The monk said that he didn't have
anything
to give.
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After all, we keep on
translating
whether we know
it or not, all the time.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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What a queer
creature
you are, Tavy!
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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While at the Saracen's-head, in Chelms ford, he
observed
Simons, who sat in one corner of the room, pull out a green purse, and count some money ; and witness thought there was some gold in it : after this Simons desired to speak with him, but he refused, and soon after went out of the room to engage a post-chaise, to carry them to London.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Polyidos
in fear of Isis and pity for Anthia promised
to respect her.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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”
When Lydia went away she
promised
to write very often and very minutely
to her mother and Kitty; but her letters were always long expected, and
always very short.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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They ought to make them see that they need to be guided, and
lead them by reason,
adapting
themselves as much as is possible
to their feelings and their interests.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Id
" autem nemo non videt sic tantuiu fieri posse, si qui sint in numeris loci
" in quibus
pravitas
ista mensural nihil aut.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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"I mean just what I
said",
answered
Mr.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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XXXV
Meanwhile the Tuscan army,
Right
glorious
to behold,
Come flashing back the noonday light,
Rank behind rank, like surges bright
Of a broad sea of gold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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IM PARK
Wieder
wandelnd
im alten Park,
0!
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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644 FRIEDRICHKITTLER
The work of the Weber
brothers
makes anatomy leave its proud old amphitheaters, where the dissection resulted in findings that made their way to woodcuts only belatedly.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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")_
[LE
CONSERVATEUR
LITERAIRE, 1820.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Under the
condition
of high complexity, time be- comes scarce.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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" For had they
fully and certainly known that He was the Son of God and the effect of
His passion, they would never have
procured
the crucifixion of the Lord
of glory.
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Summa Theologica |
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See, I have left the
jars sealed,
Lest thou
shouldst
wake and whimper
for thy wine.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In both cases the rela- tionship between nature and war is far more
immediate
than in Trakl's poem, where the images of nature seem isolated.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Some time after the escape of Aratns, Dinias and
Aristotle the logician formed a design against Abanti-
das, and they easily found an
opportunity
to kill him,
when he attended, and sometimes joined in, their dis-
putations in the public halls, which they had insensibly
drawn him into for that very purpose.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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As far as reality is concerned, as far as you and I are concerned it makes little difference whether
prosperity
is in heaven, or in the year 2300, or just round a corner that will never be turned.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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They passed on to the inner place for the droppings from the roof, the Great officers all moving out of their way, and the duke
descending
a step and bowing to them.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Though he won the support of the powerful
Archbishops of Cologne, Trèves and Magdeburg and the Bishop of Metz,
yet a strong party in Lorraine collected to
withstand
him.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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For He could not find besides Himself a most pure, reasonable victim, as a lamb without spot, redeeming us by the
shedding
of His own blood, incorporating us with Himself, making us His Own members, that in Him we too should be Christ.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Science tells us that before becoming a cave-dweller he was a
Brute; Experience daily proclaims that he
constantly
reverts to his
original condition.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Across the
glittering
pastures
And empty upland still
And solitude of shepherds
High in the folded hill,
By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down
On many a windmill turning
And far-discovered town,
With gay regards of promise
And sure unslackened stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The birds around me hopp'd and play'd:
Their
thoughts
I cannot measure,
But the least motion which they made,
It seem'd a thrill of pleasure.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Immingled
with the mighty dead!
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Robert Burns- |
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recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Now Pacorus and
Monaeses
twice
Have given our unblest arms the foil;
Their necklaces, of mean device,
Smiling they deck with Roman spoil.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Military strategy can no longer be thought of, as it could for some countries in some eras, as the science of
military
victory.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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And to the prefbyterians,
concerning
the ensuing elections.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Wherein though men in
learned tongues do tie themselves to the ancient measures, yet in modern
languages it seemeth to me as free to make new measures of verses as of
dances; for a dance is a
measured
pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
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Bacon |
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Des
belles-sœurs
fidèles
à l'éducation reçue et réservées dans leur
corsage comme il faut, croient s'être épanchées dans le malheur et
l'enthousiasme si elles ont écrit «mes meilleures pensées».
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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I've wept them out on a life
bereaved
of friends.
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Translated Poetry |
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)
and they finally ride the
villains
down las is the black sheep of his family.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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You
whoreson
dog, Papiols, come !
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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ticas
mexicanas
del siglo XX.
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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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I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I'll sing to amuse you by night and by day,
And be unco merry when you are but gay;
When you with your
bagpipes
are ready to play,
My voice shall be ready to carol away
With Sandy, and Sawney, and Jockey 45
With Sawney, and Jarvie, and Jockey.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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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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I
instantly
followed, and asked her what was the matter.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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His
lordship
is unwell.
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Poe - 5 |
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Left is Scyros afar, and Phthia's bowery Tempe, 35
Vacant Crannon's homes,
unvisited
high Larisa,
Towards Pharsalia's halls, Pharsalia's only they hie
them.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Obviously
the first aim of the
translator is to make a faithful translation.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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LIZETTE
WOODWORTH
REESE.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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59) of
particular
men, and laying open their tempers
that he undertook long and dangerous journies and designs, as well in private life as in the affairs
into Africa, Spain, Gaul, and even as far as the of government.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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There can be no
community
between you
and me; we are enemies.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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I could imagine that a man with something costly and
fragile to conceal, would roll through life clumsily and
rotundly
like
an old, green, heavily-hooped wine-cask: the refinement of his shame
requiring it to be so.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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He was
my
coachman
on the morning that I drove my young bride to our new home.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Well,
Augustin
wanted his support, first of all, when he came as Imperial
Commissioner to Carthage to bring the Donatists into line.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although
I swear it to myself alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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the "triumph of the
móral order of things,” or the teaching of the
"uselessness of existence," or the
incitement
to
"resignation” (or also half-medicinal and half-
moral outpourings, d la Aristotle).
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Look 'round thee now on
Samarcand!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A synod of deputies from her allies
and
dependents
obeyed her summons, and contribu-
tions were voted for the common cause.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Well, I grew strong again:
In time of primroses,
I went to pluck them in the lane;
In time of nestling birds,
I heard them
chirping
round the house;
And all the herds
Were out at grass when I grew strong, 290
And days were waxen long,
And there was work for bees
Among the May-bush boughs,
And I had shot up tall,
And life felt after all
Pleasant, and not so long
When I grew strong.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I consider it to be a
national
treasure.
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Shobogenzo |
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might go on marking time
indefini
tdy.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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"Look at these arms," he said, "the warlike weapons that hang here
Burnished and bright and clean, as if for parade or
inspection!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Then great and
gracious
Jove,
Hear thou our plea of love,
And bid our parents give their free consent.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Then
suddenly
he pulls his cap off, and you got
them between two fires like.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The ant is the common food of this animal,
which it
procures
by laying its curious tongue over a whole host of
n3
?
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Whether in war or under conditions of peace, emigrationfrom the
territories
and economic demographic freeze in them, are the guarantees for the coming change on both banks of the river, and we ought to be active in order to accelerate this process in the nearest future.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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After that the
Chaldean
superstition and
Greek newfangledness, that had little to do, added I know not how many
more; mere torments of wit, and that so great that even grammar alone is
work enough for any man for his whole life.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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He was
starving
too though he
hadn't said a word about it.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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of Ladiea;" and thus exposed several young persona,
especially
tradesn^en'Si daughters* to ridicule and contempts The vignet,te affiled tp this pefiqdical
paper was, a black ram^ alluding tfi, tlie^ Wtellrk^aoJWf
when
ANWE.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Because, forsooth,
a parcel of young fellows came, who were too parsimonious to give a
great price, nor so much
desirous
of an amorous intercourse, as of the
kitchen.
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Horace - Works |
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Cutcliffe Hyne_ 217
LOCHINVAR
_Sir Walter Scott_ 232
IN LABRADOR _H.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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588, 172) bômos
keratinos
(Plut.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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] A
Courtesan
and Her Keepers.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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e rst few verses may give us a taste of the way in which this
interwoven
praise works.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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He thought
with a kind of astonishment of the
biological
uselessness
of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which
always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a
special effort is needed.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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)
Thucydides
makes no mention of the larity, which were still increased when in the fol.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
|
X
When you were small, you say, neither did others consider you f air, nor
Even your mother find praise--and I believe it--
Till you grew bigger,
developing
quietly over the years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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the lilies grow,
And yon-side where was woe, was woe,
-- Where the rabble of souls,' cried Sense,
`Did shrivel and turn and beg and burn,
Thrust back in the
brimstone
from above --
Is banked of violet, rose, and fern:'
`How?
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Sidney Lanier |
|
The book is far more than a scientific work (and indeed has been criticised for its handling of the evidence - Andry 1962), and is perhaps best seen as a landmark social document, comparable to the great nineteenth-century reports such as
Elizabeth
Fry's account of sanitary conditions in prisons, or Mayhew's descriptions of the plight of the London poor.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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In this book, he presents Siberia and its enormous Nordic continental mass as the original cradle of the Aryans, as well as the magical center of the world, following the idea that "the continents have a
symbolic
significance.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Αυτά 'πε• και αναγάλλιασεν ο θείος Οδυσσέας 250
κ' εχάρηκε ο πολύπαθος την γη την πατρική του,
ως την φανέρωσ' η Αθηνά, του αιγιδοφόρου η κόρη•
και προς αυτήν ωμίλησεν, αλλ' όχι την αλήθεια,
και να κρατήση επρόφθασε τον λόγον εις τα χείλη,
πάντοτε νουν ευρετικόν 'ς τα στήθη ανακινώντας• 255
«Για την Ιθάκην άκουσα και 'ς την πλατεία Κρήτη,
απόπερ' απ' τα πέλαγα• τώρ' ήλθα εγώ με τούτους
τους θησαυρούς και αφήνοντας των τέκνων μου άλλα τόσα
έφυγα επειδή φόνευσα υιόν του Ιδομενέα,
τον γοργοπόδη Ορσίλοχο, 'που 'ς την πλατεία Κρήτη 260
όλους ενίκα τρέχοντας τους σιτοφάγους άνδραις,
τι να στερήση εμ' ήθελε των Τρωικών λαφύρων
όλων, 'που τόσα υπόφερα για κείνα 'ς την ψυχή μου,
και εις τους πολέμους των ανδρών και 'ς τα φρικτά πελάγη•
ότι οπαδός δεν έστεργα να γείνω του πατρός του 265
εις την Τρωάδ', αλλ' αρχηγός άλλων συντρόφων ήμουν•
καρτέρι μ' έναν σύντροφο του 'στησα εγγύς του δρόμου,
και απ' τους αγρούς ως έρχονταν τον κτύπησα μ' ακόντι•
μαύρ' ήταν νύκτα σκοτεινή, και άνθρωπος δεν μας είδε
κανένας, ώστε την ζωήν αγνώριστος του επήρα• 270
και αφού τον εθανάτωσα, κατέβηκα εις το πλοίο,
και ικέτης εγώ πρόσπεσα των δοξαστών Φοινίκων,
και δώρα πολυπόθητα τους έδωκα ζητώντας
'ς το πλοίο τους να με δεχθούν, 'ς την Πύλο να μ' αφήσουν,
ή 'ς την αγίαν Ήλιδα, όπ' οι Επειοί δεσπόζουν• 275
αλλά κείθεν η
δύναμις
τους έσπρωξε του ανέμου,
κ' επείσμοναν δεν ήθελαν ποσώς να μ' απατήσουν•
κ' εκείθε παραδέρνοντας εφθάσαμ' εδώ νύκτα•
λάμνοντας προχωρήσαμε με κόπο 'ς τον λιμένα•
για δείπνο δεν εφρόντισε κανείς, αν κ' ήταν χρεία, 280
αλλ' απ' το πλοίο βγήκαμε και αυτού πλαγιάσαμ' όλοι•
εις ύπνον έπεσα γλυκόν, σβυμμένος απ' τον κόπο•
από το πλοίον έβγαλαν τους θησαυρούς μου εκείνοι,
αυτού σιμά 'που επλάγιαζα 'ς τον άμμο τους εθέσαν,
κ' ευθύς προς την καλόκτιστη κίνησαν Σιδονία, 285
κ' εγώ μόνος απόμεινα με την ψυχή θλιμμένη».
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If one, moreover, denies that body feel,
And holds that soul, through all the body mixed,
Takes on this motion which we title "sense,"
He battles in vain
indubitable
facts:
For who'll explain what body's feeling is,
Except by what the public fact itself
Has given and taught us?
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), and
systematised by
Chrysippus
(3rd century B.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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The sledge behind her
struggled
to hold her back, and the snow balled
under her snowshoes.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Unwillingly
he looked up, and saw
Flaxman and Ravelston looking in upon him.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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On serait bien
arrangé!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Of course a
novelist is not obliged to write directly about
contemporary
history, but a novelist who
simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a
plain idiot.
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Orwell |
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I did not care to spend more money in a
hopeless attempt at
recovering
them.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Did he
diskiver
it?
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James Russell Lowell |
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His claim to be a great ethical teacher cannot be
successfully
dis-
puted.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Not
only have the Germans entirely lost the breadth of
vision which enables one to grasp the course of cul-
ture and the values of culture; not only are they
one and all
political
(or Church) puppets; but they
have also actually put a ban upon this very breadth
of vision.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Ay, God
Almighty
help me!
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Shakespeare |
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He insisted
on having me as a guest at his own table, and after hearing my history
at supper time,
expressed
his commiseration of my misfortunes.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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There first grew up a body of expla-
nations and supplementary ordinances
called Mishna, or teaching, designed to
mark the
application
of Mosaic law or
to supplement it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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In such a cross-fire, characterology has to take its place, and it may well be feared that it may share the fate of its sisters and remain a trivial subject like
physiognomy
or a diviner's art like graphology.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Philippi
Schrammii, 1742), preface, sec tion 14, p.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Kidurkazal,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 145.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Olen of Lykia, a legendary hymnist and prophet, was
credited
with the suite of ancient hymns, including one to Eileithyia, that celebrated Delian sacred history.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival at Antigua,
after a
favourable
voyage, was received; though not before Mrs.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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