It extended itself over Italy early in 1348; but its
severest ravages had not yet been made, when
Petrarch
returned from
Verona to Parma in the month of March, 1348.
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"The poet died last month, and now
The world which had been
somewhat
slow
In honouring his living brow,
"Commands the palms; they must be strown
On his new marble very soon,
In a procession of the town.
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”
And the keeper seemed to see a shadowy pageant sweep by:
gaunt soldiers with white faces, arming anew against the subtle
product of peace; men who said, “It was
nothing!
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14:41
Therefore
Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect
lot.
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bible-kjv |
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Oddly enough, although he had little time to look around
him, he came across the three bank officials
involved
in his case,
Rabensteiner, Kullich and Kaminer.
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Cum tibi sacrato Macedo
servetur
in antro.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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VIII
"In beauty and in valour's boast above
Those other lords the
Scottish
prince stood high.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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At last, on the 22d of April, 1858, he published, in three large
volumes, the
important
work upon which he had labored since 1854.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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44 On account of the length of the article it has been found
necessary
to omit
here five tables giving exact statistics for the fourteen elegies.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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εκάλεσε ο Τηλέμαχος σιμά τον χοιροτρόφο,
και άρτον επήρε ολάκερον απ' τ' εύμορφο καλάθι,
και κρέας, όσο ανταμωταίς η φούχταις του χωρούσαν,
κ' είπε• «Του ξένου δόσε αυτά και παρακίνησέ τον 345
να τριγυρνά ζητεύοντας προς
όλους
τους μνηστήραις•
καλή δεν είν' η εντροπή 'ς τον άνδρα, 'πώχει ανάγκη».
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Alaungpaya
Ayedawpon
is a
chronicle-biography of Alaungpaya.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Henceforth
she might pursue her infernal arts so successfully tried, repeat
her poisonings, and by her arts and poisons assail Agrippina and her
children; and, with the blood of that most
miserable
house, satiate the
worthy grandmother and uncle.
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Tacitus |
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I am
summoned
to
the fort: Perhaps the fleets have met!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Their
ceaseless motion is
illustrated
by the turmoil of motes in a stream
of sunlight let into a dark room.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The plain brown swifts of the North have
developed among tropical West Indian and South American
orchids the metallic gorgets and crimson crests of the humming-
bird; while a totally unlike group of Asiatic birds have developed
among the rich flora of India and the Malay
Archipelago
the
exactly similar plumage of the exquisite sun-birds.
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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The moral disposition of mind is necessarily combined with a con-
sciousness
that the will is determined directly by the law.
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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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The program of eugenics
naturally
divides itself in two parts:
(1) Reducing the racial contribution of the least desirable part of the
population.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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For my surrounding air hath a new
lightness
;
Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly And left me cloaked as with a gauze of aether ;
As with sweet leaves
Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness
To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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MAIR
The speaker is a slave appointed to watch
Cassandra
and report her prophecies.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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As it
produces
no
corn or fruits by cultivation, the inhabitants, a fierce
and warlike race of men, live on wild pears, apples,
and other things of that kind.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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remained exile many years, powerful league with foreign the year 637 he invaded
foreign auxiliaries,
consisting
Albanian Scots, Picts, Britons, Anglo-Saxons, and Franks;
he landed the coast Dalaradia, some part Down, Antrim, where was joined his Irish allies the Irian race Ulster.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Fourteen years later, it ends in Turing's machine, which was also never built but is
mathematically
conceivable.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighboring princes until we are
acquainted
with their designs.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Marshall's Primer, 1534
and 1535, was one of them; bishop Hilsey's (of
Rochester)
Primer
(1539) was another, and was authorised by Cromwell for the king
and by Cranmer as archbishop.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Unless realization dawns from within, dry
explanations
and theories will not help you achieve the fruit of enlightenment.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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]
III
Having
performed
his service truly,
Deep into debt his father ran;
Three balls a year he gave ye duly,
At last became a ruined man.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Renown'd
Ulysses!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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, who
strove to subject practical and civil life
entirely
to the control of
1-2
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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If we had abandoned without a struggle all which
our forefathers braved every danger to win, who would
not have spurned you,
Zlischinesi
God forbid that I
?
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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That your dying may not be a
reproach
to man and the earth, my friends:
that do I solicit from the honey of your soul.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make time's spoils
despised
every where.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Love's sensitive tendrils sicken, curled
Round folly's former stay; for 'tis
The doom of all unsanctioned bliss
To mock some good that, gained, keeps still
The taint of the
rejected
ill.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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This quarrel being hushed, Panurge tipped the wink upon Epistemon and Friar
John, and taking them aside, Stand at some
distance
out of the way, said
he, and take your share of the following scene of mirth.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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And Phoebus stooped under the craggy roof
Arched over the dark cavern:--Maia's child
Perceived that he came angry, far aloof,
About the cows of which he had been beguiled; _305
And over him the fine and fragrant woof
Of his
ambrosial
swaddling-clothes he piled--
As among fire-brands lies a burning spark
Covered, beneath the ashes cold and dark.
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Shelley |
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-- Good master, v/e thy hand-maids love
thee much and faithfully our vigil keep, but now the
night is gone and
weariness
o'ertakes us quite.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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But
Hannibal
anticipated him.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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'Twas all in vain, a useless matter,
And blankets were about him pinn'd;
Yet still his jaws and teeth they clatter,
Like a loose
casement
in the wind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Yet
everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the
last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony
concerning
man
during a very limited period of time.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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ON HEARING THE BUDDHIST PRIEST OF SHU PLAY HIS TABLE-LUTE
BY LI T'AI-PO
The Priest of the
Province
of Shu, carrying his table-lute in a
cover of green, shot silk,
Comes down the Western slope of the peak of Mount Omei.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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I have hitherto contented myself with clearly setting
forth the True Idea of the special
subjects
of our inquiry,
without turning aside to cast a single glance at the actual
state of things in the present age.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Every true propangandist hates most bitterly his nearest
political
neighbors.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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"
Now I could not answer him, most
strangely
Touched me those old words I knew so well.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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About Hyper-Communication (and Old Age) 211
the time the arriving
passenger
embraces his wife, it may feel that he already had arrived "too much," that his body, which he now adds to the mind and voice that have already been made present, has no existential place of its own.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He had the abundant energy and vigor which are
required for all greatness, amidst many queer prejudices, and singular
blindness to some things, he had a hearty love of fair play, respect
for true manhood, and in spite of his
coarseness
a genuine appre-
ciation of good homely domestic virtues.
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tack, under the command of Chimnajee Boosla, the
second son of
Moodajee
Boosla, the Rajah of Berar.
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Edmund Burke |
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Dans le milieu des
Guermantes on s'attendrissait sur la
noblesse
de cœur de M.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Sit down beside me here--these are too old,
And have
forgotten
they were ever young.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Many more examples could be cited, including long developments such as VIII, 34 and XI, 8, both of which are
structurally
parallel, and are devoted to the power which man has received om God to reunite himselfwith the All om which he has separated himsel
The advice on distinguishing within each thing "that which is causal" om "that which is material" is repeated almost ten times, with only very slight variations.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Of all Derrida's readers, he
is the one who honours him by leaving the paths of
imitation
and exegesis.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of
Useful Ignorance,- what we will call
Beautiful
Knowledge, a
knowledge useful in a higher sense; -for what is most of our
boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something,
which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Slowacki
died in Paris on
April [4, 1848.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Pregunta a aquellas fuentes,
a
aquellos
olmos, ?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue
Fierce and
sanguineous
as 'twas possible
In one whose brow had no dark veins to swell.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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You should be buried in the desert out of sight
And not a dog should howl
miscarried
moans
Over your foul bones.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Redemption, the
Christian
need of—a psychological ex-
planation, vi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances,
nor of the
quantity
of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed
in the house.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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14779 (#353) ##########################################
THEOCRITUS
14779
[The four
following
extracts are from Select Epigrams from the Greek
Anthology, edited by J.
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1:50 And
Adonijah
feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and
caught hold on the horns of the altar.
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cs, does not mean that one such theory can
substitute
for the other.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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de cette
compagne
selon ses de?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Only Boris now
believed
that the restaurant would
open.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Committing
many bad actions leads to birth as a hell-being; committing a moderate number, birth as a preta; and a few as an animal.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_ It was the custom for
generals
at a triumph to
offer a certain portion of their manubiæ to Capitoline Jove and other
deities.
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Satires |
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Αυτά 'πε• τότε μόνος του
εσκέφθη
ο Νεστορίδης
πώς θα 'στεργε και θα 'καμνεν, ως πρέπει, ό,τ' είπ' εκείνος.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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He, without a care
For all the
affliction
of Admetus' halls,
Sang on; and, listening, one could hear the thralls
In the long gallery weeping for the dead.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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the non-arrival of the dreaded Sulla occasioned a transi
tion to the most
highflown
hopes.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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From this hght cause th' infernal mald
prepares
The country churls to mischief, hate, and warq.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Đã không duyên
trước
chăng mà,
Thì chi chút ước gọi là duyên sau.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Weary
wanderers
are we all.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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It was
answered
by the appearance of a
boy, whose years could not exceed ten, and whose attire was so
whimsical as to merit description.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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nefunera]
'mourned as dead while
living.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The result of this
ordinance, as described by the contemporary historian, was that
gold was not to be found save in the houses of the great nobles, the
officers of state, and the wealthiest merchants, and that excepting
lands of an annual rental of a few
thousand
tāngas in the neighbour-
hood of Delhi all rent-free grants in the kingdom were resumed.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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' In the work : *' Rerum
Germanicarum
Commentarii,"lib.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Further, all
animals
furnished
with a mouth derive pleasure or pain from the
touch of sapid juices.
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Aristotle |
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The Realers Can Regulate Their Papers'
Advertising
Columns.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Very often too this is no misfortune; but those
who desire to
penetrate
human life with deeper insight
ought to know that these are not true Rulers, and that
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Now this excited general surprise, for it is
customary
for those who come to seek an audience with the king on matters of importance to be admitted to his presence on the fifth day, while envoys from kings or very important cities with difficulty secure admission to the Court in thirty days - but these men he counted worthy of greater honour, since he held their master in such high esteem, and so he immediately dismissed those whose presence he regarded as superfluous and continued walking about until they came in and he was able to welcome them.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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23 For the tyrant Antiochus, when he saw the courage of their virtue and their endurance under the tortures, proclaimed them to his soldiers as an example for their own endurance, 24 and this made them brave and
courageous
for infantry battle and siege, and he ravaged and conquered all his enemies.
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Roman Translations |
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I must fight always and die fighting
With fear an
unhealing
wound in my breast.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Is not this, it may be asked, a proof that Petrarch is not so genuine a
poet as Homer and Dante, since his charm depends upon the
delicacies
of
diction that evaporate in the transfer from tongue to tongue, more than
on hardy thoughts that will take root in any language to which they are
transplanted?
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Petrarch |
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I could not have
believed
beforehand that Calvinism could
be painted in such exquisitely delightful colours.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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He calls you a
philosophical
old woman, me a half-witted spendthrift.
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Historia Augusta |
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He
naturally
incurred
the hatred of Anthony à Wood, both for his
own sake and on account of Milton, that villainous leading
incendiary.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Marx thus initially tries to explain
318 D THE SECONDARY CYNICISMS
the secret of equivalent
exchange
with completely irreproachable products such as wheat and iron, coats and linen, silk and shoe polish.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Hildebert's poem is the best representative
of a flourishing
Mediaeval
variety that, start-
[115]
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Now his
principal
doctrines were these.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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It holds the road west to the Ruo River, 16 it guards the borders of Fuhan
Commandery
to the south.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Wherefore, too, men say that at the rising of the
Scorpion
in the East Orion flees at the Western verge.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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' if the answer could be
sincerely made, 'I have made men laugh,' it would be the surest
passport
to a welcome entrance.
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Twain - Speeches |
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and cease to ring their praise
For ever with thy
tattling
lyre,
The proud ones are not worth the fire
Of passion they so often raise.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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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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Let's raise
him up,
shoulder
high, and take him back to his den.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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He left France for Cairo, where he joined an
Egyptian
order and tried to put his Traditionalist precepts into prac- tice in Sufism.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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It would
indeed be a heavy disappointment, perhaps
a moral
disaster
for the civilised world if
these goals could not be attained in con-
nection with this war.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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