Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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"
He has taken the thorns and briars of
scholastic
divinity, and garlanded
them with the flowers of modern literature.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Did the present regime in England WANT the troops to return after
Dunkirk?
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Does a
tiny
particle
of the consecrated bread contain all the body and blood
of Jesus Christ or a part only of the body and blood?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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By contrast Merleau-Ponty holds that our experiences are interconnected and reveal to us real properties of the thing itself, which is much as it appears and not some hidden
substance
that lies beneath our experi- ence of its appearance.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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It finds adherents not the least among
ambitious
people who have a talent for expressing their outrage.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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The small Bishopric of Caorle was vacant, and on the
suggestion
of
some of his friends in the Senate, Fra Paolo applied for it.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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I do
not know the
difference
between .
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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[326]
LEONIDAS
OF ALEXANDRIA { F 5 } G
Nicis the Libyan, son of Lysimachus, dedicates his Cretan quiver and curved bow to you, Artemis ; for he had exhausted the arrows that filled the belly of the quiver by shooting at does and dappled hinds.
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Greek Anthology |
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[768]
_Viridis
panni.
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Satires |
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I was
profoundly
struck by her words at the
time: an irresistible repugnance to marriage was born within my soul.
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Eiiiljiii
ii;11i1;i?
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nner 1901
kam er ganz
selbsta?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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389
victory were assured, he kept his original position on the sum mit of the hill, with the view of
catching
the enemy at as great an elevation as possible, that their flight might be all the longer over steep and precipitous ground.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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) English poets, when they make use of end-line sound
correspondences
that fall short of full rhyme, seem to prefer consonance instead of assonance, repeating syllables with the same consonant in the coda (as in spooked/licked) rather than the same vowel in the nucleus (as in sex/best).
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Translated Poetry |
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The flapping of the sail against the mast,
The ripple of the water on the side,
The ripple of girls’
laughter
at the stern,
The only sounds:—when ’gan the West to burn,
And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Still, these are
the gods of myth; the poet tacitly appeals to
a
principle
of justice above them.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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There is not a single
real poet or prose-writer of this century, for instance, on whom the
British public have not solemnly conferred diplomas of immorality, and
these diplomas practically take the place, with us, of what in France,
is the formal recognition of an Academy of Letters, and fortunately make
the establishment of such an institution quite
unnecessary
in England.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought,
To pluck down justice from your awful bench,
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person;
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image,
And mock your
workings
in a second body.
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Shakespeare |
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There were some persons, who are sufficiently known, who were present at, and exprest a great deal of barbarous Joy at his Death : The open Publication of their Names is here spared, in
Hopes they have or will repent of so unmanly and unchristian a Behaviour ; tho' some of them then were so
confounded
with his Constancy and Chearful Bravery, as wickedly to report,
That he was Drunk or Mad when he died.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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The one thing really
reactionary
in the movement he con-
templated was the return to the worship of the old official deities, but
he proposed to attempt this in a way which can only be called revolu-
tionary.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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Nor is it difficult to perceive the tendency of this
_abandon-to elevate _immeasurably all the energies of mind-but, again,
so to mingle the greatest
possible
fire, force, delicacy, and all good
things, with the lowest possible bathos, baldness, and imbecility, as to
render it not a matter of doubt that the average results of mind in
such a school will be found inferior to those results in one _(ceteris
_paribus) more artificial.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Lichtenberg even said: "There
are enthusiasts quite devoid of ability, and these
are really
dangerous
people.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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220
Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool
His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames
Drivn
backward
slope their pointing spires, & rowld
In billows, leave i'th' midst a horrid Vale.
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Milton |
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O
thousands of others too numerous to speak of, who performed thousands of
exploits for this
ungrateful
one, what would you all think at beholding
her in the arms of the courted boy!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Ques- tions
naturally
arise, whether there be not a'direct repug- nancy between two charters so differently circumstanced; and whether the acceptance of the one, is not to be deem-
ed a virtual surrender of the other 1 But perhaps it is neither adviseable nor necessary, to attempt a solution of them.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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On the coast, aided by the Genoese and
Venetians, he reduced the important ports of Arsūf, Caesarea, Acre,
Sidon, and Beyrout; on the east he carried his arms beyond Jordan,
where in 1116 he built the strong
fortress
of Montreal.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Thus
in his
Obedience
of a Christian Man, Tyndale found cause for
indignation at the methods of the schoolmen in the fact that, "some
will prove a point of the Faith as well out of a fable of Ovid or any
other poet, as out of St.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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As the sweet red rose springs from the briar,
and wheat from a weed, so Do-best is the fruit of Do-well and
Do-better,
especially
among the meek and lowly, to whom God
gives his grace.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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But yet more: he
obtained
an idea of
the loftiness and difficulty of form, and was
prepared for art in the only right way: by
practice.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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It did come, and exactly when it might be
reasonably
looked for.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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A BOOKLET ABOUT
THE STYLE OF LIFE AND THE MANNERS
OF THE IMPERATORES
Abbreviated from the Books of Sextus
Aurelius
Victor
1
In the seven hundred and twenty-second year from the foundation of the city, but the four hundred and eightieth from the expulsion of the kings, the custom was resumed at Rome of absolute obedience to one man, with, instead of rex, the appellation imperator or the more venerable name Augustus.
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"
Loud laugh the rest, e'en Neptune laughs aloud,
Yet sues
importunate
to loose the god.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Blainley
(1988) and Holti (1991) investigate the origins of wars.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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But the more energetically the essay suspends the concept of some first principle, the more it refuses to spin culture out of nature, the more fundamentally it recognizes the
unremittingly
natural essence of culture itself.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Someansweradisdainfulno,someanswera proud yes, but neither seems to be answering the
pertinent
question.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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He writes essayisticallywho writes while experimenting, who turns his object this way and that, who questions it, feels it, tests it, thoroughly reflects on it, attacks it from
different
angles, and in his mind's eye collects what he sees, and puts into words what the object allows to be seen under the conditions established in the course of writing.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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III
Had I the ear of wombed souls
Ere their
terrestrial
chart unrolls,
And thou wert free
To cease, or be,
Then would I tell thee all I know,
And put it to thee: Wilt thou take Life so?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It is no matter if I fail: I must
Send the God in me forth, and yield to him
The shaping of
whatever
chance befall.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It
consists
ofdoing that which the nature of mankind desires.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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"
"Pass in,
Sanitary!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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—In the child, the sense for clean-
liness should be fanned into a passion, and then
later on he will raise himself, in ever new phases,
to almost every virtue, and will finally appear, in
compensation for all talent, as a shining cloud of
purity, temperance, gentleness, and character, happy
in himself and spreading
happiness
around.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social,
undergo a thorough change in
consequence
of new observations, I call
that movement of the mind REVOLUTION.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He writes essayisticallywho writes while experimenting, who turns his object this way and that, who questions it, feels it, tests it, thoroughly reflects on it, attacks it from
different
angles, and in his mind's eye collects what he sees, and puts into words what the object allows to be seen under the conditions established in the course of writing.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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sented the hand of his
daughter
to the*
man of their mutual choice, he said--
"To me she only owes her existence^*
but to Mrs.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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And let him say, if he has any
testimony
of the sort
which he can produce.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Mais le désir de connaître la
vérité
était plus fort
et lui sembla plus noble.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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The depressing hymn-line ‘Change and decay in ail
arouhd I see’ moved through
Dorothy’s
mind It was true what she had said
just now Somethin# had happened m her heart, and the world was a little
emptier, a little poorer from that minute.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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"
Nietzsche
says that to
speak of the activity of life as a "straggle for
existence," is to state the case inadequately.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Enjoying nature without intervening in it is a means of escaping
analysis
and definition.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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as it is always
attracted
by the products?
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Of these, prudence is the cause of a man acting rightly in affairs; justice is the cause of his acting justly in partnerships and bargains; manly gallantry is the cause of a man's not being alarmed amid dangers and
formidable
circumstances, but standing firm; and temperance is the cause of his subduing his appetites, and being enslaved by no pleasure, but living decorously.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Therefore it is critical always to be vigilant and mindful, without making the
slightest
mistake regarding what should be adopted and what abandoned.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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At that time when Christ's seed flowered all around,
More than one monk, forgotten in his hour,
Taking for studio the burial-ground,
Glorified
Death with simple faith and power.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Three of the
characters
were now cast, besides Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Monica Zobel
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Copyright of West Branch is the property of West Branch and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a
listserv
without the copyright holder's express written permission.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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And seven high
chieftains
of war,
with spear and with panoply bold,
Are set, by the law of the lot,
to storm the seven gates of our hold!
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Aeschylus |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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) and a
firstclass
pair of bedroom eyes, of most unhomy blue, (how weak we are, one and all!
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Finnegans |
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When I came in and gave him my beard to shave, he re ceived me cheerily, and put me in a high chair with a new
68
IMAGINARY
CORRESPONDENCE.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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A
democratic
society is not one in which the people rule, but rather one in which the people select their rulers.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Because corporations have grown so that they extend over such a great portion of daily life,
discrimination
in corporations on managerial and lower levels serves to cut people off from positions where they can function.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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+ Refrain from
automated
querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Flocks of gulls dart from the depths of the
flashing
waters, airily floating overhead, and, peering on outstretched wings for awhile, they rush down.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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So kam es zu dieser
fortgesetzten unseligen
Aufteilung
aller Gu?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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--THAT'S WHAT WADDLER ONE SAID
--That's new, Myles
Crawford
said.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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O
Bethlehem
palm-trees That move to the anger Of winds in their fury, Tempestuous voices, Make ye no clamour, Run ye less swiftly,
Sith sleepeth the child here Still ye your branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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This period, in which the antithesis between ritualistic bigotry and pure morality reached its acutest form, witnessed the
origin of the powerful warnings of the prophet Micah, and perhaps also the commands of the Decalogue, which con cerned ritual only negatively by the command to abstain from idols, and constituted moral
goodness
the sole content of the divine Will, quite on the lines of Micah vi.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Alguns
argumentos
urgentes e necessariamente
here?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Bold Indiana men; gallant Virginians;
Jersey and Georgia legions clashing;--
Pick of Connecticut; quick Vermonters;
Louisianians, madly dashing;--
And,
swooping
still to fresh encounters,
New-York myriads, whirlwind-led!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you were but with me you should behold
marvelous
things.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Is this reality or
illusion?
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Jose Zorrilla |
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This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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On the following evening, Slyboots
contrived
to seize upon the wand and the sword, and escaped before daybreak with the help of the youngest girl.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Quite unpractised in such sort of note-writing, had there been time for
scruples and fears as to style she would have felt them in abundance:
but something must be instantly written; and with only one decided
feeling, that of wishing not to appear to think anything really
intended, she wrote thus, in great
trembling
both of spirits and hand--
“I am very much obliged to you, my dear Miss Crawford, for your kind
congratulations, as far as they relate to my dearest William.
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Both contend against the
popular idea that the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the
children's teeth are set on edge; both
maintain
that the soul that
sinneth, it shall die.
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Edwin Curley,
Princeton
NJ 1985, p.
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The number of people who
took part in literature reached amazing proportions,
but few acquired positions of
distinction
or command.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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It had
altogether
the look of a thoroughly devilish business, as I told my
eldest brother.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The Jews of the
district
of Carmel alone could raise 40,000 men.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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But
corporeal
matter obeys a conception of the soul; for the body of man is
changed by a conception of the soul as regards heat and cold, and
sometimes even as regards health and sickness.
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But
notwithstanding
these enlargements of the powers importance of the burgess-assemblies, their practical influence on state
affairs began, particularly towards the close of this period, to wane.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And when wild and rough,
The north wind blows, the tower
exultant
cries
"Behold me!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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xiii
whom, when the rope broke, the half-hanged revolu-
tionary said: “What a country, where they cannot
hang a man
properly!
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--I ne'er should see
Hellas again, I leave her here, to be
An
handmaid
in thy house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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FIRST MERCHANT
Day copies day,
And there's no sign of change, nor can it change,
With the wheat
withered
and the cattle dead.
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Yeats - Poems |
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As the Sempronian laws first constituted the revolutionary party into a political opposition, the Gabinio-Manilian first converted it from an opposition into the government; and as it had been a great moment when the first breach in the existing
constitution
was made by disregarding the veto of Octavius, it was a moment no less full of significance when the last bulwark of the senatorial rule fell with the
withdrawal of Trebellius.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the
degrading
nosebags, were
thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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This seems hardly
possible in the
twentieth
century.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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to fly together in the sky, two birds on the same wing, to grow together on the earth, two
branches
of one tree.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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The
original
edition reads _And lay_
we _down_ our _pipes_.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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3 Magnificent games were also celebrated, and as Philippus was going to view them, unattended by his guards, walking between the two Alexanders, his son and son-in-law, 4 Pausanias, a noble Macedonian youth, without being suspected by any one, posting himself in a narrow passage, killed him as he was going through it, and caused a day
appointed
for joy to be over-clouded with mourning for a death.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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