The maiden, in whose
portrayal
there is
the tenderness of touch, the strange, elusive charm
peculiar to Krasinski's women, trembles for
lrydion's soul.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
The self-same way, with more advised watch,
To find the other forth; and by
adventuring
both
I oft found both.
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Shakespeare |
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966bll-27, mentions two opinions, a
horizontal
disposition, and a horizontal and vertical disposition of the universe, and the difficulties that they present.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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FAUST:
Hat sich dir was im Kopf
verschoben?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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They are the
inventors
in the existential domain.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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If he turns, how- ever, to philosophical aesthetics he is
beleagured
with highly abstract propositions that have neither a connection with the works he wants to understand, nor with the content after which he is groping.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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The
Princely
One had pity, and did not appoint you to the station of
the Unending Sands.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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The prince's opinion: " Roman
societyI
ANYbody can get into.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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s del poema una
indagacio?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Ten things are detrimental to study : Going under the halter of a camel, and still more, passing under its body; walking between two camels or between two women ; to be one of two men that a woman passes between ; to go where the atmos phere is tainted by a corpse ; to pass under a bridge beneath which no water has flowed for forty days ; to eat with a ladle that has been used for
culinary
purposes ; to drink water that
340 STORIES AND OBSERVATIONS FROM THE TALMUD.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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¶ This wyt
(quod he) I had almoste
destroyed
before I knewe it.
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Erasmus |
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A similar
proceeding
takes place occasionally with barn-door cocks: for in temples, where cocks are set apart as dedicate without hens, they all as a matter of course tread any new-comer.
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Aristotle copy |
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When you start with a blaze of
sunshine
and upburst of humor, when you
begin with that, the proper office of humor is to reflect, to put you
into that pensive mood of deep thought, to make you think of your sins,
if you wish half an hour to fly.
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Twain - Speeches |
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We then ought to inquire into the extent to which a fundamental metaphysical
position
is bound up with the doctrine, our purpose being to make out what comprises the essence of such a position.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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For Thou hast made me free from
hindrance in what
appertaineth
unto me.
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Epictetus |
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Perhaps of them and their
authority
one has spoken enough.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
naturalist would never help us to them by any discoveries of the extent
of the universe, but is as poor, when cataloguing the resolved nebula
of Orion, as when
measuring
the angles of an acre.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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I had no
thoughts of publishing it, till it pleased some persons of rank and
fortune (the authors of "Verses to the
Imitator
of Horace," and of an
"Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court") to
attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my writings (of which,
being public, the public is judge), but my person, morals, and family,
whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requisite.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Crimson, frosty with dew, the roses bend where
thou afar moving in the
glamorous
sun drinkst in life of earth, of the air, the
tissue
golden about thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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policymakers argue that social
revolutionary
victory any- where represents a diminution of freedom in the world.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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They are not
bound by any convention, because at that time no
professional class of
philosophers
and scholars ex-
isted.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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In this positive view, to translate is to construct a bridge, to negotiate meaning, to make witness, to reconcile, to melt and refreeze an ice cube, or to resurrect--a` la Pound, to gather the
scattered
limbs of Osiris so that their "reunited energies assert themselves.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Here he
laboured
with great success for five years (681-686), baptising
the chief men and founding a monastery at Selsey.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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ōðer swylc =
_another
fifteen_ (Sw.
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Beowulf |
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Little Air
I
Any solitude
Without a swan or quai
Mirrors its disuse
In the gaze I abdicate
Far from that pride's excess
Too high to enfold
In which many a sky paints itself
With the twilight's gold
But languorously flows beside
Like white linen laid aside
Such fleeting birds as dive
Exultantly at my side
Into the wave made you
Your
exultation
nude.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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320
And, sooth to seyn, my chambre was
Ful wel depeynted, and with glas
Were al the
windowes
wel y-glased,
Ful clere, and nat an hole y-crased,
That to beholde hit was gret Ioye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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H: W: in Hiber:
belligeranti
188
1633 77-9 To the Countesse of Bedford.
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Donne - 1 |
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mostly because people cannot be
anything
else than weak.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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I knew there must be
something!
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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But we
will not lament but rather take the advice of the
reproving and
consolatory
words which Hamann
addresses to scholars who lament over lost works.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Their virtue is their spontaneity, a natural, unlaboured gift of
poetry,
asserting
itself without any definite effort and producing
its treasures without consciousness of the mixture of precious metal
with alloy.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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There was such
intricate
clamor of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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”2
1 “Originary acts” is my
translation
for ye, the Buddhist term for actions that have karmic consequences.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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3649 (#637) ###########################################
3649
RUFUS CHOATE
(1799-1859)
BY ALBERT STICKNEY
UFUS CHOATE, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of
advocates who have
appeared
at the English or American
bar, was one of the most remarkable products of what is
ordinarily considered hard, prosaic, matter-of-fact New England.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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This way
happiness
doth ever blow.
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Pattern Poems |
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[429]
[Sidenote: Attack on
Cicero’s
Camp.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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It
presupposes, indeed, the Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of
Morals, but only in so far as this gives a preliminary acquaintance
with the principle of duty, and assigns and justifies a definite
formula thereof; in other
respects
it is independent.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The
bourgeoisie
inherited a bit of the heroic tradition from the feudal era, carrying it on into the broad patriotic masses.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Clear the line,
priority
call!
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Finnegans |
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IN
Florence
dwelt a Doctor of Renown,
The Scourge of God, and Terror of the Town,
Who all the Cant of Physick had by heart,
And never Murder'd but by rules of Art.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Flury offered in his paper for consideration ``that in the effect of gases on insects or mites entirely different circumstances come into question than in the case of the inhalation of gases and vapors through the lungs of mammalians,
although
there exists a parallelism with the toxicity of higher animal'' (Kalthoff and Werner, 1998, page 25).
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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He was not only adorhed
with every excellence, as evinced in all his actions, but in his last illness
he consigned all that was given to him for his use into the hands of the
Prior; and surrounded by all the Chapter gave up his Spirit to God, to
the
edification
of all the friars who were present, who prayed with him
?
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Quivi la donna, anzi il mio cor mi tiene,
che di mai
ricovrar
lascio ogni spene.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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All noble minds
have more or less
recognized
the truth that
"The God Who created iron did not wish
men to be thralls.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Returning home by a
circuitous
route, I find the streets even more thronged than in the morning.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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That something may exist which is a hundred times more important than the question, whether we feel well or unwell, is the fundamental
instinct
of all strong natures--and consequently too, whether the others feel well or unwell.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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La seve est du
champagne
et vous monte a la tete.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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1377-79, and
discusses
the history of the series, pp.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Ceux-là seuls en effet nous font
craindre
pour
notre plaisir et désirer leur estime.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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The owners of
this tract allow that the soil is
excellent
for fruit, but they say
that it is so rocky that they have not patience to plow it, and that,
together with the distance, is the reason why it is not cultivated.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life explodes
everywhere?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A
doctrine
appeared, a faith ran beside it: 'All
is empty, all is alike, all hath been!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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The
delegation of sovereignty which this implies is
necessary
for effective control and, therefore, is as necessary for the United States and the rest of the free world as it is presently unacceptable to the Soviet Union.
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NSC-68 |
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The motive which prompted my action has been the desire to act piously and render unto the supreme God a thank
offering
for maintaining my kingdom in peace and great glory in all the world.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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So
threaten
not, thou, with thy bloody spears,
Else thy sublime ears shall hear curses.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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eagerness after theatrical diversions
continued
du
ring the whole reign king James, and great part Charles the First, till Puritanism, which had
assert that Joseph Taylor was the original
and from Sir William Davenant's observation ner, Mr.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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A
Pleasant
Grove
Unto a pleasant grove or such like place,
Where here the curious cutting of a hedge:
There, by a pond, the trimming of the sedge:
Here the fine setting of well-shading trees:
The walks there mounting up by small degrees,
The gravel and the green so equal lie,
It, with the rest, draws on your ling'ring eye:
Here the sweet smells that do perfume the air,
Arising from the infinite repair
Of odoriferous buds and herbs of price,
(As if it were another Paradise)
So please the smelling sense, that you are fain
Where last you walk'd to turn and walk again.
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William Browne |
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”1 Why was this
necessary?
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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It is true that the tendency of the dream and the
unconscious
fancy to
utilize the sexual symbol bisexually betrays an archaic trend, for in
childhood a difference in the genitals is unknown, and the same genitals
are attributed to both sexes.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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SAS}
Fled with the noise of Slaughter & the stars of heaven Fled
Jerusalem came down in a dire ruin over all the Earth
She fell cold from
Lambeths
Vales in groans & Dewy death
The dew of anxious souls the death-sweat of the dying
In every pillard hall & arched roof of Albions skies
The brother & the brother bathe in blood upon the Severn
The Maiden weeping by.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It would
remain to be proved that, even as things are, a
richer sum of creations is
attained
than in the
case of the shorter existence; i.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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On the morrow the
Crawfords
were gone.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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—
The principal moral
commandments
which a nation
permits its teachers to emphasise again and again
stand in relation to its chief defects, and that is why
it does not find them tiresome.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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And the phallic pun "Phall if you but will, rise you must" gives a
Rabelaisian
twist to the wheel of life.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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No one should be
surprised
that claims about human nature are controversial.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Responsibility, however, respects not only
authorities
and committees but the object itself.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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'
And they crowned me with flowers, and then to their harps sate playing,
Solemn and clear;
And magical cakes and goblets were spread on the table;
And at window the birds came in;
Hopping along with bright eyes, pecking crumbs from the platters,
And sipped of the wine;
And
splashing
up--up to the roof tossed fountains of crystal;
And Princes in scarlet and green
Shot with their bows and arrows, and kneeled with their dishes
Of fruits for the Queen;
And we walked in a magical garden with rivers and bowers,
And my bed was of ivory and gold;
And the Queen breathed soft in my ear a song of enchantment--
And I never grew old.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Regret--though nothing dear
That I wot of, was toward in the wide world at his prime,
Or bloomed
elsewhere
than here,
To die with his decease, and leave a memory sweet, sublime,
Or mark him out in Time .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Above all, the fine suffusion
through the whole, with the characteristic manners and feelings, of a
highly bred
gentleman
gives life to the drama.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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It is unnecessary to compile a laboured coda from
characteristics sufficiently
emphasised
in the preceding
pages.
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| Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
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In this he proceeded dangerously far: he made it unlikely
that a single warrior, even a giant, could
overcome
such a monster.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Observe the
dramatic
way in
which Duessa saves Sansjoy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
The coming
together
of all things
brings one generation into being and destroys it; the other grows
X-343
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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True, she said little--'t was the rest that broke
Forth into
universal
epigram;
But then 't was to the purpose what she spoke:
Like Addison's 'faint praise,' so wont to damn,
Her own but served to set off every joke,
As music chimes in with a melodrame.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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O sonho, porém,
substitui
tudo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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--Man is read in his face; God in His creatures; not
as the philosopher, the
creature
of glory, reads him; but as the divine,
the servant of humility; yet even he must take care not to be too
curious.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall
take to
themselves
their curtains, and all their vessels, and their
camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
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No, they were
tolerant
and Christian, saying, 'We
Only deplore .
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The author
and is so much disfigured that he is sold
discusses
everything connected with agri-
to the keeper of a livery stable.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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» «Mais enfin
qui est-ce cette
fiancée?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have
squeezed
the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Sapere aude / Dare to use thy own
understanding
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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The Wall Street Journal, for example, trenchantly
observes
that the corporation income tax is "treated by corporations as merely another cost which they can pass on to their customers.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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About this period it was that the two party names were invented which have cut so con spicuous a figure in the
Newspapers
from that period even to the present day.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign;
that the dunces are all in
confederacy
against him.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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as were lot, like as God the
possession
of the Priests ' and Levites.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Oh dripping laurel, Phoebus sacred tree,
Would that swift Daphne's lot might come to me,
Then would I still my soul and for an hour
Change to a laurel in the
glancing
shower.
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Sara Teasdale |
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e
welcomest
wy3e of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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This has
happened
with Amazon Kindle, where Amazon funnels Kindles through their cloud servers.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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And when the rings were
changed, the indifferent faces of the bride and bridegroom gave
her a peculiar feeling of mixed sadness, envy, and
vexation
that
so heavenly a moment should pass over unfeeling souls.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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How
beautiful
she look'd!
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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In the ancient worldöindeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-statesöthe power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite;
linguistic
knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more
detraction
at your heels than fortunes before you.
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Shakespeare |
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