The poem that began by
describing
tribal lands depopulated and buddilat ahluhā wuḥūšan "their people replaced with beastly ones", ends with a simile of the strong preying upon the weak, in a circle of death (or "circle of life" for those at the top of the food chain like the eagle, or the monarchic predators we're supposed to root for in The Lion King.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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CHI E QUESTA CHE VIEN, CH'OGNI UOM LA MIRA
WHO is she coming, drawing all men's gaze, Who makes the air one trembling clarity
Till none can speak but each sighs
piteously
Where she leads Love adown her trodden ways ?
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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A god who sacrifices himself would be the most
powerful and most
effective
symbol of this sort of greatness.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Immediately after the completion of the above-
named work, and without letting even one day go
by, I tackled the
formidable
task of the Transvalua-
tion with a supreme feeling of pride which nothing
could equal; and, certain at each moment of my
immortality, I cut sign after sign upon tablets of
brass with the sureness of Fate.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Magnes of Athens won 11
victories
at Athens.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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» Je comprenais maintenant les
veufs qu'on croit
consolés
et qui prouvent au contraire qu'ils sont
inconsolables, parce qu'ils se remarient avec leur belle-sœur.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Ben sapea che tornato era alla fede;
che tosto che i guerrier furo all'asciutto,
certificato
avean Carlo del tutto.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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1180-1210)
Sols sui qui sai lo
sobrafan
que?
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Troubador Verse |
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And the
mannormillor
clipperclappers [.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Which passage is, in my opinion, a notable allusion to the Scriptures; and, making (but reasonable) allowances for the small circumstances of profaneness,
bordering
close upon blasphemy, is inimitably fine; besides some useful discoveries made in it, as, that there are bishops in poetry, that these bishops must ordain young poets, and with laying on hands; and that poetry is a cure of souls; and, consequently speaking, those who have such cures ought to be poets, and too often are so.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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One even now comes conquering
Towards this house, sent by a
southland
king
To fetch him four wild coursers, of the race
Which rend men's bodies in the winds of Thrace.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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25, 4] Whence it is said by the voice of the Saints, Our glory is this, the
testimony
of our conscience.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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In the vast enterprise of war "we have found no obvious use for the liberally educated except in the
services
of public information and propaganda.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I do not mean any
compliment to my ingenuousness, or to hint that the defect is in
consequence of the unsuspicious simplicity of conscious truth or
honour: I take it to be, in some, why or other, an imperfection in the
mental sight; or, metaphor apart, some
modification
of dulness.
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Robert Burns |
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"]
["
if a
is
;
if
is
is is it
a ;
;
if is
a
a
if
a
;
:
a
;
a
a
;
is ; a ;
a if
:
it
is a a
if,
OBSERVATIONS
OF HESIOD.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Oasis of dream, the gourd where I'm drinking,
of you, long
draughts
of the wine of memory?
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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We may, moreover, on account of the
thoroughness
of the earlier cultivation obtain a.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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We may, moreover, on account of the
thoroughness
of the earlier cultivation obtain a.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Let him speak 19, then, and let us hear the
parables
and propositions.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Such is our counsel now, but if any of you can devise a better plan let her rise, for it was on this account that I
summoned
you hither.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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1:14 And if the burnt
sacrifice
for his offering to the LORD be of
fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young
pigeons.
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bible-kjv |
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"
CHAPTER XXIV
CONCLUSION
It sometimes happens that we are
punished
for our faults by incidents,
in the causation of which these faults had no share: and this I have
always felt the severest punishment.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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After the death of his
father, he
succeeds
to the throne of the Scyldings, 53.
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Beowulf |
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Exotic Perfume
When, in Autumn, on a sultry evening,
eyes closed, I breathe your warm breasts' odour,
I see the shore of bliss uncovered,
in the monotonous sun's fierce gleaming:
a languorous island where Nature has come,
bringing rare trees and
luscious
fruits:
the bodies of lean and vigorous brutes,
and women with eyes of astounding freedom.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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_Spear Thistle_
Where the broad
sheepwalk
bare and brown
[Yields] scant grass pining after showers,
And winds go fanning up and down
The little strawy bents and nodding flowers,
There the huge thistle, spurred with many thorns,
The suncrackt upland's russet swells adorns.
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John Clare |
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Even in
Germany he has not yet been given his
definite
place in the
order of its poets.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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All other
Particulars, which you yourfelves have feen, their Buildings,
their Importation of Timber and Corn from Macedonia, I fhall
pafs over in Silence, and only mention their
Pofleffions
and
numerous Eftates in the Territories of your ruined Confederates,
which annually produce a Talent to Philocrates, and to JECt
chines thirty Min^e.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Thorold Rogers, Oxford, 1881,
illustrative
of matters concerning
church and state.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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51
Hephaestus
fell on Lemnos and was lamed of his legs,52 but Thetis saved him.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Obiit autem
Mussatus
a.
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Latin - Catullus |
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n de la
diferencia
y hace de la fijacio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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What mystery
pervades
a well!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Reflective
and thoughtful, he
was an optimist and idealist, who believed in the regene-
ration of mankind and the salvation of the world.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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The poem on the Remis-
sion of the
Boromean
tribute, containing fifty-two stanzas, though bearing his name, is hardly compatible with his religious character.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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In both cases, the truth is speaking as a truth from below, not as an idea in search of a body, but as an intelligent body that, out of respect, accelerates itself in the course of its
composition
of self toward language, toward the intellect, and toward justice in a manner that is strin- gently perspectival, "constructive," and How- ever, the notion that knowledge does not fall from ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Not upon
dungeons!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Aeschylus |
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There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
1910
GREEN arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed
strawberries
!
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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These questions, on the solution of which depended the certainty of my
conclusions, offered no lengthy
resistance
to analysis.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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One needs truth-telling such that one is one's own interlocutor: pride and
flattery
are possible even with one's self.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Refuting
the rejoinder]
L3: [II.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Because Catholicism, at least in its Roman form, is in the last instance still more an empire—or, more specifically, a copy of an empire—than it is a church, the embarrassment of religious speech retreats into the
background
during its main events and completely cedes the floor to the pompous apparatus.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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A single poem of
66 verses (in, 8) remains at practically the same average as
the
Sulpicia
elegies, namely, 47.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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A fainter Yes
responded
to his passionate repetition.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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"—BishopForbes' " Kalendars of
Scottish
Saints," p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Sweeney Erect
And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with
continual
surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
And we walked on, till in a quiet cover we saw a man scooping up
the foam and putting it into an
alabaster
bowl.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Such considerations are multiplied in the whole development of the
Cartesian
school.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Dependent
parties have some effect on independent ones, but the latter have more effect on the former.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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15
Unrelated
people who want to share like a family create mythologies about a common flesh and blood, a shared ancestry, and a mystical bond to a territory (tellingly called a natal land, fatherland, motherland, or mother country).
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Thus Weisse interprets the stories ot miracles purely as religious allegories, involuntarily invented by the imagination of the
primitive
community, which did not
distinguish between the poetic form and the ideal content.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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"
None there are, we trust but will rejoice, when at the conclusion, they
find--
"How Fate to Virtue paid her debt,
And for their troubles, bade them prove
A
lengthened
life of peace and love.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Pray, doth she feed on dewdrops like the
cricket?
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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From this saint, it is probable, that Killenaule,3
situated
in
the county of Tipperary, took its name.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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They always do with any poet
worthy of the name, though few have been so frank in
acknowledging
this
as Baudelaire.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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III
ISAT on the Dogana's steps
For the gondolas cost too much, that year,
And there were not" those girls ", there was one face, And the
Buccentoro
twenty Y'lrds off, howhng .
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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An aide-de-camp had just entered the room, - it was he who had
-
failed to close the door behind him,- and Delaherche heard the
Emperor ask him in a sorrowfully reproachful voice:-
«What is the reason of this
continued
firing, sir, after I gave
orders to hoist the white flag ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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So, Lord, have mercy on Thy
desperate
servant.
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Translated Poetry |
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389-394 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American
Historical
Association Stable URL: http://www.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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There's no
particular
haste.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Does my little Nora
acknowledge
that at last?
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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" Hence, also, the mistrust he
displayed
toward anyone who might have dared to tap the author approvingly on the shoulder.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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* "#"*6" +
+#
!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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,
following
the custom of the Pharaohs, adopted on his accession
to the throne.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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But if
he could be himself persuaded to quit that which
every body knew he was weary of, it would prevent
all
inconveniences
: and they had been told that the
chancellor only had dissuaded him from doing it,
which he would not presume to do, if he were clearly
told that the king desired that he should give it up.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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revives the
harshest
forms of that law.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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She had no demands on her father or sister, and
her consequence was just enough
increased
by their handsome
drawing-rooms.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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So Antoninus Pius,
Faustina
his wife; then
Antoninus himself.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Inevitably, the word made its appearance closer to home, sometimes with the saving grace of humor (New Yorker cartoons of children "brainwashing" parents, and wives "brainwashing" husbands), but on other occasions with a more vindictive tone--as when Southern segregationists accused all who favor racial
equality
(including the United States Supreme Court) of having been influenced by "left-wing brainwashing"; or equally
3
?
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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The continued threat would depend on their not being
destroyed
yet.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Paris:
Ancienne
Maison, Michel Levy Freres, 1896.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Turtle-doves and pigeons that are blinded by
fanciers
for use as decoys, live for eight years.
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| Source: |
Aristotle copy |
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2 Praise the Lord with
harp: sing unto Him with the
psaltery
and an
instrument of ten strings.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Melissa from his
namesake
this withdrew,
Its pole of ivory and its cord of gold,
And all its cloth with beauteous figures fraught;
Fairer Apelles' pencil never wrought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Later he was turned mad by a love potion, but in the
intervals
in between the madness he composed some books, which Cicero afterwards edited.
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Roman Translations |
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Lewis Carroll |
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And in the copies which she sent to friends,
sometimes
one
form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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MF; And link up again finally with this
tradition
of an atrocious representation of the peasant world, as in Balzac and Zola.
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Foucault-Live |
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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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Anthia
II-III
Centuries
Heliodorus of Emesa Aethiopica, Theagenes and
A.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Being pretty well aware of what
sort of joy you must both be feeling, I have been in no hurry with my
congratulations; but I hope it all went off
tolerably
well.
| Guess: |
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Austen - Emma |
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And I have heard some of them compelled to speak, out
of necessity, that have so infinitely exceeded themselves, as it was
better both for them and their
auditory
that they were so surprised, not
prepared.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I went
into my garden and quickly pulled all the weeds out of the
flower-beds, and threw them high up over my head away into
the
glistening
air, as if I drew out with the roots every bit of
evil and melancholy.
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Wherefore, too, men say that at the rising of the
Scorpion
in the East Orion flees at the Western verge.
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Now he would be wondering
whether the Christianity of the future would consist of mysticism
and charity, and possibly the Eucharist in its
primitive
form as
the outward bond’; now he would look longingly back to the
church of his baptism; and yet again give a last loyalty to the
church of his adoption.
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To
those who knew her in England, all the life of the tiny figure
seemed to
concentrate
itself in the eyes; they turned towards
beauty as the sunflower turns towards the sun, opening wider and
wider until one saw nothing but the eyes.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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She was, indeed, con-
temporaneous
with St.
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At the very start of their account of history, [the Hebrews] tell the ancient story of the fall of the human race from their
blissful
state, and the first patriarch Adam, who was the forefather of the whole human race (Adam in the Hebrew language means all men in general).
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The course of true love never did run smooth--
A
Hartfield
edition of Shakespeare would have a long note on that
passage.
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Austen - Emma |
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For Example, Tho it do not so easily
appear, that in a Rightangled Triangle, the square of the Base is equal
to the squares of the sides, as it appears, that the Base is suspended
under its Largest Angle, yet the _first Proposition_ is _no less
certainly_
believed
when once ’tis perceived, then this _Last_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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'PHASELLUS ILLE"
papier-mache, which you see, THISmy friends,
Saith 'twas the
worthiest
of editors.
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For they are
observed
to run away from any loud noise, such as would be made by the rowing of a galley, so as to become easy of capture in their holes; for, by the way, though a sound be very slight in the open air, it has a loud and alarming resonance to creatures that hear under water.
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The swarms that hum about her collar-bones
As the lascivious streams caress the stones,
Conceal from every scornful jest that flies,
Her gloomy beauty; and her fathomless eyes
Are made of shade and void; with flowery sprays
Her skull is
wreathed
artistically, and sways,
Feeble and weak, on her frail vertebrae.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In his face were written ages
Of patient treachery
And the
knowledge
of his hour.
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