THE SONG-SPARROW
Glimmers gray the
leafless
thicket
Close beside my garden gate,
Where, so light, from post to picket
Hops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;
Who, with meekly folded wing,
Comes to sun himself and sing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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True Prophets did not speak by Extasy, hut saw and
understood
what they dedar'd, arid were t!
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The
protagonist
or discoverer of an enlightened thought took this step only earlier and usually by surrendering a former opinion of his own.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Then, at the end, when years had passed, and the mighty friends still met and smoked by the Rat's hole on the river, the mothers of new
generations
of otters, etc.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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But the achievements of
Alexander
during his twelve years of
reign, throwing Philip into the shade, had been on a scale so
much grander and vaster, and so completely without serious re-
verse or even interruption, as to transcend the measure not only
of human expectation, but almost of human belief.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Sun, whose fires lighten all the works of the
world, and thou, Juno,
mediatress
and witness of these my distresses,
and Hecate, cried on by night in crossways of cities, and you, fatal
avenging sisters and gods of dying Elissa, hear me now; bend your just
deity to my woes, and listen to our prayers.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Preface came
into being on 3rd
September
1888.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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It had
exterminated
the landlord.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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It belongs to the experience of real progress that a valuable human initiative comes "out of itself," that it tears apart the old limits of mobility, that it broadens its work spectrum, and that it asserts itself with a good
conscience
against inner inhibitions and outer resistance.
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Sloterdijk |
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And thus surprised, as filchers use,
He thus began himself t' excuse:
Sweet lady-flower, I never brought
Hither the least one
thieving
thought;
But, taking those rare lips of yours
For some fresh, fragrant, luscious flowers,
I thought I might there take a taste,
Where so much syrup ran at waste.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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The
instances
at least must be extremely few.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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I have no doubt that she loved you, but
there are women in whom the love of a lover
extinguishes
all
other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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The British Legation, on the other side of the new palace, is a pretty country mansion, with a loggia, built on a bank, and
enclosed
by a garden.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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nnlein, Weiblein,
traurige
Gesellen,
Sie streuen heute Blumen blau und rot
Auf ihre Gru?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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A strange mystery it is
that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the
revolutions
of her secular
hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a
child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with
knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works
of his unthinking Mother.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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I was going in the wrong
direction
all the time.
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Twain - Speeches |
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How drab it would be if its ideal
Pseudoreality
Prevails
· 2 71
272.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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“I think I'll buy 'im foh a hat sign,” said a
manufacturer
of
ten-dollar Castor and Rhorum hats.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Let us now examine the reasons which led my father
to
institute
this arrangement.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Pentheus
would flee to his mother, Orpheus to the priestesses of Bacchus, were they to bear but a sound from the barbarous weapon of Antiochus.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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]
[Footnote 18: 'The Poetry of Byron, chosen and
arranged
by Matthew
Arnold'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Do these men
Feel
patience
then?
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Amy Lowell |
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A
Bachelor
I will, I.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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‘And you didn’t even shave this
morning!
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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And what catastrophic events fall within the limits
which he sets for
himself!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Remorse is memory awake,
Her companies astir, --
A presence of
departed
acts
At window and at door.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When quite a little
child she would delight in
catching
flies, and tearing off their
wings, so as to make creeping things of them.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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1 These words I hope
everyone
will see—
8 Let them be hung high with the rising sun.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" This means that total devotion makes the guru's blessings so intense that, just as rock
destroys
bone, the blessings pre- vent any possible wrong turns.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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That they rarely
purchase
friends, thou didst
soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and
alone.
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Samuel Johnson |
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All the rest he died
possessed
of, he bequeathed to Peggotty;
whom he left residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will
and testament.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Tsongkhapa
wrote in eloquent praise of the Buddha in verse called rTen 'breI bstod pa ("In praise of dependent origination"), TKSB, Vol.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Other writers deny this; they say that the
Athenians
used to call their villages demes, not κώμαι, and comedy was so named because they held a festival [ἐκώμαζον] in the streets.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Some one else, then, said Critias; for
certainly
I have not.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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_It was
included
in the Collected Edition of the author's
Poems published by Messrs.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The way in which ecclesiastical history is written is always
largely determined by
dogmatic
or philosophical theology.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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I, who have not refused to be the victim of pleasure in order to gratify him, can he think I would refuse to be a
sacrifice
of honour when he desired it?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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As with the force of winds and waters pent
When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars
With horrible
convulsions
to and fro
He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew
The whole roof after them with burst of thunder
Upon the heads of all who sat beneath,
Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, or priests,
Their choice nobility and flower, not only
Of this, but each Philistian city round,
Met from all parts to solemnise this feast.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ects that the five aggregates are totally empty, and
overcomes
all pain
and wrongdoing.
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Shobogenzo |
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Rochester propounded his query:
"Is the wandering and sinful, but now rest-seeking and repentant, man
justified in daring the world's opinion, in order to attach to him for
ever this gentle, gracious, genial stranger, thereby securing his own
peace of mind and
regeneration
of life?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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These demand, with the greater
impetuosity of youth, the
satisfaction
of their
needs, and they insist on having bad authors.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Rejoicing
that he had found what seemed him so fine a bird, he fits all his lime-rods together and lies in wait for that hipping-hopping quarry.
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Bion |
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Hee in Celestial Panoplie all armd 760
Of radiant Urim, work divinely wrought,
Ascended, at his right hand Victorie
Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside him hung his Bow
And Quiver with three-bolted Thunder stor'd,
And from about him fierce Effusion rowld
Of smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire;
Attended with ten thousand thousand Saints,
He onward came, farr off his coming shon,
And twentie thousand (I thir number heard)
Chariots
of God, half on each hand were seen: 770
Hee on the wings of Cherub rode sublime
On the Crystallin Skie, in Saphir Thron'd.
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Milton |
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mand of Zeus, the
assembly
of the gods.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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As a final note, Verene might respond by pointing out that he attends this double negation in
absolute
knowing, and in particular in the transition from the Phenomenology to the Science of Logic.
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Education in Hegel |
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Calasiris like
Apollonius
is a model of Pythagorean asceticism.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Now, the priest received me
courteously, and when I asked him, concerning Herodotus, whether he were
a true man or not, he smiled and
answered
“Abu Goosh,” which, in the
tongue of the Arabians, means “The Father of Liars.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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The whole faculty is in a
dreadful
state.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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On the other hand, metaphorical concepts can be ex- tended beyond the range of ordinary literal ways of
thinking
and talking into the range of what is c~lled figurative, po- etic, colorful, or fanciful thought and language.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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The
first
Traveller
takes it up for another draught; but is surprised to
find that the same Water which had tasted sweet from his own hand
tastes bitter from the earthen Bowl.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"Oegrian damsels" :
daughters
of Oeagrus king of Thrace and sisters of Orpheus.
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Moschus |
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Du aber gehst mit weichen
Schritten
in die Nacht,
Die voll purpurner Trauben ha?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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This faith arises in some people from their pre-given powers, which are well disposed and organized, and in others, it comes from a
disturbance
of their powers.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Matthew Prior (1664-1672), in his four dialogues of worthy (or unworthy) dead men, makes his own
stimulating
contribution.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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"Nor less I deem that there are powers,
"Which of
themselves
our minds impress,
"That we can feed this mind of ours,
"In a wise passiveness.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You roused
yourself
on occasion of the troubles, opened your eyes wide and took a look at the enemy.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Astrologers, too, think that each planet exudes its own, qualitatively
distinct
'energy', which affects human life and has affinities with some human emotion; love in the case of Venus, aggression for Mars, intelligence for Mercury.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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One could spend
paragraphs
trying to describe how the Arabic text's evocative proper names, grammatical oddities and allusions to the Qur'an and the classical tradition create in the reader's mind a single impression of countless blended subtleties.
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Translated Poetry |
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Of thee we now should ask forgiving boon;
And of thy spicy myrtles as they blow,
And of thy roses amorous of the moon,
And of thy lilies, that do paler grow
Now they can no more hear thy ghittern's tune, 150
For venturing
syllables
that ill beseem
The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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Acrowcomingup, and trying to drink the milk, overturned the vessel
containing
it, with her
training
charge.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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Like
millstones
do they work, and like pestles:
throw only seed-corn unto them!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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MON DIEU, what
sufferings!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The brandy at the wine merchants’; the ether at the drug-
gists'; the powder and shot forgotten in stations, or secreted in
cellars, burst with
terrible
explosions and scattered flaming coals.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Vydkhyd: nimilite sdstari lokacaksusiti / parinirvrte bhagavati lokasya caksurbhute
mdrgdmdrgasamdar/ake / anendndhabhutatdm lokasya
darsayati
// ksayam gate sdksijane ca bhilyaseti / sdksdd drastari sdksi/ mdrgdmdrgajno bhagavan itiye'dhigatatattvd bhagavatah sdksijanah sahdyabhutah / tasmin parinitvanejzsine / avidyandhddrstatattvair niravagrahair nirankusaih svayamdrstikatayd kutarkdpannair bhavadhir bhagavatah idsanam granthatas cdrthata?
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Turkey and the Great Nations 3
century were reverentially to spare Europe's
most
miserable
State.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly,
non-commercial purposes.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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--Of many a clime and tongue
Commix'd the mournful pageant moved along
While scarce the
fortunes
or the name of one
Among a thousand passing forms was known.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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432 There is also another reason to be considered, that forasmuch as God hath in his hand both life and death, without all doubt he preserveth those alive whose father he will be, and whom he
counteth
his chil- dren; therefore, though Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob died, concerning the flesh, yet do they live in spirit with God.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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25
Per opra di costui sarà deserto
il re de'
Longobardi
Desiderio:
d'Este e di Calaon per questo merto
il bel dominio avrà dal sommo Imperio.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Yet at the time when Gracchus proposed a decree to dismiss
Octavius
from his position as magistrate, Octavius could have proposed a similar decree depriving Gracchus of his position as tribune.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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The head of the state knew not how to meet the partisan
otherwise
than with his own weapons,
wielded with far less dexterity.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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A
newspaper
is a collection of half-injustices
Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile,
Spreads its curious opinion
To a million merciful and sneering men,
While families cuddle the joys of the fireside
When spurred by tale of dire lone agony.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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The contrast is so marked that as
we turn from the one to the other we find ourselves asking
whether they can both be the work of the same man,
unless, indeed, we accept the Diana and the Sirmto as
fruits of study--an
acquired
calm, and say that the " fever
and the pain" were in the blood--an inheritance and a
birthright.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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He openly
favoured
Donatism, which was the most numerous and
influential party.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Boggh, and the
cannibalutic
sacrifi", of the to
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