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Whatever
the intentions of the Persians may be," contin ued"Callias, " I maintain that they will be here in three days.
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) Since o'er-indulgent Heaven has been so kind, To op'n our Eyes by Miracles, we find
All Men
admiring
they've so long been blind ;
Surpris'd, they should so long their Friends oppose, And with their credulous Trust caress their Foes.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust,
detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large
pupil
dilating
under his ebon eyebrow.
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" His most
intimate
friends see
nothing in him, by which they could trace the work to the author.
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But what shall we now say, if perhaps _Ratiocination_ be nothing Else but
a _Copulation_ or _Concatenation_ of _Names_ or
_Appellations_
by this
Word _Is_?
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Alles wird Bild und Gleichnis in ihm, tauscht sich in seiner Seele zu andern
Ausdrucksmo
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Whilst yet a schoolboy he wrote many lyrical
compositions and commenced _Ruslan and Liudmila_, his first poem
of any magnitude, and, it is asserted, the first
readable
one ever
produced in the Russian language.
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8 A remarkable exception is the carefully planned press and television
treatment
of the anti-corruption campaign led by Italian state pros- ecutors and judges.
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The method at all events has an interest of its
own, a strength of its own, a
grandeur
of its own.
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' The bundle was dated and endorsed 'All this wrote
between 11 and 2 o'clock
Saturday
in the utmost distress of mind.
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thou dost not see,
My son, how great a flame's
prepared
for thee.
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Then once more, cloaked and ready, he set out,
Tripping the
footsteps
of the eager boy
Along the dappled cobbles, while the rout
Within the tavern jeered at his employ.
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)—a
labyrinth
would have
to be our model.
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Obviously, something much more potent is
required
for
this than a fine skill in narrative and poetic ornament.
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ffingus was probably
ordained
Priest
tise of St.
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Business
than _Cocles.
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Erasmus |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I told him this is a pleasant life
To set your breast to the bark of trees
That all your days are dim beneath,
And
reaching
up with a little knife,
To loose the resin and take it down
And bring it to market when you please.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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And
certainly
in storie it is y-founde,
That Troilus was never un-to no wight, 835
As in his tyme, in no degree secounde
In durring don that longeth to a knight.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
Americandepartmentalsystemhas
many internablalances;transferretdoGermanyithasledtonarrownessandtothe
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They brought gold dust (which is turned
up by the ant-eater[19]), also a pair of
hippogriffs
guided by golden
reins.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Mor-
gan, 48 corporations,
including
40 railroad cor-
porations, with at least 100 subsidiary com-
panies, and 16,000 miles of line; 3 banks and
trust or insurance companies; 5 industrial and
public-service companies.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Đến năm nay là năm Giáp Thìn niên hiệu Hồng Đức năm thứ 15 (1484) mới sai thần là (Đàm) Văn Lễ soạn bài ký khắc vào đá dựng ở cửa nhà Thái học để làm cho thịnh điển
được
đầy đủ.
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stella-04 |
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For sure God's love hath
wandered
to strange nations;
His pleasure in the breasts of Jerusalem
Is a delight grown old.
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This would mean
fighting
against one false respectability with another.
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" The
Dedication
is wanting in the copy of the
Fifth Edition in the British Museum.
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Byron |
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No hope of respite, of escape no way,
Her bright eyes wage such
constant
havoc here;
Alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Glorieuse vierge mere
Qui a nul onques amere
Ne fus en terre ne en mer,
Ta douceur ores m'apere
Et ne
sueffres
que mon pere
De devant li me jecte puer.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It is, in fact, an
absolutely
aristocratic age--an age
in which he who rules is thereby proven the "best.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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HS 90
How
limitless
the Three Evil Paths;1 Murky and dark without a sun.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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In England the gap between what can
be said and what can be printed is rather
exceptionally
wide.
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Orwell |
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Lie close until she pass; then
question
her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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But, one would answer, a
scripture
says, "When he knows thus, when he.
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(The so-called "blue report" of 1948, which was preparedat the
commandof
the militarygovernorof the Britishzone of occupation,was workedout by a committeeof expertswhichincludedas membersthe Master of Balliol College, Oxford,and a person like Carl FriedrichWeizsa?
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Interest
from the principal [at the time of lending]; and, the
more desperate in his circumstances any one is, the more severely be
pinches him: he hunts out the names of young fellows that have just put
on the toga virilis under rigid fathers.
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Horace - Works |
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Baudelaire
had been steadily, rather, unsteadily,
going downhill; a desperate figure, a dandy in shabby attire.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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' On this, without putting off his robes, he went; and on the
occasion
presented them as his contribution (to the mourning rites).
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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These were the
questions
Bowlby set out to answer.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the
changeling
Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Neither wilt Thou suffer that
sanctified
body, whereby others are to be also sanctified, to see
Thou hast made known to Me the paths of life.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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I am convinced by a sad
experience
that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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The lines are to be read
according
to the numbering.
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Pattern Poems |
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Braefield
with a certain pride in
her look.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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The same unmoved oblivion
On us beyond the grave attends,
The voice of lovers, foes and friends,
Dies suddenly: of heirs alone
Remains on earth the
unseemly
rage,
Whilst struggling for the heritage.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was
Cassandra
Salviati, the daughter of an Italian banker.
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Ronsard |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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221 But he conquered many
barbarians
and called the whole country under him Media,222 and marching against the Indians he met his death.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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It was the
precursor
of the conquest of Syria by the
Seljūq Turks.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every
pomegranate
bursts, murmuring with the bees:
And our blood, enamoured of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Crime of sorts ever
precedes
some greater crime.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"An Enigma,"
addressed
to Mrs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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THE
LOGICIANS
REFUTED.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Butt whenne hee came, hys
children
twaine,
And eke hys lovynge wyfe,
Wythe brinie tears dydd wett the floore,
For goode Syr CHARLESES lyfe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Not less than twenty-two names
rt and
Humanity
in Homer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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He seemed much more
concerned
to gain an eternal crown than to rule an earthly kingdom.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Now the democratic ideal, as we have seen, has manifested itself
historically
in the form of a social contract among free indi- viduals.
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YO
indicates
music and jollity, the most used showing a tree bursting into the fine white teeth of its blossom.
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Cadences, real cadences, real
cadences
and a quiet color.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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The officers of the
German Army at times glance critically at the history
of Austria's military forces, who, with rare exceptions,
have for 130 years always fought bravely and--unsuccess-
fully; and they compare the days of Metz and Sedan
with the
hopeless
campaign against the Bochese.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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There is no carefully interwoven plot such as tragedy
presents, for example in
_Oedipus
Rex_.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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"117
Nicholas Breton writes in like manner:
"In Ouids Metamorphosis
I read there of a spring,
Whereby
Narcissus
caught his bane,
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Dangerous was discord, more
dangerous
still unanimity.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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First, since the
Page 214
Page 215
Tran * had
overthrown
the Lý by force, this decree was intended to uproot any loyalty for the Lý remaining in the people's hearts.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Vouchsafe
me more soundpicture!
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Finnegans |
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La me`re perd
la raison, et le pe`re
parcourt
le monde comme un malheureux
errant qui ne veut d'asile nulle part.
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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No
Shadowes
now nor lightning flames give terro^r.
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Donne - 1 |
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KAU}
Casting their
sparkies
dire abroad into the dismal deep {Alternate reading of "sparkles" for "sparkies.
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Blake - Zoas |
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219: sunnato samddhi,
animitto
samddhi, appanihito samddhi; Dhammasangani, 344, 505; Vibhanga, Preface, p.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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In his very active career
he has published over thirty books on religious,
social, and moral questions, among which may
be mentioned: (The Religion of Evolution
(1876); “Social
Problems)
(1886); (My Creed
(1887); (Jesus and Modern Life) (1893); (A
Man (1895); Religion for To-day) (1897).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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But in a Common-wealth this measure is false: Not the
Appetite of Private men, but the Law, which is the Will and
Appetite
of
the State is the measure.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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E ancor questo qua su si comporta
con men
disdegno
che quando e posposta
la divina Scrittura o quando e torta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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While the Frenchman ate, the
PATRON’S
wife stood behind the grille of the kitchen
door and watched the expression of his face.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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By the 2d century the worship of Mithra had spread
throughout
the Roman Empire, as it was popular with the Roman legions.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Withoute
comfort, thought me sleeth;
This game wol bringe me to my deeth.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ipsumqu' ajaciden genus
armipStentis
a-\-chillel
( Achillel--synceresis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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I determined they should come
about as they pleased for me; and though it was a
tiresomely
slow
process, I began to rejoice at length in a faint dawn of its progress: as
I thought at first.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Initial Stage of
Romanticism
in Poland.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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A hazy kind of light
made the
turbulent
river look madder than ever.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The entire group of theses concerning the wrath of God, including its ghastly
eschatological
depictions, can only be reconstructed in the light of a thymotic economy.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime
was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke
about the same subject as there were always at least two members of
the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by
themselves
and
it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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'
-
Aytoun was a man of great charm and geniality in society; even
to Americans, though he detested America with the energy of fear —
the fear of all who see its prosperity sapping the
foundations
of their
class society.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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The
consciousness
of the masses
needs only to be influenced in a negative way.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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The work of art is beautiful by being what art never has been; and to
measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on
the
reflection
of which its real perfection depends.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Bribery in office,
muddle and corruption in court showed
no promise of
disappearing
-- rather the
opposite.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Meredith - Poems |
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The spirit of
propaganda
is in- transigeance.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Coloured
objects, by reason of the atomic structures of their pigments or surface layers, absorb light of some wavelengths and reflect other wavelengths.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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[43] Thrice this libation I pour, thrice, Lady, this prayer I say: be woman at this hour or man his love-mate, O be that mate
forgotten
even as old Theseus once forgat the fair-tressed damsel in Dia.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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One doesn't hit a
rock or a solid log raft with a
steamboat
when he can get ex-
cused.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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And if they had done so, it would have defused the para- noia
pervading
the Assembly and rendered war far less likely.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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The views of the governed are
often materially
different
from those who govern.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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He alludes to the heat while the
sun is passing through the
Constellation
Virgo.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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' What you say,' he
continued
presently, ' is quite right.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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When gold and jade fill the hall, their
possessor
cannot keep them
safe.
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Tao Te Ching |
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