Such and so
shameful
is the chain
Which Heaven's new tyrant doth ordain
To bind me helpless here.
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Are you my superior, subjected as
you are, to the dominion of so many things and persons, whom the
praetor's rod, though placed on your head three or four times over, can
never free from this wretched
solicitude?
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Horace - Works |
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But wherein is he
dangerous?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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3
It may be
conjectured
that a soul in which the type of "free spirit" can
attain maturity and completeness had its decisive and deciding event in
the form of a great emancipation or unbinding, and that prior to that
event it seemed only the more firmly and forever chained to its place
and pillar.
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103
Even more importantly, the policy of revolutionary expansion
resulted
from the same influences that had driven France to war seven months ear-
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A cry of
lamentation
went up.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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"My golden treasure, my riches, my
sunshine!
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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And one thing more do I know: I stand now before my last summit, and
before that which hath been longest
reserved
for me.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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I
acknowledge
my offense, since I have interrupted you at so
unlucky a juncture: but grant me your pardon, good sir, I beseech you.
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Horace - Works |
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of
Lady Valour,
BEFITS
Past all
disproving
;
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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This name was very
appropriately
bestowed upon him by our first ancestors, in order to signify that He through whom all things are endowed with life and come into being, is necessarily the ruler and lord of the Universe.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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"
Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;--
"Who unto the truth flings open our gates,
Or
fashions
new thoughts from the light of a star;
Or forges with craft of his finger and brain
Some marvelous weapon we copy in vain;
Or chants to the winds a wild song that shall
wander forever undying?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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This is an exact
description
of my master Nobbs ;
his de-collation and de-truncation of K.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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"As I expected," he murmured, with that hissing
inspiration
of his
which meant so much.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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In our present
circumstances
an unobjective glorifi- cation of the Bismarck government is an impossibility, and the critical atti- tudes that have long been dominant in American studies of Bismarck's Reich have now been widely accepted by German historians.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Their
friendship
lasted
from 1527 to her death in 1547.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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The
following
excerpt from a letter sent by a Roman commander with a similar name - C.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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She had been christened by
Gautier Madame la Presidente, and her
sumptuous
beauty was portrayed by
Ricard in his La Femme au Chien.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Husband and wife share a hundred years;1
4 They cherish each other, but their
love’s
a deceit.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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To be sure, how he exhibits these qualities of courage and deliberateness remains his secret, and it is
certainly
conceivable that enough will always remain from the search for truth as is necessary for the search for deliberateness and courage, without which a nonseeking consciousness could not develop.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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blake-poems |
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If we may speak of a
national
literary canon in Japan, two main theat- rical genres are central: No and Kabuki, which originated in the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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It is not at a remove - or is so only in a few extreme and atypical cases - in the sense that it is by nature remote from life but in the sense that it consciously seeks distance, has to seek it anew in each new
situation
and in ever shifting constellations.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Erard's remains were
interred
on the north side of the conventual church he had erected.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Revisiting the
Periodization
of German Literature 1930-1960', in Words, Texts, Images.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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The problem
for him is to
represent
to his mind beings who seek
to arouse a good opinion of themselves which they
themselves do not possess—and consequently also
do not "deserve,”—and who yet believe in this good
opinion afterwards.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Richard Edwards, a
Somersetshire
man, was born
in the year 1523, admitted a scholar of Corpus Christi College on the 11th of May, 1540, and probationer fellow on the 11th of August, 1544.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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He devoted
himself to the
business
of the bar at Avignon with much reputation.
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Petrarch |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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First of all, the individual
bones whose interplay comprises a step should swing
according
to the
law of the pendulum.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Even the most effective system of international control could, of itself, only provide (a) assurance that atomic weapons had been eliminated from national
peacetime
armaments and (b) immediate notice of a violation.
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NSC-68 |
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This applies all the more
strongly
the larger the tribe is, while in smaller more isolated hordes brother and sister often live together.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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But with a crash like thunder Fell every
loosened
beam,
And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream :
And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome,
As to the highest turret tops
Was splashed the yellow foam.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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THE COMPLETE
POETICAL
WORKS OF T.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Nay, with their very dung (with
reverence
be it spoken) the
doctors in our country make pills that cure seventy-eight kinds of
diseases, the least of which is the evil of St.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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sees the entire nation as his own family"; "In France, the nation
practically
forms a great family"; "The patrie is .
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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It is contrary to the very nature of the
relation
existing
between master and slave, from the fact that there is no law to punish
a slave for theft, but lynch law; and the way they avoid that is to
hide well.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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His remains are said to have been carried to Stagira,
where the
grateful
inhabitants erected an altar over them and paid
divine honors to his memory.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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"
"A
troubled
conscience!
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Houses of Dreams
You took my empty dreams
And filled them every one
With
tenderness
and nobleness,
April and the sun.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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You are not
ignorant
of the Motives to this Rcfolution ;
I Hiall
?
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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If Caesar conferred the Roman franchise on all teachers of the liberal sciences and all the physicians of the capital, we may discover in this step a paving of the way in some degree for those institutions in which subsequently the higher bilingual culture of the youth of the empire was
for on the part of the state, and which form the most significant expression of the new state of humanitas ; and if Caesar had further resolved on the establishment of a public Greek and Latin library in the capital and had already nominated the most learned Roman of the age, Marcus Varro, as principal librarian, this implied unmistake- ably the design of connecting the cosmopolitan
monarchy
with cosmopolitan literature.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The unrelenting public attack on the creation of a personal zone of imagination and of thought in totalitar- ian societies largely accounts for its
profound
impact on the self.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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--"You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,
Tired of digging potatoes, and
spudding
up docks;
And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There was no
incentive
to produce better machines for other enterprises since that brought no rewards to one's own firm.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Owneth thy sire one third, one third is right of thy mother,
Only the third is thine: stint thee to strive with the others,
Who to the
stranger
son have yielded their dues with a dower!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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catlon
Calhoun heads the moral party, Mr Van Buren
PreSIdent Jackson's splttIn' box and a broken pIpe on the floor I called upon NIcholas BIddle and reed two dIVIdends
of my bank stock as I mIght be called to take part In
publIc measures I WIshed to dIvest myself
of all personal Interest Nov 9 '3 I
C:C I took seat Number 203 " J Q Adams asked hIm (Mr Webster) hIS VIews on
tIle
dImInutIon
In the tarIff 169
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Any attempt at expansion in either of these directions
must
inevitably
lead to an immediate collision with the Roman
Empire.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
additional
materials through Google Book Search.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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How
grateful
am I to mine
enemies that I may at last hurl it!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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], to whom it was personally addressed; and though he was then only nineteen years old, he went away with the hearty
approbation
not only of the audience in general, but of the two Consuls themselves, who were the most intelligent judges in the whole city.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Nightingales are singing from the wood — —
And the moonlight through the lattice
streaming
Silence —and deep midnight —and one face
"Like a moonlit land, desire's kingdom, Luring from the breast the homesick self!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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THE
FAVORITE
SULTANA.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It was the settled canon of the
ordinary
Englishman's
faith, that what Palmerston said England must feel.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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That brow
Resplendent as the autumn moon
Must have
bewildered
thee, I trow,
And made thee lose thy senses all.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Is my own son
In
complicity
with my enemies then?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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are so vague as to leave it
uncertain
which of the two
offices he filled.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The
comparison
of the
fly and the mastiff is in the same higher and more epic taste.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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s altars of Earth and Grain are as they are right now, 4 who but you, sir, by martial
measures
can quell ruin and rebellion?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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However, thefe Promifes and Menaces, if
the
Republic
alone were fuppofed to hear and be amufed by
them, were not unwifely employed ; but if really defigned to
be carried into Execution, they had better been pafTed over
in Silence.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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But one day
something happened that made the little birds
happy, too, and this is what it was : For some
time four tiny blue eggs had been
carefully
tended
?
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Childrens - Brownies |
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XVI
And yet, because thou overcomest so,
Because thou art more noble and like a king,
Thou canst prevail against my fears and fling
Thy purple round me, till my heart shall grow
Too close against thine heart
henceforth
to know
How it shook when alone.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Up jumped Susan, claiming it as her own, and
trying to get it away; but the child ran to her
mother’s
protection,
and Susan could only reproach, which she did very warmly, and evidently
hoping to interest Fanny on her side.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Finally, to make things
quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon
home-truth, tears away all his
protective
screens, and leaves him with his
self-respect in tatters.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Water is taught by thirst;
Land, by the oceans passed;
Transport, by throe;
Peace, by its battles told;
Love, by
memorial
mould;
Birds, by the snow.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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A mediæval Shakespeare might have
found that seriousness implied severity, or that mirth meant revolt
and mockery; he might have been forced to regard the mundane
and the supermundane as hostile powers; he might have staggered
under a burden of theology, or have thrown it off and become mili-
tant and
aggressive
in his vindication of the natural man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Desafios para a
universidade
do futuro.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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It involves, in the first place, the
historical
sense, [.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Thomas Moore
followed
in
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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The third circle is constituted by the domain ofinvoluntary emotions; these are caused by impressions received by the body, and by the soul
considered
as the principle of the body's animation, or "inborn vital breath.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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In the year 1902
something
new entered.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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As a
corrector
of Greek proofs (if in no other way) I might doubtless
have gained enough for my slender wants.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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For, Dot to mention that such an argument would not have a transcendental character, nor have been limited to the
discussion
of pure conceptions, --all at tempts at inferring from experience what cannot be cogitated in accordance with its laws, must ever be unsuccessful.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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"
I said, "Not quite, Willie:
wherever
we are
when we die, if we love Jesus we go straight
up to heaven.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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He has neither sail nor rudder, and he is so intent on the beauty of the scenery through which he is swept that he does not
recognise
their necessity.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash
of the First,
Who holds that if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at
the Worst,
Who feels that delight is a
delicate
growth cramped by crookedness,
custom, and fear,
Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then the vicious and the sick--all this is drawn into
the foreground (even for the purpose of disposing people in favour of the genius, it has been custom
ary for five hundred years to press him forward as
the great
sufferer!
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Cleveland's
protection
until, from per- .
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The shape and
clamour of waves
breaking
on the beach in a storm is as irresistibly
recorded by Homer as the gleaming flowers which earth put forth to be
the bed of Zeus and Hera in Gargaros, when a golden cloud was their
coverlet, and Sleep sat on a pine tree near by in the likeness of a
murmuring night-jar.
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It would be hazardous for a modern to try to gauge
the exact effect of an ancient poem on an ancient reader,
especially when
contemporary
criticism is silent.
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In Y eats the temptation o f Adams' reductive conversion o f mental into physical, a version o f which he pursued in "Sailing to Byzantium," is itself converted into a kind o f
hierarchical
equivocation:
Miracle, bird or golden handiwork, More miracle than bird or handiwork Planted on the star-lit golden bough, Can like the cocks of Hades crow,
Or, by the moon embittered, scorn aloud In glory o f changeless metal
Common bird or petal
And all complexities of mire or blood.
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It is our own
personality
in its flowing
through time--our self which endures" (p.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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" Fra Antonio Gradenigo built an altar of great splendor in the Church
of the Servi for the
reception
of relics, and by permission of Pope
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additional
rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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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
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XXVIII
Those warriors, and Orlando most of all,
Who love and prize the gentle Brandimart,
Hearing, should they defy upon that call,
They would from so
renowned
a comrade part,
Their scaling-ladders plant, and mount the wall
With rivalry, which shows the kingly heart;
Who carry all such terror in their look,
That, at the very sight, their foemen shook.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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But what
disgrace
will it be to me, that others could not decide
or act justly with regard to me?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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In France, however, there has been an effort to save Hegel from his Marxist interpreters and to resurrect him as the
philosopher
who most correctly speaks to our time.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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14:9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and
them which sat with him at meat, he
commanded
it to be given her.
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Cox was advised to attend the trial of Ellis and Kelly, and not to
discover
he had Blee in custody till after the trial.
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This
experiment
was fallacious; the first day presented the hopeful
ticket, a detestable blank.
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