52
Tra noi tenere un uom che sia sì forte,
contrario
è in tutto al principal disegno.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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All through the night
I have heard the
stuttering
call of a blind quail,
A caged decoy, under a cairn of stones,
Crying for light as the quails cry for love.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Any alternate format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Only shortly before his
death he spoke with confidence of the
patriotic
spirit
of the younger generation in Germany.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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disease of the
cerebral
centres--pleasure is no disease at all.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Danaus drove out Sthenelus, and ruled Argos, as did his
descendants
after him.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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In
Elizabeth's and James's time it seems to have been almost fashionable to
cherish such a feeling; and perhaps we may account in some measure for it
by considering how very inferior the women of that age, taken generally,
were in
education
and accomplishment of mind to the men.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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But of all the family one only remained in
the duckyard, which may be called a farmyard, as the
chickens
were
admitted, and the cock strutted about in a very hostile manner.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Hinc neque
consuluit
fugitivse prodiga formse,
Nee timuit feris invigilAsse labris.
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Marvell - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United
States without
permission
and without paying copyright
royalties.
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Yeats |
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War, then,
offers one of the greatest problems which the
eugenist
must face, for a
few months of war may undo all that eugenic reforms can gain in a
generation.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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One of the first things that strikes us in approaching
Catullus is the cold
indifference
or contempt with which he
seems to be regarded by all but the poets of the ancient
world.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The char-
acters include the young parvenu Jean Giraud, the
aristocratic
M.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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"
The next day, as he took a walk, he met a beggar all covered with scabs,
his eyes diseased, the end of his nose eaten away, his mouth distorted,
his teeth black, choking in his throat, tormented with a violent cough,
and
spitting
out a tooth at each effort.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Where Cyprus looks out over the Ionian main a craggy mountain overshadows it ;
unapproachable
by human foot it faces the isle of Pharos, the home of Proteus and the seven mouths of the Nile.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Lamia, by John Keats
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAMIA ***
***** This file should be named 2490.
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Keats - Lamia |
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1480
But natheles, for his beautee,
So fiers and daungerous was he,
That he nolde
graunten
hir asking,
For weping, ne for fair praying.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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1480
But natheles, for his beautee,
So fiers and daungerous was he,
That he nolde
graunten
hir asking,
For weping, ne for fair praying.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Yet one exalted image prevails, though
hopelessly: Mercedes has
appropriately
changed to the Blessed
Vircrin an allomorph of the Ewig-weibliche, the eternal woman.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Let none of men assume this to himself, that he himself sanctifieth :
otherwise
it will not be true, Upon Him shall The glory of sanctification shall flourish.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Whilst he was despatching this man with his arrows, they shouted, Hie
Paian;[432] whence has been
transmitted
the custom of singing the Pæan
before the onset of a battle; that after the death of the Python the
Delphians burnt even his tent, as they still continue to burn a tent in
memorial of these events.
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Strabo |
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A
Christian
priest he seem'd; a sumptuous[119] shrine
He rear'd, and tended with the rites divine:
O'er the fair altar wav'd the cross on high,
Upheld by angels leaning from the sky;
Descending o'er the Virgin's sacred head
So white, so pure, the Holy Spirit spread
The dove-like pictur'd wings, so pure, so white;
And, hov'ring o'er the chosen twelve, alight
The tongues of hallow'd fire.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ring, for the scant
salvation!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
Again he dreamed and saw another dream
and
reported
it unto his mother.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The whole course of instruction was given entirely in that
enthusiastic, devout spirit which had
characterized
the Jesuits
from their earliest institution.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Of what then is it a
question
?
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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He will have ripe
gooseberries
for supper,
And then he will walk up and down the path
By the wall,
And admire the snapdragons and dahlias,
Thinking how quiet and peaceful
The garden is.
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Amy Lowell |
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Why, what would have become of her if
Grigori
Aleksandrovich
had abandoned her?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have
measured
out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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«--Cada paso que
avanzáis
[1160]
Lo adelantáis a la muerte,
Don Félix.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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The mirror could then be held in snnlight and an articulated message could be transmitted in this way over a distance of up to 12,000 feet or three and a half kilometers, without potential enemies within this distance having a chance of intercepting or
actually
hindering the transmission.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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They were most skilfully executed, and carried away the
minds of the
spectators
to the actual spots.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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I now hate the
recollection
of the time I passed with Celine,
Giacinta, and Clara.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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These vices were due to the natural instincts of
the dominant class, to the absoluteness of its power, and also to
the
character
of the time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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CXLVI
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
My sinful earth these rebel powers array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting
thy outward walls so costly gay?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A brief anthropology 153
include bundles of
products
and services.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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A brief anthropology 153
include bundles of
products
and services.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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If American
students
will recognize that Universities are there to prepare students for life in a given country and in a given TIME, and insist on finding out what will help them to LIVE in that place and time, they can
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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All this I
undertake
to show.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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At Lusmagh,'t9 he spent a
considerable
time.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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people,
mentioned
by Olaus, lib.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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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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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Lo, distant far, another mountain chain
Rears its rude cliffs, the Guio's dread domain;
Here brutaliz'd the human form is seen,
The manners fiend-like as the brutal mien:
With frothing jaws they suck the human blood,
And gnaw the reeking limbs,[658] their sweetest food;
Horrid, with figur'd seams of burning steel,
Their wolf-like frowns their
ruthless
lust reveal.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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49 Then, it is said, that the king was greatly rejoiced, and that besides
entrusting
his sister to them for her education, he gave that villa with lands and endowments.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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I: Au-dela de I'asile d'alienes et de I'hopital
psychiatrique
(Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 1946) pp.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Tertia lux gelidam coelum
dimoverat
umbram,
Mcerentes altum cinerem et confusa ruebant
Ossa focis, tepidoque onerabant aggere terra.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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At the news of the King's submission,
Strafford
exclaimed
that "No one should trust in princes, who are but men.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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I only hear above his place of rest
Their tender undertone,
The infinite
longings
of a troubled breast,
The voice so like his own.
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Longfellow |
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All six of his romances in verse, "Hugo," "Arab,"
"Mnich," "Jan Bielecki," "Zmija," "Lambro,"
and both his dramas, "Mindowe" and "Marja
Stuart," have in common the same, sometimes
insufficiently justified,
violence
of feeling and
intentional complication of action.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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9 Philippus, for a long time, acted, not as king, but as guardian to this infant; 10 but when
dangerous
wars threatened, and it was too long to wait for the co-operation of a prince who was yet a child, he was forced by the people to take the government upon himself.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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All this talk we make — we’re only
objectifying
our own feelings.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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O what a
multitude
of thoughts at once
Awakn'd in me swarm, while I consider
What from within I feel my self and hear
What from without comes often to my ears,
Ill sorting with my present state compar'd.
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Milton |
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and is
compared
to a round sphere, 2.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The few living authors who, unnoticed by the general intellectual mediocritisation of France, have succeeded in join- ing the ranks of the country's glorious era, can be
characterized
as being Camusians from the typological standpoint.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Even at
present the descendants of that race are called kings, and receive
certain honours, as the chief seat at the public games, a purple robe as
a symbol of royal descent, a staff instead of a sceptre, and the
superintendence of the sacrifices in honour of the
Eleusinian
Ceres.
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Strabo |
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I can never hear
such a one without the greatest
admiration
and respect, and more than
half a mind to take orders and preach myself.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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By a removal for some
months from each other we shall tranquillise the
sisterly
fears of Mrs.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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I only knew what haunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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An English
dramatist
wio
lived in the 17th century.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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When we
are
ourselves
received into that high order of philo-
sophers, artists and saints, in this life or a reincarna-
tion of it, a new object for our love and hate will
also rise before us.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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To be tantalized with Images of sensual enjoyment which
must be renounced if one would approximate a God, who according to the
Doctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, and into whose Universe
one expects unconsciously to merge after Death, without hope of any
posthumous
Beatitude
in another world to compensate for all one's self-
denial in this.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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According
to Pindar, Meleager had urged Hercules to protect
his sister from the god.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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Je plongerai ma tete amoureuse d'ivresse
Dans ce noir ocean ou l'autre est enferme;
Et mon esprit subtil que le roulis caresse
Saura vous retrouver, o feconde paresse,
Infinis bercements du loisir
embaume!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You must haue
patience
Madam
Wife.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Nevertheless, looking at the old warrior with affection,--for, slight
as was the communication between us, my feeling towards him, like that
of all bipeds and quadrupeds who knew him, might not
improperly
be
termed so,--I could discern the main points of his portrait.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Without any
display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much,
he was always true to her interests, and considerate of her feelings,
trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the
diffidence which
prevented
their being more apparent; giving her advice,
consolation, and encouragement.
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Elle m'a
demandé
si je voulais qu'elle me fît ce
qu'elle faisait à Mlle Albertine quand celle-ci ôtait son costume de
bain.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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It is also possible that the teacher may not need any words to
introduce
the student to mahamudra but can do so through symbols or in other ways.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The sons Mac Donnell, namely, James and
Colla,
accompanied
by body Scots, came in
vitation Mac Quillan, and they and Mac Quillan proceeded Inis-an-Lochain, and took the town from O’Kane's guards; Bryan, the son Donogh O’Kane and all that were with him on Inis-an-Loch ain, together with the property, arms, armour, and spoils, were entirely burned them, and Mac
Moylurg.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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The slate roof
sparkles
in the sun, but it sparkles milkily, vaguely,
the great glass-houses put out its shining.
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Amy Lowell |
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puresituation
what historically i.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Religion
has its
proper end in contemplation and in conduct.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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He reached a land where
everyone
seemed happy.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Fenollosa
was under impression that the Government wished to honour E.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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When charged
therewith
he gazed, and answered bold:
"Be needy I or no,
I will not help lay low a house so fair!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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This Government's views on this sub-
ject are elaborated in a public
statement
I will release, a copy of
which Ambassador Allen will give you.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Years passed before he came to realise that his
grandiose edifice of a Church
Universal
would crumble to pieces if one
of its foundation stones was to be an amatory intrigue of Henry VIII.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Again, as before, the delousing of troops as well as prisoners of war constituted a more urgent task for the
fighters
against vermin.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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It is only because causation and function are distinct that it is
-82-
possible, by means of contraception, to
intervene
between the behaviour and the function it was evolved to serve.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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[Footnote 1: Compare the
description
of the Grotto of the Nymphs in
Ithaca.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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5b), "knowledge of the mind of
another," bears on the mental states of someone else: it receives this
restrictive name because its
preparation
alludes only to the mind of
253 another.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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He then showed Orpheus
recounting
the tale.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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While still at the University he
published
his
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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The painter armed with pencils and the writer
with his
souvenirs
had abandoned the old city and on a ruined wall had
given themselves up for hours to their artistic chatter .
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The painter armed with pencils and the writer
with his
souvenirs
had abandoned the old city and on a ruined wall had
given themselves up for hours to their artistic chatter .
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Semper honore meo, semper
celebrabere
donis.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Semper honore meo, semper
celebrabere
donis.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Pass and be silent, Rullus, for THIS
the day
Hath lacked a
something
since this
lady passed ;
Hath lacked a something.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Poetae 65
Desinite: en fati certus, sibi voce canora
Inferias
praemisit olor, cum Carolus Alba
(Vltima volventem et Cycnaea voce loquentem)
Nuper eum, turba & magnatum audiret in Aula.
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John Donne |
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Who will twine
The hasty wreath from myrtle-tree
Or
parsley?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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17 This criterion in Christoph Menke-Eggers, Die
Souveranitat
der Kunst: Asthetische Erfahrung nach Adorno und Derrida (Frankfurt, 1988), p.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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continual
practice he will master it.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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The unusual
arrangement
of lines is probably mystic.
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Pattern Poems |
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But, someone may say, the ears of princes are
strangers
to truth, and for
this reason they avoid those wise men, because they fear lest someone
more frank than the rest should dare to speak to them things rather true
than pleasant; for so the matter is, that they don't much care for truth.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Watts-Dunton in his remarkable essay on poetry is so convincing and
illuminating that it seems to demand quotation here: "Never before these
songs were sung, and never since did the human soul, in the grip of a fiery
passion, utter a cry like hers; and, from the
executive
point of view, in
directness, in lucidity, in that high, imperious verbal economy which only
nature can teach the artist, she has no equal, and none worthy to take the
place of second.
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Sappho |
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21
The Charites were
worshiped
at an early date on Paros, where legend had it that Minos was sacrificing to them when he received word of his son's death in Athens.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Next, you, my servants, heed Iny strict cqtnl_l_ndl: Without the walls a rui_a'd temple stands,
To Ceres hallow'd once; a cypress nigh
Shoots up her venerable head on high,
By long
religion
kept; there be_d your feet,
And in divided par_ies let us meet.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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