THE HEATH-COCK
T"
HE heath-cock crawed o'er muir an' dale;
Red rase the sun o'er distant vale;
Our
Northern
clans, wi' distant yell,
Around their chiefs were gathering.
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He must not in my face detect my heart;'
'Twas this, which, as a rein the
generous
horse,
Slack'd your hot haste, and shaped your proper course.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Considering what bodily Distempers I have been
exercised
with, since I came out of the Torture, viz.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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The absolute and irreconcilable an tagonism between philosophy and theology which Strauss
tries to show, in the case of each dogma, is the final result of the historical process, arises unavoidably then only when both the philosopher and the theologian make the same mistake of
embracing
a dogmatism which propounds its formula; as infallible truths.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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all heretics Hope, its
firmness
in the Christian, of part, and among the few, 290;
v.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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[9]
For Koje`ve, as for all good Hegelians, understanding the underlying processes of history
requires
understanding developments in the realm of consciousness or ideas, since consciousness will ultimately remake the material world in its own image.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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And when the turn to dance came to
Hegesianax
of Alexandria in the Troad, who wrote the Histories, he rose up and said- 'Do you wish, O king, to see me dance badly, or would you prefer hearing me recite my own poems very well?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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With the
Addition
of Believe as
you List.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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420
Beseching
hir of mercy and of grace,
As she that is my lady sovereyne;
Or let me dye present in this place.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Jean
Beaufret
and Franc ?
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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First Citizen-O piteous
spectacle!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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End of the Project
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EBook of Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Yet he plodded thence through the dark immense,
And with many a
stumbling
stride
Through copse and briar climbed nigh and nigher
To the cot and the sick man's side.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Dans les terminaisons latines
Des cieux moires de vert baignent les Fronts vermeils
Et taches du sang pur des
celestes
poitrines,
De grands linges neigeux tombent sur les soleils.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Furthermore, because it is
the riddle answer that gives significance to the inscription, a riddle with a
variety of answers can
interpret
its drawing in a variety of ways (for example,
no.
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Childens - Folklore |
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The Dominie Sampson called Wagner, is appended to Faust for the
time
somewhat
as Sancho is to Don Quixote.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Later on, when they have
themselves
gained
an eye for the gaps and defects in their science, they
place themselvesinwhateverposition they areneeded.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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But what is the fury of those dumb beasts compared with the
fury of execration which bursts from the parched lips and aching
throats of the damned in hell when they behold in their companions in
misery those who aided and abetted them in sin, those whose words sowed
the first seeds of evil thinking and evil living in their minds, those
whose immodest
suggestions
led them on to sin, those whose eyes tempted
and allured them from the path of virtue.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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I
willingly
submit to these accusations.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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LXXXVIII
Which of us does not admire what
Lycurgus
the Spartan did?
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Epictetus |
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They said their
ancestors
had travelled there to escape from the empire of Chi?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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He had almost
forgotten
the bishop and his wife before
at last he grasped the wicket gate leading to his own door.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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How know I that it is so with all the
beauties
of existing things?
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Tao Te Ching |
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His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely
constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched
with leaves of copy-books, It was most
ingeniously
secured at
vacant hours by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and
stakes set against the window shutters; so that though a thief
might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrass-
ment in getting out: an idea most probably borrowed by the
architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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a
chap, IX ART AND SCIENCE
119
particularly in Roman
architecture
85); the building of the magnificent arches began.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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They are dreams of horror clothed in brass,
Which from profoundest depths of evil pass
With futile aim to dare the
Infinite!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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,
Tipperary
County, at the base of Rock of Cashel, ?
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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"
Mary looked
delighted
as the lady
said these words, but Frank looked
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Childrens - Frank |
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Secondly, I
attribute
little other interest to the remarks
than what is derived from the celebrity of the person who made them.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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κ' έτρωγεν όσον ο αοιδός 'ς το μέγαρο ετραγούδα•
και ο θείος έπαυεν αοιδός κ' είχε αποφάγει εκείνος,
τότε οι
μνηστήρες
σήκωσαν βοή, και του Οδυσσέα 360
'ς το πλάγι ευρέθ' η Αθηνά και τον παρακινούσε
να συμμαζόνη ολόγυρα χαψιαίς απ' τους μνηστήραις,
να μάθη τίνες δίκαιοι και τίνες άνομ' ήσαν•
και ουδέ μ' αυτό δεν έμελλε καν έναν να λυτρώση.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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My Lord will go back
To where he can sleep
Among the white clouds,
When the sun is as high
As the head of a
helmeted
man.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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[5]
Antes de que tratemos de
averiguar
cua?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Âu đành quả kiếp nhân duyên,
Cùng
người
một hội, một thuyền đâu xa!
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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1
so that he was made superVIsor of cattle
In that tIme were
banquets
as usual, Kung was Inspector of
markets
And that year was a comet In SeolpIa
and by nIght they fought In the boats on Klang rIver
2.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Like wire-pulled automatons,
Slim silhouetted skeletons
Went sidling through the slow quadrille,
Then took each other by the hand,
And danced a stately saraband;
Their
laughter
echoed thin and shrill.
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Wilde - Poems |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for
informing
people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Tully - Offices |
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Where ever Light the Gospell goeth before, There Edification do followe incontinent,
Yet surely the
congregation
Godde's elect,
Where the light and force taketh place, there Edifica tion
Of right must make my habitation.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Such
cowardise
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Demofthenes will affirm,,
that the Commonwealth has been fignally
indebted
to his Ser-
vices, and that I have injured her in a thoufand Inftances ; that
Philip and Alexander, and all the Calamities, they brought
upon the Republic, are to be imputed to me.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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A Boy
Out of the noise of tired people working,
Harried with
thoughts
of war and lists of dead,
His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing,
Clean boyish beauty and high-held head.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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239
to some of his acquaintance, that the person present was Turpin, and that they might take him into cus tody after he had received his debt, the
highwayman
made his escape through a window, and rode off with
the greatest expedition.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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The national State has the right
and duty of protecting its nationals all over the
world; it cannot endure that a German race should
be
gradually
transformed into a German-French
mongrel without any reason except the perversity
of a degenerate bureaucracy.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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"
Recognition
came to
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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The
Experientialist
Alternative: Giving New Meaning to the Old Myths
30.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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It is now
possible
to make sense of mental processes and even to study them in the lab.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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En toi je tomberai, vegetale ambroisie,
Grain precieux jete par l'eternel Semeur,
Pour que de notre amour naisse la poesie
Qui
jaillira
vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In all drink
He
detected
the bitter,
And in all touch
He found the sting.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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In approaching a flower as an ungraspable flame that appears and conceals itself in its own profundity, Cadenas
practices
what Girri proposes in Lo propio, lo de todos: "Que el poema refleje las cosas con la espontaneidad que ostentan al aparece?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Unscrupulous
as it was, however,
it could not bring them nearer than a circuit of several yards.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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Cease to splash THEREON, thou rain-cloud of the
forenoon!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in
conjunction
with ours.
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The-Art-of-War |
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He next appealed to Athens, promising
to aid her in
recovering
the Chersonesus; but, on returning to Europe, he
broke this promise and entered the service of Cotys, whose daughter he
married.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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I wish he'd sent me
something
else,
I like his cough-drops twice as much.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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This distance, however,
also
establishes
a kind of indeterminacy within human language that
marks the
incommensurability
between the inner word and our ordi
220
distance remains between what he calls the inner
limit against
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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" She
requested
one to write
To her son of her sad plight:
' My son, your vain and empty dreams release.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Es ist ein Heidekrug, den am
Nachmittag
ein Be-
trunkener verla?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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What lies upon the mind of our good king
That he should harp this way on
Normandy?
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Tennyson |
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But work must go on and
coachbuilding
must go on,
and they will not go on the time there is too much attention given
to dreams.
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Yeats |
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With startled gaze each Brahmin priest
Drew near: at once the Master ceased
His golden words; for he could read
The suffering spirit's inmost need,
And give with
subtlest
skill the cure
Which best that spirit could endure.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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War itself, then, can have
deterrent
or compellent intent, just as it can have defensive or offensive aims.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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I think so," replied Passepartout,
recalling
the exercises of
his younger days.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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They have led to the
discovery
in the ancient
bed of this stream (_see Plate 25_), at the very point where the fosse
joined it, of a wall of unhewn stones, which barred the waters so as to
conduct them into this fosse.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Was there
ever a more hideous old woman among all old
women (unless perhaps it were "the, Truth ": a
question for
philosophers)?
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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The
man with overflowing strength, both of mind and body, who must discharge
this
strength
or perish, is the Nietzschean ideal.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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No lights are over the mesa,
The wind is hard and wild,
I stand at the
darkened
window
And cry like a child.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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XV
Neither by tears, nor groans, nor sound of woe,
To move the
stedfast
maid the dwarf had power:
She down the rugged hill descended slow,
Until she reached the plain beneath the tower.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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I never felt deeper grief than when I saw him
attempt this act,
although
I knew he was a madman when he did
it—a raving maniac through sheer fright.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"
"It is
pleasant
for you here?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Aussi une de ces fins d'après-midi-là, comme je ne
cachais pas assez rapidement ma souffrance, elle aperçut mes larmes,
servie par son instinct d'ancienne petite paysanne qui autrefois lui
faisait capturer et faire
souffrir
les animaux, n'éprouver que de la
gaîté à étrangler les poulets et à faire cuire vivants les homards
et, quand j'étais malade, à observer, comme les blessures qu'elle eût
infligées à une chouette, ma mauvaise mine, qu'elle annonçait ensuite
sur un ton funèbre et comme un présage de malheur.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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All “ ryght well applyed thys may be
To shew you both well occupyed:
For though ye walke nat bothe one waye, Yet walkynge thus, thys dare I saye, end; That bothe your walkes come to one”
And so for that pretende
By ayde goddes grace ensewe Any maner kynde vertue; gyve: As some, great almyse for lyve:
Some, wyllfull povertie
lyke” warkes, Some, make hye wayes and suche clarkes, -
And some, mayntaine prestes and
To synge and praye for soule departed:
These, with all other vertues well marked,
Although
they sondry kyndes,
Yet they nat used with sondry myndes.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Him neither rocks can crush, nor steel can wound,
Whom Ajax fells not on the
ensanguined
ground.
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Iliad - Pope |
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They made nightly
sallies, covered with white shirts to distinguish each other in the
dark, and successively surprised the posts of the imperialists; but
the slight advantages thus obtained could not
disguise
the grow-
ing danger of the republic.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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This terror of death mounted to the night of ma-
cabre
experience
when he bit furiously at the sheet "like a dying
man.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Council of
Constantinople
(under Photius 879).
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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In 1500, Poland
with fifteen millions had four hundred and
eighty
thousand
voters.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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DRYDEN'S
TRANSLATION
OF VIRGIL
Some blow the fires, and offer'd entrails broil.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Vân rằng: Chị cũng nực cười,
Khéo dư nước mắt khóc
người
đời xưa.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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20 After the n when the year 70,
as
steeple of the Abbey fell, this
religious
establishment seems to have passed away, as we find no further mention of it in the Irish Annals, while the annexation of its See to the Meath diocese caused the town to fell into obscu- rity.
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Here in the night the face that I caress
Lies like a moonlit land beyond the sea,
A kingdom lost, toward which the heart of me, Shipwrecked and worn, beats
backward
in distress.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He talked in French with my friend, and with
difficulty spoke a few
sentences
to me in English.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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The Emperor's heart was deeply moved and he sealed and sent a scroll
"The yearly tribute of dwarfish slaves is
henceforth
annulled.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Teige, the son Andrew,
England marched with army
The king
into Scotland,
accompanied
by Fitzgerald, Ber
mingham, and the chief barons Ireland, to
gether with the earl Ulster, and they remained
Scotland from fortnight after Lammas until men Creeve and Keenaught (in Derry);
November, but did not gain complete power du Donagh Mac Meanman; Hugh Mac Meanman;
ring that period.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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[117] STATYLLIUS FLACCUS { Ph 6 } G
When Pyrrhus on his father's high-piled tomb
celebrated
in his honour the mournful wedding of Polyxena, thus did Cissean Hecabe * bewail the murder of her children, tearing the hair from her tear-worn head : "Once you dragged dead Hector tied to your chariot wheels, and now you are dead you accept the blood of Polyxena.
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Greek Anthology |
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While in sweet cadence rising small and still
The far-off minstrels of the haunted hill,
As the last bleating of the fold expires,
Tune in the
mountain
dells their water lyres.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The wit of man may be great, but it needs a mass of material before even a simple theory can be established with any pretense to
scientific
value.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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As Ruskin
wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty
of
execution
can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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All the other cities
soon surrendered, and the chiefs of the
states gave oath of
fidelity
to the emperor.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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When the
speakers
were second rate, they were disposed of very summarily ; but if it happened that Sheridan, or Wyndham, or Tierney, or Whitbread, were on their legs during the whole of a reporter's turn, the publication was necessarily delayed, for such men could not be slurred over.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Your Life shall moil i' the ground, and plant his seed,
A farmer
foisoning
a huge crop of grief.
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Sidney Lanier |
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One current fashion has to do with "food trucks" that ply their wares seem- ingly on every street corner in America,
including
this humble hamlet.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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By faint degrees, voice, lute, and pleasure ceased;
A deadly silence step by step increased,
Until it seem'd a horrid
presence
there,
And not a man but felt the terror in his hair.
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Keats - Lamia |
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She is very
outspoken
about the fact that
Clitophon seems made of iron or wood; that indeed she seemed to love a
statue.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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