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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Are you not
scorched
by the heat?
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Epictetus |
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Clarke said, 'There is something
unspeakably
sinister about a machine that does nothing - absolutely nothing - except switch itself off.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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It, however, seems to be, that it is not discreet, on
first acquaintance, to give presents, as the damsel may then have a
reason for
peremptoily
giving you up; she carries off your gift, and
gives no favour in return.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Think I think that Love should know ye,
Will you think 'tis but a
thinking?
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William Browne |
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_ That its three Angles are equal to two right
ones, that to its Greatest Angle the Greatest side is subtended, and such
like, which I now
_clearly_
know whether _I will or not_, tho before _I_
never thought on them, when I _imagine_ a Triangle, and consequently they
could not be invented by Me.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Will it ever make a
banner under which
civilization
will march?
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Or the melon--
let it bleach yellow
in the winter light,
even tart to the taste--
it is better to taste of frost--
the
exquisite
frost--
than of wadding and of dead grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And about ten of the clock they set for-
ward towards Whitehall, ranged in that order as
the heralds had appointed ; those of the long robe,
the king's council at law, the masters of the chan-
cery, and judges, going first, and so the lords in
their order, very
splendidly
habited, on rich foot-
cloths ; the number of their footmen being limited,
to the dukes ten, to the earls eight, and to the vis-
counts six, and the barons four, all richly clad, as
their other servants were.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Thy ready wit the word will soon supply,
May its
approval
beam in that soft eye!
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Austen - Emma |
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502 The American Journal of
Economics
and Sociology
Post-War Prospect for Liberal Education
THERE ARE THOSE who say that liberal education, as we have known it in America, is declining toward extinction.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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It cannot be simply a restoration ot the so-called liberal education of pre-war times, too often merely the con-
tinuance
of traditional ideas, traditional methods.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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A comparison of this work with the Lay of
Demodocus
("Odyssey"
viii, 266 ff.
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Hesiod |
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I accordingly went as soon as I was
dressed, and found that his
landlady
had arrested him for his rent, at
which he was in a violent passion: I perceived that he had already changed
my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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The bishop of Dublin, at that time, was
Lawrence
O'Toole; Dublin County would be Lawrence's County.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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shrink you not from crime whose punishment
Falls on your innocent
children?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I have tried to show in this chapter how Derrida's
protection
of philoso- phy from the absolute has distorted his understanding of the Aufhebung and of education in Hegel.
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He seizd a bill, to conquer or to die; 45
Fierce as a clevis from a rocke ytorne,
That makes a vallie wheresoe're it lie;
[1]Fierce as a ryver burstynge from the borne;
So
fiercelie
Gyrthe hitte Fitz du Gore a blowe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The state is like, for exam-
ple, stones succeeding each other as stones, jewels succeeding each other as
jewels, chrysanthemums succeeding each other, and pine trees certifying
each other, at which time the former
chrysanthemum
and the latter chrysan-
themum are each real as they are, and the former pine and the latter pine are
each real as they are.
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Shobogenzo |
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That it was May me
thoughte
tho,
It is fyve yere or more ago; 50
That it was May, thus dremed me,
In tyme of love and Iolitee,
That al thing ginneth waxen gay,
For ther is neither busk nor hay
In May, that it nil shrouded been, 55
And it with newe leves wreen.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
psychological
conditions which belong to these different kinds of pessimism, may all be ob served in a lunatic asylum, even though they are there found in a slightly exaggerated form.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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This opinion was largely
instrumental
in leading to the grant
of “Adoption sanads” in 1862.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Elvire
Beware lest Heaven
punishes
your pride
And sees you avenged, though he has died.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But leaving on one side ambitious
sociological
speculations,
and even those more modest but hitherto more successful inves-
tigations into the causes which have in particular cases been
principally operative in producing great political changes, there
are still two modes in which we can derive what I may call
"spectacular” enjoyment from the study of history.
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" The "Wise Men," "after full briefings from
diplomatic
and military officials, confirmed Acheson's findings .
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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But now by my
courtesy
they leave all this care to the gods and are only
taken up with themselves, not admitting anyone to their ear but such as
know how to speak pleasant things and not trouble them with business.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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You are welcome to
whatever
shelter we have.
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Yeats |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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He had in his camp some corn, which he agreed to leave for them, on condition that he
received
from them an equal quantity after their harvest.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Twenty years later Webbe recognised the service of
Golding to the nation in making
accessible
"all kind of good learn-
ing,"97 and 10 narrative poets and dramatists the translation became
a treasury of classic myth and legend.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Upon her aching forehead be there hung
The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue;
And for the youth, quick, let us strip for him
The thyrsus, that his watching eyes may swim
Into forgetfulness; and, for the sage,
Let spear-grass and the
spiteful
thistle wage
War on his temples.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nor was it long after this, that several
Persons were tried for Rioters, who attended the Election of Sheriffs and Mayor, and Fines were passed upon many worthy Citizens, as Rioters on that Occasion ; in promoting which, this Person as a Counsellor by his florid Rhetorick was mainly in strumental, by giving the Court an Account of their respective Abilities, the better to settle the Fines; but the Lord Chief Justice
Saunders
dying, he succeeded him as Lord Chief Justice of the King?
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When Sacrificing to Heaven, the earth is swept, and the
sacrifice
presented on the ground,--from a regard to the simplicity of such an unartificial altar.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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_ I' the name of God,
Go apart from us, O thou
Lucifer!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I have a note from Pound, dated ''23 Maggio,'' but not postmarked because it was
delivered
by hand.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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The second brings into re- lief a sequential pattern, a chain of interconnected events; it se- quentializes
complexity
by abstracting more or less from inter- fering processes.
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The out-
come of the
conference
was a virtual defeat fnr tVigjnpr-
cilftfltS^aiuLth.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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We cannot always, however, attribute to these latter
the intention of arguing away virtue altogether out of all human
examples in order to make it an empty name; often, on the contrary, it
is only well-meant strictness in determining the true moral import
of actions according to an
uncompromising
law.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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His
series of "Stories of Betuwe) (a rural district)
are specimens of
idiomatic
expression, faithful
portraiture, and unsophisticated humor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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ei ben boun
to wenden & sechen his deore sone,
in
eueriche
a ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box,
enclosed
the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Servilius, a most worthy and
respected
citizen.
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Roman Translations |
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It was surrounded by three walls more than seventy cubits high and in length and breadth corresponding to the
structure
of the edifice.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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"
But for his father's cruelty Frederick might
have borne one of the most
honoured
names in
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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The origin is
Callimachus
who wrote the Origins.
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Greek Anthology |
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In all our feeble attempts, however, to 'find out the Almighty to
perfection', it seems
absolutely
necessary that we should reason from
nature up to nature's God and not presume to reason from God to nature.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Judges, and decision-takers in general, might be better decision-takers if they were more adept in the arts of statistical reasoning and
probability
assessment.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What word of grace in such a place
Could help a
brother’s
soul?
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Finnegans
By a
The "Twitterlitter"
Askesis at
Finnegans
Wake
Brett Bourbon Stanford University
I
Wake is not a work of art but a work of theology.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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EEF E E*i*Fe
sisigiliigisiEiiigiE!
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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The current scholarly enthusiasm for rediscovering images, bodies, and natures forgets all too readily that the
elements
exist only in groups, which is to say, in code systems.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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The tribune came to the consul,
pointing out the danger from the inconvenience of the spot, and
the
surrounding
enemy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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into m: the dead fish will be the oldm
andtheconsumerofit?
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Here terrace sinks to terrace, arbors close
The ends of
dreaming
paths; a wanton wind
Jostles the half-ripe pears, and then, unkind,
Tumbles a-slumber in a pillar rose,
With content
Grown indolent.
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Amy Lowell |
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And in one of our epigrams we speak thus of him:
He struck against a brazen pot,
And cut his
forehead
deep,
And crying cruel is my lot,
In death he fell asleep,
So thus Xenocrates did fall,
The universal friend of all.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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¡Triste amante
abandonada!
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Jose de Espronceda |
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The mighty and magnificent hocus-
pocus of twelvepenny
magicians
was scorned by Lotus.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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And at last when she rose to go,
The light was a little dim,
And I
ventured
to peep, and so
I saw her, graceful and slim,
And she kissed him and kissed him, and oh
How I envied and envied him!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Most of these Drawings and Rhymes were
transferred
to lithographic stones
in the year 1846, and were then first published by Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Is there not enchantment for the eyes of the
metaphysician
in this
play of light, these nameless interfulgent colours which appear flimsy as
the play of thought?
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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_insert_
that
_after_ thus, _except_ Sh.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Firfl read the
Teftimony
j then the De-
cree.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Apparently
this lack of clarity makes for speedy com- munication.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Again,
honor is due to someone under the aspect of excellence: and to God a
singular excellence is competent, since He
infinitely
surpasses all
things and exceeds them in every way.
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Summa Theologica |
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That
prolixity
at the
beginning of many primitive epics, their wordy deliberation in getting
under way, is probably intentional.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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He
does not stand out as
Shakespeare
or Jonson or Fletcher does from
the rush of scholarly controversy : he is a 'link,' a 'signpost,' to
the historian of the English drama.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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* This short poem , which the scholiast asserts to be mono strophic , and which , both in its construction and metrical ar rangement, has much embarrassed the commentators , opens with a declaration on the part of the poet to proceed to the temple of the Delphian god , placed in the centre of the earth ,
in order to celebrate the praises of
Xenocrates
, father of his friend Thrasybulus , which had before been sung by Simoni .
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Pindar |
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A man does not lie about what he is
ignorant
of; he does not lie when he spreads an error of which he himself is the dupe; he does not lie when he is mistaken.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The workmanship of the play is very
poor, but certain
allowances
must be made for its early date.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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My lute, be as thou wert when thou did'st grow
With thy green mother in some shady grove,
When
immelodious
winds but made thee move,
And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.
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Golden Treasury |
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On one occasion after
the overture in
question
had been played, I heard
an Italian lady say, with her eyes half closed,
in a way in which female Wagnerites are adepts:
" Come si dorme con questa musica !
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both
paragraphs
1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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In
1 The full
narrative
is given by Miguel.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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On receiving news of this invasion, Philip immediately in vehement
indignation
started from Demetrias in Thessaly for Chalcis, and when he found no trace of the enemy there save the scene of ruin, he went on to Athens to retaliate.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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I remember
the ludicrous effect produced on my mind by the fast sentence of
an auto-biography, which, happily for the writer, was as meagre in
incidents as it is well possible for the life of an
individual
to
be--"The eventful life which I am about to record, from the hour
in which I rose into existence on this planet, etc.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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p215 20 1 Legamen ad paginam Latinam So considerate was he that he would never have anyone ordered to stand aside, always showed himself courteous and gracious to all, visited the sick, not merely his friends of the first and second degrees,58 but also those of lower rank, desired that every man should speak his thoughts freely and heard him when he spoke, and, when he had heard, ordered improvement and reform as the case demanded; 2 but if
anything
was not done well, he would reprove it in person, though without any arrogance or bitterness of spirit.
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Historia Augusta |
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Then with
contending
troops from all their city outflocking
Gladly the Delphians hailed their God with smoking of altars.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
LV
Like as a bull when, pricked with jealousy,
He spies the rival of his hot desire,
Through all the fields doth bellow, roar and cry,
And with his thundering voice
augments
his ire,
And threatening battle to the empty sky,
Tears with his horn each tree, plant, bush and brier,
And with his foot casts up the sand on height,
Defying his strong foe to deadly fight:
LVI
Such was the Pagan's fury, such his cry.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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ch'i died of hunger 'neath
Southslope
Head and the folk praise them down to this day.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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In order to be divided from God, they must become in a ground
different
from God.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a
bobolink
for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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1 Later it became apparent that nuclear weapons do not give
expected
political leverage.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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In 1930 Bel-
gium
imported
Soviet grain, flax, oil, lumber and a
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Far from it: in fact, it is science itself - particularly in its most recent developments - which forces us to ask this question and which
encourages
us to answer in the negative.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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Downward the sun strikes amid them
And enkindles a lone flower;
A violet iris standing yet in
seething
pools of grey.
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[57a] On the
eighteenth
day of the second month of the eighth year of the Hoi* Tu'ò'ng Dai* Khánh era (1117), when he was about to pass away, Trì Bát spoke a verse:
If there is death there must be life,
If there is life there must be death.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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The ladies get wind of the
masque, and, being masked themselves,
guy the
Muscovites
who go off «all dry-
beaten with pure scoff”; Rosaline sug-
gests that maybe they are sea-sick with
coming from Muscovy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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C'est un secret de tous connu,
Une douleur tres simple et non mysterieuse,
Et, comme votre joie,
eclatante
pour tous.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the
Reformation
and
religious wars.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Just as the Virgin herself never wearied of being reminded of her joy, so her devotees--monks, nuns, friars, canons, clerics, beguines, anchoresses, lay
brothers
and sisters, kings, ladies, knights, matrons, and members of her confraternities--seem never to have wearied of saluting her, for, as their poetic reiterations of the angel's greeting, likewise their commentaries, sermons, and treatises made clear, these were words that contained a mystery in which they themselves longed to participate and yet which mere words could hardly contain.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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I see thee follow thy path without scorn,
without love, with
unfathomable
eyes, wet and sad as a plummet which has
returned to the light insatiated out of every depth--what did it seek
down there?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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He cultivated
different
groups in different ways and only a few knew what he was up to before faced with the fait accomM plio This thought leads to a reflection about U.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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His
knowledge
with old notions still combined
Is twenty years behind the march of mind.
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John Clare |
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What had
happened
was that the whole moneyed class, unwilling to face a change in their
way of life, had shut their eyes to the nature of Fascism and modem war.
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Orwell |
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To
Mnemosyne
(Memory)
77.
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Orphic Hymns |
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