O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Sed quid Typheus validus Mimas
Aut quid minaci Porphyrion statu Quid Rhæcus
evulsisque
truncis
Enceladus jaculator audax
attempt made by Porphyrion take away the oxen Hercules
The scholiast informs that verse alludes against the will the hero
of
53 ):
tous , .
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Pindar |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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«In all of them,”
says the author, «the characteristics of
the individual are so chosen as to bring
out the most
important
features of the
author's life and works.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Trakl's voice resounds in the poetry written in the 1930s and 40s, with melancholic dreamscapes, evocations of death, and the
interplay
between autumn (as the death of nature) and the violence of war central to 'Grodek'.
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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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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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Who, quite honestly, has never called their
electronic
female navigator "a bitch"?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He rose
to be one of the
foremost
Athenian orators and states-
men from a very lowly origin.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Although surprised, he did not lose his presence of mind or allow himself to be shut up in the harbour, but as the Roman ships entered the harbour,
in
r*'
chap, ii
CARTHAGE
CONCERNING SICILY
189
which opens to the south in the form of a sickle, on the one side, he withdrew his vessels from it by the opposite side which was still free, and stationed them in line on the outside.
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philosophical quotes on learning |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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’ people used to say, but the flies were an act of God
and apart from meat-covers and fly-papers you
couldn’t
do much about them.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Consolation
is not save for the unhappy, consolation is not save for them that groan, that mourn.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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If there is a leap [Ursprung] into generosity, then it resides in the
challenge
that open generosity makes to concealed generosity.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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If there is a leap [Ursprung] into generosity, then it resides in the
challenge
that open generosity makes to concealed generosity.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Our modern poets are, all to a man, almost as well read in the
Scriptures
as some of our divines, and often abound more with the phrase.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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And when
he began to roam, his father gave him Pegasus who would bear him most
swiftly on his wings, and flew unwearying
everywhere
over the earth, for
like the gales he would course along.
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Hesiod |
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Còn những người hiện đương tại chức, hãy nên nhớ lại ơn lựa chọn của tiên triều, ngẫm tới sự hiển đạt của mình ngày nay, tiết muộn
đường
dài, hãy thận trọng để khỏi hổ thẹn.
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stella-02 |
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THREE DREAMS IN A DESERT
From 'Dreams'
As
s I
traveled
across an African plain the sun shone down hotly.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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There is undoubtedly a good deal to the notion that the country with the less
impressive
military capability may be less feared, and the other may run the riskier course in a crisis; other things being equal, one anticipates that the strategically
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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1075
Theseus by your fury
measures
his own good.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Now the little winds, as bees,
Bowing the blooms come wandering where I lie
Mixt soul and body with the clover-tufts,
Light on my spirit, give from wing and thigh
Rich pollens and divine sweet irritants
To every nerve, and freshly make report
Of inmost Nature's secret autumn-thought
Unto some soul of sense within my frame
That owns each cognizance of the
outlying
five,
And sees, hears, tastes, smells, touches, all in one.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Where she is
munificently
beneficent, she always works gratis.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Charicles)
is the first work de- years in composing his romance, which
voted to the private life of the Greeks; appeared in 1779.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Philip, indeed, tried to
persuade
them by
envoys that he had no intention of making war on
them; but he could not blind them.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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320
Thus when that princes wrath was pacifide,
He gan renew the late forbidden bains,
And to the knight his
daughter
dear he tyde,
With sacred rites and vowes for ever to abyde.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And the funeral
procession
is really grand, although all dresses worn therein are of unbleached linen.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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He was for fighting as long as
any sort of a shot
remained
in the locker.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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George,
I was the first man that entered the breach; and had I
not
effected
it with resolution, I had been slain if I had
had a million of lives.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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The frame
ethereal
various orbs compose,
In whirling circles now they fell, now rose;
Yet never rose nor fell,[625] for still the same
Was ev'ry movement of the wondrous frame;
Each movement still beginning, still complete,
Its author's type, self-pois'd, perfection's seat.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" Hence to suffer as a
Christian is not only to suffer in confession of the faith, which is
done by words, but also to suffer for doing any good work, or for
avoiding any sin, for Christ's sake, because this all comes under the
head of
witnessing
to the faith.
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Summa Theologica |
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The key role that such family situations can play in accounting for the greatly intensified degree of separation anxiety suffered by some
patients
is considered in later chapters.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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I am sure she will give us
something
lovely ; see, she is preluding with her airs and graces.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Anytus in exile,
entering
Heraclea,
was warned out of town that very day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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) người thôn Bích Du huyện Thuỵ Anh (nay thuộc xã Thái
Thượng
huyện Thái Thụy tỉnh Thái Bình).
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stella-02 |
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But all these discussionswere inter- nationaland all
contributiontso
themwere to critical The
subject scrutiny.
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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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Therefore
in Him is salvation, for salvation is the Lord's.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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From the coarse-grained cartoons of Rabelais and the charming humour of Hans Sachs the stream flowed on, almost uninterrupted, into and through the
seventeenth
and eighteenth cen turies, tossing on its surface the Lucianic flotsam, easily identified and often actually stamped with his name.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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looked out between the man and the young
woman who were
standing
in front of him but was unable to find the
usher.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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But the history of those times furnishes
many instances of the like want of design in the most
momentous affairs, and shows that it is in vail to
look for
political
causes for the actions of men, who
were most commonly directed by a brute caprice,
and were for the greater part destitute of any fixed
principles of obedience or resistance.
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Edmund Burke |
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THE BULLFINCHES
BROTHER Bulleys, let us sing
From the dawn till
evening!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Cuanna, whose Natalis is
celebrated
on the nth of March,
** Annals of Ulster.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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" sighed eight-year-
old motherless Godfrey, as he applied himself
to the learning of the hymns and paraphrases
which his grannie thought
necessary
for the
"keeping " of Sunday.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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And above, on both sides, reversing the oars, they
fastened
them round the thole- pins, so as to project a cubit's space.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Talos the brazen man protected Crete; also =
guardian
and other things.
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Pattern Poems |
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(Whoever wants to distinguish such a functionalist-blasphemous approach from complete and poetic
blasphemy
should read it critically against Franco Ferrucci's distantly congenial book The Life of God.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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To Orchomen, and Psophy land, and Cyllen I did holde
Out well, and thence to Menalus and
Erymanth
the colde, .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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The King with Two Faces (a
historical
romance).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Whither, Bacchus, tear'st thou me,
Fill'd with thy
strength?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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IT
trembled
on the grass
With a low, shadowy laughter;
And the wind did toll, as a passing soul
Were sped by church-bell after;
And shadows, 'stead of light,
Fell from the stars above,
In flakes of darkness on her face
Still bright with trusting love.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Today, for this very reason, we do not need a concept of ''God'' anymore to speak of ''transcendence;'' transcendent for us are the
mechanisms
and events that must have a relevance for our existence but remain too complex or too remote for us humans to ever be able to ''grasp'' them.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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After a brief contest
on the merits and
demerits
of the evening star,
whose rising marked the hour of their meeting, the
maidens chant the praises of maidenhood, and the
rival youths the worth and dignity of married life.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Shortly after, he shot one Hitchens as he was passing the high-road on his private
business
; and, firing through the window, killed one Toby, nor did he suffer his body to be taken away to be buried for some
george ii.
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upcoming courses schedule |
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Submit |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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“Your own
salvation
above everything”—that is
what you should say; and there are no institutions
which you should prize more highly than your own
soul.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The restoration of discipline in monasteries was a necessary accom-
paniment of the establishment of law and order in the
Carolingian
Empire.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the
carcases
of the men
that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring
unto all flesh.
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bible-kjv |
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His expressions re finance are not always less
explicit
than Van Buren's.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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10
qui canoro
blandius
Orpheo vocale ducis carmen;'-shall I go
on, sir?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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[* Transcriber's note: In the original, all
following
words until 'wings'
are connected with hyphens, i.
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Aristophanes |
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After these contingent ups and downs, these apre`s-coups, these recompositions, here it is now at the head of the Confessions, before the
exordium
and the self- presentation in the form of the exemplary promise addressed at once to you, "Eternal Being," and to all of you, "the crowd of my fellow men.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Consideration and esteem as surely follow command of
language
as
admiration waits on beauty, and here I have opportunity enough for the
exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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'
There are also
ministers
of ugliness and all evil, like those that came
to Prometheus--
'As from the rose which the pale priestess kneels
To gather for her festal crown of flowers,
The aerial crimson falls, flushing her cheek,
So from our victim's destined agony
The shade which is our form invests us round;
Else we are shapeless as our mother Night.
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Yeats |
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— J
The man of mark gradually learns that so far as
he has influence he is a phantom in other brains,
and perhaps he falls into a state of subtle vexation
of soul, in which he asks himself whether he must
not
maintain
this phantom of himself for the benefit
of his fellow-men.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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But the powder was now almost exhausted; the rain fell in torrents; the
gloomy masses of cloud which came up from the south west threatened a
havoc more terrible than that of the sword; and there was reason to fear
that the roads, which were already deep in mud, would soon be in such a
state that no wheeled
carriage
could be dragged through them.
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Macaulay |
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If, then, the rate of
increase
is ten per cent.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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jEschines — The Argive and I and the Thessalian rough rider, Apis, and Cleunichus the free lance were
drinking
to gether at my farm.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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[369] The only great human love-story in
Apuleius’
main
plot, that of Charite, is a tragedy.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Henry Lafayette
Dubose’s
house two doors to the north of us, and the Radley Place three doors to the south.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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"
Then Ellen shrieked, and
forthwith
burst
Into ungentle laughter;
And Mary shivered, where she sat,
And never she smiled after.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The mainquestion,however,is
whytheseessays
on thehistoryoftheWeimar Republic bear the title "Towards the Holocaust.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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39° THE
EQUALIZATION
OF THE ORDERS, BOOK I!
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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As the weaver plied the shuttle, wove he too the mystic rhyme,
And the smith his iron measures
hammered
to the anvil's chime;
Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloom
In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom.
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Longfellow |
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Elinor was much more hurt by Marianne's warmth than
she had been by what produced it; but Colonel Brandon's eyes, as they
were fixed on Marianne, declared that he noticed only what was amiable
in it, the
affectionate
heart which could not bear to see a sister
slighted in the smallest point.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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The former kind will be surprised to learn that Abelard did not inspire a hopeless passion in Heloise's maid, already courted as she was by a rich abbot and a courtier, "to say nothing of a young officer"; that he never said: "Pyramus and Thisbe's discovery of the crack in the wall was but a slight representation of our love and its sagacity"; and that the irregularities of conventional life at Paraclete did not oblige Heloise to write: "I walk my rounds every night and make those I catch abroad return to their chambers; for I remember all the
adventures
that happened in the monasteries near Paris.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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When you come to
observe
faithfully
the changes of each humblest plant, you find that
each has, sooner or later, its peculiar autumnal tint; and if you
undertake to make a complete list of the bright tints, it will be
nearly as long as a catalogue of the plants in your vicinity.
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Other
messengers
had become unsafe; it was needful
at once to find a certain way to reply to us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The Nature of Economic Power
T H E CONCEPT OF
ECONOMIC
POWER needs careful analysis- The control of masters over their slaves is perhaps the oldest and most widespread form of economic power.
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The lamps were little vessels filled with natural oil, upon which
floated a
vegetable
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Io fui radice de la mala pianta
che la terra
cristiana
tutta aduggia,
si che buon frutto rado se ne schianta.
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In every case of the first
establishment
of a school the offerings must be set forth to the earlier
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A pesar de Ve- blen y de otros ensayos tentativos, dentro de la «sociedad» más rica no hay en este momento una teoría convincente de la existencia rica: excluyendo, quizá, las
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inconmensurables de Nietzsche y Deleuze.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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In the opening of The 39 Steps, another
precursor
text to this, the neon letters spell out m-u-s-i on the way to "Music Hall.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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”
Mat spit into the fire furiously, and stumped round the room,
a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, his
trousers
settling
over his hips in spite of his tight leather belt.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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A mon destin, désormais mon délice,
J'obéirai comme un prédestiné;
Martyr docile, innocent condamné,
Dont la ferveur attise le supplice,
Je sucerai, pour noyer ma rancoeur,
Le népenthès et la bonne ciguë
Aux bouts
charmants
de cette gorge aiguë
Qui n'a jamais emprisonné de coeur.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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It was Doctor Depew's
business
to get up
there and apologise for the Dutch, and Mr.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Brandimarte
ch'addosso se gli serra,
gli cinge i fianchi, quanto può, con ambe
le braccia, e Astolfo il piglia ne le gambe.
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Furthermore, this same diminutive tool, for the posture of it, usually reclines its head on the thumb of the right hand, sustains the foremost finger upon its breast, and is itself
supported
by the second.
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[_As the song ceases the doors are thrown open and_ ADMETUS _comes
before them: a great funeral
procession
is seen moving out.
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