It is the same with the
remaining
ideas, the possibility of
which no human intelligence will ever fathom, but the truth of
which, on the other hand, no sophistry will ever wrest from the
conviction even of the commonest man.
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Because the mind that obtains ting [=the
samdhita
mind] truly knows and sees.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Already we have alluded to the rules and mode of living,
introduced
by
the great St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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There is a tender and
touching
lament at
the tomb of his dead brother; a biting lampoon on
the bad manners of a social parasite who stole a nap-
kin at a dinner; and dozens of love lyrics, ecstactic,
ardent, brimming with joy, weighted with grief, or
lightly and gracefully whimsical.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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United States and you are located in the United States, we do not
claim a right to prevent you from copying, distributing, performing,
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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included Wagner's
Meistersinger
and
even here we wonder why, because they are M.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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' And I suppose that even this solitude becomes companionable in a
way^that
only those who have experienced it can understand?
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Doubtless the Athenians associated the name with help given them by some
superhuman
champtions (boêdromoi = boadooi, Pind, N.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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The instinct of decadence; it is the
exhausted
and the dis inherited who take their revenge in this way and play the masters.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And parental behavior that does differ among children for nongenetic reasons, such as marital conflict triggered by some siblings but not by others, or more
parenting
effort directed at one sibling than at another, has no effect.
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10
Among Pound's Confucian
translations
only Ta Hio: The Great Learning of Confucius (1928) and Confucius: Digest of the Analects (1937) were made without the aid of a Chinese.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Such charges pass me like the idle wind;
A man who has right work in mind
Must choose the
instruments
most fitting.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I am also
claiming
the (moral?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Both North and
South Koreans seemed to be spoiling for a fight; and
competent observers
reported
it was only a matter of
time before a bitter civil war would break out.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With
darkness
and the death-hour rounding it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Moori,
especially
wants to have your reports from America.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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After disclosing the plot, and experiencing
the perfidy of the Senate, who had
promised
him the lives of his
friends, he was made captive while bearing arms against Venice,
and drowned the day after his arrival in the city.
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Thomas Otway |
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Reluctantly
they come to the tribunal and give audience to the parties.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"
"My dear fellow, is it
possible
you do not see how strongly it
bears upon the case?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Foucault
1972: 65) between ancient and modern thought: ancient thought finds the second part of the definition unintelligible with- out the first part, while modern thought cleanly divides epistemology from ethics.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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I am by no means such a mirthful person as you
imagine, or as you may imagine; however,
irritated
by all this babble
(and I feel that you are irritated) you think fit to ask me who I
am--then my answer is, I am a collegiate assessor.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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But if they are _true_, yet seeing I discover so little
_reality_ in them, that that very _reality_ scarce _seems_ to _be realy_,
I see no reason why I my self should not be the
_Author_
of them.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun;
in another a quantity of linsey-woolsey, just from the loom; ears
of Indian corn and strings of dried apples and peaches hung in
gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red pep-
pers: and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor,
where the claw-footed chairs and dark
mahogany
tables shone
like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs,
glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock-oranges and
conch shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various colored
birds' eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was
hung from the centre of the room; and a corner cupboard, know-
ingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and
well-mended china.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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This is the end [of our
remarks]
about him.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Tully - Offices |
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"What animal
could hope to escape, when the ox and the sheep
perished ] The Sun-god demanded the horse, swiftest
of animals; Diana, the hind, which once had been
made the
substitute
for the maiden Iphigenia.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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A pocket dictionary, very convenient for the
traveller
in Poland.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Not long after they mixed libations in honour of Zeus, with pious rites as is customary, and poured them upon the burning tongues, and
bethought
them of sleep in the darkness.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Ông từng
được
bổ chức Ngự tiền học sinh.
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stella-02 |
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12); and (2) sevenfold
secondary
matter, the soft, the hard, etc.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Well I cannot
enter into details just now: but it is necessary to explain that to
embalm (properly speaking), in Egypt, was to arrest indefinitely all the
animal
functions
subjected to the process.
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Poe - 5 |
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*I cannot conceive what made the
accurate
Niebuhr fall into the strange
error that apparitions are unknown in Arabia.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Here, at the
head of all young men, was Thomas Zan, a young man
of rare virtues and the noblest
qualities
of the heart
and mind, his pure morals and extraordinary mental
capacities, and his eloquence, and withal being very
gentle and urbane in his manners, he attached to him-
self all the youths; he imparted lessons of wisdom and
general light to all around him.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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How difficult is it to avoid
censure, when there is a resolution taken to be
censorious!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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For that reason too the
opponents
of Gracchus were in a certain sense not wrong, when they accused him of aspiring to the crown.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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]
By definition, LIQUID is what seeks to obey gravity rather than
maintain
its form, forgoes all form to obey its gravity.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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The proper style for the orphan son of such officer was, 'I, the
sorrowing
son.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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And I must beg of you to grant me one favor, which is this - If
you hear me using the same words in my defence which I have been in
the habit of using, and which most of you may have heard in the agora,
and at the tables of the money-changers, or anywhere else, I would
ask you not to be
surprised
at this, and not to interrupt me.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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On this, Solon admired the readiness of the man, and admitted him, and made him one of his
greatest
friends.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Agithetta and Tranquilla shall demure umclaused but Marl borough-the-Less, Greatchrist and Holy
Protector
shall have open virgilances.
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Finnegans |
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It tells the story of a father in the distant past who bequeathed a
precious
ring to his son.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Venus scorns Adonis returned from the dead, Diana disapproves Hippolytus
recalled
to life.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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"
No sooner were the funeral obsequies over, than I
hastened
to the
maiden, who was in the pleasance belonging to the house.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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It is
enlightenment
itself, that is, wisdom beyond any point ofreference.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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As sensations are a
higher degree of consciousness than mere thought, it follows that
agreeable sensations constitute a more
exquisite
happiness than
agreeable thoughts.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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But now that the stream of your thoughts has been cut and you have been
introduced
to it, you know it.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Çà et là, à la surface,
rougissait
comme une
fraise une fleur de nymphéa au cœur écarlate, blanc sur les bords.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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) It was
founded by a colony of Chalcideans from Eubcea, who
had come to the island but six years before, and had
(hen settled Naxos, near Mount Taurus, where Tauro-
inenium was
afterward
founded.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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"
"I will give you
whatever
gold is necessary," mTsho-rgyal told her.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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In 1808
appeared
Gilchrist's essay, _An Examination of the
Charges .
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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no less certain that Greece was then taken
possession
of " by the Romans (Tac.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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31-45 [Hungarian
translation
forthcoming in 2013].
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Only to Virgil
and
Catullus
among Latin poets has Tennyson left the
tribute of a song: --
Row us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row!
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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His work is the extrapolation of a
negative
lctcx.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great
literary
figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Check thy
climbing
step, elate,
Evils lurk in felon wait:
Dangers, eagle-pinioned, bold,
Soar around each cliffy hold!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Et en même temps j'écrivis à
Albertine
comme si je n'avais
pas encore reçu sa lettre: «Mon amie, pardonnez-moi ce que vous
comprendrez si bien, je déteste tant les cachotteries que j'ai voulu
que vous fussiez avertie par elle et par moi.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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It can easily be imagined how
the first reading of Schopenhauer's The World as
Will and Idea worked upon this man, still sting-
ing from the
bitterest
experiences and disappoint-
ments.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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The
knowledge
of these three was close to perfection.
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Chuang Tzu |
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1 It is dark, except for the light of a few candles, and silent, except for the
breathing
of those around you.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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And who-so doth, ful foule himself acloyeth,
For office
uncommitted
ofte anoyeth.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It is for this filth that you have
murdered
your empire, and it is this filth that elects your politicians.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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As Joy",,'s
spiritual
advance led Nck to Irish mythology with FW, W A ' , deparrurc lead, to a return in III.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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His chief surviving work is the Argonautica," an epic on the search for the Golden Fleece,
imitating
Homer with much grace
and force.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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t addressing
baroque
very "specialised philistinism"{Fachidiotie,) which radical students
denouncedso
vehementlyin 1968.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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* But may you, whom the Schoenians reverence as their
ancestral
god, accept the gifts Melistion proffers.
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Greek Anthology |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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tam gratum est mihi quam ferunt puellae
pernici
aureolum
fuisse malum,
quod zonam soluit diu ligatam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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lines 38-41 : The
references
are to birds who once had human shape.
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Moschus |
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If it were only equally easy to give a definite conception of
happiness, the imperatives of prudence would correspond exactly with
those of skill, and would
likewise
be analytical.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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[88] Toward the Crown leans the
Serpent’s
jaw, but beneath his coiling form seek thou for the mighty Claws [Libra]; they are scant of light and nowise brilliant.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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Oh, ye kind
heavens!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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"A
wicked Capuchin," he was heard to say, "has
disarmed
me with his rosary,
and thrust nothing less than six electoral crowns into his cowl.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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How can I get
unblocked?
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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17, § 15; and
continued
for one year longer by 4 and 5 William and Mary, c.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Martial is
a sort of
proletarian
Ovid.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Putativefascistshad
greatdifficultwyrestlingwiththisproblemin
the 1930S andwereunabletoresolveitsatisfactorileyvenforthemselvesA.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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out there started
Am I a
theologian?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Nor can
uate the valor of ancient martyrs, who contemned death in the
uncomfortable scene of their lives, and in their decrepit martyr-
doms did probably lose not many months of their days, or parted
with life when it was scarce worth the living; for (beside that
long time past holds no consideration unto a slender time to
come) they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of
old age, which
naturally
makes men fearful, and complexionally
superannuated from the bold and courageous thoughts of youth
and fervent years.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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He
addressed
her courteously, but said, 'Never hast thou done
worse than now, but do so no more.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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The
prehistoric
man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us--who
could tell?
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Where shall you find a more radical
process of
judgment?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Yet surmise is
essentially
different from calculation.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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For
the
experiments
of the Elizabethan writers, Sir Philip
Sidney and others, by that strange perversity which
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Tum niger in porta
serpentum
Cerberus ore
Stridit, et oeratas excubat ante fores.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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The fourth was a middle-aged LADY, very inquisitive and greatly
interested
in humanity at large.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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It is in this tone, half
indignantly and half contemptuously, that Aristo-
phanic comedy is wont to speak of both of
them—to the consternation of modern men, who
would indeed be willing enough to give up
Euripides, but cannot
suppress
their amazement
that Socrates should appear in Aristophanes as
the first and head sophist, as the mirror and
epitome of all sophistical tendencies; in connec-
tion with which it offers the single consolation ot
putting Aristophanes himself in the pillory, as a
rakish, lying Alcibiades of poetry.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Charlus et des Laumes peuvent
avoir tels ou tels défauts, ce sont
d’honnêtes
gens.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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William was
gone, and she now felt as if she had wasted half his visit in idle cares
and selfish solicitudes
unconnected
with him.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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You are a writer, and I am a fighter, but here is a fellow
Who could both write and fight, and in both was equally
skilful!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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we are
speaking
of, to the fame purpose.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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For me, whose Verse in Satyr has been bred,
And never durst Heroic Measures tread;
Yet you shall see me, in that famous Field
With Eyes and Voice, my best assistance yield;
Offer you Lessons, that my Infant Muse
Learnt, when the Horace for her Guide did chuse:
Second your Zeal with Wishes, Heart, and Eyes,
And afar off hold up the
glorious
Prize.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The ritual has received attention for its special focus on the ox: many
sacrifices
included oxen, but only this one had a special priest known as the Ox-Slayer, and the alternative name of the festival was the Ox-Slaying or Bouphonia.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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One then attempts self- examination with a new steadiness to understand where such divi- dends might arise in
particular
cases.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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All the more significant is the fact that he did not attempt true that he helped, as he had opportunity and means, to redress or prevent abuses, and laboured in particular at the improve ment of the
administration
of justice.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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O it were meet
To roll the stone from off the sepulchre
And kiss the
bleeding
roses of their wounds, in love of her,
Our Italy!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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I had got to the point of purposely
refraining
from
beginning in order to embarrass her further; it was awkward for her to
begin alone.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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So drunk, he disavows it
With badinage divine;
So dazzling, we mistake him
For an
alighting
mine.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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