Once more we will exchange cheerful letters with one another, and make
mutual
confidence
of our thoughts and joys and sorrows (if so be that
we shall know any more sorrows?
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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" At short notice," says Lu cian, " they
contribute
everything without re serve.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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He joined them; but, as if
irresolute
whether to
join or to pass on, said nothing, only looked.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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L
As in hill-farm or castle, fenced with moat,
The hunter, mindful what his dangers were,
Aye fastens on his door the shaggy coat
And horrid paws and monstrous head of bear;
So showed the giant those of
greatest
note,
Who, thither brought, had perished in his snare.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief excitement for the wind;
They hold a
breathless
final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Your Life shall moil i' the ground, and plant his seed,
A farmer
foisoning
a huge crop of grief.
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Sidney Lanier |
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V
It was not
chastity
that made me cold nor fear,
only I knew that you, like myself, were sick
of the puny race that crawls and quibbles and lisps
of love and love and lovers and love's deceit.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They were
accordingly
given in the revised edition of 1868 from the Latin text Baehrens (Poet Lat Min.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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IRote on This Psalm calls on us all to give thanks
JP8j to God for the blessings He has
showered
on us;
'and to learn by the marvels of Nature around us
how great is the Divine love that orders the world,
with all its wonders and its beauties.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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coloring his view, while his belief in his friend Lord Raglan
gives his account
something
of party bias.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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why hast thou
forsaken
me, my God?
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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MOERIS
'Twas in my thought to do so, Lycidas;
Even now was I revolving silently
If this I could recall- no paltry song:
"Come, Galatea, what
pleasure
is 't to play
Amid the waves?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[1] Just as the
organist
gets into the spirit of his theme by means of
a dreamy prelude, so the poet by means of this introduction intends
to suggest the spirit of the poem that follows.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Ne K ocin- The
proclamation
of the war in France, and the
Frelld/at' 6 se i z " r e upon the estates of the English, with some
th.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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He did not want them
to die of love; but with sense and temper which ought to have made him
judge and feel better, he allowed himself great
latitude
on such points.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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"On the world and fate reflecting,
Yawning I had fallen asleep,
When I dreamed that I was lying
Underneath
a lofty tree.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The old round with its four stages will
certainly
pass again.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Idleness
is the source of all vices.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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time to time selections from the treasures
Among recent
innovations
Mr.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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When they were
conjured
up, otherwise coupled,
they were called either sice cinque, sice quatre, sice trey, sice deuce,
and sice ace; or cinque quatre, cinque trey, and so forth.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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How did it come about that this
pampering
was seen as the origin of misery?
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Sólo éste servía como
signo
representativo
del protosigno no-transferible.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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lie published a volume of poems under the
title of Hours of
Contentment!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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I am
listening
here in Rome.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Roads
and bridges, Church matters,
repartition
of the Land-
dues, Army matters, -- in fact they are an effective
non-haranguing Parliament, to the King's Deputy in
every such Province; well calculated to illuminate and
* Fflrster, b.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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By perfect, we
understand
that
to which nothing is wanting, as place to the building that is raised, and
action to the fable that is formed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But why weary you with such
"details of my labours and my
sorrows?
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Thomas Carlyle |
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The zājirātu ṭ-ṭayri "women who chase birds away" (here
rendered
as "auguresses") were women who tried to divine the future in some manner that involved scaring birds.
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Translated Poetry |
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So, when an oak falls headlong on the lake,
The troubled waters slowly
settling
shake:
So faints the languid combat on the plain,
And settling, staggers o'er the heaps of slain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Translated
by Sebastian Evang.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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» D'une part il m'était toujours impossible de douter d'un
serment d'elle, d'autre part ses explications ne
satisfaisaient
pas ma
raison.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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"
A lane was
forthwith
opened through the crowd of spectators.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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The farther he advanced in
life the more he
occupied
himself with the
salvation of his soul, and the more he pre-
?
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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O the marvellous wisdom of
economists!
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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,,ot,infact,beachieved WIt out
eshlescness
Mary M .
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Alternately, the two lines could be the song that the sherman is singing,
expressing
his own grief.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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This is not the place for a
thorough
delineation of that remarkable man and of his still more remarkable influence on his contemporaries and posterity ; but the intellectual movements of the later Greek and the Graeco-Roman epoch were to so great an extent affected by him, that it is indispensable to sketch at least the leading outlines of his character.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Some even believed, that during this
ritual not only the souls of the
decedents
were present, but
96
also the spirits of the animals, which had donated their lifes
to give food to the humans", explained Alf.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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James Gray, (for that was the name
she took upon
herself)
was one the party that was
ordered under Lieutenant Campbell, the indepen dent companies, fetch up some stores from the
water-side, that had been landed out the fleet; doing, they had several skirmishes, and one the
so
all
of
in
of
of
to
of
GtoRGE ii.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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BELLO: _(Sternly)_ No
insubordination!
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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If in one- pointed concentration or samadhi one
realizes
this basic nature, then it is said one has realized the ultimate nature of reality.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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6 He was
succeeded
by the eldest of the children, Nicomedes, who acted not like a brother but like an executioner to his brothers.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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In Germany as in Italy, the
communists
endured the severest political repression of all groups.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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16 As such, this faculty had to remain a mere propaedeutic to the other politically
relevant
faculties and couldn't award doctoral degrees in its own right.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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36:12 And Timna was
concubine
to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to
Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
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bible-kjv |
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the reverse side of this alliance between the
existence
of the work of art and the activity of the self is that the existence of the work of art
13 "Since his work comes back to him simply as joyfulness, he does not find therein the painful labour of making himself into an artist, and of creation, nor the strain and effort of his work" (PhSp, 429).
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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The young writer who wants to learn at college what an art-work is, what linguistic form,
aesthetic
quality, even aes- thetic technique are, will only haphazardly learn anything at all about the matter; at best he will pick up information ready culled from whatever modish philosophy and more or less arbitrarily slapped on to the content of works currently under discussion.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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For
while the Power of PhiHp was yet weak and inconfiderable,
although we frequently
admoniflied
them of their Danger ; ex-
horted them to better Counfels, and inftruded them in the
wifeft, moft honourable Meafures, yet, from a fordid Attention
to their private Advantage, they betrayed the general Interefts
of Greece ; deceived and corrupted their Fellow-Citizens, un-
til they had reduced them to the moft abjed: Slavery.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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If Nature
thundered
in his opening ears,
And stunned him with the music of the spheres,
How would he wish that Heaven had left him still
The whispering zephyr, and the purling rill?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[1]
[Footnote 1:
I
remember
Mr.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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"-"No, you lie :
I've not read a word you have
written!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The joke ended in Aston's sharing the
purse between the
Irishman
and himself, giving the former thirty
guineas and keeping twenty.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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And as the bees o'er bright flowers joyous roam,
Around their
curtained
cradles clustering come.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Such
pleasure
took the Serpent to behold
This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve
Thus early, thus alone.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But even the assertion that practical conse- quences are contemptible, which has its
distinguished
prehistory in German idealism, cannot do without the
cleverness of strategy.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Oppius in like manner evacuated Pamphylia and shut himself up in the
Phrygian
Laodicea ; Aquillius was overtaken while retreating at the Sangarius in the Bithynian territory, and so totally defeated that he lost his camp and had to seek refuge at Pergamus in the Roman province 5 the latter also was soon overrun, and Pergamus itself fell into the hands of the king, as likewise the Bosporus and the ships that were there.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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_1635-39_]
[67 It must be] It is meer _1669_
sicknesse,]
sicknesse
_1635-69_]
[69 sigh _P_, _TCD_: sinne, _1635-69_]
[74 and _P_: I _1635-69_, _TCD_]
[76 woo.
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Donne - 1 |
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swā hit oð dōmes dæg dīope
benemdon
þēodnas mǣre (_put
under a curse_), 3070.
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Beowulf |
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The Myth of
Objectivism
in Western Philosophy and Linguistics
27.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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This new, conscious civilization is killing the
other which, on the whole, has led but an
unreflective
animal and plant
life: it is also destroying the doubt of progress itself--progress is
possible.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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'indifference
coeur temps air feu sable
du silence
eboulement
d'amours couvre leurs voix
et que je ne m'entende plus
me taire
ALS; 2 leaves, 5 sides; TCD, MS 10402/163.
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Samuel Beckett |
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229)
By stating that ''I might excerpt the passages whereof I disapprove,'' Pound
articulated
his skepticism about Sung's analysis of the causes of China's poverty.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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I will call this
description
through measurement.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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There commences an age to which projects and credits mean more than retrospectives and sums; in it, the theoretical need can longer satisfy itself in
vespertine
surveys of what has been achieved.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the
shuddering
Bear
In fractured atoms.
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T.S. Eliot |
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On this day, we find en- tered in the
Martyrology
of Donegal,^ Aedh, bishop, of the now deserted Lis-
on Loch Eirne.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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It had
exterminated
the landlord.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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But all the
Cardians
had been in the habit of teaching their horses to dance at their feasts to the music of the flute; and they, standing on their hind feet, used to dance with their fore feet in time to the airs which they had been taught.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ
APXEBIOY Bust of Zeus r.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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(Our debt to Greece and Rome)
Marshall
Jones, 1925.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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This
restriction
appears at first sight to be a very drastic one.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Thus, the technology of dissemination plays the same kind of role as that played by the medium of money in the differen- tiation of the economy: it merely constitutes a medium which makes
formations
of forms possible.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Marya looked sometimes thoughtfully upon me and sometimes upon the road,
and did not seem either to have
recovered
her senses.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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We can know no
more of God's purpose in the
ordering
of our lives than the animals can
know of our ordering of theirs.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
-
Then
Lavender
said, quite gently:-
"Do you think, Sheila, you will ever tire of living in the
South?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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'
Tho
Pandarus
a litel gan to smyle, 505
And seyde, `By my trouthe, I shal yow telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Their meeting takes place under an influence, alien I know, that of Music heard in concert; one finds there several
techniques
that seem to me to belong to Literature, I reclaim them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Live and love,--
Doing both nobly because
lowlily!
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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O'er the fields hung with mist see the shadows increase;
The day's labor ends as the sun westers low;
No sound greets the ear save the
cackling
of geese,
No sight save the white fences show.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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The feel-
ing of happiness lies precisely in the discontented-
ness of the will, in the fact that without opponents
and
obstacles
it is never satisfied.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
The
generality
of the men, and more than the generality, are
dull and empty.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Why wouldn't I be scared
remembering
that?
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Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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But if our minds, when
dreaming
near the dawn,
Are of the truth presageful, thou ere long
Shalt feel what Prato, (not to say the rest)
Would fain might come upon thee; and that chance
Were in good time, if it befell thee now.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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As it is, they come after all the other poems; they are edited with
some
cautious
dashes; and their text is almost identical with that of
_N_, _TCD_.
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John Donne |
|
Given the fact of appendicitis, the value that health is desirable, and the conviction that the pain and expense of the operation are outweighed by the
resulting
gain in health, one ought to have the operation.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
|
The room was nearly in darkness, for the candle was
flickering, and
throwing
stray beams of light which suddenly illuminated
the room, danced for a moment on the walls, and then disappeared.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Williams, Paul,
Altruism
and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy oj the Bodhicaryavatara,
Surrey: Curzon, 1998.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and
from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising
achievements -
although
he did not really distinguish one from the
other.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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He stoops upon the weapon which he strains,
Whole and
collected
for the martial game:
Then to his horse abandoning the reins,
And goading with both spurs the courser, came.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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It is part of the logical structure of the threats
discussed
in this chapter that they entail risk- the risk of being fulfilled--even though they work (or were about to work) as intended.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Milk and apples (this has been
proved by Science, comrades) contain substances
absolutely
necessary
to the well-being of a pig.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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Affectionless control conjures up a childhood in which the potential patient lacks a secure parental base, and at the same time is inhibited in exploratory behaviour, thereby reducing the two ingredients of self-esteem: good internal objects and a feeling of
competence
and mastery.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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The approach of the Persians
alarmed the Greeks ; and Athens conceived a design of
attacking
them
in their own country.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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