To whom the Goblin full of wrauth reply'd,
Art thou that Traitor Angel, art thou hee,
Who first broke peace in Heav'n and Faith, till then 690
Unbrok'n, and in proud
rebellious
Arms
Drew after him the third part of Heav'ns Sons
Conjur'd against the highest, for which both Thou
And they outcast from God, are here condemn'd
To waste Eternal daies in woe and pain?
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The
systematic
study of these similarities can tell us something about human psychology and its susceptibility to religion.
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(Say, today's Slo- venes are united by the myths about a Slovene kingdom in the eighth century, their hatred of [at this mo- ment] Croats, and the illusion that the
Slovenes
are on their way to become the next Switzerland.
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His notes on
Lucretius
are dis-
figured by his attacking 'the most brilliant and certain emendations
of Lambinus' with a vehemence of abuse that would be too great
even for his own errors.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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The age of our fathers, worse than our grandsires,
produced
us
still more flagitious, us, who are about to product am offspring more
vicious [even than ourselves].
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Horace - Works |
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While we confess the German philosophy
to be
inadequate
to form a nation, we must
also acknowledge that the disciples of the new
school are much nearer than any of the others
to the attainment of strength of character:
they dream of it, they desire it, they conceive
it; but they often fail in the pursuit.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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It is an essential
property
of the mechanical systems which we have called "discrete-state machines" that this phenomenon does not occur.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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(Only certain very bold
instructions
of mine, encroachments etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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De
Officiis
was his penultimate published work; only the Philippics, a series of 14
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Thus from amas --
the
standard
or regulator -- comes fl-ma-n, with one incre-
ment ; from amavi comes a-ma-ve-ra?
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Who's making love to my
sweeties?
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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The unhappy young man turned
his eyes toward the ground, away from the
handsome
face,
as though it had been that of Antichrist.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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760:28)
Refutation
o f Objections by Nagarjuna
Vigraha-vyiivartanf
Rtsod pa bz/og pa (Ot.
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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,
_encircling
ornament like a diadem_: instr.
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Beowulf |
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For sports, for pageantry, and plays,
Thou hast thy eves, and holydays:
On which the young men and maids meet,
To exercise their dancing feet:
Tripping the comely country Round,
With
daffadils
and daisies crown'd.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Some are moving slowly
Like the easy winds:
Brown-blue, dull-green, the
villages
in the distance
Sleep on the banks of the river:
The waters sullenly clash and murmur.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Modernity
as a techno-political composite has unhinged the old familiar equilibrium between human power and powerlessness.
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Muílu mca,
ỉiộu
trả cho xong,
Tri chi lảu lắc, (ử đồng, cbùcg ché.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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how many infants on the breast
By Heaven's
indulgence
sink to endless rest!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I know not what hour I was born:
I'm not happy nor yet forlorn,
I'm no
stranger
yet not well-worn,
Powerless I,
Who was by fairies left one morn,
On some hill high.
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
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it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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T o compel an enemy's retreat, though, by some threat of engagement, I have to be
committed
to move.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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_No
kingdoms
got by rapine long endure.
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In any
case, he could not have had any difficulty in familiarising himself
with part of the
repertory
of the contemporary French stage.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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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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Now from 1872 the
population
increased
by 10,649,990 in twenty-seven years, and "during the
period between 1897 and 1907 the population received an increment of 11.
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Think ere thou act, lest foolish things be done;--
For thoughtless deeds and words the caitiff mark;--
But
strongly
do what will not bring regret.
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" But it was law "With Sakyas, when any asked a maid
Of noble house, fair and desirable,
He must make good his skill in martial arts
Against all suitors who should
challenge
it;
Nor might this custom break"itself for kings.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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The State, which came into existence to perform certain limited but generally accepted functions, which stood as a symbol of the unity of its citizens, is becoming an instrument for the
redistribution
of wealth and income.
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ful as it is,
overawes
me less than conscience.
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371; Eus
ing
obtained
husbands in this manner, for llyperm- tath.
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G
_Epythalamium
thetidis et pelei_
324 _tutum_ marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Certainly
I'm against prejudice.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Hail,
beautiful
virgin,
for whose praise neither prose
nor meter su ces;
hail, virgin, turning-post (meta) of evil,
vein of life, through whom the death (theta) of foul death is accomplished.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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cxix
about, the
management
of Drury-lane theatre was not too inconsiderable to attract the notice of the
court.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Three cups, and one can perfectly
understand
the Great Tao;
A gallon, and one is in accord with all nature.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Bel m'es quan lo vens m'alena
It's sweet when the breeze blows softly,
As April turns into May,
And in tranquil night above me,
Sing the
nightingale
and jay.
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Troubador Verse |
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«I have never known doubt or despair,” he says; his faith in
God was always unshaken; the
doctrine
of immortality he regarded
rather with hope than absolute belief.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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Stephen Crane |
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Neither under- standing nor the previously fundamental capacity of "inwardizing" or
recollection
has any significant effect on the mechanics of memory.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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APPARUIT
THE TOMB AT AKR AAR
PORTRAIT
D'UNE FEMME N.
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Por mais que
dispamos
o que vestimos, nunca chegamos à nudez, pois a nudez é um fenômeno da alma e não de tirar fato.
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Did the
latter ever acknowledge the
obligation?
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is
derived from texts not
protected
by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"Do not despair," said he to the disconsolate Candide, "I
understand
a
little of the jargon of these people, I will speak to them.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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By that means, Kennedy hoped to procure
deliverance
for the island, and glory for those en- gagedinthatenterprise.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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They
interest
me more now than
hotels do.
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Twain - Speeches |
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"
Or they sit all day at swamps with angle-rods, and on that account think
themselves PROFOUND; but whoever fisheth where there are no fish, I do
not even call him
superficial!
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”
(In his statement of 18 October, 1939, Lord Linlithgow tried to
defend the British position by saying that the British Government
was bound by its pledge of giving India
Dominion
Status.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Heliogabalus has been murdered, Elsinoe has taken
her own life, Rome still stands, and
Alexander
Severus
is proclaimed Emperor.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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This is the reason why they
both speak so violently, why they both attack
with such bitter fervour the utilitarian and mat-
erialistic
attitude
of English Science, why they
both so ironically brush aside the airy and fantastic
ideals of German Philosophy—this is why they
both loudly declare (to use Disraeli's words) "that
we are the slaves of false knowledge; that our
memories are filled with ideas that have no origin
in truth; that we believe what our fathers
credited, who were convinced without a cause;
that we study human nature in a charnel house,
and, like the nations of the East, pay divine
honours to the maniac and the fool.
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That he may also draw Ahania's spirit into her Vortex {This line appears to have been
inserted
between 2 previously written lines EJC}
Ah happy blindness [she] Enion sees not the terrors of the uncertain
And oft thus she wails from the dark deep, the golden heavens tremble {Of the 100 lines that make up p.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Since then we must not say that the world will remain
imperfect
when it
is renewed, it seems that we should assert that the plants and animals
will remain.
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Summa Theologica |
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from the
University
of Cracow ex-
pounded the works of Wyclif and wrote a
hymn in honor of the English reformer.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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In fact, even if we did not know that the principle of morality is a pure a priori law determining the will, yet, that we may not assume principles quite gratuitously, we must, at least at first, leave it unde- cided, whether the will has merely empirical principles of determi- nation, or whether it has not also pure a priori principles; for it is
contrary
to all rules of philosophical method to assume as decided that which is the very point in question.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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And from the aorta there extend veins to the mesentery just like the veins that extend thither from the big vein, only that the
branches
in the case of the aorta are considerably less in magnitude; they are, indeed, narrow and fibrillar, and they end in delicate hollow fibre-like veinlets.
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Aristotle copy |
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only
feelings
of love and gratitude towards her and shuts away every feeling of anger he may have against her for expecting him to care for her and preventing him from making his own friends and living his own life.
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Pretty much every day, I receive some messages in which students tell me that they have a real necessity to talk to me, that they would consider it a great favor and privilege if I set up a meeting with them - and then they continue by letting me know the time and the
electronic
addresses under which they will be "available.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Ovid usually
obtained
variety by
keeping similar tales far apart.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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Here,
grasp my hand, and swing thyself across I
THE
UNDIVINE
COMEDY.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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There, aping Gulnare's bard, he spanned
His Hellespont from bank to bank,
And then a cup of coffee drank,
Some
wretched
journal in his hand;
Then dressed himself.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Thou dost not mean to feed us
merely with
discourses?
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ashes |
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How do they taste? |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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85
near the
Austrian
camp, in view of an at-
tack.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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"As, sire, a man could put into one hand anything that had been in the other, could utter a speech through his open mouth, could swallow food that was in his mouth, opening his eyes could close them, or closing his eyes could open them, and could stretch out his bent arms or bend in his outstretched arms, sooner than this, sire, more quickly the Lord's omniscient
knowledge
(could function), more quickly
the adverting (of his mind); when he had adverted ii, he knew whatcvcr it plcascd (him to know).
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Hic radiant flores, et prati viva voluptas,
Ingenio variata suo ;
fulgentibus
il lio
Surgunt strata toris ; hic mollis panditur herba,
Solicitum curis non abrnptura soporem.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Permistos
heroas, et ipse videbiiur illis.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Then when I am thy captive talk of chaines, 970
Proud limitarie Cherube, but ere then
Farr heavier load thy self expect to feel
From my
prevailing
arme, though Heavens King
Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy Compeers,
Us'd to the yoak, draw'st his triumphant wheels
In progress through the rode of Heav'n Star-pav'd.
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Milton |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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They are able openly to take and to give
nurturance
and succorance in their rela- tions with women.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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But the nature-given participa- tion of the human soul in the splendor of the absolute Good is no longer sufficient to offer an
adequate
reason for its self-rescue and its secure return to the Best.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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It is
therefore
my will that, before we frolic it any longer, we advise how
to assault and take the whole kingdom of the Dipsodes.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Beef is
difficult
to obtain, except in the capital.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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And so, when you handle my symptoms, when you are dealing with what you call illness, you will find
yourself
caught in a trap, for at the heart of my symptoms there will be this small kernel of night, of falsehood, through which I will confront you with the question of truth.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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But I prefer the song of the wind by a stream
Where a shy lily half hides itself in the grasses;
To the night of clouds and stars and wine and passion,
In a palace of tesselated
restraint
and splendor.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Then emulous courage roused the emperor with
insistent
goad.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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SPIRITUAL LAWS
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's rejected hours,
Builds therewith eternal towers;
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not
undermining
days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
The silver seat of Innocence.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Both Nietzsche and
Disraeli
have
clearly recognised that this patient of theirs is
suffering from weakness and not from sinfulness,
for which latter some kind of strength may still be
required; both are therefore entirely opposed to a
further dieting him down to complete moral ema-
ciation, but are, on the contrary, prescribing a
tonic, a roborating, a natural regime for him
-advice for which both doctors have been
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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They know not
grief who in their souls have not a great
capacity
for love
-- (pause).
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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In the portrayal of this
primitive
tragedy, this spirit-rending
story of a girl's struggle with destiny, Hardy has put forth his con-
summate effort.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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There are tears amid the Roses,
For the children are asleep ;
And the silence of the garden makes
The lonely
blossoms
weep.
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42 But more important in relation to the view of Trakl that I am presenting here is that Stieg's reading harmonizes the tensions of the poem,
arranging
them to form a narrative, in this case, of critique.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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In thia
letter, after
describing
Marvell as a man of " sin-
gular desert," both from " report " and personal
"converse,*' he proceeds to say — "He hath spent
Digitized by VjOOQIC
XIV NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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caveis fors idem, impastus et acer,
Et medicum
attonito
suspicit ore leo.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Rhetoric kept the toll-gate on the
highroad
to
fame in this second century.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Jules Laforgue (1860-1887)
Jules Laforgue
'Jules Laforgue'
1885,
Wikimedia
Commons
Pierrots
Emerges, on a taut neck,
From a starched ruff idem
A beardless face, cold-creamed,
A beanpole: hydrocephalic.
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elf-contradiction, which even
contributes
to the extension of
*
reference to the metaphysical dogma Enlia practer uecttntalem ?
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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The
employing
a greater
number of men would enable us neither to add a man to our army and navy,
nor to contribute one guinea more in taxes.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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And now the reader may expect a very extraordinary scene:
there is not
abundance
of spirit indeed, nor a great deal of passion, but
there is wisdom more than enough to supply all defects.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Surely
you don't imagine that the people of the Middle Ages bore any resemblance
at all to the figures on
mediaeval
stained glass, or in mediaeval stone
and wood carving, or on mediaeval metal-work, or tapestries, or
illuminated MSS.
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One could spend
paragraphs
trying to describe how the Arabic text's evocative proper names, grammatical oddities and allusions to the Qur'an and the classical tradition create in the reader's mind a single impression of countless blended subtleties.
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And, in his "
Anointing
Woman " (but this play is attributed to Alexis also), he says : —
But if you make our shop notorious,
I swear by Ceres, best of goddesses,
That I will empt the biggest ladle o'er you, Filling it with hot water from the kettle ;
And if I fail, may I ne'er drink free water more.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Nothing is more
complicated
than an answer to this question.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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See the Ode on the
Progress
of Poetry.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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