Here Folly dashed to earth the victor's plume,
And Policy
regained
what Arms had lost:
For chiefs like ours in vain may laurels bloom!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I'll be blocked indeed by
profound
resistance.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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how much better had it been for thee to remain in thy homeland driving oxen, and to harness still the working stallion ass to the yoke, frenzied with feigned pretence of madness, than to suffer the
experience
of such woes!
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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First published 1988 by Routeldge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
First published in Routledge
Classics
2005 By Routledge
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
(C) 1988 R.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Never was there a handier lad at
everything than he, though doubtless it is a case of the mugwort
planted among the hemp, which grows
straight
without need of twisting,
and of the sand mixed with the mud, which gets black without need of
dyeing,[177] and it is his having been bound to you from a boy that
has made him so genteel and clever.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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The other was a law limiting the
duration
of
Parliaments to three years.
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Macaulay |
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Lycurgus
himself
would bow.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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The archaic
Latin authors are healthful, "though most of them are
stronger
in
genius than in art.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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O thou beautiful, there in the nest is thy love that
encloses
the
soul with colours and sounds and odours.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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"
Charles Philip had just attained his
twenty-fii'st year, and
aw^akened
many brill-
iant hopes.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Poscia li pie di rietro, insieme attorti,
diventaron
lo membro che l'uom cela,
e 'l misero del suo n'avea due porti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I will only
observe that according to my
understanding
of the matter, that
right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers,
has been virtually admitted by all.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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But the study of this family of
languages has from the begining been beset with a
suitable
fallacy.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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The laws of action for
rational beings are
immediately
certain; their world is cer-
tain only through that previous certainty.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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The system
of the Gospel, after the fate of other systems, is generally antiquated
and exploded, and the mass or body of the common people, among whom it
seems to have had its latest credit, are now grown as much ashamed of it
as their betters; opinions, like fashions, always
descending
from those
of quality to the middle sort, and thence to the vulgar, where at length
they are dropped and vanish.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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1037–1055
Břatislav
I, duke of Bohemia.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Another song did fold its wings
Upon my lips in other days,
When round the bath and round the bed
The
hymeneal
chant instead
I sang for thee, and smiled,--
And thou didst lead, with gifts and vows,
Hesione, my father's child,
To be thy wedded spouse.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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That is to say some
spirit must
dominate
it.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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3] But Meleager in a rage slew the sons of
Thestius
and gave the skin to Atalanta.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Hai chữ “trung
hưng”
tiếp sau chỉ cuộc binh biến tháng 7-1460 do Nguyễn Xí, Đinh Liệt cầm đầu phế truất Lê Nghi Dân, lập Lê Tư Thành (thuộc dòng đích) lên ngôi, tức vua Lê Thánh Tông.
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stella-01 |
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One thing
was evident; namely, that while my mind was employed with
these thoughts it turned away from its former objects of desire,
and seriously considered the search for a new principle: this
state of things was a great comfort to me, for I
perceived
that
the evils were not such as to resist all remedies.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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In fact, it is absolutely impossible to make out by experience with complete certainty a single case in which the maxim of an action, however right in itself, rested simply on moral grounds and on the
conception
of duty.
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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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Does it then go out of
business?
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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"_“I do
not know," he said, hesitatingly;
“perhaps
the
Harpies have flown over my table.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Ev'n so; he was my
neighbour
once in Kent.
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Tennyson |
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Paul Getty,
although
unknown to the world.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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By the bamboo stream the last
fragments
of cloud
Blown by the wind slowly scatter away.
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Li Po |
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[290]
Addicted
to agriculture
like the other Gauls, the Cisalpines bred in their forests droves of
swine in such numbers, that they would have been sufficient, in the time
of Strabo, to provision all Rome.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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He may rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation
(There's no doubt that he stands in supreme iceolation),
Your topmost
Parnassus
he may set his heel on, 820
But no warm applauses come, peal following peal on,--
He's too smooth and too polished to hang any zeal on:
Unqualified merits, I'll grant, if you choose, he has 'em,
But he lacks the one merit of kindling enthusiasm;
If he stir you at all, it is just, on my soul,
Like being stirred up with the very North Pole.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Mario said, no doubt truly, that it
took a year to make a
reliable
cafetier.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the _exact_
word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely
decorative
word.
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Imagists |
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This correlation also holds for the individual
relationships
of people.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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και ο μαχητής Μενέλαος του 'πε φωτιά ν' ανάψη,
και κρέατα να ψήση ευθύς• και
υπάκουσεν
εκείνος.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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species,
Life not the continuous
adjustment
of internal
(the
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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blake-poems |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:59 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass downloads or
automated
harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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And for a long
time she was continually turning round, looking for me in every
direction, probably regretting that our silly tussle was so soon over,
and
hatching
some other trick to play on me.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Mordant taxed her with
having caricatured the father of her
friend, her embarrassment became com-
pletely distressing, and
bursting
int>>
tears, stu acknowledged her culpability.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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And in fact, this can be formulated in terms of cultural theory: where unleashed self-movement leads to a halt or a whirl, the beginning of a transitional experience emerges, in which the modern active changes to the
postmodern
passive.
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Sloterdijk |
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"I saw ye,” said Eppie,
speaking
with a wire in her mouth,
"gaen on terr'ble wi' Mysy Haggart at the pump last Saturday.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Then the snow began to
fall so heavily that the little boy could not see a hand's breadth
before him, but still they drove on; then he suddenly
loosened
the
cord so that the large sled might go on without him, but it was of
no use, his little carriage held fast, and away they went like the
wind.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Pllumn5 quos ipsa decus dedit | ori-\-thyia
( A
spondaic
verse --o-rl-thyl-a, Jour syllables,
like I-Ii-thyl-a in Horace, Carm.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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of
indemnity
was finished, passed the house of peers, And gets it
and received the royal assent, to the wonderful joy P assed -
of the people.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Darcy’s letter, nor explain to her sister how
sincerely
she
had been valued by her friend.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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When Suhail Khān, responding to the urgent appeals of Chānd
Bibi and encouraged by a treacherous message from the Khān
Khānān, whose chief concern was to deprive the prince of the
credit of capturing the city, was within thirty miles Sultān Murad
sent an envoy to Chānd Bībi,
offering
to raise the siege in return
for the cession of Berar.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Again, without dialectics, the wise man cannot be acute, and ingenious, and wary, and altogether
dangerous
as an arguer.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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_ Ah, poor
Castalio!
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Thomas Otway |
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Nat-
urally in dustrious, and
possessed
of a
remarkable memory and the power
of concentration, young Cuvier by
the age of fourteen had mastered the
rudiments of several languages, both
ancient and modern, had acquired a considerable knowledge of math-
ematics, had read widely in history, and was proficient in drawing.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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According
to this sense, I
define a CHURCH to be, "A company of men professing Christian Religion,
united in the person of one Soveraign; at whose command they ought to
assemble, and without whose authority they ought not to assemble.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Even if the spirit's path through the cul- tures equals a circular exodus on which exces- sively heavy objects are left behind until the
wandering
spirit is sufficiently light, reflexive and transparent to feel ready to return to the start, there is one printed book left that, despite its handiness, still possesses too much externality and contrariness to be passed over entirely.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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[197] L how often did he urge the authority of his father, who had always been an advocate for a strict
adherence
to the letter of a testament?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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impure or worldly knowledge, and pure or
supermundane
knowledge.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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It
shouldbe
said,however,thattheuniversitieswereinfactnever"ivory towers",evenintheirquietesttimes.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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Is it true that
in
Copenhagen
they think the earth is round?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Two later works derived from that period, Rene, and Atala, evidencing the new sensibility, greatly
influenced
the development of the Romantic Movement in France.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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There's no hope so firm life will not belie it,
no
happiness
life will not wrest away.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The episodes suggest
themselves to the author's fancy as he proceeds; a fact which gives
them the same unexpectedness and
sometimes
the same incomplete-
ness which the events of a journey naturally have.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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They are, in fact, two
consecutive
1711).
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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have I
frightened
you?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Die Entscheidung, ob man es mit
einem Witz oder einer
Erkenntnis
zu tun habe, ist,
wie schon fru?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Malgré cela il faut se
rappeler
que l'opinion que nous
avons les uns des autres, les rapports d'amitié, de famille, n'ont rien
de fixe qu'en apparence, mais sont aussi éternellement mobiles que la
mer.
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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"Her style was anything but clear,
And most unpleasantly severe;
Her
epithets
were very queer.
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Thus far did
Arethusa
speake: and then the fruitfull Dame
Two Dragons to hir Chariot put, and reyning hard the same, .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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He enters and
announces
to Merecraft that
Fitzdottrel and his wife are coming.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Precisely the same thing is found proportionally in the other emotions which have an analogy or
contrast
or dependence on the passion of love.
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| Question: |
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Tel us your Ioly wo and your penaunce, 1105
How
ferforth
be ye put in loves daunce.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
With all their might the authors of this radical tendency attempted to main- tain faith in life, above all the defeat of 1940 had proved that the world was in urgent need of French ideas particularly after they had taken an invigorating
Stalinist
or Maoist bath.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
|
Précipitation bien inutile,
car par un hasard
incroyable
vous aviez oublié votre clef et avez été
obligé de sonner.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
|
Unbeknown to her the images which I had conjured up would grow in her mind, taking on a deeper meaning and filling her heart with intimations of unknown rapture, until at last, distracted with
passionate
yearning, she threw herself into my arms.
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| Question: |
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
He is honest, as speaking and writing for himself
alone; joyful, because his thought has conquered
the
greatest
difficulties; consistent, because he
## p.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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by
arrangement
with
Cambridge University Press, London.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
He was
so enraged that he
peremptorily
refused either to ask his life or
renounce his claims to Manon.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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No chess player will ever have
understood
it any other way.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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There
Clarisse
had taken a room for herself and Ulrich.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Not finding the tyrant himself, he kills his
son, and leaves the sword
sticking
in his body.
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Lucian |
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Once
interpretation is simplified into a
Christological
expression of grace, God's word can be more fully present in human language.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan,
my mother,
accompanied
by me, visited this abode.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Endymion
was loved by the Moon, and Jasion – as in the Eleusinian mysteries – by Demeter.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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new
portrait
of me/: portrait in Tate Gallery.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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He never, for instance, permitted himself to
partake of the whole dinner, provided daily by Ustinya
Fyodorovna
for
the other boarders.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The big Jew is so bound up with this
Leihkapital
that no one is able to unscramble that omelet.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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“For
there’s
nor wood nor water but hath seen her footsteps flee –
Country-song, sing country-song, sweet Muses –
[85] “In search o’ thee.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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In this
misfortune
kings do most excel, II.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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" This sentence fixed the course for the unavoidable
politicization
of thinking.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Why Atheism
nowadays?
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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GOATHERD
[7] As sweetly, good Shepherd, falls your music as the
resounding
water that gushes down from the top o’ yonder rock.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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I was bound
Motionless
and faint of breath
By loveliness that is her own eunuch.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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All the buildings [85] were
characterized
by a magnificence and costliness quite unprecedented.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Tasso's rich melody still lives among the Itali-
an people; the
Nibelungen
also is what it professes to be, a Song.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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