15 We are severe;
difficult
to please; fastidious as to good
things.
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Mas não acredites também no que eu te digo, porque se não deve
acreditar
em nada.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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But it is Virgil who really begins the
development
of epic art.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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mas' Tryon was one among many instances " tolprpye; how niiuch
personal
industry, aided Jby pru-
deiice, may effecf; H[e was born at Bibury, ?
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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And,
however
pretentious
the poem may be, it undoubtedly does make a
passionate effort to develop the significance which Milton had achieved;
chiefly to enlarge the scope of this significance.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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"
" Cousin Brindley,
" It is now about the time I
promised
payment to
Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Juvenile animals in general have the role of
preparing
to become successfully reproducing adults.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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How was the distress which
these changes
involved
to be met?
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Byron |
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And as you left, suspired confused and jaded
In sighful accents the
deserted
glade.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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or make a fortune more promptly on
the English
highways?
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Given the fact of appendicitis, the value that health is desirable, and the conviction that the pain and expense of the operation are outweighed by the
resulting
gain in health, one ought to have the operation.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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They are dreams of horror clothed in brass,
Which from profoundest depths of evil pass
With futile aim to dare the
Infinite!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I have
sometimes
thought that my young
friend, Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Que partout les hommes se sont
tourmente?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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Today software that can recognize printed letters and spoken words comes
packaged
with home computers.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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The unhappy poet had recourse to every friend,
prince, and great man he could think of, to join his entreaties; he
sought refuge in composition, but still entreated; he occasionally
reproached and even
bantered
the duke in some of his letters to his
friends, all of which, doubtless, were opened; but still he entreated,
flattered, adored, all to no purpose, for seven long years and upwards.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The
_people_
would
love the poem of _Peter Bell_, but the _public_ (a very different
being) will never love it.
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Selection of English Letters |
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My armies had faded away,
My
reputation
had gone.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Several versions of the
text have been preserved; it is from the longer of the two more
familiar ones that the
translation
in this volume has been made.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in
language
but in thought and action.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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It refers to a subject
becoming
free by itself.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So
closely!
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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The triumph of Israel
therefore
meant the
triumph of goodness.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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576]
The Romans
respected
the city, and to this present time it enjoys
freedom.
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Strabo |
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All has
deceived
me ere my days shall end.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Next, fill your quiver with queer mysterious words used once or
twice by the ancients, ready to be
discharged
at a moment's notice
in conversation.
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Lucian |
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For
some wrote not, but only spoke in the Church for what are alleged by those who are in error under their name, are not
their own, and therefore are reprobated, and not
received
by
the Church.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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" -- and
indignantly
dis-
misses Haddick: "Go, Sir, and attend to your
health!
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Assuming an appearance of squalid misery, their envoys
made the round of the officers' quarters and the soldiers' tents
complaining of their own wrongs and of the rewards
lavished
on
neighbouring tribes.
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Tacitus |
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Included
is
important information about your specific rights and restrictions in
how the file may be used.
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Lucian |
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XXII
Once I saw
Mountains
angry,
And ranged in battle-front.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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216)—had by a com bination of wretched mathematics and wretched
administra
tion come to anticipate the true time by 67 whole days, so that e.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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(A ambas se añade, desde los años sesenta, la explicación de la procreación mediante planificación de nacimientos y medicina reproduc tiva, apoyadas por la explicación
complementaria
de la sexualidad con ayuda de la psicología de la «elección de objeto», de la orientación de pa reja y de la liberalidad pornográfica.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Farewell
sweet Lady o’ the Shining Face,14 and all ye starry followers in the train of drowsy Night, farewell, farewell.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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STATE OF THE
REPUBLIC
224
II.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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They then
appointed a day of
thanksgiving
for this wonderful delivery; which
shut out, says Clarendon, all doubts whether there had been such a
deliverance, and whether the plot was real or fictitious.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Further, this mdtrkd is an
exhaustive
and thorough-going analysis (of the dharmas).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Her advice was always the best, and with the
greatest
freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Vengeance
for a personal wrong is never pleasing in an emperor, for the juster the vengeance is, the harsher it seems.
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Historia Augusta |
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Among the
liberall
Sciences, let us
begin with that which makes us free: Indeed, they may all, in some
sort stead us, as an instruction to our life, and use of it, as all
other things else serve the same to some purpose or other.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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"
This was soon
responded
to by Genji:--
"That cloudy shrine we view on high,
Where my lost love may dwell unseen,
Looks gloomy now to this sad eye
That looks with tears on what has been.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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In
knowledge
and progress Poland stands equal if not
superior to other nations.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
There are a lot of things you can do with Project Gutenberg(TM)
electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement and help
preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg(TM)
electronic
works.
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Stephen Crane |
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Before any differentiation between "being" and "having to be doing," the meaning
of "being" in modernity is
understood
as "having to be" and "wanting to be" more mobile.
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Sloterdijk |
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In destroying their lives and
blighting
their inborn nature, Robber Chih and Po Yi were two of a kind.
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Chuang Tzu |
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ana \
Por
sucesses
tan estran?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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What the exact numbers were on either side we are not
permitted
to know.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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She went back again to her toys, and
presented
a toy prince, whom she
called Genji, at the Court of her toy house.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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A t last, duty and
affection
re-
stored him to them: they returned to E ngland.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Si Wang Mu, the Western Goddess, the
greatest
of sexual adepts, came to King Huai in a dream.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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An
unhealthy
work of
art, on the other hand, is a work whose style is obvious, old-fashioned,
and common, and whose subject is deliberately chosen, not because the
artist has any pleasure in it, but because he thinks that the public
will pay him for it.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Even the visions of madmen or of dreamers he considered
were in themselves true, being produced by a
physical
cause of some
kind, of which these visions were the direct and immediate report.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his
offspring
who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to infringe on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Now
art thou again behind me:--my
greatest
danger lieth behind me!
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| Question: |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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We have here a body of important
material
which forms both
an autobiography and a full history of sixty years of the eighteenth
century.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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But the
ambiguity
necessary for bad faith comes from the fact that I affirm here that I am my transcendence in the mode of being of a thing.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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had a chance to maintain her prestige and unique
position
by staying NEUTRAL.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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I would have one begin with the last point: I
understand sufficiently what death and voluptuousnesse are: let not
a man busie himselfe to
anatomize
them.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Indeed, every time a destruction is partial, it is a means for
attaining
a positive and more general end.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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This is an example of the way in which metaphorical entailments can characterize a
coherent
sys- tem of metaphorical concepts and a corresponding coherent system of metaphorical expressions for those concepts.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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It once again introduced the old contrast
of
“Paganism”
and “Christianity”; and it was at
the same time a protest against the decorative culture
of the Renaissance—it was a victory gained over the
same culture as had formerly been conquered by
early Christianity.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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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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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Thou art the same: ’tis I whose wretched soul
Takes
discontent
to be its paramour,
And gives its kingdom to the rude control
Of what should be its servitor,—for sure
Wisdom is somewhere, though the stormy sea
Contain it not, and the huge deep answer ‘’Tis not in me.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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This
circumstance
must be chiefly at-
?
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
De hecho, quien descubre el Nuevo Mundo tiene que sentir con fuerza suficiente la
atracción
de las leyendas de El Dorado su reños y occidentales para entender los signos del tiempo maduro y hacer su irrupción.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Does
it not almost seem as if one need only have been
dead for the last thirty years, and lie a lawful prey
to the public * in order to hear
suddenly
and unex-
pectedly the trumpet of resurrection as a " Classic "?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Further,
kine mount the bulls, follow them about; and keep
standing
beside
them.
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| Question: |
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Aristotle |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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| Question: |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN
2277
Here Gunnar stopped, made a leap toward Ragnhild, caught
her round the waist, and again danced off with her, while a
storm of voices joined in the last refrain, and loud shouts of
admiration
followed
them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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" But this was the last
occasion
—
for a long time—on which the Roman senate came forward
in the affairs of the east with that ability and energy, which
it had uniformly displayed in the complications with Philip, Antiochus, and Perseus.
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| Question: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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electronic work or group of works on
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forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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They dug about for three days and three nights, for they
searched
even in all the catacombs which were in the cemetery of Koptos ; they turned over the steles of the scribes of the "double house of life," and read the inscriptions that they found on them.
| Guess: |
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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I am going then to tell
you that my will, which I believe also to be the will of God, is that I
have as
successor
the priest Heraclius.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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One of the two main aspects of
meditation
practice, the other being Shamatha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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'Will it not be more agreeable to me,' said she, 'to see myself your
mistress
than your wife?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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We
have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem's
sake, and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to
confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and
force:--but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to
look into our own souls we should
immediately
there discover that under
the sun there neither exists nor _can _exist any work more thoroughly
dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem _per se,
_this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely
for the poem's sake.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
exclaimed
the impatient cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hugo - Poems |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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[909] A sign of wind be the swelling sea, the far
sounding
beach, the sea-crags when in calm they echo, and the moaning of the mountain crests.
| Guess: |
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
If a future dharma is not a similar cause {sabhdgahetu), why does
the Prakaranapdda teach that future satkdyadrsti has satkdyadrsti as its
cause, and is in turn the cause of
sa&kdyadrstfi
We read, in faa (in the
text quoted in note 342, para.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
PeterSloterdijk 199
An academic idyl, as I said; at the same time, it remains the regula- tive idea of any
enlightenment
which does not want to surrender the
goal of reconsiliation.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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On the other hand, he in many points openly and expressly opposes
ecclesiastical
dogmas, and censures others, e.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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”
Surprise
is well
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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But 'twas his wrath, because his native church
Left his high
expectations
in the lurch.
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Dryden - Complete |
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“It is not on my own account I wish for more; but I cannot bear to
be the means of injuring my dear Morland, making him sit down upon an
income hardly enough to find one in the common
necessaries
of life.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Bite, my fishing-hook,
into the belly of all black
affliction!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Her face, so long familiar to the towns-people, showed
the marble
quietude
which they were accustomed to behold there.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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--Hebetes comme des yeux de vache,
Nos yeux ne
pleuraient
plus; nous allions, nous allions
Et quand nous avions mis le pays en sillons,
Quand nous avions laissee dans cette terre noire
Un peu de notre chair.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Oh friend
Whom most I love, son of
Arcesias!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But then God had
given him at his birth the soul of a poet, as he himself when quite young
had in mystical marriage taken poverty as his bride: and with the soul of
a poet and the body of a beggar he found the way to
perfection
not
difficult.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Immortality
conserves
identity as subsistent and continuous being.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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298 Treitschke
In Hansen's Coulisses de la Diplomatic the author,
who loves historical sources of this kind, might
discover similar
outpourings
of Russian politicians.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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