Lament of the
Frontier
Guard
BY the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
Lonely from the beginning of time until now !
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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The Cat in a fright scrambled out of the doorway;
The Mice tumbled out of a bundle of hay;
The brown and white Rats, and the black ones from Norway,
Screamed
out, "They are taking the horses away!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train, pleas'd with the length'ned gloom and
feaftful
strain.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Mais ce
perfectionnement
moral, sur la
réalité duquel son art oratoire était du reste capable de tromper
quelque peu ses auditeurs attendris, ce perfectionnement disparut avec
la maladie qui avait travaillé pour lui.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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In Egypt the
emblematical
worship of animals succeeded to
the doctrines of Thaut.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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tsphilosophie - without
systematic
meaning.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Li Po |
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In pomps or joys, the palace or the grot,
My country's image never was forgot;
My absent parents rose before my sight,
And distant lay
contentment
and delight.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Some Account of the
Foundation
of Eton College.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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And in the second book of his Commentaries, Favorinus states that
Aristotle
purchased his books for three talents.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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On of these deputies gave such offence to the Illyrian
the triumph of the party of Vespasian, he was, queen, that she not only refused to comply with
notwithstanding, appointed one of the praetors; their demands, but caused the younger of the two
but the senate would not allow him to enter upon brothers to be
assassinated
on his way home.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Men judge by the complexion of the sky
The state in
inclination
of the day;
So may you by my dull and heavy eye,
My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
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Shakespeare |
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Her e'en, sae bonie blue, betray
How she repays my passion;
But
prudence
is her o'erword aye,
She talks o' rank and fashion.
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burns |
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Lasciolla
quivi, gravida, soletta;
tal colpa a tal martiro lui condanna;
e anche di Medea si fa vendetta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Do you think that there should be more or less super-
vision by the State over local
government?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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We have already spoken of the
metrical
chronicles of Naevius (written about 550?
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Now turn to
the French of Amyot, and you will discern the same quality sternly
subdued to the finer classicism of the language:
Ainsy s'en alla droict à la maison de Tullus, là où de
primsault
il entra
jusqu'au fouyer, et illec s'assit sans dire mot à personne, ayant le visage
couvert et la teste affublée : de quoy ceulx de la maison feurent bien esbahis,
et neantmoins ne l'oserent faire leiver: car encores qu'il se cachast, si
recognoissoit on ne sçay quoy de dignité en sa contenance et en son silence,
et s'en allerent dire à Tullus, qui souppoit, ceste estrange façon de faire.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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5 Some days afterwards, accordingly, they embarked in their fleet, and, while the Lacedaemonians expected nothing of the kind, laid waste all Sparta, carrying off much more than they had lost; 6 so that, in a
comparison
of their respective sufferings, the retaliation was much greater than the injury at first received.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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But, as may well be conceived, even
the servile
majority
shrank from granting what the future dictator himself seemed to shrink from openly asking.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Fox's
assertion
that the late war
(I trust that the epithet is not prematurely applied) was a war produced
by the Morning Post; or I should be proud to have the words inscribed on
my tomb.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational
corporation
organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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The pile is ours: we dragged it bough on bough
Down dark
converging
paths between the pines.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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You young
men are
fashionable
and proud: under the Circassian bullets you are
friendly enough with us.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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torically, from the traditions, what the teaching of Jesus cer tainly was ; all such attempts show ever afresh that it is a self-destructive contradiction to seek to base an authoritative system upon free
critical
inquiry.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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" 2 The New Hampshire provincial congress, in a
resolution of September 1, 1775, acknowledged gross vio-
lations of the price regulation of the Association and attrib-
uted them to the fact that many members of the committees
of inspection were
themselves
engaged in trade.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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The British and French Prime Ministers went to Munich out of dire
necessity
and as the logical consequence of twenty years of democratic defeatism.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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έκλαψ', εσφικταγκάλιασε τον ποθητόν
υιόν
της,
και 'ς το κεφάλι, 'ς τα λαμπρά μάτια τον εφιλούσε.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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To
translate
the word and not
the thought is false; to catch the thought and miss
the spirit is no less false; and to make labored
what was spontaneous is falsest of tM.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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"Before I sawe the lyghtsome sunne, 125
Thys was
appointed
mee;
Shall mortal manne repyne or grudge
Whatt Godde ordeynes to bee?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
authoritarian
effect of great artworks, especially in architecture, both legiti- mates and indicts them.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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" i '
Mary said she
believed
it was an
account of the curiosities in a museum.
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Childrens - Frank |
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At the age of fourteen, his mind was
stored with excellent principles in religion and morals,
with all that most enchants in mythology, and which
supplies the
principal
subjects for poetry and the fine
arts; and with all the leading facts of ancient and
modern history.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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And
Bergengruen
cer- tainly is not a poet who could be criticized for a cheap optimism.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Therewithal my
Teucrians
make
holiday in the friendly town.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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May we all seek
Maitreya
afar.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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illustrating
Polish country life,
costume and customs.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Clemens was
introduced
by President Meyer, who said: "In
one of Mr.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Neither vestments nor
perfumes
are heaped upon the pile: 147 the arms of the deceased, and sometimes his horse, 148 are given to the flames.
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Tacitus |
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A general introduction to the Anthology with
original
translations of
these poems of obscure, often unknown, deathless poets.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Both Henricks and Hall come up with very different versions of this line in their respective English
translations
of the whole text.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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--Oui,
seulement
baissez la capote.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Vulturis
[3, 21],decoris [20],
salutem [21], nuces [21], nivis [17], vertici [3, 18], call-
cem [19], Nestora [3, 20], laqueare [1, 15], duodeni [13].
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Not content with coming, he
actually
invited himself to
remain here a few days.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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So done, upon the nymph his eyes he bent,
Full of adoring tears and blandishment,
And towards her stept: she, like a moon in wane,
Faded before him, cower'd, nor could restrain
Her fearful sobs, self-folding like a flower
That faints into itself at evening hour:
But the God
fostering
her chilled hand,
She felt the warmth, her eyelids open'd bland,
And, like new flowers at morning song of bees,
Bloom'd, and gave up her honey to the lees.
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Keats - Lamia |
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But from what sources he was enabled to sium, so agreeably
described
in the fifth Satire,
obtain the purchase-money in these uncertain book i.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have
gathered
in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul
as it leads.
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Sara Teasdale |
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electronic
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"They found a
miserable
asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I
discovered them.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Oblivion
wrapped
Our spirits, and the fearful overthrow
Of public hope was from our being snapped,
Though linked years had bound it there; for now
A power, a thirst, a knowledge, which below _2600
All thoughts, like light beyond the atmosphere,
Clothing its clouds with grace, doth ever flow,
Came on us, as we sate in silence there,
Beneath the golden stars of the clear azure air;--
31.
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Shelley |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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ISS
cheek was immediately
crimsoned
with
the blush of conscience* "We will cross
the river," said Mrs.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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If commitments could be undone by declaration they would be
worthless
in the first place.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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o,
You
interrupt
vs not.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Reflective and thoughtful, he
was an optimist and idealist, who
believed
in the regene-
ration of mankind and the salvation of the world.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Note: Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Lanigan's opinion ; and, he throws out a conjec- ture, that this saint may have been identical with Assanus, whose feast
is
assigned
to the 27th of April.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I woke; it was the
midnight
hour,
The clock was echoing in the tower;
But though my slumber was gone by,
This dream it would not pass away--
It seems to live upon my eye!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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He
conducted
the war of
Africa with skill; but he was robbed of part of his glory by his
questor, P.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-18 00:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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The
Development
of the Drama.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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COME
COME, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with arms
outstretched
to take me,
Come with lips pursed up to cling.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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And there one day in honour of the first goddess of the sisterhood shall the ruler of all the navy of Mopsops array for his mariners a torch-race, in obedience to an oracle, which one day the people of the Neopolitans shall celebrate, even they who shall dwell on bluff crags beside
Misenum’s
sheltered haven untroubled by the waves.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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(Or /etext 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00, 99,
98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92, 91 or 90)
EBooks posted since
November
2003, with etext numbers OVER #10000, are
filed in a different way.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the baseness to join with the barbarians; and m
order to screen themselves from the
resentment
of
the Athenians on this account, they afterward
attached themselves to Lacedaemon, and continued
firm through the whole course of the Pelopon-
nesian war.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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The
two editors did not agree, and he never used to decipher
the
initials
H.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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279
The sun, revolting 8n his axis, turns,
and with creative fire
intensely
burns.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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There is, after all, no such thing as a natural inhibition against looking at a blood relation with sexual interest; it is only a matter of custom, or to be
explained
by the detours of morality or eugenics.
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| Question: |
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Ceremonies are
nothing; but where there are no ceremonies, order, and obedience, and
at last (and quickly)
religion
itself will vanish.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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His young mother Arethusa, a Christian, then but twenty
years of age, devoted herself to widowhood and the
education
of her
son in the city of his birth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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DYE IT PURPLE
The color purple as a sign of royalty dates back to the
earliest
days of Roman history.
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| Question: |
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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[50] The chief
character
in a German legend.
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| Question: |
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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[_They fall on him, bind him, and
blindfold
him_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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When such a figure
appears on the tragic stage one asks at once what
relation
he bears to
Hades, the great Olympian king of the unseen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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A character like this is among the precious
heirlooms
of the
republic; and by a special good fortune, every part of the coun-
try has an equal claim and pride in it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Friedreich, at the dinner in honour of the dies aca-
demicus, had, in
accordance
with custom, to deliver a
speech.
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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But as Wright shifted from the decorum, rhetoric, traditionalism, and
rationalism
of his first two books, The Green Wall and Saint Judas, and toward the subordinated ego, the strong, vivid image, and a more natural metrical scheme, the rup- ture can also be traced to Trakl.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Lost causes triumph like the sun; Dreams that deluded are brought true; A resurrection morning breaks —
The soul in him is born anew,
Then, to the old and easy path Of dull, sad inanition wanes:
And still this is the man God made, And still the love of God
remains!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Whether Euclid's axioms are true, is a question as to which
the pure mathematician is indifferent; and, what is more, it is a
question which it is theoretically
impossible
to answer with certainty
in the affirmative.
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| Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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You come
asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences,
and then you try to discover some respect in which they are alike;
but they are not, for all the other
sciences
are of something else,
and not of themselves; wisdom alone is a science of other sciences,
and of itself.
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The
degree of Doctor of Civil Law was
conferred
upon him on May 8, 1917.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
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Keats - Lamia |
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One of the chief ends served by mathematics, when rightly taught, is
to awaken the learner's belief in reason, his
confidence
in the truth
of what has been demonstrated, and in the value of demonstration.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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s cualquier pa- sado, en parte debido a nuestras nuevas y
poderosas
tecnologi?
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The marsh-grass weaves me a wall of green,
But the wind comes
whispering
in between,
In the dead of night when the sky is deep
The wind comes waking me out of sleep--
Why does it always bring to me
The far-off, terrible call of the sea?
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Militant
Islam endangers the integrity of Tunisia and Qaddafi organizes wars which are destructive from the Arab point of view, from a country which is sparsely populated and which cannot become a powerful nation.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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“The ablest
exposition
of Nietzscheanism that has as yet appeared.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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And the castle, seethed in blood,
fourteen
days and nights had stood
And to-night was near its fall.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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How can I get
unblocked?
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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There were
texts on every wall and you knew whole
chapters
of the O.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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What are the forces that lie beneath the earthly
appearance
of capital?
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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”
[56] So far spake Megara, the great tears falling so big as apples into her lovely bosom, first at the thought of her children and
thereafter
at the thought of her father and mother.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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But when it broke its shell
It slipped and
stumbled
and fell about its prison
And tried to climb to the light
For space to dry its wings.
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Imagists |
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Once, having
resolved
on a bold stroke, he was on the point of playing
a spade, when a voice behind him said, "I should play a diamond.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Besides, I mean to write my best work in _Italian_, and it will take
me nine years more
thoroughly
to master the language; and then if my
fancy exist, and I exist too, I will try what I _can_ do _really_.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Then Atys frantic, panting, raves, a-wandering, lost, insane,
And leads with timbrel hent and treads the shades where shadows rain,
Like heifer
spurning
load of yoke in yet unbroken pride;
And the swift Gallae follow fain their first and fleetfoot guide.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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