[100] But in order that we might gain complete information, we
ascended
to the summit of the neighbouring citadel and looked around us.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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The glow of sunset had long died away, and
its last trace showed in a faint light on the horizon; but above
the
freshness
of the night there was still a feeling of heat in
the atmosphere, lately baked through by the sun, and the breast
still craved a draught of cool air.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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"
"I see the ship on the sea, love;
I stand alone
On this rock;
VIII-297
The sea does not shock
The stone;
The waters around it are swirled,
But under my feet
I feel it go down
To where the
hemispheres
meet
At the adamant heart of the world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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zhi-b ed lu
accordzng to the Early Middl Y L gs [657] See
Pacification
, e and ater Traduzons
ree Traditions of Va' k-l
Jra 1 a.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Thus does social atomism, the entrenched outpost of the contemporary bourgeoisie, entail
psychological
atomism.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under, _10
And then again I
dissolve
it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Shelley |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Talibus l\\o-\-neus cti,nc-\-tl simtil org fr&nebant
(
Ilioneus
-- diphthong.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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"
We
comprehend
from biographical facts the inner genesis of
the Heine lyric.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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The
appearance of a thing in a given perspective is a function of the
matter
composing
the thing and of the intervening matter.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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'
Then,
speaking
from the pigs' point of view, he continued: 'It is
better, perhaps, after all, to live on bran and escape the
shambles.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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What can thinkers still fascinated by the magic of consum- mation accomplish in the future other than warning their clients of
themselves?
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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In the late 1970s Kagyu Samye Ling in Scotland invited the
Venerable
Thrangu Rinpoche to come to Europe and teach.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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John George’s natural aversion
to war, and a
lingering
attachment to Austria, favoured the efforts of
Arnheim; who, maintaining a constant correspondence with Wallenstein,
laboured incessantly to effect a private treaty between his master and
the Emperor; and if his representations were long disregarded, still the
event proved that they were not altogether without effect.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The desirable characters are still associated
with each other, but their
association
with fecundity is now negative.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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emicat Eurya-|-/fls et | munere victor amlcl
(
Euryalus
-- ccesura.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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And yet, Heloise, I can conceive nothing which can reach the tortures of the damned; the fire which we see upon this earth is but the shadow of that which burns them; and without
enumerating
their endless pains, the loss of God which they feel increases all their torments.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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org
We
apologize
for this inconvenience.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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They are silent: and wan
paleness
infects their countenances,
and their stricken souls are stupefied.
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Horace - Works |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Enough
to know that it just happened so, and that
in describing the Young Turkish emigrants
as a Paris group we point not only to a
geographical fact but also to the main
factor which
influenced
their intellectual
development.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Bryce
telegraphed
to me the instant he
knew you were going down, and I was here before you had descended
half-way.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Methuen issued at a
shilling
the twenty-eighth edition of "De
Profundis.
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Oscar Wilde |
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5 Foreign or
barbarous
words introduced into the
Latin language, are not subject to any invariable rule.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Here on your heart my heart now understands; Home have I come at last from alien lands— A pilgrim through the
darkness
to your eyes!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the
morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the
second time after
everyone
had eaten their meal at midday as his
parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's
sister would send the maid away on some errand.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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2 No good account remains of
the
protracted
discussion at this stage; but the nature of
the remarks and the attitude of leading members may be
reconstructed from John Adams's notes on an earlier occa-
sion and from some scattered comments to be found else-
where.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Because the machine is able to separate out its own vocalization, it can distinguish between I and not-I in relation to this vocalization and its recognition as a vocalization
generated
from its optical system.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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This
great event, if it be but
directed
along the right lines, is full of
hope, not only for Asia herself, but for the whole world.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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It is because
Lord Herbert has dwelt upon all worthy books that it is
credible
that
he knows man.
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Donne - 2 |
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And then it was too late,
Because the beauty a child has,
And the
beautiful
things it learns before its birth,
Were shed, like moth-scales, from me.
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Imagists |
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Fain would I know thee safe and well, though lost 85
To us: fain therefore send thee hence, in peace
To seek thy father, not seek single fights
In vain:--but who can keep the lion's cub
From
ravening?
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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By the time they are
desperately
needed to prevent a debacle, it may be too late to use them carefully, discriminatingly, with a view to the message that is communicated, and with the maintenance
of adequate control.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Hurriedly
he packed his boxes:
Hurriedly the porter trundled
On a barrow all his boxes:
Hurriedly he took his ticket:
Hurriedly the train received him:
Thus departed Hiawatha.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Even then Cassandra opens her lips to the coming
doom, lips at a god's bidding never
believed
by the Trojans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is no idle question whether Plato,
had he
remained
free from the Socratic charm,
would not have discovered a still higher type of the
philosophic man, which type is for ever lost to us.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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My health was not very good;
the winter was cold and
exceptionally
rainy; and
the small albergo in which I lived was so close to
the water that at night my sleep was disturbed
if the sea was rough.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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"Cicero speaks of those who in India are accounted philosophers, living naked and enduring the greatest severity of winter without
betraying
any feeling of pain, and displaying the same insensibility when exposed to the flames.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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The footnotes now read
as follows :
1 According to the tombstone: but he
completed
74 years six days before his death,
if his own statement about the year of his birth can be trusted above).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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el Rey otro arbitrio, que co-
mo fluctuaba su honor, y la vida de
Bethsabe?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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In struggling against
enormous
odds (meaning financial odds) for a mutual understanding between Japan and the Occident, there is still the danger that a Japanese educated in the U.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Intra Siestri e
Chiaveri
s'adima
una fiumana bella, e del suo nome
lo titol del mio sangue fa sua cima.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To ascertain the date of its compo-
sition is both less easy and less important than in the case of his
other long works; because it contains few personal references, and no
indications of the
immediate
conditions under which it was written.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Immense and
imminent
gain for oneself is a far more compelling consideration than a diffuse loss shared by the general public.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Grosart very
appositely quotes Montaigne: "For it seemeth that the verie name of
vertue presupposeth
difficultie
and inferreth resistance, and cannot
well exercise it selfe without an enemie" (Florio's tr.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Maremma non cred' io che tante n'abbia,
quante bisce elli avea su per la groppa
infin ove
comincia
nostra labbia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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how they flee
From the fierce sea-blast, all their tresses wild
Streaming
before them.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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The electoral
freeholders
were those who
possessed, free of incumbrance, an estate in fee, for life, or by cour-
tesy, of the value of ?
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Perhaps he is talking to Duncan outside about the
cleaning
of
the guns, or making up cartridges in the kitchen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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After they had spent three days in secret talks, Tigranes
entertained
Mithridates at a magnificent banquet, and sent hime back to Pontus with 10,000 cavalrymen.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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In
due course the corpse was taken to the
cemetery
of Toribeno.
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Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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The waiter suddenly beamed,
thinking
of his corkage.
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Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
As
products
of the En!
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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A cannon-mouth-like hole was in the wall,
To which they set it true by eye; and then
Came up the jointed stovepipe in their hands,
So much too light and airy for their strength
It almost seemed to come ballooning up,
Slipping
from clumsy clutches toward the ceiling.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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They
reconcile
the history, and the fable about the mice, in this
following manner.
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Strabo |
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Half a
thousand
dead men soon shall hear and see
We're a band!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Because we are agreed that that which is Holyisbelov'dbecauseitisHoly, andthatitis not true that it is Holy because it is belov'd ; are
wenotagreedinthat?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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And,
through its slightly involved expression, one may detect, even at
that early age, a foreshadowing of her
bluestocking
parties.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Before the ice is in the pools,
Before the skaters go,
Or any cheek at nightfall
Is tarnished by the snow,
Before the fields have finished,
Before the
Christmas
tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
All this was
recognised
in the chancelleries of Europe.
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Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
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Chimene
My
troubled
mind dares hope for nothing there.
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Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Where the poetic
justice!
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this
accursed
world,
And turns our measured days to measureless gleam.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
They said, "This is a
dreadful
thing!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Sulla set out promptly, 2 and after
advancing
towards each other, they met at Dardanus to discuss the treaty.
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Source: |
Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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This ode, which closed the second volume of the Musse Anglicanae, though,
perhaps, some
objections
may be made to its Latinity, is by far the best
lyrick composition in that collection; nor do I know where to find it
equalled among the modern writers.
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Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Against the many beautiful descriptive
passages
is set the simple,
tragic love of Michael, the young aristocrat, and Varsulka, the peasant
girl.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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_alad_,
protecting
genius, 154, 18.
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Above all, he criticizes the Platonic
hypostasis
of universal concepts as a duplica- tion of the world.
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Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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was
expelled
from the League of Nations.
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Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
CHISWICK PRESS I CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
Et comme dans les nouveaux
espaces, encore non parcourus, qui s'étendaient devant moi, il n'y
aurait pas plus de traces de mon amour pour Albertine qu'il n'y en avait
eu, dans les temps perdus que je venais de traverser, de mon amour pour
ma grand'mère, ma vie m'apparut--offrant une succession de périodes
dans lesquelles, après un certain intervalle rien de ce qui soutenait
la précédente ne subsistait plus dans celle qui la suivait,--comme
quelque chose de si dépourvu du support d'un moi individuel identique
et permanent, quelque chose de si inutile dans l'avenir et de si long
dans le passé, que la mort pourrait aussi bien en terminer le cours ici
ou là, sans nullement le conclure, que ces cours d'histoire de France
qu'en
rhétorique
on arrête indifféremment, selon la fantaisie des
programmes ou des professeurs, à la Révolution de 1830, à celle de
1848, ou à la fin du second Empire.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
|
Jn the earlier part of the ninth century,
this plunder and
bloodshed
took place, as we find recorded in the Irish Annals, thus:
fury
Kelly, p.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
Cheer louder, you dupes of the ambush of hell;
What’s left of life-essence, you
squander
its spells
And only on doomsday feel paupered.
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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The noble silent men,
scattered
here and
there, each in his own department; silently thinking; silently
working; whom no Morning Newspaper makes mention of!
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
|
Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
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Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
She was as
heedless
and as gay--
Well!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
On the contrary,
experience shows that the practice is
injurious
not only to the bodies
but also to the minds of men and women.
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Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
|
The
Marginalist
Controversy and the Demise of Full Cost
Pricing.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
I spared
a minute to open the gate for it, but instead of going to the house door,
it coursed up and down snuffing the grass, and would have escaped to the
road, had I not seized it and
conveyed
it in with me.
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Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
--
The ground swells greenest o'er the
labouring
moles.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
|
With
Alterations
(from Thomas Tomkis, by D.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
Inasmuch as it persists, it remains in a kind of proximity, a proximity that preserves what is remote as remote by commemorating it and turning its
thoughts
toward it.
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Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
Procopius
replied by an order
that the general's house should be pillaged, thereby turning a friend
into a bitter foe.
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Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
|
Thus the
supposed
lack of
symmetry between "cause" and "effect" is illusory.
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Like some great prelate of the grove ;
Then,
languishing
with ease, I toss
On pallets swoln of velvet moss.
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Marvell - Poems |
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figures?
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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And not to speak my grief--O, not to dare
To give a human voice to my despair, _305
But live, and move, and,
wretched
thing!
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
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blake-poems |
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gritude for the sake of the Revolution, the black man no longer wishes to
consider
himself only a part of the proletariat?
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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But I may not endure that thou dwelle
In so unskilful an
opinioun
790
That of thy wo is no curacioun.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Contrasting
this with what they appear from
without, one might say that they were rather built to dazzle
the peasantry than for the reception of friends.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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In the case of this observation the somewhat generalized initial assumptions will disintegrate in more
specific
information on local post-war cultures.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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" and all other
references
to Project Gutenberg,
or:
[1] Only give exact copies of it.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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