Despite the
estimation
of Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais, that Chateaubriand was ".
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Não é
desculpável
roubar um pão por ter fome.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Of this his
relations
with Mr.
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Cum scholte latis genus htesit agris,
Nota quae sedes fuerat bubulcis ;
Cum, tog^ abjecta, pavidus
reliquit
Oppida doctus.
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Marvell - Poems |
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) he sazd, the bloedaxe bloodooth baltxebec, that is crupping into our raw lenguage navel through the lumbsmall of his hawsehole, he sazd,
donconfounder
him, voyaging after maidens, belly jonah hunting the polly joans, and the hurss of all portnoysers befaddle him, he sazd,
till I split in his flags, he sazd, one to one, the landslewder, after Donnerbruch fire.
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Finnegans |
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The excellent harbour, the only good one on the whole
southern
coast, rendered the city the natural emporium for the traflic of the south of Italy, and for some portion even of the commerce of the Adriatic.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Confucius approved the
practice
of Yin.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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ChristiansareCatholics
or Protestants before they are baptized, but, none the less, it would be unfair to describe Catholicism as feminine simply because it suits women better.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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In
knowledge
and progress Poland stands equal if not
superior to other nations.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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These are variants of
the
Biblical
migration of Abraham.
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Tacitus |
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SOVIET
SOCIALISM
AHD FASCISM
other conquered peoples in Hitler's "New Order" were
looked down upon as degenerate and treated as serfs
under a regime of terror.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Everywhere there were
circumscribed
spots to which access
was denied on account of some divine law, except in special
circumstances.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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We can now understand that it is really more expedient and
economical to give full sway to the unconscious wish, and clear its way
to regression so that it may form a dream, and then restrict and adjust
this dream by means of a small expenditure of foreconscious labor, than
to curb the unconscious
throughout
the entire period of sleep.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Besides this, the career he desired, that of a barrister
or professor, had a preliminary obligation to
maintain
a certain outward
decorum.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Begone, ye chilling water sprite;
Here burning Bacchus rules
tonight!
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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His use of in
dulgences in such a way as to secure the
submission
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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He knew it, because
he
presumed
to censure them for doing so.
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Edmund Burke |
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--This young man is neither my
paramour
nor yet my
husband; he is a native of Phœnicia, and belongs to one of the first
families in Tyre; he was so unfortunate as to suffer shipwreck and lost
everything which he possessed.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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In the instant awareness
recognizes
"something to be abandoned", it self-liberates like a snake uncoiling its own knot.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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In order to reconcile
experimental
and
ideal philosophy, Kant has not made the
one subordinate to the other, but he has
given to each of the two, separately, a new
degree of force.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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If we change our compellent threat from slow
pressure
to intense, we have to change our demands to make them fit the urgent timing of a crisis.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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It is like the final session of a drawn-out psychoanalytical treatment in which the last pharaoh of
metaphysics
is treated by its last
)oseph.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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_--Name of a
promontory
near the Red Sea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The author he never himself was of any servile motion, and ever
wise in
moderating
such motions from others, where necessity enforced
his assent.
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Tacitus |
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Based on de La Vallee Poussin's work, Sarhkrtyayana published the kdrikds with his own
Sanskrit
commentary (1933).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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For them there is
something
afoot.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Orgon - Make a
mistake?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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"
The alleviation consists in the attention of the
jTh
sufferer being absol utely diverted from suffe ring, in
' the incessant
monopoly
of the consciousness by
action, so t hat~"conseq uently there is little Toom ^
iieftrfbr suffering — for narro w is it, this chamb er of^
"h uman conscTousness !
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Instead, download to your computer, and
transfer
to your reader device.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Above all, according to him, they must take
advantage
of the
season, and of the numerous Gaulish cavalry, to cut off the Romans from
provisions and forage, sacrifice private interest to the common welfare,
set fire to the habitations, burgs, and _oppida_ which they could not
defend, so as to spread desolation from the territory of the Boii as far
as the enemy could extend his incursions.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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The point now being emphasized is that the model is not only pre-Darwinian in origin but also remote from the biological
concepts
introduced by Darwin.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Under the royal
charter of confirmation, the
resident
members of the university
were exempted from every species of taxation.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Bayley regards "ultra-classi-
cism" as a
characteristic
of the Elizabethan drama, even of the
plays destined solely for the popular stage.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A primary
feeling tells me that I am a
thinking
being but not
a living one, that I am no “animal,” but at most a
“cogital.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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This poor
hardworking
man!
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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It may be said, that as bank paper affords a substitute for specie, it serves to counteract that rigorous necessity for the metals as a medium of circulation, which, in the ease of a wrong balance might restrain, in some degree, their exportation$ and it may be added, that from the same cause, in the same case, it would retard those eco-
nomical and parsimonious reforms in the manner of living, which the scarcity of money is
calculated
to produce, and which might be necessary to rectify such wrong balance.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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The frenzied, overdriven spirits of the storm took refuge
in the piling,
tumbling
folds of the clouds, which hovered over
and fell into the abyss.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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William Wordsworth |
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I thought it one proof of his innocence, that he attached no
blame either to the alien act, or to the minister who had exerted it
against him; and a still greater, that he spoke of London with rapture,
and of his
favourite
niece, who had married and settled in England, with
all the fervour and all the pride of a fond parent.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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if a man could restrain
the fury of his gullet and groin, and think how many fires, how many
kitchens, cooks, pastures, and ploughed lands; what orchards, stews,
ponds and parks, coops and garners, he could spare; what velvets,
tissues, embroideries, laces, he could lack; and then how short and
uncertain his life is; he were in a better way to happiness than to live
the emperor of these delights, and be the dictator of fashions; but we
make
ourselves
slaves to our pleasures, and we serve fame and ambition,
which is an equal slavery.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Stillness settles on the Sierra; and the
darkness
deepens.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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You will soon be able to judge of the general
credit due, by
listening
to some particulars which you can yourself
immediately contradict or confirm.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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"Nay,
Not _so_," the
childish
voice did say,
"That poet turned him first to pray
"In silence, and God heard the rest
'Twixt the sun's footsteps down the west.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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" I kept asking
myself in
hysterical
rage, waking up sometimes at three o'clock in the
morning.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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This was a defeat, of course, on a very material level, but it
amounted
to a defeat of the idea as well.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Such was the scene--what now
remaineth
here?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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* * * * *
PETER QUENNELL
PROCNE (A FRAGMENT)
So she became a bird, and bird-like danced
On a long sloe-bough,
treading
the silver blossom
With a bird's lovely feet;
And shaken blossoms fell into the hands
Of Sunlight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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The cupboard contained all sorts of things: tools and apparatus, chemical reagents, and among the other things a basin filled with
metallic
mercury.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Without any doubt, this changed physical
environment
gives new currency, together with many other topics of ''materiality'' and of ''the body,'' to the intellectual motifs subsumed under the concept of ''incarnation.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Without any doubt, this changed physical
environment
gives new currency, together with many other topics of ''materiality'' and of ''the body,'' to the intellectual motifs subsumed under the concept of ''incarnation.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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--Your
commands
are laid to heart.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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]
MRS Bendigo There’s women what if they’d stood what I've stood, they’d ave
put spirits of salts m ’is cup of bloody tea
mr
tallboys
[beating an imaginary drum and singing] Onward, heathen
so-oldiers-
mrs wayne Well, reely now 1 If any of us’d ever of thought, m the dear old days
when we used to sit round our own Silkstone coal fire, with the kettle on the
hob and a nice dish of toasted crumpets from the baker’s over the way
[The chattering of her teeth silences her ]
charlie.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Clean from head to heel, except three or four very faint
marks,
scarcely
to be made out.
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Lucian |
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As to the second objection, by which people
reproach
me that
this book does wrong to womankind, they would be right if I were
speaking seriously: but who does not see that this is all in jest,
and consequently cannot injure?
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La Fontaine |
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Snow_
OXFORD
REVISITED
IN WAR-TIME
Beneath fair Magdalen's storied towers
I wander in a dream,
And hear the mellow chimes float out
O'er Cherwell's ice-bound stream.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then the Lord
omnipotent, indignant that any mortal should rise from the nether shades
to the light of life, launched his thunder and hurled down to the
Stygian water the Phoebus-born, the
discoverer
of such craft and cure.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The day
was excessively hot, the
thermometer
at nearly 100?
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Whitman |
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The blaze there has thawed
all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has
streamed
on to my
floor, and made it like a trampled street.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Marx was the first who saw through the moral
mystification
of kinetics.
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Sloterdijk |
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233, speak
approvingly
of this view.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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It is a neat saying; but it seems
unlikely
that anything really
second-rate should turn into first-rate epic.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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The monarch Con having collected the forces Meath, Ulster, and
Connaught, Moylena, both armies marched
battle, which many
thousands
were slain
*his kingdom Leinster, chiefly through the valour neral, Lúghaidh Laighis, gratitude conferred him
his ge exten
territory,
which gave the name Laoighise,
sevendistricts still retained
Laoighis, the name
anglicised Leir, name Leise
fought
.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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no turbid stream
Of rapturous
exultation
swelling high;
Which, like land floods, impetuous pour awhile,
Then sink at once, and leave us in the mire.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Unworthy
of women are men.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Unworthy
of women are men.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But for the nIght saw neIther sky nor ocean
And found shIp why~ how) by the Azores
And she was a bathxng beauty, MISS Arkansas or Texas And the man (of course) quasI anonymous
NeIther a placard for non-smokers or non-alcohol
Nor for the code of PeorIa,
Or one-eyed
HmchclIffe
and ElSIe
Blackeyed bItch that marrIed dear DenOls,
That flew out mto nothmgness
And her father was the son of one too
That got the annulment
140
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Therefore, Cicero doth laugh at their folly, because they did no less
fiercely
set forth their decrees then, than when they were lords over Grecia.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Her little
heart was bursting with self-satisfaction--she
had been so
exemplary
all through the day.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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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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A sentence is most commonly completed in every dis-
tich or two lines of pentameter or elegiac poetry, but the
elegance of
hexameters
is increased, when neither a sen-
tence nor the clause of a sentence is finished with the
verse, and when each line through several successive
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Present her my most
grateful
acknowledgment in your very best manner
of telling truth.
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Robert Forst |
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OF THE
FINISHED
SCHOLAR.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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”
After a few moments’ silence I said to her, assuming a very humble air:
“I have heard, Princess, that although quite unacquainted with you, I
have already had the
misfortune
to incur your displeasure.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Committee on the
Organisation
of Industry.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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El proceso coincide con una
neutralizacio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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I do not think anyone need hesitate to put _Sigurd_ among the epics; but
I do not think anyone who will scrupulously compare the
experience
of
reading _Jason_ with the experience of reading _Sigurd_, can help
agreeing that _Jason_ should be kept out of the epics.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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For this, it is enough to disen- tangle the habitus concept, to separate it from the fixation on class phenomena, and restore the wealth of meaning it possessed in the
Aristotelian
and later the empiricist tradition.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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" And I do not give the tenzon with Trues Malecs for reasons clear to all who have read it; nor do I
translate
the sestina, for it is a poor one, but maybe it is interesting to think if the music will not go through its permutation as the end words change their places in order, though the first line has only eight syllables.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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" But eology teaches about him "who has
embedded
the stars into the grail of heaven and who may pull them down again.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Now know I well what people sought
formerly
above all else when they
sought teachers of virtue.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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This way
happiness
doth ever blow.
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Pattern Poems |
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We can take the position that all
phenomena
are ultimately unreal, even now.
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With
invincible tenacity, the Hght-hearted, gay German
race in the valleys of the Riesen Mountains resisted
the bloody deeds of the
Lichtenstein
dragoons as
they resisted the persuasive powers of the Jesuits.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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But, unless a full account were given of
the first two books treated of
arithmetic
only.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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H eaded by K rasinski's
friend, Leo iaabienskL a band of youths stamped down
one of the professors to mark their disapproval of the
public
reprimand
of a student.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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I draw out
The
precious
evidence.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XLVI
"To this the youthful Alexandria nought
Made answer, saving with a piteous sigh;
And from the
conference
a bosom brought,
Gored with deep wounds, beyond all remedy.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In January the
Princess
Momo-zono (peach-gardens) was chosen for the
Saiin, of the Temple of Kamo, her predecessor having retired from
office, on account of the mourning for her father, the late
ex-Emperor.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Stung all over by poisonous flies, and hollowed like the stone by
many drops of wickedness: thus did I sit among them, and still said to
myself: "Innocent is everything petty of its
pettiness!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The one in black disgraceful weeds is Toil;
She sows with never-ending gesture all
The path before his feet, cursing the way
She drags him on with growth of
flouting
crops,
Urchin thistles, and rank flourishing nettles.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But though that Grekes hem of Troye shetten,
And hir citee
bisegede
al a-boute,
Hir olde usage wolde they not letten, 150
As for to honoure hir goddes ful devoute;
But aldermost in honour, out of doute,
They hadde a relik hight Palladion,
That was hir trist a-boven everichon.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Not so, if Dame from heaven, as thou sayst,
Moves and directs thee; then no
flattery
needs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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The pain from its sting is more severe than that caused by the others, for the instrument that causes the pain is larger, in
proportion
to its own larger size.
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Aristotle copy |
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Some injudicious laws, which grew out of the public distresses, by impairing confidence, and causing a part of the inadequate sum in the country to be locked up, aggravated the evil: The dissipated habits,
contracted
by many individuals during the war, which af- ter the peace plunged them into expenses beyond their in-
comes | the number of adventurers without capital, and in
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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