It would of course
be absurd to suggest that these devices were intended to make
his poems more
difficult
to understand.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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[287] L But what can be more insipid, more frivolous, or more puerile, than that studied elegance of
expression
which he actually acquired?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'
3 Lectures
delivered
in America in 1874 (1875).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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By-and-by it
lighted up, and the
audience
began to arrive.
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Twain - Speeches |
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The
Evidence
in
the Case
In the Supreme Court of
Civilization
The Case of The Dual Alliance vs, The Triple Entente
By
James M.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Vũ Hữu (1444-1530) hiệuƯớc Trai, người xã Mộ Trạch huyện
Đường
An (nay là thuộc xã Tân Hồng huyện Bình Giang tỉnh Hải Dương).
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stella-03 |
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"The great artist," wrote Blanc, "is he who guides us into the
region of his own thoughts, into the palaces and fields of his own
imagination, and while there, speaks to us the language of the gods;"
and to none are these words more
applicable
than to himself.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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An
overture was then made* by his successors through Lord
Cholmondelly; and a letter was written by Franklin to
Lord Shelburne,
conveying
his wishes for a general peace.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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So long as we do not make an effort to establish internal order in Nietzsche's doctrine of art, in spite of the matter's fragmentary character, his
utterances
remain a tangle of accidental insights into and arbitrary observations about art and the beautiful.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Only we Germans
who dwell in the upper country, which our ances-
tors were so fond of calling "the Empire" {das
Reich) , can thoroughly realize the terrible extent of
the
criminal
excesses of the Hunlike fury which was
directed against us by the French.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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of the
religious
life of Israel.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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I suppose the Spectators here present may expect I should speak something before I leave this sanguinary Stage and Pas sage through my Bloody Sufferings, by which my immortal Spirit will be speedily transported into an invisible and eternal World, and I conclude that they have
different
Resentments hereof.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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IV - VIII
Of the
remaining
poems the first three are quoted by Stobaeus.
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Moschus |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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The undoubted coarseness of the work is in part due to
the gross license of the times in speech and writing, and more
particularly to the influence of Swift, at this time
predominant
over
Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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1554),
Historye
of Pretie epigram of a scholer, 187
Italye, A, 105.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It is only in its relation to this, as to a disaster, that neoclassicism can be
adequately
understood.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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I crept and touched the foam with fevered hands
And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet,
From whom the sea is
bitterer
than death.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The Irreparable, with its
accursed
tooth, bites!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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For from It, as from other _Bodies_, _I_
can never be _seperated_, _I_ was _sensible_ of all
_Appetites_
and
_Affections in It_ and _for It_, and lastly _I_ perceived _pleasure_ and
_Pain_ in its Parts, and not in any other Without it.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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[To the
Frenchman]
With me, Duval.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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In the vast enterprise of war "we have found no obvious use for the
liberally
educated except in the services of public information and propaganda.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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You have a shared IP address, and someone else has
triggered
the block.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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You see that
Pergamus
was taken after a long
time; still, it was taken.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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His gentle dumb expression turnd at length
The Eye of Eve to mark his play; he glad
Of her attention gaind, with Serpent Tongue
Organic, or impulse of vocal Air, 530
His fraudulent
temptation
thus began.
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Milton |
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You think he could barter and cheat
As vulgar
diplomates
use,
With the people's heart in his breast?
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2014-06-11 22:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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He announced that in
wine-growing districts the number of idiots
conceived
at the time of the
vintage and carnival is very large, while at other periods it is almost
_nil_.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Prosperity
seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Our starting point is the
observed
phenomenon of actual prices.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Some years ago, when I set out from
Calcutta
on my voyage to Japan,
the first thing that shocked me, with a sense of personal injury, was
the ruthless intrusion of the factories for making gunny-bags on both
banks of the Ganges.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Yes indeed, no
possibility
of disagreement there.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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REPORT
OF THE UNDERSIGNED, COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE DETROIT
LIBERTY ASSOCIATION TO INVESTIGATE THE TRUTH OF THE
NARRATIVE
OF HENRY BIBB, A FUGITIVE FROM SLAVERY, AND REPORT
THEREON:
Mr.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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He
fondly dreamt, for the Catholic Church, such a reform in gover-
ment in end and object, and in manners and customs, ,as would
of truth is what characterized him in every
department
of ac
tion.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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La hija de maese Perez abrio con mano temblorosa la puerta de la
tribuna para sentarse en el
banquillo
del organo, y comenzo la Misa.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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It can do thisforcibly, accommodating only to
opposing
strength, skill, and ingenuity and without trying to appeal to an enemy's wishes.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:31 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Frank |
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PERSONAE
GRACE BEFORE SONG
LORD GOD of heaven that with mercy dight
Th'
alternate
prayer-wheel of the night and light Eternal hast to thee, and in whose sight
Our days as rain drops in the sea surge fall,
As bright white drops upon a leaden sea Grant so my songs to this grey folk may be :
As drops that dream and gleam and falling catch the
sun.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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"We
have no king but Cæsar," answered the Sadducees and priests,
flinging to the winds every
national
impulse and every Messianic
hope.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Latin America’s overall “resilience” with net private inflows over $250 billion will be tested by
Brazil’s
continued capital control use, Mexico’s trade and remittance ties to the US and Argentina’s likely extension of the state intervention model into a second President Fernandez term with worsening external accounts and capital flight already features.
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Kleiman International |
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Though it
presented
itself as gruesomely realist in order to secure its initial victory, it knew that it could only survive as long as there was a light shining on it from far above: it could only gain its justification in the steepest vertical.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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My
presence
(well do I know it) is a vexation to my patron, and then most
when he is in his most gracious mood.
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Lucian |
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Thus invited by one party, and
rejected
by another,
he came forward but slowly; and, at night, the faction
that opposed him set a guard on the gates to prevent
his entering.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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The reason was simple: not all trajectories of
motion in physical
empiricism
were permitted to be ascribed to the
cinematics of a single point.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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In one letter he
says — "We must first give you thanks for the
kind present you have pleased to send us, which
will give
occasion
to us to remember you often ;
but the quantity is so great that it might make
sober men forgetful.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For this very reason we
can use his writings as mirrors of his time; it is no
fault of the mirror if
everything
contemporary
appear in it stricken by a ravaging disease, pale
and thin, with tired looks and hollow eyes,—the
step-child's sorrow made visible.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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_City Lights_
The city gleams with lights this evening
Like loud and yawning
laughter
from red lips.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Thus, the
diversity
of natures and drives gives rise to a variety of bonds which affect both spirits and bodies.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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- that
Philippus
whom we, who form our judgment upon these matters by rules of art, have decided to have been the next in merit?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Not one improvement in
military
affairs escaped
?
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Take again the case of
cardinal
numbers.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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5558 (#124) ###########################################
5558
HENRI ALPHONSE ESQUIROS
The narrative talent which makes his works on foreign lands such
pleasant reading, and his two novels Charlotte Corday' and 'Le
Magicien always interesting, is
especially
striking in his one little.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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ing be more
p{re}ciouse
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[25] G After Marius, one of the opposite faction, had been restored to Rome from his exile, Sulla was afraid that he might be forced into a similar exile because of his harsh treatment of Marius; so he sent envoys to Mithridates,
proposing
a truce between him and the Romans.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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We are piqued to some purpose, and the
industry
of the diggers on the
railroad will not again shame us.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals
blinking
through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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27 (#49) ##############################################
Aureng-Zebe and
27
Other Plays
to help to
refute—that
heroic verse was already in possession of
the stage, and that 'very few tragedies, in this age' would be
received without it.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Complaints of the judicial usurpations
of the Aulic Council, and of the oppression of the Protestants,
accompanied this demand, and the deputies of the Estates were instructed
to take no part in any general deliberations till a
favourable
answer
should be given on this preliminary point.
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| Question: |
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Friedrich Schiller |
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" For
whence did Dante take the
materials
for his hell, but from this
our actual world?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Its people, Christianized in 345, were
oppressed
by many
rulers, but resisted all kinds of autocracy.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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*' The
Breviary
of Aberdeen states, that he often visited foreignregions,anddesiredtoleadasolitarylifeawayfromhisparents.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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The effect of Neoplatonism was, in the long
run, to make the super-civic part of man the whole man, to discredit
political life and
political
effort, and to pave the way for the mystic,
the ascetic, and the hermit.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Vos ego nunc moneo : felix,
quicunque
dolore
Alterius disces posse carere tuo.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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The
transformation of time perspectives began by
reconceptualizing
the present.
| Guess: |
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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The image of young Edain on the arras,
Walking along, one finger lifted up;
And that wild song of the
unending
dance
Of the dim Danaan nations in their raths,
Young Aleel sang for me by the great door,
Before we lost him in the shadow of leaves,
Have filled me full of all these wicked words.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I begin to perceive, Abelard, that I take too much
pleasure
in writing to you; I ought to burn this letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
I buy a
thousand
pound a year; I buy a rope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Ouvrez votre narine aux superbes
nausees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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I have already pub-
lished a monograph on the former (Adam Mickie-
wicz, the National Poet of Poland, London, 1911),
and I have in
preparation
a study on the life and
work of Krasinski.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
"
The word was
scarcely
spoken when the loud cheer answered
the welcome sound; and at the same instant the long line of
shining helmets passed with the speed of a whirlwind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
|
In its focus on a new type of postenlightened schizocynicism that re- mains immune to traditional forms of ideology critique, Sloterdijk's book articulates the pervasive malaise and discontent in
contemporary
culture that de- spite differences in local traditions and politics, is as much a reality today in the United States as in West Germany or, for that matter, in France.
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Nazi
propaganda
depicted Jews as a plague of rats that posed a threat to German well-being, and presented medical care for the mentally ill and disabled as a drain on German resources better used for those fit to survive.
| Guess: |
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Herodes refounded the city which was previously called Strato's Tower, and renamed it
Caesareia
in honour of Caesar.
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Roman Translations |
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His writings on
metaphysics are much
esteemed
in Germany;
yet it is chiefly as a great moralist that his
reputation is universal.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
278
Division
of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Lear, and of which the best
specimen
occurs
in his last book, "He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled the bell.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Hanrieder
Review by: Ernst Nolte
The American Political Science Review, Vol.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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25 Rabaut Saint-Etienne recognized this precedent when he spoke of how the
priesthood
had managed "to cast many far- flung nations, differing in their customs, languages, laws, color and physi- cal makeup, into the same mold.
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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Ability to know this model and rule
constitutes
what we call
the mysterious excellence (of a governor).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
|
Candide, almost
prostrating
himself before him,
cried:
"Master Pangloss has well said that all is for the best in this world,
for I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with
the inhumanity of that gentleman in the black coat and his lady.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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I cannot smile again:
Yet Heaven avert that ever thou
Shouldst
weep, and haply weep in vain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What results may not be the sort of seeing oneself that occurred in Nietzsche's poem, but it may just as well be a progres- sive displacement and
overcoming
of images.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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It is one of those
books without moral intent, like the Arabian Nights, which the boys
of all ages will persist in reading, and which men delight in if they
love good
pictures
and good story-telling.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Apocope strikes off, while
Paragoge
adds, a final letter
or syllable.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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But this is the formula for every decadent
style: there is always anarchy among the atoms,
disaggregation of the will,—in moral terms: “free-
dom of the individual,”—extended into a political
theory:
“equal
rights for all.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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AU JARDIN From Canzoni
YOU away high there,
you that lean From amber
lattices
upon the cobalt night,
1 am below amid the pine trees, Amid the little pine trees, hear me !
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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To use his own words:
The same spirit of indignation which animated me to condemn
popular measures in the year 1769, because although avowedly
in defence of liberty, they absolutely violated the freedom of
society, by demanding men, under pain of being stigmatized,
and of sustaining
detriment
in property, to accede to resolu-
tions, which, however well meant, could not .
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Roderick O'Flaherty, lord of Kinel Owen
(Tyrone,) was slain on a
predatory
excursion into Tirconnell, by O'Maoldoraidh (i.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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They are
curtained
within the recess, by a thick silver tissue
adapted to the shape of the window, and hanging loosely in small
volumes.
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Poe - 5 |
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Now, I have the satisfaction of
being sure that he detests me, to the point of its annoying him seriously
to have me within ear-shot or eyesight: I notice, when I enter his
presence, the muscles of his countenance are involuntarily distorted into
an expression of hatred; partly arising from his knowledge of the good
causes I have to feel that
sentiment
for him, and partly from original
aversion.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Tribal
allegiance
was developed in the
first case, independence in the second.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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And it is not irrelevant to add (it
seems to me mere fact), that Milton had the
greatest
motive that has
ever ruled a poet.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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It's so unkind of science
To go and
interfere!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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