Pierrot laid down his lute to weep,
And sighed, "She sings for me,"
But Colin slept a
careless
sleep
Beneath an apple tree.
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Twa had
manteeles
o' dolefu' black,
But ane wi' lyart lining;
The third, that gaed a wee a-back,
Was in the fashion shining
Fu' gay that day.
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All over the corn's dim motion, against the blue
Dark sky of night, the
wandering
glitter, the swarm
Of questing brilliant things:--you joy, you true
Spirit of careless joy: ah, how I warm
My poor and perished soul at the joy of you!
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They must, then,
be
caressed
from our need of them, and recom-
pensed from good policy.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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This one day, I am where Heaven and I
Commonly stand together; you shall not have
Shelter from me in a
worshipt
God to-day,
Kings; look yonder at many-power'd night,
Telling her beauty to the sea and taking
The prone adoring waters into her blue
Desire, setting them as herself on flame
With perils of joy, lending them her achieved
Raptures, her white experiences of stars.
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Prisoners
are still coming in, and one hundred and
eighty guns since the 3d up to to-day.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The
delicate
shells lay on the shore;
The bubbles of the latest wave
Fresh pearls to their enamel gave,
And the bellowing of the savage sea
Greeted their safe escape to me.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Alfred Russell Wallace respecting the
equatorial belt in general (a judgment which has at once sobered
all modern descriptions of
tropical
lands and made imaginative
people more content to stay at home) applies almost to this whole
area.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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But the Anon-
ymous Poet
understood
this Hell, and shuddered at the
sight!
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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The scene in the dream is
the repetition of a little
adventure
for which she has often been teased
by her husband.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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All those People, as I tell you, to shelter them
selves from Envy, have sought after Sally-ports to
withdraw
themselves
out of Trouble in time of need.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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In fine, I found most
frequently, behind the proud disdain of philosophy in young scholars,
the evil after-effect of some particular philosopher, to whom on the
whole obedience had been foresworn, without, however, the spell of his
scornful
estimates
of other philosophers having been got rid of--the
result being a general ill-will to all philosophy.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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With mind like a servant,
uncomplaining
in any work.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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This
advantage
is produced in two ways.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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45
όποιος καλήτερος φανή, και νικηφόρος έβγη,
ας σηκωθή και απ'
ταις
κοιλιαίς όποιαν του αρέση ας πάρη.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Although
it has a past and a future, the past and
the future are cut off.
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Shobogenzo |
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It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by only a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and
summoned
men to the fight against them and who, God's Truth!
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Though he was terrified with a blaze streaming from the kirk, yet it
is a well-known fact that to turn back on these occasions is running
by far the greatest risk of mischief, he
prudently
advanced on his
road.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Again
rejoicing
Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues:
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in morning dews.
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burns |
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ractcn, can ~ widely and lubtly rdl<< ted in Ihe
changing
1urD.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Frederica makes me very
unhappy!
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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And in every way it was
remarkable that he should
maintain
his lofty standard of concep-
tion and performance.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Among these
volumes was that which
contains
the Parva Naturalia, in the old Latin
version, swathed and swaddled in the commentary afore mentioned
It remains then for me, first to state wherein Hartley differs from
Aristotle; then, to exhibit the grounds of my conviction, that
he differed only to err: and next as the result, to show, by what
influences of the choice and judgment the associative power becomes
either memory or fancy; and, in conclusion, to appropriate the remaining
offices of the mind to the reason, and the imagination.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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the
intersection
of social circles 367
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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The talk then turned to James Legge and Arthur Waley, Pound remarked: ''The trouble with Legge's versions is, whenever Confucius
disagrees
with St Paul, Legge puts in a footnote to say that Confucius must be wrong.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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who would not be moved at the sight of the appalling
tortures
under which
I succumb?
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Aristophanes |
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I
certainly
don't know any kings.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Now, whether
vassals and subjects unto him, especially they speak more the purpose herein, the crown this realm, with the laws and cus refer me the
judgment
indifferent
may hearers; yea the old church Rome, above consent admit his usurped power within thousand years together, neither believed nor this realm, contrary mine oath, mine obedi used the Sacrament, the church Rome
the power and authority the pope, have not church of Rome fell into new doctrine of spoken, take God record and judge, for transubstantiation; with the doctrine they any malice owe the pope's person, whom changed the use the Sacraument contrary
toms the same see mean how
ence God's law, mine allegiance and duty hath done late years-For the beginning, your majesty, and my love ard affection the church Rome taught pure and sound this realm.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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There is the use of sweet spirits, and the value set on water; there is the use of the (ordinary) knife, and the honour expressed by that furnished with (small) bells; there is the comfort afforded by the rush and fine bamboo mats, and the (special)
employment
of those which are made of straw.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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LIFE FOR SONG
COM
HOME Muse, O Muse, so often scorned by me,
The hope of sorrow and the balm of care,–
Give to me speech and song, that I may be
Unchid by grief; grant me such graces rare
As other
ministering
souls may never see
Who boast thy laurel, and thy myrtle wear.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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As for the gen-
eral, he remained to all appearance calm and cold: the feelings
with which he heard the notes given forth by the nun
among the small number of earthly things whose
expression
is
withheld from impotent human speech, but which-like death,
like God, like eternity — can be perceived only at their slender
point of contact with the heart of man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Instances of
machines
for the fabrication of these mechanical tools are, the automatic bobbin-making engine, the cardsetting engine, shuttle-making machines, and machines for forging mule and throstle spindles.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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" he said to me in a melancholy voice, when he
saw the
undoubted
signs of my zeal for the service.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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) Para afirmarse como señor de señores más allá
de las
potencias
mundiales, Dios no debe tomar parte en la auto-
glorificación de las ciudades por medio de su furia constructora y
sus historiografías.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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The play is badly
mutilated
in the MSS.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Why did this
star seem to him the
brightest
and purest of all?
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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I suppose a true Eastern sage would say that the working
government which we have taken upon ourselves in Egypt and elsewhere is not a work
worthy of a philosopher-that it is the dirty work, the inferior work, of
carrying
on the
necessary labour.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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You have a shared IP address, and someone else has
triggered
the block.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Give me, instead of Beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind
Which with temptation I would trust,
Yet never link'd with error find,--
One in whose gentle bosom I
Could pour my secret heart of woes,
Like the care-burthen'd honey-fly
That hides his murmurs in the rose,--
My earthly
Comforter!
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Golden Treasury |
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--Fine statues, noble works of art:
All gave delight and
gratitude
his heart.
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La Fontaine |
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A few
minutes more of silent
exertion
enabled him to proceed with composure.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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This, then,
is one cause, drawn from the thing itself; another is drawn from
ourselves; for the things to which we
ourselves
more naturally tend
seem more contrary to the intermediate.
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Aristotle |
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here, he was
informed
that the landlord of the house was reputed rich, but withal so covetous, that he Would do nothing to help a poor relation or neigh bour in distress.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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When
anything
arises, karma takes place.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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He
abhorred
his father's courses, and judged his subjects more justly than any of their kings had done.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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In all of my work I strive instead to avoid any
reference
to this transcendental as a condition of possibility for any knowledge.
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Foucault-Live |
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who with his hat off, on his bare knees,
and a couteau for that purpose (for every sword or knife is not
allowable), with a curious superstition and certain postures, lays open
the several parts in their
respective
order; while they that hem him in
admire it with silence, as some new religious ceremony, though perhaps
they have seen it a hundred times before.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What is said there pertains to "the gay science" as such, and runs as follows:
The
greatest
burden.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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A fog about the coppice drifts,
Or slowly thickens up and lifts
Into the moist,
despondent
air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And of these
intestinal
worms there are three species: one named the flat-worm, another the round worm, and the third the ascarid.
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Aristotle copy |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
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William Browne |
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If, for
contemporary
readers, Trakl's poems were guaranteed by the genuineness of the poet, the texts themselves were often also populated by characters valued for a sort of genuineness, as we have seen in the Kraus poem, but as is also evident in the poems featuring Dostoevsky's Sonja, Elis and Helian.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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For us, on the contrary, the
question
is open.
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Foucault-Live |
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"
1 (Recording:) for what takes place
f The manuscript (pages 11-23) continues on the question of defining the current problem of
psychiatry
and puts forward an analysis ol antipsychiatry.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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--A minute's pause, a moment's thought;
And
happiness?
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John Clare |
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When all
have left the hall, the song of the
Husbandmen
is
heard off scene.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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None the less, I thought it
illuminating
to make the comparison.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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7 His
clothing
was elegant, but his banquets tasteless, for he had an eye only to quantity.
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Historia Augusta |
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No, this
world of thought was also still on this side, and nothing could be
achieved by killing the random self of the senses, if the random self of
thoughts and learned knowledge was
fattened
on the other hand.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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What queen or
powerful
lady did not envy me my joys and my bed?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Barbed wire,
searchlight
beams, and the echoing footsteps of prison guards--that is political.
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Foucault-Live |
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327-329) Then Hermes and Apollo of the Silver Bow stood at the
knees of Zeus: and Zeus who
thunders
on high spoke to his glorious son
and asked him:
(ll.
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Hesiod |
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This
stratagem
was so effective, that the enemy did not venture to enter into the city, whose inhabitants were acting with such desperation.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Nor lack
The fittings all complete; in each right hand
A lance is seen; the armored horses stand
With
chamfrons
laced, and harness buckled sure;
The cuissarts' studs are by their clamps secure;
The dirks stand out upon the saddle-bow;
Even unto the horses' feet do flow
Caparisons,--the leather all well clasped,
The gorget and the spurs with bronze tongues hasped,
The shining long sword from the saddle hung,
The battle-axe across the back was flung.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Minerva springing full-fledged from
Jupiter's skull to the desk of the poet is a pretty fancy; but Balsac
and
Flaubert
did not encourage this fancy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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You are but noise; but he is the lust of the world,
The
infinite
wrong the spirit, the virgin spirit,
Must fasten against, or be for ever vile.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For observing how God provides for the human race,
granting
them health and mental capacity and all other gifts, he himself should follow His example by rendering to men a recompense for their arduous toil.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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By standing just aside,
By seeing you go on,
Day after day,
In ways I may not tread; By watching your dear feet Stumble in paths
My word could save you from, Yet never
speaking
it;
By knowing past all doubting That the day will come, When, all else gone,
Alone,
Deserted,
You will turn your face To meet my waiting eyes, And there
Behold your own.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the heavenly bread,
Ye sang of celestial journeys,
Ye sang of the
glorious
dead.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Brentano counters this by arguing that our reference to objects is imma
nent within our
intentional
stances.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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"
What the Florentines did under the influence of
Savonarola's exhortations, when they made the
famous holocaust of pictures, manuscripts, masks
and mirrors,
Christianity
would like to do with
every culture that allured to further effort and
bore that memento vivere on its standard.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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in accordance with the
distinctions
of 'alambana' and 'akara'220 or form.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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II
_The
Scottish
Gate, Carlisle.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Haughty men then have seen the ways of the Lord, but have refused to understand them, because by despising the mean appearance they present in themselves, they have lost the sublime
promises
which they offer.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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(There is no inherent origination,
duration
and production because origination and cessation are not self-caused nor caused by other: Very similar to the previous verse.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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The real
possibility
is not reduced by any means to non-contradiction.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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" Jacobi argues that insofar as the things-in-themselves are wholly unknown to us, we cannot - a fortiori - know that they are the cause of our representations;
following
Jacobi, these representations are caused neither by empirical nor transcendental objects.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Their
hesitation
in having to deliver their means of subsistence was identified as sabotage and was punished accordingly.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His predilection for
military history and the accounts of marches and campaigns was
of old standing, and
afterwards
reflected itself in many passages of
his historical masterpiece.
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Thus, when war interrupts the
importation of corn, its consequent high price attracts capital to the
land, from the large profits which such an employment of it affords;
this will
probably
cause more capital to be employed, and more raw
produce to be brought to market than the demands of the country require.
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The Mechanique Celeste and the Systeme du Mbnd of Laplace, expounding the nebular hypothesis, first cleared up the mystery of the
creation
of the world itself.
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Discoursing all this while, the martial maid
Spake with her beavor up, without disguise:
Ferrau, as that fair visage he surveyed,
Perceived
he was half vanquished by its eyes.
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How does this discussion of art apply to the
relationship
of the self to itself?
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Because, without any effort, he will see the Truth of
Suffering
in the moment which immediately follows the supreme dharmas.
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At the end, an open door;
Squares of sunshine on the floor
Light the long and dusky lane;
And the
whirring
of a wheel,
Dull and drowsy, makes me feel
All its spokes are in my brain.
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Returning, he
reported
to Hu Tzu, "He's vanished!
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Chuang Tzu |
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Có sách ghi ông là
Nguyễn
Cư.
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And then the tempest strikes him; and between
The lightning bursts is seen
Only a driving wreck,
And the pale master on his spar-strewn deck
With anguished face and flying hair
Grasping the rudder hard,
Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false,
impossible
shore.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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In their eyes, humans are creatures to whom one can only do justice by
overtaxing
them.
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In his port was the dignity of one who had borne his
Majesty's commission, and who was therefore illuminated by a ray of
the
splendor
that shone so dazzlingly about the throne.
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But if I admire the
interpretation
and that
alone, what else have I turned out but a mere commentator instead of
a lover of wisdom?
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