No: with the common heap I scorn to fall--
What if they pass'd me to the Trojan wall,
While I decline to yonder path, that leads
To Ida's forests and
surrounding
shades?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Similarly the
percentage of dactylic
beginnings
in the whole of Am.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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rliche
Augenblicke
der
Wonne, aber doch hinreichend, jahrelange Mu?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Minime, minime quidem [Not at all, indeed not at all]: I
speak truly and mean nothing but what I say; for I do not (sophistarum more) [following the Sophists' custom], make a
profession
of demonstrating that white is black.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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She had already rearranged all the details, and settled
upon all the means possible of
preparing
herself for what she
called the charge of the establishment when her final emancipa-
tion took place, before she returned to school.
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You come out feeling lean, tuned and
enormously
more intelligent'
JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES
'For Dawkins there is more poetry, not less, in the rainbow- because of Newton
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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To be sedulous in
promoting
anothers good; also
to flatter, is to Honour; as a signe we seek his protection or ayde.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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She was
then dragged from his presence, and brutally murdered by the hands of
his three counsellors, who
immediately
returned to the king with their
daggers reeking with the innocent blood of his daughter-in-law.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Metafizika blagoi vesti,
republished
in
Absoliutnaia rodina, p.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Ah quietly the shingle waits the tides
Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me
Love brought no peace, nor
darkness
any rest.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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O words of mine
foredone
and full of terror,
Whither it please ye, go forth and proclaim
Grief.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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"
Buddha Shakyamuni has stated:
Due to desire, becoming and ignorance,
Beings will revolve foolishly through the five realms- Those of humans, gods and the three
inferior
realms- Like the turning of a potter's wheel.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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"May I beg you to come as near half-past six to my little
dwelling as possible, Miss
Matilda?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have
gathered
in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul
as it leads.
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Sara Teasdale |
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" time of temporary nirvana, during which ,pac-: of time the atma loses an
remembrance
of pa'l !
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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why, a beast had scarce been duller
Than roar bestial loud
complaints
against the shining of the spheres.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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The I-Ching or "Book of Changes" comes out, as we know, with the yin and yang, the whole and
unbroken
line.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Its identification of the Soviet system with communism, its peace campaigns and its championing of colonial peoples may be viewed with apathy, if not cynicism, by the oppressed totalitariat of the Soviet world, but in the free world these ideas find
favorable
responses in vulnerable segments of
society.
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NSC-68 |
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The elision suggests that the presence of the self is a passing phenomenon, tied to relative
positions
in time.
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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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Allen’s
lengthened stay than Miss Tilney
told her of her father’s having just determined upon quitting Bath
by the end of another week.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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He was a man of unusual application, and was much beloved by his fellow-citizens; being constantly employed either in giving his advice, or
pleading
causes in the forum.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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There, on a hillock, thou mayst sing
Unto a
handsome
shepherdling;
Or to a girl, that keeps the neat,
With breath more sweet than violet.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of
my own body, or any part of it,
Translucent
mould of me it shall be you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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who young Leila's glance could read
And keep that portion of his creed
Which saith that woman is but dust,
A
soulless
toy for tyrant's lust?
| Guess: |
ditzy |
| Question: |
Are ignorant toys? |
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Byron |
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The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries
and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were
here carried on in appropriate divisions,
commodious
and roomy.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to
reaching
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remain freely available for generations to come.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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O God of silence,
Purifiez nos cceurs,
Purifiez nos cceurs, For we have seen
The glory of the shadow of the
likeness
of thine handmaid,
?
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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The same quality of mind makes her cautious in the reception of the husband she has waited for in
widowhood
through twenty years.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Ifwe are attempting to use inferential reasoning to uncover the ultimate nature of absolute truth, then there is no direct arrival involved, because the process
consists
of considering what there is and gradually generating confidence in its ultimate
110
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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5 But when the absolute is
construed
as 'an absolute beyond,' the only point of contact is faith qua feeling.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Ðao Hanh wandered to all Buddhist monasteries to
search
sanction
[for his enlightenment].
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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He was not slain with the sword,
Knight's axe, or the
knightly
spear,
Yet spoke he never a word
After he came in here;
I cut away the cord
From the neck of my brother dear.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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"
"Heaven keep me from such
curtailments!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Well, then, we
descended
Mount Gut into the Chertov Valley.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Po |
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4
These tactics of the
radicals
brought only partial results.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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"
Softly he spoke; then striding took his way,
With his drawn sword, where haughty Rhamnes lay; His head rais'd high on
tapestry
beneath,
And heaving from his breast, he drew his breath;
A king and prophet, by King Turnus lov'd:
But fate by prescienee cannot be remov'd.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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_An
initiation_
wa
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2004-2009 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Md" means "my dear," "Ppt" means "poppet," and "Pdfr,"
with which Swift
sometimes
signed his epistles, "poor, dear, foolish
rogue.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Translating Trakl was not merely
synchronous
with the process of finding his own poetic voice, it was
a major force leading directly to his first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962).
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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And therefore, if you so
carefully
lay
up such things as you value and throw away what's vile and of no worth,
is it not plain that wisdom, which he forbids a man to hide, is of less
account than folly, which he commands him to cover?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Schlegel analogizes the relation between science and art as between the
dissipating
force ofthe individual mind and the organized rigidity ofa system.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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THE FLAMING CIRCLE
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table,
Slept in my arms and
fingered
my plunging heart,
I scarcely know you; we have not known each other.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Such were the sons of Zebedee, who, before they were humbled according to the Lord's Passion, were already
choosing
themselves places, where they might sit, the one on the right hand, the other on the left ; they wished to rise before dawn ; for this reason their labour was lost.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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"
"Weren't you
relieved
to find he wasn't dead?
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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£t fatali pustularum morbo aspersus,
Factus est
(Ut vene laudis invidiam ficto oonvitio levemos)
Proditor amicorum, parricida parentum,
Familise spongia :
Et, naturas invertens ordinem,
Nostri 8uique
contemptor^
Mundi desertor, defecit ad Deum,
Uodecimo Augusti ; JE^rsd Christi 1667.
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Marvell - Poems |
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57
These
expressions
were quoted in the information against him as amongst the most serious of his offences.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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3 Indeed, they have the nature of a true Buddha,
24 But instead they act like
ignorant
robbers.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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General
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About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
national myth Was his substance, which, with all the
force of his genius, he
incarnated
in tragedy.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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In this position the Moral-Religious Man--
although with reference to himself he has entered upon his
portion of True Being--is, with reference to other Indivi-
duals,
separated
and cut off from the constituent parts of
Being which are related to him; and there abides in him a
sorrowful striving and longing to unite and associate him-
self with these kindred elements:?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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In this position the Moral-Religious Man--
although with reference to himself he has entered upon his
portion of True Being--is, with reference to other Indivi-
duals,
separated
and cut off from the constituent parts of
Being which are related to him; and there abides in him a
sorrowful striving and longing to unite and associate him-
self with these kindred elements:?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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His face was
slightly
flushed with animation, like that of a man who has just been trading ideas with another.
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| Question: |
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Educated
at private schools.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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" I dashed some brandy into the water,
and the colour began to come back to his
bloodless
cheeks.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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For me who stand in Italy to-day
Where
worthier
poets stood and sang before,
I kiss their footsteps yet their words gainsay.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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2001
should have at least twice as many
computer
users as that, so it
will require us reaching less than 5% of the users in 2001.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Bright,
“Early
English Church History,” p.
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bede |
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The
epithet, applied to him in the lines, renders it
improbable
that he
imposed on her by a mock-marriage, though the story is told by Count
Hamilton, and others.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Grouchy delayed
Bentmck's word was, naturally,
not kept by the EnglIsh Genova under Sardegna Hope spat from Cannes, March, Into Flanders
(Not'
saId Napoleon C because of that league of lIce
but for oppOSIng the ZeitgeIst' That was my rUIn,
That I ran agaInst my own tIme, turnmg backward' OBIT, aetatis 57, five hundred years after D AIlghlerl Not, certaInly, for what most embellIshes 11 sessa femmlnue and causes us to admIre It, they wrote of MarIe de Parma hIs wIdow
Italy ever doomed With abstractIons, 1850, wrote ZObl,
By followIng brtlhant abstractIons
MastaI, PIO Nono, D'Azegho went Into eXile
and so on the 30th of October Lord MInto
was In Arezzo (I thInk BowrIng had
preceded)
and the crowd crIed EVVIVA
EVVIva the TarIff League
and MInto yelled EVVIva Leopoldo
EVVIV' INDIPENDENZA, thIS was the new Leopolda though MInto was for slowness and sureness
Lalage's shadow moves In the fresco's knees
She IS blotted WIth DIrce's shadow
dawn stands there fixed and unmOVIng
only we two have moved
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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From _Whence_
therefore
proceed all my _Errors_?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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He
admitted
Trajan to the position of son and to a share of imperium; with him he lived three months.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Through many lands his armies he has led,
So many blows his buckled shield has shed,
And so rich kings he's brought to beg their bread;
What time from war will he draw back
instead?
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Chanson de Roland |
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66, 7' > 95
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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And in doing so we need not pay the least attention to the
official
status of his thought and to the dubiousness of his ranking as a classical writer.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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-- Assertion: The substantial entity, the pot, exists because it acts as a basis for attributes, such as one or two, which are
distinct
from it.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Bombay and Calcutta:
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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But it cannot always be avoided, and if it cannot, the
compellent
threat defeats itself.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every
Middlesex
village and farm,-
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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From the viewpoint of the orderly elements in the com-
munity, the postponement of final action until the public
meeting of Wednesday proved to be a
tactical
blunder.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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The slanting, youthful sound-holes through
The belly of fine,
vigorous
pine
Mellowed each note and blew
It out again with a woody flavour
Tanged and fragrant as fir-trees are
When breezes in their needles jar.
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Amy Lowell |
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He was called in Vienna the Snow King, whom the cold
of the north kept together, but who would
infallibly
melt as he advanced
southward.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Llgtcheou In the Chensl said my spIes have told me etc/
easy to start a war,
not easy to finIsh one
SUNG dIed of levyIng taxes
guncracks, SUNG dIed under HOEI the sltder,
And there was a man named TchinkIs In Tartary hearIng of alphabets, morals, mores
and a man named Yellu-Tchutsal Yellu apaokl Ouanyen akouta,
of KIn, of Khltan, and Genghls of Yuen,
hearIng of alphabets
and Yehu Tchutsal saId to Ogotal
tax, don't
extermInate
You'll make more by taXIng the bl1ghters
thus saved several ml11yum lIves of those chmamen BOJars thought land was for grazmg
ten percent tax on hooch, 3-J-rd on necessItIes And they trIed to stop the Tartars on Hoang Ho
day falls lIke a flutterIng flag
East prmces went by the valley of box wood
tocoverMtKualWIth apalace c There 18 " saId the T aozers,
t A medIcme that gIves ImmortalIty' and shIps sent (11 Sao) to Japan
Mt Tal Haku IS 300 mIles fronl heaven lost In a forest of stars,
Slept on the pme needle carpet 3?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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This version
Callimachus
told in his Bath of Pallas.
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He saw that diversion was more frequently welcome than
improvement; that authority and
seriousness
were rather feared than
loved; and that the grave scholar was a kind of imperious ally, hastily
dismissed when his assistance was no longer necessary.
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Quand nous parlons de la
«gentillesse» d'une femme nous ne faisons peut-être que
projeter
hors
de nous le plaisir que nous éprouvons à la voir, comme les enfants
quand ils disent «Mon cher petit lit, mon cher petit oreiller, mes
chères petites aubépines».
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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The little park was filled with peace,
The walks were
carpeted
with snow,
But every iron gate was locked.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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He made no sign, but again
that muffled wail broke forth, like the
lamentation
of a damned
spirit.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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CXIII
When the Franks see so many there, pagans,
On every side
covering
all the land,
Often they call Olivier and Rollant,
The dozen peers, to be their safe warrant.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He does not know that
sickening
thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three leathern thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Since the early nineteenth century, if you ask someone what Switzerland is, he will relate the history of Switzerland; those who seek to understand natural
phenomena
are urged to study evolutionary history.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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But Memnon, as soon as he had
dispatched
the embassy, marched his forces five stades, and embarked twelve hundred men; with orders as soon as ever they were landed at the citadel, to kindle a fire, and attack the enemy.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Already in the early seventeenth century the unity of existence and preservation was split and the present was conceived as discontinu- ous, depending on
secondary
causes for its endurance.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Already in the early seventeenth century the unity of existence and preservation was split and the present was conceived as discontinu- ous, depending on
secondary
causes for its endurance.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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The
appearance of a thing in a given perspective is a
function
of the
matter composing the thing and of the intervening matter.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"The All Spirit or the Holy
Ghost will
manifest
Himself to creatures as soon as
they themselves reach the reconciliation within them-
selves of their being with their thought, of the body
with the soul.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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The word is obscure to the commentators who merely
describe
it as some sort of white bulbous plant.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Axel, why
startest
thou?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Dear heart, and can it be that such
raptures
meet decay?
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John Clare |
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Electric bells and
speaking-tubes
afforded
communication with the lower stories; while on
the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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