The Bohemians of Paris are linked by the
chains of vagabondage, and of
possible
genius, to all those in every
age and clime who have found stimulus for their powers in love and
wine and song; and who in serving this trinity have forgotten the
obligation to earn more than they spend.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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, and opium, it seems, is able in
this, as in other instances, to
counteract
her purposes.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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This is to say: light (laghu) is derived rupa;
lightness
(laghutva), which by its nature is movement (irana) is the wind element; the wind element is thus laghusamudtranatva: that which produces lightness and motion.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Young hopeful
will be christened
Mortimer
Edward after the influential third cousin of
Mr Purefoy in the Treasury Remembrancer's office, Dublin Castle.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Only later, when Zarathustra had won Nietzsche
worldwide
stature, did what he intimated become clear.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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i'th' name of truth
Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed
Which
outwardly
ye shew?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep
invention
in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Macaulay's
comment is well known: "One thing
Catullus
has.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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' You thought that I should prove a refuge for the
fugitive
wife?
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Remarks on his
mistaken
view of value and riches, 388-397.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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The word is obscure to the commentators who merely
describe
it as some sort of white bulbous plant.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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What were the means he
could employ for its
execution?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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I
wrote nearly all the articles on French subjects, including a weekly
summary of French politics, often extending to
considerable
length;
together with many leading articles on general politics, commercial and
financial legislation, and any miscellaneous subjects in which I felt
interested, and which were suitable to the paper, including occasional
reviews of books.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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It had the
appearance
of a shoe and was eight fingers broad.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Shakespeare
A
Midsummer
Night's Dream
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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2 But as to the matter that I
discussed
at considerable length in the Senate, and as to what I said at the public meeting, I should be glad if you would redeem the pledge I gave.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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CATULLUS 49
XLVIII
Sweet Lesbia, let my kisses fall
On thy sweet tyes, nor say me nay,
Not though I kiss ten
thousand
times,
No niggard favor do I pray.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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But then some people began to take demons as Buddhas, to take delusive forces as
enlightening
forces.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Mill is far
from deifying our nation ; as has been said of him
with some justice, he inwardly feels his near kin-
ship with the German genius, but he is afraid of
the weaknesses of our temperament, he deliber-
ately avoids
penetrating
too deeply into German
literature, and holds to French novels.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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1 no, the diocese of
Glendalough
is defined, as extending from
Grianoge
l6< to 165 and from Naas l66 to Rechrann.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The education of Emily now began to
assume the regular form of lessons, and
the habits she had imbibed, when under
no controul, were gradually yielding to
the
admonitions
of Mrs.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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The
principal
outlines of these three poems are as follows: A
maiden loses her lover in the wars; she murmurs at Providence
and is vainly reproved for such blasphemy by her mother.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Email contact links and up to
date contact
information
can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official page at www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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Stephen Crane |
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]
[Sidenote F: A servant is
assigned
to him,]
[Sidenote G: and then he takes leave of the ladies,]
[Footnote 1: selly (?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The blueberries which the mountain afforded, added to the milk we had
brought, made our frugal supper, while for
entertainment
the even-song
of the wood thrush rang along the ridge.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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}
This day my hand thy tender age shall shield,
And crown with honours of the
conquered
field:
Thou, when thy riper years shall send thee forth
To toils of war, be mindful of my worth:
Assert thy birth-right; and in arms be known,
For Hector's nephew, and Æneas' son.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Revolu tion and War
A new sense of realism had set in by the time the Third
Comintem
Congress met in Moscow in June.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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and could you go with me
My
helpmate
in the woods to be,
Our shed at night to rear;
Or run, my own adopted bride,
A sylvan huntress at my side,
And drive the flying deer!
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Golden Treasury |
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He used his wealth the poet himself admits in the first lines,
liberally, and his library, which was doubtless a
“
Sicelides
Musae paulo majora canamus,
good one, was easy of access.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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'to
remember
again and again or 'anunipa smriti', i.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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This preface has not been
reproduced
in any later
publication, although its materials have to some extent been worked up into
poems of a subsequent date.
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Whitman |
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I understand that a full explanation of the origins of the reform movements in China and Russia is a good deal more
complicated
than this simple formula would suggest.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Individual freedom, liberty to
grow in spite of the
conventions
of society or politics or religion, is
the keynote in both novels.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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And if the glorious saints cease not to know
Their
wretched
friends who fight with life below,
Thy flame to me does still the same abide,
Only more pure and rarefied.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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This affords perhaps an inkling
on what lines the
etymological
origin of the very
ambiguous ayaOo^ is to be investigated.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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darsana-marg - the path of constant practice which refines one's
vision but does not totally uproot
attachment
and envy; the yogi rises up from the 'darsna rnarga ' to enter the bhavana marga, darsana marga initiates the yogi into the search for the meaning of the four noble truths with the resolve: I will know.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Nguyễn
Văn Chất (1422-?
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stella-02 |
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may roam about on the scene, they need not be
interfered with; they remain harmless because they are unable to put in
motion the motor
apparatus
which alone can exert a modifying influence
upon the outer world.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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It is only now and
again--in Marvell, perhaps in Herrick's
Bid me to live, and I will live,
Thy
Protestant
to be,
certainly in Rochester's songs, in
An age in her embraces past
Would seem a winter's day,
or the unequalled:
When wearied with a world of woe
To thy safe bosom I retire,
Where love, and peace, and truth does flow,
May I contented there expire,
that the accents of the _heart_ are clearly audible, that passion
prevails over Epicurean fancy or cynical wit.
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John Donne |
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FAUST:
Das Druben kann mich wenig kummern;
Schlagst
du erst diese Welt zu Trummern,
Die andre mag darnach entstehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Most ofthe keeneststudentsofthemajor,putativelyfascistmovementosr regimeshave becomeextremelyuncomfortablweiththeairyandunempiricalgeneral- izationscommonlybandied about as
eitherdefinitionosr
interpretationosf fascism.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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_dupsakku_,
trencher
basket, 216, 17.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Nevertheless one would err if one
thought it
possible
to frighten away merely by a
vigorous shout such a dawdling thing as the opera,
as if it were a spectre.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Nevertheless one would err if one
thought it
possible
to frighten away merely by a
vigorous shout such a dawdling thing as the opera,
as if it were a spectre.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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For one thing, even primary sensory cortex is just one part of a huge,
intricate
system.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Was hilft es, viel von
Stimmung
reden?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Moreover, he was so gentle that when, through suspicion of a
shortage
of grain, he was being pelted with stones by the Roman commons, after the supply had been exposed to view, he preferred to placate rather than punish the sedition.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Hegel appears, a more materialist Hegel for whom reconciliation be- tween Subject and
Substance
does not mean that the subject swal- lows its substance, internalizing it into its own subordinate moment.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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I ought then to let the reader encounter it in the pages of this collection and draw his own
conclusions
about it.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Ros-
sowski, Or-ot (Artur Oppman), the painter of the
vanishing world of
Napoleonic
worshippers, St.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Well, then what is the way to
differentiate
body isolations in terms of the two stages?
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Les deux trafiquants
achetaient
des ames pour le demon.
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| Answer: |
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Yeats - Poems |
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t' des Daseins mit einem idealisierten
absoluten
Subjekt geho ?
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds,
loath to adapt themselves to fast
changing
conditions.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Into new hours of
beautiful
delight,
Out of the shadow where she has lain,
Bring the earth awake for glee,
Shining with dews as fresh and clear
As my beloved's voice upon the air.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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—to be sure, that is not sympathy
as you
understand
it: it is not sympathy for social
"distress," for "society” with its sick and mis-
fortuned, for the hereditarily vicious and defective
who lie on the ground around us; still less is it
sympathy for the grumbling, vexed, revolutionary
slave-classes who strive after power--they call it
“ freedom.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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The
Refutation
of the Sects.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
"If you would
convince
us of what you say," interrupted
Prince Castel-Forte, "you must prove it to us:
give us
the inexpressible pleasure of seeing you play tragedy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Where is your
Husband?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Vishvamitra sought to achieve power
and was proud of it;
Vashishtha
was rudely smitten by that power.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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There was
Yana's father, a short, thick-set sexagenarian, bent but still
healthy-looking, his face
wrinkled
like old parchment, with a
stiff beard and bright eyes; the mother, a buxom woman about
ten years younger, very active despite her stoutness; then a host
of brothers and sisters, varying from twenty-five to fifteen; the
boys bold, dark, curly-headed, muscular, square-set fellows; the
girls fresh-looking, tanned by the sun, all like Yana their elder
sister, who, to my mind, was the most charming boerine annwers-
oise that one could imagine, with her dark hair, her big emerald-
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire,
That's a' the
learning
I desire;
Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire
At pleugh or cart,
My muse, tho' hamely in attire,
May touch the heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The
function of true
Liberalism
in the future will be that of putting a
limit to the powers of parliaments.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Espronceda was
forced to Live with the other Spanish
emigrants
in Santarem.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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As always, Chateaubriand enriches his narrative with
extensive
quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and resonant self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and dismayed by the present but stimulated and inspired by the past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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How- ever, this gap in competence does have the advantage that recursive loops do not get drawn too tightly, that communication does not immediately become blocked by failures and contradictions, and that, instead, it is able to seek out a willing
audience
and to experi- ment with possibilities.
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| Question: |
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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^3 The
Martyrology
of Aberdeen states
" diem ibidem clausit extremum.
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
For more
information
about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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αλλά 'ς εμέ το νόημα τούτ'
έπλασεν
ο Δίας•
(άχ!
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| Question: |
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Were I from
Dunsinane
away, and cleere,
Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ainsi qu'en bas les feuilles mortes, en
haut les nuages
suivaient
le vent.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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It has a long fishing rod, evolved from a
modified
spine, commandeered by natural selection from its original location at the front of the dorsal fin.
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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| Question: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Stockholm: Swedish
Institute
at Athens; distributed by P.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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6 A) I was said that the conviction in the fact that every human being has infinite dignity has been
extended
to the whole world and all
?
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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This happens when a
man obstinately refuses to acknowledge plain truths, and
persists
in
maintaining what is self-contradictory.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epictetus |
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You who consoled me in
funereal
night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He was highly
delighted, of course, and in the
exuberance
of his joy invited a large
party of friends to a petit souper on the morrow, for the purpose of
broaching the good old Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
|
55, and he
mentioned
this admonition in his Num.
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| Question: |
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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be
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walking ten paces, he came face-up against a wall lying
angles to the
direction
in which he had been moving.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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But a selfish purpose of this kind is easily to be dis tinguished from the idea, according to which every one pre supposes that this unity is in
accordance
with the laws of
nature, and that reason does not in this case request, but rf
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There was a child went forth every day;
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became;
And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the
day, or for many years, or
tretching
cycles of years.
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Whitman |
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Roses
IN white and glowing blossomy undulation,
From shrubs
encircling
distant heights and hollows,
You lost yourself .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Shall it have less empire over us, because the moment
has come to attain those heights we
admired?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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We
should esteem, as the right
standard
of the ka?
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Shobogenzo |
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Recognize
me not, by word, by sign,
by look!
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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The
sunlight
on the steeple,
The toys we stop to see,
The smiling passing people
Are all for you and me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Until recent times the Arabs,
especially those of Syria, were understood
to be
strongly
Francophil -- inasmuch as
they did not consider the possibility of
complete independence.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Erentrude shared in the vicissitudes,
hardships
and perse-
cutionsofherdistinguishedbrother; althoughherpersonalityislostsightof in his Acts, until we learn, that he built for her a monastery, at a place called
Nunberg.
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Had he sent just this verse to
Augustus
it
might have had some effect.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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^ Both in this island and in
Scotland
many royal and saintly descendants from this monarch flourished.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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For the very best exists but in small
quantities, and has
sometimes
become inaccessible
or hard as stone, so that even good teeth can no
longer bite it.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Leconte de Lisle
'Leconte de Lisle'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p579, 1896) Internet Book Archive Images
The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies,
creepers
in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the brilliant parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The people watched with
startled
mien
And passed with frightened glance
For all know that only a Queen
May dance in the lanes: dance!
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Rilke - Poems |
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