Past utterance, and past belief,
And past the blasphemy of grief,
The
mysteries
of Nature's heart;
And though no Muse can these impart,
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" By
projecting
oneself into the work of another human being, one "learns more than the craft of words.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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, to reason, which contains this law in the idea of freedom, and therefore as subject to the autonomy of the will: consequently I must regard the laws of the world of understanding as
imperatives
for me and the actions which conform to them as duties.
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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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--Get out your
documents!
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Concerning
the song Lity-
brated and popular among them was the livos, erses see Eichstädt, De Dramate Graecor.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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He knew that the lady who was under the same roof
was a young beauty of whom he had heard
something
before, and he was
looking forward to a chance of seeing her.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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All my gems are yours
And all my
chambers
curtained from the sun.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Consequently, they are on everyone's lips only where the institutional, legal and psychodynamic foundation of
consumerism
is to be erected.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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2 You have sent
ambassadors
to the Persian, dec.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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If indeed there is any other reason for so great a variety in the titles, by which it can be shewn that all the Psalms which are distinguished in their titles are so marked, as that the title of uo one of them can be fitted to another; I must confess that I could not discover though tried long; and whatever have read on the subject in the works of my
predecessors
has not satisfied my hopes, or, perhaps, my slowness of apprehension.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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And ~achway
bothwise
glory sign.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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519), and
Kadphises
the proper
name ; and, as they took place after 25 A.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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March 2 2018: There are some problems with the automated
software
used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from hurting site performance for everyone else).
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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us
Heinrich
views Kraus as the conscience of Austrian culture, or of what he hyperbolically terms 'the world': 'In der Tat: nicht allein dem Geschehnis gegenu ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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This is why Aristotle
holds that the
knowledge
of the principles of science is not itself
science (demonstrated knowledge), but what he calls intelligence, and we
may call intellectual intuition.
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or in what
guidance may I overcome these sore
labours?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The success of the
Rehearsal
was instant and
signal.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Some who
are youthful and favored by Nature strive almost
selfishly
to keep
themselves with the utmost reserve.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Some will even
man, and the text as it stands is written by
excuse the
imperfection
of the study of exhibition of two years earlier, is emphatically of English.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Of
Countryes
and of Times the humors know;
From diff'rent Climates, diff'ring Customs grow:
And strive to shun their fault, who vainly dress
An Antique Hero like some modern Ass;
Who make old Romans like our English move,
Show Cato Sparkish, or make Brutus Love.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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I saw how those slumberers, grown weary, there camping in grasses deep,
Of wars with the wide world and pacing the shores of the
wandering
seas,
Laid hands on the bell-branch and swayed it, and fed of unhuman sleep.
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Yeats - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Yeats |
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392 His
sobriquet
was Great Master Na Ngan.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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[2] Honor the eBook refund and
replacement
provisions of this
"Small Print!
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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al clara:
el
conceder
el si?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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He
resembles
them, indeed,
in the purity and sweetness of his style; but in spirit, he rather
resembles that later school of historians whose works seem to be fables
composed for a moral, and who, in their eagerness to give us warnings
and examples, forget to give us men and women.
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Macaulay |
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It does not include
any securities
privately
marketed.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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These initial similarities can be
stretched
even further.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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And if our souls
are bound up and in contact with God, as being very parts and fragments
plucked from Himself, shall He not feel every
movement
of theirs as
though it were His own, and belonging to His own nature?
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Epictetus |
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My flame, of which thou tak'st so little heed,
And thy high praises pour'd through all my song,
O'er many a breast may future influence spread:
These, my sweet fair, so warns
prophetic
thought,
Closed thy bright eye, and mute thy poet's tongue,
E'en after death shall still with sparks be fraught.
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Petrarch |
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All the
anatomical
and physiological findings
concerning knees, hips, leg muscles and joints gathered in the first
part only serve the higher purpose of founding a mathematical physics of legs in just as strict a sense as Newton had demanded for
the physics of celestial bodies.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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That they do I'll be sworn Ma'am--did you ever hear how
Miss Shepherd came to lose her Lover and her
Character
last summer at
Tunbridge--Sir Benjamin you remember it--
SIR BENJAMIN.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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He has abundant
tenderness indeed, far more than Dryden; but then that tenderness is
always shown
stretched
on the rack of disappointment, or suffering.
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Thomas Otway |
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From that milieu at least we have nothing of value to learn; we shall not take our
tonality
from that niveau.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Venture capital, leasing, bonds and equities, credit bureaus and export loans can help fill the gap, and the AfDB can offer its own
guarantee
and insurance facilities.
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Kleiman International |
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Not once have I thus
Broken accord,
Order ignored,
Unless I'm floored,
Too low to grace
Her lovely body's dwelling place;
So I fear
slanderers
have their say,
Who cause ladies and lovers dismay,
Lower us, and drive all joy away,
And each and every way harm me.
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Troubador Verse |
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The very metropolis of this lyric
realm was
Mitylene
of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples,
the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue
sea, Beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms
to fluency.
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Sappho |
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For a definition of this term, see my
Critique
of Cynical Reason, trans.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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3 Primási
Levéltár
(Archiepiscopal Archives), Esztergom, IndexĘ1948, 2674/1948.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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«Viens,
viens, insistait
Zénaïde
en vantant les bonnes choses qu'il y aurait à
déjeuner.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Each student adheres, by
temperament
and by habit, to the first or to
the second of these gods of the mind.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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0 des Menschen
verweste
Gestalt: gefu?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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The
sanctuary
of Demeter and the Dioscuri in Messene.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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He was, later, revealed--also reviled--to
American
readers by Henry
James, who completely missed his significance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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New college
could still boast the possession of its MS copy of the Nicomachean
Ethics as, also, of the first printed edition (1495—8) of Aristotle's
collected works ; but Lincoln had been plundered of the greater
part of the
valuable
collections given by Thomas Gascoigne and
Robert Fleming.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Depending on the nature of
subsequent
use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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As to politics (Table 6 (IX)), "liberal" women are more numerous among the interviewees than among the corresponding quartiles, especially so far
TABLE 6 (IX)
POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN TOTAL EXTREME
QYARTILES
AND INTERVIEWEES
Political
O u t l o o k
Liberal Conservative Leftist
Misc.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Kaibel, "Comicorum
Graecorum
Fragmenta"
The numbers in red are the section numbers in Kaibel's text
1.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The
Athenian soldiers
received
a hearty welcome, and were
hospitably entertained in the houses of the city.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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The other gods keep far away from earth ; Have no ears, though mighty ;
They are not, or they will not hear us wail : Thee our eye
beholdeth
;
Not wood, not stone, but living, breathing, real, Thee our prayer enfoldeth.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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116
AveMaria m73
74 l Ave Maria
e miracle was not just that a virgin had become
pregnant
and given birth, but rather that he who was the Creator of all things had entered into his own creation--the Artist into his Work--by way of one of his own creatures and, further, had lived for nine months in her womb.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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It was thought to be entirely lost, when a
fragment of it was discovered among the
Hatfield
MSS and first
printed by Hannah in 1870.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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]
+An Essay of the Learned
Martinus
Scriblerus concerning the Origin of
Sciences.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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6 He was slain by a soldier whom, because he had once been a worker in his smithy, he had treated with scorn either when he
commanded
troops or after he had taken the imperial power.
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Historia Augusta |
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, The Road to Teheran, Chapter I, "The
Common Cause" and subsequent chapters
regarding
special events;
Vernadsky, A History of Russia.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Remember
the Moscow trials.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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blake-poems |
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She was sickly from her
childhood
until about the age of fifteen; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Reiteration
alone;' not enough 10 wnvert a phrue into a kiilfl(Jti~.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Le
dénigrement
furieux
était souvent chez Bloch l'effet d'une vive sympathie qu'il avait cru
qu'on ne lui rendait pas.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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And it is
difficult
to believe that the identity of the details in the Babylonian and Biblical versions could have remained so perfect, or that the Biblical writer could have exhibited such deliberate intention of con troverting the polytheistic features of the original, if he had not still possessed a knowledge of the cuneiform script.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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I felt the lute strings' ancient ecstasy,
And while he read, my love-filled heart was stung,
And throbbed, as where an ardent bird has clung
The branches tremble on a
blossomed
tree.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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It is even more clear than in their deeply different
languages
that different cultures manifest their mode of being in the world through the very different ways they bear its weight.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Certainly not in obvious and effective but in latent form, this combination is found probably everywhere: in some measure or some kind of relationship the
sovereign
is almost always an adversary.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Because these reversals of pro to contra are quickly blocked, unable to do anything except repeat
themselves
and form what Jacques Ranciere calls the "Leftist doxa.
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Foucault-Live |
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Sed Noa fuit proprium: Ogyges verum
Ianus et Proteus id est Vertumnus sunt solum
praenomina
ejus,' XV, Fo.
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John Donne |
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There was a great
similitude
between his
character and that of Sir Richard Steele.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Of course, this trivial
incident
could not with me end in that.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Είπε κ' εκάθισεν
αυτός•
τον ένδοξον πατέρα
αγκάλιασε ο Τηλέμαχος με δάκρυα, με θρήνους•
και η δυο καρδιαίς αισθάνθηκαν τον πόθο των δακρύων.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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3135 Þǣr wæs wunden gold on wǣn hladen,
ǣghwæs unrīm,
æðeling
boren,
hār hilde-rinc tō Hrones næsse.
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Beowulf |
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This myth Ovid
mentioned
in his Epistle of
Leander.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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For ever it has been that
mourners
in their turn were mourned,
Saint and Sage,--all alike are trapped.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nghĩ việc đặt khoa thi, kén kẻ sĩ là chính sự cần làm
trước
nhất.
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stella-01 |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
wretched
boy comes to himself and to a speech-
less despair.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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104
Although even now the precise reason for the
banishment
of
Ovid is unknown, Elizabethan writers often ascribe the punish-
ment to the displeasure of Augustus at the character of the Ars
Amandi.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Had the
poetess been his daughter, we may say with confidence
that Ovid would have
expressed
in at least a dozen
ways that he was the source at once of her life and of
her song.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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templlting
dovc and riven ( -41-) he ;.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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And the same
authority
says that Hermias had been the slave of Eubulus, and a Bithynian by descent, and that he slew his master.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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The only difference between
them and the
romanticists
lies in the fact that they
(the former) were conscious of what was wrong with
them, and possessed the will and the strength to
overcome their illness; whereas the romanticists
chose the easier alternative—namely, that of shut-
ting their eyes on themselves.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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My life is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or cordial in the
searching
cold;
Cast in the fire the perished thing,
Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for Him my King:
O Jesus, drink of me!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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And fear not lest
Existence
closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There's smoke in you, I know,
And
splutter
too.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Now I beg you not to fancy that I have said all this as an anti-Stoic,
moved by any special dislike of your school; my
arguments
hold against
all schools.
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Lucian |
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A comedy acted at
Middlesex
House.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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The hues of morning mock me,
painting
flame
And fire upon the sky, — Rome yet unscathed !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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He proselytized with great success and spread the transformative
influence
[of the Dharma].
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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' This Codrus declines to admit, but wishes
to hear some old song;
whereupon
the other replies that a poet
cannot thrive on idle flattery, and that he cannot look after his
flock and write poetry at the same time.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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" holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way she was
growing; and she was quite
surprised
to find that she remained the same
size.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Between the Danube and the lucid tide
Where hapless Helle left her name,[185] and died:
The
dreadful
god of battles' kindred race,
Degenerate now, possess the hills of Thrace.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And must my words be
thus
interpreted?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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It culminates in a figure known in the
language
of faith as God, the eternal and almighty.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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24 SOLOVIEV
Power, I cannot but also believe that
whatever
takes place in the world is in accord with that Power, that is, with the will of God.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Qual e quel toro che si slaccia in quella
c'ha
ricevuto
gia 'l colpo mortale,
che gir non sa, ma qua e la saltella,
vid' io lo Minotauro far cotale;
e quello accorto grido: <
mentre ch'e' 'nfuria, e buon che tu ti cale>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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parental affection was debased in the soul of this pagan king, and few right-judging persons could feel a
sympathy
for his loss of a child, who had already chosen the better and nobler part.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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No forest surely in its glooms
Nurtures
a savage so unkind
As she who bids these sorrows flow:
Me, nor the dawn nor sleep o'ercomes;
For, though of mortal mould, my mind
Feels more than passion's mortal glow.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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At once I dare to read
And write: "In the
beginning
was the _deed_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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