= 'The four Inns of Court, Gray's
Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone
the right of admitting persons to
practise
as barristers, and
that rank can only be attained by keeping the requisite number
of terms as a student at one of those Inns.
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no
connivance
none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Any feature of development that is relatively insensitive to changes of environment can be termed 'environmentally stable'; any feature that is relatively
sensitive
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The latter, towards the
close of his tshort reign, feeling his inability to control
tho seditious troops of the capital, resolved to adopt
Trajan as his colleague and successor in the empire, by
whose firmness and
decision
the praslorian bands might
be kept in awe.
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_Nil gratius
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Radcliffe might suppose them a band of
_condottieri_, under the command of some
profligate
desperado; and such
perhaps they were.
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In the chaos and
abandonment
of contemporary civilization
he aimed at the establishment of an example of individual
life in which the soul, the spirit and the body were combined in
a harmonious unity of co-operation and control.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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"
From the proud, pale east the patient morning
Glimmered
sadly on million rooves.
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Such changes began to take place in Europe and America most
strikingly
in 1789.
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Our
respects
to Mr.
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21
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and fro" of an acoustically "vibrating diaphragm" leaves on a
rotating
disk-that was also the program of Charles Cros.
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hart longeth for the streams of waters; if thou sayest, My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the
Lord ; thou fillest thy desire from them ; not that they can fulfil such a desire, but by
imitating
such thou comest unto Him Who hath filled their desire.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Next to the arivar or sages, the
highest place among the Tamils was held by the land-owning class, after
whom ranked herdsmen, hunters, artisans,
soldiers
and at the bottom of
the social scale fishers and scavengers.
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When the distressing communication at Uppercross was over, and he had
seen the father and mother quite as
composed
as could be hoped, and the
daughter all the better for being with them, he announced his intention
of returning in the same carriage to Lyme; and when the horses were
baited, he was off.
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It might not be in the interest of the Soviet Union to equip fully its satellite armies, since the possibility of
defections
would exist.
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"17 As incomplete as a
description
of Roman rhetorical practice and unsustainable as this posture was, it nonetheless constituted one of the layers of (always multiply mediated) cultural assumption under which Greek rhetors in the provincial East had to work.
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Its strange
and mournful glory casts over Poland's poetry, in
the days of Mickiewicz and Krasinski, a faint
spiritual kinship with the
prophecies
of those who
saw Sion irradiated with a mystical splendour as
the adored of the nations.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Moreover the most general outlines must have been known in the case of the Theban and the Argonautic legends, and of the stories of
Bellerophon
(Bacch.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Sau khi
truyền
lô yết bảng, lại cho dựng đá đề danh để truyền lại lâu dài.
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When (the aged) had
returned
(to their seats after partaking of the feast), the musicians went up and sang the Khang Miâo[2], after which there was
[1.
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Nothing didst thou build here on the
foundations
of others.
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In
order to
understand
what life is, and what kind of
striving and tenseness life contains, the formula
should hold good not only of trees and plants, but
of animals also.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The
Tragedie
of Dido Queene of Carthage: Played by the Children of his
Majesties Chappell.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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In traveling in Europe he carried letters to
distinguished
men
in the chief seats of learning.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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The MahdndmasMra in
Anguttara
iv.
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(Title "King of Italy" assumed
temporarily
by Charles Albert
in '48.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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In the drawing-room
Loud snores the
cumbrous
Poustiakoff
With better half as cumbersome;
Gvozdine, Bouyanoff, Petoushkoff
And Flianoff, somewhat indisposed,
On chairs in the saloon reposed,
Whilst on the floor Monsieur Triquet
In jersey and in nightcap lay.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--We removed to Windsor; and two
days
afterwards
I received a parcel from her, my own letters all
returned!
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Austen - Emma |
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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A Greek was murdered at a Polish dance,
Another bank
defaulter
has confessed.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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That growing interest among so many who heard my Kleist lectures in Vitoria da Conquista was in this respect as typical an
experience
as it was eccentric; it changed my view on the status of classics today irreversibly.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Let none who pass him spread out on high on a
cloudless
night imagine that, gazing on the heavens, one shall see other stars more fair.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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" 27 But the youths, though about to be tortured, neither said any of these things nor even
seriously
considered them.
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Roman Translations |
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Thi Hội có sách đăng khoa đã đủ để biểu dương sự thịnh vượng của đương thời, khắc đá đề danh có bia lại càng thêm đủ để
khuyến
khích rộng rãi cho đời sau.
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And I ask you, how can war
be "something great, honourable, and holy," when you admit yourself that it is a
struggle
between one
group of brigands and another?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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[740] He left Italy tamed, but not subdued; the great
nobles in power, but without moral authority; his partisans enriched,
but trembling for their riches; the numerous victims of tyranny held
down, but growling under the oppression; lastly, Rome taught that
henceforth she is without protection against the
boldness
of any
fortunate soldier.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Will he return when the Autumn
Purples the earth, and the
sunlight
5
Sleeps in the vineyard?
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Sappho |
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I shall illustratethe three developmentsbygivingexamplesforeach; atthesametime,I shalltryto
makeclearwhattheacademicethicshouldlook
likeifthereconstruction,
whichin manyrespectshas alreadybegun,is to be broughtto a fruitful conclusion.
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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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"
What if she, this fair young Charlotte, had emerged from her
secluded stillness,
suddenly
like a Star; cruel-lovely, with half-
angelic, half-demonic splendor; to gleam for a moment, and in a
moment be extinguished: to be held in memory, so bright com-
plete was she, through long centuries!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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When the common
soldiers
are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination.
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When I started walkin' 'round the South and Center of France in 1912 I found a VERY
different
race and spirit from that of Paris Montmartre and putridity-- --and the rest of it.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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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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was near six o'clock, when the captain, observing that the
deceased appeared motionless, ordered him to be cut down, and called to witness, and said, " am afraid Kenny (for so the
deceased
was called by the ship's
crew) dead;" when he replied, "lam sorry for hope not.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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In any case, the Eleatics contented themselves with tie assertion that all particular
existence
and all change were decep- tnjo and illusion of the senses.
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rSpQr Aptrrttr, at To Tiyxpvoor oVpat
Caesa accidisset abiegna ad terram trabes,
Neve inde navit inchoandae ex ordium
Coepisset, quae nunc nominator nomine
Argo, quia Argivi in ea dileeliviri Vtcti
petebant
pellem inauratam
arietii
Ht\ta lUT^KBoe' oi yip S> S4ma' Colchis, imperio regis Peliae, per
i)t.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"It is perhaps well" he said, "that at our meeting after our visit
to Carfax we decided not to do
anything
with the earth-boxes that
lay there.
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, that swam round the
artificial
rock, at the bottom
of his globe.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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voici la nuit de joie aux
profonds
spasmes
Qui descend dans la rue, o buveurs desoles,
Buvez.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Contra wpdrruv de ipsa actione
et susceptioue rei dicitur, maxime in singulis rebus;
universe
autem mndv
ponitur.
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" _
And that was all the
farewell
when I parted from my dear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Secondly, what reveals itself as substance and
singularity
will well be our ''Geschick'' (our ''fate,'' i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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His puissance,
trusting
in th' Almightie's aide,
I mean to try, whose Reason I have tri'd 120
Unsound and false; nor is it aught but just,
That he who in debate of Truth hath won,
Should win in Arms, in both disputes alike
Victor; though brutish that contest and foule,
When Reason hath to deal with force, yet so
Most reason is that Reason overcome.
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Milton |
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The manifold problems of consciousness in their
entirety
can be examined
only through an analysis of the hysterical mental process.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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But meanwhile the Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex had appeared at Rhegium with the main body of his army, and succeeded in
crossing
on a dark night in spite of the Carthaginian fleet Audacity and fortune were on the side of the Romans ; the allies, not prepared for an attack by the whole Roman army and consequently not united, were beaten in detail by the Roman legions issuing from the city ; and thus the siege was raised.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Valentinian,
responding
at Bergentio to a legation of Quadi, expired as the result of a hemorrhage, his voice lost, his senses intact, in the fifty-fifth year of age.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He was never married, and
probably
had little concern
with love.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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what
ignorance
of pain?
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Golden Treasury |
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The development of the Jewish
hierarchy
is not
original : they learnt the scheme in Babylon—it
is Arian.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The
universe
that exists beneath, beside, beyond our observations and our names is visible to us as, at best, a shadow, or a brilliance.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Let no cry of patriot men
Distract
thee from the stern analysis
Of masses who cry only!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Find examples of
_alliteration_
in xix; of _balance_ in xxxvii; and of
_Latinizing_ in xix; xxxvi; xxxviii, and xl.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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me within this seven years, that ever came And
answered
and said, was no matter.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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And this partly shal be
done by the
teachers
gẽtlenes & curteous behaueour, &
partlye by his wit & subtile practise, wherbi he shal
deuise diuerse prety meanes to make lerning plesaũt to
y^e chylde, & pul hym away frõ feling of labour.
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Erasmus |
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Adver- tisers may
withdraw
patronage.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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With him the sage, that mark'd, with dark disdain,
His wealth consumed by rapine's lawless train;
And glad that nothing now remain'd behind,
To foster envy in a rival's mind,
That
treasure
bought, which nothing can destroy,
"The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy.
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Petrarch |
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"
"I
disliked
Mr.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and
embraced
him, and kissed
him, and brought him to his house.
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bible-kjv |
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GOETHE; OR, THE WRITER
I find a provision in the
constitution
of the world for the writer or
secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of
life that everywhere throbs and works.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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's
transcript
from
your friend's letter; it is written with candour, but I must say a
word or two not in praise of it.
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Selection of English Letters |
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shinay ten med) The act of calming the
mind without any
particular
object, resting undistractedly.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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The dauphin of France, the first husband of Mary Queen
of Scots,
afterwards
King Francis II, son of Henry II.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The Demon arose from his wallow to laugh,
Brushing
the dirt from his eye as he went;
And well I knew what the Demon meant.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In the white aspens sad winds sing;
Their long
murmuring
kills my heart with grief.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The extremism that lies in the nature of this matter too manifests itself in a
striving
for the final formula.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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At that time it is especially excellent to
undertake
secret activities in charnal grounds and such places.
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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SWANS
NIGHT is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars
That seem too heavy for
tremulous
water to hold.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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This conceptual pair proves to be
meaningful
for Schelling's own development of a system of absolute identity as well as for his critique of the contemporary philosophy, in particular the philosophy of Fichte; and it is of particular importance to Schelling's revision of the concept of speculation in this phase of his thought.
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Iam licet venias, marite:
Vxor in thalamo tibist
Ore
floridulo
nitens,
Alba parthenice velut 190
Luteumve papaver.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Fergna, as the
disciple
of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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” Thorpe defended himself very stoutly,
declared
he had never
seen two men so much alike in his life, and would hardly give up the
point of its having been Tilney himself.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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’ he said for the third or fourth time
‘Not today, thank you,’ said Dorothy vaguely
The boy remounted his bicycle and rode off, whistling with extra loudness
to show Dorothy how much he despised her for not tipping him But Dorothy
was unaware of the telegraph’s boy’s scorn The only phrase of the telegram
that she had fully
understood
was ‘your father wishes you return home
immediately’, and the surprise of it had left her m a semi-dazed condition For
some indefinite time she stood on the pavement, until presently a taxi rolled up
the street, with Mr Warburton inside it He saw Dorothy, stopped the taxi,
jumped out and came across to meet her, beaming He seized her both hands
‘Hullo’’ he cried, and at once threw his arm pseudo-paternally about her and
drew her against him, heedless of who might be looking ‘How are you'* But by
Jove, how thm you’ve got’ I can feel all your ribs Where is this school of
yours?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Rptd in Bohn's
Standard
Library, 1883.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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A tax on rent, it has been observed,
would fall on the
landlord
only, and could not by any means be made to
devolve on the tenant.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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I fancied that everything was astir and moving,
everything was going in regular
caravans
to the summer villas.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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From Klopstock's house we walked
to the ramparts, discoursing together on the poet and his conversation,
till our attention was
diverted
to the beauty and singularity of the
sunset and its effects on the objects around us.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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”
“They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I
sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and
arranging
such little elegant
compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to
give them as unstudied an air as possible.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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The
metaphor
is not merely in the words we use---:it is in our very concept of an argument.
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