The Irish word cAbg
signifies
"a
"
sword," or
means "sharp" or "angry.
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Keats |
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He was for many years the Greek
correspondent
of the London Times.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Un genre
d’esprit
comme celui de Brichot aurait été tenu pour
stupidité pure dans la coterie où Swann avait passé sa jeunesse, bien
qu’il soit compatible avec une intelligence réelle.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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" The
epigraphic
record gives us numerous examples of such minor heroes, whose existence we would not otherwise have suspected.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Et cependant
Tes
caravanes
insensées
T'ont donné ce lustre abondant
Des choses qui sont très-usées,
Mais qui séduisent cependant.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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As this book will be read by
other than
professional
people the passage has not been translated, in
deference to English opinion.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Litis, to wake from sleep and find your eyes
Met in their first fresh upward gaze by love,
Filled with love's happy shame from other eyes,
Dazzled with tenderness and drowned in light
As tho' you looked
unthinking
at the sun,
Oh Litis, that is joy!
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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/C, Witness, false, 191
400, Roman
intervention
in favour of Wolf, She-, of the Capitol, ii.
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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 use of 'businesse' as a trisyllable with
plural meaning is quite legitimate: 'Idle and
discoursing
men, that
were not much affected, how businesse went, so they might talke of
them.
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Donne - 2 |
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It has been
celebrated
as a democratic value but it is one of those democratic values that nietzsche would have associated with a situation of slavery.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He doesn't let likes or
dislikes
get in and do him harm.
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Chuang Tzu |
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LXVI
So speaking, to the natural shape she wore
Before his eyes
returned
the magic dame;
Nor old Atlantes' form was needed more,
The good effect obtained for which she came.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Which troubled once, into huge flames will grow, 65
Ne ever will their fervent fury slake,
Till living
moysture
into smoke do flow,
And wasted life do lye in ashes low.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But to return to the happiness of fools, who when they have passed over
this life with a great deal of
pleasantness
and without so much as the
least fear or sense of death, they go straight forth into the Elysian
field, to recreate their pious and careless souls with such sports as
they used here.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Rainy
Christmas
Eve
The Christmas presents came to the door,
While the rain it did pour ;
We told them we did know
In the morning there would be snow.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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What would a blind man give
to see the pleasant rivers, and meadows, and flowers, and fount-
ains, that we have met with since we met
together?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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«Venez tout de même,
me dit le Baron, dont l'excitation mondaine commençait à tomber, mais
qui éprouvait ce besoin de prolonger, de faire durer les entretiens,
que j'avais déjà remarqué chez la Duchesse de
Guermantes
aussi bien
que chez lui, et qui, tout en étant particulier à cette famille,
s'étend, plus généralement à tous ceux qui, n'offrant à leur
intelligence d'autre réalisation que la conversation, c'est-à-dire une
réalisation imparfaite, restent inassouvis même après des heures
passées ensemble et se suspendent de plus en plus avidement à
l'interlocuteur épuisé, dont ils réclament, par erreur, une satiété
que les plaisirs sociaux sont impuissants à donner.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Rome, and Italy generally, was
suffering
from the twin problems of homelessness and hunger, and Gracchus was determined to try to effect a solution.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Page, "The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some
Contemporary
Epigrams"
(F) D.
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Greek Anthology |
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165 Even by the twel h century, however, this practice of hailing Mary in all her attributes and titles was centuries old, going back to the very origins of the formal cult of the Virgin in the East fol- lowing Mary's o cial
recognition
at the council of Ephesus in 431 as eotokos or "Mother of God.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Always the continent of
Democracy!
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Whitman |
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Questi erano i romori, i quali uditi
ne l'altro
padiglion
fur da costoro,
quivi per accordar venuti invano
col Tartaro, Ruggiero e 'l Sericano.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Doctors, proceeding like the institu-
tionalized
Schreber toward exhausting the contents of the brain, end up in madness themselves.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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The actions of free beings,
strictly
considered, have results
only in other free beings; for in them, and for them
alone, there is a world; and that in which they all agree, is
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Much more
important
for the United States is
Russian competition in wheat here.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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He towered far above the
president
of the
republic--Jules Grevy, that hard-headed, close-fisted old peasant--and
his star had reached its zenith.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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195
And, to a natural sympathy resigned,
In that
forsaken
building where they sate
The Woman thus retraced her own untoward fate.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Special commissions for supervising the administration of
punishment, consisting of the Governor of the prison, the Public
Prosecutor, the judge who heard the case, and two members
nominated by Government (instead of the court which passed
sentence, as proposed by Villert and Van Hamel), should decide on
the actual duration of the punishment, after having
examined
the
convict and his record.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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” instead of answering, as she probably would have done,
had there been no
friendship
and no flattery in the case, “I do not like
him at all,” she directly replied, “I like him very much; he seems very
agreeable.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Child Verse
CATS
" I "HEY fought like demons of the night
-^ Beneath a
shrunken
moon,
And all the roof at dawn of light
y^W^s.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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_ii_
Postquam auem aspexit in templo Anchisa,
sacra in mensa penatium ordine ponuntur,
immolabat
auream uictimam pulcram.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The third reason for the division of the three refuges is just
personal
preference: some are more attracted to the
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD
The
darkness
hung like richness in the room
When like a dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's tinkle stirred the air
Near where a boy sat in the silent gloom.
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Rilke - Poems |
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20
In contrast to these blank, tearful retreats from mother, all but one of the
children
responded affectionately when they first met father again.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Accordingly,
Diogenes
said once to a person who was showing him a clock; "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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< she was\ goiag
to fill it: he said, he would ratherandrt
have anywinei ai aiadw isrimxcM "
11 ol
Oltjolabutfaiyou
mustuidaaiyk tijK>Qr
friend Tom's health.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Ave, rosa sola potis, ferre vim
rhinocerotis
et invictum capere .
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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SUPPLEMENT
MJ1
There is no l/ace of an epode following the strophe
*n
The dialect of Airman was the Spartan Doric,
with an
intermixture
of the .
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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This long time hated of heaven, I
uselessly
delay the years, since the
father of gods and king of men blasted me with wind of thunder and
scathe of flame.
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The more 'that which is per- ceived', say, television, plays a role in this, the more communica- tion is based on implicit
knowledge
which cannot even be communicated.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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that may true;
But true
pardoner
doth nat ensew.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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The masses mass madder, both
numbskull
and sage;
They root up the arbours, they trample the grain;
Make way for the new Resurrected.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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But the
Petrarchian
love, which
Shakespeare treats with light and charming irony, the vows and tears
of Romeo and Proteus, Donne openly scoffs.
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Donne - 2 |
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It consisted of poor,
and, mostly, old and infirm persons, who confined themselves to
a stated round in their neighbourhood, and had certain fixed
days, on which, at
different
houses, they regularly received
charity; sometimes in money, but mostly in provisions.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But the pleasure-seekers of Last Island knew there must have
been a "great blow"
somewhere
that day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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How Demades was soon
afterwards
sent to Macedonia, where he was put to death by Cassander, after his son had been murdered in his arms.
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Roman Translations |
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Of Londini Artium et
Scientiarum
Scaturigo, London's Fountain of Arts
and Sciences (1632) and Londini Emporia, or London's Mercatura (1633),
some account is given in Fairholt, F.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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The peevishness which follows the
offensives
doesn't open its mouth wide
enough for enlightenment to take a step forward.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Los cuatro elementos que enmarcan nues- tra
existencia
individual segu?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Friedrich
Nietzsche, The Gay Science, edited by Bernard Williams, translated by Josefine Nauckhoff, poems translated by Adrian Del Caro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 200.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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This however is but a
temporary
effect.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A
woman’s
arms tried to shield
The head of a sleeping man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Through synchronous observation it becomes
immediately
clear why Benpmin falls behind
Dostoyevsky, although the latter was content with a rather laconic poetic vision, while the former immersed himself over many years in the study of his subject.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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THE POPE He gets
pleasure
out of more things than any man I ever met.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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--Mais puisqu'ils ont rompu,
interrompit
M.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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" But whether the foreigner in China or the "Chinese" girl in Canada, she felt she was
different
from those around her, and when later she returned to China as a teacher, and a student of Chinese culture, she began to be un- comfortably aware of her "lack of roots.
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He, swiftly banished
to mingle with
monsters
at mercy of foes,
to death was betrayed; for torrents of sorrow
had lamed him too long; a load of care
to earls and athelings all he proved.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Et quand vous serez bas,
geignant
sur vos entrailles
Les flancs morts, reclamant votre argent, eperdus,
La rouge courtisane aux seins gros des batailles,
Loin de votre stupeur tordra ses poings ardus!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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]
Biographical Note:
Sara
Teasdale
(1884-1933):
Teasdale was born in St.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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In anger she sent the
Calydonian
boar to ravage his land.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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And when, in later years, she writes him her three immortal letters, his irritation and boredom are
manifest
in every line of his replies.
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But now
when I
distinguish
the Wax from its outward adherents, and consider it
as if it were naked, with it’s coverings pull’d off, then I cannot but
really perceive it with my mind, though yet perhaps my judgment may erre.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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O untroubled these moving mantled miles of shadowless shadows,
And lovely the film of falling flakes; so wayward and slack;
But I thought of many a mother-bird
screening
her nestlings,
Sitting silent with wide bright eyes, snow on her back.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Robert was his
Christian
name.
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Robert Burns- |
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" In any case, Marcus uses this descrip tion of the death of a good man as an a
fortiori
argument: if such a man must expect such an end, then all the more must Marcus himself expect similar reactions at the moment ofhis own death:
This is what people will say about a good man.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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n i * mv t: ~ %
This
elliptical
possessive form, which will not ?
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Carlyle
no doubt was a great talker-no man talked against talk or
broke silence to praise it more
eloquently
than he, but unfortu-
nately none of it is in evidence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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i6 Introduction
much as
Voltaire
laughed at the King's French
verses.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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But there are powerful reasons for
believing
that it is the ideal that will govern the material world in the long run.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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“I would not on any
account trifle with her
affectionate
solicitude; or allow her to hear it
from anyone but myself.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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The only plausible answer, albeit still a surmise, is that Hiên Quang himself repaired the temple on Mount Yên Tu'*; afterward when
Yuanzheng
came to Vietnam and went into Mount Yên Tu' to transmit the Dharma, he might have honored Hiên Quang with the title of first patriarch of the (Linji) Zen lineage on Mount Yên Tu'.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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--The
letter was written to a friend: and the
apparent
abruptness with which
it begins, is owing to the omission of the introductory sentences.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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It is the opinion of the modern
physicians in Italy, whom the writer had the opportunity to consult on
the subject, that Sarpi did not discover the circulation of the blood, but
they offered no dissenting opinion as to his
discoveries
respecting vision,
or the valves in the veins.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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XXX
But yet the cutting steel arrived there,
Where her fair neck
adjoined
her noble head,
Light was the wound, but through her amber hair
The purple drops down railed bloody red,
So rubies set in flaming gold appear:
But Lord Tancredi, pale with rage as lead,
Flew on the villain, who to flight him bound;
The smart was his, though she received the wound.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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But saying that a theory about international economics tells us
something
about politics, and that a theory about international politics tells us something about economi.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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He
was the author
dramatic
performance, called The seven deadly Sins, which now lost; but the scheme plan
“And call’d
horse, horse, Burbage cry’d.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I met several on the road to
whom I cried out for assistance, but they
disregarded
my entreaties.
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policy of the
Sicilian
tyrants, he removed from His intimacy with the latter was particularly cele
their native seats, and established them at Leon- brated (Pseud.
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Dear Sir,
I thank you then
sincerely
for your generous review; and it is with
the sense of double content I express my gratitude, because I am now
sure the tribute is not superfluous or obtrusive.
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a
toilsome
way
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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If in the curule chair a hump sits, Nonius ;
A would-be consul lies in hope,
Vatinius
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Enough, Catullus !
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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But think not, reader, that therefore my sufferings were
ended, nor think of me as of one sitting in a
_dejected_
state.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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[5] It is worth while that I should tell you this story, too, since I am convinced that you, with your
disposition
towards holiness and your sympathy with men who are living in accordance with the holy law, will all the more readily listen to the account which I purpose to set forth, since you yourself have lately come to us from the island and are anxious to hear everything that tends to build up the soul.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Here is my means of escape, here
is my
complete
vengeance, here and nowhere else
have I the destroyer of the Law in my hands!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Slowacki
liked
England, where he greatly enjoyed his short stay,
but September 9th found him already in Paris.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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All on the pyre were plain to see
the gory sark, the gilded swine-crest,
boar of hard iron, and athelings many
slain by the sword: at the
slaughter
they fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Remember, my Beloved, what thing we met
By the
roadside
on that sweet summer day;
There on a grassy couch with pebbles set,
A loathsome body lay.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Un queso tengo yo, que en mi tinaja
acejte incorruptible le comerva,
que en su humidad la
sequedad
ataja.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Shaun execrates Shem, maligns him, with the frank but not
altogether
unfearful disdain of the man of action for the man of thought.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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For see--their honours to these new-made gods,
What other gave but I, and dealt them out
With
distribution?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I have always a determinate
sensation
of sight.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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