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With much the same view, I would
recommend
to you the witty play of "Pictures and Mottoes," which will furnish your imagination with great store of images and suitable devices.
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Because every nation-state needed to be
represented
in each single town and province, the three higher faculties--theology, jurisprudence, and medicine--had to supply each town not simply with doctors but with civil servants.
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My undiminished
And
undiminishable
God!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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te councils inorder
departmental topresentheirviewsand to
gainapprovalforthemiftheywereusefuland
made sense.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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And when you were a young man, entered
upon public life, and were
pleading
causes and making a name, who any
longer seemed equal to you?
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Epictetus |
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For an hour a plain of sand lay stretched before
us, which
sometimes
rose to within two yards of the surface of the
water.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Greece's new tyrants knew why they banned Beckett's plays, in which there is not a single
political
word.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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The latter was more
anciently
called Cuailghne.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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However
beautiful
his flower may be, other care, other soil, or other
suns, might produce one still more beautiful.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Thou
huntsman
'hind the cloud-banks !
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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"
Candide,
observing
a Milton, asked whether he did not look upon this
author as a great man.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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He ever
appeared
to us
one of the finest tempered of editors.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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I see it's a fair, pretty sheet of water,
Our
Willoughby!
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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1 5
Maiden,
laudable
is that high emotion,
Muse more rapturous, you, than any Sappho.
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In all these fields, people gather experience with sub-truths that are inconspicuously pre-sorted into an equivalence between
sentences
and circumstances.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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The
instrument
of sadnesses, yes, certainly: the piano flashes, the violin gives off light from its torn fibres, but the street organ in memory's half-light made me dream despairingly.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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IhaveheardanexcitedMilanesecursing
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And how much honey of hope did I
carry hence into my
beehives!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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What is this I see, ye
wretched
old men?
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Aristophanes |
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OF FRANCE
From "History of the
Renaissance
in Italy)
was in the
W* French found themselves, –a land whose marble palaces
were thronged with cut-throats in disguise, whose princes
poisoned while they smiled, whose luxuriant meadows concealed
fever, whose ladies carried disease upon their lips ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man
abolished
yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you, memories of horizons?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a
carriage which while it indicated
deference
to the court, indicated
also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellect-
ual forehead, a brow pensive but not gloomy, a mouth of inflex-
ible decision, a face pale and worn but serene, on which was
written, as legibly as under the picture in the council chamber at
Calcutta, Mens æqua in arduis: such was the aspect with which
the great proconsul presented himself to his judges.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Well, I never
observed
that.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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On the one hand, "progressive muscular atrophy," studied from 18-19, and the "muscular atrophies with
myopathic
origin," in 1853: (1) La Paralyse atrophique de I'enjance (Pans: 1855).
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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" of Life ;" and that his Mother performed in it her holy Myftc-
ries and Luftrations ; that fhc picked up a LiveHhood by
plundering the Houfcs of thofe, who made ufe of her Incanta-
tions, and thus educated t
Father, as I have heard fome old People relate, taught Children
their Alphabet,
according
to the befl of his Abilities, near the
Temple of the Gods of Phyfic.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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47
[12, 6, JO],
profugio
[11, 6, 1, 30], idem [neut.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he
crouched
to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their scaffold of its prey.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Come as you came in the desert,
Ere we were women and men,
When the tiger
passions
were in us,
And love as you loved me then!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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There was no
appearance
of artifice
in them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Todo lo que
es sólo puede serlo en los límites bien
definidos
de su contorno.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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But an
echo of what it had meant to him may be found, in
veiled figures, in another place--in a prose poem, called
The Temptation, that he wrote four years later for a
young compatriot who was about to be
confronted
with
the moral ordeal of a Pole's life in Petersburg.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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His taste for
chemistry
he
imbibed from his neighbour, Dr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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What
does the
mysterious
triad of these deeds of destiny
tell us?
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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You fathers saythe he,
prouoke not your chyldren to anger, but bring them vp
in
discipline
and chastisyng of the Lorde.
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Erasmus |
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Than wente I forth,
withouten
were,
Unto my Freend, and tolde him al,
Which was right Ioyful of my tale.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Mademoiselle
made a speech.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Finally public opinion became so enraged against this unnatural father-in-law that he was
banished
from Korea.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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We catch
glimpses of him debating questions of art and politics at cafés and
literary _tertulias_ like the Parnasillo, where Mesonero Romanos saw him
faultlessly attired and "darting epigrams against
everything
existing,
past, and future.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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In return, the emperor
pardoned
Ajit
Singh and gave him rank and the parganas of Jhalor, Sanchod and
Siwana as his jagir but did not restore the kingdom of Marwar.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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A tenth book was
subsequently
added, containing
his correspondence with Trajan while in his province, together with
the Emperor's very business-like answers.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Storgosi,
in a work called 'Il
Narratore
Italiano'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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One woman told
me last
Christmas
that she did not believe either in hell or in
ghosts.
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Yeats |
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He had spoken in the open market of the briberies practised in Rome by the envoys of king Mithradates
—these
revelations, compromising in the highest degree the senate, had wellnigh cost the bold tribune his life.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Weeping dew—a
thousand
kinds of plant; Moaning in the wind—a solid stretch of pines.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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”—I have actually
heard
antisemites
speak in this way.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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How words do their work in poetry, and how we
appreciate
the way they do
it--this seems to involve the obscurest processes of the mind: analysis
can but fumble at it.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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And
whenever
they come to visit the kings, preparations are made in accordance with their own customs, in order that there may be no discomfort to disturb the enjoyment of their visit.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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These had seen
movement
and heard music; known
Slumber and waking; loved; gone proudly friended;
Felt the quick stir of wonder; sat alone;
Touched flowers and furs and cheeks.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They were also
published
as separate pamphlets.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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This does not make it
desirable
or healthy.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Not because a
visitation
from outer space is impossible or even wildly improbable.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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This
distinction is the more remarkable because the
occasion
of which
he took advantage, and the material he used, were not particularly
favourable.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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She used to define a present, That it was a gift to a friend of
something
he wanted, or was fond of, and which could not be easily gotten for money.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Can't we meet
somewhere
else?
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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But the adventure looked so like a frolic, the censure held for some time, as if there were a secret history in such a removal; which, however, soon blew off by her
excellent
conduct.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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For this purpose then is that mist, that thou mayest know that thou knowest nothing, and that thou mayest know what thou
oughtest
to know, and mayest see that thou art too weak to know what ought to be known.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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' or between parts 1 and 2 of the Boy of
Winander
poem.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Iig
sophical life; the spirit has, apparently, long com-
pleted its emancipation, while the flesh has hardly
begun; yet it is foolish to think that the spirit can
be really free and independent when this victory
over limitation—which is ultimately a formative
limiting of one's
self—is
not embodied anew in
every look and movement.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Transfixed
by many blows, he perished.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Where the
sapphire
girdle of the sea Encinctureth the maiden
Persephone, released for the spring,
Look !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Copyright, 1910, BY EZRA POUND
THE
UNIVERSITY
PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She is
humbled by her love (suspense in love is a mortifier) to think herself
inferior to his sisters; but I intend to raise her above them, even
in her own just opinion; and when she shines out the girl worthy of
a man, not exalt, but reward her, and at the same time make him think
himself highly
rewarded
by the love of so frank and so right an heart.
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Selection of English Letters |
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At first
my young friend, Giuseppe Loverdi, gave me information; but on the third
day I gave
information
to him, and re-wrote history as usual, and told
him all about the supreme King and his Court of Poets, and the terrible
book that he never wrote.
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Oscar Wilde |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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A separate CDS survey
revealed
a 30 percent activity reduction, although the covered universe was only a dozen firms compared with the 50 for the main study inviting less confidence in results.
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Kleiman International |
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Clemens, following a musical recital by
his
daughter
in Norfolk, Conn.
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Twain - Speeches |
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It is a great step forward
that, in any cultured State today, a foreign private
person is sure of the
protection
of the law.
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Tosto che sente il Tartaro superbo,
ch'alla battaglia il suono altier lo sfida,
non vuol più de l'accordo intender verbo,
ma si lancia del letto, ed arme grida;
e si dimostra sì nel viso acerbo,
che
Doralice
istessa non si fida
di dirgli più di pace né di triegua:
e forza è infin che la battaglia segua.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
She then: "How you
digress!
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Zu
dieser Anschauung werde ich im folgenden mehr-
mals
Stellung
nehmen.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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He married in 1849, and, as he sings in a poem to
his wife, found in his happy
marriage
a refuge
from adversity.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Paul de Man, "Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric," in The
Rhetoric
of Romanticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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[1083] And others again beside the Pelasgian streams of Membles and the
Cerneatid
isle shall sail forth and beyond the Tyrrhenian strait occupy Lametian waters Leucanian plains.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Having thus reviewed the course of events at home, we must now
follow the
development
of English trade in India during the same
fifty years, a period which synchronised roughly with the long reign
of the Emperor Aurangzib.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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sackcloth
made of goats' hair.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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She remarked what I had
done, and readily
understood
that I had been kissing the shadow of her
lips.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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For so we see, when Tigellinus saw himself
outstripped by
Petronius
Turpilianus in Nero’s humours of pleasures,
_metus ejus rimatur_, he wrought upon Nero’s fears, whereby he broke the
other’s neck.
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Bacon |
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It ends at the same high level of
falsehood
in which it
has its beginning.
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Lucian - True History |
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The subordi
nation of the public magistracies to the state -council,
introduced
by the revolution of 244 337); the trans- 510.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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That I might greet, that I might cry,
While Tories fall, while Tories fly,
And furious Whigs
pursuing!
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Robert Burns |
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In the expression of opinion that follows, the peculiarities and
inconsistencies of the famous
personages
are hit off with delicious
-
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Peut-être même était-ce de voir quelques
mouvements de
confiance
de moi avec Andrée ou que j'eusse imprudemment
dit à celle-ci qu'Albertine allait coucher au Grand Hôtel qui faisait
qu'Albertine qui peut-être, une heure avant, était prête à me
laisser prendre certains plaisirs, comme la chose la plus simple, avait
eu un revirement et avait menacé de sonner.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Thus he
composed
a work, as I have said, profitable to many,
and chiefly to those who, being far removed from those places where the
patriarchs and Apostles lived, know no more of them than what they have
learnt by reading.
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bede |
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Such are the
impressions
of the few of whom I speak.
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Epictetus |
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His eldest hope in arms to Ilion came,
By great Ulysses taught the path to fame;
But (hapless youth) the hideous Cyclops tore
His quivering limbs, and quaff'd his
spouting
gore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The limit assigned by the ordinance of
Congress
to the stock of the bank, is ten millions of dollars.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Have enough of the unpleasant effects of this art
been experienced to justify the person
striving
for culture in turning
his regard away from it?
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Like steam and other physical
forces, it can be utilised for
creating
a tremendous amount of power.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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In our present situation mind can experience
anything
but cannot see its own nature.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Such his oath--
His, the bold warrior, yet of childish years,
A bud of beauty's
foremost
flower, the son
Of Zeus and of the mountain maid.
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Aeschylus |
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The Vigo Cabinet Series
An
Occasional
Miscellany of Prose and Verse Royali6mo.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Such
Eviradnus
was a wrong before,
Good but most terrible.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Such, in general, was the society of the
homespun
age.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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I cannot help
fancying
that she is growing partial to my brother.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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n turista demasiado curioso
sobreviviri?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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