Then I went out and walked to the square
And saw a few dazed people
standing
there.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I could
scarcely
believe that boys out here could be such good Latin scholars, some of them far in advance of boys of the same age in European schools.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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[228] So many then were the helpers who
assembled
to join the son of Aeson.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Ten
thousand
pounds of copper to the man who brings his head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" was the
question
in
both their minds.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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This is it which is
called the Old Covenant, or Testament; and
containeth
a Contract between
God and Abraham; by which Abraham obligeth himself, and his posterity,
in a peculiar manner to be subject to Gods positive Law; for to the Law
Morall he was obliged before, as by an Oath of Allegiance.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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I wonder what they say o's now,
And if they know my lot; and how
She feels who milks my
favourite
cow,
And takes my place at churn!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 12:11 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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The
chevaliers
of France do much repine.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" We
can now answer in the affirmative this latter pro-
found question after our
glorious
experiences, in
which we have found to our astonishment in the
case of musical tragedy itself, that the deepest
pathos can in reality be merely aesthetic play: and
therefore we are justified in believing that now for
the first time the proto-phenomenon of the tragic
can be portrayed with some degree of success.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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45
"When it comes to molecules and cranial pathways, we"-that is, the brain researchers and art physiologists of the turn of the century-" auto-
matically
think of a process similar to that of Edison's phonograph.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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raor h
understanding
of
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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AVETE IN VOI LI FIORI, E LA VERDURA
THOU hast in thee the flower and the green
And that which
gleameth
and is fair of sight, Thy form is more resplendent than sun's sheen ; Who sees thee not, can ne'er know worth aright.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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On the
assumption
that metaphysics as a whole, known after Heidegger as ontotheology, took this very path itself!
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Most honourable in thee: but
scarcely
wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The temporising policy of Tiberius,
who had by that time succeeded to the throne, pre-
vented him from rendering due
assistance
to Cotys,
who, in the end, was treacherously seized by his
brother, and put to death.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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At the same time he ordered them to press into service all the manifold forms of art, for he was a man of the most lofty
conceptions
and nature had endowed him with a keen imagination which enabled him to picture the appearance which would be presented by the finished work.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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"
#+
1!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Scott to-morrow morning in selling a piece of
literature to the Century
Publishing
Company.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Large hail, discolour'd water, sleety flaw
Through the dun
midnight
air stream'd down amain:
Stank all the land whereon that tempest fell.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It
exists because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations
from people in all walks of life.
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Yeats |
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The common bliss of all the race, Whose wreaths
Arcesilaus
grace .
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Pindar |
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There mid the
branches
of ancient tree
Damet and Myrtil sat and skillfully
Waked the reed's music, told the pleasing dream
Of love and courtship's joys; -- and this their theme :
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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and wild fowls, and you will be able to teach the boys about
how to set the helm and the sails when they are
launching
their
small boats.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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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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5' By the
universal
consent of the Manx, he was chosen, in due course, as their bisiiop.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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The Social Order
I
THIS government official,
Whose wife is several years his senior, Has such a
caressing
air
When he shakes hands with young ladies.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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And so the cultivated person was someone who felt steadily mounting up a
J debt that he would never be able to pay off, felt bankruptcy inexora- ' bly approaching; and either inveighed against the times in which he was
condemned
to live, even though he enjoyed living in them like anyone else, or else hurled himself with the courage of those who
have nothing to lose at every idea that promised a change.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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I say : The heart rent him as he looked on this, And were't not that my Lady lit her grace,
Smiling upon me with her eyes grown glad,
Then were my speech so
dolorously
clad That Love should mourn amid his victories.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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And let us bringtheecease to
beakerings
on that clink, olmond bottler!
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Finnegans |
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Taken
together
all of these word trucks will give you a heady meal for about ten dollars, either in the digital or print form, and it is gluten-free.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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On the other hand, there are saints in
Arupyadhatu
who obtain
98 Nirvana without having fully lived their lives to the end (iii.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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He
compared
Trakl to Li Tai Po, a Chinese poet of the eighth century.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Apart from a
qualified
Guru, the most honest advice would come from ones parents, but even their advice is not to be heeded.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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He and his
young bride are joyfully
welcomed
by King Raghu, who resigns the
kingdom in favour of Aja.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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But the great majority of people in England think, if they think about the matter at all, that Abelard and Heloise are
fictional
characters invented, my dear George Moore, and very beneficially invented by yourself.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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reaffirm the universal validity of the
national
canon.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Now it is just a year since she was born;
She is
learning
to sit and cannot yet talk.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus, we usually do not
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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From the perspective of this side of death, the only one usually observable, the idea imposes itself on living persons that an
invisible
force is at work in ani- mated bodies that allows them to breathe, jump about, and remain form-coherent, whereas this invisible something must have departed from the dead, so that they grow stiff and decay.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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He seems to
86
FREEDOM AND BODIES
deny that there is anything
universal
and ahistorical about it that could be understood as its stable and fixed core : "nothing in man - not even his body ?
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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I have been angry and hurt,--too long have I
cherished
the feeling; 960
I have been cruel and hard, but now, thank God!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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The words in italics are a
supplement
of my own.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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I ask for a moment's
indulgence
to sit by thy side.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Kommentierte
Gesamtausgabe in einem Band, ed.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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, _shadow,
concealing
veil of night_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Let me add that few chapters of
human history have a more
profound
significance for ourselves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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(Cases cited are only typical examples from among many offered; this text does not profess to be an
exhaustive
treatise, which would fill volumes if it went back over more than two or three years.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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'
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She used to define a present, That it was a gift to a friend of
something
he wanted, or was fond of, and which could not be easily gotten for money.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The God who dwells within my soul
Can heave its depths at any hour;
Who holds o'er all my
faculties
control
Has o'er the outer world no power;
Existence lies a load upon my breast,
Life is a curse and death a long'd-for rest.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In this
charitable
and
catholic mood I reached the vast ramparts of the city.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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He iufused into his poetry
all the
gentleness
of his nature, his feeling, and his
sincerity.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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If this were thus, if this, indeed, were all,
Better the narrow brain, the stony heart,
The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days,
The long mechanic pacings to and fro,
The set gray life, and
apathetic
end.
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Tennyson |
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But I changed my
mind and preferred to beat a
resentful
retreat.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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The State as the guiding
star of
culture!
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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This is one of those lighter foibles [I was speaking
of]: to which if you do not grant your indulgence, a
numerous
band of
poets shall come, which will take my part (for we are many more in
number), and, like the Jews, we will force you to come over to our
numerous party.
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Horace - Works |
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Oh, all ye gleams of love, ye
divine
fleeting
gleams!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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6 He
suffered
no nobleman at all to be near his person, ruling in this respect precisely like Spartacus31 or Athenio.
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Historia Augusta |
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SAADI
Trees in groves,
Kine in droves,
In ocean sport the scaly herds,
Wedge-like cleave the air the birds,
To northern lakes fly wind-borne ducks,
Browse the
mountain
sheep in flocks,
Men consort in camp and town,
But the poet dwells alone.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Course
incessantly
in order to compass that one end, time.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Nothing has hitherto been brought to light to warrant the supposition that mankind existed in Italy at a period anterior to the knowledge of agriculture and of the smelting of the metals; and if the human race ever within the bounds of Italy really occupied the level of that
primitive
stage of culture which we are accustomed to call the savage state, every trace of such a fact has disappeared.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Moreover
it is particularly requisite tharthe very negation of being should be itself the object of a perpetual nihilation, that the very meaning of "non-being" be perpetually in question in human reality.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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A most
reasonable
statement.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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She
followed
on slowly after the last
As though some object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk but fly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Independent of these more particular considerations, the natural weight and influence of a good government will always go far towards procuring a
compliance
with its desires j and as the directors will usually be composed of some of the most discreet, re-
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Protestant
princes sought his aid
in advancing the Reformation.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a
testimony
of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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The answer is
sometimes
apparent,
sometimes not; he will not refrain from asking a question just because
he does not know the answer; his _role_ is asking, not answering.
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Lucian |
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It is the
contrast
between Werther and Albert,
between Tasso and Antonio, between Edward and the Captain.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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'Thus are we wholly at the disposal
of His will, and our present and future
condition
framed and ordered
by His free, but wise and just, decrees.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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from Naples in this distant shrine,
Naples, where he is hostage for his sire,
His dirge is heard: A
stripling
of thy race,
Young Obyson, shall fill his grandsire's place.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Teresa, it is said,
retired into the castle of Legonaso, where she was taken prisoner by her
son, who condemned her to
perpetual
imprisonment, and ordered chains to
be put upon her legs.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Unlike those fearful Poets, whose cold Rhyme
In all their Raptures keep exactest time,
That sing th' Illustrious Hero's mighty praise
(Lean
Writers!
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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"
She
upbraided
herself for the sentiment, but could not overcome or
lessen it.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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100, Lucius AElius
Praeconinus
Stilo, a
worthy and conservative Roman knight, opened a private class in Latin
grammar and rhetoric for young men of the upper classes, and from this
time on the direct influence of the Greeks, except in philosophy,
declined.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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They originate, so to speak, through continual fulgurations of the divin- ity from moment to moment, limited by the
receptivity
of the created being, to which it is essential to be limited .
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The application of puzzles or riddles to this form of composition was new, but in giving himself the
patronymic
Simichidas the author is probably acknowledging his dept to his predecessor, Simichus being a pet-name for of Simias, as Amyntichus for Amyntas in VII.
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Source: |
Pattern Poems |
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How very gallant he seemed to be,
He's of a noble family;
That I could read from his brow and bearing--
And he would not have
otherwise
been so daring.
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"Lists all white and blue in the skies;
And the people hurried amain
To the
Tournament
under the ladies' eyes
Where jousted Heart and Brain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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She'd no
recourse
to that nobility,
Who by their exploits won themselves glory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The troubadours' spring
celebrations
of kalenda maia and their courtly worship of 'the lady' probably drew on remnants of pre-Christian worship.
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Troubador Verse |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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10
ing the week; when, finally, even the children are bathed; then the adults wash off the week's dust, scrub
themselves
thoroughly; and go to the fresh clothes which are lying ready for them : when all of that is ar- ranged, with rural lengthiness and care, then a deep warm feeling of resting settles down over the people:!
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Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Burns was
probably
aware of this; he takes occasion in some of
his letters to suggest, that the hour may be at hand when he shall be
accounted by scholars as a meteor, rather than a fixed light, and to
suspect that the praise bestowed on his genius was partly owing to the
humility of his condition.
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
Samsa appeared in his
uniform with his wife on one arm and his
daughter
on the other.
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Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Then, such
was the simplicity, I should say the national spirit,1
1 Were
strengthened
by the alliance of the king.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Also, if Herrick be "Poor
Robin" we must
attribute
to him, at least, the greater part of the
twenty-one "Poor Robin" publications, of which Mr.
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‘Barbarous cattle,
barbarous
cattle,’ said the doctor, beginning to struggle into his white
coat.
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9 Being then taken ill, he died in an honourable old age, and not
inferior
in merit to his great-grandfather Arsaces.
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your
unrivalled
scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
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Spurs were struck in the foaming flank;
Worn-out chargers
staggered
and sank;
Bridles were slackened, and girths were burst;
But ride as they would, the king rode first,
For his rose of the isles lay dying!
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He urged that the
custom be reversed, and that three votes be
given to the
national
party, and one to the
Germans, according to the practice of the
Universities of Bologna and Paris, which were
called the mothers of Prague.
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Der kleine Gott der Welt bleibt stets von gleichem Schlag,
Und ist so
wunderlich
als wie am ersten Tag.
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Did you
fasten all the
windows?
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