One of the pumps has been shot away, it is
generally
thought we are sinking.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And shee but cheates on Heaven, whom you so winne
Thinking
to share the sport, but not the sinne.
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John Donne |
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His will grow a
towering
stalk,
Hers, a cowering flower under it.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Why
they should not look on these things as blessings where they
are bestowed, though not
necessaries
that it is impossible to be
happy without, I cannot conceive.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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I found that
these people possessed a method of
communicating
their experience and
feelings to one another by articulate sounds.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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They who never go to the
Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and
vagabonds; but they who do go there are
saunterers
in the good sense,
such as I mean.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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They are a
Prophecy
rather.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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" It is precisely this polysemous condensation into two words that evoke all the shared
emotions
of loss and departure.
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Translated Poetry |
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He would put his wheel down and stand on a
spoke, and as the steamer swung into her (to me) utterly invisi-
ble
marks—for
we seemed to be in the midst of a wide and
gloomy sea-he would meet and fasten her there.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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So long does the dispute
touching
the inherit ance of the dead last, until the Testament is publicly produced ; and when the Testament has been publicly pro duced, all are silent, that the instrument may be opened and
read: the judge listens with attention, the advocates hold their peace, the heralds procure silence, every body is in suspense that the words of the deceased, unconscious in the tomb, may be read.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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this is my room;
there are my books, there the piano,
there the last bar I wrote,
there the last line,
and oh the
sunlight!
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Imagists |
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A friend to lift the curtain up
That hides from man the mortal goal,
And with glad thoughts of faith and hope
Surprise the
exulting
soul.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ever I yearn to relate thee the tale, display to thine eyes,
Count thee over the
children
that from my loins shall arise,
So that your joy may be deeper on finding Italy's skies.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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In the third part the
bequeaths
his pipe to Pan, ends his dying speech with an address to all Nature, and is overwhelmed at last in the river of Death.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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III
Rain at Night
The street-lamps shine in a yellow line
Down the splashy,
gleaming
street,
And the rain is heard now loud now blurred
By the tread of homing feet.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Grant coming up to the two girls, and taking an arm of each,
they
followed
with the rest.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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" (Or perhaps if they protested it was only gently; to judge from the widespread distribution of his work,
Servasanctus
clearly found a sympathetic audience.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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demanda-t-il
sur un ton d'étonnement et de décision, car il affectait d'ignorer tout
ce qui
concernait
le monde.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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The peace often,
sometimes
perhaps the liberty,
of nations has been the victim.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Under
Assyriologists
:
Johns, Claude Hermann Walter (1857–1920).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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Whether the poet conjures from the
depths of myth _The Kings in Legends_, or whether we read from _The
Chronicle of a Monk_ the awe-inspiring description of _The Last Judgment
Day_, or whether in Paris on a Palm Sunday we see _The Maidens at
Confirmation_, the
pictures
presented stand out with the clearness and
finality of the typical.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Besides, among the clouds are waves, and these
Give, as they roughly break, a
rumbling
roar;
As when along deep streams or the great sea
Breaks the loud surf.
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Lucretius |
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But in the
darkness
of night I find they break into my sacred
shrine, strong and turbulent, and snatch with unholy greed the
offerings from God's altar.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Half the books that people took
seriously
in those days are
forgotten now.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Therefore
the darkening will not be in very truth due to a natural
eclipse.
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Summa Theologica |
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His diplomatic Ode
Presented
to the King on his Majesty's
Arrival in Holland after The Queen's death is in ballad-metre
of eight and eight.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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ESTATUA:
Aprovéchale
con tiento, Take care, for you might.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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He now, like most of the Texas oil men, operates all over the world, hobnobs with the Arab sheiks and plays oil politics wherein the white chips cost
anything
from $1 million to $10 million.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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»
*
* *
Parfois au crépuscule en rentrant à l'hôtel je sentais que
l'Albertine d'autrefois invisible à moi-même était
pourtant
enfermée
au fond de moi comme aux plombs d'une Venise intérieure, dont parfois
un incident faisait glisser le couvercle durci jusqu'à me donner une
ouverture sur ce passé.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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hl] but also between each of these and cognition [Wissen]; but unlike Jacobi, Fries construes feeling if not also faith as a
function
of reason's spontaneity.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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--We men desire that woman should
not continue to compromise herself by
enlightening
us; just as it was
man's care and the consideration for woman, when the church decreed:
mulier taceat in ecclesia.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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To assist
them in their numerous duties the counts
appointed
"vicars.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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And here we may find a genuine
difference between "literary" and "authentic"; not so much in the nature
of the condition as in its
closeness
and insistence.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Wylle Birtha's
presence
ethe herr AElla's payne?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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majesty neal the seventy, amIable successor
educated under care of my nearest frIends
mIlItant SpirIt, and the natIon under a very large debt How shall we manage It~ these noblemen and 19noblemen words of Lord Mansfield and hIs admIrer (governor
HutchInson) AMERICAN governments never were erected by parhament
these regalta and JurIsdIctIons not gIven by
parlIament
a lIttle knowledge of the subject wIll do us no harm Chester a palatme county and had Jure regalza
Great seal dId not run Into Chester
for remedy 3 knIghts of shire
1 burgesses of the CIty estabhshed
Chester In crown and realm exempt from authorIty
how qUIckly granted representatIon when asked It
t In Durham Queen's wrIt hath not run'
25 Charles II be represented by knIghts and by burgesses true our OIly opponent
has here more zeal than knowIng NatIon was not polIte enough
to have Introduced any such phrase or Idea mto our charter not one farthIng ever was voted
or gIven by KIng or hIS Parhament
Style royal'> as kIng over France~ Ireland'> Scotland or
England?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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This, swaying
back and forth at the rear of the nave, with a murmur like that of a
surging sea, broke out into a joyous acclaim,
accompanied
by the
discordant sounds of the timbrels and tambourines, at the appearance of
the archbishop, who, after seating himself, surrounded by his
attendants, near the High Altar under a scarlet canopy, thrice blessed
the assembled people.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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poetry; it pro-
motes idle fancies, fantastic images* and
vain conceits; its very basis is fiction, and
I had rather see a girl
employed
with her
needle than her pen; but J beg pardon,
madam, perhaps you are a poet ?
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Literary magazines have been in the food truck business for a long time, serving up a variety of dishes that were
intended
to stimulate the intellectual pal- ate with "the best words in the best or- der.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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_ Your worship's
pleasure?
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Thomas Otway |
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—The cheapest and mcst in-
nocent mode of life is that of the tnr^krr: for, to
mention at once its most important feature, he has
the
greatest
need of those very things which others
neglect and look upon with contempt.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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The woman saw how
surprised
he was and said,
"Yes, we're allowed to live here as we like, only we have to clear the
room out when the court's in session.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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More barren—ay, those arms will never lean
Down through the
trellised
vines and draw my soul
In sweet reluctance through the tangled green;
Some other head must wear that aureole,
For I am hers who loves not any man
Whose white and stainless bosom bears the sign Gorgonian.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
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" If the object of our
devotion
and of- ferings, the field upon which we are working, is a pure one, it is very fertile in blessings.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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L'IDEAL
Ce ne seront jamais ces beautes de vignettes,
Produits
avaries, nes d'un siecle vaurien,
Ces pieds a brodequins, ces doigts a castagnettes,
Qui sauront satisfaire un coeur comme le mien.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There is indeed no feeling for this law; but inasmuch as it removes the resistance out of the way, this removal of an
obstacle
is, in the judgement of reason, esteemed equivalent to a positive help to its causality.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Quien haya sufrido tan
bárbaro
duelo,
Quien noches enteras contó sin dormir [870]
En lecho de espinas, maldiciendo al cielo,
Horas sempiternas de ansiedad sin fin.
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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De obligatione
conscientiae
praelectiones decem .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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31X
no se
entiende
y se imagina,
que es no menos, que de Dios
vuestra hermosura cortina:
en una cesta Moysen '.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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) { F 18 } G
Myron
pretended
this heifer to be the work of his hands, but it was never formed in the mould, but turned into bronze owing to old age.
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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Histiaeus, the literary man below him, was
making an
eclectic
mixture of Pindar, Hesiod, and Anacreon, whose
collaboration produced a most remarkable ode, some of it really
prophetic of what was soon to come--'Then hide met stubborn hide,' for
instance, and 'Uprose the wailings and the prayers of men.
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Lucian |
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Antigonus' son was
Demetrius
Poliorcetes, and Demetrius' son was Antigonus Gonatas.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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FIRST MERCHANT
We saw a man,
Heavy with
sickness
in the bog of Allen,
Whom you had bid buy cattle.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Durior
improprise
est Catachresis abusio vocis.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
|
]
[Footnote 1045:
Beautiful
statue.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Against the Gout_
_Incertae
Aetatis.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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595 to
Kalendars of
Scottish
Saints," p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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By day she stands a lie: by night she stands,
In all the naked horror of the truth,
With pushing horns and clawed and
clutching
hands.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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One dark evening, he had not even
a penny to buy a candle; then all at once he
remembered
that there was
a piece of candle stuck in the tinder-box, which he had brought from
the old tree, into which the witch had helped him.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The ad- vocates of this theory could provide the American public with
Considerable
amusement if they would use the theory to ex- plain our recent disagreements over such questions as isola- tion, prohibition, woman's suffrage, or the legalization of oirth-control in Massachusetts.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Hegel's reading of Jacobi dovetails into his exposition of Spinoza by means of a distinction drawn between reflective and speculative conceptions of the principle of
sufficient
reason [Satz des Grundes].
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Hegel_nodrm |
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_The_ SCENE _draws, and
discovers_
HIPPOLITO _bound to a
tree, and two Robbers by him with drawn swords_.
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Dryden - Complete |
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of the subject, which bids a respectful adieu to the fiction of autonomy, could lead to a
legitimate
constitution of sub-
ego and will.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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He shed tears, wrung his hands,
wanted to write, was absolutely set on
finishing
his two pages.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The courtly state was about to leave behind the difference between the
nobility
and the people--which was based on social rank and was responsible for the failure of classical ideas of republican "liberty.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
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Sappho |
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The essay as form will be a good guide for the person who is
beginning
to study philosophy, and before whose eyes the idea of philosophy somehow stands.
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Three distinct types suggest themselves: The word of grateful acknowl-
edgement
from a private citizen, couched in such terms as to be readily available for advertising purposes: the encomium from some person in public life, and the misspelled, illiterate epistle which is from its nature so unconvincing that it never gets into print, and which outnumbers the
other two classes a hundred to one.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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For this is a point of discourtesy and of wicked stubbornness to move and raise a tumult about un- necessary matters; but the
apostles
do not speak generally, when as they say they cannot but speak.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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21:14 But I will punish
you
according
to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will
kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things
round about it.
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bible-kjv |
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I bless God, I am now reconciled to this contemptible Death ; it was long e'er I could, but now God hath donft it for me, and I thankfully submit to it from the Hands of the wise God, whom I have offended : And
therefore
desire to accept my Punishment, knowing he doth all Things well, without any Wrong to his Creatures.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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For what is hidden from God,
brethren
?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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Out of this moment, when the world melted away all around him, when he
stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of a cold and
despair,
Siddhartha
emerged, more a self than before, more firmly
concentrated.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Let me not fall under your knives of slaughter, and bring ye not forward my
wickedness
unto the god in whose train ye are ; and let not evil hap come upon me by your means.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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It
knows naught of the mysteries of some distant,
inaccessible
mountain cave.
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The spirit of Fascism persists in the representation of Fascism and it persists in the way that it
aestheticizes
political/religious experience.
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Education in Hegel |
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this Seeing; [in the same way that the vijnapti created by a thought
abandoned
through Mediation is itself to be abandoned through Meditation.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Yet I receive
The inner unseen
longings
of the soul;
I guide them turning towards Me; I control
And charm hearts till they grieve:
If thou desire, it yet shall come to pass,
Though thou but wish indeed to choose My love;
For I have power in earth and heaven above.
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| Answer: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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He was unquestionably the most natural and effective writer
of prose tales in his time, and might almost claim to be the
originator of unemotional, impassionate
romances
of rural life
and manners.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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But in the light of
international
law, they were
mere highwaymen.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig,
February
22d (Washing-
ton's and Lowell's birthday), 1788.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Then there
are the various
superintendents
of works and dues, of sales, weights and
measures, of store-houses and so forth.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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a
discourse
like this to me,
I own, is one of life's most pleasant features;
[_To the animals_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In the
following
year, calculation of the stadia he adopts the reckoning of
455, Valentinian was murdered ; Maximin usurped Protagoras.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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"what is
Finnegans
Wake about?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Graunt either avoided the labour of
minute inquiry, or thought domestick occurrences unworthy of his
notice; or, preferring the character of an orator to that of an
historian, selected only such
particulars
as he could best express or
most happily embellish.
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Samuel Johnson |
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This allographematic effect which subtends all imagery is also capable of
dissolving
any mimetic pretense into the play of lines, alternation, shadow, and from its fiat non-lux Hitchcock's cinemallography derives its usurpative (non)authority (and nonauteuriality).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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In 1876 Mark Twain wrote a short story, 'A Literary Nightmare', about his mind being taken over by a
ridiculous
fragment of versified instruction to a bus conductor with a ticket machine, of which the refrain was
'Punch in the presence of the passenjare'.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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In considering the work of these men, upon whose output
for six years a sudden light is thrown by Henslowe's papers, we
propose to follow a chronological order so far as may be, and
to begin with the older men who were
practised
hands at the date
when Henslowe's payments are first recorded.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It is easy to see how this
arrogance
comes.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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In spite of the
advanced state of science, we have not yet obtained a perfect knowledge
of the construction of the ancient galleys, and, even at the present
day, the problem will not be completely solved until chance
furnishes
us
with a model.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Shannon's technique of measuring infor- mation mathematically was specifically developed to distinguish and determine the newness or
improbability
of a message compared to the mass of repetitions that are necessarily implied in every code.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Celtic
Heathendom
in the British Isles
Germanic Heathendom .
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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So
you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to--" At this
moment, Five, who had been
anxiously
looking across the garden, called
out, "The Queen!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Italy), I said to the couple at the next table: Would you say there was a difference of FEELING, I mean FEELING, not
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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We propose to explain what could be the
conditions
of this rehabilitation.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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