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On the other hand,
metaphorical
concepts can be ex- tended beyond the range of ordinary literal ways of thinking and talking into the range of what is c~lled figurative, po- etic, colorful, or fanciful thought and language.
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"
Forthwith
this frame of mine was wrench'd
With a woeful agony,
Which forc'd me to begin my tale
And then it left me free.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Minister von Puttkamer expressed great surprise when
Treitschke, on being placed next to Stocker, had asked
for an introduction; in Berlin it was
considered
a
matter of course that all anti-Semites should be on
friendly, nay, brotherly, terms.
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233, speak
approvingly
of this view.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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I have cherished in his
presence
a single and upright
heart.
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Although
evacuations also took place in
I- II
1~
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Germany, the flight of urban dwellers from Japanese cities was more concentrated in time and hence more disorganized,
and it included very much larger proportions of workers previously engaged in war industries.
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The writer of the verse himself tells us that it was not f f
known who was the theme of his song, and he speaks J /
of some woman who was going about
boasting
that'/
she was Ovid's Corinna.
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Specifically,
Nietzsche
is undecided about whether or not a finite source of cosmic energy can in an infinite time produce situations that are precisely the same: the return of the "same" is not confidently proclaimed here as a doctrine but debated back and forth as a possibility.
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She was stronger alone, and her own
good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken,
her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as with regrets so
poignant and so fresh, it was
possible
for them to be.
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Of the interminable sisters,
Of the ceaseless cotillons of sisters,
Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
The
beautiful
sister we know dances on with the rest.
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Whitman |
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Dismiss
airy hopes, and
contests
about riches, and Moschus' cause.
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Horace - Works |
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For this enactment
they advance many reasons — lest seduced by long-continued cus-
tom, they may exchange their ardor in the waging of war for
agriculture; lest they may be anxious to acquire
extensive
es-
tates, and the more powerful drive the weaker from their posses-
sions; lest they construct their houses with too great a desire to
avoid cold and heat; lest the desire of wealth spring up, from
which cause divisions and discords arise; and that they may
keep the common people in a contented state of mind, when
each sees his own means placed on an equality with (those of
the most powerful.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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which reduced the number of cases involving the death penalty),
though continuing at a certain level since 1861, sentences of
penal
servitude
and solitary confinement show a continued
increase from the second period, and especially since 1851.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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The greatest successes of the science of
international
law
have been won in a field which those who are fools look
upon as barbarous--I mean the domain of the laws of war.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Now looking backwards to the fleet and coast,
Anxious he sorrows for the
endangered
host.
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
people now understood for the first time that the
long-felt power of greater individualities and wills
was larger than the pitifully small will of an in-
dividual man; * they now saw that everything truly
great in the kingdom of the will could not have
its deepest root in the inefficacious and ephemeral
individual will; and, finally, they now discovered
the powerful instincts of the masses, and diagnosed
those unconscious impulses to be the foundations
and supports of the so-called
universal
history.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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For as our
different
ages move,
'Tis so ordained, (would Fate but mend it!
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Kiều từ trở gót
trướng
hoa,
Mặt trời gác núi chiêng đà thu không.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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While learned men are waxing hot
over
conjectures
the answers to which seem bey ond the search-light
of exact investigation, the unsophisticated reader holds fast by the
testimony of the knight himself as to his own identity, accepting it
along with the marvels narrated in the book:-
« 1 John Maundevile, Knight, all be it I be not worthy, that was born in
England, in the town of St.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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For now the nymph
delights
no more
In what she loved so much before;
And all Catullus now can do,
Is to be proud and frigid too;
Nor follow where the wanton flies, Nor sue the bliss that she denies.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Than young Hope in his
sunniest
hour hath known.
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They were all in high spirits and
good humour, eager to be happy, and determined to submit to the
greatest inconveniences and
hardships
rather than be otherwise.
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159,276) gives "special dhamma" and "further-dhamma" as
translations
for abhidhamma.
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"Then hand to hand, then foot to foot,
Stern to the death-grip
grappling
then,
Who ever thought of gunpowder
Amongst these men of men?
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she,
You plainly in her face may read it,
Could lend out of that moment's store
Five years of
happiness
or more,
To any that might need it.
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)
Followed
by Pro se Defensio, 1655, and a
Supplementum.
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can one be safe, where a man is allowed to say
whatever
he
chooses in the pulpit?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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The principle
underlying
the organization of the prototype is called by Mooney and Reiley,^^ the "scalar principle.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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”
62
Says Wolf again: “In the end, only those few
ought to attain really complete knowledge who are
born with
artistic
talent and furnished with scholar-
ship, and who make use of the best opportunities
of securing, both theoretically and practically, the
necessary technical knowledge.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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And in the searchings or deliberations of the soul, not the quietest,
as I imagine, and he who with
difficulty
deliberates and discovers,
is thought worthy of praise, but he who does so most easily and quickly?
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The original
justifications
for the invasion of Iraq involved claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
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“sacred
dust” : the dust of the race-course at Olympia (Pisa).
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Moschus |
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The Lord of the Flies is expanding his Reich;
All treasures, all blessings are
swelling
his might .
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This new, modern translation conveys the verve and flow of his narrative while, for the first time,
identifying
within the text all the quotations and sources of Chateaubriand references.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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"Works and Days":--
S
Oxyrhynchus
Papyri 1090.
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—x As all
vestiges
of St.
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But the altar-tomb of Hoplosmia shall save him from doom, when already
prepared
for slaughter.
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Rama then points out the spots in
Southern
India where he and Sita had
dwelt in exile, and the pious hermitages which they had visited;
later, the holy spot where the Jumna River joins the Ganges; finally,
their distant home, unseen for fourteen years, and the well-known
river, from which spray-laden breezes come to them like cool,
welcoming hands.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Our
public schools—established, it would seem, for
this high
object—have
either become the nurseries
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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For the Facts Registred are alwaies more ancient than such Books
as make mention of, and quote the Register; as these Books doe in divers
places,
referring
the Reader to the Chronicles of the Kings of Juda,
to the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, to the Books of the Prophet
Samuel, or the Prophet Nathan, of the Prophet Ahijah; to the Vision of
Jehdo, to the Books of the Prophet Serveiah, and of the Prophet Addo.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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[Illustration]
The
Nutritious
Newt,
who purchased a Round Plum-pudding
for his grand-daughter.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Before you accuse my judgement further
Consult your heart:
Rodrigue
is its master.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She wanted to know who all gave us permission to go to court—she
didn’t
see us but it was all over town this morning that we were in the Colored balcony.
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- See A View of the Relative State of Great Britain and
France at the
Commencement
of the Year 1796.
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Edmund Burke |
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This collection has a large
proportion
of the tales widely known
among all the Slavs, such as "The three golden hairs," "Long, Round
and Sharp.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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But
it is
certainly
a pity that they lack the historiccf
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pacifico en Jerusalen, ya depuestas las armas,
que tanto assombro havian dado al Asia, y con
que llegaron sus vanderas y
pavellones
a formar
selvas en las orillas del Euphrates.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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It is difficult, however, to
conceive
that the population of England
has been declining since the Revolution, though every testimony concurs
to prove that its increase, if it has increased, has been very slow.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Now there is a great
difference
between that which we are advised to do and that to which we are obliged.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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The croft was lighted by a
circular
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"But we are apart in the grassy places,
"Where care cannot trouble the least of our days,
"Or the
softness
of youth be gone from our faces,
"Or love's first tenderness die in our gaze.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Against The Duty Of A
Soveraign
To Relinquish Any Essentiall Right
of Soveraignty Or Not To See The People Taught The Grounds Of Them
And because, if the essentiall Rights of Soveraignty (specified before
in the eighteenth Chapter) be taken away, the Common-wealth is thereby
dissolved, and every man returneth into the condition, and calamity of a
warre with every other man, (which is the greatest evill that can happen
in this life;) it is the Office of the Soveraign, to maintain those
Rights entire; and consequently against his duty, First, to transferre
to another, or to lay from himselfe any of them.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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And though I must give my breath
And my laughter all to death,
And my eyes through which joy came,
And my heart, a wavering flame;
If all must leave me and go back
Along a blind and fearful track
So that you can make anew,
Fusing with
intenser
fire,
Something nearer your desire;
If my soul must go alone
Through a cold infinity,
Or even if it vanish, too,
Beauty, I have worshipped you.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Every book alluding
to negro
servants
in America is full of instances.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Mary Wordsworth, by
Margaret
Gillies.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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At that instant a new human genome is determined, and we have an entity
destined
to develop into a unique individual.
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Knowing the
Oriental
31
II.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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So, Lord, have mercy on Thy
desperate
servant.
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Since which, we have
miffed no
opportunity
of venting our spleen against him.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Ses amis, ses vrais amis, Alfred de
Vigny et Sainte-Beuve, lui
conseillerent
de se desister, ce qu'il fit
d'ailleurs en des termes dont on apprecia la modestie et la convenance.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Iamapoetanduponmytomb
Shall maidens scatter rose leaves
And men myrtles, ere the night Slays day with her dark sword.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The essays are finely written, full of subtle analy-
sis and
truthful
illustration.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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No text is conceivable without grammar and no grammar (thus no
machine)
is conceivable without the "sus- pension of referential meaning.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Another
policeman
was also
hit in the arm and tried to find cover behind the engine
mount, searching for his weapon in panic.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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10 Ritual and music,
sometimes
particularly involving ceremonial robes.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The fires of death and old age are compared to the fires at of the end of time (hell fire) and
ordinary
fire respectively.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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We live, rather, in a world of
multiple
childhoods and multiple ways in which
these can be studied, to the credit of all parties.
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Childens - Folklore |
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As a result it is not always realized that in many species a new distal clue to
potential
danger can be learnt as readily by watching how companions respond to it, and then copying them, as by its becoming associated with pain.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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She flies
On wearied wing ; in vain -- the abandoned one
Becomes in turn a prey -- I'll weep alone,
Weep
bitterest
tears.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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"
"I must reveal the secret,"
answered
Hester, firmly.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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cian Maenads, were borne to Lesbos, and there The age at which Terpander flourished is genc-
received with religious honours, was doubtless an rally considered one of the best ascertained dites
allegory, signifying the trans'erence of the art of of that remote period of chronology ; although the
music to that island from Pieria, which the ancients still more
important
question of his relation, in
afterwards confounded with Thrace; a transference point of time, to the other early musicians, Olym-
which is confirmed by the undoubted tradition, pus and Clonas, and to the earliest iambic and
thut Lesbos was colonised by the Aeolians of Boco elegiac poets, Archilochus and Cullinus, and the
tia, who were of the same race as the Pieriang, lyric poets Tyrtaeus and Alcman, is allowed to
and who had among them one of the carliest sents present very great difficulties.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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He endured the
ecclesiastical
authority
of the Jewish Church, and would not repel its
violence by any violence of his own.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Even as far back as
the seventeenth century, Lord
Rochester
is reported by Dryden as
having said of him very pertinently, if somewhat profanely, that
"Not being of God, he could not stand.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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And he wrote dialogues, of which we have genuine copies ; by name- Zopyrus, Simon, and Nicias (but the
genuineness
of this one is disputed); Medius, which some people attribute to Aeschines, and others to Polyaenus; Antimachus, or the Elders (this too is a disputed one); the Scythian discourses, and these, too, some attribute to Aeschines.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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But
exposed to the annoyances of the Harpyes, who this success having induced Hicetas to engage
were sent to him by the gods for his cruelty towards with a more
formidable
enemy, the Carthaginians,
his sons by the first marriage.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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This has
happened
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*3 Such is a
synopsis
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June 4.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Rilke, too, describes the time of day in which
contours
are re-drawn in fading light, but in this instance, something appears to resist the philosopher 's hammer: the heart or will of a city determined to assert itself ("Venedig will geglaubt werden").
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Therefore in the thirteenth century, when
the country was distracted by dynastic quarrels within
and terrorized by Tatar
incursions
without, and the
demand for spiritual reinforcement rose to its height,
the Church perceived and seized its opportunity ; steps
were taken in high ecclesiastical quarters to interpolate
more popular episodes in the order of the liturgy, and,
to the delight of the people, the arid latinity of the Mass
became interspersed with refreshing hymns, psalms,
prayers, and sermons in the vernacular.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Therefore in the thirteenth century, when
the country was distracted by dynastic quarrels within
and terrorized by Tatar
incursions
without, and the
demand for spiritual reinforcement rose to its height,
the Church perceived and seized its opportunity ; steps
were taken in high ecclesiastical quarters to interpolate
more popular episodes in the order of the liturgy, and,
to the delight of the people, the arid latinity of the Mass
became interspersed with refreshing hymns, psalms,
prayers, and sermons in the vernacular.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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In that cave beakers of stone
And jars are seen; bees lodge their honey there;
And there, on slender
spindles
of the rock
The nymphs of rivers weave their wond'rous robes.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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And this you all shall
straightway
see
In speech and act conveniently.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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I find Thy
staunch
sagacity
still tracks the future, In the fresh print of
the o'ertaken past.
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At the same time she drew herself up,
throwing
away her
bundle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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—
Again returned the scenes of youth,
Of confident
undoubting
truth;
Again his soul he interchanged
With friends whose hearts were long estranged.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Nobby sauntered
by, bare to the waist-his shirt was drying- with a copy of a Sunday newspaper
that he had succeeded in borrowing It was Pippin's Weekly , the dirtiest of the
five dirty Sunday newspapers He dropped it m Dorothy’s lap as he passed
‘Have a read of that, kid,’ he said generously
Dorothy took Pippin's Weekly and laid it across her knees, feeling herself far
too sleepy to read A huge headline stared her in the face* ‘passion drama in
country rectory’ And then there were some more headlines, and something
m leaded type, and an mset photograph of a girl’s face For the space of five
seconds or thereabouts Dorothy was actually gazing at a blackish, smudgy, but
quite
recognizable
portrait of herself.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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”
Lala
Hardayal
was a great philosopher and a powerful orator.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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As
groom of his majesty's bedchamber, Killigrew remained a privi-
leged servant in the royal
household
and was reputed, from his
ready colloquial wit, the king's jester.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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There is a tomb in Arqua;--reared in air,
Pillared
in their sarcophagus, repose
The bones of Laura's lover: here repair
Many familiar with his well-sung woes,
The pilgrims of his genius.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And Lycon, the demagogue, prepared
everything
necessary to support the impeachment; but Antisthenes in his Successions of the Philosophers, and Plato in his Apology, say that these men brought the accusation: Anytus, and Lycon, and Melitus; Anytus, acting against him on behalf of the magistrates, and because of his political principles; Lycon, on behalf of the orators; and Melitus on behalf of the poets, all of whom Socrates used to pull to pieces.
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Since the vital epic purpose--the
kind of epic purpose which answers to the spirit of the time--is
evidently looking for some new form to inhabit, it is not surprising,
then, that it should have occasionally tried on
dramatic
form.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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`That Grekes wolde hir
wraththe
on Troye wreke, 960
If that they mighte, I knowe it wel, y-wis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A group of metropolitans and priests gave
evidence
that Bohemond, Tancred's uncle, who had been planning to return to Europe, told Tancred to restore the city to the Count on his release from prison.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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