Beneath the liquid
splendor
of the lights
We live a little ere the charm is spent;
This night is ours, of all the golden nights,
The pavement an enchanted palace floor,
And Youth the player on the viol, who sent
A strain of music thru an open door.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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La Concorde: The Degas
painting
Place de la Concorde (paris, c.
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--Now in every action it behoves
the poet to know which is his utmost bound, how far with fitness and a
necessary proportion he may produce and
determine
it; that is, till
either good fortune change into the worse, or the worse into the better.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He
is
waiting!
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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He
could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it
should have been; it
certainly
must have rung.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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The two angry mothers of the play are
not altogether
pleasing
characters, but they are alive and life-like;
and the husbands are delineated firmly and naturally, without any
fumbling or exaggeration.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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(The nature of the mind) is not something produced by the great discriminating
intelligence
of a disciple or the skil?
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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It is one of the Hebrides, about eight miles from the nearest
Scottish
coast, above six miles in length, and varying from a mile to three miles in breadth.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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@E':
: i ,; iiiis ; i,
uiitiii=
,A+i;i;
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Morland were aware of the
pleasure
it was to her to have
her there, they would be too generous to hasten her return.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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One of the
episodes
of his life was an interview
with Napoleon after the latter's return from Elba in 1815.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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But the men who make the bread will
understand
that nothing can move unless something moves it.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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For him the
adventure
was the beginning and the end of
art.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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In the event we use atomic weapons either in retaliation for their prior use by the USSR or because there is no alternative method by which we can attain our objectives, it is imperative that the
strategic
and tactical targets against which they are used be appropriate and the manner in which they are used be consistent with those objectives.
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NSC-68 |
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Thus in perlego, relego, the middle
syllable
is short, be-
cause it is short in the simple lego.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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18, 24, Livy
ix 18, and Napier's Peninsular W or viii 5 (quoted by VVhiston)
The first element of success in war is that
everything
should emanate
from one head.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Only if we look at the process as a whole can we comprehend how it was possible for Germany to rearm itself without this involving a general remili- tarisation of politics, and how social and cultural rebuilding could occur without any connection worth mentioning to nos- talgia for antidemocratic traditions, and how there was a boost- ing of efficiency nationwide without re-germanification, and a West German economic boom without
submitting
to imperialist temptations, and a national recovery without opinionatedness.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Platonic
prose is an orchestral accompaniment of the thought; suggesting for
every nuance of the idea its
appropriate
mood, and shot through
with leitmotifs of reminiscence and anticipation, that bind the whole
into emotional and artistic unity.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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But Grongar Hill itself is one of those poems which occupy a
place of their own, humble though it may be, as compared with
the great epics and tragedies, simple and of little variety, as com-
pared with the
garlands
or paradises of the essentially lyrical
poets, but secure, distinguished and, practically, unique.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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HS 163
Gentlemen, you stalwart fellows,
Don’t be
careless
in what you do.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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The sublime, indeed, is not so common with us; but ample amends is made for that want, in great
abundance
of the admirable and amazing, which appears in all our compositions.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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What kind of
empowerments
have you received?
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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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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William Browne |
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Child Verse
I
LIGHT AND SHADOW
LOVE you, little maid,"
Said the Sunbeam to the Shade,
As all day long she shrank away before him ;
But at twilight, ere he died,
She was weeping at his side ;
And he felt her tresses softly
trailing
o'er him.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Wherefore
fear the Sin which brings to
another Gain?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[Clean copies of the first edn are
extremely
rare,
## p.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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The submission which
religion
inculcates in action is
essentially the same in spirit as that which science teaches in
thought; and the ethical neutrality by which its victories have been
achieved is the outcome of that submission.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Earthly
Emperors
receive the decree which empowers them to
rule from him.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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116
Languido
smonta, e lascia Brigliadoro
a un discreto garzon che n'abbia cura;
altri il disarma, altri gli sproni d'oro
gli leva, altri a forbir va l'armatura.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Act IV Scene IV (The King, Diegue, Arias, Rodrigue, Alonso, Sanche)
Alonso
Sire, Chimene is here,
demanding
justice.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The bloody limbs thrash through a ruddy dusk,
Till one great tusk of Behemot has gored
Leviathan,
restored
to his full strength,
Who, dealing fiercer blows in those last throes,
Closes on reeling Behemot at length--
Piercing him with steel-pointed claws,
Straight through the jaws to his disjointed head.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Wherefore
the
different passions of the concupiscible faculty do not require
different moral virtues, because their movements follow one another in
a certain order, as being directed to the one same thing, viz.
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Summa Theologica |
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In 1811 he distinguished himself at Medina Sidonia and
Chiclana, and sought
promotion
to the rank of field-marshal, which was
never granted.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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imibr
lfOUPinas
in 10po,upby.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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When a
man has finished
building
his house, he finds that
he has learnt unawares something which he ought
absolutely to have known before he—began to
build.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Therefore
we will make no long delay in our sailing for these things' sake, when the breezes but blow fair.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Nay more, there is something absurd in the attempt ; and the result must be little edifying, as the natural limitations which are continually breaking in upon the perfection and completeness of the idea, destroy the
illusion
in the story, and throw an air
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Volunteers and financial support to provide
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with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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No text is conceivable without grammar and no grammar (thus no
machine)
is conceivable without the "sus- pension of referential meaning.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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These systems are
dominated
by extreme idealization, denigration and intolerance of reality.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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, whose glorious deeds ennoble their native
Thessaly
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Pindar |
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26 (#56) ##############################################
26 The Empress Theodora [527-548
San Vitale in Ravenna, and also in the mosaics which decorated the
rooms of the Sacred Palace, for it was Justinian's wish to associate her
with the
military
triumphs and the splendours of the reign.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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26 (#56) ##############################################
26 The Empress Theodora [527-548
San Vitale in Ravenna, and also in the mosaics which decorated the
rooms of the Sacred Palace, for it was Justinian's wish to associate her
with the
military
triumphs and the splendours of the reign.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation
copyright
in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But weary to the hearts of all
The burning glare, the barren reach
Of Santa Rosa's
withered
beach,
And Pensacola's ruined wall.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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en suma, todo lo regional haya cobrado tanta importancia incluso en
aquellos
pai?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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One cat,
scrubbed
in the mill's sink, stink of last week's stew.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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As with the 'footprint maps', I wonder whether the ability to see analogies, the ability to express meanings in terms of symbolic resemblances to other things, may have been the crucial
software
advance that propelled human brain evolution over the threshold into a co-evolutionary spiral.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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His
understanding
was truly trustworthy; his virtue was perfectly true.
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Chuang Tzu |
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With pitiless
logic he criticized their extravagance and pretension; and actively
anticipating the spirit of modern science, he accepted no fact,
he
subscribed
to no theory, which he had not examined with a cold
impartiality.
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Lucian - True History |
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With pitiless
logic he criticized their extravagance and pretension; and actively
anticipating the spirit of modern science, he accepted no fact,
he
subscribed
to no theory, which he had not examined with a cold
impartiality.
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Lucian - True History |
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"
But Colin slept a
careless
sleep
Beneath an apple tree.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Be wise, je sons of men, tempt God no more ;
To give TOO kings in 's wrath to vex joa sore :
If a king's brother can such
mischiefs
bring,
Then how much greater mischiefs such a king?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Her mother orders her from the room, and la-
ments the
waywardness
of this younger daughter.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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--It
is involuntarily believed that the religious tinted sections of a
philosophy are better
attested
than the others, but the case is at
bottom just the opposite: there is simply the inner wish that it may be
so, that the thing which beautifies may also be true.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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It is
earnestly
to be hoped that the 'Convito' also will
be given to the public in completed form.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"
Walter, who had been peeling a
tangerine
as a way of keeping steady, at this moment cut too deeply; an acid jet spurted into his eyes, making him start back and grope for his handkerchief.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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"
II
But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou hast said,--Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me
listening!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Was it the antic fantasy
Whose elvish
mockeries
cheat the day?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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my sides were shaking in the midst of all my quaking
To hear her talk of Indians when the guns began to roar:
She had seen the burning village, and the
slaughter
and the pillage,
When the Mohawks killed her father, with their bullets through
his door.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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One might expect embarrassment at
outright
howlers, but Bly told Hall: "It looks rather strange, but I'm sick of everyone quoting favor- able reviews.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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What Orpheus sing his Triumphs o'er the Main,
And make the Hills and Forests move again;
Show his bold Fleet on the Batavian shore,
And Holland trembling as his Canons roar;
Paint Europe's Balance in his steady hand,
Whilst the two Worlds in
expectation
stand
Of Peace or War, that wait on his Command?
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Germany, which
believed
that it could stamp out socialism
by exceptional penal laws, discovered its mistake.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:35 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Selfless
actions are impos sible.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Selfless
actions are impos sible.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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alas, only a single
individual!
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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And I was to recall per- fectly afterwards the
impression
I so made on her--in which the general proposition that the gentlemen of a certain group or connection might on occasion be best
described by the term I had used, sought to destroy the particular presumption that our visitor wouldn't, by his ordinary measure, show himself for one of these.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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--From this it follows that all the
and it is found in the fact that God
natural
instincts
of man (to love, etc.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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--From this it follows that all the
and it is found in the fact that God
natural
instincts
of man (to love, etc.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Therefore
lend us
"Thy wisdom in this our dilemma.
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Tennyson |
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Many
companies
have poured cash into projects that will never generate a return above the cost of capital' (Abrahams and Harney 1999).
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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[29] L And while Cinna was raging against
everyone
in this arrogant fashion, he was killed by his own soldiers at an assembly.
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Roman Translations |
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There is a
concentration
of power in the bureaus.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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'Twas but a slip
decaying
nature made;
For she grows weary near her journey's end.
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Thomas Otway |
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Now the
publisher
is enthusiastic, too.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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You would have perished through my means but for an
extraordinary
act of grace which, that you might be saved, has thrown me down in the middle of my course.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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)
were the greater part of the actus
legitimi
and the
5.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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EARLY STUDIES
Bowlby's first attempts to understand the effects of separation on psychological development were retrospective studies based on the histories of
children
and adolescents referred to the child guidance clinics where he worked.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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How shall I use the language to you, O
do not
disappoint
me!
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Robert Forst |
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'
And pointed to the prow, and took her seat
Beside the rudder, with
opposing
feet.
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Shelley copy |
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Guthlac at Croyland, was also buried in that same place ;34 and,
according to Ingulph, in the year 871, the Danes came thither, and destroyed with
mattocks
and knives all the tombs of the saints buried there.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Stated otherwise, it is the impossibility of
Nietzsche
losing himself.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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And here lies the point; for if, as he declares, you
have this gift of temperance already, and are temperate enough, in
that case you have no need of any charms, whether of Zamolxis or of
Abaris the Hyperborean, and I may as well let you have the cure of
the head at once; but if you have not yet
acquired
this quality, I
must use the charm before I give you the medicine.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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I cerchi in munizion non son rimasi,
che d'ogn'intorno hanno di fiamma il crine:
questi,
scagliati
per diverse bande,
mettono a' Saracini aspre ghirlande.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Is not that true, Meletus,
of horses, or any other
animals?
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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42
A Rose 42
I
Remember
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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To
Dionysus
Bassareus
45.
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Orphic Hymns |
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The higher mean and discriminability of the former item are probably due to its greater
indirectness
and distance from crude anti- Semitism.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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So lies a bull beneath the lion's paws,
While the grim savage grinds with foamy jaws
The trembling limbs, and sucks the smoking blood;
Deep groans, and hollow roars,
rebellow
through the wood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It needs little reflection to see that it
is to one or other of these three peculiarities that the
failure of the Elizabethan writers of
classical
metres
must be ascribed.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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