I had not a notion of her being such a little devil before,
she seemed to have all the Vernon milkiness; but on receiving the letter
in which I
declared
my intention about Sir James, she actually attempted
to elope; at least, I cannot otherwise account for her doing it.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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, for the Irish stanza, thus rendered into
" The kingly Bishop Tassagh,
Who administered on his arrival,
The body of Christ-- the truly
powerful
King -- And the Communion to Patrick".
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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ndus-
trial sin antes
someterse
e?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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His
affections
seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his
interest in their welfare again became perceptible.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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When that happens, one has established the
foundation
of the meditation of Mahamudra.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The landed
property
of Hartfield certainly was
inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate,
to which all the rest of Highbury belonged; but their fortune, from
other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell
Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Woodhouses had
long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which
Mr.
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Austen - Emma |
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2^ This position was
strengthened
during the decade of the seventies by virtue of changed international positions following the Franco-Prussian War,^* and by the altered domestic situation
22 One effort which led to the Interessengemeinschaft der zentralen Industriellen- verbande (Community of Interests of the Central Industrial Associations), 1906-8, seems to have enjoyed little popularity.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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She spoke in verse like
the
bazvalanes
[matchmakers], knew more songs than the beggars
of Scaër, and repeated the local stories told at all the lime-kilns
and mills of the country.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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--one
would say that you do not wish to
introduce
us.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The double-head looking both ways was
connected
with the gate that opened both ways.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the
Governor
all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Poems |
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It is only a dead alle-
gory, a mere
classification
of all the virtues of an ethical system;
in short, such a one that but for the proper names of the per-
sonages, we should never suspect any part of their history to con-
tain "
more than meets the ear.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Succedet
igitur, ut arbitror, haud ita multo post, pro
rusticana seculi nostri ruditate captatrix illa communi-loquentia robur
animi virilis omne, omnem virtutem masculam, profligatura nisi cavetur.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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_ And, as ye keep the oath,
May you and your posterity be blessed,
Or cursed,
forever!
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Thomas Otway |
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BONIFACE
RECOMMENDING COLOGNE AS SUITABLE FOR BECOMING A METROPOLITAN CITY—SUBSEQUENT SELECTION OF MAYENCE AND DEPOSITION OF GEWILEIB—ST.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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I stand, so to
speak, with an
unposted
letter bearing the extra regulation fee before
the too late box of the general postoffice of human life.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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It was the fourteenth year, giáp dan*, of the
Kaihuang
era of the Sui dynasty (594).
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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For this reason the
contradiction
still remains if we say 'A exists' means 'The idea of the A has been caused by something affecting the ego'.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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~
defIlIng
tht (trove of P l.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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iiitfi' iiiW'ifHi iifFi I
iiniiiittiii
fijiiiiiiiiiitiiiji w.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Loudon says that "when the nut [of the common walnut of Europe] is to
be preserved through the winter for the purpose of
planting
in the
following spring, it should be laid in a rot-heap, as soon as
gathered, with the husk on, and the heap should be turned over
frequently in the course of the winter.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As almost
all my
religious
tenets originate from my heart, I am wonderfully
pleased with the idea, that I can still keep up a tender intercourse
with the dearly beloved friend, or still more dearly beloved mistress,
who is gone to the world of spirits.
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Robert Burns- |
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6 We should not give up hope of a better crane arising in physics, something as powerful as
Darwinism
is for biology.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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There is such a
consociation
of
offices between the prince and whom his favour breeds, that they may help
to sustain his power as he their knowledge.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--
SAPPHIC
FRAGMENT
473
CATULLUS: XXXI 474
AFTER SCHILLER 476
SONG: FROM HEINE 477
FROM VICTOR HUGO 479
CARDINAL BEMBO'S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL 480
RETROSPECT--
"I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES" 483
MEMORY AND I 486
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He travelled widely from 1806, in Europe and the Middle East, and highly critical of Napoleon
followed
the King into exile in 1815 in Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In the general
introduction
the editor has aimed not so much to recite
the facts of Pope's life as to draw the portrait of a man whom he
believes to have been too often misunderstood and misrepresented.
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Alexander Pope |
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'
5 At the courts of the
sovereign
and of the other princes.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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One may greatly admire him, and yet conceive that he has been far
more apt in finding what is weakest in the philosophical and reli-
gious implications of a transitional science, than in appropriating
those scientific elements which make for a more satisfactory solution
of the
universal
mystery than any yet obtained.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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The rail along the curving pathway
Was low in a happy place to let us cross,
And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom
Sheltered
us,
While your kisses and the flowers,
Falling, falling,
Tangled my hair.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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But thou didst choose the rulers of cities themselves, beneath whose hand is the lord of the soil, the skilled in spearmanship, the oarsman, yea, all things that are: what is there that is not under the
ruler’s
sway?
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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For the pain of modernization pervades the life feelings of all social groups subjected to technical and
political
adjourn- ment.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Investments stagnated, heavy industry
operated
far below capacity, and corporate profits and agribusiness exports were declining.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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These young men were heirs to Cleonymus by the laws of Athens, and their
grandfather
had appointed them successors to their uncle if he should die childless.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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But if I can find no _such Idea_ in me, I have no argument to perswade
me of the _existence_ of any thing besides my self for I have diligently
enquired, and
hitherto
I could discover no other _perswasive_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Praise him as best I may, when all is said,
Remain untold, honour and
goodness
yet.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In earlier eras the
etiquette
was more permissive.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Religions must therefore--this was the
contention
of
all foes of enlightenment--sensu allegorico, with regard for the
comprehension of the masses, give expression to that ancient truth which
is wisdom in itself, inasmuch as all science of modern times has led up
to it instead of away from it.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Nor in
AEschylus
nor Dante, those stern masters of
tenderness, in Shakespeare, the most purely human of all the great
artists, in the whole of Celtic myth and legend, where the loveliness of
the world is shown through a mist of tears, and the life of a man is no
more than the life of a flower, is there anything that, for sheer
simplicity of pathos wedded and made one with sublimity of tragic effect,
can be said to equal or even approach the last act of Christ's passion.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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The
discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to
the floor,
instantly
gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was
there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and
coming to the bed.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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refers to this), and his life at his Wang River estate where he could paint and write, be
musician
and scholar.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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_Foreign
Quarterly Review.
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Hugo - Poems |
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ufelnd') suggests perhaps the grass is
trickling
with blood and not dew or mist.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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How to use that opportunity in the national interest, or in some wider interest, can be just as important as the achievement of victory itself; but traditional
military
science does not tell us how to use that capacity for inflicting pain.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Here they say the fiction
of the moderns originated respecting Nauplius and his sons, for Homer
would not have omitted to mention them, if
Palamedes
displayed so much
wisdom and intelligence, and was unjustly put to death; and if Nauplius
had destroyed so many people at Caphareus.
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Strabo |
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Ideology critique is no longer concerned with winning the
dissected
opponent over to its own side; it is concerned with the 'corpse,' with the critical extract of his ideas, which is preserved in the libraries of Enlighteners where one can effortlessly read up on how false they were.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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One binds his wounds with herbs and healing strips;
One
sprinkles
him with water from the brook;
A third has kissed him lightly on the lips,
And wistfully he meets her winning look:-
“Tell me, my sister, tell me only this:
Where is Karadjata, my comrade dear?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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” The
dedication
to Hadrian is contained in the acrostic, which runs, “O Olympian, mayst thou sacrifice in many years.
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Pattern Poems |
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1, as compared with the general
heredity
correlation
of .
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Thou gentle maid of silent valleys and of modest brooks:
For thou shall be clothed in light, and fed with morning manna:
Till summers heat melts thee beside the
fountains
and the springs
To flourish in eternal vales: they why should Thel complain.
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blake-poems |
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Reality doesn't matter; what matters is the
situation
of capi- tal.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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This
question
is discussed ii.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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tion of
Buddhahood
yourself.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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"I feel
nothing
egotistic
in that desire.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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"You
know his hand, I dare say, a
charming
one it is; but that is not
written so well as usual.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Heart that was big as the bowels of Vesuvius, Words that were wing'd as her sparks in eruption^
Eagled and
thundered
as Jupiter Pluvius, Sound in your wind past all signs o' corruption.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A nuance will surely elude a reader who is
unfamiliar
with the landscape where these texts largely came into being.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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They were,
independently
and one ahead of the
other on the same track.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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XXIX
The Pagans fled before their valiant foes,
For dread or craft, it skills not that we know,
A soldier wild, careless to win or lose,
Saw where her locks about the damsel flew,
And at her back he proffereth as he goes
To strike where her he did
disarmed
view:
But Tancred cried, "Oh stay thy cursed hand,"
And for to ward the blow lift up his brand.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Mme Bontemps sur qui le jeune homme ne cessait de
faire agir a
rappelé
Albertine.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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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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Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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The
contention
appears to be altogether too
preposterous.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
|
II
Morning and evening opened and closed above me:
Houses were built above me; trees let fall
Yellowing leaves upon me, hands of ghosts,
Rain has showered its arrows of silver upon me
Seeking my heart; winds have roared and tossed me;
Music in long blue waves of sound has borne me
A helpless weed to shores of unthought silence;
Time, above me, within me, crashed its gongs
Of
terrible
warning, sifting the dust of death;
And here I lie.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Restriction hinders
restriction
and meets
restriction.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shobogenzo |
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Corresponding
to these two types of limita- tions are two rates of return: (1) a normal rate of return that all capitalists believe they deserve; and (2) a differential rate of return that capitalists seek over and above the normal.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
He has been Canon of Carlisle and
Honorary
Chaplain
to the King since 1912.
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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11; the stand-
ard of culture established by, 60; effects of Ger-
man culture on, 105; his friendship with Schil-
ler, 107; his
epilogue
to The Bell referred to,
107; the age of, and the demand for culture,
114; relates an opinion regarding Schiller's Rob-
bers, 138; his recantation of Wolfs theories re-
garding Homer quoted, 149; on Homer, 156.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Die Grausamkeit ist wie das
Verbrechen
eine
allgemeine Willensrichtung.
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Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
They had reported at Venice during my absence that I
was dead; and there was a monk who had even the
temerity
to
say he had been at my funeral.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Soft were my numbers; who could take offence,
While pure
description
held the place of sense?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He by the Senate is accited home,
From weary wars against the
barbarous
Goths,
That with his sons, a terror to our foes,
Hath yok'd a nation strong, train'd up in arms.
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Shakespeare |
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she who was
almighty
hailed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Alexander
Ruthven being
slain, and taken down the stairs before their
entry.
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Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
Underwood
would talk for the rest of the night, Mr.
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Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
|
Institutions are heavily shaped by class
interests
and class power.
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Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Then again they all tried, and the tinker he swore
That the
hogshead
had grown twice as heavy or more.
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Source: |
John Clare |
|
The consternation of the assembly was
indescribable; and, in the first alarm, the deputies
prepared
for
flight.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
|
XXX
But then subjoins the Gascon cavalier
How in the Moorish camp a damsel lies,
By name Marphisa hight, of beauteous cheer,
Bold and as skilled in arms of every guise,
Who loves Rogero and to him is dear;
And then the host so rarely
sundered
spies,
That every one, throughout the paynim train,
Deems that betrothed in wedlock are the twain.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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As turns, as flies, the woodman
In the
Calabrian
brake,
When through the reeds gleams the round eye
Of that fell speckled snake;
So turned, so fled, false Sextus,
And hid him in the rear,
Behind the dark Lavinian ranks,
Bristling with crest and spear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
34
Excipiuntur tamen pauca 'M
Et contra sunt, quae, a longis 37
Composita simplicium 38
Excipiuntur tamen haec brevia 39
Omne
praeteritum
dissyllabum 53 .
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
Thus, the stage was
subject to two authorities, not only different in
character
but
rivals in policy and interest.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
He worked on until his
brain gave way, worn out at last by his
indomitable
spirit; and his
work has opened out the possibilities of man's life as widely and as
surely as the work of anyone who has ever lived.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
An image of
completeness
on all sides emerges; the "Weltinnenraum" that draws the true Venice forth in unimpeded fashion is nothing other than the absolute charac- ter of the self reflected in the poetic trope that I have chosen to call Venice.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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My dear Catherine,--Unluckily I was
confined
to my room when your last
letter came, by a cold which affected my eyes so much as to prevent my
reading it myself, so I could not refuse your father when he offered
to read it to me, by which means he became acquainted, to my great
vexation, with all your fears about your brother.
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He had to state, then, that there were amongst those who reported the debates of that House, no less than twenty-three graduates of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and Edinburgh ; those gentlemen were all in their pro gress to honourable professions ; and there was no possible course better than that which they had adopted for the improvement of their minds, and the acquisition of
political
experience.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Is there any way to know what motivated him to write a book on household
management?
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Our guilty head
We turn'd to flight; the gathering
vengeance
spread
On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lie dead.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There are no
obstacles
in your way.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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The price will go up much more after two weeks or so in this
inflation
speed.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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No
Foreign Office was more painfully aware than that of the
Vatican (except, perhaps, the series of distracted ministers
who came, tried and failed at the Ball-Platz in Vienna)
that the Italian Question opened up issues far wider and of
deeper import than maintenance of the Treaties of 1815,
the
continuance
of the Austrian flag on the citadel at
Milan and on the Piazza di San Marco at Venice, or the
barbarism of a Bomba at Naples.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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--
fictilia
antiquus primum sibi fecit agrestis
pocula, de facili composuitque luto.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"As he could no longer turn any other part of his body to account,
he determined thenceforth to exercise his tongue, and admirably has
he succeeded in sharpening it upon the whetstone of impurity,[17]
making his mouth the vehicle for shameless speech, pouring out its
torrents of abuse on every one, and having his
effrontery
stamped upon
his very face, he has gone the length (as you have seen) of coarsely
insulting in your presence an individual whom you have honoured with
the priesthood.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Or why choose a man to do plain work who is
distinguished
for
his oddity?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Now, even
at the present day, it is from Boulogne that the passage is easiest to
arrive in England, because the favourable winds are more
frequent
than
at Wissant and Calais.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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), Drayton prefixed to it a
brief discourse on pastoral in general, which contains this character-
istically ungrammatical sentence:
The subject of Pastorals, as the language of it ought to be poor, silly, and
of the
coarsest
woof in appearance; nevertheless, the most high, and most
noble matters of the world may be shadowed in them, and for certain some-
times are.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Lastly we have the other class of
individuals
who are not born to
crime, but are not firmly upright, alternating between vice and
virtue, with imperfect moral sense, education and training, for
whom punishment may be genuinely useful as a psychological motive.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting
their
discrepancies
and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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