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model, as
determined
by knowledge of the flood.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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In the faint fragrance of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Living and working among
Orientals
would
try the temper of a saint.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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To whom Ulysses' piety preferr'd
The yearly
firstlings
of his flock and herd;
Succeed my wish, your votary restore:
Oh, be some god his convoy to our shore!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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" Also, all the
courteous
and fair ladies.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed
fervourless
as I.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What destroyed fascism as an idea was not
universal
moral revulsion against it, since plenty of people were willing to endorse the idea as long as it seemed the wave of the future, but its lack of success.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd,
Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid:
But all is calm in this eternal sleep;
Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep,
Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear:
For God, not man, absolves our
frailties
here.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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e
priuetees
of mennes bodyes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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As to what concerns my other reading, that mixes a little
more profit with the pleasure; and whence I learn how to mar-
shal my opinions and conditions, the books that serve me to this
purpose are
Plutarch
(since he has been translated into French)
and Seneca.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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The German
idealists
of the Danube speak
?
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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There, as Bion prayed, shall Spring, the thrice desirable, be
with thee the whole year through, where there is neither frost, nor is
the heat so heavy on men, but all is fruitful, and all sweet things
blossom, and evenly meted are
darkness
and dawn.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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As a people made up of the most
extraordinary mixing and
mingling
of races, per-
hapseven with a preponderance of the pre-Aryanele-
ment, as the “ people of the centre ” in every sense
of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more
ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more
incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrify-
ing than other peoples are to themselves :—they
escape definition, and are thereby alone the despair
of the French.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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That thing yonder, for instance, is
bound to be an agitator, that is, a hollow head, a
hollow mug :
whatever
may go into him, everything
comes back from him dull and thick, heavy with the
echo of the great void.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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The _Jerusalem
Delivered_, in short, is the
favourite
epic of the young: all the lovers
in Europe have loved it.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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She had just succeeded in
curving it down into a graceful zigzag and was going to dive in among
the leaves, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry--a large
pigeon had flown into her face and was beating her
violently
with its
wings.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Stephen had been
awaiting
his father's return for
there had been mutton hash that day and he knew that his father would
make him dip his bread in the gravy.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Control has been
exercised
mostly through two closely held holding companies.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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But this morning, I flatter myself, I have thought of
precisely
the article.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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” Murders and violent theftes private men
Are hainous crimes and full foule reproch;
Yet none offence, but deckt with glorious name Of noble
conquestes
the handes kinges.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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THERE IS ALL AFRICA AND HER
PRODIGIES
IN US
It is a virtuoso feat of identification with another culture.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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(see
Pearsall-Smith's _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, Oxford, 1907)
gives us a good example of how a
gentleman
in the seventeenth century
dealt with his correspondence.
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Donne - 2 |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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It is used with other
measures
in Carm.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Tully - Offices |
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1961, early love and
lifelong
friend of Pound's.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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The idea of a digital
computer
is an old one.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Seldom has any region been subjected to such complete and revolutionary changes as have the countries which he
describes
in the following pages.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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After a while he exclaimed, as he smote with his hand,
palm downwards, 90
Heavily on the page: "A
wonderful
man was this Caesar!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Holmes, in the
conjecture
which seemed to
us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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" The meaning of findings in
behavioral
genetics for our understanding of human nature has to be worked out for each case.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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"They're
dreadfully
fond of beheading people here," thought Alice; "the
great wonder is that there's anyone left alive!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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He and his six
children
lived
upon the sum of five dollars a week, which was paid him by the New York
Tribune, through the influence of the late Charles A.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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" Sadly and tenderly looking up, she thus
replied, with almost failing breath:--
"Since my
departure
for this dark journey,
Makes you so sad and lonely,
Fain would I stay though weak and weary,
And live for your sake only!
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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puisque c’est
horrible!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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The misery which I now
suffered
"took the
conceit" out of me at once, and for about a month I continued off and on
about this mark; then I sunk to 60, and the next day to--none at all.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Adrian del Caro and Robert Pippin (Cambridge: Cambridge
University
Press, 2006), pp.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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" The
Frenchman
has said
that it would be impossible for a critic to become a poet; and it is
impossible for a poet not to contain a critic.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,
And Death
unweaves
the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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On m'a
dit qu'il disait pis que pendre de moi, mais je n'en ai cure, je pense
que la boue et les
saletés
jetées par un individu qui a failli être
renvoyé du Jockey pour avoir truqué un jeu de cartes, ne peut retomber
que sur lui.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Far the most
suspicious
circum 65.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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England undertook, years
ago, to protect its investors against the wiles of
promoters, by requiring a
somewhat
similar dis-
closure; but the British act failed, in large
measure of its purpose, partly because under it
the statement of facts Was filed only with a public
official, and partly because the investor could
waive the provision.
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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A sailor's
business
is the shore,
A soldier's -- balls.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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His dupery, as in the case of his bargain with Wittipol, excites
indignation rather than mirth, and his final
discomfiture
affords us
almost a sense of poetic justice.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Brooks: Reprinted from (Representative German Poems)
by the
courtesy
of Mrs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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A fever burns me, Phaon; 5
My knees quake on the threshold,
And all my
strength
is loosened,
Slack with disappointment.
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Sappho |
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Thank
goodness
I am not
willing to let myself be torn to pieces!
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Today*one is almost tempted to say: today, all of a sudden*''incarnation'' is back, back as a signifier that points to a vague desire in our present and perhaps, altogether, to an unclear future promise, rather than to the complex history of
elaborate
theological meanings with which the word had long been related.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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She was to enjoy internal autonomy but the Government
of India was to be
responsible
for her defence, external relations and
communications.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Synalepha usually occurs when the initial vowel of the second word is
accented,
especially
when the first word ends in a weak vowel, and
also in the combinations aa, oa, oa, ea, eo, ee.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Still around her steps are seen
Spotless
Honour's meeker mien,
Love, the sire of pleasing fears,
Sorrow smiling through her tears,
And conscious of the past employ
Memory, bosom-spring of joy.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"The essay form has not yet, today, travelled the road to
independence
which its sister, poetry, covered long ago; the road of development from aprimitive, undifferentiated unitywith science, ethics, and art.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Yet was displayed amid the mournful gloom
Some copper vessels, and some
crockery
ware.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It was a room of fair extent and
he
TA
ong the
interior
of the wall toward the left, was
et in height by two and a half in width.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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In this
perpetually
watered
soil the weeds grow rank.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The overall effect, then, is liberating, introducing new
possibilities
that assist in the development of style, expression, and originality.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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In regard to the two issues
discussed
above, I could not detect substantial disagreements among the contributors to this volume.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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the
Christians
were humiliated like despised Jews.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Lastly, the flying race, the dappled birds,
Hawks, ospreys, sea-gulls,
searching
food and life
Amid the ocean billows in the brine,
Utter at other times far other cries
Than when they fight for food, or with their prey
Struggle and strain.
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Lucretius |
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Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared
on the earth so far, we find it connected with three
dangerous prescriptions as to regimen: solitude,
fasting, and sexual abstinence—but without it being
possible to
determine
with certainty which is cause
and which is effect, or if any relation at all of cause
and effect exists there.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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219
Then daring S — ^r, that with spear and shield
Had
stretched
the monster patent on the field.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Afterwards
she will simply say that she cannot
endure you.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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176 (#234) ############################################
176 THE JOYFUL WISDOM, III
the human in
themselves
more than any other
people)—the Jews have a pleasure in their divine
monarch and saint similar to that which the French
nobility had in Louis XIV.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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From that followed "the very particular feature that no letter could be
enciphered
by itself.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It may even be doubted whether Turkey and Egypt are upon
an average much less populous for the plagues that
periodically
lay
them waste.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours
to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The castle of Killaloe was erected by
Geoffrey
Marisco, and the English bishop (of Norwich.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Their
cruel
youthful
eyes went over him and through him as though he had not existed.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Yet readily can Hades
distinguish
each of them in the ashes.
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Greek Anthology |
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For I
perceive
they fall with weight upon him;
And for Monimia's sake, whom thou wilt find
I never wronged, be kind to poor Serina.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
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Pain is inflicted, robbery or killing
done in order to
maintain
life or to protect oneself and ward off harm.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Rabbi Eliezer,
returning
from his master's residence to his native place, was highly elated with the great knowledge he had acquired.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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' So
saying, he
dismissed
the assembly.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
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The young man, a philosopher, otherwise staid
and discreet, able to moderate his passions, though not this of love,
tarried with her a while to his great content, and at last married her,
to whose wedding, amongst other guests, came Apollonius; who, by some
probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia; and that
all her furniture was, like Tantalus' gold,
described
by Homer, no
substance but mere illusions.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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This, I say,
surprises
me; and
one thing more, that not a man among you can reflect
how long a time we have been at war with Philip,
and in what measures this time hath all been wasted.
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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This, I say,
surprises
me; and
one thing more, that not a man among you can reflect
how long a time we have been at war with Philip,
and in what measures this time hath all been wasted.
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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" 7
Section FOUR - IN THE WORLD OF MEN
YEN HUI WENT TO SEE
Confucius
and asked permission to take a trip.
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
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[368] THE EMPEROR JULIAN { F 1 } G
On Beer
Who and whence are you,
Dionysus
?
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Greek Anthology |
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Et si cette force s'étendait jusqu'à
certains noms, devenus par elle si différents des autres, comment en
restant plus près de moi, en me bornant à Albertine elle-même,
pouvais-je m'étonner, qu'émanant d'une fille probablement pareille à
toute autre, cette force
irrésistible
sur moi, et pour la production de
laquelle n'importe quelle autre femme eût pu servir, eût été le
résultat d'un enchevêtrement et de la mise en contact de rêves, de
désirs, d'habitudes, de tendresses, avec l'interférence requise de
souffrances et de plaisirs alternés?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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The ball had entered my shoulder,
and I knew not whether it had
remained
there or passed through; at any
rate I had no means of extracting it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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_Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Honoured
father, long
Have I desired to ask thee of the death
Of young Dimitry, the tsarevich; thou,
'Tis said, wast then at Uglich.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Quam ieiuna pium desideret ara cruorem,
Doctast amisso Laudamia viro, 80
Coniugis ante coacta novi dimittere collum,
Quam veniens una atque altera rursus hiemps
Noctibus in longis avidum saturasset amorem,
Posset ut abrupto vivere coniugio,
Quod scirant Parcae non longo tempore adesse, 85
Si miles muros isset ad Iliacos:
Nam tum Helenae raptu primores Argivorum
Coeperat ad sese Troia ciere viros,
Troia (nefas) commune
sepulcrum
Asiae Europaeque,
Troia virum et virtutum omnium acerba cinis, 90
Quaene etiam nostro letum miserabile fratri
Attulit.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In this sense, the Egyptians remain eternal prisoners of
externality
to Hegel, like the Chinese, whose language and writing form one giant system of barriers and dis turbances that render impossible the fulfilled moment in which the spirit, distancelessly atten dant on itself, hears itself speak.
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Better it is of him by fame to hear,
Than to behold him by
approaching
near.
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Après la mort de Swann, Odette qui étonna tout le
monde par une douleur profonde,
prolongée
et sincère, se trouvait
être une veuve très riche.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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This apologetic extends to the Suharto
invasion
and occupation of East Timor.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Straight
on; follow your nose.
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Aristophanes |
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Hippia, though wife to a senator, accompanied a gladiator to Pharos
and the Nile, and the
infamous
walls of Lagos.
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Satires |
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Once more
impetuous
dost thou bend thy way,
To give to Greece the long divided day?
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Iliad - Pope |
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The nightingale paints a couple of dainty word-
pictures when she
describes
her coming and going.
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fact that
suitable
music played to any scene,
action, event, or surrounding seems to disclose
to us its most secret meaning, and appears as
the most accurate and distinct commentary upon
it; as also the fact that whoever gives himself
up entirely to the impression of a symphony
seems to see all the possible events of life and
the world take place in himself: nevertheless
upon reflection he can find no likeness between
the music and the things that passed before his
mind.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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They come with a gladdening shout,
They come with a tear of joy -
Father and daughter, youth and maid,
Mother and
blooming
boy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
Interpretation
will misquote our looks,
And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.
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He sensed that there was nothing more suspect than a fear of the truth that passed itself off as a critical consciousness, and nothing more perverse than an inability to
recognize
that which confused itself with ?
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