Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The
nightingale
does sit so late.
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Instead of source codes and application programming interfaces, it
publishes
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And let it be remembered too,
that I am now
interpreting
the controverted passages of Mr.
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You spoke of the
baroness!
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Hippocrates
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theNameofNecejfity,becauseitonlyfollowsthe
order and
determination
of the Spirit which governs it.
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While
translators are apt to ignore this matter of character genealogy, it is
ever present to the mind of the Chinese poet or scholar who is familiar
with the
original
forms; indeed, he may be said to find his overtones in
the actual composition of the character he is using.
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Crimson, frosty with dew, the roses bend where
thou afar moving in the
glamorous
sun drinkst in life of earth, of the air, the
tissue
golden about thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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[1]
“Mother
dear, O why is they heart cast down in this exceeding sorrow, and the rose o’ they cheek a-withering away?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open
darkness
which then drew us in,
The dark that swallows all, and nought throws up.
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Amy Lowell |
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It assumes the objective or unconscious nature as
the first, and as therefore to explain how
intelligence
can supervene to
it, or how itself can grow into intelligence.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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" "To think of having such an
attack of
womanish
hysteria, pah!
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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If a man's in love with a young wench, none of the least humors in
this comedy, they are wholly
addicted
to fools and are afraid of a wise
man and fly him as they would a scorpion.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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"--
"I tried to paint out here a natural face;
For nature
includes
Raffael, as we know,
Not Raffael nature.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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%"# *"# %:
:*a3
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Now is the high-tide of the year,
And whatever of life hath ebbed away
Comes flooding back, with a ripply cheer,
Into every bare inlet and creek and bay; 60
Now the heart is so full that a drop
overfills
it,
We are happy now because God so wills it;
No matter how barren the past may have been,
'Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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And, just as she was _on awaking_ from her sleep,
[790] clothed in a loose tunic, with bare feet, and having her yellow
hair loose, she was
exclaiming
to the deaf waves that Theseus was cruel,
while the piteous shower of tears was moistening her tender cheeks.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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He had
beensent
on several embassies
to foreign powers, had given promise of the wisdom of his future career,
and no one could so well inform the society at the Morosini of the
state of affairs at the Court of Rome as Donato, who had resided
there officially.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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At all ages
slightly
more girls than boys expressed the fear.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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I come to thee a more
constant
lover;
damsel of Gnossus, lay aside thy fear, the wife of Bacchus shalt thou
be.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Sestina for Ysolt
comes upon me will to speak in praise Of things most fragile in their
loveliness
;
Because the sky hath wept all this long day
And wrapped men's hearts within its cloak of grey-
ness,
Because they look not down I sing the stars, Because 'tis still mid-March I praise May's flowers.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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The French Bourbons and partial
restoration
of prosper-
ity in the eighteenth century.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Give me warmth of heart, true sincerity, the bond of
sympathy
with love
and joy--
DON JUAN.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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We will tear out the flaming stones, and batter the gateway of brass
And enter, and none sayeth "No" when there enters the strongly
armed guest;
Make clean as a broom cleans, and march on as oxen move over young grass;
Then feast, making
converse
of wars, and of old wounds,
and turn to our rest.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Omer, 'because, sir, the way I look at it is, that
we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill,
whatever
age we are,
on account of time never standing still for a single moment.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Is it my crime _70
That one with white hair, and
imperious
brow,
Who tortured me from my forgotten years,
As parents only dare, should call himself
My father, yet should be!
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Shelley |
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And sight also, my
excellent
friend, if it sees itself must see a
colour, for sight cannot see that which has no colour.
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Alfred Schone, for instance, fixing
his
attention
on just those points which the conventional critic passed
over, decides simply that the _Alcestis_ is a parody, and finds it
very funny.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Hereat, she vanished from Endymion's gaze,
Who brooded o'er the water in amaze:
The dashing fount pour'd on, and where its pool
Lay, half asleep, in grass and rushes cool,
Quick waterflies and gnats were
sporting
still,
And fish were dimpling, as if good nor ill
Had fallen out that hour.
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Keats |
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The training of youth remained in Latium strictly confined to the narrow limits of
domestic
education; in Greece the yearning after a varied yet harmonious training of mind and body created the sciences of Gymnastics and Paideia, which were cherished by the nation and by indi viduals as their highest good.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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of the characteristics of the species; whether the present anthropotechnology portends an explicit future determination of traits; whether human beings as a species can transform birth fatalities into optimal births and prenatal selection(12)öthese are
questions
with which the evolutionary horizon, as always vague and risky, begins to glimmer.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Desine de quoquam
quidquam
bene velle mereri,
Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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;
It is
a
it
it
a is
4o
SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS BOOK 1
more nearly related to the
Sabellians
than to the Latins.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A successful young poet, teaching at the
University
of Minnesota, but in desperate emotional and creative straits, Wright devoured it and replied at once.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Who
Melanion
was is
unknown.
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Aristophanes |
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On the
bleakness
of my lot
Bloom I strove to raise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[_He breaks into
inarticulate
weeping_
CHORUS.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The historian Lelewel says: "From the be-
ginning of the reign of John Casimir and the
wars of the
Cossacks
to the end of the Swedish
wars and the Dumb Diet, i.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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8 The Lord hath cast a line, so to confound
And levell _Sions_ walls unto the ground;
He drawes not back his hand, which doth oreturne
The wall, and Rampart, which
together
mourne.
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Donne - 1 |
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I know of nothing more stinging
than the joke
Epicurus
took the liberty of making on Plato and the
Platonists; he called them Dionysiokolakes.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Some that Kirk caused to be hanged, he caused also their Bodies to be stript, and their Breasts to be cleav'd asunder ; in the Place where he caused the Executions to be done, you might have gone up to the Ankles in Blood; he also caused the Hearts of the poor
Executed
Men to be thrown into the Fire with a great Shout, saying, Here is the Heart of a Traitor.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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"I" indicates Judith, who killed Holofernes (Judith 13); likewise, Mary through the merit of her humble
virginity
killed Lucifer, prince of demons, by crushing his power.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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She later
associated
herself more with New York
City.
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Sara Teasdale |
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_Si spiritus potestatem
habentis
ascenderit super te_, _locum tuum ne
demiseris_; _quia curatio faciet cessare peccata maxima_.
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Bacon |
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Though according to my estimate the
soldiers
of Yu?
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The-Art-of-War |
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The way people write their letters
nowadays
is
quite in keeping with the age; their style and
spirit will always be the true "sign of the times.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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)--And
Plutarch
says, in his _Life of
Numa_, XX.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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It is better simply to observe along with Schipper and La- gerwey that even a work like the Daode jing, which seems at first glance to give support to the notion of Daoism's, if not Confucianism's, special mystical
122 recent scholarship and teaching the daode jing
antipathy to ritual,
actually
suggests something much more interestingly pragmatic and corporally behavioral about practicing the Dao.
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" repeated he, while his eyes still
Relented
not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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Keats - Lamia |
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The dim feeling that this kind of out-of-pocket tax is now paid by corporations is part of what makes the average man feel fairly
complacent
about the tax situation.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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_I
whispered
let'us go.
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Donne - 2 |
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The
shrivelled
seeds
are spilt on the path--
the grass bends with dust,
the grape slips
under its crackled leaf:
yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
the poplar spreads out,
deep-rooted among trees.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Observe the Language well in all you Write,
And swerve not from it in your
loftiest
flight.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Farewell, thou
generous
heart and true!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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VỜ chống trọn dao dừng qudn,
Bồng tám lũc*p lực, cho bền giúp nhan,
Việc chi bản luẠn
trưórc
sau,
Chẳng nén tự quyết, to ân một minh.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Now, from his lofty poop, he vlew'd below
His camp incompass'd, and th'
inclosing
foe.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The exact manifesting of action is not specific;
whatever happens, you remain continuously
and incontrovertibly with the experience,
using the experience for
spiritual
advancement.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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King; Towards the Holocaust: The Social and Economic
Collapse
of the Weimar Republic by Michael N.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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And over this vast world of power, splendor, science, art, and commerce presided genius worthy of (so at least the Israelite tradition represented him), — "the Head of Gold," "whose
brightness
was excellent" —the Tree whose height reached to heaven, and the sight thereof " to the end of all the earth " — " whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much,
a
it
a
I
is
;
it,
it
it
a
it
BABYLON AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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There is
nothing profound in this very commonplace
philosophy
of despair.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Evidently
this idea of travels in the other world and its infernal categories,
as the Middle Ages
accepted
it, is Celtic.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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" Finally, a committee was
appointed
to wait
on the tea consignees and request them to resign.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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"
A
prolonged
cry of terror was heard
from all parts of Germany.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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His trust was so perfect, that he did not even grieve at having to die for a faithless friend who had left him to the fate to which he had
unwarily
pledged him self.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the diagnostic
information
to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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" I told him his discourse
surprised me, and I would be glad he were in a state of health to be able
to tell me what reason he had to be
convinced
of Mr.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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It was now a thing of ink and paper, and Dosiadas seems to have interpreted the Pipe in the light of the pipes of his own time, as representing the outward
appearance
of an actual pipe.
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Pattern Poems |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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Though thy co-novices are bent to the
scythe
Of the magian wind that is voice of Perse-
phone,
Leaving thee solitary, master of
initiating
Maenads that come through the
Vine-entangled ways of the forest Seeking, out of all the world,
Madness of lacchus,
That being skilled in the secrets of the
double cup
They might turn the dead of the world
Into paeans,
O High Priest of lacchus,
Wreathed with the glory of thy years of
creating
Entangled music, Breathe !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Bohemia and Bavaria were now equally near to the king, and, uncertain
whither his victorious course might be directed, Maximilian could form
no
immediate
resolution.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The Archduke, after reinforcing his army,
which already amounted to 24,000 men, with twelve
Bavarian
regiments of
cavalry, and eighteen regiments of infantry, moved against Wrangel, in
the hope of being able to overwhelm him by his superior force before
Koenigsmark could join him, or the French effect a diversion in his
favour.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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CXV
"The harlot nurse's evil oratory,
The prayer and presence of the suitor lord,
The occasion to acquire that mighty fee,
Which wretched Anselm's absence would afford,
The hope that none would her accuser be,
So
vanquish
her chaste thoughts, she makes the accord --
Accepts the wondrous dog; and, as his pay,
To her leman yields herself a willing prey.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Reeves' Adamnan's
'9* Nowa
hugh, and county of Donegal, between
Ballyshannon
and the town of Donegal.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Witness
that color of her hair, so
resembling
my father, from whence she is
called the golden Venus; and lastly, ever laughing, if you give any
credit to the poets, or their followers the statuaries.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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But he also noticed that
Rechungpa
had become affected by pride.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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A little infant once was He,
And,
strength
in weakness, then was laid
Upon His virgin-mother's knee,
That power to thee might be conveyed.
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William Browne |
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The startled Italians watch, while all
the birds together
clamorously
wheel round from flight, wonderful to
see, and dim the sky with their pinions, and in thickening cloud urge
their foe through air, till, conquered by their attack and his heavy
prey, he yielded and dropped it from his talons into the river, and
winged his way deep into the clouds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The veins on the surface of the brain were
severely
obstructed; all the small blood vessels had clearly burst'' (cited in Martinetz, 1996, page 24).
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And then her wrist she spanned;
And once when Mary was down-cast,
She took her by the hand,
And gazed upon her, and at first
She gently pressed her hand;
Then harder, till her grasp at length
Did gripe like a
convulsion!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But that's enough, or there will be no end to it; each
step will be more
contemptible
than the last.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Sometime
during the second year of therapy the analyst, struck by a series of associ- ations the patient gave, and bearing in mind the
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”) The political double figure of the sovereign and the subject has been in effect ever since absolutism – it lives on in the legal figure of the citizen, where moments of
subjection
and sovereignty are made into a kind of self-subjection.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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But she had another quality that much delighted her, although it may be thought a kind of check upon her bounty; however, it was a pleasure she could not resist: I mean that of making agreeable presents; wherein I never knew her equal, although it be an affair of as
delicate
a nature as most in the course of life.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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So, waiting till the rocks had recoiled, with hard rowing and the help of Hera, they passed through, the
extremity
of the ship's ornamented poop being shorn away right round.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Note the lumpishness of the wording, and the suggestion of the fall and
scattering
of Humpty Dumpty, the Cosmic Egg.
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Thus, then, in this theatre of men and Angels, blessed Job approved himself a mighty wrestler, and how he prevailed against the charges of his adversaries, he shews by his continuance in unabated force; to whom first Eliphaz presents himself, and next Bildad, and finally Zophar puts himself forward in their place in the overthrow of him, and these lift up
themselves
with all their might to deal him blows, yet never reach so far as to strike the height of that well-fenced breast.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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But, from what I recollect of it, congress have even de-
scended from the
authority
which the spirit of that act gives
them; while the particular states have no farther attended
to it, than as it suited their pretensions and convenience.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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And, for the town even now
fearfully
aches
In scalding thirst, not five days had I granted,
Had it not been for somewhat I must say
Secretly to thee.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He entered the marines at a very early age, and obtained a captain's
commission
in 1806.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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The other African
communities
followed
the example of Carthage.
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Tacitus |
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But her charity to the poor was a duty not to be diminished, and therefore became a tax upon those
tradesmen
who furnish the fopperies of other ladies.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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No smother'd spark like mine emits a flame
To catch the public eye, as you can boast--
A leading name in Cupid's
numerous
host!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Her
happiness
on this occasion was
very much _a_ _la_ _mortal_, finely chequered.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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It is said that early
marriages
very generally prevail
through all the ranks of the Chinese.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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