The mauve and
greenish
souls of the little
Millwins
Were seen lying along the upper seats Like so many unused boas.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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A
CHRISTMAS
TREE AND A WEDDING
A STORY
The other day I saw a wedding .
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Sence to-day I am
recommanded
that I have to tel you my
37
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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the
d
by
But he who has obtain 'd the meed
That crowns each fair and noble deed ,
With hope and joy
transported
glows .
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Pindar |
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Taking the
official
Italian figures, which are also relied on by
M.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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As long as money came to the treasury,
'no one troubled to enquire how it was obtained: and as it had been
necessary to yield to the
venality
of the public offices, so the only course
was to appear as blind to the dealings of the administration as to the
sufferings of the subjects.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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The poets of this new condition of things,
if they had sufficient leisure to write, would be
dreaming of nothing but the blissful and loveless
past, the divine
selfishness
of yore, and the wonder-
ful possibilities in former times of remaining alone,
not being run after by one's friends, and of even
being hated and despised—or any other odious ex-
pressions which the beautiful animal world in which
we live chooses to coin.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Watson comes slip-slop
To mind the
business
of the shop.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Unfortunately, the logic of the Hobbesian trap means there is also danger in numbers, because neighbors may fear they are
becoming
outnumbered and form alliances in their turn to contain the growing menace.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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\ Then
continue
to me in the
prefent Contefl that Favour and Benevolence, which in many
former Trials I have conftantly experienced.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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If, from any verse of
ordinary
construction, we
tion in our English poetry than in the Latin, where, without the
smallest difference in the metre, the heroic verse of six feet may
vary from thirteen to seventeen syllables, and the common six-
foot Iambic from twelve to eighteen.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The grey wolf knows me; by one ear
I lead along the
woodland
deer;
The hares run by me growing bold.
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Yeats |
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From the essentially accidental and unplanned combination of these factors developed that overwhelming, world-encompassing, and - to the unsophis- ticated mind- "unnatural"force that
constitutes
the basic premise of all modern history and that Marxism, grossly oversimplifying, identifies as ''capitalism.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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_The Flood_
Waves trough, rebound, and furious boil again,
Like plunging monsters rising underneath,
Who at the top curl up a shaggy mane,
A moment catching at a surer breath,
Then plunging
headlong
down and down, and on
Each following whirls the shadow of the last;
And other monsters rise when those are gone,
Crest their fringed waves, plunge onward and are past.
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John Clare |
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I trusted the brook barrier, but feared
The road would fail; and on that side the fire
Died not without a noise of
crackling
wood--
Of something more than tinder-grass and weed--
That brought me to my feet to hold it back
By leaning back myself, as if the reins
Were round my neck and I was at the plough.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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However, Vishinsky's 1952 compromise pro-
vided that agents of the international control agency
should have the right of
continuous
on-the-spot inspection
in every country, with the qualification that the agency
was not entitled to "interfere in the domestic affairs of
states.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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A
body of troops, sent without delay to Messina,
expelled
the
Carthaginians.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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At length
the
Hyperborean
moulded a clay Eros, and ordered it to _go and
fetch Chrysis_.
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Lucian |
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Elizabeths at first but later could visit Pound during his time on the grounds and told him inside stories about
Washington
between the wars [EM, Diffi?
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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But because of [the
recognition
of a] "this," there came to be boundaries.
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Chuang Tzu |
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But for the rest,--lest we delay thee here
Longer by empty promises--behold,
Before all else, the seas, the lands, the sky:
O Memmius, their threefold nature, lo,
Their bodies three, three aspects so unlike,
Three frames so vast, a single day shall give
Unto
annihilation!
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Lucretius |
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Since Frederick the Great
had learned the meaning of Russian enmity in the Seven
Years' War, friendship between Berlin and
Petersburg
was
a postulate of Prussian safety.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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[275]
I do not give you the
foregoing
song for your book, but merely by way
of _vive la bagatelle_; for the piece is not really poetry.
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Robert Burns- |
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And that is all that is wanting to
complete
his happiness, eh?
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Lucian |
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Now, in the first place, it seems
to me that a man has no
business
to run away from life: he ought to
wait till his time comes.
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Lucian |
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I felt it very improper, for you can't go on
for some years
teaching
etiquette and decorum to other girls without
the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and
he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who saw us--and we didn't
care if they did--so on we walked.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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And your foul papers, the filth of your
newsprint
has been subsidized to keep your minds off it.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Through the first, interactions between enemies were established on postmilitary foundations; through the second, function- alism was able to reintegrate itself in the world of perception; through the third, the
phenomena
of life and knowledge were entwined to depths hitherto unknown.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Comic actors do not necessarily laugh behind their masks and, in reading the Charon, we are even tempted to
consider
genu ine an epigram, replete with feeling, that is attributed to Lucian.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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The dgama lasts as long as the first two categories exist; the
adhigama
lasts as long as the third exists.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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This arrangement
likewise produced little or no amelioration of conditions, despite a
gradual
increase
in the numerical strength of the police force, which
was controlled from 1835 to 1855 by a succession of junior officers
chosen from the Company's military establishment.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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(
In 1775, a paper of his against slavery brought him the kindly
regard of many distinguished Americans, and the
friendship
of Frank-
lin was an invaluable guarantee.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Before the door of the Commandant's house a Cossack held by
the bridle a
magnificent
white horse of Kirghiz breed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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)
người
xã Kim Đôi huyện Vũ Ninh (nay thuộc xã Kim Chân huyện Quế Võ tỉnh Bắc Ninh).
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stella-04 |
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He came down the aisle of the chapel, his legs shaking and the scalp of
his head
trembling
as though it had been touched by ghostly fingers.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Nevertheless, some weighty problems must be solved and a series of preparatory moves carried through before he is in a position to launch out upon the
remainder
of his grandiose pro- gram of world hegemony.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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"
I objected that the Nijny plant was apparently so
far behind schedule that it was hard to conceive that
they would be
producing
so soon, much less export-
ing Soviet Ford cars abroad.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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The rivers are so
many—why
bother crossing them?
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| Source: |
Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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The mighty chief,
atheling excellent,
unblithe
sat,
labored in woe for the loss of his thanes,
when once had been traced the trail of the fiend,
spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow,
too long, too loathsome.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
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Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
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fees.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The word seems to have a slightly pejora- tive meaning, with
overtones
of sedition or gang activities.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Multitudes accompanied the Protestant preachers whom the
Inquisition pursued, bore them on their
shoulders
to and from church,
and at the risk of their lives concealed them from their persecutors.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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seemed to promise
something
more
VOL.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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The bride is found; Mistress Hannele has the
smallest
feet.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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It isn't just to make a wind you blow,
But to turn red fire into white
quivering
heat.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The fif- The
fifteenth
article was, " That he procured the
teenth ar-
ticle.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Tho' he might write he had the Liberty of an Englishman, not to accuse himself The very same Thing which was
afterwards
put in Practice by those Reverend Per sons, who, later than he, and cheaper too, defended their Coun tries Liberty with only the Loss of their own.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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869-880) And from
Typhoeus
come boisterous winds which blow damply,
except Notus and Boreas and clear Zephyr.
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Hesiod |
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Without subtle
ingenuity
of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.
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The-Art-of-War |
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It is because of this redoubled gap that every new form arises as a cre- ation ex nihilo: the Nothingness out of which the New arises is the very gap between the Old-in-itself and the Old-for-the-New, the gap that makes impossible the account of the rise of the New in the terms of a
continuous
narrative.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use
prohibit
mass downloads or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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His
love of
Hellenism
certainly led him to philology;
but, as a matter of fact, what concerned him most
was to obtain a wide view of things in general,
and this he hoped to derive from that science;
philology in itself, with his splendid method and
thorough way of going to work, served him only
as a means to an end.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Why, even here
Priestcraft
burns out, the twined linen blazes;
Not, like asbestos, to grow white and clear,
But all to perish!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Better have borne the petulant proud disdain
Of Amaryllis, or
Menalcas
wooed,
Albeit he was so dark, and you so fair!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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It is
fortunate
that
we stayed, for I don't know what had become of us!
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| Question: |
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Selection of English Letters |
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First, the
historical
mean value of the series is not 1, but 1.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Schlegel was exiled because he was my friend, because his
conversation animated my solitude; the system was beginning to
be worked that was to manifest itself more clearly, of making
for me a prison of my soul, by
depriving
me of all the enjoy-
ments of society and of friendship.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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For however
important
technique may be in war, it
never turns the scales unaided.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Luhmann, Niklas, The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal
Structures
in Modern Society , Social Research, 43:1 (1976:Spring) p.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Hereafter it may be of
interest
to you to see how true you guess.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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“Might
get such another” : the greater part of a sacrificed animal was eaten by the sacrificers.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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(King Pasenadi
speaking
to Sakyamllni):
"I asked the lord about omniscience and he explained omniscience to me in a manner which pleases, satisfies and gladdens me.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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But she
considered
how terribly attached these animals were to their physical bodies and felt great compassion for them, and they all disappeared.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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A monk asked: "What does it mean, 'Do not bring up the wondrous treasury to the
Tathagata
*; do not ask the patriarchs for fire to keep the lamp lit'?
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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For if I saw thee once transform'd in me,
Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul;
Then all my
thoughts
should in thy visage shine,
And if that aught mischanced thou should'st not moan
Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone;
No, I would have my share in what were thine:
And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one,
This happy harmony would make them none.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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37 To recite Gabriel's salutation was neither to ask something of Mary nor to
attribute
it to her divinity.
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| Question: |
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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In the middle 19705 most inhabitants of Idi Amin's Uganda must have felt their lives
becoming
nasty, brutish, and short, quite as in Thomas Hobbes's state of nature.
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant
bantling!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Just as
Earwicker
is metamorphosed into Adam, Noah, Lord Nelson, mountain, or a tree, so ALP becomes by subtle transposition, Eve, Isis, Iseult, a passing cloud, a flowing stream.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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xviii):
"In order to show the
distinction
between His holiness and ours, it is
declared that He shall be born holy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
The
Cathedral
is a burning stain on the white, wet night.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
On the one hand, Paul writes to the Corinthians: ‘If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a
resounding
gong or a clanging cymbal’ (1 Corinthians 13:1).
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Her latest novel, The
Massarenes,' is a
powerful
satire upon the English aristocracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
|
6 William Robert Fearon (1892-1959) was a Professor ofBiochemistry (1934-1959) at Trinity College Dublin as well as a playwright, author
ofParnell
ofAvondale (1934).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
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For not the whispering south-wind on its way
So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their
bouldered
beds.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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As a
young man, he was
introduced
by Ibn Tufail (Abubacer), author of
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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1 The poem may be taken as an
allegory
of the individual human (barge), endowed with the Buddha nature (treasures), attempting to reach enlightenment (the shore).
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
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It could never, by any logic, find its
reality in the emptiness of the
truthless
abyss.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The last Partition of Roland in 1795 had for
result a complete change in the
political
and social
life of the country, but did not effect any radical
change in the literature, except, perhaps, for the
?
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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He had
rendered
great
services in that final struggle with Mark Antony
which put the undivided empire into the hands of
Augustus, and was appointed in reward to the gov-
ernment of Egypt, then for the first time a Eoman
province.
| Guess: |
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Only now did the spreading of Christian missions
across the entire globe and the
founding
of sustainable church
communities in the remotest corners of the world become a practical
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The second irony of dechristianization is evident in the fact that the new major cultural force in Europe, the Enlightenment, amounted to a continuation of Christianity by rationalist and historico- philosophical means by virtue of its ideological or propagandistic design.
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Port-Royal,
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CATULLUS 69
CII
If ever friend has trusted friend
Whose faith is tried and true,
Discretion proved,
allegiance
firm,
Cornelius, it is you.
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Cambridge
and London, 1931.
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Apologies
if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site features should almost never be blocked.
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The Gaelic league wants
something
in Irish.
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Those which will now be furnished relate chiefly to the sudden and
frequent
alterations of mon- ey which began after the fall of Constan?
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Then, in 1833, came Prometheus Bound, a trans-
lation from Aeschylus, with which the translator herself came to
be so thoroughly dissatisfied that she suppressed it, so far as
she was able, and substituted for it a second translation, which
was
published
in 1850, in the same volume as Sonnets from the
Portuguese.
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He faints, dissolved into a sea of love; _25
But thou art as a planet sphered above;
But thou art Love itself--ruling the motion
Of his
subjected
spirit: such emotion
Must end in sin and sorrow, if sweet May
Had not brought forth this morn--your wedding-day.
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In
discussing
his theory of memory and its inscription, Nietzsche once mentioned the "slogan and catchphrase" [Schhg- und Stichwort]-* and with that illustrated the process he was describing.
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Feeling a little better after this witticism, the Rector settled himself m his
chair and made a fairly good breakfast off the despised bacon, while Dorothy
(she was not having any bacon this mornmg-a penance she had set herself
yesterday for saying ‘Damn’ and idling for half an hour after lunch) meditated
upon a good conversational opening
There was an unspeakably hateful job in front of her-a demand for money
At the very best of times getting money out of her father was next door to
impossible, and it was obvious that this morning he was going to be even more
‘difficult’ than usual ‘Difficult’ was another of her euphemisms He’s had bad
news, I suppose, she thought despondently, looking at the blue envelope
Probably no one who had ever spoken to the Rector for as long as ten
minutes would have denied that he was a ‘difficult’ kind of man The secret of
his almost unfailing ill humour really lay in the fact that he was an
anachronism He ought never to have been born into the modern world, its
whole atmosphere disgusted and infuriated him A couple of centuries earlier,
a happy pluralist writing poems or collecting fossils while curates at £40 a year
administered his parishes, he would have been perfectly at home Even now, if
he had been a richer man, he might have consoled himself by shutting the
twentieth century out of his consciousness But to live m past ages is very
expensive, you can’t do it on less than two thousand a year The Rector,
tethered by his poverty to the age of Lenin and the Daily Mail , was kept in a
state of chrome exasperation which it was only natural that he should work off
on the person nearest to him-usually, that is, on Dorothy
He had been born m 1871, the younger son of the younger son of a baronet,
and had gone into the Church for the outmoded reason that the Church is the
traditional profession for younger sons His first cure had been in a large,
slummy parish m East London-a nasty, hoohgamsh place it had been, and he
looked back on it with loathing Even m those days the lower class (as he
made a point of calling them) were getting decidedly out of hand It was a little
better when he was curate-m-charge at some remote place m Kent (Dorothy
had been born m Kent), where the decently down-trodden villagers still
touched their hats to ‘parson’ But by that time he had married, and his
A Clergyman’ s Daughter 265
marriage had been diabolically unhappy, moreover, because clergymen must
not quarrel with their wives, its unhappiness had been secret and therefore ten
times worse He had come to Knype Hill m 1908, aged thirty-seven and with a
temper incurably soured-a temper which had ended by alienating every man,
woman, and child m the parish
It was not that he was a bad priest, merely as a priest In his purely clerical
duties he was scrupulously 'correct-perhaps a little too correct for a Low
Church East Anglian parish He conducted his services with perfect taste,
preached admirable sermons, and got up at uncomfortable hours of the
morning to celebrate Holy Communion every Wednesday and Friday But
that a clergyman has any duties outside the four walls of the church was a thing
that had never
seriously
occurred to him Unable to afford a curate, he left the
dirty work of the parish entirely to his wife, and after her death (she died in
1921) to Dorothy People used to say, spitefully and untruly, that he would
have let Dorothy preach his sermons for him if it had been possible The ‘lower
classes’ had grasped from the first what was his attitude towards them, and if
he had been a rich man they would probably have licked his boots, according to
their custom, as it was, they merely hated him Not that he cared whether they
hated him or not, for he was largely unaware of their existence But even with
the upper classes he had got on no better With the County he had quarrelled
one by one, and as for the petty gentry of the town, as the grandson of a baronet
he despised them, and was at no pains to hide it In twenty-three years he had
succeeded in reducmg the congregation of St Athelstan’s from six hundred to
something under two hundred
This was not solely due to personal reasons It was also because the old-
fashioned High Anglicanism to which the Rector obstinately clung was of a
kind to annoy all parties in the parish about equally Nowadays, a clergyman
who wants to keep his congregation has only two courses open to him Either it
must be Anglo-Catholicism pure and simple-or rather, pure and not simple,
or he must be daringly modern and broad-minded and preach comforting
sermons proving that there is no Hell and all good religions are the same The
Rector did neither On the one hand, he had the deepest contempt for the
Anglo-Catholic movement It had passed over his head, leaving him absolutely
untouched, ‘Roman Fever’ was his name for it On the other hand, he was too
‘High’ for the older members of his congregation From time to time he scared
them almost out of their wits by the use of the fatal word ‘Catholic’, not only in
its sanctified place in the Creeds, but also from the pulpit Naturally the
congregation dwindled year by year, and it was the Best People who were the
first to go Lord Pockthorne of Pockthome Court, who owned a fifth of the
county, Mr Leavis, the retired leather merchant, Sir Edward Huson of
Crabtree Hall, and such of the petty gentry as owned motor-cars, had all
deserted St Athelstan’s Most of them drove over on Sunday mornings to
Millborough, five miles away Millborough was a town of five thousand
inhabitants, and you had your choice of two churches, St Edmund’s and St
Wedekind’s.
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These holy men, leaving the work which they had in hand, did cross the seas with great haste, as if the whole nation of the
Macedonians
would have come to meet them with earnest desire to be helped.
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Taste and
adroitness
can
no longer win by novelty.
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His
plays also are of political and social
tendencies
;
they are vigorous, and while somewhat sensa-
tional, show real originality.
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It may be hard to
understand
what Clarisse meant, but it was all perfectly plain to her.
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There was a continual
laugh upon her lips, fresh as the morning rose that, with the first ray
of sunshine, opens its fragrant crimson bud with the cool
dewdrops
still
hanging heavy upon it.
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His father the tusk of Oeta slew,
crushing
his body in the regions of the belly.
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