there cometh the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of
his longing beyond man--and the string of his bow will have
unlearned
to
whizz!
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The cycles of
revolving
years
May free my heart from all its fears,
And teach my lips a song to sing.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Every great poet has been
persecuted
in this manner: Milton in
particular.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He is called
in to cases of difficult births, of fractured limbs, or breaches of the
peace; and makes out a parochial list of
accidents
and offences.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Prince of the orchard, faire as dawning morne,
Fenc'd with the law, and ripe as soone as borne
That apple grew, which this Soule did enlive,
Till the then climing serpent, that now creeps
For that offence, for which all
mankinde
weepes, 85
Tooke it, and t'her whom the first man did wive
(Whom and her race, only forbiddings drive)
He gave it, she, t'her husband, both did eate;
So perished the eaters, and the meate:
And wee (for treason taints the blood) thence die and sweat.
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Donne - 1 |
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But Marianne
abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve;
and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves
illaudable, appeared to her not merely an
unnecessary
effort, but a
disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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VI
Post-Hegelian philosophical aesthetics had
tremendous
difficulty grasp- ing the semantic consequences of the differentiation of the art system, es- pecially in its modern variant.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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'
"He licked his lips, did Dan, and stayed up walking about more than half
the night,
thinking
of the wife that he was going to get in the morning.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In the literatures of those great countries
the revolutionary stream long ago united with its tributaries,
burst the dikes that were set to impede its course, and has been
distributed into
thousands
of channels.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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coming a medicine-man among the Indians, a saint
among Christians of the Middle Ages, an angecok
among Greenlanders, a Pagee among Brazilians,
are the same in essence:
senseless
fasting, con-
tinual abstention from sexual intercourse, isolation
in a wilderness, ascending a mountain or a pillar,
"sitting on an aged willow that looks out upon a
lake," and thinking of absolutely nothing but what
may give rise to ecstasy or mental derangements.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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He had a famous debate that lasted for seven years with the master
grammarian
and ideal- ist philosopher, Chandragomin.
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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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If it
extended
further, that is, to our
fellow men, we would never cause anyone else any pain (except in such
cases as we cause it to ourselves, when we cut ourselves, surgically, to
heal our ills, or strive and trouble ourselves to gain health).
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Strong blew the breeze--the surge closed o'er
The cloven track of keel and oar,
But while she fled, there drove along,
Fast in her wake, a mighty throng--
Athirst for blood, athirst for war,
Forward in fell pursuit they sprung,
Then leapt on Simois' bank ashore,
The leafy
coppices
among--
No rangers, they, of wood and field,
But huntsmen of the sword and shield.
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Aeschylus |
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Maynard Smith, 'Time in the
Evolutionary
Process', Studium Generate, 23 (1970), 266-72
D.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Die Madels sind doch sehr interessiert,
Ob einer fromm und
schlicht
nach altem Brauch.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There is
material
for
a comic Aeneas in Dido's letter.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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110
KINDNESS AND
THE
PRINCESS
CHARLOTTE OF WALES.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Then he figured that children and those under age wouldn't have any say in
contracting
the debt.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Be assured that the
decision
of these persons has nothing
to do with the question; they are altogether incompetent judges.
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Selection of English Letters |
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In those times, even, when
tiles did not as yet keep out the sun and the shower, but the oak was
affording both shelter and food; in the groves and caves, and not in the
open air, were shared the
delights
of love.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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I would by no means
suppose that the mass of mankind has reached its term of improvement,
but the principal argument of this essay tends to place in a strong
point of view the improbability that the lower classes of people in any
country should ever be
sufficiently
free from want and labour to obtain
any high degree of intellectual improvement.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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je sais bien qu'il ne faut jamais
discuter
ces
choses-là, ajouta-t-elle avec une jolie moue de philosophe et de
sentimentale désenchantée.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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The new building was not
only new, but declared itself to be so; intended only for offices, and
enclosed behind by stable-yards, no
uniformity
of architecture had been
thought necessary.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Pobre da sensibilidade que depende de um pequeno movimento do ar para o conseguimento, ainda que episódico, da sua
tranquilidade!
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Youre loverde from the
battelle
wylle appere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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hall fail till
hcathersmoke
and doudweed Eire', i.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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" This time
Dionysius
had the sense to laugh, and forgive his honesty.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued
accompaniment
a note of gratitude for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
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Rilke - Poems |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Li Po |
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Yet I have known her very angry with some, whom she much esteemed, for
sometimes
falling into that infirmity.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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I have found,
through life, these acquisitions to be of the greatest possible
importance for personal happiness, and they are also a very necessary
condition for
enabling
anyone, either as theorist or as practical man,
to effect the greatest amount of good compatible with his opportunities.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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In spite of much that may offend in the doctrines of Epicurus, there is
much at least in the man which is
sympathetic
and attractive.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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A poet's message to the modern generation and he supports his theme with the best possible argument, an abundance of delightful quotations from some of the most
beautiful
passages in English poetry.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Here, drunk with his late victory,
Napoleon tarried till it please
Moscow
approach
on bended knees,
Time-honoured Kremlin's keys present.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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She said, she knew some
ill offices had been done him to her mother, for
which she was sorry; and doubted not, but her
majesty would in due time discern that she had
been
misinformed
and mistaken; and then she would
like and approve of what her highness should now
do.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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He told his confessor of his
embarrassment
at being considered a hero, and asked whether he was required to tell others of the extent of his co-operation and "weakness"; he was relieved by the confessor's reassurance that he was not obliged to talk about shortcomings, and should feel "no need to humiliate yourself.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Have you ever noticed
anything
of the sort in me?
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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" Prentice
detailed
his own reactions: "It is a nightmare.
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Samuel Beckett |
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To see the symbolical significance is the natural outcome of
intellectual
maturity
and depth.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Bibliography of the first
editions
in book form of the
writings of Charles and Mary Lamb, published prior to Charles Lamb's
death in 1834.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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[So] I understood that
their being fire yet looking for fire
represented
my being myself yet looking
for myself.
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Shobogenzo |
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We now have the independence to genuinely apply the sacred Dharma, so do not squander your life on
pointless
things.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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His great Faith and
devotion
rendered him an object of respect and
affection among the people.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Es kann gar nicht anders
sein, als dass es
Menschen
gibt, fu?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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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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)người xã La Phù huyện
Thượng
Phúc (nay thuộc xã La Phù huyện Hoài Đức tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-01 |
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"
It
happened
that a mule of one of this celebrated race of horses was
about to be foaled, and the Duke requested Fra Paolo to observe the
heavens during a whole night, especially at the moment of the birth of
the foal.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For by this means Paul is taught that God had respect unto him at such time as he went astray, and was altogether an enemy to his own salvation; and so God's
predestination
doth abolish all preparations which sophisters imagine, as if man did prevent God's grace by his own free will.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Morning's in the sky, already
its flaxen
loincloth
shines.
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Translated Poetry |
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Does his work afford us in return that
documentary
value which
the author claims for it?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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By reason of a preparatory exercise consisting of
meditation
on
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Now I say, if you apply yourself to these diminutive sports (not to mention others of equal ingenuity, such as Draw-gloves, Cross purposes,
Questions
and commands, and the rest) it is not to be conceived what benefit (of nature) you will find by them, and how they will open the body of your invention.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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381 (#419) ############################################
CHIEF COURTS
381
first instance, as
territories
were acquired and occasion arose.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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In totally denying slavery Megasthenes went too far: in fact seven
kinds of slaves were enumerated : but it is laid down that no Ārya
('freeman,' here including the
Çūdra)
could be enslaved.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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And now, when the moon's riding at the full,
She leaves her dancers lonely and lies there
Upon that level place, and for three days
Stretches
and sighs and wets her long pale cheeks.
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Yeats - Poems |
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In
1657 he aided his brother Claude, the famous architect, in building a
house; and that so skillfully that in 1663 Colbert chose him to assist
Claude in
superintending
the royal building operations.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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"
Fatigue,
excitement
of the past
Few hours broke me down at last.
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Amy Lowell |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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It originated in
the fatal error which Fox committed, in persisting, after the first three
years of the French Revolution, when every shadow of freedom in France had
vanished, in eulogizing the men and
measures
of that shallow-hearted
people.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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He did not
overburden
his pages
with technical terms.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Gallius for an attempt to poison him, and pretended that he had the plainest proofs of it, and could produce many letters, witnesses, disclosures, and other pieces of evidence to put the truth of his charge beyond a doubt, interspersing many
sensible
and ingenious remarks on the nature of the crime;- I remember, I say, that when it came to my turn to reply to him, after urging every argument which the case itself suggested, I insisted upon it as a material circumstance in favour of my client, that the prosecutor, while he charged him with a design against his life, and assured us that he had the most indubitable proofs of it then in his hands, related his story with as much ease, and as much calmness, and indifference, as if nothing had happened.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Project Gutenberg-tm is
synonymous
with the free distribution of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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THE murmur of a bee
A witchcraft
yieldeth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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That philosophy has struck its roots
so deeply into the mind, so much irreligion
and selfishness has been the result of it, that
those men ought to be regarded as benefac-
tors to their country, who have even com-
batted a system so pernicious, and revived
the ideas of Plato, of Descartes, and of
Leibnitz: but the philosophy of the new
German school contains a crowd of ideas
which are peculiar to it; it is founded upon
the greatest extent of scientific knowledge,
which has been increasing every day, and
upon a singularly
abstract
and logical mode
of reasoning; for, although Kant blames
the use of such reasoning, in the examina-
tion of truths which are out of the circle of
experience, he shows in his writings a power
of mind, on metaphysical subjects, which
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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She does not love her only child,- her daughter
Paule,- because she cannot
perpetuate
the family name.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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450
Oh, you we lef', long-lingerin' et the door,
Lovin' you best, coz we loved Her the more,
Thet Death, not we, had conquered, we should feel
Ef she upon our memory turned her heel,
An'
unregretful
throwed us all away
To flaunt it in a Blind Man's Holiday!
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James Russell Lowell |
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And in that case his assertion that something was true only for us and through being
recognized
by us as such would have this status too.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The leeway for boasting shrinks; the strategy of indirect self celebration in high culture hits the
investor
with ever greater costs and diminishing narcissistic returns.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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" 77 He
expresses
approval of the
"A Packet of Letters, Book II, Letter XVI.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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6,44
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Dark
shepherdess
of many a golden star,
Dost see me, Mother Night?
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Euripides - Electra |
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For the first time in the history of literature
(with the
doubtful
exception of Cicero) we encounter a writer whose
ceaseless activity includes the world.
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Lucian - True History |
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“ You have
scarcely
begun the old: you are hardly more than
a child now.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Leigh Hunt, radical though he was, wrote literary reviews
for it;
Coleridge
made advances to the second John Walter,
proposing the impossible—that he should be appointed editor,
with a perfectly free hand as to policy; George Borrow, while
wandering in Spain, collecting materials for his famous book,
acted as correspondent for The Times, and, writing with a freedom
from the dignity which hedged in staff-writers of the great
journal, became, it is said, a model for many who wrote for the
cheaper newspapers.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Then, bending towards his dear, adorable, and execrable wife, his
inevitable and pitiless muse, he kissed her
respectfully
upon the hand,
and added, "Ah, dear angel, how I thank you for my skill!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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At much longer
intervals
of sixty years, the festival called the Great Daidala took place.
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I was not long in
recollecting
Mrs.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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My
executors
will
593
over.
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The lonely fisher as he trimmed his lamp
Far out at sea off Sunium, or cast
The net for tunnies, heard a brazen tramp
Of horses smite the waves, and a wild blast
Divide the folded
curtains
of the night,
And knelt upon the little poop, and prayed in holy fright.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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200 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
The point is not to
celebrate
the latest development regarding the clas- sics or to react with a frown.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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In
1 Frege in the first sentence refers to the article Gedankengefiige that appeared in 1923, as the third part of the Logischen Untersuchungen published in the journal
Beitriige
zur Rhilosophie des deutschen ldealismus.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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With an
Introduction
by Charles Dickens.
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The golden queen
distinguishes
herself from the rest by her
mighty achievements still more than by her garb and dignity; for at once
she takes an archer, and, going sideways, seizes a silvered warden.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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In all the other poets
of Rome (with the exception only of Valerius Flaccus and a
few genuine elegies of Tibullus' second book) the spondees
considerably exceed the dactyls; Ovid alone has known -
like the Medea or the Circe of his own exuberant fancy -
how to transform, by the magic of his art, the slow but stately
spondees of his native speech into the light and graceful
dactyls of
Hellenic
verse.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and
suddenly
vanished away--
For the Snark _was_ a Boojum, you see.
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In the same way, the principle being of wood and the essence of its
actuality
do not consist in being a bed, but in its being a substance so constituted that it can be a bed, a bench, a beam, an idol and anything else formed out of wood.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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THE WINGS
This poem seems to have been inscribed on the wings of a statue – perhaps a votive statue –
representing
Love as a bearded child.
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Pattern Poems |
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I am
exceedingly
fond of Welsh rabbit.
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Poe - 5 |
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His other
romances
-- " The has been very important.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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All the
young theologians of the
Tübingen
institution
went immediately into the groves—all seeking for
“faculties.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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When the Government of India creat-
ed Centrally
administered
areas, the people of those States were also
associated with the administration.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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_--Mohammed, by
some historians
described
as of a pale livid complexion, and _trux
aspectus et vox terribilis_, of a fierce threatening aspect, voice, and
demeanour.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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May the gracious lady of the land
announce
my prayer to thee!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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