ei 2268
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wantedto transformthe (including professors) They
universityinto an arena of "discussion free of authority"-withoutany
demandsfor
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achievement, authorityand,
ifpossible,evenwithoutany"advantageinthepossessionofknowledge"on thesideoftheprofessorsT.
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After all it seems to
me quite
accidental
that in the same place in Elea
two men lived together for a time, each of whom
carried in his head a conception of unity; they
formed no school and had nothing in common which
perhaps the one might have learned from the other
and then might have handed on.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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It lightens, it brightens
The
tenebrific
scene,
To meet with, and greet with
My Davie, or my Jean!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Who but he could have driven back the savage Visigoths to their wagons or overwhelmed in one huge
slaughter
the Bastarnae puffed up with the slaying of Promotus 1 ?
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But they use no oil, on account of its scarcity; and because they are not used to it, it seems
disagreeable
to them.
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Behold,
Broad it is now become, a
plenteous
water,
A roomy tide.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XXII
I have known beauties cold and raw
As Winter in their purity,
Striking the intellect with awe
By dull insensibility,
And I admired their common sense
And natural benevolence,
But, I acknowledge, from them fled;
For on their brows I
trembling
read
The inscription o'er the gates of Hell
"Abandon hope for ever here!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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He paid great honors to all ambassadors and for-
eigners, and
entertained
them nobly.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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The lack of external purpose is not a reason for lack of
internal
knowledge of the right goals of living.
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75
mation of inwardness is the belief of
innumerable
peo- pIe that they belong to an extraordinary family.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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In
temperament
he was
more like Burns, wild and turbulent in passion,
fierce in love and relentless in hate.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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The only remains of such
structural
halls prior
to the Christian era are those at Sānchi and Sonārī in the Bhopāl State of
Central India.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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" And I hurried him briskly to the
staircase, which he
staggered
down, grumbling.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great literary figure, and a champion of freedom, was
celebrated
at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Some kindly casuists are pleased to say,
In nameless print, that I have no devotion;
But set those persons down with me to pray,
And you shall see who has the
properest
notion
Of getting into heaven the shortest way:
My altars are the mountains and the ocean,
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Control is for George a
function
of power.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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" Peep, peep,
pe—wee
—ep!
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Some of the
expectations
in the 1920s and the 1930s that another major war would be one of pure civilian violence, of shock and terror from the skies, were not borne out by the available technology.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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If the abuses of a
beneficial
thing, are to determine its condemnation, there is scarcely a source of public pros- perity which will not speedily be closed.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Then came a mer-host,
And after them legion of Romans, The usual, dull,
theatrical
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Besides these he wrote in French a History
of the Empire of
Constantinople
under the
Frank Emperors' (1657), and in Latin a By-
zantine History.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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In this text, Novalis critiques the use made of philosophy after the
Reformation
as a rejection not only of religion, but also of the past and imagination, which places humans in the highest position within a "perpetuum mobile"--a mill grinding itself.
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Sloterdijk |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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The very thought
terrifies
me.
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Alors je vous dis au
revoir et je me
réjouis
pour mercredi.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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In all creatures that have the womb close to the genitals,
the womb is two-horned, and one horn lies to the right-hand side and
the other to the left; its commencement, however, is single, and so is
the orifice,
resembling
in the case of the most numerous and largest
animals a tube composed of much flesh and gristle.
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This precaution was of very little use, as he afterwards found ; but he all along
imagined
that proceedings against him would not be carried to any great extreme, and that he could, by the intercession of friends, procure a mitigation of his punishment ; but, alas !
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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O harsh
surrounding
cloud that will not free my soul!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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So much so
that a suit of clothes costs seventeen pounds sterling; but there will
be a reduction of three pounds if the draft is
promptly
sent.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Goethe, whose
mind was more busy with
philosophy
than any modern poet, has said, 'The
poet needs all philosophy, but he must keep it out of his work.
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Yeats |
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Analysis
of the Bengal Regulations.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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The Crystal Palace, however, the one near London that housed the World Exhibition and later the
amusement
park (dedicated to "national education"), but also and even more the one in Dostoyevsky's text that was supposed to make "society" as a whole into an exhibit in itself, already indicated something that went well beyond arcade architecture.
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Yet though
devoid of dramatic effect, of fancy, and of genius, the OEdipus of
Seneca displays the
masculine
eloquence and high moral sentiment of
its author; and if it does not interest us in the scene of fiction, it
often compels us to turn our thoughts inward, and to study our own
hearts.
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Dryden - Complete |
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She wrote a poem in which she longed for a pure and childlike
intimacy
with her therapist.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Take this bit of
Trinkgeld
and go buy yourself a drink.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Like Poe, his
emotions transformed
themselves
into ideas.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Near and more near Grimalkin draws ;
She wags her tail, protends her claws ;
Then
springing
on her thoughtless prey,
She bears the shrieking bird away.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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This nocturnal surprise was more destructive than many a battle ; nevertheless the Carthagi nians did not suffer their courage to sink, and they
rejected
even the advice of the timid, or rather of the judicious, to recall Mago and Hannibal.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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All the day he had fought against the mob
That swept with sword and flame along the streets
Of Paris, while the German conqueror
Battened
on France.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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1
The enormous original, a pre-fabricated building design, started to be constructed in the fall of 1850 in London's Hyde Park according to the plans of horticulture expert ]oseph Paxton, and was
inaugurated
on May 1sI, 1851 in the presence of the young Queen Victoria (only to be rebuilt with enlarged proportions in 1854 in the London suburb of Sydenham).
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While every Trojan thus, and every aid,
The advice of wise Polydamas obey'd,
Asius alone, confiding in his car,
His vaunted
coursers
urged to meet the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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next feat was raising a table with her teeth, a slight
rickety thing, made of deal, with a bar across the
legs, which, upon her grasping
sustained
against
her thighs, and enables her more easily to swing
round several times, maintaining her hold only her
teeth.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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punishment"; or 3) that the stanza is
intended
to follow "Nor shalt .
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Blake - Zoas |
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" Let
her live at Gabii as she lived in the country, or even at Fidenæ, and
I grant what you say of the influence of the
paternal
country-seat.
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Satires |
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The united remains of the immortal lovers, after
many vicissitudes, found at last (let us hope), in 1817, a permanent
resting place, in the
Parisian
cemetery of Père Lachaise, having been
placed together in Abélard's monolith coffin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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An American writer of
stories; born in North
Carolina
about 1815;
died 1863.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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For sure he looks and mild, so kind and so gentle, nothing resembling other bulls; moreover an
understanding
moveth over him meet as a man’s, and all he lacks is speech.
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Moschus |
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In 1675, his
official
life came
to an end, for the time, with the fall of his chief.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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'Nothing but what I can bear,' he replied; 'and with the greatest
pleasure,
provided
you'll leave me alone: get in, and don't annoy me.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Murād was the son of a
Christian
woman, who in Turkish is known
as Nīlüfer, the lotus flower.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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These two things might have made the Jews hate him; either because he should have done hurt to the commonwealth of his nation, as some runagates did increase their bondage, which was too cruel, through their treachery; or because he should have done somewhat against the worship of God; for though the Jews were grown out of kind, 677 and religion was depraved and
corrupted
among them with many errors, yet the very name of the law and the worship of the temple were greatly reverenced.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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" Therefore, those desirous of
removing
all super- impositions Cavarnas ") should practise 'samatha' and 'vipasyana'.
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I
couldn't bear to witness her sorrow: to see her pale, dejected
countenance, and heavy eyes: and I yielded, in the faint hope that Linton
himself might prove, by his
reception
of us, how little of the tale was
founded on fact.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower
Unfinished
must remain!
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Longfellow |
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DOMITIUS
AHENOBARBUS
AND APPIUS CLAUDIUS PULCHER,
CONSULS.
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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In that same village, and in one of these very houses, there lived, many
years since, while the country was yet a
province
of Great Britain, a
simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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If that child
himself is alcoholic, his own offspring will suffer still more, since
they must carry the burden of two
generations
of impairment.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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For this reason punishment is not only
retaliatory
but also cor- rective (ibid.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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,
Tipperary
County, at the base of Rock of Cashel, ?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Still less was any attempt even made to interfere with the functions of the govern ment, and it was left solely to the senate to put an end to the
Numidian
scandal in a manner as gentle as possible for the aristocracy ; for that it was time to do so, even the most aristocratic aristocrat probably began to perceive.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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One recognizes the
Mozartian
strain; and on this
hint, and by the aid of certain sparkles of violet light in the pallor,
the man's costume explains itself as that of a Spanish nobleman of the
XV-XVI century.
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roaring unmercifully about the poor swimmers,
screamers, and
fighters
below,—but one day you
will have to cross this same river too, and when
you enter it the others will just be out of it, and
will laugh at the poor English straggler in their
turn!
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Dancing formed a
prominent
part in Greek worship, and it
may be doubted whether free Athenians ever danced except "before the
gods "--?
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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That semeth trewest, whan she wol bygyle,
And can to foles so hir song entune,
That she hem hent and blent, traytour comune; 5
And whan a wight is from hir wheel y-throwe,
Than
laugheth
she, and maketh him the mowe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A paper on (The Country and the
Government)
cost
Lamennais three months' imprisonment.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible
inhabitants
of this
planet, neither departed souls nor angels; concerning whom the learned Jew,
Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be
consulted.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Or is it in want of
marriage
that we have come hither from thence, in scorn of our countrywomen?
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Hot was that hind's blood yet it
scorched
me not
As did first scorn, then lips of the Penautier !
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Pour
revenir à la visite d'Andrée, après la
révélation
qu'elle venait de
me faire sur ses relations avec Albertine, elle ajouta que la principale
raison pour laquelle Albertine m'avait quitté, c'était à cause de ce
que pouvaient penser ses amies de la petite bande, et d'autres encore de
la voir ainsi habiter chez un jeune homme avec qui elle n'était pas
mariée: «Je sais bien que c'était chez votre mère.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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If so, one wonders
what his
headmaster
had to say to the "soft-smooth virgins, for our
chaste disport" by whom he was accompanied.
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Robert Herrick |
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A
household
power, adored with prayers and wine,
Thou reign'st auspicious o'er his hour of ease:
Thus grateful Greece her Castor made divine,
And her great Hercules.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
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I feel my limbs are made
glorious
by the touch of this world of
life.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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You fight shy of
everyone
in a positively unseemly way.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Currently, as far as I know, around sixty-two nations are shrinking demographi- cally and around 130 have a positive reproduction rate, whether
moderate
or excessive.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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It is ill from the com- pulsion to accept existing
conditions
which it doubts, to accommodate itself to them and finally even to conduct their business.
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joyousness of passing sounds, not in the variously coloured forms of figure, not in vanities of men's praise, not in wedlock and perishable offspring, not in superfluity of
temporal
wealth, not in this world's getting, whether itextend over place and space, or be prolonged in time's succession : but, / will be glad and exult in Thee, namely, in the hidden
Ps.
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And now a band of Argive monarchs brings
The
glorious
victor to the king of kings.
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No less profound is the
moralization
of the
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It learns to obey in such a way that obedi ence
provides
a test of self-maintenance.
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The
Dancing Master has been smirking through Simla giving every one to
understand that she came because of her undying love for him--for
him--to save his child, and all Simla naturally
believes
this.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" No man who has the use of his hands would
ever think of the
expedient
of doing this office with his toes.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Tlu: Homen(
epithets
and mrmulae, the rtfrairu aud hurderu in folk poetry and prayer are dire<:1 anc.
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Such essential
services
as electricity, gas, and water were disrupted by heavy attacks, but in most cases they were readily restored.
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In this, there is a clear departure from the
assumption by the earlier dramatists of the validity of accepted
morality, and there is brought into these
tragedies
an atmosphere
of moral instability.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Th' offence (as often happens) was but small,
But on him, vowed the peer, his rage should fall--
Said he, a halter, rascal, you deserve;
You'll never from the gallows-turnpike swerve:
Or, soon or late you
swinging
will be found
Who, born for hanging, ever yet was drowned?
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La Fontaine |
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Plato, a full-blooded Athenian, was teaching in
the Academy the intellectual and moral
theories
of his master, while
Antisthenes, a half-breed (his mother being a Thracian), was inculcating
the lesson of his heroic life in Cynosarges.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen
or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to
pronounce it clean, or to
pronounce
it unclean.
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bible-kjv |
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XII, 5, was acted at
Cambridge
in 1631.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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"
"Two faults
overthrew
me--my verses and my wrong-
doing; but about the guilt of one of them I must keep
silence.
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Some of their finest scenes are
constructed
on this
ground.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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He travelled widely from 1806, in Europe and the Middle East, and highly
critical
of Napoleon followed the King into exile in 1815 in Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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