These
accounts
are meant to be suggestive and plausible, not de- finitive.
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whom unarm'd
No strength of man, or
fiercest
wild beast could withstand;
Who tore the Lion, as the Lion tears the Kid,
Ran on embattelld Armies clad in Iron,
And weaponless himself, 130
Made Arms ridiculous, useless the forgery
Of brazen shield and spear, the hammer'd Cuirass,
Chalybean temper'd steel, and frock of mail
Adamantean Proof;
But safest he who stood aloof,
When insupportably his foot advanc't,
In scorn of thir proud arms and warlike tools,
Spurn'd them to death by Troops.
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Milton |
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Hunchbacked
and broken, crooked though they be,
Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Luckily for the Emperor, Odo was obliged during the spring
of 1033 to make head against Henry I, King of France, who for
the second time had made an attempt upon Sens”, and he was for several
months quite unable to follow up his early
successes
in Burgundy.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Child Verse
A DUET
A LITTLE yellow Bird above,
^^^^ A little yellow Flower below;
The little Bird can sing the love
That Bird and Blossom know ;
The Blossom has no song nor wing,
But
breathes
the love he cannot sing.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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2), men of the dictator, and was by Augustus handed
tions four
different
opinions respecting its origin : down to bis adopted son Tiberius.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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By doing so, you will fulfill your guru's wishes and be of service to the Buddhadharma; you will repay your parents' kindness and spontaneously accomplish the benefit of
yourself
and others.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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The element that had fascinated the philologist in the distant and as yet
undivided
view of this chorus of Dionysian throngs is too evident to require an explanation.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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These thoughts were heavy enough,- perhaps
even more
overwhelming
than that grief which develops love to
its highest point of intensity.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Together we caused
Thracian
Hebrus to run red with Getic blood, together overthrew the squadrons of the Sarmatae, together rested our weary limbs on the snows of
Mount Riphaeus and seared the frozen Danube with our chariot's wheel — come, therefore, since
heaven's halls claim me, do thou take
task ; be thou sole guardian of my children, let thy hand protect my two sons.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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For, although the different communities may very well have arrived at the
abolition
of royalty in itself independently of each other 31 the identity in the appellation of the new annual kings in the Roman and other commonwealths of Latium, and the comprehensive application of the peculiar
of collegiateness,1 evidently point to some external connection.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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In Anatomy and Astronomy he is said to have preceded
the
discoveries
of Harvey and Galileo.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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On the deliberate and circular structure of this order, which includes even the political asymmetry of sovereignty, see also Louis Marin,
Leportrait
du roi (Paris, 1981).
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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1130-1150)
Marcabru was a
powerful
influence on later poets who adopted the trobar clus style.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
infinite
straight line thus finally becomes the infinite circle.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Money is the necessary ingredient that gives the rich their immense
political
influence, their monopoly ownership of mass media, their access to skilled lobbyists and high public office.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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They soon entered a broad path way, which seemed to be very neatly kept, and which went winding along with streaks of
sunshine
falling across it, and specks of light quivering among the deepest shadows that fell from the lofty trees.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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SGANARELLE
(_after having taken the money_): Is it
good weight?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Come, let's away, and quickly let's be drest,
And quickly give:--the
swiftest
grace is best.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its
limits in joy and gives birth to
utterance
ineffable.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My
garments
all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams
And still my body drank.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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“Cretans
are ever liars.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Of all the ills unhappy mortals know,
A life of
wanderings
is the greatest woe;
On all their weary ways wait care and pain,
And pine and penury, a meagre train.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In old age the upper beak of the eagle grows gradually longer and more crooked, and the bird dies eventually of starvation; there is a folklore story that the eagle is thus
punished
because it once was a man and refused entertainment to a stranger.
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Aristotle copy |
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These words do not speak in the context o f god: the voices are
extracted
from
everydaylife.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Pues cuando ya la comunidad habra
decidido
que, en honor del difunto y
como muestra de respeto a su memoria, permaneceria callado el organo
en esta noche, hate aqui que se presenta nuestro hombre, diciendo que
el se atreve a tocarlo.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Hugo - Poems |
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a strategy of player A is a
function
F : HT !
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Schwarz - Committments |
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ma) as the
spiritual
support on the path.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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I was so reduced that they were obliged to carry me from
the prison to my bed, and there I
suffered
for three long months
under severe illness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"
The first tilt they
together
rode
They put their steeds to the test,
The second tilt they together rode,
They proved their manhood best.
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Longfellow |
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Not more
cheerful
was Mrs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Meanwhile, there is a logical
argument
which I can assert with more confidence.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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My success in
reaching
the Ohio, 113.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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At present, when
quite other and higher tasks are assigned than
patria and honor, the rough Roman patriotism
is either something
dishonourable
or a sign of
being behind the times.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Knoweth not beautifully now our love,
That Life, here to this festival bid come
Clad in his
splendour
of worldly day and night,
Filled and empower'd by heavenly lust, is all
The glad imagination of the Spirit?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Now give me another potato, and tell me plainly if you know how much your royalties
amounted
to last year and how much you and Haidee spent.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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The pathos with which he pursues the distinc- tion between
certainties
and probabilities in his fundamental works was also fed by the object-lesson that the religious civil war provided to contemporaries.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Wise as Saturn was, the greatness of his power had
prevented him from
realizing
that he was neither the beginning nor the
end, but a link in the chain of progress.
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Keats |
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le is to refrain from
starting
the war.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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372 THOUGHT REFORM
nature of traditional Chinese society, a theme which is expressed on several
simultaneous
levels of symbolism.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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While close at hand the glow-worm lights her lamp
Or
twinkles
from afar.
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Christina Rossetti |
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All the gods that pursue Schreber announce their plan as "We want to destroy your reason"; against all such pursuit Schreber at- tempts "my
allotted
task of at all times convincing God .
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Were it possible to make this
sufficiently
clear to all the actors and audiences of the modern game, it would also become evident to them why this tendency cannot be reversed through a flight to the ancient foundations.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Like a bird in joyous flight, with fair weather it glides to the west, with the tip of its right wing outstretched towards the right hand of Cepheus, and by its left wing is hung in the heavens the
prancing
Horse.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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—A single joyless person
is enough to make
constant
displeasure and a
clouded heaven in a household; and it is only
by a miracle that such a person is lacking!
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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lderlin's Hyperion provides a
literary
description of this problem: "Wer bloss an meiner Pflanze reicht, der kennt sie nicht, und wer sie pflu?
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Hegel_nodrm |
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"Nay," she
answered
him in haste,--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Belike then, there
frindship
but
betweene honest men.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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" John Davies of
Hereford
was moved
to declare in Humours Heauen on Earth:96 "Poets, whiche all men
w The Posies, ed.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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And he arose from his bed with joy and woke all his comrades
hurriedly
and told them the prophecy of Mopsus the son of Ampycus.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Gaed
foremost
o'er the knowe,
And or I wad anither jad,
I'll wallop in a tow.
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burns |
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<
ricompie forse negligenza e indugio
da voi per
tepidezza
in ben far messo,
questi che vive, e certo i' non vi bugio,
vuole andar su, pur che 'l sol ne riluca;
pero ne dite ond' e presso il pertugio>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all their prosperity; if need be,
you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;
You thought not to destroy those
valuable
houses, standing fast, full of
comfort, built with money;
May they stand fast, then?
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Whitman |
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54
NAIVE
DESCRIPTION
OF HOW AN EMOTION ORIGINA TES
Agathe had gone on to read a large part of the pages that followed.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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his body, now
burning with fever, was soon covered with a cold sweat:
yet still had the child the force to constrain himself:
he pressed his little hands upon his mouth, and thus
suppressed the
complaints
that his sufferings were
forcing from him.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Certain wives of London trades-
men sign a letter begging the king and
parliament
to stop the war.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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She shakes frost off her feathers, then shakes herself
alert, preparing to launch out for the take,
Then
launches
aloft, swift as a hungry spear,
aiming in one sharp swipe to fell her prey.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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One is that, unlike those
sociable
games it takes two to play, with chicken it takes two not to play.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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The painter even seemed to
misunderstand
why K.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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but it is cast vndir {and}
fortroden
vndir ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The one question that Harpham is not asking--and should
probably
have asked--is where exactly we should draw the limit (or, rather, the [End Page 133] different limits) between legitimate and problematic interdisciplinarity.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Two
Equipments
(tshogs/sari:lbhara).
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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As it could not be explained in accordance with their metaphysics how the individual soul arising from the World-reason should fall under the mastery of sensuous impulses, so it is equally
impossible
to understand how theoretical assent should, under certain circum stances, be given even to false ideas.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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I doubt not but it was one reason why Augustus should be so passionately con- cern'd for the preservation of the 2Eneis, which its author had condemn'd to be burnt, as an
imperfect
poem, by his last will and testament; was because it did him a real service, as well as an honor; that a work should not be lost where his divine original was celebrated in verse which had the character of immortality stamp'd upon it.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Dîner chez les Guermantes, c'était comme
entreprendre
un voyage
longtemps désiré, faire passer un désir de ma tête devant mes yeux et
lier connaissance avec un songe.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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i=;ii:i'ii1t-=ii+
; :j i:
=i,i=i: :i f ; : i'zii i
+\=r=ii=
?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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After the rise of film, the theater could also shift its
lighting
to virtual
effects and klieg lights, as Max Reinhardt did in Berlin.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Bright
pearls he saw rising from the deep, quiet bubbles of air floating on
the
reflecting
surface, the blue of the sky being depicted in it.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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^3' He
continued
his journey, by making quick marches, and soon he arrived within sight of Dublin.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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The
absolute
identity does not emerge from itself.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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For an educated person's ideas of Art are drawn naturally from what Art
has been, whereas the new work of art is
beautiful
by being what Art has
never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure
it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
| Guess: |
defined |
| Question: |
Is any art new? |
| Answer: |
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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2] L To oppose Onomarchus, the Thebans and Thessalians chose as general, not one of their own people, lest they should not be able to endure his rule if he should conquer, 2 but Philippus, king of Macedonia, voluntarily
submitting
to that power from a foreigner which they dreaded in the hands of their own countrymen.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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I am
resolved
rather to die, and I shall die if I be not
delivered.
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resolved |
| Question: |
How may I deliver? |
| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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processes of emergence and release from
inhibitions
in their entirety possible, processes that characterize the modern psychologies.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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It is the time when pairing has not only been
approved
but has been enjoined as a duty.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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the youth thus addressed him : " Father, in time past I was permitted to
signalize
myself in the two most noble and becom ing exercises of war and hunting ; but now you keep me excluded from both, without having observed in me either cowardice or want of spirit.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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It is variously interpreted by commentators;
the sense which is here given of it is that
recommended
by Eustathius.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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from an avidyd abandoned by the Seeing of
Extinction?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Ein Bruder stirbt dir in
verwunschnem
Land
Und sta?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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having quoted
the authority, of some modern lexicographers, and jjiven his own
vote in favor of Patroclus, calls for a reason why he should not
be at liberty to accent Patrocles and
Patrocli
in the same man-
ner.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Pues reconocer una existencia excéntrica como modo legítimo del
ser-en-el-mundo
significaría
negar la necesidad de la relación entre
centro y epicentro.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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And don't you see that changeableness,
Is to lose time's joy in heart's
yearning?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_ of the leading
determinations
of
sensible things which are due not to sense but to understanding.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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They had
been sitting under the trees, talking, and Kamala had said thoughtful
words, words behind which a sadness and
tiredness
lay hidden.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In 1816,
appeared
Gifford's ed.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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[59]
Improper
thinking is rooted in the basic ignorance of not realizing the essential nature of things.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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It would be
hazardous
for a modern to try to gauge
the exact effect of an ancient poem on an ancient reader,
especially when contemporary criticism is silent.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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What queer fellows your fine
painters
must
be, to think that anybody would venture their lives in such a shapeless
old cockleshell as that?
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Truly without the falcon's wings to carry me
How can I rival the flying wind's
swiftness?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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This is how enlightened beings experienced it in the past, how they
experience
it now, and how they will experience it in the future.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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^ngus, the Martyrologies,
ascribed
both to Eusebius and to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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_ I am neither
confessor
nor notary,
So cannot say.
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Byron |
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---, who is so celebrated, can
read nothing well but
dramatic
compositions: Milton she cannot read
sufferably.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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