This helps to keep the site as
available
as possible for visitors.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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But the
soldiers were
faithful
to their general, and, placing
him in the middle of a battalion, marched out of the
city.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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He
testifies
that Bibb is a Methodist man,
and says that two persons who came on with him last Summer,
knew Bibb.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Art thou not it that hath made the sea a way
for the
ransomed
to pass over?
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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The
bluebells had
cascaded
on to the ground.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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One of these
atlases dealing with Europe, we may recall, was directly affected by
the disturbance of
frontiers
during the war; and the maps had to be
completely revised in consequence, so as to chart the New Europe which
we hope will now preserve its peace under the auspices of the League
of Nations set up at Geneva.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Wherefore
fear the Sin which brings to
another Gain?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Within yon milk-white
hawthorn
bush,
Amang her nestlings sits the thrush;
Her faithfu' mate will share her toil,
Or wi' his song her cares beguile:
But I, wi' my sweet nurslings here,
Nae mate to help, nae mate to cheer,
Pass widow'd nights and joyless days,
While Willie's far frae Logan braes.
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Robert Burns- |
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[496] He sang how the earth, the heaven and the sea, once mingled
together
in one form, after deadly strife were separated each from other; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into being and all creeping things.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Expect not life from pain nor danger free,
Nor deem the doom of man
reserved
for thee.
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Selection of English Letters |
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If the copy is done at Hornton
Street the lady
typewriter
might be fed through a lattice in the door,
like the Cardinals when they elect a Pope; till she comes out on the
balcony and can say to the world: "Habet Mundus Epistolam"; for indeed it
is an Encyclical letter, and as the Bulls of the Holy Father are named
from their opening words, it may be spoken of as the "_Epistola_: _in
Carcere et Vinculis_.
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Oscar Wilde |
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their shadow on her
sepulchre!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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I was
always
condemned
to the society of Germans.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The good
bishop wrote much also for periodicals, mainly upon practical themes;
and in The Querist, an intermittent journal, considered many matters
of ethical and
political
importance to the country.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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" Ulrich
appreciated
this refreshing answer Fischel would have given.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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--A god, who, on the other hand, is
all love, as he is usually represented, would not be capable of a
solitary unegoistic act: whence one is reminded of a
reflection
of
Lichtenberg's which is, in truth, taken from a lower sphere: "We cannot
possibly feel for others, as the expression goes; we feel only for
ourselves.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Finally, his throat crushed by a very strong wrestling
instructor
who had been let loose on him, he expired in the thirty-second year of his life.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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"The first that died was little Jane;
"In bed she moaning lay,
"Till God
released
her of her pain,
"And then she went away.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Theselatter,atthisperiod,hadnospecialpublicinterests or policy, distinct from the oligarchy, who were regarded as their protectors and
privileged
superiors.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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In such a poem as
Milton's, whatever is in it is its poetry; the poetry of
_Paradise
Lost_
is just--_Paradise Lost_!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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_ to the angelic intelligences which "move" the
heaven of Venus, which comes third in order
counting
outward from the
earth, that Dante addresses his famous Canzone, _Voi ch' intendendo il
terzo del movete_.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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von, 303
190
Klinger, Friedrich
Maximilian
von, 303 * Launsknights,' 31
Knack to Know a Knave, 4, 313
Laurence, friar, in Romeo and Juliet,
Knight, Charles, 279
357
Knowledge, in Every-man, 54
Layamon, 6
Koeppel, E.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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He professed of late that he would punish injuries if any were done; now he
suffereth
a guiltless man to be beaten before the judgment-seat.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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But Virgil was not a good Roman;
there was
something
in him that was not Roman at all.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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VIII
THE
SPINNING
WHEEL.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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I wot high noon’s his time for taking rest after the swink o’ the chase; and he’s one o’ the tetchy sort; his
nostril’s
ever sour wrath’s abiding-place.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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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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For the universality with which these should hold for all rational beings without distinction, the
unconditional
practical necessity which is thereby imposed on them, is lost when their foundation is taken from the particular constitution of human nature, or the accidental circumstances in which it is placed.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Christ had no message for the
Renaissance, which was
wonderful
because it brought an ideal at variance
with his, and to find the presentation of the real Christ we must go to
mediaeval art.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Gilgamish
bowed
to the ground at his feet
and his javelin reposed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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although there were some respect had of humbling him, (because he was
unworthy
to have Christ,) to accustom him by and by to obey, by laying upon his neck the meek and sweet yoke of his Spirit.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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, The Eflects of Strategic Bombing on German Transporta- tion (Item #zoo for
European
War).
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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As for the " School of Images/' which
may or may not have existed, its principles
were not so interesting as those of the
""
inherent dynamists or of Les Unani-
mistes, yet they were probably sounder than those of a certain French school
which attempted to dispense with verbs
altogether ; or of the
Impressionists
who
brought forth :
"
Pink pigs blossoming upon the hillside" ;
or of the Post-Impressionists who beseech their ladies to let down slate-blue hair
over their raspberry-coloured flanks.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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If this be true indeed,
Say,
Emperor!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The world
Is great; my path is on the
highways
never
Thou'lt hear of me again.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Once there was
political
discord at Syracuse, and many of the citizens were killed.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Po |
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Here, softly floating o'er th' aerial blue,
Fringed with the purple and the golden hue,
The fleecy clouds their swelling sides display;
From whence, fermented by the sulph'rous ray,
The lightnings blaze, and heat spreads wide and rare;
And now, in fierce embrace with frozen air,
Their wombs, compress'd, soon feel
parturient
throws,
And white wing'd gales bear wide the teeming snows.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I seek the city, to convince
My mother of my safe return, whose tears,
I judge, and
lamentation
shall not cease
Till her own eyes behold me.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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She used to shew them with boasting; but her mother,
apprehending
she would be cheated of them, prevailed, in some months, and with great importunities, to have them put out to interest: when the girl lost the pleasure of seeing and counting her gold, which she never failed of doing many times in a day, and despaired of heaping up such another treasure, her humour took the quite contrary turn; she grew careless and squandering of every new acquisition, and so continued till about two-and-twenty; when by advice of some friends, and the fright of paying large bills of tradesmen, who enticed her into their debt, she began to reflect upon her own folly, and was never at rest until she had discharged all her shop-bills, and refunded herself a considerable sum she had run out.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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The more the fatal sand ran out, the more
acute,
delicious
my torment: my heart entire
was tearing itself away from the world I saw.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Galileo Galilei, court physicist, or, A
Foretaste
of the Future.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Afterwards
it was called by thenameofoursaint,andtheinhabitantsofthatcountryaroundheldit in great reverence.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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As flavors cheer retarded guests
With banquetings to be,
So spices
stimulate
the time
Till my small library.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ckfall (#46) or Einfall)
acquires
a disjunctive plurality of meaning.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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He mused beside the well of Scanavin,
He mused upon his mockers: without fail
His sudden
vengeance
were a country tale,
Now that deep earth has drunk his body in;
But one small knot-grass growing by the pool
Told where, ah, little, all-unneeded voice!
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Yeats - Poems |
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To envelope your head in a hood will not avail you; nor to secure your litter with skins and curtains, nor will a chair closed again and again be any defence to you; the kisser will find an
entrance
through every chink.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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I tell unwelcome truths, indeed:
But mark well my sacred lesson:
Whoever lives at strife with me,
Loses, for life, his better friend :
Who lives in friendship's ties with me,
Finds all that's sought for by the wise,
228
I keep, with
watchful
diligence,
His fleecy sheep from prowling wolves ;
Secure his midnight hours at home,
And drive from his door the robber.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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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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It favored
sanctions
when Italy invaded Ethi-
opia, and also aid to China in its difficulties with Japan.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Root out everything that's
happened!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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SOLO:
Seht, da kommt der
Dudelsack!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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With forgiveness, the antigravitational ten- dency of human
coexistence
gains the upper hand; antigravitation is move- ment for the sake of increasing unlikeliness.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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Nor did he work this
cure any other way than by the
foolishness
of the cross and a company of
fat apostles, not much better, to whom also he carefully recommended
folly but gave them a caution against wisdom and drew them together by
the example of little children, lilies, mustard-seed, and sparrows,
things senseless and inconsiderable, living only by the dictates of
nature and without either craft or care.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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In the case of the drama, things are
a little better: the theatre-going public like the obvious, it is true,
but they do not like the tedious; and
burlesque
and farcical comedy, the
two most popular forms, are distinct forms of art.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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If die I must, then my last vow shall be,
You'll with a tear or two
remember
me.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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He alludes to
the rank smell to the arm-pits, which the Romans called by the name
'hircus,' 'a goat,' from a
supposed
similarity to the strong smell of
that animal.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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That was written in 1902, and Wells was
regarded
as a progressive in his own time.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Now have I won an emperor's ear, the
entrance
to an
emperor's palace and the emperor himself as judge of my lyre's song.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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See Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text:
A
Commentary
to Hugh's Didascalicon.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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j- :r-+ =1
^ji==Ii!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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And
he showed me above the altar an inscription graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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ELDRED As you know
The first hours of last night were rough with storm:
I had been out in search of a stray heifer;
Returning late, I heard a moaning sound;
Then,
thinking
that my fancy had deceived me,
I hurried on, when straight a second moan,
A human voice distinct, struck on my ear.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Nice little
thimble!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The real problem is, Is there a spirit above nature and Man, universal Con sciousness, with which our higher life can have communion To make religion the admiration of the laws of Nature and the ideals of art and science, to introduce confusion into language, and to throw back moral ideas, which Christianity
had grafted upon our thought, to the
outlived
stage of heathen thinkers.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Aspice, quas Ganges interluit Indicus, oras ^
Illic gens hominum medios se mittit in ignes,
Impatiens virae; vel ad ipsa altaria divu^m
Sponte animam red dit,
percussa
cupidine caeca
Migrandi, sedes ubi fata dede^i?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
"Why, latter years--
Different
from early years.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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We shall be a consolation to the failings of youth for ever; those who offend after us will think
themselves
less guilty.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Brigid had been
interred
at Down, in the first instance ; but, these writers rather belong to a comparatively modern period.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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frons privata manet nec se
meruisse
fatetur, 245 quae crevisse putat ; rigidi sed plena pudoris
elucet gravitas fastu iucunda remoto.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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given up; and therefore unnecessary to be now laid
before you,; but because it is impossible to agree on
such expedients as may secure what yet remain:
but that a vai iety of
clashing
opinions must divide
the assembly.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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And at his back is a little golden quiver, but in it lie the keen shafts with which he ofttimes
woundeth
e’en me.
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Moschus |
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way as you ascend to the chamber was a stage covered Wlt~ straw
on which lay a
fattening
110g above, corn was hung on stIcks and on sht Walk
In one corner a bm full of rape seed or culzar In the other a bIn ?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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[53]
Anonymous
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The rose blooms for a little season, and when that goes by you shall find, if you seek, no rose, but a briar.
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Greek Anthology |
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The very efficiency of nuclear weapons could make them ideal for
starting
war, if they can suddenly eliminate the enemy's capability to shoot back.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I would that I too, I,
Among the men who went to die,
Were whelmed in earth by Fate's
command!
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Aeschylus |
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But 'twixt the branches gazers could descry
The
blackened
hall lit up most brilliantly.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Logic in
Mathematics
245
And so we can go on drawing consequences without knowing whether r is true or false.
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«Yo las bendigo, sí, felices horas,
Presentes
siempre en la memoria mía,
Imágenes de amor encantadoras
Que aun vienen a halagarme en mi agonía.
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A mutation of small effect, or micromutation, is a small error in gene copying, whose effect on its possessors might be too slight to notice easily, say a subtle lengthening of a leg bone, or a hint of
reddening
in a feather.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a
hypocrite
sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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In the first place, I will buy
'"of you these Jewels' (this one
discovers
to have been the
"essence of the operation!
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Thomas Carlyle |
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But for
Swinburne
it is not simple at all, quite the reverse.
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PRESENCE of mind is a quick
perception
of
what is right, with the power of acting upon
that perception.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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So nothing in the research on family
environments
contradicts the behavioral geneticists' Second Law, which says that growing up in a particular family has little or no systematic effect on one's intellect and personality.
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She was, at the end of the thirteenth century, by far the most flour-
ishing and
powerful
city of Tuscany, full of vitality and energy, and
beautiful as she was strong.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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When English winters began to threaten his health, Lord
Derby started a subscription which enabled him to go to Rome as a student
and artist, and no doubt gave him
recommendations
among Anglo-Roman
society which laid the foundations of a numerous _clientele_.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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13) says that wine flowed in the
sanctuary
of Dionysos on the island of Andros for the
139
DIONYSOS
seven days of the Theodaisia in the winter.
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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It seems a curious freak of philological fate whereby a literature
so juvenile and impulsive as that of the troubadours, so destitute of
connected thought, and at the same time so instinct with emotions,
so that the very stress of feeling often renders its utterances vague,
stammering, and all but unintelligible, should have become — largely
by virtue of its important historical
position
midway between the
written word of ancient Rome and that of modern France a favorite
and hard-trodden field for dry research, grammatical quibbling, and
controversy on technical points.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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50
THE
SPIRITUAL
SONG OF LODRO THAYE
60.
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Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted
flourish
of your praise.
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Shakespeare |
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Michael groans in spirit; his power is a curse: he
commands
women and wine!
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Educated
in such a school, he espoused the cause
of liberty, with an ardour equal to the zeal with which he
defended it, and soon acquired the ascendency, to which
his probity, and the soundness of his understanding, enti-
tled him.
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