The process of working through a complex literary text for example--as an amateur reader or as a professional reader-- is normally more
important
than what we positively "learn" from the text.
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Avete in voi li fieri, e la verdura ,
Certo mie rime a te mandar
vogliendo
Morte gentil, rimedio de' cattivi
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Continued
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Who hears these
daughters
of almighty Jove,
For him they mediate to the throne above
When man rejects the humble suit they make,
The sire revenges for the daughters' sake;
From Jove commission'd, fierce injustice then
Descends to punish unrelenting men.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In:
Christeaneum
56 [2001], Heft 2, pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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For such an arrangement to be in the interest of the United States, it is essential that the agreement be entered into in good faith by both sides and the
probability
against its violation high.
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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It has merely drifted with the tide, trusting to its feelings, while others
gathered
in the hay.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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) Instinctive behaviour, New York:
International
Universities Press (1957).
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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THE WRATHFUL GOD
On this level, Christian
eschatology
did not get beyond the role of a savings bank.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Ngày hôm sau các viên Độc quyển là Hàn lâm viện Thừa chỉ Học sĩ kiêm Trung thư Quốc sử sự
Nguyễn
Trãi, Trung thư sảnh Trung thư Thị lang Nguyễn Mộng Tuân, Nội mật viện Tri viện sự Trình Thuấn Du, Quốc tử giám Bác sĩ Nguyễn Tử Tấn nâng quyển tiến đọc.
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stella-01 |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And the right to act thus must be firmly
maintained, if only in the interest of honest men, who
might
otherwise
be molested; this proceeding, which
appears cruel on the surface, proves in reality to be the
truest humanity.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Huntwiththe"CatholicsintheWeimarRepublic," RichardBreitmanwith"Nazism in theEyes of GermanSocial Democracy," AtinaGrossmannwith"Mass Working-ClassSex
ReformOrganizationsin
the WeimarRepublic.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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Carthage and
Narbonne
are the first two colonies founded beyond the
limits of Italy, contrary to the rule previously followed.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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After long efforts, he
completed
his one hundred million recitations, in three years.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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It is the more dangerous for Nazi Germany and for Hitler's future career because it is a coali- tion on the grounds he himself chose --
ideological
grounds.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Any one
may do a casual act of good-nature, but a
continuation
of them
shows it is a part of the temperature; and certainly,” added
I, “if it is the same blood which comes from the heart which
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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I sing of a duel in Epsom befel
'Twixt fa sol la D'Urfey and sol la mi Bell :
But why do I mention the scribbling
brother?
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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The
man who has reached this last, and who sees its relation to all other
universals, so that they form
together
a correlated whole, sees all
truth, and is the sage.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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”
They walked down to the gate
together
in silence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Chapter Three, “Orientalism Now,” begins where
its
predecessor
left off, at around 1870.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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What is meant by preventive
justice?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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EDMUND
CLARENCE
STEDMAN.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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If England vanquished your
country’s
arms, it was through
you that France _ferum victorem cepit_, and restored the dynasty of
Comedy to the land whence she had been driven.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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The
acquisitions made by the intellect are, in every civilized country,
carefully preserved, registered in certain well-understood formulas,
and protected by the use of technical and scientific language;
they are easily handed down from one generation to another, and
thus
assuming
an accessible, or as it were a tangible form, they
often influence the most distant posterity, they become the heir-
looms of mankind, the immortal bequest of the genius to which
they owe their birth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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If there is no king, what can the
ministers
do?
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Many a one is able to obscure and abuse his own memory, in
order at least to have
vengeance
on this sole party in the secret:
shame is inventive.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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She
implores
him to kneel and pray by her <<
side.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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One is
inclined
to give the word 'distortion' the double meaning to which it is entitled, though it makes no use of it today.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Grey walks,
Mossy stones,
Copper carp
swimming
lazily,
And beyond,
A faint toneless hissing echo of rain
That tears at my heart.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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See
Johannes
Lohmann, Musike ?
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Shakespeare
generally
uses the word in an
uncomplimentary sense--'hag'--but it is not so used here.
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Keats |
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If we could conceive
an incarnation of
dissonance—and
what is man but
that?
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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I found her a warm-hearted and
sensible
girl.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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form: to whose minds the comeliness of the old, immemorial,
well-recognized types in art and literature have revealed them-
selves impressively; who will
entertain
no matter which will not
go easily and flexibly into them; whose work aspires only to be
a variation upon, or study from, the older masters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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52 MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES
king of Sweden invaded Poland and occupied
the greater part of its
territory
for a time.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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'There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,
Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge,
Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters,
In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, 1300
Who has written some things quite the best of their kind,
But the heart somehow seems all
squeezed
out by the mind,
Who--But hey-day!
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James Russell Lowell |
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, telepathy, clairvoyance,
precognition
and psychokinesis.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that rebellious heart:
His first sighs
resulted
from your happy art.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Most
certainly
only conceptions, be these
now conscious ones or as in the greater number of
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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It has
been the design of the Author to illustrate, for the
use of the lower and middle classes, the rules of
quantity, to afford a brief view of the construction
of the
hexameter
and pentameter verse, and to
point out some of the means, by which poetical
language may be brought within the measures of
regular versification.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Ryan's History and
Antiquities
of the County Carlow,' chap, ii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Another shaft the raging archer drew,
That other shaft with erring fury flew,
(From Hector, Phoebus turn'd the flying wound,)
Yet fell not dry or guiltless to the ground:
Thy breast, brave
Archeptolemus!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Cuddie and his mother in 'Old
Mortality!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He decided to buy the entire royal
equipment
of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, who had been removed from power.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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'Tis
different
with us !
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Telesio of Cosenza, Bernardino
temperaments / humours
Teucer the Babylonian xi
Theocritus
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Thus that plea of the
dissenters
lay asleep, from that time, till about 20 years past, when
Mr.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Luther and the German Nation 257
the
argument
of the sword, and almost everywhere
where the Gospel was violently stamped out, the
German spirit languishes even now as if one of its
wings had been broken.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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The Netv
Collectivist
Propaganda 501 our future, which to them is easily predictable, presumably
because it is largely beyond control.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Not but that
throughout
the year’s length the sea ever grows dark beneath the keels, and, like to diving seagulls, we often sit, spying out the deep from our ship with faces turned to the shore; but ever farther back the shores are swept by the waves and only a thin plank staves off Death.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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The
great liberation comes
suddenly
to such prisoners, like an earthquake:
the young soul is all at once shaken, torn apart, cast forth--it
comprehends not itself what is taking place.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Ere her limbs frigidly
Stiffen too rigidly,
Decently,--kindly,--
Smooth and compose them;
And her eyes, close them,
Staring so
blindly!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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After all, we keep on
translating
whether we know
it or not, all the time.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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This is the hand of the Lord; it is laid upon me in anger,
For I have
followed
too much the heart's desires and devices,
Worshipping Astaroth blindly, and impious idols of Baal.
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Longfellow |
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LXXIV
At first
astonished
and amazed he stood
Then burnt with wrath, and self-consuming ire,
Swelled his bosom like a raging flood,
To be amid that battle; such desire,
Such haste he had; he donned his helmet good,
His other arms he had before entire,
"Up, up!
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Cyprianus
Angelicus: or the history of the life and death of
William (Laud] .
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Ensign," continued he,
addressing
me, "be so good as to give us
your opinion.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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On the other hand, the Tartar in the fray
Such vantage o'er the
Scottish
prince obtains,
Him he has wounded in seven parts or eight,
And reft his shield and half his helmet's plate.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new
method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock
back and forth - it
occurred
to him how simple everything would be
if somebody came to help him.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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O may no son the father's honour stain,
Nor ever
daughter
give the mother pain!
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burns |
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However, some
commentators
put them togeth-
er and they read much better so.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Listen here, you
fortunate
yogis.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Then, the head of the stone flew asunder, and, from it, a demon issued, but he
immediately
took to flight.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Blandford
listened
with an
affectionate smile, and asked her whe-
ther she should like a play-mate.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Indeed, the
essential
characteristic of an horizon is that we can never touch it, never get at it, never surpass it, but that in spite of that, it con- tributes to the definition of the situation.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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thus particular
Am I, that thou may'st plainly see how far
This fierce
temptation
went: and thou may'st not
Exclaim, How then, was Scylla quite forgot?
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Keats |
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Through highway, field, and wood, a gloomy beat,
More than ten weary miles the damsel rode,
Ere any crossed her path on mischief bent,
Or even questioned
witherward
she went.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It was to no purpose that once more a patrician augur detected secret flaws, hidden from the eyes of the uninitiated, in the election of a plebeian
dictator
(427), and that the patrician censor did not up to the close of our present
S80.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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) An Indian master best known for transmitting many Vajrayana
teachings
to Marpa who took these back to Tibet
before the Moslem invasion oflndia.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Proponents
of the theory have hypostasized and "reified" bad faith; they have not escaped it.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Twy mapa
tem there is a very complete and
interesting
thesis púow 'Oykw, De Tumoribus praeter Naturam
by C.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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"
Waken, lords and ladies gay,
To the
greenwood
haste away;
We can show you where he lies,
Fleet of foot and tall of size;
We can show the marks he made
When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd;
You shall see him brought to bay;
"Waken, lords and ladies gay.
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Golden Treasury |
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I have not even gone to Ch'i to see what the situation is like and already I am
suffering
from the yin and yang.
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Chuang Tzu |
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Restless with throbbing hopes, with thwarted aims,
Impulsive
as a colt,
How do you lie here month by weary month
Helpless, and not revolt?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In general, however, and by means of an outward and
merely negative mark, this Divine World may be charac-
terized; and that in the
following
way :--All Being carries
with it the Love and Affection of itself, and so also the im-
mediate Divine Being which is manifested in the Form of
Infinity.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Such tears become thine eye;
If I thy
guileless
bosom had,
Mine own would not be dry.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Were your
Cosconia
but to say that she is pregnant, Lupus would grow paler than a woman when her hour is come.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Poor
Mainwaring
gives me such histories of his wife's jealousy.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Sol fugit, et
removent
subeuntia nubila coelum,
Et gravis, effusis, de?
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Impressed with this idea, a
gentleman
in this parish, Robert Riddel,
Esq.
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This
pitiable
city!
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PP- 547-557, 561-
** Among the Irish, the names Euchu,
Eucho, Echa, and Eochaidh,
frequently
for /;/, iu the beginning, and it comes into
occur.
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On
thocles, and his reign is referred by Professor Wil the approach of that monarch,
Pantauchus
hastened
son to about B.
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How the
children
did beg
To see the dear little blue egg;
There were one, two, three, four
Hid away in birdie's little store.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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L aurel, so sweet, for my cause now fighting,
O live, so noble,
removing
all bitter foliage,
R eason does not wish me unused to owing,
E ven as I'm to agree with this wish, forever,
Duty to you, but rather grow used to serving:
Even for this end are we come together.
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He married her, against her will and advice, but, as he thought always of his own interests only, made her keep their marriage secret, so that his career as a teacher and potential
churchman
might not be jeopardised.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
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He
scarcely
dares even allow her to be handsome,
and when I speak of her beauty, replies only that her eyes have no
brilliancy!
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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This kind of obtrusiveness may be a typical mechanism for the history of
dissident
philosophers.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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at Christina,
daughter
O'Naghten, the wife
the Dermod Midheagh Mac Dermott, the most distin Feadha (woody district), and engagement en guished woman her tribe for hospitality and
tack the English Athlone, who met him
sued, which the English were defeated, and benevolence, and the most bountiful benefactress
many them slain.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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If we may ask the reason, say
The why and
wherefore
all things here
Seem like the spring-time of the year.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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The gods, if gods to goodness are inclin'd;
If acts of mercy touch their heav'nly mind,
And, more than all the gods, your gen'rous heart,
Conscious
of worth, requite its own desert!
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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How lamentably the _art_ of versification is
neglected
by most of the
poets of the present day!
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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