This noble work, which
may almost claim to be the
greatest
work in Norwegian literature, is
based upon the career of a twelfth-century pretender to the throne
of Norway, and the material was found in the 'Heimskringla.
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Mặc dầu hiệu quả trị nước hay dở khác nhau, song các đời chưa từng không coi sự thu dụng nhân tài làm việc
trước
tiên vậy.
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stella-04 |
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The State-house
glittered
on old Beacon Hill,
Gold in the sun.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He could not
have devised anything more likely to raise his consequence than this
week’s absence,
occurring
as it did at the very time of her brother’s
going away, of William Price’s going too, and completing the sort of
general break-up of a party which had been so animated.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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My point here is that “Russia” as a general subject matter has political priority over
nicer
distinctions
such as “economics” and “literary history,” because political society in
Gramsci’s sense reaches into such realms of civil society as the academy and saturates them with
significance of direct concern to it.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be
effected
by tactical dispositions.
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The-Art-of-War |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass
downloads
or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Didyma, or Branchidai as it is often called, played an important role in Miletos' vigorous
colonization
program.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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I can
construct
neither this drive nor its object.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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I can
construct
neither this drive nor its object.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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Pickwick into the Fleet, and
afterwards
refuses to get
married because he feels that Mr.
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Orwell |
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Tomorrow, the eighth of the month, if you can do nothing for us, we shall beg for our lives and hand over the city, securing only our
personal
safety.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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'90 A corona of pupils soon gathers around the firstborn of the unheard-of, seeking to embody the privilege of emanating
directly
from the exception.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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sua anni 1829, neque ego, qui
Lachmanni crisin semper habuerim plurimi, umquam a me impetrare potui
ut, Baehrensio potius et Munroni obsecutus propter pauca quae codex is
habet uitia, uniuersum
neglegerem
abiceremque.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Curetes, Corybantes, ruling kings, whose praise the land of Samothracia sings:
From Jove [Zeus] descended; whose immortal breath
sustains
the soul, and wafts her back from death;
Aerial-form'd, much-fam'd, in heav'n ye shine two-fold, in heav'n all-lucid and divine:
Blowing, serene, from whom abundance springs, nurses of seasons, fruit-producing kings.
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Orphic Hymns |
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O tédio… E talvez, no fundo, a insatisfação da alma íntima por não lhe termos dado uma crença, a desolação da
criança
triste que intimamente somos, por não lhe termos comprado o brinquedo divino.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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And did he give
Some privy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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And the ears of the horse went sinking away in the hollow night,
For, as drift from a sailor slow
drowning
the gleams
of the world and the sun,
Ceased on our hands and our faces, on hazel and oak leaf, the light,
And the stars were blotted above us, and the whole of the world was one.
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Yeats - Poems |
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There’s
not a city, nay, not a humble town but laments thee.
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Moschus |
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e
penaunce
apert, of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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nevertheless, tennemann judges that it is Aristotelism
corrupted
by neo-platonism and that there is nothing original in Arabic philosophy.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Vitamque sub dio et
trepidis
agat
In rebus.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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I have heard a saying "He that has an upright heart
Shall walk
scathless
through the lands of Man and Mo.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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HALPINE
[Sidenote: 1861-1865]
Comrades
known in marches many,
Comrades, tried in dangers many,
Comrades, bound by memories many,
Brothers let us be.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Crow, the, 108;
not
imported
from Europe, 113.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Some modern poets and other
critical
es says.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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21 Some say that Aratus was the son of Mnaseas, and he was taught by an
astronomer
called Aristotherus.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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When
a man thinks Abraham Fraunce 'a fool' for writing quantitative
hexameters and John Donne worthy of 'hanging for not keeping
accent,' the opinions are noteworthy enough; but, as it happens,
they might be connected and systematised in quite
different
ways.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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THE lover, feigning rare, the lady left,
And
grumbling
much, as if of hope bereft,
Addressed the husband thus: you're vastly kind;
As well with no-one converse I might find;
If horses you so easily procure,
You Fortune's frowns may very well endure.
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La Fontaine |
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] army the two generals formed the siege of Agri-
HI'MERUS ("Iuepus ), the personification of gentum, and
directed
their attacks against it on
longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Thcog.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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I still
remember
her face at that minute, it could
not have shown more suffering.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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--And Lipsius to affirm, _Scio_, _poetam
neminem praestantem fuisse_, _sine parte quadam
uberiore
divinae aurae_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Without a sound they flit over the roads of the endless graveyard, until they disappear into the depths of some one of the
illuminated
tombs.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Ontologically,
modernity
is a pure "being-toward-movement.
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Sloterdijk |
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that called of “
Isidorus
Pacensis," appears here possibly
for the first time to a marked extent.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it
inspired
a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Serve all with wine, that, first, libation made,
We may
religiously
lay down the bow.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But the Lord carefully explains still further the power of this smoke, when He
immediately
subjoins; As of a heated and boiling pot.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of
screaming
shell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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[166]
41
With all these men out of the way, the rights of imperium fell to
Constantine
and Licinius.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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A German poet
and
historian
(1809-53); born at Vienna.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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In another place Dryden uses
the figure in a more poetic or at least ambitious fashion:
The tapers of the gods,
The sun and moon, run down like waxen globes;
The
shooting
stars end all in purple jellies,
And chaos is at hand.
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John Donne |
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We are told however that there
was still a dim
appearance
of the feet of Aristratus at
the bottom of the chariot.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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The
circumstance is
marvellous
enough : he interprets
the expression, " without interest," in the most
personal fashion, out of an experience which must
in his case have been part and parcel of his
regular routine.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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The herd approach'd; each guest, with busy brain,
Arriving at the portal, gaz'd amain,
And enter'd marveling: for they knew the street,
Remember'd it from childhood all complete
Without a gap, yet ne'er before had seen
That royal porch, that high-built fair demesne;
So in they hurried all, maz'd, curious and keen:
Save one, who look'd thereon with eye severe,
And with calm-planted steps walk'd in austere;
'Twas Apollonius:
something
too he laugh'd,
As though some knotty problem, that had daft
His patient thought, had now begun to thaw,
And solve and melt--'twas just as he foresaw.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I have been called an
unkind mother, but it was the sacred impulse of maternal affection, it
was the advantage of my
daughter
that led me on; and if that daughter
were not the greatest simpleton on earth, I might have been rewarded for
my exertions as I ought.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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MF: Under a form as naive as a child's tale, I will say that the
question
of philosophy has been for a long time:
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Foucault-Live |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Superadded
to these general
and prevailing inducements, there are others of a more
particular nature.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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The concept of insult reveals how the crude
regulatory
naivete of the Lac- tanctic rage theology passes into a more refined erotodynamic naivete of a semimodern t/zeo-psychology.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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The popularity of the
theological
argument is clearly connected with this feeling.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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He who acts
unjustly
acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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If our formula were used to discover the complement of the male invert, it would point to the most man-like woman, the Lesbian or
Sapphist
type.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Farewell,
farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless
bear names that the mosses mar.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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It would be
impossible
to treat in detail the exercises to which the
Athenian youth was subjected during the years in which he attended the
public gymnasium as a pupil.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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4
In Otto this ambiguity and these contradictions were to com-
bine with a flow of
neurotic
manifestations.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Not only were the bodies of our
ancestors
freed
from slavery, but also their souls were freed to soar
to God, their Saviour:--" Which holdeth our soul
in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved"
(verse 9).
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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After this marriage had been celebrated
with
magnificent
festivities, Petrarch was requested by Galeazzo to go
to Paris, and to congratulate the unfortunate King John upon his return
to his country.
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Petrarch |
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» Et de
temps en temps, pour aller au-devant de choses que je pourrais
apprendre, elle faisait de ces aveux que leur accent, avant que l'on
connaisse la
réalité
qu'ils sont chargés de dénaturer, d'innocenter,
dénonce déjà comme étant des mensonges.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The dead
increase
in number at dusk.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Was it indeed the
country bishop, or rather the rhetorician Augustin who, in a burst of
gratitude, hit upon this sublime
sentence?
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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This talent, we know, de-
scended to his son; and it may be that this inheritance had some
bearing upon the genius of the poet, who was gifted with perhaps the
finest ear possessed by any English writer, and whom critics have
described as musical rather than a
picturesque
poet.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Drooping blossom,
Gas-standards over
Spray out
jingling
tumult
Of white-hot rays.
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Imagists |
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Évidemment en ce moment celles que j'avais avec vous et que
votre départ a
troublées
sont encore les plus fortes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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sic effata rapit caeli per inania cursum 375
diva potens unoque Padum translapsa volatu castra sui
rectoris
adit.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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But these figures
understate
the problem.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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229)
5 In Schopenhauer's philosophy the concept of the urge or
yearning
(Drang) refers to 'the objectivity of the Will on the lowest rung'; he depicts the Will as 'a blind urge, a dark, dull drive, remote from any- thing directly perceptible'.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Le mariage était la chose
pressée
à cause de son
amour, et dans l'intérêt de sa liberté.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug
childish
at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ifwe
cannot apply this
language
to the world, we must find the world within it: "[b]etween his voyous and her consinnantes" (FW 485.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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This is the period of great colonial
expansion
into the
Orient, and it culminates in World War II.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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--
To these, thou hast thy times to go
And trace the hare i' th' treacherous snow:
Thy witty wiles to draw, and get
The lark into the trammel net:
Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade
To take the precious
pheasant
made:
Thy lime-twigs, snares, and pit-falls then
To catch the pilfering birds, not men.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many downloads are
occurring
from a single location (IP address).
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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at the
beginning
of this century, already noticed the better nourishment of the latter.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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It also
illustrates
the sound posi
tion held by the Church of England and the.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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For the fiction course we have a vir- ginal story by Askold Melnyczuk, a tale about the Second World War, a literary thriller about a mythic Icelandic author by Mika Seifert who lives in Germany, a post-college story set in a Costco or Walmart, a translation of a superb Argen- tinean writer, Hebe Uhart, who has been compared to Carson McCullers and Flan- nery O'Connor, and finally a story set in
And if you "have room for a des- sert" (as the waiter usually says) we have one of our
traditional
essays--this one by John Dewey from our 1944 summer menu, which featured articles on what the post-war future would look like, par- ticularly with regard to food production.
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being taken into cus tody, he (wrotea letter to his lady, setting forth his
miatbrtune,
andgiviing
himself for dead, unless; power ful applications) could be made for him, or that some of ;the jury co«M be hired: to starve out the rest; and
to that he ftdded, this or nothing can save my life.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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The Alexandrine and the
fourteener
occur, also, and practically the whole wanders round
these centres.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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A pair of small, clear blue
eyes and a square chin
announced
an indomitable will.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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In the third turning, Buddha stated all beings had buddha nature and he
described
the nature of the buddha nature in detail.
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Creeping the populous houses through
And nodding their plumes at either side,--
At many a house, where an infant, new
To the sunshiny world, has just
struggled
and cried,--
At many a house where sitteth a bride
Trying to-morrow's coronals
With a scarlet blush to-day:
Slowly creep the funerals,
As none should hear the noise and say
"The living, the living must go away
To multiply the dead.
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Prceclarum
qualiter minuerit edacitatem
" Clarum est in
Quod singularis mater fuerit fUii Regis
magTii [id est, Dei),
Benedixit avem volatilem,
Ita ut earn apprebenderit sua manu.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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An objective deduction, such as we were able to present in
the case of the categories, is
impossible
as regards these trans cendental ideas.
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The experimenters then arranged for the food lorry to break down some miles from the camp, which meant that the two groups had to collaborate in bringing
essential
supplies to their base.
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Yet after
continued invitations he went thither, and those
gentlemen presented him to the king, who spake very
graciously to him, told him, " he had done him great
" service, which he would never forget," and many
other princely expressions, and " that he should be
" glad to see him often," but no
particular
to that
purpose which had been mentioned to him.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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That they have
followers
proves nothing-
"'No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.
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THE MORAL
INFLUENCE
OF SLAVERY
From Notes on Virginia,' 1782
It
T is difficult to determine on the standard by which the man-
ners of a nation may be tried, whether catholic or particular.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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If you can
continue
such films nothing in the West can re- sist.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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His
features
are strong, vigorously cut, and furrowed with deep
wrinkles; his beard is short and scanty; his cheeks are thin and already
worn-looking.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Some of the old
philosophers
were poets (as according to the forementioned author, Socrates and Plato were; which, however, is what I did not know before) but that does not say, that all poets are, or that any need be philosophers, otherwise than as those are so called who are a little out at the elbows.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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We are all supposed to believe in
the same thing in
different
ways.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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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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No doubt the
increase
was less than it would have been but for our bombing.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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