Project Gutenberg's The Queen Of Spades, by Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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risit Amor placidaeque uolat trans aequora matri
nuntius et totas iactantior
explicat
alas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He
withdrew
with the troops under
12 mo.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Whatever
we need seems to be more available than before through electronic communication.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The laws of durable
government
have been known from the days of King Wen.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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He is both
master and workman, and enjoys the whole produce of his own
labor, or the whole value which it adds to the
materials
upon
which it is bestowed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Gives too late
What's not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only,
reconsidered
passion.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And indeed it's the
ordinary
thing.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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a de Alberto Girri, studying the poet's
treatment
of time as a vehicle for approaching the relationship between the world and language, as well as the self and his reality.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Out with it,
Dunciad!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ông giữ các chức quan, như Hàn lâm viện Thừa chỉ, Tri Đông đạo quân dân, sau thăng đến
Thượng
thư Bộ Binh.
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stella-02 |
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Inviting as is the rest afforded by the mats of fine rushes and bamboos, the
preference
is given to the coarse ones of reeds and straw,--distinguishing the (character of the service in which they were employed).
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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8 POLISH LITERATURE
immense
influence
in the country of Latin, the language
of Church and State, have been, as they were in England,
introduced from that source.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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”
“Most
favourably
for his nephew--gave his consent with scarcely a
difficulty.
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Austen - Emma |
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The
Mohammedan
Arabs
conspire against the Portuguese.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Revenge the heavens for old
Andronicus!
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Shakespeare |
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the thin blue flame
Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not;
Only that film, which
fluttered
on the grate,
Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Even when he was young he showed
contempt
for the mundane world.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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"Many thanks for the kind
consideration
you showed my old mother,"
he said.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The central figure in the Kagyu refuge tree, and indicating the
transmission
of the close lineage of the Mahamudra teachings to Tilopa.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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[A LESSON TO LOVERS]
Pan loved his
neighbour
Echo; Echo loved a frisking Satyr; and Satyr, he was head over ears for Lydè.
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Moschus |
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THE COUNTRY LIFE:
TO THE HONOURED MR
ENDYMION
PORTER,
GROOM OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY
Sweet country life, to such unknown,
Whose lives are others', not their own!
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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),
And on Parnassus’ peak,
divinely
cloven,
He may not stand, or stands by cruel wrong;
For Byron’s rank (the examiner has reckoned)
Is in the third class or a feeble second.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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In a general way,
however, it was natural that this political
protestantism
should
grow weaker in the Stewart days, when the court was no longer
3
URL
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1 Cf.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Je ne trouve pas monotone
La verdeur de tes quarante ans;
Je
préfère
tes fruits, Automne,
Aux fleurs banales du Printemps!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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A Carthaginian, who had remained in Cisal-
the
concurrent
testimony of antiquity places him in pine Gaul after the defeat of Hasdrubal at the
this respect almost on a par with his son Hannibal.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Barbarians, now on peaceful terms, still think on kind grace,1 in
protecting
the frontier we dare not alarm them.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Stephen Crane |
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Nay, lord; thy father, walking old and grey;
And
followers
bearing burial gifts and brave
Gauds, which men call the comfort of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It is the difference
between the unilateral, "undiplomatic" recourse to strength, and
coercive
diplomacy based on the power to hurt.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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For a swift season of
merrymaking
the money of his prizes ran through
Stephen's fingers.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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The Mohammedan was the first witness and
Strickland
beamed upon him from
the back of the Court.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The, as it were, immediate proximity with believers where the divine principles of all totemistic and
fetishistic
religons, but also the old Jewish God, are located makes such a religion quite unsuited for ruling wide circles.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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He is quite
undeserving
of it.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Autumn is gone: as yonder silent rill,
Slow eddying o'er thick leaf-heaps lately shed,
My spirit, as I walk, moves awed and still,
By
thronging
fancies wild and wistful led.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Where every bird is bold to go,
And bees
abashless
play,
The foreigner before he knocks
Must thrust the tears away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Our
reputations
have always been guarded from attacks by his prudence, and our families have always
been protected by his justice.
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Edmund Burke |
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Are party and faction rooted in
men's hearts no deeper than phrases
borrowed
from religion, or founded
upon no firmer principles?
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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He whom Troy's deep bosom, a shore
Rhoetean
above
him,
Rudely denies these eyes, heavily crushes in earth.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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_The Art of Poetry_
UNITY AND SIMPLICITY ARE REQUISITE
Suppose a painter to a human head
Should join a horse's neck, and wildly spread
The various plumage of the feather'd kind
O'er limbs of
different
beasts, absurdly joined.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Oh where, Rinaldo, is thy
gagliardize?
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The beauty of it ('In praise of Ysolt') is the beauty of passion,
sincerity
and in tensity, not of beautiful words and images and suggestions ; , .
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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AUGUSTINE
ON
THE PSALMS.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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[He] took the ideas and images which were current in the love lan guage of the time and drenched them in the music of his own
passionate
sincerity.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Because of our
ignorance
in this matter, we () \ have described the metaphors separately, only later addin
speculative notes on their possible experiential bases.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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But, when she compares him with Boylan and other Dublin drinker- lechers, she is
prepared
to concede good points.
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deep learning |
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learning path |
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Man errs and
staggers
from his birth.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Marching
in the rain, and with
difficulty crossing the river, they came up too late; some of
their friends being already slain and others captives.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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If
we search out the
conditions
under which this
illness reaches its most terrible and sublime
zenith, we shall see what really first brought
about its entry into the world.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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_O'F_, which was
prepared
in 1632, strikes out 'have' and writes
'fear' above.
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John Donne |
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You have a shared IP address, and someone else has
triggered
the block.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Already a new world was dawning upon him; but it was at the
time of the general revolutionary
movement
in Europe that he began
to publish the works which proclaimed the revolution in art.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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And while, as one critic
has said, she may exhibit toward God "an
Emersonian
self-possession,"
it was because she looked upon all life with a candor as unprejudiced
as it is rare.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This translation of the closing scene of Ewald's lyrical drama
(Fiskerne
requires
a word of explanation.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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If she did not understand the art
of making jellies, jams, custards, tea-cakes, and such like trashy
affairs, she was profoundly skilled in the
mysteries
of preparing
“amar, poee-poee,” and “kokoo,” with other substantial mat-
ters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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And who but I should be the poet of
comrades?
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Whitman |
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Charles Borromeo
in Philadelphia in 1832: became archbishop of
Baltimore, 1851 ;
honorary
primate of the United
States, 1859.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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The Pope therefore, when he
disclaimeth
the
Supreme Civill Power over other States Directly, denyeth no more, but
that his Right cometh to him by that way; He ceaseth not for all that,
to claime it another way; and that is, (without the consent of them
that are to be governed) by a Right given him by God, (which hee calleth
Indirectly,) in his Assumption to the Papacy.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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We must likewise admit any other
species of music that may have approved itself to such persons as have
devoted attention to
philosophic
discussion and musical education.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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"
LXXXVI
Love is so strong a thing,
The very gods must yield,
When it is welded fast
With the
unflinching
truth.
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Sappho |
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Nothing bitter--nothing
poignant?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The poem begins appropriately with an
imitation
of Horace's
description of Pindar,
In profound, unmeasurable song
The deep-mouth'd Pindar, foaming, pours along.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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After the war is over there will be powerful forces drawing young people away from the liberal studies- But there will be other powerful forces operating in the opposite direction-
The vindication of democracy by victory will raise a vast number ot
questions
as to the meaning of democracy, of the conditions economic and psychological and spiritual under which democracy can thrive.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Even when he was ready to
go down, Clewe said nothing to any one of an immediate
intention
of
descending.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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For men, there are only three out of the eighty-six
categories
for which the number of "positive" and "negative" instances is equal, and only one (Category 2 3c) which shows a slight trend in the direction op- posite to the one expected.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Now it will be more difficult than Hitler
indicated
to rec-
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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-- You are a
suckersome!
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Finnegans |
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Such a crowd of candidates
presented
themselves that a fleet of ships
could hardly have held them.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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"
Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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This gap is palpable in the way the economic
situation
of a country is considered to be good and stable by the international fi- nancial experts even when the large majority of people are living worse than before.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Perhaps,
contrary
to his conviction, labour values are not a prerequisite for a functioning capitalism in the first place.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Here in this strange and crowded solitude,
I clasp once more my sisters' faithful
breasts!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Rose Pogonias
He is no dissenter from the
ritualism
of nature;
Asking for Roses
nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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One of the multitude may say, "Why add venom to the
serpent?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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I only
perceive
that thou needest me no longer.
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Epictetus |
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I never, my friend, thought mankind very capable of
anything
generous;
but the stateliness of the patricians in Edinburgh, and the servility
of my plebeian brethren (who perhaps formerly eyed me askance) since I
returned home, have nearly put me out of conceit altogether with my
species.
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Robert Forst |
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Too venturous poesy, O why essay
To pipe again of
passion!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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It implies the project of transposing the entire life of work, wishes, and expression of the people that it has
captured
into the immanence of purchasing power.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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name is surely already
presupposed
as being significant as Much, so that it cannot at the same time be designated as 'unsinnlg' (ed.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The stripping of Duessa symbolizes the proscription of
vestments
and
ritual, and the overthrow of images, etc.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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was
inquired
that Statute, Ordinance and Commission them, whether the Judgment given the
Whereunto they gave Answer, That they parliament against Michael
ought suffer Traitors.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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He never used his
relationship
to secure advantages for
himself.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And the do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of things nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Charming
literary
person!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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with great care, though containing numerous errors Kühn, however, not only found a publisher rich
and omissions, as might be expected in so large a and liberal enough to
undertake
the risk and ex-
work.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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It’s like water soaking a ball of mud—
You’ll
know then there’s no wisdom in it.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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100
Wyth herte brymm-fulle of
gnawynge
grief,
Hee to Syr CHARLES dydd goe,
And satt hymm downe uponne a stoole,
And teares beganne to flowe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If name like that of Semo Sancus (which moreover occurs in connection with the Tiber-island) is especially
associated
with the sacred places of the Quirinal which afterwards diminished in its importance (comp.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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That the
individual is
sacrificed
to the species, as people
often say he is, is not a fact at all : it is rather
only an example of false interpretation.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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_ You have been often bragging what a mighty
Gamester
you were at
Bowls.
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This is of necessity distressing to a man at the head of his profession, who has got used to being comfortably at the head of his profession ; but it is a vastly
different
distress to that of my father-in-law in England when bothered by Mr.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Princess
Ligovski
looked at me with much
tenderness, and did not leave her daughter’s side.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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On the contrary, he is seeking the figure of a human being who exists
simultaneously
in the transformed unity of that threefold metamorpho- sis-the knower, the creator, the giver.
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Quique tam prasens
supplicantum
tibi
Secundos exitus tribuas votis,
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Since I writ this, my company is
increased
by two, my
brother Harry, and a fair niece, my brother Peyton's daughter.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Panoramay muestra de
lapoesi?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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