Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Without leaving emptiness an object of knowledge, gather
everything
into awareness itself.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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And by the garget¹
hentè²
Chanticleer,
And on his back toward the wood him bare.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Make any young man more
American
if he sticks to seein' American history FIRST before swallowin' exotic perversions.
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Yet they
actually
point to a significant difference between French and English vari- eties of patriotic and national sentiment.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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So shall I pass into the feast
Not touched by King,
Merchant
or Priest;
Know the red spirit of the beast,
Be the green grain;
Escape from prison.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This iterability forms the trans-subjective frame
providing
the continuity between moments.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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A mild penetration, for a hundred years they have bootlicked your nobility and now where is your
nobility?
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER
VIVID with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor,
brilliant
and warm.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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-
[Seeing
Falstaff
on the ground.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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So do thou come with seed, for we shall
accomplish
the plow
when the day dawned
ing.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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" Pope, who was behind the scenes,
meeting him as he left the stage, attacked him, as he says, with all the
virulence of a "wit out of his senses;" to which he replied, "that he
would take no other notice of what was said by so
particular
a man, than
to declare, that, as often as he played that part, he would repeat the
same provocation.
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Samuel Johnson |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ أمراً فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي ساعةً صَبْرَهُ
عَنكَ
مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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As Highland craigs by thunder cleft,
When lightnings fire the stormy lift,
Hurl down with crashing rattle;
As flames among a hundred woods,
As
headlong
foam from a hundred floods,
Such is the rage of Battle.
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burns |
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’
‘Let me go at once'’ repeated Dorothy, beginning to struggle again
‘But I don’t particularly want to let you go,’ objected Mr
Warburton
* Please don’t stroke my arm like that' I don’t like it' 5
‘What a curious child you are' Why don’t you like it?
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Such, then, is the man who
observes
the mean, whether he be called
tactful or ready-witted.
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Aristotle |
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But when I had arrived at the age of eighteen, which was in the year
of 1853, it was my lot to be introduced to the favor of a mulatto
slave girl named Malinda, who lived in Oldham County, Kentucky, about
four miles from the
residence
of my owner.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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He was a man of strong
convictions
on one side or the other of a
question.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Interleaved and successive and a sample of smell all this makes
a
certainty
a shade.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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But all will go to the
prettiest
woman and beseech her to go
with him.
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Aristophanes |
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Wilt thou compare all these with a favour
ite or two (whom you generally hate) disgraced or ruin'd
by a ; or whatever you cou'd call a grievance to the people, in all the
arhitrary
and illegal acts of our iing?
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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For then it is clear that he who transgresses
the rights of men, intends to use the person of others merely as
means, without considering that as rational beings they ought always
to be esteemed also as ends, that is, as beings who must be capable
of containing in
themselves
the end of the very same action.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Finally, the
emphasis
here is that the use of nuclear weapons would create exceptional danger.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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On one of these
essays, the Peleus and Thetis, very
different
judgments
have been passed.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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There are
instances
on record in
which poor men were nominal owners of immense estates.
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Yeats - Poems |
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In both,
deception
is a rival of suspicion.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Milton has described this species of music in one of his
juvenile
poems.
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Edmund Burke |
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As with genes in a gene pool, the memes that prevail will be the ones that are good at getting
themselves
copied.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The Original:
قال ابو نواس
ياسُلَيْمانُ غَنّني ، ومِنَ الرّاحِ فاسْـقِـني
فإذا دَارَتِ الزّجـا جَـة ُ خُـذْها ، وعاطِني
ما تَرَى الصّبْحَ
قَدْ
بَدا في إزارٍ متَبَّنِ
عاطِـني كأسَ سَـلْوَة ٍ عَنْ أذانِ المؤذِّنِ
اسْقِـني الخمْرَ جهْرَةً وألْـِطني ، وأزْنني
Romanization:
Yā sulaymānu ɣanninī, wa mina l-rāħi fa-sqinī
Fa-iðā dārati l-zujājatu xuðhā, wa-ˁāṭinī
Mā tarā l-ṣubħa qad badā fī izārin mutabbani
Aˁṭinī ka'sa salwatin ˁan aðāni l-mu'aððini
Isqinī l-xamra jahratan wa-aliṭnī wa-'azninī
Al-Muhalhil: Vengeance at Dawn (From Arabic)
This post's guest of honor is ˁAdī bin Rabīˁa of Taghlib, commonly known as Al-Muhalhil "The (Verse-)Weaver.
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Translated Poetry |
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But
even this
democratic
and individual age may profit by turning back for a
time to consider some of the general truths, as valid to-day as ever, to
which Pope gave such inimitable expression, or to study the outlines of
that noble picture of the true critic which St.
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Alexander Pope |
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" I hated the way in which he used to talk of his future
conquests of women (he did not venture to begin his attack upon women
until he had the epaulettes of an officer, and was looking forward to
them with impatience), and boasted of the duels he would
constantly
be
fighting.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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The positive sketching of this
philosophical
ethos is what con- cerns us here, for it is in this sketch that Foucault refers to the devel- opment of a "historical ontology of ourselves".
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Raised to the peerage at the Restoration, he entered into a complex relationship with the monarchy which led to him
supporting
the future Charles X.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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15158 (#98) ###########################################
15158
JOHN TYNDALL
3
And here I am reminded of one amongst us, hoary but still
strong, whose prophet-voice some thirty years ago, far more than
any other of his age,
unlocked
whatever of life and nobleness lay
latent in its most gifted minds; one fit to stand beside Socrates
or the Maccabean Eleazar, and to dare and suffer all that they
suffered and dared, — fit, as he once said of Fichte, “to have
been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of beauty
and virtue in the grove of Academe.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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* This
Aristotelian
view was completely assented to by Speusippus and Xen- ocrates of the Older Academy.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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Grampupus
is fallen down but grinny sprids the boord.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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A certain
rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old
men shall dream dreams,
inferreth
that young men, are admitted nearer to
God than old, because vision, is a clearer revelation, than a dream.
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Bacon |
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,Jewish and
Christian
Se -De nition, p.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Tell me something
reasonable
that you would
particularly like to have.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Have I not seen two
dynasties
of gods
Already flung therefrom?
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Aeschylus |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:22 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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[Later on,] thanks to the
petition
of Princess Thiên Cu'c, he was released.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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2 This composition consists of three
distinct
parts.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Et
longtemps
après mon rêve fini,
je restais tourmenté de ce baiser qu'Albertine m'avait dit avoir donné
en des paroles que je croyais entendre encore.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope),
And are far up in Heaven--the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the
meridian
glare of day
I see them still--two sweetly scintillant
Venuses, unextinguished by the sun!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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''
This poem,
entitled
"Language Studies," may be an exact description- except that Surkamp would be a more appropriate name than Ollendorff.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Nature well known, no
prodigies
remain,
Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It is no longer enough to bypass all the maledicent apocalypses and prophetic com minations, the pronouncing of which will unmask
absolutely
anyone speaking before a secular or humanist-influenced public.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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in
Scotland
on their way thence to Ireland.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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In regard to most of the personal
instructions
of
Mentor Marpa, they are present in various short Indian texts, but there do not appear to be any extra short texts on the personal instruction in the five stages, and so this one seems to be taken as the authoritative treatise.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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In the impassioned reproaches of the Greek are
those of the Pole, speaking in the person of his Iridion
the
complaints
of another conquered people against
another empire in the only language free to him to utter
--the language of symbolism.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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In forcing the
question
"is reading Finnegans Wake a human activi ty?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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These balfull bestes were, as the boke tellus,
Full
flaumond
of fyre with fnastyng of logh.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Ραψωδία Σ
Ήλθε αυτού πάγκοινος πτωχός, 'που ζήτευε 'ς την πόλιν
Ιθάκη, για την λυσσερή κοιλιά του ξακουμένος,
να πιή, να φάγη, αχόρταστος• και δύναμι δεν είχε
ανδρείαν ούτε, αν και τρανός
εφάνταζε
'ς την όψι.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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And now, sir, to reward you for the accurate guess, I will
promise to paint you a careful and
faithful
duplicate of this very
picture, provided you admit that the gift would be acceptable to you.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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A prudent man like you and brave
To shallow
sentiment
a slave!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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During all this time he was
improving his
acquaintance
with Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, and other
English poets.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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It must be added, however, that Addison lacked the quali-
ties of a
successful
libretto writer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Sometimes verse-accent and word-accent do not
correspond
even at the
last accent in a colon.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Such changes began to take place in Europe and America most
strikingly
in 1789.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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We steadily tried to reach out after greater capabilities,especiallyin carrying capacity,depth of penetration, and
accuracy
of bombing; and we sought, partly and inescapably through trial and error, to find good
target systems.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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“My aunt,” she continued, “is going to-morrow into that part of the
town, and I shall take the
opportunity
of calling in Grosvenor Street.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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It is
characterized
by an external reality where specific claims are made on the intermediate space-between.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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"It is the English ideal of a hero as it was
conceived
by an
Englishman some twelve hundred years ago.
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Beowulf |
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ect whether or not
any of the whole of existence or any of the whole
universe
has leaked away
from the present moment of time.
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Shobogenzo |
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{Zeitlin suggests that this refers to the attempted
reconstruction
of the walls by Agrippa I, in 42 A.
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Roman Translations |
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Love and a Question
A STRANGER came to the door at eve,
And he spoke the
bridegroom
fair.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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I am doubtful whether it would not
be an
improvement
to keep out the last stanza but one altogether.
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Robert Burns- |
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And just as there seems to be an
infinite
number of kinds, there is as well an infinite number of each kind.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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For Aeschylus, though steeped in the glory of the world of legend, would
not lightly accept its judgment upon
religious
and moral questions, and
above all would not, in that region, play at make-believe.
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Euripides - Electra |
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v
l^ l-r
A*ldtlfr
*9t*H
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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common and have, until recently, been neglected in the
psychotherapeutic
literature.
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These were Segesta and Halicyae, which were the first towns of Carthaginian Sicily that joined the Roman alliance ; Cen- turipa, an inland town in the east of the island, which was destined to keep a watch over the Syracusan territory in its neighbourhood ; 1 Halaesa on the northern coast, which was the first of the free Greek towns to join the Romans, and above all Panormus,
hitherto
the capital of Carthaginian, and now destined to become that of Roman, Sicily.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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’5 Hence the real Jewish
campaign
resembles a swift gallop through many times and realms with heavy losses.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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The same year, being clerk of the closet to the king, he was made dean of
the chapel royal; and, the year afterwards, received the last proof of
his master's confidence, by being appointed one of the commissioners
for
ecclesiastical
affairs.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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And the reasons are these three, I think:
first, that the visible heavens in summer appear far higher, more
distant, and (if such a solecism may be excused) more infinite; the
clouds, by which chiefly the eye expounds the distance of the blue
pavilion stretched over our heads, are in summer more voluminous, massed
and accumulated in far grander and more
towering
piles.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Taken from a French rendering1, it is in no
sense a translation, but rather a version of Krasinski's story with
scarcely any
resemblance
to the.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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trollagain till the grillieo in his head and the
leivnito
in hio hair made him thought he had the T= mania:
A fUTther allu.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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But thy fools'-word
injureth
ME, even when thou art right!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Molingo sive Dayrgello Episcopo
Fernensi
in Hiber-
3 "This appears to be an error arising from the fact, that there was another Daircell,
Leslie Stephen, vol.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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When I live in the midst
of the
multitude
my life is like theirs, and I do not
think like myself; but after some time it always
seems to me as if the multitude wished to banish
me from myself, and to rob me of my soul.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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" How weak and
melancholy
a
part is left for it!
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Long before her death she retired from
society, a mental and physical invalid, and occupied
herself with the religious and moral
training
of her boy.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Come
Come, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with arms
outstretched
to take me,
Come with lips pursed up to cling.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Verse 55th is the antecedent
to verses 57th and 58th, but in verse 58th the
connexion
seems
ungrammatical:--
"Powers.
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Robert Forst |
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75 (#113) #############################################
WHY I WRITE SUCH EXCELLENT BOOKS 75
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psychological standpoint, all the decisive traits in
my
character
are introduced into Wagner's nature
—the juxtaposition of the most brilliant and most
fatal forces, a Will to Power such as no man has ever
possessed—inexorable bravery in matters spiritual,
an unlimited power of learning unaccompanied by
depressed powers for action.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Pompeius Rufus; though the latter composed those speeches himself which he spoke in his own defence, but not without the
assistance
of Aelius.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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—To seek
self-preservation merely, is the expression of a state
of distress, or of limitation of the true, fundamental
instinct of life, which aims at the extension of power,
and with this in view often enough calls in question
self-preservation and
sacrifices
it.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Then should the secret society, such as the Vehme,20 desire to restore the inadequate juridical practice of the political sphere, or should it desire, like the
conspiracy
or criminal gang, to rebel against the law, or should it, like the mysteries, want to hold itself beyond the commands and prohibitions of the wider society--the withdrawal that characterizes the secret society always has the tone of freedom; with that withdrawal, it enters a region where the norms of the surrounding realm do not apply.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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In a brilliant essay, Carlo Ginzburg has shown that around 1900a new paradigm of knowledge gained ascendancy, one that operated only with unfakeable, that is, unconscious and meaningless, details-in aesthetics as well as in
psychoanalysis
and criminology.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Under this
head I shall deliver, with no feigned diffidence, the results of my best
reflection on the great point of
controversy
between Mr.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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If, however, it were
well moistened with some liquid which acted chemically upon the semen,
it would be pretty likely to destroy the fecundating
property
of what
might remain.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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One memorial of my former condition still remains--my dreams are not yet
perfectly calm; the dread swell and agitation of the storm have not
wholly subsided; the legions that encamped in them are drawing off, but
not all departed; my sleep is still tumultuous, and, like the gates of
Paradise to our first parents when looking back from afar, it is still
(in the tremendous line of Milton)
With
dreadful
faces throng'd, and fiery arms.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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