with several other Greek and Latin historians, has increased our early knowledge of the
Britannic
Islands, and to such accounts, the student of their history must direct attention.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Being asked by his brethren why he did so, he
answered, “Have not you read—‘The Lord also
thundered
in the heavens, and
the Highest gave his voice.
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bede |
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But I have never read of a Lacedaemonian orator, from the
earliest
period of time to the present.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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1-2) the public career to which he had formerly devoted
himself and of which he has now grown weary, but there is
not a word in the poem to warrant the usual
assumption
that
the author was a man of advanced years who had reached the
age of forty-five or fifty.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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For in them it seems as if all that makes life
precious
were in the act of being created at once and together — language itself, and the first emotions, and the inconceivable charm of song.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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He said that his affection for the one made him
feel the same for the other too, and that the mutual
resemblance
of
her own and of his mother's face easily accounted for Genji's
partiality to her.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The excuse she
commonly
gave, when her friends asked the reason, was, that it prevented noise, and saved time.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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blake-poems |
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^°
f their festivals is the same a circumstance rather and The o—
day singular,
suspicious
being reputed brothers, as co-bishops, likewise, in one and the same see.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Other noteworthy
translations
and adaptations of this period are as
follows: Othello, by Schmid, C.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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_The Mother_
The only fault my husband found with me--
I went to sleep before I went to bed,
Especially
in winter when the bed
Might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Ah, the cities," cried he, "and the faces Like an endless river rolling on —
From what unknown deeps of being risen
All those myriads, to what shadowy coast
"Of huge doom in sullen
grandeur
moving, The vast waters of the human soul!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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While I have reached my belief in
equality
by long reflection, and
almost in spite of my desires, you hold yours, sir, with all the zeal of
faith,--with all the spontaneity of genius.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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The greatest
poetical
talent of the golden age was
that of Kochanowski, the first Polish lyrist, and the
most gifted poet of independent Poland.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Some of the halls have long been locked and barred,
And some have secret doors and hard to find
Till
suddenly
you touch them unawares,
And down a sable way runs silver light.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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copyright
law in creating the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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(Critics of
traditional
education call this the "savings and loan" model.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Celestial
themes confess'd his tuneful aid;
And Heaven, that lent him genius, was repaid.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Thank you for the copies of my
Volunteer
Ballad.
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Robert Burns- |
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And in every single
family, in one way or another, some such
inexorable
retribution is being
exacted--
_Nora_ (_putting her hands over her ears_).
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Not thou, but customary thought is here
Molested and annoyed; the only nerve
Can carry anguish from this to thy soul,
Is that
credulity
which ties the mind
Firmly to notional creature as to real.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The militia were all
detained
by General Putnam, till it be-
came too late to send them.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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She was only
nineteen
months old, and as
she stood at her mother's knee that mother
thought for the hundred-and-first time that
there never was such a baby-girl.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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" George's doubts were also sup- pressed by his need to believe: "I thought to myself, 'If the Com- munists were really
malicious
and wicked, what would we do?
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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And Cypris made her heart faint, and in her
confusion
she could scarcely gather her spirit back to her.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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There are as many if not more studies of limited
subjects
as there are broad surveys.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What meant the strange dreams that did affray me in that most sweet slumber I had upon the bed in my
chamber?
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Moschus |
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One copy,
Bodleian
Lib.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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It was on taking
leave of this
province
that, stirred by the wander-
lust of youth and spring, he wrote the exquisite little
lyric numbered XLVI.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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The efforts of two of their
acquaintances to find them, in the puzzling
intricacies
of the place, are thus
amusingly described.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Rather, the essav comes so close to the here and now of the object, up to the point where that object, instead of being simply an object, dissociates itself into those
elements
in which it has its life.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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In order that the
banks may not be
controlled
by a few financiers,
the Massachusetts law provides that no execu-
tive officer or trustee (director) of any savings
bank can hold any office in any other savings
bank.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Walpole, in his
Catalogue
of Royal and Noble Authors, of the earl of
Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristicks, but it appears to me to be
a mistake, if we are to understand that the words were spoken by
Shaftesbury at this time, when he had no seat in the house of commons;
nor did the bill pass at this time, being thrown out by the house of
lords.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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If that happened to you, please let us know so we can keep
adjusting
the software.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Elle
pratique avec plus de fétichisme que de bonheur le
«_Farà
da se_» de nos
voisins d'au delà des Alpes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Nowadays, Kittler noted disapprovingly, even news- papers
regurgitate
Lacan's famous dictum that the unconscious is the dis- course of the other, "but that this discourse of the other is the discourse of the circuit is cited by no one.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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A mere
nobleman
is, in his
estimation, but "the tenth transmitter of a foolish face:" a mere man of
genius is no better than a worm.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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L'amor de la sua donna sì lo 'ngombra,
ch'alla grotta tornar vuol fra la torma,
né partirsene mai sin alla morte,
se non racquista la fedel consorte:
59
che quando dianzi avea all'uscir del chiuso
vedutala
restar captiva sola,
fu per gittarsi, dal dolor confuso,
spontaneamente al vorace Orco in gola;
e si mosse, e gli corse infino al muso,
né fu lontano a gir sotto la mola:
ma pur lo tenne in mandra la speranza
ch'avea di trarla ancor di quella stanza.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Their noise ended, one of
them, as I said, accompanies me home, lest I should be
solitary
for
a moment; he at length takes his welcome leave at the door; up I go,
mutton on table, hungry as hunter, hope to forget my cares, and bury
them in the agreeable abstraction of mastication; knock at the door,
in comes Mr.
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Selection of English Letters |
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"
This was new ; for there had been many, and at
present there were some, who possessed benefices
with cure of souls, and other
ecclesiastical
promo-v
tions, who had never received orders but in France
or in Holland; and these men must now receive
new ordination, which had been always held unlaw-
ful in the church, or by this act of parliament must
be deprived of their livelihood, which they enjoyed
in the most flourishing and peaceable time of the
church.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The Reformation, a kind of duplication
of the spirit of the Middle Ages at a time when
it had no longer a good conscience, produced both
of these kinds of people in the
greatest
profusion.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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"New
political
thinking," the general rubric for their views, describes a world dominated by economic concerns, in which there are no ideological grounds for major conflict between nations, and in which, consequently, the use of military force becomes less legitimate.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Just
before the
luncheon
he acted as pilot.
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Twain - Speeches |
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--Again, we do not think it
possible that under any circumstances the writer of the _Verses to Anna_
could enter into the spirit or
delicacy
of Mr.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Seneca
recalled
from exile.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Marianne had retreated as much as
possible
out of sight, to conceal her
distress; and Margaret, understanding some part, but not the whole of
the case, thought it incumbent on her to be dignified, and therefore
took a seat as far from him as she could, and maintained a strict
silence.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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The corrupt
minister
at last was chopped to mince,4 124 and his evil partners were then swept away.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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-are touched
osses from an Old Manse is the title
Moss
of
Nathaniel
Hawthorne's second
on in a delightfully rambling way; ideas collection of tales and sketches (1854).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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A VILLONAUD : BALLAD OF THE GIBBET
OR THE SONG OF THE SIXTH COMPANION SCENE : " En ce bourdel ou tenons nostre estat"
It being
remembered
that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
" Freres humains qui apres nous
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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