For a small statuette of bronze 40,000
sesterces
(^400) were paid, and 200,000 (^2000) for a pair of costly carpets; a well- wrought bronze cooking machine came to cost more than an estate.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
effeminate
among the Romans were very fond
of having their hair in curls.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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'Classics' and 'Canons': The Shifting Meanings of the Words
What exactly was and is the background against which we can identi- fy and describe a change in our relationship to the
classics?
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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"
The first among Gutenberg's
contemporaries
to grasp mathematization, as it developed in the founding years of the printing press, was Leon Battista Alberti, the Florentine noble, architect, master fortress builder, painter, and mathemati- cian.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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At the same time I
enjoined
him to keep me going, and
not on any account to allow me to lie down.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Then upspake Aphrodite saying,
“Vilest
of all beasts, can it be thou that didst despite to this fair thigh, and thou that didst strike my husband?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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The paper is still extant, contain-
ing a list of
passages
drawn up by Pope, with which he was dis-
satisfied and alternatives appended for Walsh's choice.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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In the case of the discipline of assent, they are
concerned
with our present representations.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Ruegg (1983), Thurman (1984), Napper (1989),
Williams
(1985), and Cabez6n (1994).
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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During his dis- sident years, Dugin seems to have opposed this strand of thought, which he did not identify as "Traditionalist,"93 but in the 1990s, he changed his mind and attempted a
synthesis
between his Gue?
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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The monarch saw, and shook,
And bade no more rejoice;
All
bloodless
waxed his look,
And tremulous his voice.
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Byron |
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The former have no secrets and no force; the instruc-
tion they can give is like baked bread, savory and
satisfying
for
a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed corn ought not
to be ground.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Frederick's moral training was too deeply
rooted in the German Protestant life not to per-
ceive the secret
weakness
of the French philosophy.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Soon as he heard
The fatal trespass done by Eve amazed,
From his slack hand the garland
wreathed
for her
Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Untam'd, all-taming, ever splendid light, all ruling, honor'd, and
supremly
bright.
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Orphic Hymns |
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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Rilke - Poems |
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They who have never seen the
daylight
peer
Into a darkened room, and drawn the curtain,
And with dull eyes and wearied from some dear
And worshipped body risen, they for certain
Will never know of what I try to sing,
How long the last kiss was, how fond and late his lingering.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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One than Helen yet more fair,
Loveliest blossom of the May,
Rose tints hath and sunny hair,
And a gracious mien and gay;
Heart that
scorneth
all disguise,
Lips where pearls of truth are hung:
God who gives all sovereignties
Knows her like was never sung.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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II
When we laugh, and our mirth
Apes the happy vein,
We're so kin to earth
Pleasuance
fathers pain--
Ah!
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Tennyson |
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Then fell from the high heaven one bright star,
One dancer left the circling galaxy,
And back to Athens on her clattering car
In all the pride of venged divinity
Pale Pallas swept with shrill and steely clank,
And a few
gurgling
bubbles rose where her boy lover sank.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Whatever occurs and
whatever
you experience, strengthen your conviction that they are all insubstantial and magical illusions, so that you can experience this in the bardo as well.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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" But ifyou add the proposition "a terrible thing
happened
to him, " then that is coming om you.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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If the devotee persisted, he was
ceremoniously
conducted to the
shaft.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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If the calamity of the
destruction
of Austria
were to occur, and it would also be a calamity to Germany,
then our Empire must be ready and prepared to brave
the forces of Fate to save Germanism on the Danube
from the d6bris, "To be prepared is everything," saith
the Poet.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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If he obtained in this manner all the objects of
his wants and desires, he would be
infinitely
rich: he would be in want
of nothing.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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The victim suffers the destruction needed to sustain the type of
rationality
inscribed in the ideology of the totalitarian self.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Dion, on the contrary, was
reproached
by the Syracu-
sans for suffering Dionysius to escape, and not digging
up the former tyrant's grave.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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the shallow buffoon hangs about
obstinately
in the retinue of the deity.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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Verses To
Collector
Mitchell
Friend of the Poet, tried and leal,
Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal;
Alake, alake, the meikle deil
Wi' a' his witches
Are at it skelpin jig and reel,
In my poor pouches?
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burns |
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She stretched up tall to
overlook
the light
That hung in both hands hot against her skirt.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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This son of Dolon bore his grandsire's name,
But emulated more his father's fame;
His
guileful
father, sent a nightly spy,
The Grecian camp and order to descry:
Hard enterprise!
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Let's say it openly: This is the end of aestheticism in
cultural
theory.
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Sloterdijk |
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Therefore when injury is inflicted from so called badness the degree of
pain thereby experienced is always unknown to us: in so far, however, as
pleasure is felt in the act (a sense of one's own power, of one's own
excitation) the act is
committed
to maintain the well being of the
individual and hence comes under the purview of self defence and lying
for self preservation.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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light
Boscombe
manuscript, 1839, Medwin 1847;
omitted, 1824.
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Shelley |
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"
The maiden answered, "A casket
I give into thine hand;
And if that thou hopest truly
To come back to the
Evergreen
Land,
"Then open it not, I charge thee!
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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short: the world might have far more value
we thought--we must get behind the naive our ideals, for it is possible that, in our cons
effort to give it the highest interpretation, we
not bestowed even a
moderately
just value up What has been deified ?
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Il faut mater les agitateurs de
profession et les
empêcher
de relever la tête.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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All things may be achieved if
Heav’n
will; all is possible, nay, all is very easy if the Blessed make it so .
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Bion |
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I must follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
I
perceive
I have no time to lose.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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151 And being arrogant and wishful to put himself on an equality with Zeus, he was punished for his impiety; for he said that he was himself Zeus, and he took away the sacrifices of the god and ordered them to be offered to himself; and by dragging dried hides, with bronze kettles, at his chariot, he said that he thundered, and by
flinging
lighted torches at the sky he said that he lightened.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Lord, that was pluck--
Shells
bursting
all about them--and what nerve!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--
To eat
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It must make
certain, for example, that the
automobile
factory to which
it has advanced credit actually turns out the cars called for
by the Plan and supposedly made possible by the credit.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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This
wintering
in 851 marks the
end of the period of mere raids.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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this single unbroken thread of human
interest
aids essentially in making the Odyssey what we believe it is—the best of all good stories that ever were told.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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I suspect that we might even recognize an implicit
obligation
to support Yugoslavia, perhaps Finland, in a military crisis.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Leviora, or Rhymes of a
successful
Competitor.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Flee, my friend, into thy
solitude—and
thither,
where a rough strong breeze bloweth.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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merciful
be Thou, he saith, to our sins for Thy Name's sake: not for our sake.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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protecting) deity, and in later
times the custom of
dedication
was extended first to the home-
stead and then to the nation as St.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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jaaii
possessors
: t his is the origin of the "bad conscience.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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It
unfolded
its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said,
"So you think you're changed, do you?
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the
exploitation
of virtue and its
veneration for wholly interested motives, gradual
denial of virtue in everything that is not Christian.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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35
Seriously
then, I have many years lamented the want of a Grub Street in this our large and polite city, unless the whole may be called one.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
This yongè king, which
peisèd¹
all
Her beautè and her wit withall,
As he, which was with lovè hente,2
Anone therto gaf his assente.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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" On receiving this answer,
Nebridius
retired in safety to his own house in Tuscany.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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for through the long and common night,
Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child,
Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed,
With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled
The weary soul of man in troublous need,
And from the far and
flowerless
fields of ice
Has brought fair flowers to make an earthly paradise.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Herennius
In the ancient statues of Apollo at Delos and Modestinus, who was living in the reign of Gor-
Delphi, the god carried the
Charites
on his hand.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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”
“Your sister, perhaps, may be
prevailed
on to spend the day with us, and
I shall certainly be at home.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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blake-poems |
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Our Critique would be an investigation utterly superfluous,
if there existed a possibility of proving a priori, that all thinking beings are in themselves simple substances, as such, therefore, possess the inseparable attribute of per sonality, and are conscious of their
existence
apart from and unconnected with matter.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Many cats were tame again,
Many ponies tame again,
Many pigs were tame again,
Many
canaries
tame again;
And the real frontier was his sun-burnt breast.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety despite Jem’s
assurances
that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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We also ask that you:
+ Make non-commercial use of the files We
designed
Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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My quatraining of the
distichs
was inspired by the translation practice of my former teacher, Michael Sells, who is in my unapologetically biased view the only decent literary translator into English that pre-Islamic poetry has had in perhaps half a century.
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Translated Poetry |
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"I have always heard
say that a
nightingale
on toast is dainty morsel.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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)
người
xã An Từ huyện Tân Minh (nay thuộc xã Kiến Thiết huyện Tiên Lãng Tp.
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stella-03 |
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However, had you frankly told me from the beginning that Christian faith does not
concern you, that the subject of it is only mythology for you, then I should
naturally
have refrained from
that animosity to your ideas which I have been un-
"
able to conceal from you.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Besides, I speak not of the men, but (in the Abstract) of the
Seat of Power, (like to those simple and
unpartiall
creatures in the
Roman Capitol, that with their noyse defended those within it, not
because they were they, but there) offending none, I think, but those
without, or such within (if there be any such) as favour them.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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And, just as she was _on awaking_ from her sleep,
[790] clothed in a loose tunic, with bare feet, and having her yellow
hair loose, she was exclaiming to the deaf waves that Theseus was cruel,
while the piteous shower of tears was
moistening
her tender cheeks.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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325
focus the
scattered
rays of literature, philo-
sophy, and religion.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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That was not a hunting-trip, but a
frightful battle; the
mountain
was strewn with corpses, and the wolves,
whose extermination was the end in view, had a bloody feast.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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5
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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Be of good cheer; Heaven hath not
fashioned
us of much stuff as that.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
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"
Such is the
portrait
which our poet gives of James Colonna.
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Petrarch |
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How it happened the reader will understand from what remains
of this
introductory
narration.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Thus there had come to the
Reverend
Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Tradi- tionalists emphasize the structural distinction between domestic and international politics, a distinction that
modernists
usually deny.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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)
Dr Sera is a physician who has deeply studied literature
and historical science, and the object of his book is, in the
opening words of the preface: "To establish our conception
of social life on its
original
basis.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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general, who abhor and condemn all
such
barbarous
proceedings.
| Guess: |
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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ing through a mirror into the new environment ofa past or future cpoch was not new
IOlJOlyce
iri F'iMl$= WQkt fOlr he had already made ""t.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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)
by so
accomplished
a desolation.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Men
generally
think me much a foe
To all mankind: why should I?
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How
masterful
you were!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He is a
profound
knave, and an immense block-head
Country -m.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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It is
invigorating
to breathe the cleansed air.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We hear -- thou knowest
if sooth it is -- the saying of men,
that amid the Scyldings a
scathing
monster,
dark ill-doer, in dusky nights
shows terrific his rage unmatched,
hatred and murder.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The error of the
Darwinian
school became
a problem to me: how can one be so blind as to
make this mistake ?
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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s strategy, let us
summarize
the history of the game up to
time T by an element from the set HT of non-negative di?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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One must understand "natural luminance" as the name of lumi- nance and the name of the natural instincts of the luminance [state] , and so [mind
isolation]
amounts to knowing natural luminance as just the three voids; since on that occasion the yogilni comes to know his [or her] own mind as mere luminance devoid of instinctual constructs.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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So even these five very bad actions won't have such bad results if one is capable of
purifying
them.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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In the age of Cicero the two
influences
were easy to identify, for each of them
had their characteristic medium.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The chief struggle was for supplies, which were on both sides scarce: for this purpose Mithra dates formed the flower of his cavalry and a division of select infantry under Diophantus and Taxiles into a flying corps, which was intended to scour the country between the Lycus and the Halys and to seize the Roman convoys of
provisions
coming from Cappadocia.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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—Nobody thanks a witty
man for
politeness
when he puts himself on a par
with a society in which it would not be polite to
show one's wit.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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