Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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58
were no
possible
negotiations to be made,
and force of arms alone could give them
again their rights.
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I might ask where his
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These never
offered us any violence, nor once shunned our sight; but passed along
in our company without fear, in a peaceable manner,
wondering
at the
greatness of our ship, and beholding it on every side.
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In a person so extraordinary, perhaps it may be pardonable to mention some particulars,
although
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It is delivered With such bnlhant
eloquence
that It reminds us of another lengthy and authontatlve piece of propa- ganda-Father Arnall's sermon on hell, which this peripateti~ dis- course exactly balances.
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_ Canst thou not kill a
senator?
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I have learnt, proudly, that my University cannot legally oblige me to change office computers each time that we are offered the opportunity to do so - and I relish the shock that some of my colleagues register when they realize, for example, that the size of the computer screen in my office is three and a half
technological
generations behind what they consider to be standard.
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If I should write what manner of eyes they have, I doubt I should be
taken for a liar in
publishing
a matter so incredible: yet I cannot
choose but tell it: for they have eyes to take in and out as please
themselves: and when a man is so disposed, he may take them out and lay
them by till he have occasion to use them, and then put them in and see
again: many when they have lost their own eyes, borrow of others, for
the rich have many lying by them.
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Lucian - True History |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
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Sallust - Catiline |
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For it is easy to see that we have up to the present
been living and
educating
ourselves in the wrong
way—but what can we do to cross over the chasm
between to-day and to-morrow?
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Thus is installed spatially a type of
ontological
differ- ence: the lethal climate in the interior of the chamber clearly defined, meticulously made hermetic, and the convivial climate of the vital^worldly realm of the execu- tioners and observers: to be (Sein) and to-be-able (Seinko<< nnen) to be outside, to exist (Seiendes) and not-to-be-able (Nicht-Seinko<< nnen) to be inside.
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Here
hospitality
still holds good ; every one who has but imbibed mother's milk is welcome.
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" The 'Maxims' are faultless in style and form: brief
complete sayings, forming doorways neither too strait nor too broad
into the House of Life, whose many chambers La
Rochefoucauld
had
explored.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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His powerful review of Mitford's 'Greece' in 1843 prepared the way
for the
enthusiastic
welcome accorded in 1845 to the first two volumes
of his 'History of Greece.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Many of Bowlby's
metaphors
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Laurence
and to St.
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A Friar, who
gathered
simples in the wood,
A grey-haired man--he loved this little boy,
The boy loved him--and, when the Friar taught him,
He soon could write with the pen: and from that time,
Lived chiefly at the Convent or the Castle.
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mulo,/ al ir
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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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I had not the
smallest
idea of their being ever felt in such
a way.
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, the adaptation of experience and the choice among multiple future possibilities, have constituted and shaped our
conception
of what Subjectivity (and Agency) was supposed to be, while the narrow present of transition became the epistemological habitat of the Subject.
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Julius Vestinus, who is
described
in an inscription as “High-priest of Alexandria and all Egypt, Curator of the Museum, Keeper of the Libraries of both Greek and Roman at Rome, Supervisor of the Education of Hadrian, and Secretary to the same Emperor.
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Pattern Poems |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'
Genes will spread by reason of pure
parasitic
effectiveness, as in a virus.
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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; with
fur,furis; lux, I uc is; Pollux, Pollucis ; and frugis from
the obsolete
nominative
frux.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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All monotheistic religions will draw an
absolute
ontological line of separation between the sphere of their God as a (necessarily?
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20 We'll run into a few occasionally further along,
resolutely
plowing their golden ruts.
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'I believe you think me a fiend,' he said, with his dismal laugh:
'something too
horrible
to live under a decent roof.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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1572
Massacre
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What is the
difference
between the status of a citizen
and an alien?
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anywhere
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Saintsbury, after Swinburne the warmest advocate of Baudelaire among the
English, thinks that the French poet in his picture
criticism
observed
too little and imagined too much.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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"
remarked
one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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LVI
"Nor stands it with our haste, which all delay,
All let forbids, that you beside that tower
Be forced to stop and mingle in the fray:
For grant that you be conquerors in the stower,
(And as your presence
warrants
well, you may,)
'Tis not a thing concluded in an hour.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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lel1ers and the
panially
serio", thcory of HamUt ",veal, he Wa.
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There
have nations beene found, where, by custome, children killed their
parents, and others where parents slew their children, thereby to
avoid the
hindrance
of enterbearing [Footnote: Mutually supporting.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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For
references
and further discussion, see FRS, pp.
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When he wrote about his books, he was little aware of the danger that
was
impending
over them.
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Petrarch |
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When, however, it was known that the
son to whom she would give birth must prove greater than his father,
it was determined to wed her to a mortal, and Peleus, with great
difficulty, succeeded in
obtaining
her hand, as she eluded him by
assuming various forms.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Alternately, the two lines could be the song that the sherman is singing,
expressing
his own grief.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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For since there are two things, that is, soul and body, because of these two that the better, which called the soul,
therefore
can thy body be made better by the better, because the body subject to the soul.
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BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE
I
"O LORD, why
grievest
Thou?
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Ut valeas animo quidquam
tolerare
negabis,?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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At the same time, Rumania
returned
Bessarabia
and ceded part of Bukovina to the U.
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The first is composure or mindfulness in order to achieve one-pointedness of mind, and the sec- ond, watchfulness to prevent mind from
straying
once again into distraction.
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And
according to their subject these styles vary, and lose their names: for
that which is high and lofty, declaring excellent matter, becomes vast
and tumorous,
speaking
of petty and inferior things; so that which was
even and apt in a mean and plain subject, will appear most poor and
humble in a high argument.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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it could not, could not be
That he had not his work to do--a
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
finnecies
of poetry wed music.
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Finnegans |
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This
French poet has suffered more from the friendly malignant
biographer
and
chroniclers than did Poe.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Her heart was divided between concern
for her sister, and
resentment
against all others.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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His good friend Lucka had this idea of him: "I do not
think that Otto
Weininger
ever in his life had a happy feeling
and he hardly knew vegetative peace" (Lucka, p.
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The “Odyssey” is not really
inferior
to “Ulalume,” as it ought to
be if your doctrine of poetry were correct, nor “Le Festin de Pierre” to
“Undine.
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But it
corrupts
us, it corrupts us in ways you
can’t imagine.
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Pay that which is due : though thou
exactest
not what is thy due, yet pay.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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With bad faith a truth appears, a method of thinking, a type of being which is like that of objects; the ontological
characteristic
of the world of bad faith with which the subject suddenly surrounds himself is this: that here being is what it is not, and is not what it is.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Hail
universal
Lord!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It is the
movement
of water in the mountain stream.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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The languid movement of Nizam-ul-Mulk was
stimulated
by the
issue of a commission appointing his eldest son, Ghazi-ud-Din Khan,
governor of Malwa and Gujarat, on the condition of his expelling
the Maratha.
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It seems to me
that where a lady of ordinary degree is elevated to a higher position,
she often acquires a refinement like one originally belonging to it;
but there are other women, who when
degraded
from their rank spoil
their taste and habits just like the lady in question.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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He became more and more
thoughtful--kept on
thinking
and thinking till near Christmas, and
then a flower of thought came forth.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Here
were
likenesses
of the painter Rudolf von Alt; of Field Marshal
Radetzky, who quelled the Italian revolution in 1848; of Franz
Schubert and Johann Strauss; of Bruckner, the Empress Eliza-
beth, and Haydn.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Li Po |
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But more he loathed and hated the clear light
Of wisdom and free thought, and more did fear,
Lest, kindled once, its beams might pierce the night,
Even where his Idol stood; for, far and near
Did many a heart in Europe leap to hear _4085
That faith and tyranny were trampled down;
Many a pale victim, doomed for truth to share
The murderer's cell, or see, with
helpless
groan,
The priests his children drag for slaves to serve their own.
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Shelley copy |
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This
insistence
contains a distant echo of Nietzsche's well-known admonition: 'Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!
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For that strange disease, artificial birth
control is a worthless remedy; and it were far better that we should turn
our attention to the simple words of
Cardinal
Manning: "There is a natural
and divine law, anterior and superior to all human and civil law, by which
men have the right to live of the fruits of the soil on which they are
born, and in which they are buried.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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" The
chancellor had heard him with much indignation,
and answered him warmly, " that if this correspond-
" ence must expose him to such a reproach, he
" should
unwillingly
enter into it ; and wished him to
" tell M.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The grasshopper's horn, and far off, high in the maples
The wheel of a locust leisurely
grinding
the silence,
Under a moon waning and worn and broken,
Tired with summer.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Hermes proclaims the
opportunity
for free discussion as to full-breed gods.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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They are not
dignified: they are only
fashionably
dressed.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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The sec-
ond is a group of
Japanese
Buddhist
no
The Sacred Books of China.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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As a consequence, the
expression
of truth in itself came to a halt for him.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Men
are allowed only the precise amount of culture
which is
compatible
with the interests of gain; but
that amount, at least, is expected from them.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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It was held
together
as a whole with
domination and subordination 215
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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"The Fourth
prohibits
trespassing
Where other Ghosts are quartered:
And those convicted of the thing
(Unless when pardoned by the King)
Must instantly be slaughtered.
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Lewis Carroll |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
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Blake - Zoas |
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’
She was
bitterly
angry.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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blake-poems |
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One here
sees at once that it is not only shame that this
divinity lacks ;-and in general there are good
grounds for
supposing
that in some things the
Gods could all of them come to us men for in-
struction.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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What has
happened
to thee, Henry?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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I had quite
determined
to go away again.
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Austen - Emma |
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It
presented
an interpretation of the culture that had
developed in Germany within the memory of then living men and
which had yet to be sorted and assimilated by the rest of the world.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Taking all circumstances into consideration, I
should be
disposed
to agree with him; but how am I to communicate this
truth to a person who has scarcely ever felt intellectual pleasure?
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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But health and joy now fill me
With
pleasure
that rises there;
Yet from my throat won't issue
For fear she may prove angry,
Since the flame of it yet I feel,
Of Love, that orders me
Never my heart to reveal,
Oft a mistake | fears make,
Loves are lost, not few,
Through poor security.
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Troubador Verse |
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He
wrote his great
national
epic, ' Pan Tadeusz ' (' Mr.
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nilo mundius hoc, niloque immundius illud,
uerum etiam culus mundior et melior:
nam sine dentibus hic: dentis os sesquipedalis, 5
gingiuas uero ploxeni habet ueteris,
praeterea rictum qualem
diffissus
in aestu
meientis mulae cunnus habere solet.
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The
excellence
of the analogy in regard to discrimination and memory has now been pointed out to you, according to our interpretation of " the cloven hoof and the chewing of the cud ".
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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—And after
communication
say thought not have offended.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Believe, believe
Me, dear Endymion, were I to weave
With my own fancies garlands of sweet life,
Thou
shouldst
be one of all.
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Keats |
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The
Paradise
of Martyrs: a faith rhyme.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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MY child came home,
The sea-breeze in his hair still blows,
His gait still bears
The traveller's proven fear and
youthful
glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Why can I never tear away
The veils from the old
friendliness
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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