His record of the journey often
contrasts
the meagre contemporary state of civilisation in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land with the richness of classical antiquity and the Christian past.
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This is the root of all true culture;
and if we say this means the aspiration of man to
be “born again "as saint and genius, I know that
one need not be a
Buddhist
to understand the
myth.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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The whale has enormous size, the octopus is small; the hip-
popotamus has a cuirass, the octopus is naked; the jararoca
hisses, the octopus is dumb; the rhinoceros has a horn, the octo-
pus has no horn; the scorpion has a sting, the octopus has no
sting; the buthus has claws, the octopus has no claws; the ape
has a prehensile tail, the octopus has no tail; the shark has sharp
fins, the octopus has no fins; the vespertilio vampire has wings
armed with barbs, the octopus has no barbs; the hedgehog has
quills, the octopus has no quills; the sword-fish has a sword, the
octopus has no sword; the torpedo-fish has an
electric
shock,
the octopus has none; the toad has a virus, the octopus has no
virus; the viper has a venom, the octopus has no venom; the lion
has claws, the octopus has no claws; the hawk has a beak, the
octopus has no beak; the crocodile has jaws, the octopus has no
teeth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Through a critical theory of mobilization,
the gap between the thinking process and what really happens with basic
principles
would be bridged--thinking "outside" would no longer exist, a theorist would have to be asked with every sentence if what he is doing is a sacrifice to the false god of mobilization or if what he is doing is clearly different from this.
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Sloterdijk |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Then let him ve-
hemently demand ofthofe, whom by flanderous
Accufations
he
hath driven from the Adminiflration, at a Time when they might
have preferved the Commonwealth, let him demand, why they
did not oppofe him in thefe pernicious Schemes.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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139 And she was the ark of the covenant in which "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden because in her she
contained
the esh of Christ" (cf.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Are you my wife, and will not call me
husband?
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Shakespeare |
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The King of Sweden,
after having
exhausted
all means of con-
ciliation, camped his army before Berlin,
declaring that the elector was no longer
any thing but an enemy to him.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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For
the corruption, the
ruination
of higher men, of the more unusually
constituted souls, is in fact, the rule: it is dreadful to have such a
rule always before one's eyes.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The skin which lines the internal surface of the
external
lips is folded
in such manner as to form two flat bodies, the exterior edges of which
are convex.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Wild
transports
of pas-
sion, battles, treason and murders are the usual themes
of his poesy.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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her lips seemed warm,
And warmer, kissed again :--and now his hand
Her bosom seeks, and
dimpling
to his touch
The ivory seems to yield,--as in the Sun
The waxen labour of Hymettus' bees,
By plastic fingers wrought, to various shape
And use by use is fashioned.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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This school in effect applies a Hobbesian view of politics to international relations, and assumes that aggression and insecurity are universal characteristics of human societies rather than the product of specific
historical
circumstances.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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For
continuous
rectilinear movement in the same direction
could not go on for ever on his assumption that there is no space
outside the "heaven," which is itself at a finite distance from us.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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But those
who form part of that select France take very
good care to conceal themselves: they are a small
body of men, and there may be some among them
who do not stand on very firm legs—a few may be
fatalists, hypochondriacs, invalids; others may be
enervated, and artificial,—such are those who would
fain be artistic, but all the
loftiness
and delicacy
which still remains to this world, is in their posses-
sion.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Do not
be uneasy because you cannot
surround
them
with the apparatus of books and systems, or
?
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Childrens - Frank |
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MYRSON
The sweet and enviable love-tale of Scyros, Lycidas, the stolen kissed of the child of Peleus and the stolen espousal of the same, how a lad donned women’s weeds and played the knave with his outward seeming, and how in the women’s chamber the reckless Deïdameia found out Achilles among the
daughters
of Lycomedes.
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Bion |
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I, therefore, sent for
my tailor; ordered a suit with twice the usual quantity of lace; and
that I might not let my
persecutors
increase their confidence, by the
habit of accosting me, staid at home till it was made.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Could I, in melting verse, my
thoughts
but throw,
As in my heart their living load I bear,
No soul so cruel in the world was e'er
That would not at the tale with pity glow.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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By these losses Artaxerxes
understood
what was his
best method of making war.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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]
[Footnote 4: The
Rashness
of the Words, according to D'Herbelot, consisted in
being so opposed to those in the Koran: "No Man knows where he shall
die.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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) Hence
Plutarch
identifies her
i.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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But this is not my maxim: had it been,
Some heart-aches had been spared me: yet I care not--
I would not be a tortoise in his screen
Of
stubborn
shell, which waves and weather wear not.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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The desired proofs have not yet been
adduced, and there is, at present, nothing but internal
evidence
to
guide us.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity
was made for them,
To-night for us.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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From among the scores of this
fine genius the nun seemed to have chiefly studied that of Moses
in Egypt; doubtless because the
feelings
of sacred music are there
carried to the highest pitch.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Let the Polish
pilgrims beware of confounding civilization in its
ordinary signification--the cult of the luxury
and
materialization
that have overspread Europe
--with the higher civilization of Christian self-
sacrifice.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The traditional view, which he demolished, is to be turned on its head: Truth exists
exclusively
as that which has become.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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The following are the
principal lines in which the latter
quantity
is found :c
Juv.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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We must also acknowledge the genius of a
writer who invented a new literary form like
the
Heroides
that proved prolific of emulation
in most of the subsequent periods of literature.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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All this
produces
what we call (the state of) great mutual consideration (and harmony).
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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remembering
his friend of forty years before, and intoned: "if I saw Ezra today I would give him a massage and say: .
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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"
The
continuation
of this thought we shall soon find in another place.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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When Adonis yet lived Cypris was beautiful to see to, but when Adonis died her
loveliness
died also.
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Bion |
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This explanation, which goes back to the tenth century and is part of common knowledge among educated Arabs even today, has largely been
rejected
by scholarship as entirely fictitious and based on little more than folk etymology.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The 'fury in the words' is not seldom out of proportion to the
value of the words themselves, and the insight of the poet is
dulled by the
excessive
protestations of the enthusiast.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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There could be no peace party in Ger- ' many (outside the army, where the
dissident
group was liquidated after the abortive putsch of July 1944) simply be- cause there could be no party outside the control of the Nazi leadership.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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" " I will explain them all to you," he said, " and whatever I shall mention in the course of our
conversations
I
TRUE FASTING, AND PURITY OF BODY.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Felix venter quem
intrabis!
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Longfellow |
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If thou,
composed
of gentle mould,
Art so unkind to me;
What dismal stories will be told
Of those that cruel be!
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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"
"So you don't think he will ever amount to
anything?
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Failure to mark and preserve the distinction between structure, on the one hand, and units and pro- cesses, on the other, makes it
impossible
to disentangle causes of different sorts and to distinguish between causes and effects.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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'Tis unmeet, if he hears
Our turmoil or is
burdened
with our tears.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Copyright (c) 2000 Bell & Howell
Information
and Learning Company Copyright (c) New School of Social Research
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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" This element in
psychology
came to full development through Maine de Hirun.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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For
Enlightenment
is also defeated by a qualita- tiveresistance located in the consciousness of its enemies.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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He is an ultimate being,
made for his own perfection as his highest end; made to main-
tain an
individual
existence, and to serve others only as far as
consists with his own virtue and progress.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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[Illustration]
[Illustration]
_Part II_
_Memory and Forgetting_
I have
forgotten
how many times he kissed me,
But I cannot forget
A swaying branch--a leaf that fell
To earth.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that
arrogant
display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If we puzzle over this
initially
hermetic formulation we begin to understand why Heidegger was so certain that his criticism of humanism would not eventuate in an inhumanism.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Y es que nos hemos dado cuenta, en primer lugar, de que puede que no exista en todo el
Universo
otro lugar habitable, y, en segundo, de que nuestra cultura y nuestras tecnologi?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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It seems
as if, through the flowers, there came the whisper of those we
have forgotten, saying
Remember
us.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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which is probably meant that of the 20th June 354, no solar eclipse was found
recorded
from observation in the
later chronicle of the city : its statements as to the numbers of the census only begin to sound credible after the begin ning of the fifth century 122, 55) the cases of fines brought before the people, and the prodigies expiated on
The first places in the list alone excite suspicion, and may have been subsequently added, with a view to round off the number of years between the flight of the king and the burning of the city to 120.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Imagists |
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The
courtesan
bent over him, took a long look at his face, at his eyes,
which had grown tired.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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And will she leave the wild hedge rose,
The
redbreast
and the wren,
And will she leave her Sunday beaus
And milk shed in the glen?
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John Clare |
|
This seat of learning rendered invaluable service to
the cause of civilization and enlightenment in Poland ;
it
provided
a most important contribution to Polish
literature in the person of its alumnus Jan (John)
Dlugosz, the first Polish historian and most conspicuous
author in the fifteenth century.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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The ardent wish of Greece was that his body should be buried in
the temple of Theseus at Athens, and thus remain in the land for
which he had laid down his life; but other
counsels
prevailed, and
Byron found his last resting place in the village church of Hucknall
Torkard, outside the gates of Newstead priory.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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We hear the
tinkling
of rills
which we never detected before.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The
Choriambic
Pentameter consists of five feet, viz.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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[1099] One at the bath while he seeks for the
difficult
exits of the mesh about his neck, entangled in a net, shall search with blind hands the fringed stitching.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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The Congregation Of Giants
Again, because those mighty men of the Earth, that lived in the time
of Noah, before the floud, (which the Greeks called Heroes, and the
Scripture Giants, and both say, were begotten, by copulation of the
children of God, with the children of men,) were for their wicked life
destroyed by the generall deluge; the place of the Damned, is therefore
also
sometimes
marked out, by the company of those deceased Giants; as
Proverbs 21.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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As I am into the moral show biziness
myself I ginrally go to Barnum's moral museum, where
only moral peeple air admitted, partickly on
Wednesday
arter-
noons.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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I won't speak of
anything
else, maybe you won't understand,
but tell me: no doubt you are in debt to your madam?
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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I •
Àt chồng
líiêngsẸ”
lại 'dăy íõ.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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The current results of the search for a generous God were
expressed
in the Polish pope's well-known statement: speriamo che l'inferno sia vuoto – ‘let us hope that hell is empty’.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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[A LOVE POEM]
The Musses know no fear of the cruel Love; rather do their hearts befriend him greatly and their
footsteps
follow him close.
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Bion |
|
His analytical power has been
praised; but it was
inadequate
to the conceptions with which he
had to deal.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
The poems of
West, indeed, had the merit of chaste and manly diction; but they were
cold, and, if I may so express it, only dead-coloured; while in the
best of Warton's there is a stiffness, which too often gives them the
appearance of
imitations
from the Greek.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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If the
oldest son leads the host, and younger men [idly occupy offices
assigned
to
them], however firm and correct he may be, there will be evil.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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For bed and bower, within, were ready dight;
But -- would he take his counsel for his guide --
In comfort might he sleep
throughout
the night.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He had
accepted
it.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Trusted, but the game is hollow*
Not one won piece soundly clinketh ; All the
cardinals
that Rome hath,
Yea they all were put upon.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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One could then describe these
feelings
to the world, but of course no one would be justified in taking any notice.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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IN EXCELSIS
You--you--
Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver;
Your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies;
Your hands moving, a chime of bells across a
windless
air.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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tica literaria y las
humanidades
y la historia del pensamiento occidental desde sus ori?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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TO HIS
VALENTINE
ON ST.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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This may be called a barbarous custom, and a nation of artistic
feelings
would certainly not have tolerated the continuance of this odd resurrection of the dead down to an epoch of fully-developed civilization; but even Greeks who were very dispassionate and but little disposed to reverence, such as Polybius, were greatly impressed by the naive pomp of this funeral ceremony.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Still it is
difficult
for us to estimate aright
all that was allowed to a 'servant' under the accepted convention.
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John Donne |
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This proposal so old that all the Greek alphabets- with the single exception of that of the islands Thera, Melos, and Crete—and all
alphabets
derived from the Greek without exception, exhibit its influence.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Limitation of incomes implies the fixing of a minimum wage, which
implies a managed internal
currency
based simply on the amount of consumption goods
available.
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Orwell |
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The Pāņdya king claimed
descent from a tribe styled Mārar, which however had for many years
another important
representative
in the princes bearing the title Palaiyan
Māran, 'the Ancient Māran,' whose capital was Mõgūr, near the Podiya
Hill, not far from Comorin.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Furthermore, two of the three highly dactylic elegies
of Tibullus' second book were not
composed
until 22 B.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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This has
happened
with Amazon Kindle, where Amazon funnels Kindles through their cloud servers.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Brown (USAF) C-JCS, Statement to the
Congress
on the Defense Posture of the United States For Fiscal Year 1979, p.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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