" The little
^ ^
stranger
smiled,
" And who art ^Aou f " Whereto she made
reply,
" Theresa I of Jesus am, my child.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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It is remark have
confounded
him with Pliny!
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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to them (and without self-partiality, since to-day all this is so far
from us) that beneath this
lightness
of manner, amid her follies
and her vices, old France was none the less the people of love
and of grace.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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He practices, with the greatest presence of mind, the art of winning away from the empowered word a meaning that was intended by the powers themselves; he is the master of the art of
subversion
through humor.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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The writer of this version so far identifies himself
with Sir John as to add to the account of the sea of gravel and the
fish caught therein an
assertion
that he had eaten of them himself.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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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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Avons-nous donc commis une action
étrange?
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Nevertheless,
in general it is
impossible
to disguise the fact that the Italians
as a nation really appreciate only the material effects of music,
and distinguish nothing but its exterior forms.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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However, users may print, download, or email articles for
individual
use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I
may place implicit reliance upon your
judgment
and discretion.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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* * * * *
War and its travels have made me sad,
And a fierce anger burns within me:
It's
thinking
of how I've wasted my time
That makes this fury tear my heart.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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73;
in a
scholion
(ad Ilom.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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You are a man of iron, Flaccus, if you can show amorous power for a woman, who values herself at no more than half a dozen jars of pickle, or a couple of slices of tunny fish, or a paltry sea-lizard; who does not think herself worth a bunch of raisins; who makes only one
mouthful
of a red herring, which a servant maid fetches in an earthenware dish; or who, with a brazen face and lost to shame, lowers her demand to five skins for a cloak.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
anonymous
poet of Poland,
Sigmund Krasinski.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Underneath
the fallen blossom
In my bosom,
Is a letter I have hid.
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Amy Lowell |
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His most characteristic minor trait which
I remember, was his sitting in his drawing-room at Down in his
high-seated arm-chair, and whilst
laughing
at some story or joke, slap-
ping his thigh with his right hand and exclaiming, with a quite inno-
cent and French freedom of speech, "O my God!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a
sumptuous
planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Sir William Dugdale, his
antiquities
Warwickshire, 116, speaking the Gray-friars, Franciscans, Coventry, says, Before the suppression
the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants that were play'd therein upon Corpus-christi
day; which pageants being acted with mighty state and
reverence the friers this house, had theatres for the several scenes very large and high, placed upon
wheels, and drawn the eminent parts the city, for the better advantage the spectators; and con tained the story the New Testament, composed old
English rhime.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Man, however, Foucault explains, comes to question his own nature as knower, as he
discovers
the limitations of his knowledge: that which is "other" to himself as subject that his cogito cannot master.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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If he had
examined
and defeated her already,
it would also be apparent whether the old woman is in fact a true person.
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Shobogenzo |
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Faces too grotesque for laughter,
Faces too shattered by pain for tears,
Faces of such ugliness
That the
ugliness
grows beauty.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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His father's marriage with the emperor's daughter,
Judith,
cemented
relationships with the continent and the
insularity of Britain was henceforth broken down.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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A plague take such
preachers!
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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There on the bed,
seemingly
in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly
white and wan-looking than ever.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm’s
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection
will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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And if
it appears matter for surprise that there should ever have been any
controversy about the authorship of the Rowley writings, in view of
the lad's admission that he had written three such signal pieces as
the _Bristowe Tragedy_, the first _Battle of Hastings_, and _Onn oure
Ladies Chyrche_, it must be considered that the production of
the greater part of the poems by a poorly educated boy not turned
seventeen would
naturally
appear a circumstance more surprising than
that such a boy should tell a lie and claim some of them as his own.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Perdition
to those,
through whom this advice must be given by me!
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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^2 This is employed as a springboard for en- hancing market, price, production, capacity, and numerous other controls which greatly
transcend
the normal limits and cut in a thousand ways athwart the lines of ordinary corporate power.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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I have avoided with great care in writing this play the introduction
of what is commonly called mere poetry, and I imagine there will
scarcely be found a
detached
simile or a single isolated description,
unless Beatrice's description of the chasm appointed for her father's
murder should be judged to be of that nature.
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Shelley |
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To the authorsthe "metaphysicalapproach" seems to be themoreappropriate,which theyexemplifymainlywiththe books by
Fackenheimand
Rubenstein.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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No
European
had ever been
farther than our last camp, Delladilla, and that spot had only
been visited by Johann Schmidt and Florian.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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rica de que este
ejercicio
de autorreflexio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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22
She was never positive in arguing; and she usually treated those who were so, in a manner which well enough
gratified
that unhappy disposition; yet in such a sort as made it very contemptible, and at the same time did some hurt to the owners.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Over to the left, where the old
rotting boat- house used to stand among the reeds, there was a sort of
pavilion
and a
sweet kiosk, and a huge white notice saying UPPER BINFIELD MODEL YACHT
CLUB.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Your honour's dearer to you than I am,
Since with a father's blood it stained your hand,
And made you renounce, despite your passion
Your sweetest hope, that of my possession:
Yet I see you treat it now so lightly,
That you would be
vanquished
easily.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Christopher Radziwill, a de-
scendant of the nobleman who
published
the
first Protestant Bible in Poland, dedicated
another edition of it to his sovereign, Vladi-
slav the Fourth, with these words:--
"Sire,--As this book of Holy Scripture
which was published sixty-nine years ago
(1563) adorned with the name of your royal
?
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Kiss and
delighted
to, kiss,
to see you.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Around this tree I built, with massy stones
Cemented
close, my chamber, roof'd it o'er,
And hung the glutinated portals on.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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who entrance none denide:
Thence to the hall, which was on every side 50
With rich array and costly arras dight:
Infinite
sorts of people did abide
There waiting long, to win the wished sight
Of her that was the Lady of that Pallace bright.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--any
accusation
will serve.
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Lucian |
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General Blakeney, who commanded at North
Ball, of General Wade's
regiment
of horse, a man extremely well acquainted with that part of the country, to make every inquiry and find them out.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Does
Congress
have control over the expenditure of funds
in the primary elections?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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So do thou, fair ship, that ow'st
Virgil, thy
precious
freight, to Attic coast,
Safe restore thy loan and whole,
And save from death the partner of my soul!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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10 They did not equate the nation with the French popula- tion as a whole, or assert that it had any right to change France's ancient constitution and hierarchical,
corporate
social order, or grant it any right of resistance against tyranny, far less ground such a right in any notion of a social contract.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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*-
Squeaked
the envious Rat,
" How fine to be able to fly !
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Wordsworth's poems are so
few, that for themselves it would have been scarcely just to attract the
reader's
attention
toward them; yet I have dwelt on it, and perhaps the
more for this very reason.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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In short people are stuck with their own
accumulated
conditioning, their own karma; they can't even see what is good for them.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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The King of the
Bulgarians
passed at this
moment and ascertained the nature of the crime.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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For I have seen the purplest shadows stand Alway with reverent chere that looked on her, Silence himself is grown her worshipper
And ever doth attend her in that land
Wherein she reigneth,
wherefore
let there stir Naught but the softest voices, praising her.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Remember, thou hast made
me more powerful than thyself; my height is
superior
to thine, my
joints more supple.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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They tried to build one of these, a
tower, with their little bricks, which
the
engineer
did not, like master Tom,
call baby's toys.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Cofiulat irrufito versus
Synapheia
tenore,
Synapheia,5 is the connecting of verses together, so as to
make them run on in continuation, as if the matter were not
divided into separate verses.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy
operations
in the field.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Thro' many a wild,
romantic
grove,^8
Near many a hermit-fancied cove
(Fit haunts for friendship or for love,
In musing mood),
An aged Judge, I saw him rove,
Dispensing good.
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burns |
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Was this done under a
Republican
or Democratic ad-
ministration?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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"
Says Clarien: "To death he's
stricken
down.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Our years
retracing
of long, various grief,
Wooing my soul at higher good to reach,
And while she speaks, my bosom finds relief!
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Petrarch |
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Aucun
vague ne peut subsister dans la
description
du romancier, puisque cette
robe existe réellement, que les moindres dessins en sont aussi
naturellement fixés que ceux d'une œuvre d'art.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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250
Adam, Heav'ns high behest no Preface needs:
Sufficient that thy Prayers are heard, and Death,
Then due by sentence when thou didst transgress,
Defeated of his seisure many dayes
Giv'n thee of Grace, wherein thou may'st repent,
And one bad act with many deeds well done
Mayst cover: well may then thy Lord appeas'd
Redeem thee quite from Deaths
rapacious
claimes;
But longer in this Paradise to dwell
Permits not; to remove thee I am come, 260
And send thee from the Garden forth to till
The ground whence thou wast tak'n, fitter Soile.
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Milton |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child
saddened
by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two fortunate tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue unskilled in pleasure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Their novelty the plays and romances of the age, many
consists in their high-bred brightness great
personages
of the literary and fash-
and vivacity, their delicately shaded and ionable world recognized themselves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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The Bismarckian
Empire that was the State,
incarnating
Continental Power,
must be transformed into the World-Empire that incar-
nated World-Power.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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The crops are very
strong, but so very late, that there is no harvest, except a ridge or
two perhaps in ten miles, all the way I have
travelled
from Edinburgh.
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Robert Burns- |
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She had read
carefully
all the best books of travels, which serve to open and enlarge the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
|
But the worst (even as it is to-day) was to watch the
torrent of foolishness which, under cover of religion, philosophy, or
miracle-working, pretended to the
conquest
of mind and will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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The knowledge with which he
discerns
good and evil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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but, when after the death of Philometor (608)
Euergetes
succeeded him and so reunited the divided kingdom, the senate allowed this also to take place without opposition.
| Guess: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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O thou, my
happiness
before sun-
rise!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
W e cannot avoid it or
circumvent
it as long as we continue to live in this highly complex society.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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"
Lieh Tzu went in and
reported
this to Hu Tzu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
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The
crowd do not comprehend him: they listen; fascinated for an instant;
then repent, and avenge their momentary
transport
by calumniating
and insulting the poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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J'avais rêvé d'être compris d'Albertine, de ne
pas être
méconnu
par elle, croyant que c'était pour le grand bonheur
d'être compris, de ne pas être méconnu, alors que tant d'autres
eussent mieux pu le faire.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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--Compare Juvenal, 15, 5), and Lucian
informs us that Demetrius went on purpose to -Egypt
to see the pyramids and Memnon's statue, from which
a voice
proceeded
at the rising of the sun.
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| Source: |
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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In July,
Strickland
secured three months' leave on "urgent private
affairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Not all the pleas-
ures of his life had amounted to the
ineffable
joy of this em-
brace, in which he continued for some minutes totally entranced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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haec me fortunae larga
indulgentia
suasit
numine adorato uitae obitum petere,
ne fortunatae spatium inuiolabile uitae
fatali morsu stringeret ulla dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Y
atravesó
campiñas
Fresquísimas y amenas
De bosques de ámbar llenas
Y cerros de cristal,
Y prodigiosas viñas,
Que en frutos dan opimos
Las perlas en racimos
En tallos de coral.
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dn&On /NOn and I serp<:nt god, TWQ of me
principal
L IVlItItIlte Tri, W\ and Patridr:: the fortmf dd"taled ?
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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THE SLEEP-WORKER
WHEN wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see--
As one who, held in trance, has laboured long
By vacant rote and prepossession strong--
The coils that thou hast wrought unwittingly;
Wherein have place,
unrealized
by thee,
Fair growths, foul cankers, right enmeshed with wrong,
Strange orchestras of victim-shriek and song,
And curious blends of ache and ecstasy?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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(Note: Written to
Mademoiselle
Roumanille whom Mallarme knew as a child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thomas Mann found the pivotal point between the exodus from Egypt and the
immigration
there in the tale of young Joseph.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Ovid imagined that Tisiphone used both
incitements
against Athamas
and Ino and poured out also an infernal mixture compounded of in-
numerable fantastic ingredients.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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As Caesar ad-
vanced into the western cantons of the Belgae, one after another gave themselves up as lost almost without resist ance ; the
powerful
Suessiones (about Soissons), as well as their rivals, the Bellovaci (about Beauvais) and the Ambiani (about Amiens).
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:30 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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], which happened about six years after his own promotion to that office, revived his dying emulation; for he was
unwilling
that after I had equalled him in rank and dignity, I should become his superior in any other respect.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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To raise such mountains on the
troubled
main?
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The gifted nature must also pass
through this fire; it
afterwards
belongs far more
to itself.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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"
To mention all the places of the Old
Testament
where the name of Angel
is found, would be too long.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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cernedly,
' Jim,' he said, ' my trap's at the Grange; maybe you could put that trunk and
portmanteau
on a barrow and bring them down in a while?
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up,
Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
Lovers of me,
bafflers
of graves.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Such an attempt would
precipitate
the skeptical dilemmas he is trying to avoid.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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wherefore
now
Obey my first and last commandment.
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Tennyson |
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If angry fate is sworn my foe,
And suffering I am doom'd to bear;
I
careless
quit aught else below,
But spare me--spare me, Lucy dear!
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Robert Burns |
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You, Charidemus, rocked my cradle; you were the guardian and constant
companion
of my childhood Now my beard, when shaved, blackens the barber's napkins, and my mistress complains of being pricked by my bristly lips.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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