Some time after her arrival, she formed an
acquaint
ance with James Summs, a Dutch sailor, whom she married at the Fleet, on the 6th of January, 1743-4.
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How else, as the Moon
waxes and wanes, as the Sun
approaches
and recedes, can it be that such
vicissitude and alternation is seen in earthly things?
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Epictetus |
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She
answered
him with a song in which she says:
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Why was it that the
ancients
prized this Tao so much?
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Tao Te Ching |
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, in Syr Gawayne (Banna-
tyne Club, 1839), with
variants
from Douce MS; (4) Robson, J.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Modern reader's Chaucer ; the
complete
poetical works,
now first put into modern English by J.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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It is thus that the wise gardener does, who puts the
tiny
streamlet
of his garden into the arms of a
fountain-nymph, and thus motivates the poverty :—
and who would not like him need the nymphs!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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While the friends of the union
expressed in general terms a dissent from the views of the
governor, feeling
themselves
in a minority, they sedulously
endeavoured to prevent all discussion of this topic, seeing
that it had been thrown in as an apple of discord; but the
friends of the governor, who were guided with an adroit
and subtle policy, seized upon this occasion to kindle an
excitement, and to rouse all the hostile feelings of the
states rights party.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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And before the holiness
Of the shadow of thy
handmaid
Have I hidden mine eyes, O God of waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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2) The Slav-movement within the
Austrian
half the
Czechs.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Gustavus Adolphus one day said, in the
presence of this prince, "If the emperor
does not trouble me, I will not trouble
him; your
lordship
can tell him so, for I
know that you are a good subject of the
emperor.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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These
portraits
form a gallery in which one
would gladly linger.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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This
interpretations
featurehas been ignored,and the understandingof the natureof Western
societywhich,afterall, has made science and
scholarshippossible
and has
them has been concentrationon its protected institutionally, replaced by
defects.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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How else, as the Moon
waxes and wanes, as the Sun
approaches
and recedes, can it be that such
vicissitude and alternation is seen in earthly things?
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Epictetus |
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Manifestly the national
federalism
of the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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never failed of success; we have never
incurred
the
censure of injustice : but all places and all persons
must acknowledge that our arguments are irresisti-
ble.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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That though so many bookes, so many rolles
Of auncient time recorde what grevous plagues Light on these rebelles aye, and though so oft Their eares have heard their aged fathers tell What juste reward these traitours still receyve;
Yea though themselves have sene depe death and bloud By strangling cord and
slaughter
of the sword
To such assigned, yet can they not beware;
Yêt can not stay their lewde rebellious handes, * But suffring, loe, fowle treason to distaine
Their wretched myndes, forget their loyall hart, Reject truth, and rise against their prince.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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The essential feature of the Cold War was that a special constellation of events, opinions, and actions created in the Western world a state of tension and general ideological unity
comparable
to those which had always been taken for granted under state Marxism.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Cambridge
University
Press.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the
lengthening
wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here contented?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Celmis (the
Smelter)
was the hero of another myth of transforma-
tion.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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thirds of it might have been occupied in the mode in
which the large cities of Asia are built; that is, in the
style of some of those of India at the present day, hav-
ing gardens,
reservoirs
of water, and large open places
within them.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Although
they play the chief role in
my dominions, they are no more than the head
slaves.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Das
Sprachgewebe
ist wenigstens
por6s geworden, wenn nur leider ganz zufalligerweise, und
zwar als Folge eines etwa der Technik von Feininger ahnlichen
8
Zweifel immer noch in ihr Vehikel verliebt, wenn freilich nur
wie in seine Ziffem ein Mathematiker, fur den die L6sung des
Problems von ganz sekundarem Interesse ist, ja ihm als Tod der
Ziffem direkt schrecklich vorschweben muss.
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Samuel Beckett |
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But it was my lovers,
And not my sleeping sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful
And iridescent fires;
As the
driftwood
burning
Learned its jewelled blaze
From the sea's blue splendor
Of colored nights and days.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Ihn treibt die Garung in die Ferne,
Er ist sich seiner Tollheit halb bewusst;
Vom Himmel fordert er die schonsten Sterne
Und von der Erde jede hochste Lust,
Und alle Nah und alle Ferne
Befriedigt nicht die
tiefbewegte
Brust.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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ANDREA Who'll only kiss the pope's foot as long as he
tramples
the people with it.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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He served out some grog with a liberal hand,
And bade them sit down on the beach:
And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand,
As he stood and
delivered
his speech.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Vacantly
I walked beside her.
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Poe - 5 |
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Lo,
What man is there whose mind with dread of gods
Cringes not close, whose limbs with terror-spell
Crouch not together, when the parched earth
Quakes with the
horrible
thunderbolt amain,
And across the mighty sky the rumblings run?
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Lucretius |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no
recognition
in those orbs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Their relations with
him are a curious sign of the interest which the members of
the great world took in the men who were quietly
preparing
the
destruction both of them and their world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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"OLD POEM"
At fifteen I went with the army,
At
fourscore
I came home.
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fourscore |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"But if the host's a man like you--
I mean a man of sense;
And if the house is not too new--"
"Why, what has _that_," said I, "to do
With Ghost's
convenience?
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Lewis Carroll |
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In the first line of
Evangeline
This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
there are no less than five violations of position, to
say nothing of the shortening of a
syllable
so distinctly
long as the i in primeval.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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In many cases they were little more than walled
villages; but they had
distinct
communal existence and a measure of
CH.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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) energy that used to propel the
evolution
of our species, and that this happened at a time when the biological evolution of humankind has greatly slowed down and may indeed have come to a standstill.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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It is well-known that he has some kind
of short-hand way of taking down our thoughts, and I make no doubt he
is perfectly acquainted with my
sentiments
respecting Miss Benson: how
much I admired her abilities and valued her worth, and how very
fortunate I thought myself in her acquaintance.
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Robert Burns |
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Sir, he said : No gentleman can be more jealous and tender than I have always been of the rights and
privileges
of this House, nor more ready to concur with any measure for putting a stop to any abuses which may affect either of them.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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She
answered
him with a song in which she says:
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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It is not because
Catullus
loved Lesbia that we
are interested in her, but because this experience
taught him to write love lyrics of surpassing beauty.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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—Rights may be traced to
traditions,
traditions
to momentary agreements.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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"
"Icarus," again he cried aloud; his
feathers
he beheld in the waves.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Glucksmann
in a chapter of his political autobiography which he titled not with- out a touch of bitter humour "A nous deux, Napole?
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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A
sanguinary
battle took place at the very gates of the town, on the day
of the calends of November, 672, and it continued far into the night.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Beowulf |
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16 See the " Olafs Saga Helga," in Forn-
manna-Sogur, with Latin translation, in " Scripta
Historica
Islondorum.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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In the considerable portion of Italy, which still voluntarily or under compulsion adhered to the revolution, warlike preparations were
prosecuted
with vigour.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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We are there while we fulfill our professional duties, when we
communicate
with our beloved ones and, above all, when we are faced with the threat of being alone.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The
following
day Candide received, on awaking, a letter couched in
these terms:
"My very dear love, for eight days I have been ill in this town.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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necessary consequence of the fact that complete knowledge of the
individuality
of others is not accessible to us.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Run home and dress yourself in the boy's clothes
Prepared
for you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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vcX Kuthera scmplterna
UbI amor, IbI oculus Vae qUI
cogltatls
InutIle
qualn In nobIs slnl1htudlnc dlvlnae reperctur Imago
"Mother Earth 111 thy lap'
saId Randolph ~Y&.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
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Ronsard |
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You
know, my dear Candide, I was very pretty; but I grew much prettier, and
the reverend Father Didrie,[16] Superior of that House,
conceived
the
tenderest friendship for me; he gave me the habit of the order, some
years after I was sent to Rome.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Thus, for example, it can be used in a
compound
form to mean "standing out in a crowd" (ye re bud).
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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And either the activity of the other
characteristics
is exercised simultaneously, or their activity is exercised in succession.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Again when he said that’ the price thereof was not known by man,’ and
rejoined
to this below, fine gold shall not be given for it; he shewed not what was the price of it, but what was not.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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figure, and cannot be said to possess an
exemplary
significance
either in himself or his experience.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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There is a reason for the general reservations against
Jünger’s
reflec- tions, which have been suspected of being fascist.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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He had just the
faintest
blush, and said modestly,
'I've been teaching one of the native women about the station.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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n ad-Din Unur (the Aynard of the Frankish sources) was an old Turkish general and the real
1
ruler of
Damascus
during these years, on behalf of the young ami?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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We had grown proud because the nations stood
Hoping together against the calumny
That,
tortured
of its old barbarian blood,
Barbarian still the heart of man should be.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Rain is the vapour that ascends from the earth and
seas, condensed in the upper regions, and by
electrical
action formed into
drops which descend to the earth by their own weight.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Why were my cares
beguiled
in short repose?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Among the
other professions and arts which make the materials the statesman
employs, the profession of the
educator
stands foremost.
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| Question: |
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Imagists |
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” And not another word was said; but Fanny felt herself
again in danger, and her
indifference
to the danger was beginning to
fail her already.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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His theological bias thus fatally
narrowed
his interpretation of nature,
and the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Both appearance and
necessity
are elements of the world of wares.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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BEGGAR
Daughter!
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Lucar with cannon, "to lambs
awakening
the lion by
bleating.
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| Question: |
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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at nunc quod possum, fugiam
lucemque
deosque,
ut te matura per Styga morte sequar.
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But did he, after all, or did he not, think it
salutary?
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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And I have felt
A presence that
disturbs
me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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to hear these shallow wenches
ment than had previously been given to
taking citizens to task,
notion
Prattling
of a brassy buckler,
history.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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Indeed, as all I have to say
consists
of unconnected
remarks, anecdotes, scraps of old songs, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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We will not
be referred, in order to be refuted, to the musician
who writes music to existing lyric poems; for after
all that has been said we shall be compelled to
assert that the relationship between the lyric poem
and its setting must in any case be a
different
one
from that between a father and his child.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Might he know
How
conscious
consciousness could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the junction be Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
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Donne - 1 |
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They may have miscalculated because the
language
of deterrence, and an understanding of the commitment process in the nuclear era, had not had much time to develop yet.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Or au bout d'un moment, Mme de
Guermantes,
expliquant
elle-même l'air soucieux que j'avais attribué
à la crainte d'une déclaration de guerre, avait dit à M.
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" Certainly college
curriculums
have moved away from Dr.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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O woodland Queen,
What smoothest air thy
smoother
forehead woos?
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org/numeros
anteriores
/ numero 16, articlolo 439 / disponibilidad infinita]
5.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Wherefore they rightly recognize that the country districts need a large population, and the relations between the city and the villages are
properly
[114] regulated.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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The self in
question
here is still the bourgeois master.
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Education in Hegel |
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I am sick, sick, sick, even unto death,
Of the hollow and high-sounding vanities
Of the
populous
Earth!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It was
to the
following
effect :-- _
"I said," he tells us, "that the dismay of those
who suppose that Philip could still count on the
Thebans must proceed from an ignorance of the real
state of the case.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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What as a gurgling softly
simmered
through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But in default of a brilliant
book, we still have here the idea of a brilliant book: and I know not
if the history of Israel is explained by the struggle, often secular, of
the Prophets against the Kings, of the religious ideal of the first
against the
political
ideal of the second; but what cannot be doubted
is, that this same idea throws a bright light on that history, and this
is all that is of interest here.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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This Troilus, whan he hir wordes herde, 1065
Have ye no care, him liste not to slepe;
For it
thoughte
him no strokes of a yerde
To here or seen Criseyde, his lady wepe;
But wel he felte aboute his herte crepe,
For every teer which that Criseyde asterte, 1070
The crampe of deeth, to streyne him by the herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
recurrence
of lines consisting of perfect ana paests?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Where can
Victorian
be?
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Longfellow |
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I might say this in a
Reproduced with
permission
of the copyright owner.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Collins, however,
was not
discouraged
from speaking again, and Mr.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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