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gentlemen
desires
news of his wife.
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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My heart longs to join in thy song, but vainly
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—a God who
would choose
perpetual
error, together with a
striving after truth, and who would, perhaps, fall
humbly at Strauss's feet and cry to him, "Take
thou all Truth, it is thine!
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non, du jour où
Albertine
fut revenue de Balbec avec vous, sauf ce que
je vous ai dit, elle ne fit plus jamais rien avec moi.
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ipsa mihi liquidas delapsa per auras 55 Iustitia insultat
vitiisque
a stirpe recisis
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those less imperious voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those
earthlier
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
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Nature does not give a damn about making anybody or
anything
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Then though he loved and
reverenced
her too much
To dream she could be guilty of foul act,
Right through his manful breast darted the pang
That makes a man, in the sweet face of her
Whom he loves most, lonely and miserable.
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But more
candidly
does that fat plump "Epicurean bacon-hog,"
Horace, for so he calls himself, bid us "mingle our purposes with folly;"
and whereas he adds the word _bravem_, short, perhaps to help out the
verse, he might as well have let it alone; and again, "'Tis a pleasant
thing to play the fool in the right season;" and in another place, he had
rather "be accounted a dotterel and sot than to be wise and made mouths
at.
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evidence
here of dedication, the unusual order must have a different purpose; the poem must be of the nature of a puzzle or riddle.
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Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
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Je remplace, pour qui me voit nue et sans voiles,
La lune, le soleil, le ciel et les
etoiles!
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Nevertheless, I was
annoyed beyond
expression
at the delay, and most unreasonably too, since
one night more could not matter much after so many months.
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128 One recent congressional study noted that although Tunisian leaders blamed the rise of fundamentalist attacks on the "Tehran-Khartoum-Tunis axis," "no evidence has been re- leased that these attacks were part of a 'Fundamentalism International'
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Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging,
like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers,
Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they
falter, and, lingering, languish in radiant
choir;
Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering, lily-long
fingers enchant through melodious hours,
Eyes ravished with rapture,
celestially
panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire!
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At the end of the poem
a more conciliatory attitude is taken up by the Seer who, basing
his faith upon the youth of his nation, refuses to believe that his
country, too
beautiful
to be laid waste by foreign feet, can perish.
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He uses the
same imagery, the same conceits, the same abstract ideas, for both
sexes; and adapts the leading motive which he had
invented
for a
person of one sex to a person of the other when it suits his purpose.
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And the beautiful
language
of that
teaching will remain with many generations to come.
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In
literature
he is attempting everything, plays, a novel,
polemical articles, lyric poems, and one supreme work which is to be the
very epic of humanity.
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The wood
of the oak is used for ship-building--it is pre-eminent for this: the
house carpenter also makes considerable use of its timber for beams,
rafters, staircases, and wainscoting; and from the bark the physician
gets a useful tonic, and the tanner, by its astringent
properties
con-
verts the skins of animals--some into material for the most delicate
gloves, and others into the rough woodman's mittens, besides number-
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And I too dream'd, until at last
Across my fancy,
brooding
warm,
The reflex of a legend past,
And loosely settled into form.
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After my first week at the hotel I always spent the afternoon
interval
in sleeping, or, when
I had money, in a BISTRO.
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And yet there is something still more
wonderful than this work, and that is the artist
himself, the man who, shortly after he had accom-
plished it, was able to create a picture of life so
full of clashing colours as the Meistersingers of
Nurnberg, and who in both of these compositions
seems merely to have refreshed and equipped
himself for the task of completing at his ease that
gigantic edifice in four parts which he had long
ago planned and begun—the
ultimate
result of all
his meditations and poetical flights for over twenty
years, his Bayreuth masterpiece, the Ring of the
Nibelung!
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his lordship is a fine judge of classic poetry, and though I beheve he cherishes a
contempt
for modern verse, he cannot fail to be struck by this poem the truth of its setting must appeal to him.
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E quell' ombra gentil per cui si noma
Pietola piu che villa mantoana,
del mio carcar diposta avea la soma;
per ch'io, che la ragione aperta e piana
sovra le mie quistioni avea ricolta,
stava com' om che
sonnolento
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Should I the godly seek,
And go a
conventicling
twice a week?
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Elemental
Gods their thunderous Organs blew; creating
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why, that if there were no kings, no
queens, no lords, no ladies, no gentlemen or gentlewomen in the world,
it would be no loss at all to God Almighty: this he said over some
forty times, which made me
remember
it, whether I would or not.
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The
greatest
of those wars had its remote cause in
the movement of Pan-Mongolism, which originated in Japan as far back as the end of the nineteenth
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"It is always the way of events
in this life," he
continued
presently: "no sooner have you got settled in
a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move
on, for the hour of repose is expired.
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How to have this anxious
business
set to
rights, and be admitted as cousins again, was the question: and it was
a question which, in a more rational manner, neither Lady Russell nor
Mr Elliot thought unimportant.
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Sanskrit
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Louis
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peculiarities
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Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying
combinations
touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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stateliest
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Le soleil était encore haut dans le ciel quand j'allais
retrouver
ma
mère sur la Piazzetta.
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While persisting in these prayers and lamen- tations, the glorious Virgin Dympna appeared and
wonderfully
consoled him ; for, having broken the chain and opened the door of his prison, she directed the captive to escape.
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It could be that this Heraclitean theme was all the more dear to Marcus because ofthe great importance he
attached
to the notion of" miliarity" with Nature, and there re with the logos.
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The chief minister, however, did not
acknowledge
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
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Marphisa, who would
willingly
be clear
What of a closer fight would be the event,
For a new combat with the paynim lord,
Wheeled, to attack that warrior with the sword.
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This is the mystery of eternal love, that that which would be absolute for itself, although
considering
it no theft to exist for itself, yet exists only in and with others.
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Derriere les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'elancer vers les champs lumineux et
sereins!
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Captain Holland, being one the first, hap the English skirmishing parties and ainbushes Meath and pened leap down into
hogshead
feathers and stuck there, Kildare, particularly Trim and Rathangan, and attacked
and sir William Brereton having got cried out “St.
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The mTshur-phu Monastery edition,
published
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‘I don’t think so Because, you see, I do feel that that kind of work, even if it
means saying prayers that one
doesn’t
believe m, and even if it means teaching
children things that one doesn’t always think are true-I do feel that m a way
it’s useful.
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The greatest exponent of
the Indus boundary was Lord Lawrence, who advocated meeting any
invader in the valley of the Indus, for the longer distance an invading
army had to march through
Afghanistan
and the tribal country, the
more harassed it would be.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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As a matter of
fact,
wherever
the plant, man, is found strong,
2 A
VOL.
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" At that time over-all
carloadings
were 15 per cent of normal and moving toward zero.
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The
centuries
are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul .
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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sed comprime motus nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit
occurrat, mentemque domet
respectus
honesti.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Yet, somehow or other, his Eminence
never felt quite at ease in these assemblies; he was more at home with
audiences of a
different
kind; and we must look in other directions for
the free and full manifestation of his speculative gifts.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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He holds that this does not occur by means of memory, reasoning or reflection, for all their operations are eternal operations; no act can be new to them, and, in con- sequence, they do nothing which is inappropriate to the whole, nor any- thing which is not perfect or does not follow a definite and
predetermined
order, and all this completely without any act of deliberation.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Lady, for whom I sing and whistle,
Your lovely gaze, like
sharpened
bristle,
So chastens me with joy, no trace
Dare I own of low desire or base.
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Troubador Verse |
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In forest arms the night will soonest creep,
Where sombre pines a lullaby intone,
Where Nature's
children
curl themselves to sleep,
And all is still at last, save where alone
A band of black, belated crows arrive from lands unknown.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Trăm năm trong cõi
người
ta,
Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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When an
individual
or a party is wronged in the United
States, to whom can he apply for redress?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Withal the fools in ermine and
the fools in rags have
fundamentally
the same faith, — faith in
Evil as the master and prince of this world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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A person who approaches the world with confidence yet who, when in difficulty, is
disposed
to turn to trusted figures for support is often said to be mature.
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The
Realization
o f these Vajra Points
The essence of Buddhahood is actual realization.
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It is more
important that the student acquire the habit of looking at society from
a biological as well as a
sociological
point of view, than that he put
his faith in the efficacy of any particular mode of procedure.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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And
may not the favour bestowed upon me by you, whose destiny
seems to be bound up with my own, be a hint, and your
proposal a way, of this
Providence?
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Immediately after Christ's resurrection, the time until the Day of Judgment had been expected to be very limited; then, with
Pentecost
and with the decades to follow, the time until the end of the world became an open time, i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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She was a lady of
great beauty and virtue, but was
exceedingly
ill used by her husband,
who was violently attached to his mistresses, though he owed his crown
to the assistance of his father-in-law, the King of Portugal.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Kẻ sĩ may mắn
được
ghi danh vào tấm đá này, phải làm cho danh đúng với thực, sửa nết giữ mình, bắt chước Văn Hiến giữ lòng, đừng theo Công Tôn học hành xiên vạy.
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stella-03 |
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Excellent for
reference
in school library.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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How does one get out of playing chicken if he considers it dangerous, degrading, or
unprofitable?
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Roses
IN white and glowing blossomy undulation,
From shrubs
encircling
distant heights and hollows,
You lost yourself .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo-meat, which
couldn't have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn't, in
the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a
considerable
quantity of it
overboard.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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The blood that had risen to her throat in fear and
vexation
now rushed pell-mell down to her hips.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Spectacular
and embarrassing as they are, they serve to restore the possibility of forging the most direct link between self and praise.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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We are subject to continual changes from
the
external
circumstances of our life, and
yet we always have the feeling of our iden-
tity.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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II Sad thoughts on
evenings
with Hu fifes, a dismal spring in the parks of Han.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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His celebration elsewhere of the
technological
bricoleur who, with sol- dering gun in hand and DOS screen in view, reconfigures the user- friendly interfaces of dumbed down technologies, certainly suggests an activist role for at least those with an engineering bent.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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It was at his command that the seventy [wise men] translated the Hebrew
scriptures
[into Greek].
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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