Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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8 See
especially
the essay 'The war has taken place' (1945) in Sense and
Non-Sense.
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THE POETICAL WORKS
OF
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
_IN SIX VOLUMES_
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Pig Baldwin has
forgotten
his cousin; if his obscene and treacherous mind ever grasped the meaning of Rudyard's stories.
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Let us venture then to
isolate a few
impulses
in the soul of the saint and the ascetic, to
consider them separately and then view them as a synthetic development.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Now by this necessary consequence all the labour spent in finding a supreme principle of duty was
irrevocably
lost.
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'I made you,
Trotwood?
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Darling |
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Or to sum up the distinction in one word, Sir Walter Scott is
the most
_dramatic_
writer now living; and Lord Byron is the least so.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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_ I did not much dislike any Thing, for I found them very good
Company; but the _Greek_ Proverb ran in my Mind;
[Greek: Dei tas
chelônas
ê phagein ê mê phagein.
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Erasmus |
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feet)
together
at the end.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But speed on, let not the sails fall, and the breezes lull:
like brittle ice, anger
disappears
in lapse of time.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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And shape the world anew;
If this be a sleep, 129
Make it long, make it deep,
O Father, who-sendest the
harvests
men reap!
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It does not seem to occur to
Aristotle
that this
definition implies that there are indivisible bits of time, though he
quite correctly states the incompatible proposition that time is "made
up of successive _nows_," _i.
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But by a fit similitude it is
translated
unto every kind of government.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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"
Tides
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the
starlike
sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
High on the rocky shore.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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MARY
If you are not demons,
And seeing what great wealth is spread out there,
Give food or money to the
starving
poor.
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Yeats - Poems |
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The hair in the Ethiopians and
Egyptians must
sometimes
have been of a more crisp
or bushy kind than that which is often found in mum-
mies: for such is the case in respect to the Copts,
and the description of the Egyptians by all ancient
writers obliges us to adopt this conclusion.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Three days through
sapphire
seas we sailed,
The steady Trade blew strong and free,
The Northern Light his banners paled,
The Ocean Stream our channels wet,
We rounded low Canaveral's lee,
And passed the isles of emerald set
In blue Bahama's turquoise sea.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How the thirsty altar
craves for sacrificial blood Laodamia was taught by the loss of her
husband, being
compelled
to abandon the neck of her new spouse when one
winter was past, before another winter had come, in whose long nights she
might so glut her greedy love, that she could have lived despite her broken
marriage-yoke, which the Parcae knew would not be long distant, if her
husband as soldier should fare to the Ilian walls.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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What was it it
whispered?
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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He was censured as
covetous, and has been defended by an instance of inattention to his
affairs; as if a man might not at once be
corrupted
by avarice and
idleness.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Four times fifty living men,
With never a sigh or groan,
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump
They dropp'd down one by one.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Each Poem his Perfection has apart;
The Brittish Round in plainness shows his Art;
The Ballad, tho the pride of Ancient time,
Has often nothing but his
humorous
Rhyme;
The† Madrigal may softer Passions move,
And breath the tender Ecstasies of Love:
Desire to show it self, and not to wrong
Arm'd Virtue first with Satyr in its Tongue.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Hart was the originator of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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620
Neptune protects him: my father has never
Called in vain to his
guardian
god in prayer.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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” Then had Cypris
compassion
and bade the Loves loose his bonds; and he went not to the woods, but from that day forth followed her, and more, went to the fire and burnt away those his tusks away.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Solon himself, in a
poem which he afterward composed on the subject of
his legislation, spoke with a
becoming
pride of the
happy change which this measure had wrought in the
face of Attica, of the numerous citizens whose lands
he had discharged, and whose persons he had'eman-
cipated, and brought'back from hopeless slavery in
strange lands.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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The limpid water
turbidly
ran,
And the broken lilies a-dying lay, 10
And the dragon-fly had fled away,
Ere he brought it out of the river.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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now
buddhism
comes to the fore as a transitional stage within the religion of magic that also includes religious consciousness of the African, eskimo, and Chinese.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Even when I was a boy I could never walk in a wood
without feeling that at any moment I might find before me
somebody
or
something I had long looked for without knowing what I looked for.
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Dud- ley Docker,^^ however, seems to have been the
experience
of the Swedish Federation of Industries, founded in 1910.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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They were the lines which that noble Queen of Prussia, whom Napoleon
treated with such coarse brutality, used to quote in her
humiliation
and
exile; they were the lines my mother often quoted in the troubles of her
later life.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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It wasn’t the Boars who threw babies in the air, it
was the British
soldiers!
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Come, we must finish the
sacrifice
for her.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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In fact, as we shall see when we consider family
patterns
B and C, which often coexist with pattern A, many school-refusing children are being subjected to great duress.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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It is a fact that many of the Chinese
characters
have become
greatly altered during the centuries since they were invented.
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machines |
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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It was more difficult to draw the line with reference to non-theological science,
particularly
philosophy.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Ah, ah,
Heosphoros!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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There is irony in those efforts one makes to alter one's way of looking at things, to change the
boundaries
of what one knows and to venture out a ways from there.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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What is required of the Platonic zoo and its newer
instantiations
above all is to determine whether there is a difference between the populace and its leadership, and whether that difference is a graduated one or a specific one.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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it
pretends
to change things pro- gressively in order to realize completion.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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Primitive
Christianity
Revived.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Whereas, ""
ontheotherhand,theBuddhist suttee
whole masses of suitable
parables
and legends, and there is nothing in those books inimical in spirit to
the new teaching.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Throughout
his acts, or wherever else he is spoken of, Dunchad is never called bishop.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Fionguala, daughter Roderick Mac Namara,
Fergus, son Edmond, son Lisagh (O’Fer rall), plundered Fergus, the son Cathal, son
Annaly, died, and was
succeeded
Felim, the son Gillananeev, son Donal (O'Ferrall).
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Adam
replies that he does not wish her to be tempted, and that united they
would be
stronger
and more watchful.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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You may have slumbered in peace after
cropping
a few poppy-heads, but to
have a murder on your soul--
KOSINSKY.
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They too reflect their outside as public life, so long as specific external relation- ships, such as to
politics
or to the advertisers, are not in question.
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" In the present, all power, all rage, and all hatred need to be
mobilized
for "the initial course of the revolution.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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The sub- ject of the seminar was a vajra song which originally had been sung by Lodro Thaye, the first Jamgon Kongtriil Rin- poche, as a
spontaneous
expression of mahamudra experi- ence.
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[Footnote 1:
_Vaccinium
Myrtillus_ known by the different names of
Whorts, Whortle-berries, Bilberries; and in the North of England,
Blea-berries and Bloom-berries.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As soon as you set foot inside the front door
you’re
in India in the eighties.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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With the first
twilight
he struck a match
And watched the little blue stars hatch
Into an egg of perfect flame.
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Amy Lowell |
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She was a maiden city, bright and free;
No guile seduced, no force could violate;
And when she took unto herself a mate,
She must espouse the
everlasting
Sea.
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Golden Treasury |
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But, unless he derived his know- ledge from other sources, it will not follow from this passage, that Colman
composed
a Life of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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The warlike wight
Who hides behind the ranks of France to fight,
Greek Sinon's blood crossed thick with Judas-Jew's,
The Traitor who with smile which true men woos,
Lip mouthing pledges--hand
grasping
the knife--
Waylaid French Liberty, and took her life.
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Hugo - Poems |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Meanwhile
Europa, seated on the back of Zeus the Bull, held with one hand to his great horn and caught up with the other the long purple fold of her robe, lest trailing it should be wet in the untold waters of the hoar brine; and the robe went bosoming deep at the shoulder like the sail of a ship, and made that fair burden light indeed.
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Moschus |
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Downward the sun strikes amid them
And enkindles a lone flower;
A violet iris standing yet in
seething
pools of grey.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Winston had never been able to feel sure — even after this
morning's flash of the eyes it was still
impossible
to be sure
whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Theseus, for all he found Hades at the last implacable, was happy because Perithoüs went with him; and happy Orestes among the cruel Inhosptables,3 because Pylades had chosen to share his wanderings; happy also lived
Achilles
Aeacid while his dear comrade4 was alive, and died happy, seeing he so avenged his dreadful fate.
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Bion |
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We sat
there for several minutes,
listening
to see whether you wouldn't finally
come back.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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No doubt, a State may err
as to the necessity of
applying
this means of
coercion.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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For fame is
ultimately
but the
summary of all misunderstandings that crystallize about a new name.
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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so how does this website work? |
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So how does this website work |
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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I can provide you with the means for flight:
The only guards
surrounding
you are mine.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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[She hands a few of her
snowdrops
to January, who retires
into the background.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Not a
solitary
bush
or tree grew in the grave-yard.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Here thou art to
behold the dolorous people who have lost all
intellectual
good.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Where was the soul that had hung back from
her destiny, to brood alone upon the shame of her wounds and in her
house of squalor and subterfuge to queen it in faded
cerements
and in
wreaths that withered at the touch?
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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That is, society is
dissolving
into a patchwork of exclusive minorities that are not easy to enter.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I wish your visit at
Northanger
may be over before
Captain Tilney makes his engagement known, or you will be uncomfortably
circumstanced.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Her two cats
Go before her into Avernus ;
A sort of chloroformed suttee,
And it is to be hoped that their spirits will walk With their tails up,
And with a plaintive, gentle mewing,
For it is certain that she has left on this earth
No sound
Save a
squabble
of female connections.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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His first long story, 'Il
Piacere!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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(Phyllis) (1877); Molly
Bawn) (1878); Airy Fairy Lillian) (1879);
(Beauty's
Daughters)
(1880); (Mrs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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In consequence of this, he gave strict directions that no one
should approach the ship after they had taken
everything
out of it
they wanted.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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A few months later in 1397, the Sultan endeavoured to
accomplish
his
object by persuading John, the nephew of the Emperor Manuel, to claim
the throne, promising that if he did so he would aid him in return by the
cession of Silivri.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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from numerous
manuscripts
with Preface, Notes
and a Glossary by Skeat, W.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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the agricultural population as
proletarians
for manufacturing industry.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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TONE PICTURE
(Malipiero: _Impressioni Dal Vero_)
Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun
Pours coarse
laughter
on the crowds,
Trumpets throw their loud nooses
From corner to corner.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" such an optimistic-sounding phrase obscures the
experience
that many of the innovations that we refer to in this way, end up placing human beings in situations of dependency and victimhood that greatly reduce their range of agency and efficiency.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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Ronsard |
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22 [with Ted Leland, Rick Schavone, Jeffrey
Schnapp]
The Athlete's Body.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Putnam*S
Sons London
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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”
“They are blended,” said he, “I acknowledge; and, were she prosperous,
I could allow much for the occasional prevalence of the
ridiculous
over
the good.
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feckless |
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How is she ridiculous? |
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Austen - Emma |
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Though there is
no
physical
battle, there is a verbal battle, and the structure
of an argument-attack, defense, counterattack, etc.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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God loves from whole to parts: but human soul
Must rise from
individual
to the whole.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Or
possibly
(fantastic, I confess)
From "Prufrock.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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'Tis now no time for wisdom or debates;
To your own hands are trusted all your fates;
And better far in one
decisive
strife,
One day should end our labour or our life,
Than keep this hard-got inch of barren sands,
Still press'd, and press'd by such inglorious hands.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In the Palace, Shigeisa, his late mother's quarters, was
allotted
to
him, and those who had waited on her waited on him.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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And all of them carefully observed this rule and were anxious above everything else to excel each other in [123] its
observance
and they were all of them worthy of their leader and of his virtue.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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However,
profounder
as a poet, he was no
match for Poe in what might be termed intellectual prestidigitation.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Suddenly
there was some kind of differ-
ence; I taunted him, and raising his spade he struck me upon
the leg.
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apparently |
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were you hurt? |
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his conquer of his will hurt me more |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Only
once, when two Party members, both women, were pressed
close together on the bench, he overheard amid the din of
voices a few hurriedly- whispered words; and in particular a
1984
reference to
something
called 'room one-oh-one', which he
did not understand.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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No further
equation
is sought in order to calculate a path from given lines and
angles which once had been known as legs.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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