i6 Introduction
much as
Voltaire
laughed at the King's French
verses.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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But there are powerful reasons for
believing
that it is the ideal that will govern the material world in the long run.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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“I would not on any
account trifle with her
affectionate
solicitude; or allow her to hear it
from anyone but myself.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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The only plausible answer, albeit still a surmise, is that Hiên Quang himself repaired the temple on Mount Yên Tu'*; afterward when
Yuanzheng
came to Vietnam and went into Mount Yên Tu' to transmit the Dharma, he might have honored Hiên Quang with the title of first patriarch of the (Linji) Zen lineage on Mount Yên Tu'.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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--The
letter was written to a friend: and the
apparent
abruptness with which
it begins, is owing to the omission of the introductory sentences.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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It is the opinion of the modern
physicians in Italy, whom the writer had the opportunity to consult on
the subject, that Sarpi did not discover the circulation of the blood, but
they offered no dissenting opinion as to his
discoveries
respecting vision,
or the valves in the veins.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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XXX
But yet the cutting steel arrived there,
Where her fair neck
adjoined
her noble head,
Light was the wound, but through her amber hair
The purple drops down railed bloody red,
So rubies set in flaming gold appear:
But Lord Tancredi, pale with rage as lead,
Flew on the villain, who to flight him bound;
The smart was his, though she received the wound.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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But saying that a theory about international economics tells us
something
about politics, and that a theory about international politics tells us something about economi.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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He
was the author
dramatic
performance, called The seven deadly Sins, which now lost; but the scheme plan
“And call’d
horse, horse, Burbage cry’d.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I met several on the road to
whom I cried out for assistance, but they
disregarded
my entreaties.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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)
policy of the
Sicilian
tyrants, he removed from His intimacy with the latter was particularly cele
their native seats, and established them at Leon- brated (Pseud.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Dear Sir,
I thank you then
sincerely
for your generous review; and it is with
the sense of double content I express my gratitude, because I am now
sure the tribute is not superfluous or obtrusive.
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Selection of English Letters |
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a
toilsome
way
Set bleeding feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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If in the curule chair a hump sits, Nonius ;
A would-be consul lies in hope,
Vatinius
;
Enough, Catullus !
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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But think not, reader, that therefore my sufferings were
ended, nor think of me as of one sitting in a
_dejected_
state.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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[5] It is worth while that I should tell you this story, too, since I am convinced that you, with your
disposition
towards holiness and your sympathy with men who are living in accordance with the holy law, will all the more readily listen to the account which I purpose to set forth, since you yourself have lately come to us from the island and are anxious to hear everything that tends to build up the soul.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Here is my means of escape, here
is my
complete
vengeance, here and nowhere else
have I the destroyer of the Law in my hands!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Slowacki
liked
England, where he greatly enjoyed his short stay,
but September 9th found him already in Paris.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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All on the pyre were plain to see
the gory sark, the gilded swine-crest,
boar of hard iron, and athelings many
slain by the sword: at the
slaughter
they fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Remember, my Beloved, what thing we met
By the
roadside
on that sweet summer day;
There on a grassy couch with pebbles set,
A loathsome body lay.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Un queso tengo yo, que en mi tinaja
acejte incorruptible le comerva,
que en su humidad la
sequedad
ataja.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Shaun execrates Shem, maligns him, with the frank but not
altogether
unfearful disdain of the man of action for the man of thought.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Stephen Crane |
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For see--their honours to these new-made gods,
What other gave but I, and dealt them out
With
distribution?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I have always a determinate
sensation
of sight.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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The
terrified
crowds flee.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Grundriss
der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Nevertheless, in the
practical
problem of pure reason, i.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Your
affectionate
brother,
Robert Walton
Letter 3
July 7th, 17--
To Mrs.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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As the price of raw
produce continues to rise, these inferior machines are successively
called into action; and as the price of raw produce continues to fall,
they are
successively
thrown out of action.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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) mensis,
Veris nec iratus timeo
virgultum
Bootes.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Alexey
Ivanytch
tries to oblige me to marry
him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Subsequently he
became an ardent partisan of Bonapartism,
pleading its cause as a
journalist
and poetically
extolling the Napoleonic dynasty in many en-
thusiastic odes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Lightbowen and Lowndes' information is now
verified by the
presence
of your father and sister, for whose
safe arrival I pray, and that they may convey that satisfac-
tion to your soul, that must naturally flow from the sight of
absent friends in health; and shall for news this way, refer
you to them.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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We cannot search deeply into
the exact sciences themselves, without meet-
ing, even there, with what is infinite and
eternal; and those things which are the most
completely matters of fact, do, under some
relations, belong to this
infinity
and eternity,
as much as sentiment and imagination.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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He was contem porary with Æschylus , and senior to Bacchylides ,
having florished one hundred and fifty years later than Alcman , one hundred after Alcæus , and fifty
after Stesichorus , and
surpassed
them all in lyrical
excellence .
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Pindar |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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There is little
question
however but that Iceland was known to the
Irish Gaels, and possibly also to the Britons, before this.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Note: Floris and Blancheflor are Floris and
Blancheflour
lovers in a popular romance found in many different vernacular languages and versions.
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Troubador Verse |
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Este es su modo de
expresar
que lo que es no es del todo como e?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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This is not to say that the new chronotope should be named a 'postmodern' one, or that the
postmodern
faction should claim victory.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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Ludwig Elm, Hochsclzule und Neofaschismrus: Zeitgeschichtliclie
Stiidien
zur Hochlscliulpolitik in der BRD (Berlin [Ost], 1972), 250ff.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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After a time Hsiang-ju
became famous as a poet, but his
character
was marred by love of money.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Both are
symbolical, the former more
obscurely
so than the latter; but
in the narrative subject matter--a number of white-robed girls
returning from their first communion and drowned by the break-
ing of the ice on the lake which they are crossing--there seems
to be a possibility of two interpretations.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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How, also, he arrived
After much toil, on the
Phaeacian
coast,
Where ev'ry heart revered him as a God,
And whence, enriching him with brass and gold,
And costly raiment first, they sent him home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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) The offering immediately and mysteriously
disappeared from the temple, and Conon, a cele-
brated
mathematician
and astronomer of Samos,
soon discovered it changed into a constellation in
the heavens; and Callimachus who resided at Al-
exandria, willing likewise to gain favor at court,
wrote a poem on the event, which, except a few
fragments, is now lost, and of which this of Catul-
lus is a version.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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If no one gets in, the
coachman
will just drive
away.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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A climate, a single climate, all the time there is a single climate, any
time there is a doubt, any time there is music that is to
question
more
and more and there is no politeness, there is hardly any ordeal and
certainly there is no tablecloth.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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’Ow ’bout that
perishing
toff as I see you get off
with just now?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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) condemns his style as
frivolous
and
tria in Euboea.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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“Through
no fault of yours” : the Greek is “at any rate as far as you are concerned it has (i.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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As the forms became more and more angry and frightful, raging around her, mTsho-rgyal thought:
"Many times I have vowed to be unattached to anything
associated
with body, speech, or mind.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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SONNET II
Oh I do love thee, meek
Simplicity!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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So unless
you are so kind as to assist me in
redeeming
it, I know no remedy
but to take a purse.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Sounded then the noisy glee
Of a
reveling
company.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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"
#+#
#*3" !
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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The
debauched
Clodius was
detected as being present at these rites, in a female dress.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Charles Metcalfe, the most prominent of the governor-general's
councillors, while noting his concurrence, observed that he was not
without apprehension that the measure might possibly bc “used by
i
Statement
of the directors to the Privy Council.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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So Rhadamanthus sent fifty of the Heroes on board a
boat hollowed out of an
asphodel
trunk, with orders to give chase.
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Lucian |
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She it was that the babbler, the father of three daughters, standing up in the council of his townsmen, urged should be offered as dark banquet for the grey hound, which with briny water was turning all the land to mud, spewing waves from his jaws and with fierce surge
flooding
all the ground.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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net/
The Epic of Gilgamish
by
Stephen Langdon
University
of Pennsylvania
The University Museum
Publications of the Babylonian Section
Vol.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Therefore, since perjuries with justice impose upon
the perjured, let woman grieve, deceived through a
precedent
her own.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Being of a perverse nature, his Derves ruined by abuse of
drink and drugs, the landscapes of his
imagination
were more beautiful
than Nature herself.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Whoever did not
originally
want to engage in Enlightenment will want to do so even less, once he has been cut open
and exposed by the opponent.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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CHANNING
I do not come to weep above thy pall,
And mourn the dying-out of noble powers,
The poet's clearer eye should see, in all
Earth's seeming woe, seed of
immortal
flowers.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It is said that all of them obtained
miraculous
powers mclud- ing celestial travel.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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, John Florio's englishe
Übersetzung
der Essais Montaigne's
und Lord Bacon's, Ben Jonson's und Robert Burton's Verbältnis zu
Montaigne, 1903; Dowden, E.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Already today they are busy
carrying
out their aims in our region and throughout the world, and the need to face them becomes the major element in our country's security policy and of course that
of the rest of the Free World.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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This artless narrative of an able, but
her distinguished grandmother Sikandar in London was not founded until three
Begam, and forms a graphic record of events centuries after Bruno first instituted his
unspecialized
Englishman's attempts to
in the Bhopal State during a period of some hard “rule" at Chartreux, and two centuries
earn a livelihood for himself and his family
forty years up to 1904.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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There is another
circumstance
to be taken into the
account.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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For it does not occur either in a
straight
line, or to or from
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets
builders
in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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]
I blow an arouse
Through the world's wide house
To quicken the torpid earth:
Grappling
I fling
Each feeble thing,
But bring strong life to the birth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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”
“And so you
actually
put this piece of court-plaister by for his sake!
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Austen - Emma |
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"Well,
Moses," cried I, "we shall soon, my boy, have a wedding in the family;
what is your opinion of matters and things in
general?
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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The new place of America in the world as a whole, the awakened interest in other peoples, other
cultures
must inevitably draw the minds of men away from the mere practicalities of living.
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The name Gaulish (Wdlsch) is
often
regarded
even yet as a term of abuse.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Sea of stretch'd ground-swells,
Sea breathing broad and
convulsive
breaths,
Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Have ye no griefs at home, to fix ye there:
Am I the only object of
despair?
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Iliad - Pope |
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" It is
probable that Ovid reached Tomi
somewhere
about
the month of September, a.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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589
bable, he first saw the light, towards the close of the sixth or
beginning
of the seventh century.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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When Galba was deliberating on the
choice of a successor, Vinius
proposed
Otho.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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It resembles defeat in a fight that would be a
disaster
to win.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Do the
peasants
under- stand, one wonders, that in the revival of foreign trade they can obtain relief from the prices that oppress them?
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Bibliography
The
Adventures
of Philip on his Way through the World, Shewing who
Robbed him, who Helped him, and who Passed him by (some ills.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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In the composition of the Sapphic Stanza, a word may be
divided in such a way, that the former part of it shall close
the third line, and the remainder form the
beginning
of the
fourth or Adonic.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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When there is but one Ccesura in a verse, it is gene-
rally in the third foot,
sometimes
in the fourth, but never in
the second; as,
Virg.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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LES
LITANIES
DE SATAN
O toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,
Dieu trahi par le sort et prive de louanges,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He
who sajs to man--Find every thing in your-
self--always raises up in the soul some noble
object, which is
connected
with that very
sensibility whose sacrifice it demands.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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1 [2001]
Augustus
adopted Gaius Agrippa as his son.
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Roman Translations |
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