Young I was, but now am old,
But I am not yet grown cold;
I can play, and I can twine
'Bout a virgin like a vine:
In her lap too I can lie
Melting, and in fancy die;
And return to life if she
Claps my cheek, or kisseth me:
Thus, and thus it now appears
That our love
outlasts
our years.
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Beneath the aegis of Flaccus, and after the good old fashion serving his fellow-citizens and the
commonwealth
in counsel and action, Cato fought his way up to the consulate and a triumph, and even to the censorship.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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When they sometimes
Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed
Behind the door and headboard of the bed,
Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers,
With sounds like the dry
rattling
of a shutter,
That's what I sit up in the dark to say--
To no one any more since Toffile died.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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300
THE LIFE OF
of nations, would seem to have been an event fraught with
the most important and immediate
interest
to the civilized
world, and an American might have hoped to have seen
her vast prospective greatness attracting the eyes of Eu-
rope, and commanding all its attention.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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One feels that
Alcestis
herself, for
all her tender kindness, has seen through him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But now this same thing is done more cruelly, with weapons
envenomed, and with
devilish
engines.
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Erasmus |
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"
All day within the dreamy house,
The doors upon their hinges creak'd;
The blue fly sung in the pane; [8] the mouse
Behind the mouldering
wainscot
shriek'd,
Or from the crevice peer'd about.
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Tennyson |
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characteristics
of the poetry are the use of archaic
forms and words, such as mec for mé, the possessive sín, gamol, dógor, swát
for eald, dǣg, blód, etc.
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Beowulf |
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, John D'Alton's article, with
historic
and
chap, vii.
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before me lies
Dawn and the Day; the Night behind me; that
Suffices
me; I break the bounds; I _see_,
And nothing more; _believe_, and nothing less.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Can I
recognize
in you a Tzar?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There they cast away their small anchorstone by the advice of Tiphys and left it beneath a fountain, the fountain of Artaeie; and they took another meet for their purpose, a heavy one; but the first,
according
to the oracle of the Far-Darter, the Ionians, sons of Neleus, in after days laid to be a sacred stone, as was right, in the temple of Jasonian Athena.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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10, 61"), he often laments that
the poems of the exile are
composed
with less care and skill than was his wont
(Pont, i, 5, 15 ff.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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oit; on se croit en famille au milieu de deux cent mille hom-
mes, que l'on appelle nobles,
bourgeois
ou paysans, mais qui
sont tous e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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The
rain poured, and not a
creature
could be seen in the street.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The Dukes of Pomerania, Mecklenburg,
Luneburg, and Wirtemberg, and the free cities of Upper Germany, to whom
the name of EMPEROR was of course a formidable one, anxiously avoided a
contest with such an opponent, and crouched
murmuring
beneath his mighty
arm.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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his body, now
burning with fever, was soon covered with a cold sweat:
yet still had the child the force to constrain himself:
he pressed his little hands upon his mouth, and thus
suppressed the
complaints
that his sufferings were
forcing from him.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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The coldness and
pettiness
of
his manner did not warm the hearts or expand the understandings of his
hearers.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Among the best are : (The
Poor Bride) (1852); Poverty is Not a Fault)
(1853); (A
Profitable
Place) (1857); (The
Storm (1859); and A Warm Heart) (1869).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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13 They therefore heaped upon him not only all human, but divine honours; they made it an object of contention, whether the
contumely
with which they banished him, or the honour with which they recalled him, should be the greater.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Les coudes sur la table et retroussant tes manches,
Tu me glorifieras et tu seras content:
J'allumerai les yeux de ta femme ravie;
A ton fils je rendrai sa force et ses couleurs
Et serai pour ce frele athlete de la vie
L'huile qui
raffermit
les muscles des lutteurs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And has lesser, intermediate,
andgreater
stages:
202.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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An
essential
constituent
of this experience is the appearance of a certain perception (of food in
our example), the memory picture of which thereafter remains associated
with the memory trace of the excitation of want.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing
in a jar.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I even believe that quite cold water alone,
if
thoroughly
used, would be sufficient.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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17
What had to be done with that chaotic pell-mell
of the primal state previous to all motion, so that
out of it, without any increase of new substances
and forces, the existing world might originate, with
its regular stellar orbits, with its regulated forms of
seasons and days, with its
manifold
beauty and order,
—in short, so that out of the Chaos might come a
Cosmos?
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Thus the meaning of this latter example is roughly equivalent to that of the former: someone who appears to be quite diligently and skillfully engaged in Dharma practice, but who is missing the
essential
point of the practice.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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In the
Hippocratean
oath she is named after Apollo, Asclepius and Hygieie.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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It was in
January 996 that Basil issued his famous Novel against the continual
encroachments of the great
territorial
proprietors.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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And then the
laughter
and the mirth.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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, or two years previous to the
production
of 'The Birds,' had
especially done him great credit.
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Aristophanes |
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Those
accounts
are classed among the sources whence Dante
derived some of his poetic ideas for writing the Divina Comedia.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Kyngston,
you know
wherefore
am here?
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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They stood quite still and looked at him with
uneasy curiosity, like the
children
of savages examining a being
of another sphere.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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5] L
Phraates
immediately proceeded to kill his father, as if he would not die, and put to death, also, all his thirty brothers.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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He was
determined
to make it by marriage.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Many
brutalities
were committed in hot blood and the greed of gain, and it is on record that Archimedes, while intent upon figures that he had traced in the dust, and regardless of the hideous uproar of an army let loose to ravage and despoil a captured city, was killed by a soldier who did not know who he was.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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From his father he
inherited
the
gentleness and refinement of his nature, from his mother that intel-
lectual strength in which his celebrated sister Harriet so fully shared.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Many
brutalities
were committed in hot blood and the greed of gain, and it is on record that Archimedes, while intent upon figures that he had traced in the dust, and regardless of the hideous uproar of an army let loose to ravage and despoil a captured city, was killed by a soldier who did not know who he was.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Contrast Alden's
feelings
with the scene around him.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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The only part which was well known was the
Chronological
Tables, which had been translated into Latin by St.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Honolulu:
University
of Hawaii Press, 1983.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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As vulgar as the dirt he treads upon
He calls his cows or drives his horses on;
He knows the lamest cow and strokes her side
And often tries to mount her back and ride,
And takes her tail at night in idle play,
And makes her drag him
homeward
all the way.
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John Clare |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Whispering in
midnight
silence, said the youth,
"Sure some sweet name thou hast, though, by my truth,
I have not ask'd it, ever thinking thee
Not mortal, but of heavenly progeny,
As still I do.
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Keats - Lamia |
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New ways I must attempt, my
groveling
name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
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Samuel Johnson |
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24 The
Brownies
and the Farmer.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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--so very
determined
and positive!
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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97 97
O cieco mondo, di
lusinghe
pieno .
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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That moon sees
A
shrouded
German valley
With woods and ghostly trees.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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17), whereas in the Aristocrates
Olynthus had not yet been
attacked
by Philip,
though she had already come to terms with Athens.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Oh, the
imitative
sunsets!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He
actually
set several prosaic fables that he knew to music, but 1 still do
not believe he reconciled the muses with these metric exercises" (Socrates ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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I was conversing on this subject with
a friend, when the servant, a worthy and
sensible
woman, coming in, I
placed before her two engravings, the one a pinky-coloured plate of the
day, the other a masterly etching by Salvator Rosa from one of his
own pictures.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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He said : See solid talent and think of
measnring
up to it; see the un-solid and examine your own insides.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Sed, seu Sabine, sive verius Tiburs, 5
Fui libenter in tua suburbana
Villa, malamque pectore expuli tussim;
Non immerenti quam mihi meus venter,
Dum
sumtuosas
appeto, dedit, coenas.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Morand has
Asiatics
go about in London, Amer-
icans in Syria, and Turks in Norway; he shows our customs as seen through these eyes, as Montesquieu did by those of
Persians, which is the surest way of removing their raison d'e^tre.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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" He had designed a long poem, but having
discovered that Byron was at work on the same theme, he
resolved
to
restrict himself to the production of an "episode," to "give himself the
chance of .
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Byron |
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On the contrary, a German professor wrote that the book "demonstrates how
amateurishly
some poet translators go about their task.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Inthisregard,as one can easily see, official Marxism has the greatest ambition, since the
major part of its theoretical energy is dedicated to outflanking and
exposing all non-Marxist
theories
as 'bourgeois ideologies.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The idea, the
envisioned
outward appearance, characterizes Being precisely for that kind of vision which recognizes in the visible as such pure presence.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Becaufe, an
immediate
Peace was then extremely neceffary to
Philip's Affairs, but now to confume as much Time as they
poffibly could, before they required his Oath, was of equal ad-
vantage.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's
desolation!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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All which yielded us so great content that we
boldly entered the haven, made fast our ship and landed, leaving in her
only Scintharus and two more of our
companions
behind us.
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Lucian - True History |
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In the second case, I want to show just how much the
political
and cultural landscape of France itself changed in the process.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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In full dress, with frills, puffs, bell skirts, cascading draperies, laces, and
gathered
pleats, they had created a surface five times the size of the original one, forming a many-petaled chalice heavy with an erotic charge, difficult of access, and hiding at its core the slim white animal that had to be searched out and that made itselfterribly desirable.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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AT length, the fair could no longer contain:
Vile wretch, she cried, I've borne too much 'tis plain;
I'm not the fav'rite whom thou had'st in view:
To tear thy eyes out justly were thy due,
'Tis this, indeed, that makes thee silent keep,
Each morn feign sickness, and pretend to sleep,
Thyself reserving doubtless for amours:--
Speak,
villain!
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La Fontaine |
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Our American system has been welded
together
by politics.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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It
shouldbe
said,however,thattheuniversitieswereinfactnever"ivory towers",evenintheirquietesttimes.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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terms will be linked
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permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Gems were
in one sense what miniatures were to the last genera-
tion, and what
photographs
are to ourselves; but both
the material and the process of engraving were costly,
and it is probable that it was only persons of some
?
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The fact that it has nothing else to
contribute
to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to tell us what to do.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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I who have seen you amid the primal things Was angry when they spoke your name
In
ordinary
places.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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18,15), and sittram mdtrkd ca,
equivalent
to dgamacatustayam (p.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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When I my self perhaps
am the
_Author_
of them.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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xul LITERATURE AND ART
219
CHAPTER XIII LITERATURE AND ART
THE sixth century was, both in a
political
and a literary Literary point of view, a vigorous and great age.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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drawn up by himself by way of diary; with an
appendix of
original
letters.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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22, OraZIO Grcollnl
StIle senese or the year begInnIng In March
Enacted SIena, In the ParIsh of S GlonnI, In palatIo,
WIth WItnesses above mentIoned, apostolIc, ImperIal, CItIzen of SIena
Flrenze 1749, 1000 scudl
for
draInIng
the low land
2.
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It was certainly an ill-advised and wrong step in him to commence boxer by fighting the standing
champion
; for Taylor was not then twenty, and Broughton was in the zenith of his age and art.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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I have
recorded
it because (1) ll.
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The various metamorphoses, are therefore to be
interpreted
in a
spiritual sense, and are related both for pleasure and for profit.
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But by cause there
is litell other lernyng in them, concernyng either
vertuous
maners
or policie, I suppose it were better that as fables and ceremonies
happen to come in a lesson, it were declared abundantly by the
maister than that in the said two bokes, a longe tyme shulde be
spente and almost lost: which mought be better employed on suche
autors that do minister both eloquence, ciuile policie, and exhor-
tation to vertue.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Britomartis or Dictyna, a Cretan goddess
sometimes
represented as an attendant of Artemis, sometimes regarded as identical with her.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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How
inimitably
graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
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--for they would never fall
Rended asudden, if from infinite Past
They had prevailed against all engin'ries
Of the
assaulting
aeons, with no crash.
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Lucretius |
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Showing briefly how
permanence
and annihilation are avoided in terms of the conventional]
L3: [The summarizing stanza:]
L2: [CHAPTER 11 - REFUTING TRULY EXISTENT TIME - THERE IS NO TRULY EXISTING ABSOLUTE TIME, DURATION OR IMPERMANENCE - P.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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But the proposal encountered the united
opposition
of the senate and the mob of the capital.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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They
gathered
flowers to crown their statues.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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] proceed from solid amplifications, amplifications are gathered from common places, common places fit for oratorical
persuasion
concern a part of Rhetorick called Invention.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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without the dead ceasing to be dead or the living ceasing to live - albeit in a
mortified
form, namely as a post-mortal soul.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Becher,
Gesammelte
Werke, ed.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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PORTRAIT D'UNE FEMME
mind and you are our Sargasso
Sea, YO|UR
London has swept about you this
score years
And bright ships left you this or that in fee :
Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
Strange spars of
knowledge
and dimmed wares of price.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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The large-scale traffic jams on the summer
highways
of Central Europe (and the legendary power outages in New York that can make us feel nostalgic) are thus phenomena of historico-philosophical importance and even have a religio-historical significance.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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