1
The enormous original, a pre-fabricated building design, started to be constructed in the fall of 1850 in London's Hyde Park according to the plans of horticulture expert ]oseph Paxton, and was
inaugurated
on May 1sI, 1851 in the presence of the young Queen Victoria (only to be rebuilt with enlarged proportions in 1854 in the London suburb of Sydenham).
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Unfortunately
it is only the less
important which are short enough to be cited in this volume.
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
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Li Po |
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Syd-
ney not only inculcated by precept, but,
in her own person, set her
children
and
Emily the fairest example.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Therein lies its sense of misfortune, and its simulta- neous
wavering
between the temptation to join the students and their revolutionary struggle, and the temptation to regain power, to seduce once more that upper-middle class which no longer is willing to accept it except in a role as technician.
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Arthur Love- joy claims for the
eighteenth
century a "temporalizing of the chain of being.
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As she finished her song, great armies ofgods and demons
gathered
from Tibet, China, and Nepal.
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"
The conclusion of this speech convinced my father that my ideas were
deranged, and he instantly changed the subject of our
conversation
and
endeavoured to alter the course of my thoughts.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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"
The conclusion of this speech convinced my father that my ideas were
deranged, and he instantly changed the subject of our
conversation
and
endeavoured to alter the course of my thoughts.
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As for his antagonists, they seemed much
agitated; not so much by the value of their stake, as because they had
some
scruples
about betting under conditions so difficult to their
friend.
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"
From a technological medium that records their voices without asking for hidden
thoughts
or ideas, experimental subjects learned "the release of linguistic expression from mental life" through their own bodies.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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With his
assistance
I succeeded, and this was his _Ode to a
Nightingale_.
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Keats |
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And that
unknowing
what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,
And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land!
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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CCLXX
That Emperour is now
returned
to Aix.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And if this
footnote
isn't a prime specimen of my tendency toward philological excess, I don't know what is.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Then, farther on, she
lost the tracks; but in a
neighboring
field she thought she found
them again.
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With its activistic storming of doing, planning, and thinking for oneself, it was so successful for two
centuries
that in the meantime it can scarcely still bear its own success.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Phaedra
Noble,
glittering
creator of a sad family,
You, whose daughter my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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A MATTER [Footnote: The reading "Maxima," which is that both of
Rosenkranz and Hartenstein, is
obviously
an error for "Materie.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Hippolyte
Carnot, we grieve to
say, is so much blinded by party spirit that he seems to reckon this
dirty wickedness among his hero's titles to public esteem.
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Macaulay |
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Cheadle, Ezra Pound's
Confucian
Translations, 81.
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I, having vainly begged the wilful girl to rise and remove her wet
things, left him
preaching
and her shivering, and betook myself to bed
with little Hareton, who slept as fast as if everyone had been sleeping
round him.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Do prejudiced
individuals
tend to have different images of their parents than do unprejudiced ones?
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Ay--sonnets--a fine
courtier
of the old Court, old Sir
Thomas.
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Tennyson |
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Did he write _Hymnes_, for piety and wit
Equall to those great grave
_Prudentius_
writ?
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Donne - 1 |
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for the satires, in the
writings
of Menippus of Gadara in Syria (flourishing about 475).
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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An Abridgement of the
Chronicles
of England, gathered by Richard Grafton,
Citizen of London.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their
vanishing
eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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le Bimard, Baron,
_Memoires
de l'Academie, etc.
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Byron |
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Ce
voyageur
aile, comme il est gauche et veule!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then,
the principal
interest
of the day being over, as these dances were
finished, the _fete_ ended.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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As for his antagonists, they seemed much
agitated; not so much by the value of their stake, as because they had
some
scruples
about betting under conditions so difficult to their
friend.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Where Revel calls, and Laughter, vainly loud,
False to the heart, distorts the hollow cheek,
To leave the
flagging
spirit doubly weak!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"those clouds, sometimes dark and some-
"times brilliant, which the wind scatters;
"and whether death has
snatched
your
"friends from you, or life, still more cruel,
"has broken asunder your bonds of union
"with them, you will perceive in the stars
"their deified images; they will appear to
"you such as you will see them again here-
"after.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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The dogs were
handsomely
provided for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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But when we reach'd the isle where we had left
Our num'rous barks, and where my people sat
Watching with
ceaseless
sorrow our return,
We thrust our vessel to the sandy shore,
Then disembark'd, and of the Cyclops' sheep
Gave equal share to all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But when we reach'd the isle where we had left
Our num'rous barks, and where my people sat
Watching with
ceaseless
sorrow our return,
We thrust our vessel to the sandy shore,
Then disembark'd, and of the Cyclops' sheep
Gave equal share to all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
house; 375
ffor ?
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“Alexandra
should know about this.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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“Alexandra
should know about this.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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His own
brilliant
politi-
cal career was opened in 1701, by the publication of the Discourse
on the Contests and Dissensions in Athens and Rome.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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We do not mean that the _Edinburgh Review_ was to join in the general
_hue and cry_ that was raised against this writer; but while it asserted
the soundness of many of his arguments, and yielded its assent to the
truths he has divulged, it need not have
screened
his errors.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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The
Prussians
wouldn't be at all disconcerted by it.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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I
will not say that prison is the best thing that could have happened to
me: for that phrase would savour of too great
bitterness
towards myself.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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The poem, however, is such as may be justly
praised, without much
allowance
for the state of our poetry and language
at that time.
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In my time the fellows that matricu-
lated were of a
different
sort from nowadays.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Maintain
attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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We
_will_ know where we have gone--we _will_
recollect
what we have seen.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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hegel presents islam in his
Lectures
on the Philosophy of Religion not as a new, specific religion, but, just like Judaism, as a 'religion of the sub- lime', that means a religion of the overwhelming existence of the infinite god that threatens the (semi)autonomy and freedom of the finite world.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Then with his mules and polish ' Came Pelias rushing from afar ,
Mute wonder held his mind in thrall Soon as alone the right foot round
He view '
But with
dissembled
fear address ' The monarch , his unwelcome guest :
d the well -known sandal d
163 Homer Od 304 gives the same character the
Aloida gemini See also Virg Æn 581 and Stat Theb
850
Vidisti Aloidas cum cresceret impia tellus
d car
bound .
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Pindar |
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I will not bind fresh roses in my hair,
To shame a cheek at best but little fair,--
Leave youth his roses, who can bear a thorn,--
I will not seek for
blossoms
anywhere,
Except such common flowers as blow with corn.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Another reading, aerial/ii; 5'd1roku'1recrae, ls variou
busy enough notwithstanding,' or 'yet you take care to be everywhere'
(Dobree), 'there is nothing in which you do not interfere' (Whiston),
nihil intactum relinquitis, m'hil 'non
asseckzmini
a.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Truth
concerned
being in itself; beauty concerned being for oth-
ers.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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For Trakl, the world that surpasses the everyday is in the
systematicity
of its reconstitution every bit as reified as the traditional categories of perception it sought to move be- yond.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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How fair the morn, how
joyfully
the birds their mad-
rigals proclaim!
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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He counted out ninety-four-thousand
rubles and passed them to Herman, who
accepted
them without showing the
least surprise, and at once withdrew.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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This incident annoyed the populace, but Cleochares and his associates took control of the government and ruled in a
tyrannical
fashion, hoping by this means to escape punishment for the murder of Leonippus.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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I have no insight into the possibility of a man so eminently wise, using
words with such half-meanings to himself, as must
perforce
pass into no
meaning to his readers.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Hermies,
the tyrant of Artanea, a city of Mysia, was of this number, and had
been m
confidence
with Philip.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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in front of the eternal
computer
screen.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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We would have to inquire into the relationship between dialectic and a linear concept of causality, into the question of whether we can admit a concept of conflict that is
independent
of the circumstances in which conflict is worked out, and into the meaning of the political character of Marxism itself.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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At the same time, the German gas artillery introduced the new combat gas, `yellow cross' or `Lost',(8) in the Western front against British troops, which produced severe injuries to the organism especially loss of sight and catastrophic nervous
disorders
when it came in contact with the skin or membranes of the eyes and respiratory paths.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
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blake-poems |
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The Duke of Augustenburg's claim in 1863 was a declara-
tion that the
Settlement
of 1852, which ruled out his
father and was accepted by him, was a wrong decision to
which he had not been a party, and was therefore not bind-
ing on him.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Tribes,
festivals
and processions: Civic ceremonial and
political manipulation in archaic Greece.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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And the fiercest freaky ever
followed
a pining child round the sluppery table with a forkful of fat.
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Finnegans |
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The mellow autumn came, and with it came
The
promised
party, to enjoy its sweets.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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The hour is more
unfavorable
to it than ever.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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’
‘You are an old
offender!
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Spenser here imitates the
description of the magic horn of Logistilla in Ariosto's
_Orlando
Furioso_,
xv, 15, 53.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The pamphlet, Soviet Women in the War Against Hitlerism, contains
highly dramatic
descriptions
of the exploits of individual Soviet hero-
ines.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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He was a god who represented
vegetation
fad-
ing in the hot, dry summer and afterwards reviving at a more congenial
season.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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[63]
--Before those thresholds (never can they know [64]
The face of
traveller
passing to and fro,)
No peasant leans upon his pole, to tell 240
For whom at morning tolled the funeral bell;
Their watch-dog ne'er his angry bark foregoes,
Touched by the beggar's moan of human woes;
The shady porch ne'er offered a cool seat
To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Such
procedures
shed light on functions as foreign to the individual and consciousness as writing ultimately is.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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His Poems) (1866) show
undeniable
genius
and a pathos blended with sprightliness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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He had besieged the strong city of Tyre, and
for several weeks
battered
it with all his power; but all in vain.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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And many of those which used curious arts, bringing their books, burnt them before them all; and when they had cast the price of them, they found it fifty
thousand
pieces of silver.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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_ RUY BLAS
_returns
without the
sword.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Regarded
from this point, both
things and beings commence to live a life more closely leagued together and
at the same time more private; more individual and more general.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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What pleasures have I missed
enjoying!
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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For his sake
she
embarked
upon the rashest and most contradictory enter-
prises.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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They also say that Antigonus presented him three
thousand
drachmas.
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Con el esquema del todo vivo y sus partes el holismo su blime depara la matriz de las ontologías altamente culturales de coopera ción, servicio, sacrificio, sin las que no funciona hasta hoy ninguna Iglesia romana, ninguna empresajaponesa, tampoco ningún cuerpo de marines USA ni ninguno de los regímenes militares que han mostrado sus
violen
tos colores sobre los mapas políticos del siglo XX.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Cẩn sự Thị lang Trung thư giám Chính tự
Nguyễn
Tủng vâng sắc viết chữ (chân).
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stella-03 |
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Wherein should Life and the Blessedness of Life have
their element if they had it not in
Thought?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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To sage philosophy next lend thine ear,
From Heaven
descended
to the low-roofed house
Of Socrates.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Among other
things, Defects may take the form of incomplete, inaccurate or
corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other
intellectual property infringement, a defective or damaged
disk or other etext medium, a
computer
virus, or computer
codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And
sometimes
also they use
somewhat of a sting, but so nevertheless that they rather tickle than
wound; nor do they ever more truly flatter than when they would seem to
use the greatest freedom of speech.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Neither would I despair to prove, if legally called thereto, that it is
impossible
to be a good soldier, divine, or lawyer, or even so much as an eminent bellman, or ballad-singer, without some taste of poetry, and a competent skill in versification.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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I can think in German,
I can feel in
German—I
can do most things; but
this is beyond my powers.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Or,
threading
the dark worldly multitude
And making lightning of its path, there comes
A zeal from God posting along our lives.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me since
mourning
doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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First his
paternal
goods were clean dispersed;
Second went Pontus' spoils and for the third,--
Ebro-land,--weets it well gold-rolling Tage.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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