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" The
questionis
indispensablewhether by such instrumentalizatiotnheHolocaust is notbeingdegradedmostdeeply.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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His first thought as a writer does not seem to have been to make
direct use of his rich experience and varied observation; he was
rather possessed by an obstinate longing for that poetic gift which,
as he
confesses
in one place, Heaven had denied him.
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That it was different from the Latin is very distinctly apparent from the
founding
of a special college at Rome for the preservation of the Sabine rites (p.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Kreuzer-Haustein considered this splitting as involving a powerful rejection of
becoming
aware of the his- torical responsibility of many members of the DPG, who, yielding to the Nazi racial laws, had first ousted their president, Max Eitingon, in 1933 and in 1935 had asked all the Jewish members to leave the DPG.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Teach nature now to know
Lips can make
cherries
grow
Sooner than she ever yet
In her wisdom could beget.
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Robert Herrick |
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'
To The Sole Concern
To the sole task of voyaging
Beyond an India dark and splendid
- Goes time's messenger, this greeting,
Cape that your stern has doubled
As on some low yard plunging
Along with the vessel riding
Skimmed in constant frolicking
A bird bringing fresh tidings
That without the helm flickering
Shrieked in pure monotones
An utterly useless bearing
Night, despair, and
precious
stones
Reflected by its singing so
To the smile of pale Vasco.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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20
LII
Lo, on the
distance
a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the mountainous forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
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Sappho |
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It should also be noted that we are talking about media
structure
and performance, not the effects of the media on the public.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Before his Royal Highness can read fluently, he will
probably have been made acquainted, by means of con-
versation, with most of the great men, of whose youth
I have given anecdotes; but this is not necessary to
the
usefulness
of the work: if he has already learned
to admire these great princes, the incidents of their
childhood will be interesting to him: if not, whenever
the page of history is opened to him, there will be
already facts in his mind, with which to associate the
knowledge he is about to acquire.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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But how freedom is
possible, and how we are to conceive this kind of causality
theoretically and positively, is not thereby discovered; but only that
there is such a
causality
is postulated by the moral law and in its
behoof.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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27 Indeed, he would prefer almost anything:
neben den Pathetikern der Maschine, die einem Chauffeur die Pferde
ausspannen
wollen, und neben den Krafttinterln, die die Technik deshalb dem Ingenium vorziehen, weil sie vor diesem verloren, hinter jener aber, selbst sie, Helden sind.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The silver slim lilies hang the head low;
Their stream is scanty, their
sunshine
rare;
Let the sun blaze out, and let the stream flow,
They will blossom and wax fair.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Their domestic happiness was untroub-
led until the sorrow of a dead-born child
fell over them, and changed a day that
would have been one of
rejoicing
into one
of mourning.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Only they can expect
something
rational from communication who have already conceded, in classical passivity and deep yieldingness, to the universal, a precedence to the process of reaching agreement over the motives of its participants.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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"Gods of the hquid realms, on which I row l
If, giv'n by you, the laurel brad my brow, Assist to make me guilty of my vow t
A snow-white bull shall on your shore be slain; His offer'd
entrails
cast into the main,
And ruddy wine, from golden goblets thrown,
Your grateful gift and my return shall own.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Parallels
in other countries.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Bykoff, a landed proprietor, who was acquainted with Pokrovsky
the father and had
formerly
been his benefactor, took the child
under his protection and placed him in a school.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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"Presently two countrymen passed by, but pausing near the cottage, they
entered into conversation, using violent gesticulations; but I did not
understand what they said, as they spoke the language of the country,
which
differed
from that of my protectors.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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And in the ages after monsters died,
Perforce there perished many a stock, unable
By
propagation
to forge a progeny.
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Lucretius |
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And the stark and staring eyes,
Waits for the holy hands that took
The Thief to Paradise;
And a broken and a
contrite
heart
The Lord will not despise.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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What’d
I tell you?
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Reprobate
silver shall men call them, because the
Lord hath rejected them.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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The child
luminosity
is the path of meditation we progress along slowly and gradually with the experience of clear light gradually increasing bit by bit until we finally realize this stage of non-meditation.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Economical
management.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Appear, and let thy
presence
bring back serenity to
this kingdom.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The freemen became vassals, in order to get rid of
military service and court duty; and they were immediately involved in
all the personal
quarrels
of their seigniors, and compelled to do
jury duty in their courts.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Lilacs in dooryards
Holding quiet conversations with an early moon;
Lilacs
watching
a deserted house
Settling sideways into the grass of an old road;
Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom
Above a cellar dug into a hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" said she, in a low and
disappointed
voice, as she
turned away to the window.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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If the message is
delivered
smoothly, it arouses suspicions that it is part of a well-planned approach, or that the writer loves himself, the beauty of his writing, more than his love object; that is, that the object is ef- fectively reduced to a pretext for engaging in the narcissistically sat- isfying activity of writing.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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2
1 Phoenix Pool can be a symbol for high
political
o ce.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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His destiny was to be elusive of social or
religious
orders.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Methinks
these new Actaeons boast too soon
That they have spied on beauty; what if we
Have analysed the rainbow, robbed the moon
Of her most ancient, chastest mystery,
Shall I, the last Endymion, lose all hope
Because rude eyes peer at my mistress through a telescope!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"I care for
nothing," he says, still harping on the
constant
theme
of his verse, to one of his distant friends, "but to get
out of this place.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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From this moment on, its
possibility
of dissolving oneself in this very god.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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) is destroyed; faith in
religion
increases, and one works with diligence.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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The interest of
its
speculative
employment consists in the cognition of the object
pushed to the highest a priori principles: that of its practical
employment, in the determination of the will in respect of the final
and complete end.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Halliday
took over
the new office.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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People concerned with
children
sometimes speak as though they thought it would be better were a child not to be influenced in what he fears by imitating 1 his parents.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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To make the joke intelligible here, we must
suppose Pellene was also the name of some notorious
courtesan
of the day.
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Aristophanes |
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Mind, says he, what Honesty is in that Fellow:DuringmyImprisonmenthecameoftento lee me, and Hiscours'd with me : He's more worth than all the rest: How
heartily
he cries for me !
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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r unsere
Gegenwart
[on Erika Fischer-Lichte: A?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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This fact could be easily accounted for, owing to the irruptions of the wild hordes of Alemanni,22 at first, and afterwards of the Franks,23 who
overturned
the Roman power in Gaul, by their great victory
2
obtained at Soissons, in the year 486.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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But to the riddle-maker and his public a poem was primarily
something
heard, not something seen, and the variation in the heard length of the lines would correspond naturally enough to the variation in note of the tubes of the pipe.
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Pattern Poems |
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Moreover, Prometheus and the sire of Pelops are
deluded into an
insensibility
of their torments, by the melodious sound:
nor is Orion any longer solicitous to harass the lions, or the fearful
lynxes.
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Horace - Works |
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Yet posterity
declines
to read a line of yours,
and, as we think of you, we are again set face to face with that eternal
problem, how far is popularity a test of poetry?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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It describes the basic
direction
of technical and social evolution in an astonishingly convincing way.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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I wonder he don't
begin--truly he seems a very
negligent
wooer!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Hitler, because in his
own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength,
knows that human beings don't only want comfort,
safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control
and, in general, common sense; they also, at least
intermittently, want
struggle
and self-sacrifice, not to
mention drums, flags and loyalty -parades.
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Orwell |
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While he convincingly shows that there was a
palpable
mood of conservatism, the underlying dialectic between regression and progression in Scha?
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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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142 (#178) ############################################
I42 WE PHILOLOGISTS
56
A school-teacher said to Bentley: “Sir, I will
make your
grandchild
as great a scholar as you
are yourself.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Seeing that,
Charlotta
rose and softly, pit-a-pat,
Climbed up the stairs, and in her little room
Found sighing comfort with a moon in bloom.
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Amy Lowell |
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Του απάντησ' ο πολύπαθος ο θείος Οδυσσέας• 560
«Εύμαιε, τα πάντα παρευθύς μ' αλήθεια θα ιστορούσα
της Πηνελόπης, συνετής του Ικαρίου κόρης•
'ς την δυστυχία σύντροφος τα
πάθη
αυτού γνωρίζω.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Beowulf and
Scandinavian
Traditions 25
armour and necklace and then dies (1l.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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The word is no longer "aplomb" (vertical), rather it moves like the spirit of God, in the second verse o f Genesis, across the surface o f chaos not yet ready to
transform
the unknown into the known.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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In The
Imagining
and Thinking Self in Totalitarian Societies, Jeffrey Prager approached the subject from another stance.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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[Footnote 1:
"There exists in England a _gentlemanly_ character, a _gentlemanly_
feeling, very different even from that which is most like it,--the
character of a well-born Spaniard, and
unexampled
in the rest of Europe.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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With
Frontispiece
by STARR WOOD.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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I lived so tranquil, with my lot content,
No sorrow visited, nor envy pined,
To other loves if fortune were more kind
One pang of mine their
thousand
joys outwent;
But those bright eyes, whence never I repent
The pains I feel, nor wish them less to find,
So dark a cloud and heavy now does blind,
Seems as my sun of life in them were spent.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The plunder was to be had, and, as
Cornwallis
said, they
hoped in their struggle with Hastings to secure the greater part of
it.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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An invitation to sup with one of those busy friends, made me, by a
concerted chance,
acquainted
with Camilla, by whom it was expected that
I should be suddenly and irresistibly enslaved.
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Samuel Johnson |
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The Attack on German Morale
It is difficult to tell just what proportion of the bombs dropped on Germany in World War I1 was
deliberately
aimed at German morale, but it was unquestionably very large.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Having for a
long time lived in a state of
magnificence
he finally, by
being very generous to those who needed his assistance,
became reduced in circumstances.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Bear
yourselves
gallantly
in this hour of danger: be not less than Greeks.
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Lucian |
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Night
Now great Hyperion left his golden throne
That on the dancing waves in glory shone,
For whose declining on the western shore
The oriental hills black mantles wore,
And thence apace the gentle twilight fled,
That had from hideous caverns ushered
All-drowsy Night, who in a car of jet,
By steeds of iron-grey, which mainly sweat
Moist drops on all the world, drawn through the sky,
The helps of
darkness
waited orderly.
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William Browne |
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This might be a justification or a mad
description
of art.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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To receive that call, Stephen, said the priest, is the
greatest
honour
that the Almighty God can bestow upon a man.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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He was a conceptualist, and never could
raise himself into that higher state, which was natural to Plato, and has
been so to others, in which the
understanding
is distinctly contemplated,
and, as it were, looked down upon from the throne of actual ideas, or
living, inborn, essential truths.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Apollinax visited the United States
His
laughter
tinkled among the teacups.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" And
Milarepa
replied, "Yes, there has been victory over the maras.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Enjoyment for the Daoist is
realized
not in spite of the fact that one might lose what is desired, but because of this fact.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Is a caesura
necessary
in every foot of a verse?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Just hold hard till the one we leapt out gets her
yearing!
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Finnegans |
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So much can be said in anticipation; in German Fascism typically modern
dynamics of psycho-cultural fears of breakdown, regressive self-asser- tion and new-objective, rational coldness
combined
with a venerable
strain of military cynicism, which on German, and especially Prussian, soil enjoys an equally macabre and deep-rooted tradition.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Poe - 5 |
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The marsh-grass weaves me a wall of green,
But the wind comes
whispering
in between,
In the dead of night when the sky is deep
The wind comes waking me out of sleep--
Why does it always bring to me
The far-off, terrible call of the sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Within the central offices the
following
facts determine the typical location of policy-determining power; (a) the center of gravity in the Na- tional Economic Chamber unquestionably resides in the member- ship of the National Industry Group; ^^ (b) the center of gravity in the National Industry Group with equal certainty is located in the heavy industries; (c) the heavy industries are led in every sig- nificant respect by the giant combines.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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by
inhaling the
bacteria
which lurk in dust.
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Maybe
God will in very deed
vouchsafe
to me
Belated healing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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translates
brād by _bullion_.
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Beowulf |
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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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And fails to take advantage now,
How will such a perfect
opportunity
arise again?
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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XII
That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits,
Calls his barons, his council to begin:
Oger the Duke, that
Archbishop
Turpin,
Richard the old, and his nephew Henry,
From Gascony the proof Count Acolin,
Tedbald of Reims and Milun his cousin:
With him there were Gerers, also Gerin,
And among them the Count Rollant came in,
And Oliver, so proof and so gentil.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For him
evidently
Mr.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Considered
one of the
world's masterpieces, it has been translated into all languages and has
carried the author's name to readers who knew nothing of his great
Polish cycle.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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And yet to-morrow
They will come budding boughs from tree to tree
Flirting
their wings and saying Chickadee,
As if not knowing what you meant by the word storm.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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I am
differently
placed.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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And when the young Robber heard this he threw away the purple and the
pearls that he was bearing in his hands, and drawing a sharp sword of
curved steel he said to the Hermit, 'Give me, forthwith this
knowledge
of
God that you possess, or I will surely slay you.
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Oscar Wilde |
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_The Baite_ was
doubtless
sung
to the same air as Marlowe's 'Come live with me'.
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Donne - 2 |
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Quand autrefois à Balbec Albertine m'attendait sous
les arcades d'Incarville et sautait dans ma voiture, non seulement elle
n'avait pas encore «épaissi», mais à la suite d'excès d'exercice
elle avait trop fondu; maigre, enlaidie par un vilain chapeau qui ne
laissait
dépasser
qu'un petit bout de vilain nez et voir de côté que
des joues blanches comme des vers blancs, je retrouvais bien peu d'elle,
assez cependant pour qu'au saut qu'elle faisait dans ma voiture, je
susse que c'était elle, qu'elle avait été exacte au rendez-vous et
n'était pas allée ailleurs; et cela suffit; ce qu'on aime est trop
dans le passé, consiste trop dans le temps perdu ensemble pour qu'on
ait besoin de toute la femme; on veut seulement être sûr que c'est
elle, ne pas se tromper sur l'identité autrement importante que la
beauté pour ceux qui aiment; les joues peuvent se creuser, le corps
s'amaigrir, même pour ceux qui ont été d'abord le plus orgueilleux,
aux yeux des autres, de leur domination sur une beauté, ce petit bout
de museau, ce signe où se résume la personnalité permanente d'une
femme, cet extrait algébrique, cette constante, cela suffit pour qu'un
homme attendu dans le plus grand monde et qui l'aimait, ne puisse
disposer d'une seule de ses soirées parce qu'il passe son temps à
peigner et à dépeigner, jusqu'à l'heure de s'endormir, la femme qu'il
aime, ou simplement à rester auprès d'elle, pour être avec elle, ou
pour qu'elle soit avec lui, ou seulement pour qu'elle ne soit pas avec
d'autres.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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The study
of Phaedra will satisfy us better, if we look
not for tragedy or even pathos, but for a
searching
analysis
of a woman's longings, cas-
uistries and wrongs.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Wise laws are form'd, and
constitutions
weigh'd,
And the deep-rooted base of Empire laid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The chance of its being viable is
impossibly
small, no matter how empty the ecosystem, how wide open the niches.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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The wild rose and the barberry thorn
Hung out their summer pride
Where now on heated pavements worn
The feet of
millions
stride.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A Neaste of Waspes latelie found out and discovered in
the Law (Low) Countreys
yealding
as sweete hony as some of our
English bees.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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He looked upon the idols of the tribe, the market, and the cave from a
distance
that did not cease to grow.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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