great black bombers came whizzing
over.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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The order of castes, and the order of rank merely
formulates the supreme law of life itself; the differ-
entiation of the three types is necessary for the
maintenance of society, and for
enabling
higher and
highest types to be reared,—the inequality of rights
is the only condition of there being rights at all.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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If the fundamental process of modernity promotes itself as a "human movement to free oneself" then it is a process that we
absolutely
do not want and a movement that it is impossible for us not to make.
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Sloterdijk |
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He will never rouse himself to energy and labour merely
that
something
may come to pass, or that he may gain a re-
putation for activity; for his desire is not merely that some-
thing may come to pass, but that the will of the Idea may
be accomplished.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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He did not hit the right room directly: she
motioned
me
to admit him, but he found it out ere I could reach the door, and in a
stride or two was at her side, and had her grasped in his arms.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Before and after his birth, many
wonderful
signs appeared to his mother, and he was recog- nized without any doubt as the reincarnation of Jamgon Kongtriil by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Gyalwang Karmapa through the vision of their stainless wisdom.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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THE WRATHFUL GOD
was elevated above the gods of the surrounding empires by
postcaptivity
theology--in terms of both his cosmological competence as Creator and his political and moral competence.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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die
Septembris anno Regni d'oe Regine supra torum predict' per debit'legis formam legitime dicto diversis aliis diebus vicibus antea indictat postea superinde legitime utlagat postea apud Charterhouse pred'cam Com' attinct fuer adhuc existunt prout per seperal' Midd' predict'falso subdole proditorie mutuo record'inde Cur' d'ce d'ne Regine nunc co dedit accommodavit tam prefat Marie nu ramip'a Regina remanen pleiieliquet record' per Scotorum Regine quam amicis adheren cumque post perpetrationem commissionem tibus suis plures diversas magnas pecuniarun nequissimarum proditionu'predictarum forma
Anna uxor ejus, Carolus Comes Westmerl'Rich ardus Norton, Thomas Markenfelde cum mul aliis dictorum falsorum proditorum rebella
alii falsorum proditorum rebellatorum pre dict' die Decembris anno Regni d'ee d'ne Regine nunc undecimo pro proditionibus illis extra hoc regnum Angl' regnum Scotie fu gier recessero etib'm per quosdam proceres
surum etiam idem Jur ulterius super borealibus locu' tenen' suum generalem cun sacr'm suum pred'c'm presentant dicunt potenti forti exercitu armatorum hominum quod cum Thomas Comes Northumbro nuper apertam publicam guerram proclamavit
tea postea apud Charterhouse pred'cam Com'Midd' predict' diversas literas diversa signa pignora vocat' Toakens falso subdole
proditorie recepit h'uit licet prefat Dux
tunc antea per prefat d'nam Elizabeth Regi nam super debit'legianc' sue spialit' probibi
tus vetitus fuit quod nullo modo intromittet
sive tractaret maritagio cu' prefato Maria ley, D'num Harris, D'nun IIume, D'num nuper Scotorum Regina faciend' licet etiam Buclughe D'num Fermhurste, alios prefatus Dux per diversas litteras instrument' Scotos Subditos d'ci Regni Scotie existen' manu propria ip'ius Ducis script per pre recept auxiliati confortati fuer,ac eadem fat ducem d'ce d'ne Elizabeth Regine supre d'na Regina Elizabeth' detent versus me d'ne sue missa exhibit preantea prefat' quos proceres magnates pred'cos d'ci Regni maritagium penitus recusasset renuntiasset Scotie eadem d'na Elizabeth Regina postea protestans affirmans eodem maritagio pro eadem causa per prenobilem Thoman Co nunquam intromissurum sive aliqualit' proces miten Sussex eiusdem d'ne Regine partibus
Topclif Com'Ebor Anna uxor ejus, Carolus Comes Westmerl' nuper Branspeth
ger, Thomas Markenfeild nuper Marken Norton Thomas Markenfielde predicto
feld dict Com' Ebor armiger, simul cum Regno Scotie usque Antverpia partibus Bra
Comitatu Dunelm', Richardus Norton nu
per Norton Conyers Comit' Ebor'armi dicti Thome Comitis Northumbro Richardus
aliis falsis proditoribus rebellatoribus ini bantie fugier recesser transferaver”, ib micis publicis d'ce d'ne Regine Elizabeth' dem Carolus Comes Westmerl'Anna uxor dicti Deum pre oculis suis non habentes nec Thome Comitis Northumbro Richardus Norton debitum legiantiar suarum ponderant'sed In
stigatione diabolica seduct machinantes devi santes conspirantes d'cam d'nam Reginam
Elizabeth regali Statu titulo potestate Regni sui Angl' dejicere dishereditare, nec
Thomas Markenfeilde contra legiantiarum suarum, debit' morabant manifestum con tempt d'ce domine Regine nunc legum sua rum, Pred'custamen Thomas Dux Norf'k pre missorum non ignarus sed omnia singula
non eand'm d'nam Reginam mortem nalem destructionem adducere
forma pred'oa bene perfecte intelligens
ponere
intentione
illas proditiones conspi
sciens die Angust' anno regni d'ee d'ne Eli zabeth Regine duodecimo supradicto apud
Charterhouse pred'cam Com'Midd predict' vembris anno Regni d'ce d'ne Regino nunc un tea pred'eo Carolo Comiti Westmerl'ac pre
rationes imaginationes suas perimplerent
effectum redigerent decimo sexto die No ac diversis aliis diebus vicibus antea pos
magnates dicti regni Scotie scil't per Jaco bum Ducem Chastle Roy, Comitem IIunt
vavit fecit, tanquam versus hostes inimicos suos regni Anglie, rac'one cujus guerre
prefat Carolus Comes Westmerl' Anna uxor
et ad
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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[200]
Mountains
have been the dwelling places of great saints since
beyond the past and present.
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Shobogenzo |
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Is it because thy doughty son be given
troubles
innumerable by a man of nought, as a lion might be given by a fawn?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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[49] L Thus then we have traced the birth and origin of the orators of Greece, who were, indeed, very ancient, as I have before observed, if we compute by the Roman Annals; but of a much later date, if we reckon by their own: for the Athenian State had signalized itself by a variety of great exploits, both at home and abroad, a
considerable
time before she was ravished with the charms of eloquence.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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You
gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease and compliment
yourselves in the songs of triumph with which our chieftains are
bepraised; you pretty maidens that come
tumbling
down the
stairs when the fife and drum call you, and huzza for the British
Grenadiers,- do you take account that these items go to make
up the amount of triumph you admire, and form part of the
duties of the heroes you fondle ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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If because of miserliness or selfishness you hold back from giving what you find the most
pleasing
and offer only what you do not want for yourseJf, how can your promise to give yourself totally for the work of_benefiting all sentient beings be anything but a farce ?
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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It is
impossible
to attach any other meaning to the
seventh stanza; and that intention also explains the bitter tone in
which women are satirized in the fragment.
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John Donne |
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Ye gloomy ones, brighten 'neath smiles
quelling
care--
Or pass--for _this_ Comfort is found ev'rywhere.
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Hugo - Poems |
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One may
say that he has shaped the whole century which
followed
him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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It leads modern consciousness of tech- nology and
domination
ultimately ad absurdum.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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He makes powerful
friends, and at the close has won not only a handsome price for
his book but
ecclesiastical
preferment which will make him easy
for life.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Sieh, welch ein
zierliches
Geschlecht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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False wits, false wives, false virgins, and false
spouses!
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Of all those three brave
brothers
fall'n i' th' war, I.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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The principle of autonomy then is: "Always so to choose that the same
volition
shall comprehend the maxims of our choice as a universal law.
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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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This means that the number of opportunities for coincidence is greater for each one of us than it would have been for our ancestors, and
consequently
greater than our brains are calibrated to assess.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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li] The
Juvenile
Works of Ovid 171
ment of 100 verses, which is 70, while its percentage of dactyls
for the distich is also low, namely, 53.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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In any
case the central
character
is not likely to be a coal-miner.
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Orwell |
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In a minute there is time
For
decisions
and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Andre, educated amidst a circle of devoted relatives,
and habitually indulging every ardent impulse of his gene-
rous nature, had torn himself from their
reluctant
arms to
win honour in the field.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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`But for-as-muche as me mot nedes lyke
Al that yow list, I dar not pleyne more,
But humbely with sorwful sykes syke;
Yow wryte ich myn unresty sorwes sore, 1355
Fro day to day
desyring
ever-more
To knowen fully, if your wil it were,
How ye han ferd and doon, whyl ye be there.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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After some words Charles bounded at the General's throat and
sought to
strangle
him.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Palmerston, Henry John Temple, third
viscount
(1784-1865).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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It had even become very
unpleasant for him, now,
whenever
she entered the room.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Finally, it is an instrument peculiarly
appropriate
to the cold war.
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NSC-68 |
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Such objectivism loses the intent of reflection to
maintain
a
self-consciousness of the mediation of fact through the thinking subject.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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"She came forward, all in black, with a pale head,
floating
towards
me in the dusk.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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9:18 For
wickedness
burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers
and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they
shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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bible-kjv |
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A criminal trial ought to retrace the path of the crime itself,
passing backward from the criminal action (a violation of the
law), in order to
discover
the criminal, and, in the psychological
domain, to establish the determining motives and the
anthropological type.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Sau khi mất, ông
được
phong phúc thần.
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stella-03 |
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Non so ben se lo vider volentieri,
ancor che gli mostrasser viso umano;
che la intercetta lor
vittoria
forse
d'invidia ai duo germani il petto morse.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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5nsem-\-que clype-\-umq\i' 5t rubric cornua crista
(
ensemque
-- ccesura.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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She was led to Church by her Brother Prince
Charles, and the Earl of Northampton; the young
Batchelor
on the Right
Hand, and the old on the left.
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Donne - 2 |
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Just
consider
that for the understanding every simile is equivocal, but for the emotions it's unequivocal.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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” she had said to Roberto, and neither
the one nor the other had
forgotten
at all.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Even if he were able 10 see tiny objects miles away, this would give no indication of his abilities as a
spiritual
teacher.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Chimene
Still you speak, what more,
Vile
murderer
of that hero I adore!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Such of them as, having been already adven-
turers in our funds, are holders of public certificates, would
have little
encouragement
to adventure farther.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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He refused to give the
information
de-
manded.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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To the practitioner of the Daoist arts, the texts of Daoism are not just objects of
intellectual
inquiry but guidelines for practice.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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2 The
clansman
Yu-yu still held on to benevolence and worked to win men over.
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Chuang Tzu |
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- And yet you too will resemble that ordure,
that
terrible
corruption,
star of my eyes, sun of my nature,
my angel, and my passion!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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[458] 85
Before reaching the mountains they
received
the good news of the
victory over the Treviri, the truth of which was fully attested by the
presence of their leader Valentinus.
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Tacitus |
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The statement 'I will myself to walk' is an
interpretation
o f the fact that I walked after breaking my leg.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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'Molly Carew,' a better piece of work, would
doubtless
have at-
tracted equal favor, had not the music been more difficult.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Whoever takes offense at the military
connotation
of the term has the right initial instinct.
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Sloterdijk |
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