For fair Enipeus, as from
fruitful
urns
He pours his watery store, the virgin burns;
Smooth flows the gentle stream with wanton pride,
And in soft mazes rolls a silver tide.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sappho was at the height
of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric
poetry was peculiarly esteemed and
cultivated
at the centres of Greek life.
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Sappho |
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Lust-bred
diseases
rot thee; and dwell with thee
Itching desire, and no abilitie.
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Donne - 1 |
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From afar come sounds of an approaching mob, singing a ballad
celebrating
the guilt and overthrow of HCE.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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The woman’s glory is her beauty, the man’s his
strength
.
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Bion |
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I said to him,
"We now know more of thee than then;
We were but weak in
judgment
when,
With hearts abrim,
We clamoured thee that thou would'st please
Inflict on us thine agonies,"
I said to him.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The number of those whom he transported from the country of the Jews to Egypt
amounted
to no less than a hundred thousand.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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' The
story of their love is one of the most
beautiful
of our old tales.
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Yeats |
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medi:eval Latin word by a modern New England word having the same letters (all but the final e) and having 'em in the same order, you do NOT convey Dante's t;neaning to the reader, and the reader arrives at the
conclusion
that?
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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''Influential Western
Interpretations
of the Tao-te-ching.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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The
Monosyllabic
Caesura is that, in which the first syllable
of the divided foot is a monosyllable ; as,
Virg.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Perseus the son of Philippus caused the death of his brother
Demetrius
by making accusations against him to his father.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Theramenes
Of her intent I'm unaware,
But her
messenger
came to speak on her behalf.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Voyage aux Indes
Orientales
commencé l'An 1658 et fini l'An 1665.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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THE END OF
MARXISM?
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Whole rocks on rocks with yron joynd surveie,
And okes with okes entremed
disponed
lie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
exclaimed
Miss Scatcherd; "nothing can correct you of
your slatternly habits: carry the rod away.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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my men,' she begins, 'shew me
if [322-355]haply you have seen a sister of mine
straying
here girt
with quiver and a lynx's dappled fell, or pressing with shouts on the
track of a foaming boar.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
Poetical
Works of Robert Burns.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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But, as the wine percolates through their veins,
they discuss old times and their present
fortunes
with the utmost
freedom.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Chanson de Roland |
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, as if the bright lad on the
platform
had done all of their jobs for himself, with the express aim of
delighting hi~ public.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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As far as the thighs he was of human shape and of such
prodigious
bulk that he out-topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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," many children were at once
prepared
to imitate the movements of the sharpener.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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"
"But, since he confessed that he
told a
falsehood
last week," said Frank,
?
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Childrens - Frank |
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And can these be intelligently
believed
without
knowledge and steadfast meditation.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Eitan Eisenberg, a
government
advisor on these matters, Ma'arive Weekly, 12/12/78.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
|
Great maistresse of her art was that false Dame,
The false Duessa, cloked with
Fidessaes
name.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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John Hervey, called by courtesy Lord Hervey, the
second son of the Earl of Bristol, was one of the most
prominent
figures
at the court of George II.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
He ceased, and striding up the hall Assur
Gonzalez
passed;
His cheek was flushed with wine, for he had stayed to break his fast;
Ungirt his robe, and trailing low his ermine mantle hung;
Rude was his bearing to the court, and reckless was his tongue.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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It bears three pictures in inlaid metal – Io crossing the sea to Egypt in the shape of a heifer, Zeus
restoring
her there by a touch to human form, and the birth of the peacock from the blood of Argus slain.
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Moschus |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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We Germans, especially, have often
sinned against ourselves through
extravagant
love
of fault-finding.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Above all this
commotion
the voice j
1^ of Caius Memmius is heard.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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'
And with that word he gan to waxen reed, 925
And in his speche a litel wight he quook,
And caste a-syde a litel wight his heed,
And stinte a whyle; and afterward awook,
And
sobreliche
on hir he threw his look,
And seyde, `I am, al be it yow no Ioye, 930
As gentil man as any wight in Troye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Schelling contributed in no small measure to the mis- judgment of himself, above all because he was barely able to mus- ter the strength to finish a treatise and hid from completing major works he was
planning
in endless procrastination—as though he were belatedly frightened by his early heroic accomplishments.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Pero ti prego, dolce padre caro,
che mi
dimostri
amore, a cui reduci
ogne buono operare e 'l suo contraro>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I have no need of
miracles
such as yours that depend upon the help ofa deity.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A hundred
Scribling
Authors, without ground
Believe they have this only Phoenix found:
When yet th' exactest scarce have two or three
Among whole Tomes, from Faults and Censure free.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of shipwreck or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid imagination by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of
physical
or mental
struggle.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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e
maystres
of Merlyn, mony ho[2] taken;
For ho hat3 dalt drwry ful dere sum tyme,
With ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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So glad ne was he never in al his lyve;
And to Pandarus reed gan al assente,
And to
Deiphebus
hous at night he wente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Augustus sent his
grandson, Caius, the son of his daughter Julia and Agrippa, to head an
expedition against Phraates, the king of the Parthians, the conquerors
of Crassus; from this
expedition
he did not live to return, but perished
in battle.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the
permission
of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Merleau-Ponty makes it clear that he does not contest the value of
scientific
inquiry.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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The Manual
mentioned
fifty, and later Hyginus
was to name more than eighty!
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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"There's not a modest maiden elf
But dreads the final Trumpet,
Lest half of her should rise herself,
And half some local
strumpet!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Running parallel to the Gaullist evasion in the national affirmation the French left-wing devel- oped a second front of
falsification
according to which the 'bet- ter' France or the France of the re?
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Terra Major we'll give into your hand;
Come there, Sir King, truly you'll see all that
Yea, the
Emperour
we'll give into your hand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
American
troops in N.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Each fetter
sundered
is the whole world's gain!
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James Russell Lowell |
|
Wickfield my hand,
preparatory
to going away myself.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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But
so eager and so
resolute!
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Austen - Persuasion |
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`Eek al my wo is this, that folk now usen
To seyn right thus, "Ye,
Ialousye
is love!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
9
Help thyself, then
everyone
will help thee.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
--Idea of a
Transcendental
Loqio.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
[130]
Anonymous
{ H 27 } G
I said and said it again, "He is fair, he is fair," but I will still say it, that Dositheus is fair and has lovely eyes.
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Greek Anthology |
|
, Professor of
Rhetoric
and English Literature in the
University of Edinburgh
William Chamberlayne.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
It was noon before the Indian procession was on its march,
when it was seen occupying the great
causeway
for a long extent.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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But wherefore could not I
pronounce
Amen?
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
We call a man "honest"; we ask, why
has he acted so
honestly
to-day?
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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With Philosophy that was made from the lonely star, I
have taught them to forget Theology; with Architecture, I have hidden
the
ramparts
of their cloudy heaven; with Music, the fierce planets'
daughter whose hair is always on fire, and with Grammar that is the
moon's daughter, I have shut their ears to the imaginary harpings
and speech of the angels; and I have made formations of battle with
Arithmetic that have put the hosts of heaven to the rout.
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Yeats |
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His rare
good sense
corrected
what was too ideal and poetical in his early
education; but he preserved the happy faculty of saying everything
with freshness and wit.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
So I turned to scornful cries,
Hot iron songs to save the rest of me;
Plunging
the brand in my own misery.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I to hexameters tell, in pentameters I will confide it:
During the day she was joy,
happiness
all the night long.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Jupiter antiqui
contraxit
tempora veris.
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Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
|
In supplying
this demand
Lithuania
was to play to Poland the part
of Scotland to England ; Lithuania, like Scotland, had
furnished the neighbouring country with its dynasty
and its territory, a fact which was never allowed to be
forgotten, and was now, remoter and wilder than Poland,
with a polonized upper but untouched lower class, to
supply not only material for romance, but Poland's
greatest writer himself, Mickiewicz.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
’
THE DEAD ADONIS,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
|
(1660) of
the Earle of Pembroke and S^{r} Benjamin Ruddier, and the
Lansdowne
MS.
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Source: |
John Donne |
|
Before I was born out of my mother
generations
guided me,
My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Once again, the force ofkarma brings birth in the
appropriate
place in the six realms.
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Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
|
Mithridates
though this message was a stroke of luck, and when night came he sent Archelaus to confirm the agreement and to bring the deserters over to him.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
For thee the jocund
shepherds
wait;
O Singer of Persephone!
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Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
They were
sheltered
and
happy two days ago.
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Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
I should like to have a few pictures hung round the
room that speak to me with well-known looks, that touch some string of
memory, not a number of varnished, smooth,
glittering
gew-gawe.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
"I wouldn't give up my four
thousand
of the bet," said Andrew Stuart,
as he took his seat, "for three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.
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Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
Acta
Sanctorum
Hiberniae, 1645; Trias Thatmatūrga,
1647.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
This is known as the Hsiao
text; a Ming reprint of it is
sometimes
met with.
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Source: |
Li Po |
|
Patrick had converted a great number of people to the
true Faith, he
ordained
bishops and priests, for their service.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
The day of trial came; and the very men who had most
loudly and most sincerely
professed
this extravagant loyalty were, in
every county of England arrayed in arms against the throne.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Macaulay |
|
The subject of these Memoirs was an ill-formed man-it was
said that he had the face of an
ape—and
his character was
thoroughly worthless.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
|
The spirit of his
prophesy
He gave unto His servants
chos'n to exalt His name.
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Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
|
So we stared at one another for two
minutes; at last he turned with
deliberation
and dignity and went back
again for two hours.
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Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
VIII
If the rose-petals which have fallen upon my eyes And if the perfect faces which I see at times
When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have
confused
my memories of her So that I could not draw her face
47
?
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
63 he expressed in won- derful mystical power of representation the substantial existence of god in things and the unification of the self with god and god with human subjectivity, while eastern pantheism stresses more the absorption of the self in everything that is best and most splendid and
emphasizes
the self sacrifice of the subject in the contemplation of the one substance.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
|
[her face lighting up with mischievous ecstasy--whispering] I
can't: he has no
illusions
about me.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
I am
the son of a plain English merchant, esteemed during his life for his
great integrity, and strongly attached to literary
pursuits
(indeed, he
was himself, anonymously, an author).
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Then suddenly an aged man, whose rags
Were yellow as the rainy sky, whose looks
Should have brought alms in floods upon his head,
Without the misery gleaming in his eye,
Appeared
before me; and his pupils seemed
To have been washed with gall; the bitter frost
Sharpened his glance; and from his chin a beard
Sword-stiff and ragged, Judas-like stuck forth.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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CHAPTER 24
It was nearly six
o’clock
in the evening, and the absurd bell in the six-foot tin steeple of
the church went clank-clank, clank-clank!
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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It is certain that the contemporary literary critic has not yet really
investigated
this existence of the name that Blanchot has pro- posed for him.
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Foucault-Live |
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Awakening to their original intention is called
transcending
the world.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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