THIS thought consol'd so well,--his youthful rays
Returned, and e'en
excelled
his former days;
And those who lately ridicul'd his charms,
Now anxious seem'd to revel in his arms
'Twas who could have him,--even prudes grew kind;--
By many belles Astolphus was resign'd;
Though still the king retain'd enough, 'twas seen;--
But now let us resume the dwarf and queen.
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La Fontaine |
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They shall establish Nomentum and Gabii and Fidena
city, they the
Collatine
hill-fortress, Pometii and the Fort of Inuus,
Bola and Cora: these shall be names that are now nameless lands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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my upon
splendid
madness,
Behold me, Vidal, that was fool of fools !
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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Affirmeth
Donne to have written all
his best peeces ere he was twenty-five yeares old.
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Donne - 2 |
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How had his sister managed to get dressed so
quickly?
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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The
relationship
between probe events and worm events is statistical but real.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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" This may perhaps be due to their desire to avoid the theological overtones of "omniscience" within
Christian
cultures.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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] -
Achilleus
of Alexandria, stadion race
221st [105 A.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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dann neige auch du die Stirne
Vor der Ahnen
verfallenem
Marmor.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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The archbishop, a very re-
verend and learned prelate, a Genoese, as the vice-
legate likewise was, performed the same ceremony
to him ; and afterwards the consuls and
magistrates
of the city in a body, (who made a speech to him in
Latin, as all the rest treated him in that language,)
and all the principal officers of the court : so that
he could not receive more civility and respect in any
place ; which, together with the cheapness and con-
venience of living, and the pleasantness of the coun-
try about it, might have inclined him to reside there.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Lamia, by John Keats
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAMIA ***
***** This file should be named 2490.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'Tis he, the wise, the liberal, the renowned
Hippolitus, great cardinal of Rome;
Whose actions shall in every region sound,
Where'er the honoured muse shall find a home:
To whose glad era, by
indulgent
heaven,
As to Augustus' is a Maro given.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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29-31 and his note 35, adds the names of other writers of
dialogues
who openly claimed both Fontenelle and Lucian as models.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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It would be
much better, instead of
purchasing
up the paper currency,
to purchase the supplies-with.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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“Shall
I,
or shall I not (come weal, come woe) take myself off?
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Whenever the scene is
shifted the act ceases, since some time is
necessarily
supposed to
elapse while the personages of the drama change their place.
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Samuel Johnson |
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~Tihsiswhat we mean when 'we say that the human
conceptual
system is metaphorically structured and defined.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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We
shall therefore endeavor to induce good and correct opinions of what we
offer,
although
this be only necessary for the moment, and as it were
laid out at interest, until the matter itself be well understood.
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Bacon |
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The prisoner at
first was
inadvertently
ordered to Arnold; but on recollec-
tion, while still on the way, he was countermanded and
sent to Old Salem.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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This difference between
coercion
and brute force is as often in the intent as in the instrument.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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But perhaps the most striking feature of all is that the contemporary and the medieval studies, the careful and the shoddy ones, are all informed by a single view that is
accepted
without reservation.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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it was half way from Athens to
Carystus
in Eubnea.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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You're all deceived
deceivers!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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One Duke Univer- sity professor of English whom Carr quotes can't get her
literature
students to read "whole books anymore.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Such risks can come from two sources, so long as the principled opposition inside Israel is very weak (a situation which may change as a
consequence
of the war on Lebanon) : The Arab World, including the Palestinians, and the United States.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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[79] PLATO { F 4 } G
I throw the apple at you, and you, if you love me from your heart, take it and give me of your
maidenhead
; but if your thoughts be what I pray they are not, take it still and reflect how short-lived is beauty.
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Greek Anthology |
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There is not even the slightest difference between the non-conceptual state and that of true insight into the fact that moving thoughts, the settled mind and the nature of
thoughts
themselves are all three
clear, void and brilliant.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Ortus
How have I
laboured
?
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Though people speak of “a hundred years,”
4 We don’t even last thirty
thousand
days.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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"
"I know not," said Martin, "in what sort of scales your Pangloss would
weigh the
misfortunes
of mankind and set a just estimate on their
sorrows.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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και αφού τούτ' έκαμε η θεά, τον άφησε• κ' εκείνος
εις την καλύβα εγύρισε• και ο υιός του τρομασμένος
αλλού την
όψιν
έστρεψε, φοβούμενος μην είναι
θεάς• και τον προσφώνησε με λόγια πτερωμένα• 180
«Ξένε, τώρ' άλλος 'ς την μορφή μου 'φάνης απ' ό,τ' ήσουν•
έχεις άλλα φορέματα, και άλλ' είν 'όλ' η θωριά σου•
ένας συ θα 'σαι των θεών των ουρανοκατοίκων.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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The traveller who is fondof adventures hires a fishing-barge, engages a dozen fishermen, and taking with him some old
furniture
and provisions, tries to make himself comfortable in that Noah's ark.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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The intimations I have thrown out, will suffice to give
your
excellency
a proper conception of my sentiments:
you will judge of their reasonableness or fallacy; but I
persuade myself you will do justice to my motives.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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She is the main yidam of the Kagyu lineage and the
embodiment
of wisdom.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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You see an egg and demand a crowing cock, see a
crossbow
pellet and demand a roast dove.
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Chuang Tzu |
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On this last point the author
Nietzsche
did not totally succeed in his becoming-sun.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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He could sing to his own
accompaniment
songs of
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Harold Bloom rightly characterized him as the most untameable figure in religious history – the King Lear of the
heavenly
rulers, one could say.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they
will not so much as take
warning?
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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One day, the little Dauphin went to pay his respects
to the Queen, dressed in the costume of one of the
preux chevaliers of the olden time: the
Princess
asked
him, under what name he would choose to be an-
nounced.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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De la mâle Sapho, l'amante et le poëte,
Plus belle que Vénus par ses mornes
pâleurs!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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The little rules and little
experiences
— all the petty ways of
narrow life — are shut off behind by the ponderous and impassa-
ble cliff; as if we had dwelt in the dim light of a cave, but com-
ing out at last to look at the sun, a great stone had fallen and
closed the entrance, so that there was no return to the shadow.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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firmness of belief ("My God, I believe in you") and its character as
disarmed
and strictly subjective.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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cience, and doe all
To the
_Meridian_
of Iu?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Slough,
Who danced at the end of a bough;
But they said, "If you sneeze, you might damage the trees,
You
imprudent
old person of Slough.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He succeeded once more in pacifying them, and his
presence
fortunately
prevented an outbreak on the Assumption of the
Virgin, which, as usual, had drawn a crowd to the town, and from whose
sentiments there was but too much reason for alarm.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Among all things abhorr'd, accurst,
I hold
betrayers
for the worst!
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Aeschylus |
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"If men succeed in
fertilizing
land hitherto unproductive, or even
death-producing, like certain swamps, they create thereby property in
all its completeness.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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This is the point of my
narrative
on
which, as respects my own self-justification, the whole of what follows
may be said to hinge.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Write a one-page
reaction
paper: ''What is this text about?
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Modan, a bishop, venerated in Scotland,^-^ but not at this
particular
date.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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I have spent for you
immense sums of gold, and I have not re-
ceived of you, nor of all Germany, enough
to
purchase
a doublet.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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302) / yena
nirvanam
anvisyate sa mdrgah.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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For Christ's sake, parley,
Admiral!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now just to think that if I
mentioned
this episode not a soul
would believe me except the people who would cut me for telling, whilst
if you accused me of it nobody would believe my denial.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Parapotamii is a
settlement
on the Cephissus, in the neighbourhood
of Phanoteus, Chæroneia, and Elateia.
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Strabo |
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People thought it dreadful of me to have entertained at dinner the evil
things of life, and to have found
pleasure
in their company.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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I
conclude
the chapter by discussing the ways in which Foucault's work has influenced emancipatory efforts by queer and feminist theorists.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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For there are seven sons born to us, when by the
conception
of good intent the seven virtues of the holy Spirit spring up in us.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Thus needy Wits a vile revenue made,
And Verse became a
mercenary
Trade.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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If I am but the shadowy image in a
dream, still this is better than the cold black void
annihilation
of
death.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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” They work for the state, accept the o cial’s head cloth,2
4 But wrap themselves in the
hermit’s
turban.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Now the Chief and most usual
_Error_ that I
discover
in them is, That I _Judge_ Those _Ideas_ that
are _within_ me to be _Conformable_ and like to certain things that are
_without_ Me; for truely if I Consider those Ideas as certain _Modes_ of
my _Thought_, without Respect to any other Thing, they will scarce afford
me an Occasion of _Erring_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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6151 (#121) ###########################################
ÉMILE GABORIAU
6151
in the whirling crowd, is
difficult
to watch.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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But this view of its
antiquity
may be said to be universally given up.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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"The ace wins,"
remarked
Herman, turning up his card without glancing at
it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Then at once History be-
comes fluid and true, and
Biography
deep and sublime.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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) I shall have, however, again to recur to
this Psalm in my
observations
on the fifth day's creation, and will
therefore now simply allude to the closing verses.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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This church
appeared
old and somehow
also sublime.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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Come, then, and let
us arm
ourselves
and go out against them when we have arrayed ourselves
in rich-wrought arms.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
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Nhiều
qgừqỉ
IỎỸ dạo phu thử,
Cũng u yl hai sa IUÊ* theo đởn.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Malicious gossip has still not stopped claiming that one can see a dark stain from the
emissions
of the Ibbenbüren power plant showing through the white candidate robe of Mr Rau, so black that no new integrity can emerge against the accumulated sins.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
On the
7 The intervening period, 1922 to 1931, might, in turn, be divided into two inter- vals: a period of partial and at times bitter conflict between church and state reach- ing from the inauguration of Fascism to the Lateran Accord in 1929; and from the Lateran Accord, which recognized
Catholicism
as the official religion in return for Papal support of Fascist leadership in the upbuilding of the new Roman Empire, to recommendation of corporate ideas by the papacy as'the solution of the "Social question" in general.
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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'--
It costs no inward
struggle
not to go,
Ah, no!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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This last is
particularly
true, because what one does today in a crisis affects what one can be expected to do tomorrow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
Will not the
knowledge
of it, then, have a great influence
on life?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle |
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A
quotation
from Euripides, Chryssipus, frag.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
Early development of ocular
dominance
columns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
|
You'll be
expecting
John.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
I am old and move slowly, and the
slower runner has
overtaken
me, and my accusers are keen and quick,
and the faster runner, who is unrighteousness, has overtaken them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
Redistribution
is subject to the
trademark license, especially commercial redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
These are not just
historical
accounts ofsomeone's life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
The delusion that theordoidearum (orderof ideas) should be theordo rerum (order of things) is based on the insinuation that the
mediated
is unmediated.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
organize
the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tully - Offices |
|
"[76] These devices were
invented
by
John Ogilby, gent.
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" We may rest
together
here.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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how often did I pretend to have settled on
some certain hour which would suit my
purposed
voyage!
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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O had I met the mortal shaft
Which laid my
benefactor
low.
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Do speak unto me of my gardens, of my Happy
Isles, of my new
beautiful
race,—why do ye not
speak unto me thereof?
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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What am I to say on
clothing?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
works based on the work as long as all
references
to Project Gutenberg
are removed.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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_Deaths Duell or
a
Consolation
to the Soule against the dying Life and living Death
of the body.
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Donne - 2 |
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The Symplegades or Cyanean rocks were the clashing rocks at the entrance of the
Bosphorus
which were said to come together and smash ships.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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This he
certainly
cannot hope to achieve by negotiation alone.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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have ye seen how nobly
changed?
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Tennyson |
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Canzon That my heart is half afraid
For the
fragrance
on him laid; Even so love's might amazes !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The direct trial of him who would be the
greatest
poet is to-day.
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Whitman |
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