Contributed
to the Spectator by .
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So answered those strange horsemen,
And each couched low his spear;
And
forthwith
all the ranks of Rome
Were bold, and of good cheer:
And on the thirty armies
Came wonder and affright,
And Ardea wavered on the left,
And Cora on the right.
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I thought I should have fainted, but I did not faint;
I stood stunned at the moment, scarcely sad,
Till I raised my wail of
desolate
complaint
For you, my cousin, brother, all I had.
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Christina Rossetti |
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he
believes
he beholds Miss Cunegonde?
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Si mare,, si terras, porrectaque littora vidi,
Multa mihi terra, multa
minantur
aquae.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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--Pas
admises les filles du Roi,
pourquoi
cela?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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He recognised that though Buddhism is undoubtedly a religion for
decadents, its
decadent
values emanate from the higher and not, as in
Christianity, from the lower grades of society.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"Where is your
village?
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Talk me no love talk, no bought-cheap fiddl'ry, Mine is the ship and thine the merchandise, All the blind earth knows not th' emprise Whereto thou
calledst
and whereto I call.
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I scorn the thought--assur'd that sov'reign pow'r
Governs alike the dark or noontide hour:
And here, as free from vain alarm, I stray
Amid these sliades, as in the blaze of day;
While to thy care, o thou
almighty
friend,
By night or day, my spirit i commend.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Vet grant, great gods, she
promised
from her soul,
And spoke w^ith all the ardor of her heart.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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what a
wretched
mother I!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The most salient among them is the solitary walker who, at first glace, seems to be talking to himself, often with great emphasis and expressiveness, and also quite loudly, and thus appears to
perfectly
fit one of the traditional images of the fool as "someone who talks to himself.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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It is a mere novelette, of
perhaps thirty
thousand
words.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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At present we have
achieved
the perfect human body of freedoms and riches.
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Only a tall aspen continu-
ally
whispered
with its silver leaves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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illud puniceis ornatur litus echinis,
piscibus
in nostris, hospes, utrumque uides.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thus much of the
Division
of Lawes.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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I suppose we must have been there about two hours when
suddenly
my float gave a
quiver.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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16 The thematization of actions and particular people takes on the special function of disguising systems' bounda- ries and thereby also differences in different systems'
operational
mode.
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And then across the white silken,
Bellied up, as a sail bellies to the wind,
Over the fluid tenuous, diaphanous, Over this curled a wave, greenish, Mounted and
overwhelmed
it.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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This, then, is the one who implores, as he
dwindles
to silence,
A fanfare of glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Earl of
Leicester!
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Poe - 5 |
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An Aspasia-Hypatia-Lucretia-Griselda, with any
naughtiness
in
the first left out and certain points in Solomon's pattern woman
added, might have met Milton's views.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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This stone is erected by his
sorrowful
parishioners.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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I
laugh at you,
brother!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Jesus and Joseph toiled together,
Mary was watching them,
Thinking
of kings in the wintry weather
At Bethlehem.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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-\-latis et \ Ipse doll
fabricator
e-\-peus
275.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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CATULLUS II
which,
according
to Mr.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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His bridle far out-streaming,
His flanks all blood and foam,
He sought the southern mountains,
The
mountains
of his home.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Barbara Dancygier, in: Canadian
Literature
187 [Winter 2005], pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Wenn Ihr mir die
Erlaubnis
gebt,
Ihn meine Strasse sacht zu fuhren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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En esa promesa
alternativa
el acento se traspasa de
589
las satisfacciones objetivas a las pre-objetivas.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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And thence the miners
transported
the gold into Judaea.
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Roman Translations |
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"—"It is well, sir," said the squire, who went
off with full
confidence
in the other's protestations.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the
blackened
beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled into a scream.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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And now, their thirst by copious draughts allay'd,
The youthful hero and the Athenian maid
Propose departure from the finish'd rite,
And in their hollow bark to pass the night;
But this
hospitable
sage denied,
"Forbid it, Jove!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And of course we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism or Islam, and even
participate
in religious rituals such as marriages and funerals, without buying into the supernatural beliefs that historically went along with those traditions.
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Not only did alms-givers
aid the poor with money, food, and clothing; but seeing in them
the image of suffering Christ, they gloried in
sometimes
serving
them at table, and in washing their feet upon Holy Thursday.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Historical
Collections
of a
Citizen of London in the 15th century.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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The father thinks of how much he has done for the son and can't
understand
why the son did it.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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All these
devilments
would be much harder to put over in a chamber organized on trade and professional basis.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Give me the
strength
to raise my mind high above daily trifles.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Nay, like the broken
Potsherds
are we cast
Forth and forgotten,—and what will be will!
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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She was indeed under some
apprehensions
of going in a boat, after some danger she had narrowly escaped by water, but she was reasoned thoroughly out of it.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Music fills the
infinite
between two souls.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If we speak in the following of the self-description of the art system, then we
presuppose
these developments.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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As
Descartes
makes very clear, in the cogito the difference between day and night, waking and dreaming, reality and hallucination does not count.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Tully - Offices |
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Since this change in the care for the poor person into an abstract state responsibility occurred--in England from 1834, in Germany
somewhat
after the middle of the century--its nature was modified in tandem with this centralizing form.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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)
Coronation
of Stephen Dušan as King of Serbia.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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In the beginning of 1857, a Ladies' Association of Charity, under the zealous and self-denying Miss Aylward, had been formed to rescue from proselytism
Catholic
children exposed to danger.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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"
"Who was Naomi
Brocklehurst?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The femoral head or so-called sphere was sawn
perpendicularly
from in front backwards and the section was printed on the paper.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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When these
circumstants
shall but live to see
The time that I prevaricate from thee.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Loud did wail his familiar hounds, and loud now weep the Nymphs of the hill; and Aphrodite, she unbraids her tresses and goes wandering distraught, unkempt, unslippered in the wild wood, and for all the briers may tear and rend her and cull her
hallowed
blood, she flies through the long glades shrieking amain, crying upon her Assyrian lord, calling upon the lad of her love.
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Bion |
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The
Parsee, who was an accomplished elephant driver, covered his back with
a sort of saddle-cloth, and
attached
to each of his flanks some
curiously uncomfortable howdahs.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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# And Ptolemaeus, the son of Agesarchus, speaks of a damsel named Cleino as the cupbearer of Ptolemy the king, who was
surnamed
Philadelphus, mentioning her in the third book of his History of Philopator.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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You love me, and I find you still
A spirit
beautiful
and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered
upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Perhaps
LITERATURE
next to the housewife, indeed, there is no sorry self-preoccupation which will some-
one so practical and
housewifely
as the wayfarer who first set out, and prospered
times overtake in later life the spiritual
genuine traveller, and there is something in his mission to men, because he had no
of the woman—that is, of the
has to manage in the traveller's
attention thought of self at all.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue,
Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty
The Ministry of Love was the really
frightening
one.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Fourth, access to information about events in Eastern Europe has been much more
extensive
than in the cases examined in this book.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just for FUN: The Story of an
Accidental
Revolutionary (New York, 2001).
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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But Phileas Fogg was a bold
mariner, and knew how to
maintain
headway against the sea; and he kept
on his course, without even decreasing his steam.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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As
for oaths, no one imagined they were to be kept a moment longer than
occasion required; it was, in fact, an added pleasure to destroy your
enemy if you had managed to catch him through his
trusting
to your
word.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Eventually
we are to hear the
laundry of 1.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Paulus AEmilius
answered
one, whom that miserable
king of Macedon his prisoner sent to entreat him he would not lead
him in triumph, "Let him make that request unto himselfe.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what
religion
is.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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ThePremon-
stratenses
or White Canons were in possession of it, when suppressed in 1542, during the reign of Henry VIII.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Why, child, I never said but that
Lieutenant
O'Connor
was a very well-bred and discerning young man; 'tis your papa is so
violent against him.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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On the basis of fundamental ignorance about the real nature of mind, karmic
tendencies
and other obscurations develop.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere
thou
beholdest
me quaff it.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Dieu* Nhân (1042–1113)
Seventeenth Generation:
Four Persons, Three
Biographies
Recorded
[66b9] The nun Diêu Nhân of Hu'o'ng Hai* Temple, Phù Dong* Village, Tiên Du Prefecture, was the eldest daughter of Lord Phung* Yet*.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Being returned into the Moon, they came forth to meet us,
Endymion himself and all his friends, who embraced us with tears,
and desired us to make our abode with him, and to be partners in the
colony, promising to give me his own son in marriage (for there are no
women amongst them), which I by no means would yield unto, but desired
of all loves to be
dismissed
again into the sea, and he finding it
impossible to persuade us to his purpose, after seven days' feasting,
gave us leave to depart.
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Lucian - True History |
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(2) | tempera by Antonio di
Cicognara
for Car-
style.
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Japp |
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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au Colle`ge de France, and has been a
Visiting
Professor at numerous universities on several continents, most recently at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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thatKingDagobertbestowedonhisSeethecityofUtrecht, with a small church, which had been there
dedicated
to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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"I've a notion in my head that would make the most
splendid
story that
was ever written.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Je n'étais pas un seul homme, mais le
défilé heure par heure d'une armée
compacte
où il y avait selon le
moment des passionnés, des indifférents, des jaloux,--des jaloux dont
pas un n'était jaloux de la même femme.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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I ask my God if e'en in His sweet place,
Where, by one waving of a wistful wing,
My soul could
straightway
tremble face to face
With thee, with thee, across the stellar ring --
Yea, where thine absence I could ne'er bewail
Longer than lasts that little blank of bliss
When lips draw back, with recent pressure pale,
To round and redden for another kiss --
Would not my lonesome heart still sigh for thee
What time the drear kiss-intervals must be?
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Sidney Lanier |
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]
[Variant 31: In the two
editions
of 1819 only.
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William Wordsworth |
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They are, one might say, adjectives virtually afloat, in need of
substance
or a substantive.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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it is not ended yet;
miserable
that I am!
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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642, and to have
furnished
fuel
during six months to the 4000 baths of Alexandrea.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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New Statesman, August 7, 14;
National
Guardian, August 8, 15 (three articles), 22; I.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Far from love the
Heavenly
Father
Leads the chosen child;
Oftener through realm of briar
Than the meadow mild,
Oftener by the claw of dragon
Than the hand of friend,
Guides the little one predestined
To the native land.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I should therefore like to read you this passage from Book A,
relating
to Thales.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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FISH AND THE SHADOW
" Not so far, no, not so far now, Thereisaplace
butnooneelseknowsit
Afield in a valley .
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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How Gaster
invented
an art to avoid being hurt or touched by cannon-balls.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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By thee
transmuted
Ceres' [Deo's] body pure, became a dragon's savage and obscure:
Avert thy anger, hear me when I pray, and by fix'd fate, drive fancy's fears away.
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Orphic Hymns |
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n, Julio Ortegas
Antologi?
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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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Though in its
primordial
simplicity it may be small, the whole
world dares not deal with (one embodying) it as a minister.
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Tao Te Ching |
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In the three volumes which contain his best,
as well as his weakest, work, An Epic of Women, Lays of France,
founded on the lays of Marie de France, and Music and Moon-
light, he frequently adopted lyric forms which
Swinburne
had
used in Poems and Ballads.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Peut-on dechirer des tenebres
Plus denses que la poix, sans matin et sans soir,
Sans astres, sans eclairs
funebres?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In a
moment the waiter came back, carrying the bottle of cheap wine by the neck, and half
concealing it behind his coat tails, as though it were
something
a little indecent or
unclean.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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