His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but,
though he was now only
established
as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no
means unwilling to preside at his table--nor was Mrs.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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The poor shepherd lad, being equally a stranger to the scene and the
liquor,
heedlessly
got himself drunk; and when the rest took horse he
fell asleep, and was found so next day by some of the people belonging
to the merchant.
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Selection of English Letters |
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The first Csesar,
who laid his reforming hand on everything, brought
his universal knowledge to bear on this intricate sub-
ject, and introduced a new
arrangement
by which the
year was henceforth to be made up of twelve months,
January being the first.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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In the last decades of the old regime, some authors had taken the dis-
tinction
even further, finding a person's true greatness less in public acts than in private, intimate behavior.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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I dwell amid the city,
And hear the flow of souls in act and speech,
For pomp or trade, for merrymake or folly:
I hear the confluence and sum of each,
And that is
melancholy!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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He those studying art,
although
there is a
finds his greatest satisfaction in the so- lack of coherence between its sections.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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người
xã Thiên Đông huyện Tiên Lữ (nay thuộc xã Dị Chế huyện Tiên Lữ tỉnh Hưng Yên).
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stella-04 |
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He broke a bit from a
fishing-rod, secured the line round the middle of it with a notch,
put the stick through the
bunghole
in the bilge, and corked up
the whole with a net-float.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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We'll give them an Oliver their
Rowland!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Let go into that stark
nakedness
alone.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Awe of power
originates
and cherishes them all; love of freedom
undermines and periodically weakens them all.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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roden =
_reddened_
(B.
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Beowulf |
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That, in which the first part
of the divided foot consists either of a long and
short
syllable
remaining at the end of a word, or
of an entire word comprised of one long and one
short syllable.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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This reception process can instead be
fruitfully
located within the rhetorical tradition of 'learned' poetry, whereby proficiency as a poet is achieved through theory, imitation and practice.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Your
sympathy
is
not wholly with the dogs that are having their day; you can
throw a bone or a crust to the dog that has had his, and has
been taught that it is over and ended.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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This
frequently
took place, but a high wind quickly dried the
earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Popular Ballads
Preserved
in Memory.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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r th Nepal
Research
Centre IV, pp.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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In general, there
are male stones and female stones, and there are neither male nor female
stones, whose practical function
supports
the heavens and supports the earth.
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Shobogenzo |
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In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken and shows how an understanding of science
inspires
the human imagination and enhances our wonder of the world.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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3c, a
definition
of the Dhatus.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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*
Creweltie
a Ruffler.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Hail, great queen, and
graciously
greet my song.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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I'll give you the best help I can
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Concerning the "definition of
pratyaksa
by Vasubandhu," vdsubdndhava pratyaksalaksana, known through the Tdtaparyatikd, 99, and the Vddavidhi attributed to Vasubandhu, see the articles by G.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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L'hésitation du réveil
révélée
par son silence, ne l'était pas par
son regard.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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ja
By CLINTON SCOLLARD
ITALY IN ARMS AND
OTHER POEMS 75 CENTS
THE VALE OF SHADOWS 60 CENTS
If it be the duty of a poet to give voice of the
conscience
of his nation, Mr.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For the removal of
sterility
from this cause, I shall give some
instructions, and this I do the more readily because the requisite means
are such as will regulate the menses in many cases, where they do not
appear so early in life, so freely or so frequently as they ought.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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He
conceives
it as a sort
of vessel, into which you can pour different liquids.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Incipit
Prohemium
Liber Quartus.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Great Jove, to swell the horrors of the fight,
O'er the fierce armies pours
pernicious
night,
And round his son confounds the warring hosts,
His fate ennobling with a crowd of ghosts.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But in this case I also must remark,
'T was well this bird of promise did not perch,
Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark
Was not so safe for roosting as a church;
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark,
Returning
there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-22 00:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Now in a secret marriage there is the
due matter, since there are persons who are able lawfully to
contract---and the due form, since there are the words of the present
expressive
of consent.
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Summa Theologica |
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It is not
without errors, but its text is, on the whole, more correct than that
of the
manuscript
source from which the version of 1633 was set up in
the first instance.
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John Donne |
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Russell, himself a poet, who wrote:
“There
do not appear
to have been any poets of note between Pringle's time and the
generation which has just passed away.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Of Kittler's link of the Colt
revolver
and film, Frank Kessler puckishly asks whether the sewing machine wouldn't serve Kittler as a better harbinger of serial processing, knowing that he would never warm to such a lowly, unwarlike domestic device.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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'' This framework defined two operations to be performed by the Subject in a present that, between the
receding
past and the open future, appeared to be a mere moment of transition.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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God knows how the
scattered
handful of Englishmen still in England can still speak one with another.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Thus was the
foundation
laid of that sound learning upon which his
widespread influence both as a teacher and writer was reared.
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bede |
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So lost ye both, being in
falseness
one,
What fortune else had granted; she thy curse,
Who marred thee as she loved thee, and thou hers.
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Euripides - Electra |
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There are so many repetitious lines,
verses, and episodes that the child who is just learning to put
together
a story
has a good chance of getting the sequence right.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Seeing them thou needest not further
conjecture
what stars beyond them model all her form.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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The triumph of the Eeformation seemed
certain; but though it advanced rapidly for
fifty years, it
declined
as rapidly in the next
half century.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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A nation of their own and
security
will be theirs only in Jordan.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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" If this word sounds critical, it is surely not because it
designates
a scientific mentality that stresses being logically exact and true to the facts and refraining from any sort of speculation.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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TheproblemhasbecomeparticularlyacuteinGermanyw,here writersand scholars(commonlyofMarxian,or whatpasses forMarxian, inspiration)generatefirmabstractionsabout "fascism,"chieflyon
thebasis
of the German experience.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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A very superior travel folder, with map, illustrations and concise
but
comprehensive
descriptive text.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Did not
lads and lasses run out
shouting
?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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And, in his "
Anointing
Woman " (but this play is attributed to Alexis also), he says : —
But if you make our shop notorious,
I swear by Ceres, best of goddesses,
That I will empt the biggest ladle o'er you, Filling it with hot water from the kettle ;
And if I fail, may I ne'er drink free water more.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Imagine how our amiable pair,
At this proposal, all so frank and fair,
Were
mutually
troubled!
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Hugo - Poems |
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concitaverit: 266
Semicinctia: 166
Seque eo dictante statuisse quod scribunt: 60
Serio: 94
Sermocinandi: 153
Sesterties an densrios: 171
Si difficilis ad eum fuisset accessus: 261
Si ex illiberali quaestu in diem vivunt: 173
Si impetrasset: 283
Si non annunciaveris ut se convertat: 143
Si non pergant usque in illos esse injusti et crudeles: 98
Sibi praesse: 49
Sic Galli sacrifici magnae Cybeles
caelibatum
genuerunt: 13
Sic praefati: 175
Sicut magis idonei erant cognitores: 36
Silentio.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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”--Then he
pressed five hundred roubles into my hand--to buy myself some bonbons,
as he phrased it--and wound up by saying that in the country I should
grow as fat as a
doughnut
or a cheese rolled in butter; that at the
present moment he was extremely busy; and that, deeply engaged in
business though he had been all day, he had snatched the present
opportunity of paying me a visit.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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And after this they filled the bottles with the ingredients for pickling,
and each couple jumped into a
separate
bottle; by which effort, of course,
they all died immediately, and became thoroughly pickled in a few minutes;
having previously made their wills (by the assistance of the most eminent
lawyers of the district), in which they left strict orders that the
stoppers of the seven bottles should be carefully sealed up with the blue
sealing-wax they had purchased; and that they themselves, in the bottles,
should be presented to the principal museum of the city of Tosh, to be
labelled with parchment or any other anti-congenial succedaneum, and to be
placed on a marble table with silver-gilt legs, for the daily inspection
and contemplation, and for the perpetual benefit, of the pusillanimous
public.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But it is only in
very
enlightened
communities that books are readily accessible.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The sacred lowe o' weel-plac'd love,
Luxuriantly
indulge it;
But never tempt th' illicit rove,
Tho' naething should divulge it:
I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing;
But, Och!
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burns |
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But he sent out many of the Colchians to search for the Argo, threatening that, if they did not bring Medea to him, they should suffer the
punishment
due to her; so they separated and pursued the search in divers places.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Also there are in my letter certain
passages
which deal with
my mental development in prison, and the inevitable evolution of my
character and intellectual attitude towards life that has taken place:
and I want you and others who still stand by me and have affection for me
to know exactly in what mood and manner I hope to face the world.
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Oscar Wilde |
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When he woke up in a sweat besidus it was to pardon him, goldylocks, me having an airth, but he
daydreamsed
we had a lovelyt face for a pulltomine.
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Finnegans |
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But if these categories had true,
inherent
existence as such, then the past would always have been in the past and could never have happened.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Where it exists it is generally
ruptured
in the first intercourse of
the sexes, and the female is said to lose her virginity.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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It may be a right pattern thereof; but true
friendship
indeed
Of nought but of virtue doth truly proceed.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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" She looked at him
meaningly
as she
spoke.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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For a long while we could neither of us do the other any harm,
but at last, noticing that Chvabrine was getting tired, I vigorously
attacked him, and almost forced him
backwards
into the river.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Welcome not lax,
and my words were protected
Not blabbed to other, when I set my likes
* Vivien, strophe 2, nebotz Sain Guillem, an
allusion
to the romance "Enfances Vivien.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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And me sighing so,
one came
caroling
like a bird adown t'other road.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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In her chamber did she sit,
laughing
low to think of it,--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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A detachment of soldiers was then sent into each, in such order that all were occupied
precisely
at the same time ; and at the same hour, at a precon certed signal, were all given up to pillage.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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A foe
unprovoked
to offend them
At thy board sitteth down and derideth,
The spoil of thy foolish divideth,
Strips the sword from the hand of thy kings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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In the earliest times of which history affords us any record,
mathematics
had already entered on the sure course of science, among that wonderful nation, the Greeks.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Natural man is replaced by social man, or by the property-owning person, and all the inequalities which are
maintained
in his name.
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Education in Hegel |
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A Psalm of David himself, touching the glorifying and
resurrection
of the Lord, which took place early in the morning on the first day of the week, which is now called
the Lord's Day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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If every man keeps
108
BOOK SIXTEEN
to his own land, there will be no poverty, with harmony there will be no lack of population but
tranquillity
without upsets (subversions).
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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the gaunt Griffin glared
From the huge helm, and the long lance of wreck and ruin flared
Like a red rod of flame, stony and steeled
The Gorgon’s head its leaden
eyeballs
rolled,
And writhed its snaky horrors through the shield,
And gaped aghast with bloodless lips and cold
In passion impotent, while with blind gaze
The blinking owl between the feet hooted in shrill amaze.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
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201
will soon cease to be the case), it was the task of the
priests, the school
teachers
and their descendants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Whatever else he may think and do
is cut off from the student's
perception
by an
immense gap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Like the doves voice, like
transient
day, like music in the air:
Ah!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The
introduction
has a great deal of thought content.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
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His
birthplace
was Suessa, now Sessa, capital of the Aurunci, in
Campania; hence Juvenal (Sat.
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Satires |
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QUILLER-COUCH
he climbed back, and fell to
arranging
the reins, while he cast
about for something to say.
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111
=Origin of
Religious
Worship.
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"I lay at the foot of the bed because Isabella said I
disturbed her by continial
fighting
and kicking, but I was very
dull, and continially at work reading the Arabian Nights, which
I could not have done if I had slept at the top.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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In the most sectarian period of my Benthamism, I
happened to look into Pope's _Essay on Man_, and, though every opinion
in it was contrary to mine, I well remember how
powerfully
it acted on
my imagination.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Even the woman we love may afford us uncertain enjoyment;
Nowhere can
feminine
lap safely encouch a man's head.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I
could draw closer the threads of the web which analysis has disclosed,
and would then be able to show how they all run together into a single
knot; I am
debarred
from making this work public by considerations of a
private, not of a scientific, nature.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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That of itself, sir, is a reason why we ought to put a stop to this scandalous practice of
printing
our proceedings ; because if we should appear less jealous of our rights and privileges, than the other House are of theirs, it may be after wards told us, that we do not enjoy such rights and privileges, because at such a time, when we had the same reason as the other House had, we did not exer cise them.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Socrates
was in danger of being thrust forth by Rhadamanthus, ἤν φλυαρῇ καὶ
μὴ ἐθέλῃ ἀφεὶς τὴν εἰρωνείαν εὐωχεῖσθαι, while as for Diogenes the
Sinopean, so
profoundly
was he changed from his old estate, that he
had married Lais the Harlot.
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Lucian - True History |
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He employs men in
accordance
with their capacity.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of
scorching
steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I invented
adventures
for myself and made up
a life, so as at least to live in some way.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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At one
end of the room, in a recess, were a number of barrels, piled one upon
another,
containing
bundles of official documents.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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More interesting would be a discussion about redefining--and redefining seems
unavoidable
here--what we may legitimately consider to be illegitimate interdisciplinary transgressions.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Note: The Spanish title was the motto adopted by the
disinherited
Ivanhoe in Scott's novel.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Harry Esmond was happy in this
pleasant
home.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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"
One Sunday
forenoon
a boy aged three
years old was playing: he looked up and asked,
"Ja-Joe, if a sailor dies at sea, is he buried in
the sea?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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