I
have been
acquainted
with five of his brothers, of which three are still
living, all men of fine parts, yet all of a very unlike temper and
genius.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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But Bernick shrinks from
the
terrible
shame that would come on him as one of the "pillars of
society.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Instead, with
unhurrying
stride
He came,
And gathering my tall frame,
Like a child, in his arms.
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”
One April day the heat was almost insupportable; but the sun's
rays were not those brazen beams that
sometimes
in North-
ern cities burn the air and scorch the pavements to a white
heat, - rather were they soft and still; the moist earth exhaled
her richness, not a leaf stirred, and the whole level country
seemed sitting in a hot vapor bath.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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The most probable explanation for the term is that it was originally the title of the first section of the anthology compiled by Abū Zayd Al-Qurašī entitled Jamharatu Ašˁāri l-ˁArab, with the term al-muˁallaqāt meaning something like "the precious" (other
sections
have similar titles such as al-muntaqayāt "the chosen.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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“sacred
dust” : the dust of the race-course at Olympia (Pisa).
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Moschus |
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more openly, the same author continued to teach that it is not what the workers thought at the time that was of importance for the future but rather what they were
supposed
to think according to the objective party doctrine.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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_W_ includes among
the
_Epigrams_
the short poem _On a Jeat Ring Sent_, printed generally
with the _Songs and Sonets_.
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John Donne |
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The person offended hath no reason to be offended
with the writer, but with himself; and so to declare that properly to
belong to him which was so spoken of all men, as it could be no man's
several, but his that would
wilfully
and desperately claim it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Children's Rhymes and Verses 27
Christian Duty
A
Christian
spirit dwelleth in love.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Mr John Tanner
suddenly
opens the door and enters.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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CHORUS
Go, tell the news to him, perform thine hest,--
What the gods will,
themselves
can well provide.
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Aeschylus |
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Now if this as a pleasant
sensation were to be
distinguished
from the notion of good, then there
would be nothing primarily good at all, but the good would have to
be sought only in the means to something else, namely, some
pleasantness.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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The murderers had arrived at
Rome but they were not seen in public, the Pope being perturbed on
learning what an impression was made on 'a leading personage by
their presence, orders were
consequently
given that they were not to
remain in Rome another hour.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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For all of his erudition, Boodberg managed to produce a ''translation'' that
amounted
to almost total gibberish.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats - Lamia |
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6 The
globalization
of US business: ownership vs trade
* Receipts from the rest of the world as a per cent of corporate profit after tax.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Once Boris
suggested
that I should go to Les Halles and try for a job as a porter.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible
to leave him now in peace instead of
disturbing
him with talking at
him and crying.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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And he is said to be taken up, that we may know that he is truly
departed
out of this world, lest we should consent unto their dotings who think that in his ascension there was no alteration of place made.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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"
Elinor's thanks followed this speech with grateful earnestness;
attended too with the assurance of her expecting material
advantage
to
Marianne, from the communication of what had passed.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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The
frequently
quoted passage from Harsnet's
_Declaration_ (ch.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We see in him something akin
to "Faust" or "Manfred," but neither the unlimited
desire for
knowledge
nor passions consumes him.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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I
generally
go to bed late.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Any number of stockholders not less than sixty, who together shall be proprietors of two hundred shares, or upwards, shall have power at any time to call a gene- ral meeting of the stockholders, for purposes
relative
to the institution; giving at least six weeks notice in two public gazettes of the place where.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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And is it
wounded?
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Rendering the
executive
ineligible,*
he declared," was an infringement of the right of election.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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With regard to such objections, I will admit that
our work has hardly begun, and so far as I know,
I only see one thing clearly and definitely—that it
is
possible
for that ideal picture to provide you and
me with a chain of duties that may be accom-
plished; and some of us already feel its pressure.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Sneer, I am only
apprehensive
that the
incidents are too crowded.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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There are some very clear
accounts
of this in Brierre de Boismont, in his quotation of the correspondence between his patients, after their cure, and himself or his wife.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Or, justement, il sentait qu’il en
avait envie, et que s’il
n’avait
pas connu Odette, certainement il y
serait allé.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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, that which is ''sent to'' us and determines us), individually and collectively, and fate will not
patiently
pause until we have managed to understand what it ''means.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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What wonder then that he—who, as
he has himself recorded, had the “political
instinct
"
in his body—made three different attempts in
Sicily, where at that time a united Mediterranean
Greek State appeared to be in process of formation ?
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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If, on the one hand, it becomes the theater of human struggles for self-preservation, on the other, it is flattened simultaneously into the materialist backdrop behind which only so-called
nothingness
can be surmised.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Prose works : Spirit of Romance ; Gaudier Rrzeska ; Noh, a Study
of the
Classical
Stage of Japan (from the MSS.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Do you
understand
?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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V
Following a point that Chomsky made in his discussion with Foucault, Harpham
highlights
how "human behavior and expression are bottomless in their depth" and how, therefore, "humanistic study produces not [End Page 136] certain but uncertain knowledge, knowledge that solicits its own revision in an endless process of refutation, contestation, and modification.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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The Stoic,
on the contrary, accustoms himself to swallow
stones and vermin, glass-splinters and scorpions,
without feeling any disgust: his stomach is meant
to become indifferent in the end to all that the
accidents of existence cast into it:—he reminds
one of the Arabic sect of the Assaua, with which
the French became acquainted in Algiers; and
like those
insensible
persons, he also likes well
to have an invited public at the exhibition of his
insensibility, the very thing the Epicurean willingly
dispenses with :—he has of course his "garden "!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Spanish
translation
forthcoming);?
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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de Charlus et me l'affirmant le soir même
du jour où j'avais vu le
giletier
et le baron dans la cour.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Why this
disappointment?
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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That today
positivity
is blocked amounts to a verdict over the positivity of the past, but not over the longing that first stirred within it.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Lascio lo fele e vo per dolci pomi
promessi
a me per lo verace duca;
ma 'nfino al centro pria convien ch'i' tomi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Among the oxen these themes have been treated within a series of formal frameworks which sug- gests a
gigantic
musical suite.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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But the Vibhajyavadins hold that the five faculties are
exclusively
pure (andsrava) (see Kosa, ii.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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My pleasures were the gallant bark, the din
Of battle, the smooth spear and glitt'ring shaft,
Objects of dread to others, but which me
The Gods
disposed
to love and to enjoy.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address
specified
in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" They go on to say, "The attempt, it appears, was to say that the United States would respond to a missile against its
neighbors
as it would respond to one against itself.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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His treatise concerning the Writing of History[1]
preserves its force irresistible after seventeen centuries, nor has
the wisdom of the ages
impeached
or modified this lucid argument.
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Lucian - True History |
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] Ah' decidedly there is no
music except that of the
Conservatory!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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_
In what torne ship soever I embarke,
That ship shall be my embleme of thy Arke;
What sea soever swallow mee, that flood
Shall be to mee an embleme of thy blood;
Though thou with clouds of anger do
disguise
5
Thy race; yet through that maske I know those eyes,
Which, though they turne away sometimes,
They never will despise.
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Donne - 1 |
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You officers are
generally
favourites among the ladies.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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When it came to the moment of parting, he would take her hand, he would
not be denied it; he said nothing, however, or nothing that she heard,
and when he had left the room, she was better pleased that such a token
of
friendship
had passed.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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De même,
quand les abîmes de la maladie et de la mort s'ouvrent en nous et que
nous n'avons plus rien à opposer au tumulte avec lequel le monde et
notre propre corps se ruent sur nous, alors soutenir même la pesée de
nos muscles, même le frisson qui
dévaste
nos moelles, alors, même nous
tenir immobiles dans ce que nous croyons d'habitude n'être rien que la
simple position négative d'une chose, exige, si l'on veut que la tête
reste droite et le regard calme, de l'énergie vitale, et devient l'objet
d'une lutte épuisante.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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But Destiny,
untangling
this chaos,
In which all good and evil once were lost,
Has since ensured the heavenly virtues,
Flying skywards, left the vices behind,
Which, till this day, remain here confined,
Concealed within these ruined avenues.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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he
possesseth
me altogether.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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]
[Footnote 3: See the
description
of his temple and statue.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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The city stood in
a meditating
position
between the Lutheranism of
the North and the doctrine of Zwingli.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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He
promised
himself to repair the
misfortune the next day; but the next day, when he descended,
it was all rebuilt.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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But Cabotins' is not a whit
inferior to it as a tableau of contrasting phases of French life, in-
cluding an amusing portrayal of a temperamental and adroit young
politician, a natural manoeuvrer and leader in the race; and there
are also admirable scenes that range from the frolicsomeness of an
artist's lodging-house to a drawing-room in the
aristocratic
centre of
Paris.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Music resembles Poetry, in each
Are
nameless
graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach.
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Alexander Pope |
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Yea, (that which worse is) they do not see nor
perceive
it when it is present before their eyes.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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A Line-storm Song
THE line-storm clouds fly
tattered
and swift,
The road is forlorn all day,
Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift,
And the hoof-prints vanish away.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Was there a distant king of Armenia, an unknown monarch by Maeotis' shore but sent aid to mine
enterprises
?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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And when Antiochus had gained control of Judaea, Scopas the
Aetolian
was sent to be general of Ptolemy's forces.
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Roman Translations |
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Abelard takes counsel with
Ovidius Ethicus in
discussing
monastic rules,
[132]
?
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Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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_ Now when there was nothing else left, one pull'd up a wooden
Image of the Virgin _Mary_, rotten, and rat-eaten, and
embracing
it in
his Arms, try'd to swim upon it.
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Erasmus |
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[101] L By the advice of his father-in-law, (of whom, by the bye, he was not
remarkably
fond, because he had not voted for his admission into the college of augurs, but gave the preference to his younger son-in-law Q.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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And as when bees hum round fair lilies pouring forth from their hive in the rock, and all around the dewy meadow rejoices, and they gather the sweet fruit,
flitting
from one to another; even so the women eagerly poured forth clustering round the men with loud lament, and greeted each one with hands and voice, praying the blessed gods to grant him a safe return.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the
cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each
of the four
evangelists
in turn presenting to each of the four masters
his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far
nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing),
a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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An open and
indeterminate
future seems to suggest a shift from cognition to action, as Marx would have it, or today from pre- dicting to creating the future.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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But as it stands, and especially in light of the other poems attributed to ˁAbīd, a striking and memorable thematic (though not linear, let alone narrative)
coherence
emerges.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The fiddle
quavered
tremulously at first, but
soon resounded with its former vigorous tones, and the joy of
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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for nothing
can be thought or supposed _more perfect_, or
_equally
perfect_ with
_God_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Then Sophocles, the Genius of his Age,
Increas'd the Pomp, and Beauty of the Stage,
Ingag'd the Chorus Song in every part,
And polish'd rugged Verse by Rules of Art:
He, in the Greek, did those
perfections
gain
Which the weak Latin never could attain.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Transportation across the sea was very
difficult for Italy a few years ago, especially in view of the
lack of colonies; for then there was always the obstacle of which
Franklin spoke in reference to
transported
English convicts, in
his well-known retort: ``What would you say if we were to
transport our rattlesnakes to England?
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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A delicate odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the
Spring’s
glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Never has homofaber better understood that he has made history and never has he felt so
powerless
before history.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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(Bowlby 1949a)
One senses that here at last Bowlby was allowing himself free rein to do what he really wanted, a process which began in the 1930s when he first began to chafe at the
Kleinian
bit.
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13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but
be
somewhat
dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: 13:27
And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be
spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
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Prosser, who hated her with a perfect hatred,
would say "poking and rummaging about as any under-house-
maid that I caught at such tricks should be dismissed immediate,
and no
character
given.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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There was a paper sent to me this
morning, called 'An Address from the
Protestants
of Ireland to
their Protestant Brethren of Great Britain.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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With
Durendal
my sword I'll strike again,
And, comrade, you shall strike with Halteclere.
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Chanson de Roland |
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A man should not tell me that he has walked
among the angels; his proof is, that his
eloquence
makes me one.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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This fact makes market-space
inherently
partial.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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The act provided that, in the
case of old books, the owners, whether authors or booksellers,
should have the exclusive right of
printing
them for a term of
twenty-one years from 10 April 1710, and no longer.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Cold is the heart, fair Greece, that looks on thee,
Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they loved;
Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy
mouldering
shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Serene he dwelt in
fragrant
Nashâpûr,
But we must wander while the Stars endure.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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In the
emphatic
essay, thought gets rid of the traditional idea of truth.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Les
directeurs
disaient: «Ah!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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And how could a _man_ be a
mediator
between God and man?
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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LA
PRISONNIÈRE
_(2 vol_.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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[755] All this account is taken from the argument by
Asconius
Servius,
serving as an introduction to his Commentary on the _Oration for Milo_.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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