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“Mother
dear, O why is they heart cast down in this exceeding sorrow, and the rose o’ they cheek a-withering away?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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I love these tall red turrets;
These
standards
brave unrolled;
And, like an infant's playthings,
These houses decked with gold.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Life, fire,
burglary, twins,
shipwreck
— everything), was temporarily in dock, and though I’d got to
look in at the London office to drop some papers, I was really taking the day off to go and
fetch my new false teeth.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Quand elle eut de mes os sucé toute la moelle,
Et que
languissamment
je me tournai vers elle
Pour lui rendre un baiser d'amour, je ne vis plus
Qu'une outre aux flancs gluants, toute pleine de pus!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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The calls of the
sentries
mingled at intervals with the roar of the hot
springs let flow for the night.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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By considering this Index, we
come to know the best
editions
of many good books.
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Tacitus |
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"
O my soul, to thy domain gave I all wisdom to drink, all new wines, and
also all
immemorially
old strong wines of wisdom.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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I have
remarked
above, my dear children, that man has not enlisted
the bird or fish into servitude, but there are some few exceptions to
this rule; some hundreds of years since, before gunpowder was in
common use, the falcon and the hawk were trained in this country
and on the continent to take game; and so greatly did this custom
prevail, that one of the highest officers of the palace was called the
Grand Falconer; but it was a cruel sport, though then even ladies of
rank much enjoyed it.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Com- promise, not always intelligent,
characterized
our early fiscal and land policies.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to
admire as well as to condemn; souls of as lofty a port as any in
Greek or Roman fame might appear; men of great heart, of
strong hand, and of persuasive speech; subtle thinkers, and men
of wide sympathy, and an
apprehension
which looks over all his-
tory and everywhere recognizes its own.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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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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)
after one they leave thee,
ONE Priest of
High lacchus,
Intoning thy
melodies
as winds intone
The whisperings of leaves on sunlit days.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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But the longer I live on this
Crumpetty
Tree
The plainer than ever it seems to me
That very few people come this way
And that life on the whole is far from gay!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Only a
conscript
kissing the cook," said Maisie.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Now Walpole had some years before introduced Ossian's poems to
the world and his reputation as a critic had
suffered
when their
authenticity was generally disputed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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4 The citizens suffered almost as much from ill-treatment inside as they did from the enemy's attacks outside, because the garrison were not content with the same provisions as the
populace
survived on, and by assaulting the citizens they forced them to provide what they could not easily afford.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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We may simply be
the kind of animal that is predestined not only to speak, but also, on certain
occasions, to force language into a
recurrent
pattern of beats and lines"
(Burling 1966, 1435).
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Childens - Folklore |
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Representations
of them were set up in the temple of Belus.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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I saw the
whelming
vintage hotly pierce
Old Tartary the fierce!
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Keats |
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Livres de nós como dos outros, contemplativos sem êxtase, pensadores sem conclusão, viveremos,
libertos
de Deus, o pequeno intervalo que a distração dos algozes concede ao nosso êxtase na parada.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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With the same right we seek
justice to-day for the wrong
committed
by France
against our West two centuries ago.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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But since they have
looked on the King as a friend, and quarrelled about
disputes with each other, they have
suffered
worse
a.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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[24] A man had
promised
to meet a girl under a bridge.
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Li Po |
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[227] The legion brought from Spain,
mentioned
in i.
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Tacitus |
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” Some time or other--the
will and the way thereto is
nowadays
called
progress” all over Europe,
66
202.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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"You will want some
refreshment
after
our long journey," said the polite Town Mouse, and took his friend
into the grand dining-room.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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He suddenly came to a stop, thinking, "That picked me up like a cork and set me down
somewhere
I never meant to go!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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When on the brink of disaster there is a
negation
of humanity and places in the mind are frozen.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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how I loved my
darling!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They are
monothematic
because they
take hold of the whole man and demand that their one affect occupy the
7
entire stage.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Isham's device for
alienating
the Innocents of New York from their money was the "California Waters of Life.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Now, what strange
novelties
worthy of note I observed during the time
of my abode there, I will relate unto you.
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Lucian - True History |
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The regular
and secular clergy are infected with the ut-
most
profligacy
of manners.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Is the failed
pillager
equal to him who gains?
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Is there a darkness that conceals a "hidden" light or does light somehow determine itself on its emergence from darkness--in other words, is genesis a genesis of something that
precedes
genesis or of something that becomes itself in genesis--the older way of saying this is to look at genesis as necessary emergence or as a coalescence of chance.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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True
religion
is not the blind fear of an" unknown Being, but trust, sympathy, and
love toward the God who is light, and in whom is no dark ness at all," and to know whom is eternal life for the human spirit.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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ADAM
MICKIEWICZ
71
suffered, I have loved, I have grown in torments
and in love.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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8
=Pneumatic
Explanation
of Nature.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Most
recently
updated: March 2, 2018.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Finally, Hegel's philosophical mythology of the spirit alienating itself into matter in order to return to itself from an angle that would allow for reflexivity, can be celebrated as the most beautiful attempt at reuniting both Christian
conceptions
of incarnation into a more complex synthesis.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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' And another man brought in his son, and gave him to him in the same manner,
pledging
him in wine: and another gave him garments for his wife.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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SKI
Correspondance de
Sigismond
Krasin?
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Autumn
Autumn it was when droop'd the
sweetest
flow'rs,
And rivers, swoll'n with pride, o'erlook'd the banks;
Poor grew the day of summer's golden hours,
And void of sap stood Ida's cedar-ranks.
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William Browne |
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I'm afraid I'm
disturbing
you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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And
similarly with a
PLONGEUR’
S work.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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'Tis true, the contrary was the opinion of our forefathers, which we of this age have devotion enough to receive from them on their own terms, and unexamined, but not sense enough to
perceive
'twas a gross mistake in them.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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5 That, under the severity of such decrees, he had not been able to soften them by compliance, or to prevent them from
assuming
harsher measures towards him every day.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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How often,
studying
in thy book, have I hummed to myself that of Horace—
_Laudis amore tumes?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Then three times round his tomb they paced in armour of bronze and performed funeral rites and
celebrated
games, as was meet, upon the meadow-plain, where even now rises the mound of his grave to be seen by men of a later day.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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We have not
produced
together--we shall not eat together.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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This continued to be my
official
duty until I was
appointed Examiner, only two years before the time when the abolition of
the East India Company as a political body determined my retirement.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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It was a still night and the snow was coming down in masses and falling
almost perpendicularly,
covering
the pavement and the empty street as
though with a pillow.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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They add to the delight as much, at
least, as they satisfy the intelligence of better
exercised
tastes.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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The
thoroughly
vicious people,
the " beautiful souls," the false from top to toe, do
not know in the least what to do with my books—
consequently, with the beautiful consistency of all
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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"
Gourville
encouraged him as well as
he could.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Can it be that
wickedness
is so attractive?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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for who would win
A
loveless
throne through guilt and sin ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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tterlS et de armiS,
praestanttbusque
mgentls, Both of anCIent tImes and our own, books, arms,
And of men of unusual gemus,
Both of anCIent tImes and our own, In short the usual subjects Of conversatIon between mtelhgent men"
And he With hIS luck gone out of hIm
64 lances m hlS company, and hIs pay 8,000 a year, 64 and no more, and he not to try to get any more And all of It down on paper
sexagmta quatuoy nee tentatu1 habere plures
But leave to keep 'em m Rtmml
1 e to watch the VenetIans:-
Damn pIty he dIdn't
(1 e get the kmfe mto hIm)
Llttle fat squab
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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