Meanwhile
Ptolemy called Tryphon seized part of Syria, but his siege of Damascus and Orthosia was stopped in the third year of the 134th Olympiad [242 B.
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Pir Khan was shivering in his little hut
by the gate, and the horse was
stamping
uneasily in the water.
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I'll see you safe and hear you
Tell happy tales of far-off lands,
The while we're
gathered
near you.
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McKinley and the Carnation
William McKinley, the noble
President
of our land,
For every one a word, a smile, a shake of the hand ;
By an assassin's hand he was laid low
And passed the way we must all go.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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In vain may I expect thee to be liberal in things if I must endure thee
niggardly
in words.
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The deed thoroughly answered: a
source of
domestic
altercation was entirely done away, and it was the
means of opening Susan’s heart to her, and giving her something more to
love and be interested in.
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From his statement, likewise, that the city of Kil- dare and its suburbs were places of safety and refuge, in which there could not be the least
apprehension
of any hostile attack,^^ the canons of historic criticism seem to place the authorship of this tract, at some time before the commencement of the ninth century.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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The first
contains
the absolutely necessary laws of thought, without which no use whatever of the understanding is possible, and gives laws therefore to the understanding, without regard to the difference of objects on which it may be employed.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Yet, if a poet can be wise,
Caecilius, flee those
pleading
eyes,
And hither come, post haste, to me.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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, found among
the papers
collected
by Rosweyde what seemed to be a copy of this Vita S.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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What should avail me
the many-twined
bracelets?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in
paragraph
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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We stand at the threshold of an
intellectual
and moral renaissance- Much as some of us might prefer the mental ease of provincialism, isola- tionism, we shall not be able to escape the impact of world forces.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Stars indeed fair
creatures
be;
Yet amongst us where is he
Joys not more the whilst he lies
Sunning in his mistress' eyes.
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William Browne |
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The assault on free
institutions
is world-wide now, and in the context of the present polarization of power a defeat of free institutions anywhere is a defeat everywhere.
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NSC-68 |
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Sin regla ni compás canta mi lira:
Sólo mi
ardiente
corazón me inspira!
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Jose de Espronceda |
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“It means,” she answered, seating me on the bench and
throwing
her arms
around my waist, “it means that I love you!
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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So ambitious were Nero's con- struction projects that the comedians of the time joked that the
buildings
would eventually stretch in a continuous line all the way from Rome to the town of Veii, 10 miles away.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Version Two
I
He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And
murdered
in her bed.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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1661,
" And of this kind there would be so many in-~"~
" stances in and about Limerick and Gal way, that
" they deserve to be collected and mentioned in a
" discourse by itself, to observe and magnify the
" wonderful providence of God Almighty in bring-
" ing heinous crimes to light and punishment in this
" world, by means
unapprehended
by the guilty ;
" insomuch as it can hardly be believed, how many
" of the clergy and the laity, who had a signal hand
" in the contriving and fomenting the first rebellion,
" and in the perpetration of those horrible mur-
"ders; and who had obstructed all overtures to-
" ward peace, and principally caused any peace
"- that was made to be presently broken ; who had
" with most passion adhered to the nuncio, and en-
" deavoured most maliciously to exclude the king
" and his posterity from the dominion of Ireland ;
" I say, it can hardly be believed, how many of
" these most notorious transgressors did by some act
" of treachery endeavour to merit from the English
"rebels, and so put themselves into their hands, and
" were by them publicly and reproachfully executed
" and put to death.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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They are
feminine
in the highest and completest sense of the word.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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They are so-called representative types all over the globe,
united to each other by
structural
relations and separated by
specific differences of the same kind as those that unite and sep-
arate animals of different geological periods.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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THE LILY IN A CRYSTAL
You have beheld a smiling rose
When virgins' hands have drawn
O'er it a cobweb-lawn:
And here, you see, this lily shows,
Tomb'd in a crystal stone,
More fair in this
transparent
case
Than when it grew alone,
And had but single grace.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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As practitioners we use theory as a guide; as sci- entists we
challenge
that same theory.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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HE MEGARA,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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He said : If a man correct himself what difficulty will he have in
consequent
government, if he cannot cor- rect himself, what's he doing in (or with) government, anyhow?
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Unfortunately
no one either here or in China can appreciate the music of his verse,
for we do not know how Chinese was
pronounced
in the eighth century.
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Li Po |
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Mobilization as a fundamental autogenous process of modernity leads to the provision for constantly growing movement potential in order to keep
positions
that turn out to be impossible as positions and become unsustainable through the conditions and effects of these provisions.
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Sloterdijk |
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In the presence of the stranger, a suppos- edly universal orientation is
revealed
as locally restricted and provincial.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Nobody can
appreciate
it more than
I do.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Secundus
gives his opinion.
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Tacitus |
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Although it seems unlikely that Weininger's in-
terior change resulted from such external
influence
as these
friends exerted, nevertheless external factors of the sort may
very well have been instrumental in urging forward a develop-
ment which was already under way.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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No
ruffling
winds come hither to disease
Thy pure and silver-wristed Naiades.
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Robert Herrick |
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I even believe that quite cold water alone,
if
thoroughly
used, would be sufficient.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Buck
Mulligan
kicked Stephen's foot under the table and said with warmth
of tone:
--Wait till you hear him on Hamlet, Haines.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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* Furthermoreitneglectsthefactthatatthepresent time it is not the true woman who
clamours
for eman- cipation, but only the masculine type of woman, who misconstrues her own character and the motives that actuate her when she formulates her demands in the name of woman.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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They bore our country's great word across the rolling sea,
"America swears
brotherhood
with all the just and free.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Or was it fair to
sacrifice
her charms,
And lay her open thus to dire alarms?
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La Fontaine |
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TO PERlLLA
Ah, my
Perilla!
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Exeunt
Lucretius
and Eunomia right.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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"this is where the
theoretical
attitude begins" (l2 24, 309/211).
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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But never yet the man was found
Who could the mystery expound,
Though Adam, born when oaks were young,
Endured, the Bible says, as long;
But when at last the
patriarch
died
The Gordian noose was still untied.
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Emerson - Poems |
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(24) This matter of divinity is handled either in form of instruction of
truth, or in form of
confutation
of falsehood.
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Bacon |
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IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Another stick of the penknife, when she
pretended
to pat
my head: and that is because I said I did not like the society of
children and old women (low be it spoken!
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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During his
Residence
here, he was intimately acquainted
with _Sir Thomas More_, _William Warham_, Archbishop of _Canterbury_,
_John Colet_, Dean of St.
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Erasmus |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has
shuddered
with prophetic breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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You remember the
piazzone
there, the stand-place
Of carriages a-brim with Florence Beauties,
Who lean and melt to music as the band plays,
Or smile and chat with someone who a-foot is,
Or on horseback, in observance of male duties?
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Pleasant the
hours when they drive along the silvery tract of road that undulates
among palms and olives, from the bending coast to
frowning
hills,
whose outlines are veiled in mists of mother-of-pearl.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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When these books were first admitted into the public libraries, I
remember to have said, upon occasion, to several persons concerned, how I
was sure they would create broils wherever they came, unless a world of
care were taken; and therefore I advised that the champions of each side
should be coupled together, or otherwise mixed, that, like the blending
of contrary poisons, their malignity might be
employed
among themselves.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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What shy
entreaty
for a heart in your hands!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first
recorded
vernacular lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Troubador Verse |
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If it should appear, that
all
enlightened
naturalists, without having distinctly proposed the
problem to themselves, have yet constantly moved in the line of its
solution, it must afford a strong presumption that the problem itself
is founded in nature.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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The room at Shemus Rua's house is
suggested
by a
great grey curtain--a colour which becomes full of rich tints under the
stream of light from the arcs.
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Yeats - Poems |
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The Dutch complained, "that the French each other -
202
CONTINUATION
OF THE LIFE OF
1667.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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The two functions were a constant adaptation of
experience
that had been valid for the past to the conditions of present and future and, based on our thus constantly adapted experience, a choice among the multiple possibilities that each open future was holding.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Ah, the plea of that
clinging
hand
Through the whirl of that wild waltz tune!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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A
husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each
other: any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment
after the decay of their affection would be a most
intolerable
tyranny,
and the most unworthy of toleration.
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Shelley copy |
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The predominant
influence
on Wright's third book, The Branch Will Not Break (1963)--his breakthrough and masterpiece--was Bly, as their letters make unequivocally plain.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Live, and
forgive!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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All to bless, naught to blame,-
Blanche is her
sweetest
name.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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The
rejected
title, however, for Death's Jest Book, " Charonic Steps," found in the MS.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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A
thousand
torments dwell about thee!
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Selection of English Letters |
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Where is handsome
Megillus
_now_?
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Lucian |
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One morning we tried for a job as
sandwich
men.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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20
And you feathered flute-players,
Who instructed you to fill
All the
blossomy
orchards now
With melodious desire?
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Sappho |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So that Justice Justifies in that that sense,
in which to Justifie, is the same that to Denominate A Man Just; and not
in the
signification
of discharging the Law; whereby the punishment of
his sins should be unjust.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with
laughter
and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the burnished rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The chief of the embassy sent by Prusias,
honour of acting six times as
musician
during the king of Bithynia, to Rome, in B.
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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It was thought a
peculiar
hardship, that
a gentleman who had, for a long time, fought against us,
and had not taken part with us till a late period, and when
our affairs had assumed a more prosperous aspect, should
be preferred in one of the most honorary commands of the
service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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But
that’s
not enough because it doesn’t tackle the basic problem – the dynamic of pampering that catapults humans out of nature.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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At least I believe
the real
sciences
must see that their interest lies
## p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
SAMSON: Nature within me seems
In all her
functions
weary of herself;
My race of glory run, and race of shame,
And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I saw myself the garlands on their boughs,
And tablets hung for gifts of granted vows;
And
offering
fresher up, with pious prayer,—
"The good," said I, "are God's peculiar care,
And such as honor Heaven shall heavenly honor share.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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"82 Webbe believed that his
countrymen owed a great debt to Master Arthur Golding, "for
his labour in englyshing Ouids
Metamorphosis
to profit
this nation in all kind of good learning.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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) "I was afraid of the dark till age r6 or r8, my last years of high school, but I
overcame
it.
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Bientôt
elle serait partie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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A
democratic
society is not one in which the people rule, but rather one in which the people select their rulers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
To smash legends, Eugene Crepet's biographical study, first printed in
1887, has been
republished
with new notes by his son, Jacques Crepet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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'76 th'
informing
soul:'
the soul which not only dwells in, but animates
and molds the body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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An opiate vapour, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet
mountain
top.
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21, 131-2, 146, 414, 415
FOUR KINDS OF
INTENTION
dgongs-pa rnam bzhi, Skt.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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3 The Emergence of this
Teaching
in the Human World
[70.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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\ There is no
production
at that time,
\ Nor is there production at another.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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"
I
willingly
acceded to his desire.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Scarce was the loud
Liburnian
heard to say,
"He sits," ere Pegasus was on his way;
Yes:--the new bailiff of the affrighted town,
(For what were Præfects more?
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Satires |
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This last device,
properly
characterised as a 'catchword,' did not
come into being until the year 1642, when it was occasioned by
competition.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Egypt does not constitute a military
strategic
problem due to its internal conflicts and it could be driven back to the
post 1967 war situation in no more than one day.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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quality from the German
sicknesses
of modern times.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Once, what time white robes of manhood first did array
me, 15
Whiles in jollity life sported a spring holiday,
Youth ran riot enow ; right well she knows me, the God-
dess,
She whose honey
delights
blend with a bitter annoy.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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He has
supplied the
precious
varnish wherewith to hide
the dull ugliness of our civilisation.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The aims of Ennius were not
essentially
different from
those of Livius and Naevius.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Slender in bulk—but it
contains
good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Song Making
My heart cried like a beaten child
Ceaselessly
all night long;
I had to take my own cries
And thread them into a song.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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