Thomas Mann became aware of the current rel- evance of Old
Testament
subject matter at a notably similar time to the aged Freud, and from the late 1920s on - as he later said in a well- known statement - he had set himself the task of
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gateways
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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In the ad-
justment of my dress, how solicitous she
had always proved herself; and would
hasten to
complete
her own to assist in
mine; howunretorting at my petulance;
how consoling when any disappointment
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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His
tolerance
was
shown by his acceptance of Christopher
Radziwill's dedication of the Bible, already
mentioned.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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In regular verses, it
includes
only one syl-
lable, as
Ye nymphs of Solyma, begin the song!
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Even the
tractor and
thresher
are the smallest types of these
machines.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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I knew perfectly who I was and what I was, and remembered
all the events of the
previous
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
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How many men
of talent"--thus these arguers proceed--"have been turned aside from
all effort by the seductive power of the beautiful, or have been led
away from all serious
exercise
of their activity, or have been
induced to use it very feebly?
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Unfortunately
the systems staff will not be available until Monday, to apply fixes.
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" Thus, there is a great body of
material which, if not originally of the folk, is certainly passed on in the same
manner as any other traditional materials and which does, shortly, become
intertwined (as in the
parodying
of "Mary Had A Little Lamb") with mate-
rials (in this case, the parody) that are generated within and transmitted from
older to younger members of the folk group-children.
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The consequence was that the final stage of fumigation
normally
consisted simply in ventilationo?
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Approve the
foregoing
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After
standing
over us for a
couple of minutes Apollon went away, but that did not make me more at
ease.
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Projects
were already formed for a new senate-house, for a new magnifi cent bazaar, for a theatre to rival that of Pompeius, for a
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public Latin and Greek library after the model of that recently destroyed at Alexandria —the first institution of the sort in Rome — lastly for a temple of Mars, which was to surpass all that had hitherto existed in riches and glory.
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We already have recorded in the past one victory of the
good power of life the personal
resurrection
of One, and we are looking forward to future victories of the congregate resurrection of all.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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285
Doth not a Tenarif, or higher Hill
Rise so high like a Rocke, that one might thinke
The floating Moone would
shipwracke
there, and sinke?
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Donne - 1 |
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Hairs after being cut grow at the bottom but not at the top; if
feathers
be cut off, they grow neither at top nor bottom, but shed and fall out.
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In his younger
days he had dreamed a dream of souls who feel
their power, but after the
collapse
of the last Polish
insurrection, in which he took part, a deep change
came to the poet's mind.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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But such
delights
could only envy move
Ev'n in the Gods, who have, of all the Greeks,
Amerc'd _him_ only of his wish'd return.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Our teachers teach that one and one make two:
Later, Love rules that one and one make one:
Abstruse the
problems!
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I had been led in 1811 to look into
loads of books and
pamphlets
on many branches of economy; and, at my
desire, M.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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The theory of parent-offspring conflict says that
families
do not contain all-powerful, all-knowing parents and their passive, grateful children.
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—
Zarathustra
allows himself to be deceived, xi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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But, being defiled, he is not capable of this
distinct
knowledge; how then can he, after a defiled absorption, produce a pure absorption?
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Though he put on a mask of fatherly love towards Clearchus, he killed the matricides, first
Clearchus
and then Oxathres, making them pay the penalty for the murder of their mother.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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The
reaction
of paltry people :-Love provides
the feeling of highest power.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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If
accusation
only can draw blood,
None shall be guiltless, be he ne'er so good.
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_
There is a great
Difference
between _Imagination_ (that is) having
an _Idea_ of a Thing, and the _Conception of the Mind_ (that is) a
_Concluding_ from _Reasoning_ that a thing _Is_ or _Exists_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Thou has indeed humoured thy friend and comrade, and paid the debt as well of
friendship
as of comradeship; but by a greater debt thou hast bound thyself to us, whom it behoves thee to call not friends but dearest friends, not comrades but daughters, or by a sweeter and a holier name, if any can be conceived.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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rnender Magier,
Dem unter
schwarzem
Mantel der blaue Panzer des Kriegers klirrt.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Heart that was big as the bowels of Vesuvius,
Words that were wing'd as her sparks in eruption, Eagled and
thundered
as Jupiter Pluvius,
Sound in your wind past all signs o' corruption.
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He must have been fairly
well known at this time ; for, according to a letter of Sir Nicholas
Vaux to Wolsey, dated 10 April 1520, he is to be asked, 'to devise
histoires and convenient raisons to florisshe the
buildings
and
banquet house withal at the meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I,
known as the field of the Cloth of Gold.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Just as we were sitting down and beginning to converse upon the
various events which had taken place, Thersander,
accompanied
by
several witnesses, arrived in a great bustle, and addressing himself
to the priest in a loud voice said, "I warn you, in the presence of
these witnesses, that you have acted illegally in setting at liberty
a prisoner condemned to death; besides which, what right have you to
detain my slave, a lewd woman, who is insatiable in her appetite for
men?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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{BOOK_2|CHAPTER_2 ^paragraph 35}
Now, this endless
progress
is only possible on the supposition of an
endless duration of the existence and personality of the same rational
being (which is called the immortality of the soul).
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about
donations
to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Thislinksspace
andidentitynotbypossession,butbyanequivalenceofbeing,byidentity: theemptiness is where the wine is at another time.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Colonel Thompson tried all sorts
of indirect
approaches
with the aim of reaching Wilson,
but did not succeed.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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' He pointed
out what a mistake ' Goschen had made ' in daring to go
on a mission to the Near East without
travelling
via Berlin
and seeking wisdom at Friedrichsruhe.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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379
draient y retrouver les impressions que produisent les sce`nes dra-
matiques : il en est de me^me en musique quand on la sent fai-
blement, on exige qu'elle se
conforme
avec fide?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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in Binder, Aufichliisse: Studien zur
deutschen
Literatur (Zurich, 1976), pp.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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_ by leaving out of view the
characteristics which are
peculiar
to some of the group and retaining
only those which are common to all.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Thus continued food was supplied to fanaticism,
and the hatred of two churches, that were such near neighbours, was
farther
envenomed
by the sting of an impure zeal.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The possibility of
exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting
them an equal right with men to work, payment for work,
rest and leisure, social
insurance
and education, by state
protection of the interests of mother and child, by state
aid to mothers of large families and unmarried mothers,
prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the
provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nur-
series and kindergartens.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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s strategy is a best
response
to Ai?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Turkish rule
in Turkey can be assured only by autoc-
racy, and rather a
mediaeval
autocracy.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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IMPATIENCE
I'D CARVE it deep in every forest tree,
On every stone I'd grave it lastingly;
In every garden plot the words I'd sow,
With seed that soon my sweet device would show,
That she should see my
faithful
heart's endeavor:
Thine is my heart, and shall be thine forever.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I saw a dead bird
floating
down the current to-day.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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More
varied and
important
reportings ; Sketches by Boz, at first mainly
imitative but, even then, in part, noticeably original, led to the
great chance of Pickwick, which was taken greatly.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Worse still, the ingenious Phillips makes Don Quixote an
occasion for setting forth his
preferences
and his animosities.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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The latter circumstance relates
particularly to the base and inhuman treatment he
received
on his return
to Goa, after his unhappy shipwreck.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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They are intended as collections of
practical rules for the composition of a
pamphlet
or a tragedy, not as a
critical examination of the canons of literary taste.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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6 This and other suits brought by Monnett were
abruptly
quashed as soon as a successor took office in January, 1900, but not before enough information about the secret operations of Standard Oil had been developed to prepare the way for later federal dissolution suits.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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He is a famous fisher; hour by hour
He ruffles with his bill the
minnowed
streams.
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Yeats - Poems |
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1 By the first, the soldiers' pay
goes as
theatrical
expenses to the useless and inac-
tive ; the others screen those from justice who de-
cline the service of the field; and thus damp the
ardour of those disposed to serve us.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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What angel of compassion, hovering near,
Heard, and to heaven my heart grief instant bore,
Whence now I feel descending as of yore
My lady, in that bearing chaste and dear,
My lone and
melancholy
heart to cheer,
So free from pride, of humbleness such store,
In fine, so perfect, though at death's own door,
I live, and life no more is dull and drear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
Under
Augustus
the Third the dissidents
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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IX
But is there hope to save
Even this
ethereal
essence from the grave?
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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"
He has taken the thorns and briars of
scholastic
divinity, and garlanded
them with the flowers of modern literature.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Did the present regime in England WANT the troops to return after
Dunkirk?
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Does a
tiny
particle
of the consecrated bread contain all the body and blood
of Jesus Christ or a part only of the body and blood?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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By contrast Merleau-Ponty holds that our experiences are interconnected and reveal to us real properties of the thing itself, which is much as it appears and not some hidden
substance
that lies beneath our experi- ence of its appearance.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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It finds adherents not the least among
ambitious
people who have a talent for expressing their outrage.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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The small Bishopric of Caorle was vacant, and on the
suggestion
of
some of his friends in the Senate, Fra Paolo applied for it.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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I do
not know the
difference
between .
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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[326]
LEONIDAS
OF ALEXANDRIA { F 5 } G
Nicis the Libyan, son of Lysimachus, dedicates his Cretan quiver and curved bow to you, Artemis ; for he had exhausted the arrows that filled the belly of the quiver by shooting at does and dappled hinds.
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Greek Anthology |
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[768]
_Viridis
panni.
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Satires |
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I was
profoundly
struck by her words at the
time: an irresistible repugnance to marriage was born within my soul.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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; i' ii:g
Eiiiljiii
ii;11i1;i?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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nner 1901
kam er ganz
selbsta?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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389
victory were assured, he kept his original position on the sum mit of the hill, with the view of
catching
the enemy at as great an elevation as possible, that their flight might be all the longer over steep and precipitous ground.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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) English poets, when they make use of end-line sound
correspondences
that fall short of full rhyme, seem to prefer consonance instead of assonance, repeating syllables with the same consonant in the coda (as in spooked/licked) rather than the same vowel in the nucleus (as in sex/best).
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Translated Poetry |
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The flapping of the sail against the mast,
The ripple of the water on the side,
The ripple of girls’
laughter
at the stern,
The only sounds:—when ’gan the West to burn,
And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Still, these are
the gods of myth; the poet tacitly appeals to
a
principle
of justice above them.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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There is not a single
real poet or prose-writer of this century, for instance, on whom the
British public have not solemnly conferred diplomas of immorality, and
these diplomas practically take the place, with us, of what in France,
is the formal recognition of an Academy of Letters, and fortunately make
the establishment of such an institution quite
unnecessary
in England.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought,
To pluck down justice from your awful bench,
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person;
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image,
And mock your
workings
in a second body.
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There were some persons, who are sufficiently known, who were present at, and exprest a great deal of barbarous Joy at his Death : The open Publication of their Names is here spared, in
Hopes they have or will repent of so unmanly and unchristian a Behaviour ; tho' some of them then were so
confounded
with his Constancy and Chearful Bravery, as wickedly to report,
That he was Drunk or Mad when he died.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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The one thing really
reactionary
in the movement he con-
templated was the return to the worship of the old official deities, but
he proposed to attempt this in a way which can only be called revolu-
tionary.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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Nor is it difficult to perceive the tendency of this
_abandon-to elevate _immeasurably all the energies of mind-but, again,
so to mingle the greatest
possible
fire, force, delicacy, and all good
things, with the lowest possible bathos, baldness, and imbecility, as to
render it not a matter of doubt that the average results of mind in
such a school will be found inferior to those results in one _(ceteris
_paribus) more artificial.
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Lichtenberg even said: "There
are enthusiasts quite devoid of ability, and these
are really
dangerous
people.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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220
Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool
His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames
Drivn
backward
slope their pointing spires, & rowld
In billows, leave i'th' midst a horrid Vale.
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O
thousands of others too numerous to speak of, who performed thousands of
exploits for this
ungrateful
one, what would you all think at beholding
her in the arms of the courted boy!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Ques- tions
naturally
arise, whether there be not a'direct repug- nancy between two charters so differently circumstanced; and whether the acceptance of the one, is not to be deem-
ed a virtual surrender of the other 1 But perhaps it is neither adviseable nor necessary, to attempt a solution of them.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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On the coast, aided by the Genoese and
Venetians, he reduced the important ports of Arsūf, Caesarea, Acre,
Sidon, and Beyrout; on the east he carried his arms beyond Jordan,
where in 1116 he built the strong
fortress
of Montreal.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Thus
in his
Obedience
of a Christian Man, Tyndale found cause for
indignation at the methods of the schoolmen in the fact that, "some
will prove a point of the Faith as well out of a fable of Ovid or any
other poet, as out of St.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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As the sweet red rose springs from the briar,
and wheat from a weed, so Do-best is the fruit of Do-well and
Do-better,
especially
among the meek and lowly, to whom God
gives his grace.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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But yet more: he
obtained
an idea of
the loftiness and difficulty of form, and was
prepared for art in the only right way: by
practice.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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It did come, and exactly when it might be
reasonably
looked for.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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A BOOKLET ABOUT
THE STYLE OF LIFE AND THE MANNERS
OF THE IMPERATORES
Abbreviated from the Books of Sextus
Aurelius
Victor
1
In the seven hundred and twenty-second year from the foundation of the city, but the four hundred and eightieth from the expulsion of the kings, the custom was resumed at Rome of absolute obedience to one man, with, instead of rex, the appellation imperator or the more venerable name Augustus.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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"
Loud laugh the rest, e'en Neptune laughs aloud,
Yet sues
importunate
to loose the god.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Blainley
(1988) and Holti (1991) investigate the origins of wars.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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