Yet this
delusion
haunts the human breast,
Who from his soul its roots would sever?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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13 Are not the Falisci, are not Nola and Abella, colonies of the
Chalcidians?
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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The Mace-
donian army was both
skilfully
commanded and was
very formidable in itself.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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"Poor
Marianne!
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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They are often used as a poetic
substitution
for samsara itself.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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And when they had burnt the pieces of the thighs, they shared the
glorious
feast and made merry, and among them harped the divine minstrel De- modocus, whom the people honored.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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I even — though I didn’t tell him what I wanted them for, and hardly even admitted
it to myself — bought the
strongest
salmon trace he’d got, and some No.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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The Stock Exchange was in a fever of expectation, and during the week that preceded the trial, money speculations were made upon the belief that Peltier's acquittal would be regarded in France as tantamount to a
declaration
of war against the First Consul, and wagers were laid that a verdict of not guilty would lower the funds five per cent.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Translated
into English by M.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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The perennial indignation,
unchanged
by the culture industry, over the ugliness of modern art is, despite the pompous ideals sounded, hostile to spirit; it interprets the ugliness?
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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And the
overflowings
of ungodliness
have troubled Me.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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blake-poems |
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Độc quyển:
Hàn lâm viện Thừa chỉ Nguyễn Trực, kiêm Cẩn Đức điện Đại học sĩ Nhập thị Kinh diên kiêm Tả xuân
phường
Thái tử Tả dụ đức Nguyễn Cư Đạo.
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stella-04 |
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We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and
scrubbed
the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And clattered with the pails.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Translations can only suggest this;
but two may perhaps be cited--an acknowledgment to the
great orator Cicero and an invitation to a frivolous friend;
for the former I am indebted to an old student,* for the
latter to an
anonymous
writer in the Press:--
O Marcus, Master of the Roman Bar,
Prince of all Counsels that have been, that are,
And shrewdest of all Counsels yet to be
To guide or gull us,--
His thanks the worst of poets offers thee:
Thee, of all advocates the very first,
He of all poets quite the very worst--
Your friend--Catullus!
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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(If one wants to see how that is currently playing out, consider how deplorable the results were of a recently attempted national debate in Germany over the supposed necessity of establishing a new
literary
canon.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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I pray thee, brother, seeing that by him the meanes is found
That in mine age without my childe I go not to the grounde,
Permit him to enjoy the price for which we did compounde,
And which he hath by due desert of
purchace
deerely bought.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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The mitigated influences of air
And light revived the plant, and from it grew _60
Strong leaves and tendrils, and its flowers fair,
Full as a cup with the vine's burning dew,
O'erflowed with golden colours; an atmosphere
Of vital warmth enfolded it anew,
And every impulse sent to every part
The
unbeheld
pulsations of its heart.
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Shelley |
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Thou, uttered forth of old
And with all thy music rolled
In a breath abroad
By the
breathing
God,--
Awake!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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")_
Weak is the People--but will grow beyond all other--
Within thy holy arms, thou
fruitful
victor-mother!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE
RONDELAY
OF THE GRACES.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Erinna
They sent you in to say
farewell
to me,
No, do not shake your head; I see your eyes
That shine with tears.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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In the mean time we must rest
satisfied
with the opinions that
have been formed by those most capable of judging.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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_He_ hath
forsaken
_him_.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Fichte,
Introductions
to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (In- dianapolis: Hackett, 1994), xxxvi.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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-
What he wanted was power"; with St Paul the priest
again aspired to power,- he could make use only of
concepts, doctrines, symbols with which masses may
be
tyrannised
over, and with which herds are formed.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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gt die
gleichen
zu?
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Stefan George - Studies |
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(Faust sieht
immerfort
in den Spiegel.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The men come solemnly
up, and whisper
confidentially
in your ear, begging to know what
wares.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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It may be
regarded
as the Mother of
all things.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Second, it
naturally
involved replacing all of
179
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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e corages of good[e] folk hire
p{ro}pre
honoure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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He looked--
Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth,
And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay
In
gladness
and deep joy.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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It may be thought
over-bold to
translate
ad claras Asiae volemus
urbes (XLVI) into:
Dawn flames crimson, luring eastward,
Asians magic blooms unfold.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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In Prussia, the king made
academic
professors and high school teachers civil servants so that a dramatically modernized philosophical faculty could invent--by dialogic seminarsandhermeneuticlectures--theso-calledunityofForschungund Lehre (teaching and research) that then fed back from universities to the gymnasia, from philosophy to literary studies.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Oh bitter wind with icy
invisible
wings
Why do you beat us?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Et des iles
Dont les cieux
delirants
sont ouverts au vogueur:
--Est-ce en ces nuits sans fond que tu dors et t'exiles,
Million d'oiseaux d'or, o future Vigueur?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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That the
poflestbr
has the right, where none claims
a better right.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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God did forbid the
Israelites
to bring, II.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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tions are not given, they lire at least required; and that wc are certain to discover the
conditions
in this regress.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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He advanced through
Paphlagonia
Timonitis into Galatia, and nine days later arrived in Bithynia 4 Lucullus ordered Cotta to sail to the harbour of Chalcedon with all his ships.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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_The
Children_
(_in the doorway on the left.
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Chatillion
his trustie swerd forth drewe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Divers
ballades
and shorter poems.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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snatched
away in beauty's bloom (_Hebrew Melodies_), iii.
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Byron |
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FairandsofetyIprayyou;Ihavenot granted, neither do Igrantthatthe
Puissant
are strong, I only say that the strong are puiflant.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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75 cumulative preferred stock, leaving his
holdings
in this issue at zero.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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75 cumulative preferred stock, leaving his
holdings
in this issue at zero.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Though all in one
Condensed their
scattered
rays, they would not form a sun.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is a
markedly
patriotic poem and shows deep feeling; its
brilliant lyrical power, and the national enthusiasm evident
throughout, have made it familiar, in one form or another, to
all lovers of English verse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
XCI
To Spanish pass is Rollanz now going
On Veillantif, his good steed, galloping;
He is well armed, pride is in his bearing,
He goes, so brave, his spear in hand holding,
He goes, its point against the sky turning;
A gonfalon all white thereon he's pinned,
Down to his hand
flutters
the golden fringe:
Noble his limbs, his face clear and smiling.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Aoted, apparently, in
November
1604 but was not printed till 1622.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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His brother, who had been
adopted by Miltiades the elder, having died without
issue, Miltiades the younger, though he had not, like
Stesagoras, an interest
established
during the life of
his predecessor, and though tho Chersonese waa not
by law an hereditary principality, was still sent by the
Pisistratidie thither with a galley.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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They tell me that many
women,
citizens
by birth, have become both nurses
and wool-dressers and vintagers, owing to the misfor-
tunes of our country at that period.
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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And that, for all its baldness, is all there is to it; we have
discovered
no higher principle in nature.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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On this
system, adopted by the poet, and which on every
occasion
was avowed by
their kings, the Portuguese made immense conquests in the East.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Of what then is it a
question
?
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| Question: |
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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There is
that
indescribable
freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person
that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Whitman |
|
418 References
Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
Arrighi, Jason W.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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What news, my
Grimbald?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
|
Adorno
Existentialism has been de- scribed by Paul Tillich as "an over one hundred year old movement of rebellion against the dehumanization of man in
industrial
society.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Refuting
the rejoinder]
L3: [II.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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": thus Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
begins a poem about Johann Gensfieisch zum Gutenberg.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Her sewing-machine was on the table amid the old
familiar
litter of
scraps of cloth, sheets of brown paper, cotton-reels and pots of paint, and
though the needle had rusted, the thread was still in it And, yes* there were the
jackboots that she had been making the night she went away.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Gordon drank his cup of tea
standing
up, his eye on the birchwood calendar.
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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| Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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The fatal
embarkation
took place towards the end of Fall of the
On the voyage the new Syracusan fleet had to ^Bxiam sustain a sharp engagement with that of Carthage, in which
it lost a considerable number of vessels.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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And even I, when I come here,
Move softly on, subdued and still,
Lonely as death, though I can hear
Men
shouting
on the other hill.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Unter
erstarrten
Ha?
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Trước
chọn kẻ sĩ chỉ lấy đỗ không quá hai ba chục người.
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stella-02 |
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10)
The Il:vised
punctuation
makes it evidenltha!
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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" It was on "a scriptural
subject"--"less
speculative
than _Cain_, and very pious" (_Letters_,
1901, v.
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Byron |
|
LXXVII
"Too weak are you to bear a helm or shield
Unfit to arm your breast in iron bright,
You run half-naked
trembling
through the field,
Your blows are feeble, and your hope in flight,
Your facts and all the actions that you wield,
The darkness hides, your bulwark is the night,
Now she is gone, how will your fights succeed?
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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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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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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fantastikon delighted
We were not
exasperated
with women, for the female is ductile.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Every one looked on the adventurers as
brave men going to a dreadful execution; as rushing upon certain death;
and the vast
multitude
caught the fire of devotion, and joined aloud in
prayers for their success.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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ii8 INSTIGATIONS
Attempting to view the jungle of the work as a whole, one notes that, despite whatever cosmopolitan
upbringing
Henry James may have had, as witness "A Small Boy's Memoirs" and "Notes of Son and Brother," he neverthe- less began in "French Poets and Novelists" with a pro- vincial attitude that it took him a long time to work free of.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Or à ce moment je fus
précisément favorisé d'une telle
apparition
magique.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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<^ I '11 have those villains in our notions rest ;
"And I do say it, therefore 'it 's the best"
Next, Painter, draw his
Mordaunt
by his side,
Conveying his religion and his bride :
He, who long since abjured the royal line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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White and golden Lizzie stood,
Like a lily in a flood,--
Like a rock of blue-veined stone 410
Lashed by tides obstreperously,--
Like a beacon left alone
In a hoary roaring sea,
Sending up a golden fire,--
Like a fruit-crowned orange-tree
White with blossoms honey-sweet
Sore beset by wasp and bee,--
Like a royal virgin town
Topped with gilded dome and spire
Close
beleaguered
by a fleet 420
Mad to tug her standard down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Owenson,
afterwards
Morgan, Lady Sydney (² 1783-1859).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
There were only two from which
to choose--the Liberals or the
Clerical
Centre.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
|
"Oh, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in
airnest now,' says he: 'you gommoch,' says he, 'sure I towld
you before that's France, and sure they're all
furriners
there,'
says the captain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
|
For all men think that each type of character belongs to its
possessors
in some sense by nature; for from the very moment of birth we are just or fitted for selfcontrol or brave or have the other moral qualities; but yet we seek something else as that which is good in the strict sense-we seek for the presence of such qualities in another way.
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Aristotle copy |
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He disliked and refrained from
displaying
any
feeling at all.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Were these, in compliance with the first concep- tion, to be expanded parallel with the employers'
associations?
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Collins for
a few moments, he asked
Elizabeth
in a low voice whether her relation
was very intimately acquainted with the family of de Bourgh.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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I had
no
sensation
of poverty, for even after paying my rent and setting aside enough for
tobacco and journeys and my food on Sundays, I still had four francs a day for drinks,
and four francs was wealth.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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War ensued between the Dryopes and Heracles, and the Dryopes were defeated, and Hylas, son of Theiodamas, was taken as a hostage by
Heracles
(Apollodor.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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God help thee in this
wildness!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Irānians have disguised
their words by changing (as Greek has also done) s
followed
by a vowel at
the beginning of words, or between vowels in the middle of words, in to h:
thus the word for 7, the equivalent of the Latin septem, the Greek énbá is
in Sanskrit sapta, but in Irānian hapta.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Then in another place the fruits that be
In gallant
clusters
decking each good tree,
Invite your hand to crop some from the stem,
And liking one, taste every sort of them:
Then to the arbours walk, then to the bowers,
Thence to the walks again, thence to the flowers,
Then to birds, and to the clear spring thence,
Now pleasing one, and then another sense.
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Shabli, returning from the shop of a corn dealer, carried
back to his village on his
shoulder
a sack of wheat.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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] In the subsequent
quarrels
between
Hortensius from the seat which had been already Milo and Clodius, Hortensius showed such zeal for
tottering, and to establish his rival, the despised the former, that he was nearly being murdered by
provincial of Arpinum, as the first orator and ad- the hired ruffians of Clodius (Cic.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Duessa descends to Erebus and obtains the aid of Night, who
conveys the wounded Saracen in her chariot to
AEsculapius
to be healed of
his wounds.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It would be
interesting
if we could know whether this epic was written
before or after _The Dynasty of Raghu_.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Yet it is but yesterday that I was beseeching God with tears to pardon
me my sins during the late
sorrowful
period--to pardon me my murmurings
and evil thoughts and gambling and drunkenness.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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