In our dreams [writes the idealist,
tormented
by the eternal
quest], in those sublime conceptions which yet must often
seem ridiculous to the masses, we never feel the most simple
difficulties, our courage is ready to brave the thunderbolt of
heaven; but if we have to take but two steps, say a few words,
approach, in fact, earthly life in its daily occurrences, we sink
with fatigue.
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alcandmmqu' Haliumque Noemona-|-gf<
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(
Noemonaque
-- caesura.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Even in the very late poems, in which
contemporary civilization is being
criticized
and condemned,
the poet has about him the atmosphere of the vates, and it is
more natural to think of him in a flowing robe than wearing a
frock coat and a knotted tie.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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THERE IS ALL AFRICA AND HER
PRODIGIES
IN US
It is a virtuoso feat of identification with another culture.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Semper honore meo, semper
celebrabere
donis.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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But
wherefore
said he this against pride, Thereby have fallen all that work iniquity?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Papers of the Committee of
Merchants
of Philadelphia,
Feb.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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He is visibly
startled
when he sees Galileo and walks stiffly past the two, with rigidly averted head and barely nodding.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Faithfully
attached
to each other, hap.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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And over the
chambers
there is a kind of spider's web, by the
opening and closing of which they catch mute fishes; that is to say,
they open the web to let the fish get in, and close it again to entrap
them.
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Aristotle |
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" I went with a friend to visit this man, who highly entertained us at breakfast, by putting his half-naked foot upon the table as he sat, and
carrying
his tea and toast between his great and second toe to his mouth, with as much facility as if his foot had been a hand, and his toes fingers.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Hail, rose, ower of summer, O Mary, sweet
habitation
of the living light!
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Like a beast of burden, he carried those sacks on his back,
sometimes
to the granary, and sometimes to the mill.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Short Final Syllables
lengthened
by the Ccesura.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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He wrote entertaining
narratives
of his
travels in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain,
North Africa, Egypt, Syria, etc.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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No president or professor was to be
ineligible
by reason
of his religious tenets--all test-oaths were prohibited.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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No president or professor was to be
ineligible
by reason
of his religious tenets--all test-oaths were prohibited.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Old Friesic has a version of these 15 Tokens, says Mr Skeat: see Richtofen,
Friesische
Rechtsquellen, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We also ask that you:
+ Make non-commercial use of the files We
designed
Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Je sws
plus fort que Ie
(No
contradIctIOn)
CC J'aurals
aboh
Ie Boud-hah' .
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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On the 24th of September, in 1857, as I was
paddling
down the Assabet,
in this town, I saw a red squirrel run along the bank under some
herbage, with something large in its mouth.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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the ‘thm red line’ he had more than met his match Conclusions were tried upon the
field of Waterloo, where 50,000 Britons put to flight 70,000 Frenchmen— for the Prussians, our
allies, arrived too late for the battle With a ringing British cheer our men charged down the slope
and the enemy broke and fled We now come on to the great Reform Bill of 1 832, the first of those
beneficent reforms which have made British liberty what it is and marked us off from the less
fortunate nations [etc , etc ]
The date of the book was 1888 Dorothy, who had never seen a history book
of this description before, examined it with a feeling approaching horror
There was also an extraordinary little ‘reader’, dated 1863 It consisted mostly
of bits out of Fenimore Cooper, Dr Watts, and Lord T ennyson, and at the end
there were the queerest little ‘Nature Notes’ with woodcut illustrations There
would be a woodcut of an elephant, and underneath m small print ‘The
elephant is a
sagacious
beast He rejoices m the shade of the Palm Trees, and
though stronger than six horses he will allow a little child to lead him His food
is Bananas ’ And so on to the Whale, the Zebra, and Porcupine, and the
Spotted Camelopard There were also, in the teacher’s desk, a copy of
Beautiful Joe 3 a forlorn book called Peeps at Distant Lands } and a French
phrase-book dated 1891.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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There are many that are this day
spectators
of our standing here, as delinquents, though not delinquents, we bless God for it.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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* * * * *
In _The Book of Pictures_, Rilke's art reaches its
culmination
on what
might be termed its monumental side.
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Rilke - Poems |
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III
I found two of my old
schoolfellows
with him.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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What shall we do
without
Cunegonde?
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Candide by Voltaire |
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For
thesereasonsand
others,therehas emergeda tendencytowardsthe
of the universitiesS.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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"
Passion for power: which, however, mounteth
alluringly even to the pure and lonesome, and
up to self-satisfied elevations, glowing like a love
that painteth purple
felicities
alluringly on earthly
heavens.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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For yesterday arrove, newly appointed,
The Assistant
Chancellor
of the Realm,
And was terribly afraid that the wet and mud
Would dirty his horse's hoofs.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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This is
complementary
to the first three verses of par.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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short syllables followed by a long one, receives a fuller pro-
nunciation upon the final
syllable
than any other foot, and
the pause at the termination of the verse is not sufficient for
that purpose, unless the syllable be long, or stand at the
conclusion of a sentence.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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EDMONDS
This piece of Anacreontean verse is shown both by style and metre to be of late date, and was probably incorporated in the Bucolic
Collection
only because of its connexion in subject with the Lament for Adonis.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Fear of the mob is a
superstitious
fear.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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And consequently also in Pessimism, in despising
the existence
cognisable
by us?
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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These enter the game as soon as the
conception
of unbearable torment is combined with the idea of eternity.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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To renew, one must look to what has gone before; and it was no accident that so many of these men ap- proached the problem historically, in both a
personal
and a broader sense.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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We're the Emperor's winners
Of right royal dinners,
Where cities are served up and flanked by estates,
While we wallow in claret,
Knowing not how to spare it,
Though beer is less likely to muddle our pates--
While
flourish
the trumpets, etc.
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Hugo - Poems |
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O, por plantear las preguntas que tocan a la
explicación
de las espumas como multiplici dades-espacio-vitales, defensivamente creadoras: ¿de qué modo estaban di simulados el clima, el aire y la atmósfera para los individuos y los grupos, antes de que por sus explicaciones atmoterroristas, por una parte, y por sus desarrollos meteorológicos y técnico-climáticos, por otra, se convirtie ran en objetos de preocupación moderna por el medio ambiente?
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Our natural emotions and
impulses are in themselves neither good nor bad; they are the raw
material out of which training makes good or bad character according to
the
direction
it gives to them.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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THE TYRANNY OF RELIGION AND THE REVOLT OF EPICURUS
When human life lay foully on the earth
Before all eyes, 'neath
Superstition
crushed,
Who from the heavenly quarters showed her head
And with appalling aspect lowered on men,
Then did a Greek dare first lift eyes to hers--
First brave her face to face.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The desire of
personal
worthiness, the lo^^e of perfection, materialise in theideaofbeauty.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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I swear itl")-all this, of course, is the object of an inner negation, but also it is not
recognized
by the liar as his intention.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Seen as a whole, Benjamin's studies testity to the vindictive fortune of the
melancholiac
who compiles an archive of evidence for the waywardness of the world.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Scotland at last her dusky coast uprears,
And gives the
Caledonian
wood to view;
Which, through its shadowy groves of ancient oak,
Oft echoes to the champion's sturdy stroke.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Adorned is every window, every door,
With
carpeting
and finest drapery;
But more with ladies fair, and richly drest,
In costly jewels and in gorgeous vest.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Cairbre Riada and his posterity obtained extensive territory Ulster called from them Dalriada, which now forms the northern parts the county Antrim; this Cairbre Riada was celebrated warrior, and, according the Irish historians, and the
venerable
Bede, led his forces into that part North Britain called Albany, now the west Scot land, and settled colony there the territory which now forms Argyleshire, and other adjoining parts Scotland, during the reign Art, monarch Ireland, the early part the third century.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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What is mere contradiction in the latter is
transformative
diffe?
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Education in Hegel |
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Once more the palace set in fair array,
To the base court the females take their way;
There compass'd close between the dome and wall
(Their life's last scene) they
trembling
wait their fall.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But you seem to think that people
sacrifice to us from
ulterior
motives; that they are driving a
bargain with us, _buying_ blessings, as it were: not at all;
it is a disinterested testimony to our superior merit.
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Lucian |
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But in the main matters he was unable to induce the wild hordes whom he led to pursue any fixed
ulterior
aims.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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--of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish;
Of myself for ever
reproaching
myself, (for who more foolish than I, and
who more faithless?
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Whitman |
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Epictetus mentions his master Epaphroditus several times in the Discourses; he allowed his slave to attend the classes of the Stoic philosopher
Musonius
Ru s.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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"They're
dreadfully
fond of beheading people here," thought Alice; "the
great wonder is that there's anyone left alive!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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This is the
beginning
of the policy of subordinating the
9
i See Acts of the Privy Council, ed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Shall now lose hym, shall hym
defende?
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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This day,
retaining
V6 the spot,
To view the bush so richly blown,
With tearful eye 1 tnark'd its lot;
For all its crimson bloom was gone.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Their
respective
wealth, culture,
the part they play in the vital branches
of the country's activity -- all these count
not less than bare numbers.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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about lodging-houses, but it is not done in the
interests
of the lodgers.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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The
unpremeditatedness of song of the German poets who were
unduly influenced by the Volkslied at the beginning of the
nineteenth century led them to write
countless
poems which
were trite and trivial in content, and had little but their facile
tunefulness to recommend them.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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She could renounce neither her husband nor
his offspring in a lawful way, and in spite of the
destruction
of the
marriage lines, and renouncing the name of wife, she was as much Mrs.
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My brother, best beloved, than life more dear,
Tom from my sight,
entombed
in foreign land.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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It is in his consideration of
Shakespeare
as a poet and as a creator of character that Prof.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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One cat,
scrubbed
in the mill's sink, stink of last week's stew.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Still a figure of
transcendent
interest, the most lion-hearted, the lofti- est-souled of Englishmen, the one consummate artist our race has produced.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It happens also that it is the
anniversary
of [181] my naval victory over Antigonus.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Wehave,however,decided that we are like mushrooms : that we were born and now live only for our own pleasure; and it is clear thatit is
asbadforusasit
wouldbebadforthe workman who does not carry out his master's will.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Shakspeare
and his Times.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Returning
homeward
through Holland, he
received the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of
Leyden in 1633, and settled in practice at Halifax, England.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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6669 (#45) ############################################
JOHN RICHARD GREEN
6669
First formed the basis of the whole, and the additions to it are
for the most part formal recognitions of the
judicial
and admin-
istrative changes introduced by Henry the Second.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Marianna, I will have the yellow satin caught up with silver fringe,
It peeps out
delightfully
from under a mantle.
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Amy Lowell |
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"
"F"
The
drawling
tones fell unheeded on old Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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For in
addition
to payoffs to winners, the gamblers must make heavy payouts for judicial fixes and lawyers.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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It is the gene pool of the species as a whole that becomes carved to fit the
environments
that its ancestors have encountered - which is why I said that the species is a statistical averaging device.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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SELF-ABANDONMENT
I sat
drinking
and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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SELF-ABANDONMENT
I sat
drinking
and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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They further
identify
their program with that of the socialists by joining with thetn in their acceptance of monop- oly.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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f the' pa- imprudent carriage of the catholics, and thought
they did affect too much to appear as if they stood
upon the level with all other
subjects
: and he re-
ceived very particular and unquestionable informa-
tion, that some priests had made it an argument to
some whom they endeavoured to make their prose-
EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The sight of a reason, the same sight slighter, the sight of a simpler
negative answer, the same sore sounder, the
intention
to wishing, the
same splendor, the same furniture.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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These
prejudices
are rooted in the idea that
every tramp, IPSO FACTO, is a blackguard.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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A wooden block for hats or wigs;
hence, a
blockish
or stupid head.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" Similarly, Dumouriez's Manifesto to the Belgians, published at the beginning of his invasion, pledged, "We enter to help you plant the tree of liberty, but without involving
ourselves
at all in the constitution that you
wish to adopt.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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O Beauty, out of many a cup
You have made me drunk and wild
Ever since I was a child,
But when have I been sure as now
That no
bitterness
can bend
And no sorrow wholly bow
One who loves you to the end?
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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ˁAbīd bin Al-Abraṣ: "The Cycle of Death: A Muˁallaqa" (From Arabic)
A discussion of this poet, and the nature of the works attributed to him, may be found at this link in the introduction to the
previous
work of his that I translated.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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now let us assume that the beloved one, in the
specific
case of the solitary walker-talker whom we are watching, is her lover.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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His
inspiration
was sincere
and profound, his instinct and taste infallible, his per-
sonality passionate and convincing, while his language
was novel, daring, and polychrome; his facility and
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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In the West, in Spain, France and Lombard Italy, it
remained
in
practical use for long, chiefly as part of the Code issued to the Visigoths
by Alaric II in 506.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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The Abbe sympathised in his
trouble; he had had but a light part of the fifty
thousand
francs lost
at play and of the value of the two brilliants, half given, half
extorted.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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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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Watson holds a
foremost
place.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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No glaring light of bold-fac'd day,
Or other over-radiant ray,
Ransacks this room; but what weak beams
Can make reflected from these gems
And multiply; such is the light,
But ever
doubtful
day or night.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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, 1, "Qualem ministrum
fulminis
alitem," etc.
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Satires |
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Hard upon ether came the origins
Of sun and moon, whose globes revolve in air
Midway between the earth and
mightiest
ether,--
For neither took them, since they weighed too little
To sink and settle, but too much to glide
Along the upmost shores; and yet they are
In such a wise midway between the twain
As ever to whirl their living bodies round,
And ever to dure as parts of the wide Whole;
In the same fashion as certain members may
In us remain at rest, whilst others move.
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Lucretius |
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Grandmother
made some
excuse for not having brought any money, and began to punt.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
Nor victory, nor defeat--no more time's dark events,
Charging like
ceaseless
clouds across the sky.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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