Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The desperate vagabond finds
deliverance
from
his distress in the compassionate love of a woman
who would rather die than be unfaithful to him:
the theme of the Flying Dutchman.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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The most extreme form of nationalism that any Western European state has mustered since 1945 has been Gaullism, whose self-assertion has been confined largely to the realm of nuisance
politics
and culture.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Over sea, over shore,
Where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quell,
Or his bosom assail,
But the bonnie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns- |
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been written by Alexander Selkirk,
during his
solitary
abode in the island.
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Childrens - Frank |
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I put myself into violent
motion, and I think
repeated
it; but all was vain.
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Selection of English Letters |
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This giv'n to Nisus, he divides the rest,
And equal justice in his gifts express'd
The race thus ended, and rewards bestow'd, Once more the prince bespeaks th' attentive crowd:
"If there be h_re wi_ose
dauntless
courage dare In gauntlet-fight, with limbs and body bare, His opposite sustain in open view,
Stand forth the champion, and the games renew.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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); also, a few frag- ments of
folklore
(?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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read The
Proposals
are com-
monly wanting.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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It seemed that in the heat of those
cellars, as in a turkish bath, one could sweat out almost any
quantity
of drink.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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The
authenticity
of Limbach's record has been defended by Walter Methlagl, 'Hans Limbach ''Begegnung mit Georg Trakl''.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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At length burst in the argent revelry,
With plume, tiara, and all rich array,
Numerous
as shadows haunting fairily
The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay 40
Of old romance.
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Keats |
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Not to mention the information afforded by the
histories of Alexander's Indian campaign and the accounts of the Seleucid
empire, we have in the memoirs of Megasthenes, a
Seleucid
envoy at the
court of the first Maurya, a picture, unfortunately fragmentary, of the
country, its administrative and social features, which research continues to
verify in all its main details.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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701-762
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_A Paper read before the_ CHINA SOCIETY _at the School of Oriental
Studies on
November
21, 1918_
EAST AND WEST, LTD.
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Li Po |
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The clock’s hands stood at four, and supper was not till six,
and there was nothing left
remarkable
beneath the visiting moon.
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Orwell |
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The fly ended up spinning
round and round like a top, at ever-increasing speed - well, within obvious
practical
limits.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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" With such cordiality," says Demosthenes in his
speech on the Crown, "did they welcome you, that while
their own infantry and cavalry were quartered outside
the walls, they
received
your army within their city and
?
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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In addition, elements of the petty bour- geoisie and many
lumpenproletariats
served as strong-arm party thugs, organized into the SA storm troopers.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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In form his
verse belongs wholly to the Dorian lyric; but in giving free scope to
the
personal
element' he resembles Alcman, and when indulging his
passionate erotic sentiment he is evidently under the spell of Sappho
and his contemporary Anacreon.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Dallago comments: 'Ein Mensch in der
lasterhaftesten
Hu ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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He was born in
Bordeaux
in 1843, and in
1860 he began writing for the reviews.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Naturalistic
too is Mme.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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' But the old man hardly seemed to
understand
what was being said
to him.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Running ahead of the pack
The
consequences
of running ahead of the pack are fairly clear.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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At Venice, on the other hand, where he
renewed his old comradeship with Byron, the bitter
cynicism
of
the elder poet called out in protest all Shelley's faith and hope
for men.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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"
To whom the king: "What land so far remote
From Asia's coasts, or Phoebus's glistering rays,
O glorious virgin, that
recordeth
not
Thy fame, thine honor, worth, renown, and praise?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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And last of all, tho they should
_proceed_
from things which are
_different_ from me, it does not therefore follow that they must be
_like_ those things.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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By the
treaty of
Laussane
signed in 1923, Turkey got very favourable
terms and within 6 weeks all the Allied troops left Turkey.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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AN OBJECT
thing, that hath a code and THISnot a core,
Hath set acquaintance where might be affections,
And nothing now
Disturbeth
his reflections.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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or
canst thou guide
Arcturus
with his sons?
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Childrens - The Creation |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Lanier made a
guide-book on Florida, as unlike the
customary
manual as an Arabian
blood mare is unlike a dray-horse.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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p Gnflalovs,
imitated
by Arrian Anab.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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However, the
unsightly
tailless
condition of the vigorous steed was, to the last
hour of the noble creature's life, an awful warning to the Carrick
farmer not to stay too late in Ayr markets.
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Selection of English Letters |
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SONNET II
Oh I do love thee, meek
Simplicity!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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The exposure, more terrible than death to a mind not lost
to all sense of shame, he underwent with a
hardihood
worthy of his
two favourite models, Dangerfield and Oates.
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Macaulay |
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Further reproduction
prohibited
without permission.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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<>,
disse lo mio segnore, <
piu non ci avrai che sol
passando
il loto>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He chiefly aimed to secure the eastern parts, because he foresaw that the Assyrians, who were the most
powerful
people of that time, would want to seize his kingdom, and invade it.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Secretaries, write down : The CEcumenical Council of All Christians, after an insensate oppo- nent of the Divine Majesty had been struck by fire
from heaven,
recognised
unanimously the sovereign Emperor of Rome and all the Universe its supreme
leaderandlord.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Secretaries, write down : The CEcumenical Council of All Christians, after an insensate oppo- nent of the Divine Majesty had been struck by fire
from heaven,
recognised
unanimously the sovereign Emperor of Rome and all the Universe its supreme
leaderandlord.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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"
The
fascinating
aspect of these rhymes of physical abuse is that sel-
dom is a fight started.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Genji
therefore
prepared to come back.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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62 Thus 'the
invisible
orga- nization' of the Jews would be just insurmountable because as soon as
61 Latin: through wickedness--ed.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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In his view
the first living creatures must have come into being in
moisture
(thus
recalling the theory of Thales).
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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”
The Chamber of Princes
consisted
of 120 princes in all.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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I conned old times;
I sat
studying
at the feet of the great masters:
Now, if eligible, O that the great masters might return and study me!
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Whitman |
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Now we are in a position to understand why
Nietzsche
chose to include thepoeminasectionentitled,"Warumichsoklugbin.
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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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Time-forms, as we know from Edmund Husserl, shape the stage upon which we enact experience, including the context in which we read texts we have
inherited
on the pretext of their inherent merit.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works to
protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark.
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Imagists |
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No lights are over the mesa,
The wind is hard and wild,
I stand at the
darkened
window
And cry like a child.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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This group saw in
commercial coercion only a 'source of
irritation
to Great
Britain, and wagered their faith on memorializing and
petitioning.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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For I'd rather be thy child
And pupil, in the forest wild,
Than be the king of men elsewhere,
And most
sovereign
slave of care:
To have one moment of thy dawn,
Than share the city's year forlorn.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Egyptian' is the term for all constructs that can be
subjected
to deconstruction - except for the pyramid, that most Egyptian of edifices.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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54 This is the great whirlpool of the Western Hebrides, to which the poet, Thomas Campbell, makes such happy allu- sion in his
beautiful
poem, "Gertrude of Wyoming.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Ferrars, and the kind
confidante
of himself, talked to her a
great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies,
and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Both place a
semicolon
after 'fell'.
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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They had to become Classical in order to ritually absorb the
Romanticism
from which they had sprung – assuming one can typologically assign their initial apocalyptic upheavals, without which both Christianity and Islam would be inconceivable, to the Romantic end of the spectrum.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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"The most original of all the young
American
writers of to-day.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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1 (2005) 131-139
Access provided by Fordham University Library
[Access article in PDF]
Slow and Brilliant:
Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Stanford University
Given his intellectual stature and visibility, given also that sometimes, and on a merely visceral level, I can still perceive in me some mild
aftershocks
from the rebellious spirit of 1968, I felt almost guilty at first for being so much in agreement with Geoffrey Harpham's conception of the humanities.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Her bays in the south are always free from ice, making most
excellent
ports, and capable of harbouring any number of ships.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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XXXIV
Through a delicious mead the fountain-rill,
By ancient trees o'ershaded, glides away;
And him whose ear its pleasing murmurs fill,
Invites to drink, and on its banks to stay;
On the left side a cultivated hill
Excludes
the fervors of the middle day.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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t rage of his
offended
iealou?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The country round
Barmouth
was pic-
turesque in the highest degree, and in
rambling between the rocks, or climbing
up the hills, the Park and Kensington .
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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This is the art of automation, which does not make any fundamental distinctions between
intelligent
machines and human agents.
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Sloterdijk |
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Note ev'ry
brilliant
moment seems
Replete with, fancy's airy1 dreams.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Note ev'ry
brilliant
moment seems
Replete with, fancy's airy1 dreams.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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[15] G Envoys came from king Mithridates to Rome, bringing a great sum of money, with the
intention
of bribing the senate.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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II AFTER HEINE
And have you
thoroughly
kissed my lips ?
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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'I have brought my
light,' she said, 'to join the
carnival
of lamps.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Before that they spent 1400 years
deciding
Mencius cd/be added to the THREE bks/
**puzzled by the one about wot he (K) ate and his night gown/of course quite simple.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Lamb's literary efforts have
procured
him civic honours (a thing
unheard of in our times), and he has been invited, in his character of
ELIA, to dine at a select party with the Lord Mayor.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Mas o criticismo frusto dos nossos pais, se nos legou a impossibilidade de ser cristão, não nos legou o contentamento com que a tivéssemos; se nos legou a descrença nas fórmulas morais estabelecidas, não nos legou a indiferença à moral e às regras de viver humanamente; se deixou incerto o problema político, não deixou
indiferente
o nosso espírito a como esse problema se resolvesse.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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2945 (#519) ###########################################
LORD BYRON
2945
GREECE
From The Giaour)
H*
E who hath bent him o'er the dead
Ere the first day of death is fled, -
The first dark day of nothingness,
The last of danger and distress,
(Before Decay's effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,)-
And marked the mild angelic air,
The rapture of repose that's there,
The fixed yet tender traits that streak
The languor of the placid cheek,
And – but for that sad shrouded eye,
That fires not, wins not, weeps not now,
And but for that chill, changeless brow,
Where cold Obstruction's apathy
Appalls the gazing mourner's heart,
As if to him it could impart
The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon —
Yes, but for these and these alone,
Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour,
He still might doubt the tyrant's power;
So fair, so calm, so softly sealed,
The first, last look by death
revealed!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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_
Vesper is here, O youths, rise all; for Vesper Olympus
Scales and in fine enfires what lights so long were
expected!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ông giữ các chức quan, như Tri phủ
Tường
Lân, Tham nghị Lạng Sơn.
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| Question: |
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stella-02 |
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Thus, while
describing
events in their simplicity, we may succeed in giving something of the local atmosphere too.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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"And he has boeny hair," said Christie, just
touching
his
locks on the other side.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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So we should no more allow parents to teach their
children
to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible or that the planets rule their lives, than we should allow parents to knock their children's teeth out or lock them in a dungeon.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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" But the Mouse only shook
its head
impatiently
and walked a little quicker.
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
Your prospectus will have described and
announced
both
its contents and their nature; and if any persons purchase it, who
feel no interest in the subjects of which it treats, they will have
themselves only to blame.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Why do they think unfit
That Gentry should joyne
families
with it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 1 |
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We are to rejoice even in the death of the first Christian martyr on Boxing Day, and we remember why Joyce appears under the name of Stephen in his
autobiographical
novels.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Then, Soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:--
So shall thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
And death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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Golden Treasury |
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Or else he replies, as I have often found, that
``if you were afraid of hurting
yourself
when you went to work,
you would give up working.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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A latter spring had come to close up the season
of youth; my brain
performed
its functions as healthily as ever before; I
read Kant again, and again I understood him, or fancied that I did.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Nam, quod
scriptorum
non magna est copia
apud me,
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden,
Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
Hears the
infernal
call, the death-pledge of the horn.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Another is that many
clinicians
and social workers find the resulting schema enables them to understand better the problems with which they are grappling and so to help their patients or clients more effectively.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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He was accompanied by ten or more
fearsomelooking
attendants.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Rubies and diamonds strewed the grass she trode,
And jets of sapphire from the
dolphins
flowed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The unusual nature of the meter, as well as its apparent derivation from a meter that later tradition held in
extremely
low esteem, argue for a very early date indeed for this poem's composition.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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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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Yet such is my
impatience
and hideous irritability
that for one which I detain and write down fifty escape me: in spite of
my weariness from suffering and want of sleep, I cannot stand still or
sit for two minutes together.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Naturally these authors no longer had to take the roads of the slave trade for their
journeys
back to Egypt; through the diaspora, the exodus became a partial change of direction for many.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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And yet, it is very
easily probable that even in the actual
situation
at the bier of the
second, more dearly loved boy, which the dream copied faithfully, she
had not been able to suppress her feelings of affection for the visitor
whom she had missed for so long a time.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Let the world thank thee for the
overthrow
of the Gruthungi and the defeat of their king ; thou wast consul when the Danube ran red with their blood, thou wast consul, too, when thy sire crossed the Alps to victory.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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