Now
hath my last
lonesomeness
begun.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Pound and his
daughter
Mary visited him at Rome before WWIl.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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He would count on thus regaining some
popularity
in England and furthering his aim of a German- British rapprochement.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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And yet he was had by the eunuchs, the army 800 thousand
not tIllmg the earth
And half of the EmpIre tao-tse hochangs and merchants so that With so many hochangs and mere shIfters
three tenths of the folk fed the whole empIre, yet HIEN reduced the
superfluous
mandarIns
and remItted taxes In Hoal
LI Klang and Tlen Hlng "rere hIS mInIsters
remembermg TCHING-OUANG, KANG, HAN-OUEN and HAN KING TI
t Men are the basIs of empIre:l, saId our lord HIEN-TSONG yet he dIed of the elIxIr,
fooled by the eunuchs, and more Tou-san (tartars)
were raIdIng
MOU-TSONG drove out the taozers
but refused to wear mournIng for HIEN hIs father
The hen sang In MOD'S tIme, raCln', Jazz danCln' and play-actors, Tartars stIll raIdln'
MOU'S first son was strangled by eunuchs,
Came QUEN-TSONG and kIcked out 3000 fanCIes
let loose the falcons
yet he also was had by the eunuchs after 15 years reIgn aU-TSONG destroyed hochang pagodas,
spent hiS tune dluhn' and huntln' Brass Idols turned Into ha'pence
chased out the bonzes from temples
46 thousand temples chased out the eunuchs
and Tsal-gm whom he had WIshed to make empress hanged herself after hIS dearIl
saYing I follow to the nIne fountams'
So SIUEN decreed she shd/ be honoured as FIrst Queen
of aU-TSONG
a a 820
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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When on that dear salute my thoughts are cast,
So rich and varied do my
pleasures
flow,
No pain I feel, nor evil fear below.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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dryhten sīnne
drīorigne
fand, 2790.
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Beowulf |
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The
radiance
of this mystery will for- ever retain some of the light of Fichte’s intelligence.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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'Tis true, no turbots dignify my boards,
But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords:
To Hounslow Heath I point and Banstead Down,
Thence comes your mutton, and these chicks my own:
From yon old walnut-tree a shower shall fall;
And grapes, long
lingering
on my only wall,
And figs from standard and espalier join;
The devil is in you if you cannot dine:
Then cheerful healths (your mistress shall have place),
And, what's more rare, a poet shall say grace.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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In the first struggles
we may see an arrangement of parties which
remained
unchanged
throughout the reign.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark,
and may not be used if you charge for an eBook, except by following
the terms of the
trademark
license, including paying royalties for use
of the Project Gutenberg trademark.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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It should
"place" a given class by mentioning the wider class next above it in the
objective hierarchy, and then
enumerating
the most deep-seated
distinctions by which Nature herself marks off this class from others
belonging to the same wider class.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Just as the " Jubilate" in
threaded
whisper dies,
"Open it!
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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This we concluded upon, and went to our ship to furnish
ourselves
with
arms.
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Lucian - True History |
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(To Don Diegue)
See how her face
abruptly
changes hue.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It does so with severity, indeed it desires
severity; every aristocratic morality is intolerant in the education
of youth, in the control of women, in the marriage customs, in the
relations of old and young, in the penal laws (which have an eye only
for the degenerating): it counts
intolerance
itself among the virtues,
under the name of "justice.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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By definition the child must be re-formed as adult in order to
understand
the truth of the child.
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Education in Hegel |
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And
tho' the
soldiers
would not put forth their hands to stay the priests of the Lord, and in so very unjust a cause too, only because David had been in their city, yet they dis puted not the authority of Saul, nor offer'd to make re
fistance, when they faw the priests flain by Deg, i Sam, xxii.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Khedrup-Je (1385-1438) explicitly draws
parallel
between Tsongkhapa and
Nagarjuna in terms of their contribution to Buddhism.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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The object of the Tract was to prove that there was nothing in the
Thirty-nine
Articles
incompatible with the creed of the Roman Church.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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[96] Beneath both feet of Boötes mark the Maiden [Virgo], who in her hands bears the
gleaming
Ear of Corn [Spica].
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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En me
penchant
vers toi, reine des adorees,
Je croyais respirer le parfum de ton sang.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A comparable
situation
has not evolved in Marxist societies.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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nitor, to represent his
province
in the election of a General.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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One current fashion has to do with "food trucks" that ply their wares seem- ingly on every street corner in America,
including
this humble hamlet.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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But there are two sorts of
madness, the one that which the revengeful Furies send privily from hell,
as often as they let loose their snakes and put into men's breasts either
the desire of war, or an insatiate thirst after gold, or some dishonest
love, or parricide, or incest, or sacrilege, or the like plagues, or when
they terrify some guilty soul with the conscience of his crimes; the
other, but nothing like this, that which comes from me and is of all
other things the most desirable; which happens as often as some pleasing
dotage not only clears the mind of its
troublesome
cares but renders it
more jocund.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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83
thinly woven threads of one’s
“own”
will, from which the subject drifts away on its way to the exit with fateful force.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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than which He is beyond measure greater," like the "singer into his tale or the
designer
into his picture.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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The
true religion of a prince is his
interest
and his
glory.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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In Dorothy Wordsworth's
Alfoxden
Journal
the following occurs, under date 25th January 1798:
"Went to Poole's after tea.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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) replied the
magnetic
muser, with a voice of tender
interest: “not more than one foot, I hope?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Un jour Albertine m'avait raconté qu'elle
avait été à un camp d'aviation, qu'elle était amie de l'aviateur
(sans doute pour
détourner
mon soupçon des femmes, pensant que
j'étais moins jaloux des hommes), que c'était amusant de voir comme
Andrée était émerveillée devant cet aviateur, devant tous les
hommages qu'il rendait à Albertine, au point qu'Andrée avait voulu
faire une promenade en avion avec lui.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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He
reported
himself to
me in full uniform, and announced that he had been ordered to remain in
the fortress with me.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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_
If there be no _Idea_ of _God_, as it seems there is _not_ (and here ’tis
not proved that there is) this whole
discourse
falls to the ground.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Bourdillon
and the _Spectator_:--"The Debt Unpayable.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The third edition of Appian's work was
assisted
him with money and troops.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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For the Fund for the Republic was cut loose from the Ford Foundation and left to face the hostile hordes with a
dwindling
mere $15 million.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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The
investigation, however, was not
completed
by him.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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From another perspective one would say that Europeans have ceased to pre- pare for war and have become much more concerned with the economic situation and having renounced the gods of warfare
converted
from heroism to consumerism.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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It seems more likely that the actual danger
situation
on the raft only contributed by temporarily decreasing the ego's ability to deal with other conflicts, possibly of a homosexual nature, that were activated by the situation in the service.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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The way this agency (or intentionality)
attaches
to other 'things' (how and towards what 'effect' something is animated) can be confused (and can describe the difference between science and phenomenology, for example).
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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The
followers
o fthe lineage o fKagyu siddhas
46.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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10
Now must he wander o'er the
darkling
way
Thither, whence life-return the Fates denay.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I came across a wistful exchange with one of her lady friends where she repeats the old
aristocratic
lament that the stable boy is happier than the lord, and the recipient of the letter replies that it can’t really be true.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Now, we are willing to labor for our fellowmen but only to
the extent that we find our own highest
advantage
in so doing, no more,
no less.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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But to the Duke Vafrine his talk applies,
"The greatest news, my lord, are yet behind,
For all their thoughts, their crafts and
counsels
tend
By treason false to bring thy life to end.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Cyrene 's joy and crown ,
Equestrian
seat of high renown .
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Pindar |
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Our worship is indeed
wonderful
and complete; we Bon-pos have incredible power.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Our
poet's verse does not put a spirit of youth in every thing, but a spirit
of fear, despondency, and decay: it is not an
electric
spark to kindle
or expand, but acts like the torpedo's touch to deaden or contract.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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"
Burst from the eyes of Antar a swift rain,--Gratitude's
glittering
drops,--as he threw
One shining arm round the smith, like a chain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O well-a-day that the Gods should have sent me this
dishonour!
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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The masses mass madder, both
numbskull
and sage;
They root up the arbours, they trample the grain;
Make way for the new Resurrected.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Then a dark, wall-like flank of mountain, near 2,000 feet high, comes next,
gloomily
overhanging the northern water of the bay.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Il
n’avait
pas parlé en vain:
--«De ne pas tenir à la vie?
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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My point is not that we are
to give up philosophy, but this: whereas we are to pursue philosophy, and
whereas there are many roads, each
professing
to lead to philosophy and
Virtue, and whereas it is uncertain which of these is the true road,
therefore the selection shall be made with care.
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Lucian |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He
knew that there was
something
higher and purer
to be won on this earth than the life of his time,
and a man does bitter wrong to existence who
only knows it and criticises it in this hateful form.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Now therefore, let not even my advice
Displease
thee.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Now therefore, let not even my advice
Displease
thee.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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What, torture our
embassage?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If their
praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more
undiscerning, than you are
prejudiced
and unjust.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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If their
praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more
undiscerning, than you are
prejudiced
and unjust.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Marianus O'Gorman celebrates the festival ot
"
Justina 6g ergrinn," rendered,
8b See "
Ecclesiastical
History of Ireland," vol.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Then, in those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation,
Told she the tale of the fair Lilinau, who was wooed by a phantom,
That, through the pines o'er her father's lodge, in the hush of the twilight,
Breathed like the evening wind, and whispered love to the maiden,
Till she followed his green and waving plume through the forest,
And
nevermore
returned, nor was seen again by her people.
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Longfellow |
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Bingley for his kindness to
Jane, with an apology for
troubling
him also with Lizzy.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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And all the land lies ravaged before my eyes and, as it were fields of corn, bristle the fields of the
gleaming
spears.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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This state of matters delighted the landlord, but
was hardly so agreeable to the four friends, who merely nodded
sulkily at the
salutations
of the crowd.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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The Bundle of Sticks
An old man on the point of death
summoned
his sons around him
to give them some parting advice.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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He is wiser
than we thought, and so
courteous
towards us—
this affirmer!
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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O Helen fair, beyond
compare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
When oxen lick with their tongue around the hooves of their fore-feet or in their stalls stretch
themselves
on their right side, the old ploughman expects the sowing to be delayed.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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His well-known Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton
University
Press, 1963) is still reprinted and widely used in North American univer- sities.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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"Well, he looks and acts like a
perfectly
honest man," replied the
consul.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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56), he cannot produce the
Knowledge
of Non-Arising.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Thy righteousness and
judgment
will
appear in the end : they are now hidden.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
|
A virus that clones itself too prolifically within one computer will soon be detected because the
symptoms
of clogging will become too obvious to ignore.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Now no one fares awhile my road, forsaken,
I find no wight within me hope to waken,
Who yet the
smallest
solace might implore,
So deep in darkness plods no pilgrim more.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_--The aim of this exercise was to develop skill
and precision of eye and hand, rather than
strength
of muscle.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Not then this world's wild joys had been
To me one savage hunting scene,
My sole delight the
headlong
race,
And frantic hurry of the chase;
To start, pursue, and bring to bay,
Rush in, drag down, and rend my prey,
Then--from the carcase turn away!
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Golden Treasury |
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765
I've passed the bounds of
cautious
modesty.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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CATULLUS 51
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Then like a god he seems to me,
Aye, greater than the gods is he
Whom they permit to sit near thee,
With senses clear,
To hear thy
rippling
laugh and note
Thy sparkling eyes and shining throat,
Thy throbbing breast -- ah, joys remote
And all too dear!
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Nobles aventureros, que puesta la lanza en la cuja, caida la visera
del casco y jinetes sobre un corcel poderoso, recorreis la tierra sin
mas patrimonio que vuestro nombre clarisimo y vuestro montante,
buscando honra y prez en la profesion de las armas; si al atravesar el
quebrado valle de Montagut [Foonote: 1] os han sorprendido en el la
tormenta y la noche, y habeis
encontrado
un refugio en las ruinas del
monasterio que aun se ve en su fondo, oidme.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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[Footnote 11: Especially in this age of personality, this age of literary and
political gossiping, when the meanest insects are worshipped with a sort
of Egyptian superstition, if only the brainless head be atoned for
by the sting of personal malignity in the tail;--when the most vapid
satires have become the objects of a keen public interest, purely from
the number of contemporary characters named in the patch-work notes,
(which possess, however, the
comparative
merit of being more poetical
than the text,) and because, to increase the stimulus, the author has
sagaciously left his own name for whispers and conjectures.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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It drew the circle of the canonical books narrower again ; putting aside the Vulgate, it recognised only the Greek text as
authoritative
; it returned to the Nicene creed.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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The nations that in
fettered
darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great mornings break .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Concluida esta breve introduccion historica, el heroe de la fiesta
guardo
silencio
durante algunos segundos como para coordinar sus
recuerdos, y prosiguio asi:
--Pues es el caso, que en aquel tiempo remote, esta villa y algunas
otras formaban parte del patrimonio de un noble baron, cuyo castillo
senorial se levanto por muchos siglos sobre la cresta de un penasco
que bana el Segre, del cual toma su nombre.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The
resemblance
of
their arms to those of the Gauls caused a great alarm; and although they
had their right shoulders bare (_dextris humeris exsertis_), the
ordinary mark of the allied troops, it was taken for a stratagem of the
enemy.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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To which, because we believe they will be
speedily
satisfied, we give a brief reply.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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The British making slow concessions and IRA
engaging
in occasional terrorist acts is consistent with an equilibrium path of play.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Brodie tells me that the
muir where
Shakspeare
lays Macbeth's witch-meeting is still
haunted--that the country folks won't pass it by night.
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Robert Burns |
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—A person behaves
with
unintentional
nobleness when he has accus-
tomed himself to seek naught from others and
always to give to them.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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The literary merit of the Poem in question may not be considerable;
but worse verses are printed every day, &
He was an
accomplished
& amiable person but his error was, thuntos on
un thunta phronein,--his fate is an additional proof that 'The tree of
Knowledge is not that of Life.
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Shelley copy |
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As it was, she instantly submitted,
and with all the
semblance
of seeing nothing beyond; and Anne, eager to
escape farther notice, was impatient to know why Mrs Smith should have
fancied she was to marry Mr Elliot; where she could have received the
idea, or from whom she could have heard it.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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A
vigorous
attack on the side of
Germany, while Gabor pressed the Emperor on that of Hungary, might have
retrieved the fortunes of Frederick; but, unfortunately, the Bohemians
and Germans had always laid down their arms when Gabor took the field;
and the latter was always exhausted at the very moment that the former
began to recover their vigour.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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guardian
chap, I THE SUBJECT
COUNTRIES
337
It was high time to put an end to this state of indecision.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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