Night,
guardian
of dreams,
Now wanders through the land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"You examine me, Miss Eyre," said he: "do you think me
handsome?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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There is also a narrow part between the two horns running up as far as the midriff, and the eggs are engendered here and above at the origin of the midriff;
afterwards
they pass into the wider space and turn from eggs into young animals.
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Aristotle copy |
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On
Commissary
Goldie's Brains
Lord, to account who dares thee call,
Or e'er dispute thy pleasure?
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burns |
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But Heine's Zeitgedichte are more direct in their attack
and often more scurrilous; those of George are basically con-
cerned with heroic
judgments
passed on the actual conditions
of civilization.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Great
applause
among the crowd.
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Longfellow |
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Reverence for the supreme unity and the law of all being is so natural to men, that it will continue to be felt, however they conceive the
relation
of the One to the various elements of the universe, or of God to the world.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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venes, evidentemente dos parejas, que en un de- terminado momento de la velada estaban hablando con otras
personas
por sus tele?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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True, I shall soon be needing further
funds if I am to leave these lodgings, but Thedora is hoping before long
to receive
repayment
of an old debt.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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I sit on the grass and gaze upon the sky and dream of the sudden
splendour of thy coming--all the lights ablaze, golden pennons
flying over thy car, and they at the
roadside
standing agape,
when they see thee come down from thy seat to raise me from the
dust, and set at thy side this ragged beggar girl a-tremble with
shame and pride, like a creeper in a summer breeze.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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We'll shine in more
substantial
honors,
And to be noble we'll be good.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Barbara narratus venisse
venejica
tecum.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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And Sittius, also, was a man very
notorious
among the Romans for his luxury and effeminacy, as Rutilius tells us; for as to Apicius, we have already spoken of him.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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You seem slow, dear, in
fulfilling
your promise.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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It is the constantly
deepening of
subjectivity
of the universally open in the body's process of becom- ing more linguistic and more universally yielding, which is enriched in the course of its conscientious composition of self with increases in cohesion.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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He had
not won a yard of German soil, half the land lay
devastated, the rich results of three generations of
peaceful
industry
were almost annihilated, the
unlucky new mark^ had to begin the work of
rehabilitation from the beginning for the fourth
time.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Besides, 'there's already a big rody ram lad at random on the
premises
of his haunt of the hungred bordIcs, as it is told me':
.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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He would not tread a
factious
path to praise,
Though for the public weal disposed to venture high;
As for his place, he could but say this of it,
That the fatigue was greater than the profit.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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For what has Virro painted, built, and
planted?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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CHORUS
Unveil, say forth to us the tale entire,
Under what
imputation
Zeus laid hands
On thee, to rack thee thus with shameful pangs?
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Aeschylus |
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garlands
of flowers, etc.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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He had borne that
commission
eight
years, when Junius Vindex, who commanded in Gaul,
revolted against Nero.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Your
sisterhoods
may stay,
And smile here for your hour;
But die ye must away,
Even as the meanest flower.
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Robert Herrick |
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This
absolute
Being, this perfect Good, we cannot see, blinded as we
are, like men that have been dwelling in a cave, by excess of light.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Lazarus rose, but to die: the
daughter
of the ruler Jobnil, of the Synagogue rose, but to die; the widow's son rose, but Matt.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle,
But
etiquette
forbade them all to giggle.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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, _cliff,
precipice
of a mountain_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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what terrors frown'd upon her fate—
Death, with its
formidable
band,
Fever, and pain, and pale consumptive care,
Determined took their stand.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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(Stanza 48]
This is the Proof that refutes Arising in the Four Extremes, in which I show that whatever
phenomena
already exist will not arise, because they have already arisen.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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3, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work under this agreement, disclaim all
liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And he that is devoted to virtue
obtaineth
a happy state in the next world.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Keep to the bare necessities for
sustaining
your life and warding off the bitter cold; reflect on the fact that nothing else is really needed.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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An intermediate being who goes to be reborn into the Fourth Dhyana can generate a false view; he is then
destroyed
and is immediately replaced by a hellish intermediate being .
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Judging by the
behaviour
of the northern tribes, they continued for a
time to be paid.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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What wonder, if, amongst so many ships, there should one be overset, which was
commanded
by Orontes, tho' half the winds had not been
t_e which .
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Descend, ye chilly,
smothering
snows!
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burns |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The slow advance and rise of the middle and
lower classes (including the lower kind of spirit and body), which was already well under way before the French Revolution, and would have
made the same progress forward without the latter, --in short, then, the preponderance of the herd
over
herdsmen
and bell-wethers,--brings train:-- -
(I) Gloominess spirit (the juxtaposition
appearance h-appiness,
stoical and frivolous
?
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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We do not therefore ascribe to you any superlative degree of virtue,
when we believe that we may inform you of our change of condition
without danger of malignant fascination; and that when you read of the
marriage of your
correspondents
Hymenæus and Tranquilla, you will join
your wishes to those of their other friends for the happy event of an
union in which caprice and selfishness had so little part.
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Samuel Johnson |
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I THE SUBJECT COUNTRIES »73
if the Romans were not disposed permanently to garrison was certainly inevitable — but was levelled with the
ground, and all
rebuilding
on the desolate site was pro hibited in the usual forms of accursing part of its territory was given to Sicyon under the obligation that the latter should defray the costs of the Isthmian national festival in room of Corinth, but the greater portion was declared to be public land of Rome.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Quicken his eyes with celestial dew,
That Styx the
detested
no more he may view,
And like one of us Gods may conceit him to be!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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et sic R sed ut
_t_ super rasuram sit
41
_quaemulcens
aurefirma_ T
Post hunc u.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But he is ever
awake; he misses no occasion; he makes move for move and
counters
every
stroke.
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Lucian |
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gives no example of 'abstain' thus used without 'from'
before the object, and it is
tempting
with _1635-69_ and all the MSS.
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John Donne |
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Child Verse
THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS
" "I "\ THY stand ye idle,
blossoms
bright,
' ' The livelong summer day ?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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These the Crabs, having resumed and screwed on
their claws, placed cheerfully upon their wrists, and walked away rapidly
on their hind-legs,
warbling
songs with a silvery voice and in a minor key.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The essaymust let the totality light up in one of its chosen or haphazard
features
but without asserting that the whole is present.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Like all the Egyptian women of good family she could read, and during the first two years of her married life she had often — very often — had the opportunity of puzzling, and yet re joicing, over the feeble signs which the iron hand of the charioteer had scrawled on the papyrus for her whose slender fingers could guide the reed pen with
firmness
and decision.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
Historians
had to ferret out the facts later.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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ffingus was
probably
ordained Priest
tise of St.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Nurse of all mortals, whose benignant mind, first ploughing oxen to the yoke confin'd;
And gave to men, what nature's wants require, with
plenteous
means of bliss which all desire.
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Orphic Hymns |
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For this wild ass then to seek every green thing, is for each holy man,
despising
transitory things, to long for those which are to endure for ever.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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I have to
withstand
counter- arguments.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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FOX SMITH: British
Merchant
Service
XVIII.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Why,
then, while laboring with such laudable enthusiasm for the establishment
of equality, should you retain an expression whose
equivocal
meaning
will always be an obstacle in the way of your success?
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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With regard to the fifth cause of objects
escaping
our senses, it is
clear that the action of the sense takes place by motion, and this
motion is time.
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Bacon |
|
LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with
sluttish
time.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Der Kult der Hestia im
Prytaneion
der griechischen
Sta?
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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E seja o nosso desprezo para os que
trabalham
e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Though time shall be no more, yet space shall give
A nobler theatre to love and live
The winged courier then no more shall claim
The power to sink or raise the notes of Fame,
Or give its glories to the
noontide
ray:
True merit then, in everlasting day,
Shall shine for ever, as at first it shone
At once to God and man and angels known.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Men eat the flesh of grass-fed and grain-fed animals, deer eat grass,
centipedes
find snakes tasty, and hawks and falcons relish mice.
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Chuang Tzu |
|
'
IN DEFENCE OF CHILDREN
My colleague the
psychologist
Nicholas Humphrey used the 'sticks and stones' proverb in introducing his Amnesty Lecture in Oxford
326
THE GOD DELUSION
141
in 1997.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The Ass and the Lapdog
A Farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts of
burden: among them was his
favourite
Ass, that was always well fed
and often carried his master.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Et malgré leur amabilité on se disait:
n'ont-ils pas vraiment le droit, quoiqu'ils le dissimulent, quand ils
nous voient marcher, saluer, sortir, toutes ces choses qui, accomplies
par eux,
devenaient
aussi gracieuses que le vol de l'hirondelle ou
l'inclinaison de la rose, de penser: ils sont d'une autre race que nous
et nous sommes, nous, les princes de la terre?
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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The King of Sweden,
after having
exhausted
all means of con-
ciliation, camped his army before Berlin,
declaring that the elector was no longer
any thing but an enemy to him.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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_ You mean the
beauteous
orphan, fair Monimia.
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Thomas Otway |
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"
"I did confess, but I
confessed
a lie.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Copperfield objected to my threes and fives being too much like each
other, or to my putting curly tails to my sevens and nines,' resumed my
mother in another burst, and
breaking
down again.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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His career
in Italy was as wild and
dissipated
as ever.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Farewell the busy town,
The wealthy and the wise,
Kind smile and honest frown
From bright,
familiar
eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Give them but
one or two round and harmonious periods in a speech, which they will
retain and repeat, and they will go home as well
satisfied
as people
do from an opera, humming all the way one or two favourite tunes that
have struck their ears, and were easily caught.
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Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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If not,
We give
ourselves
away from God to death.
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Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Pretending to side with the assassins of Julius Cæsar,
he presently threw himself into Antony's arms; perhaps because he
saw that Antony could more easily be first
utilized
and then dis-
patched.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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For
references
see Allinson, Lucian, op.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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tracted Irom the " Leabhar Breac"- and
translated
by Professor O'Looney
C tin.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Le sue
magnificenze
conosciute
saranno ancora, si che ' suoi nemici
non ne potran tener le lingue mute.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Is this
historically
true?
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Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
|
They had got into the habit of putting things into this room
that they had no room for
anywhere
else, and there were now many
such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to
three gentlemen.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
"121 4 This was added ostensibly because he had been beaten by the Alani in a
disorderly
battle on the plains of Philippi and forced to retreat; but at the same time it seemed to mean that he had been slain by the two Philips.
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Source: |
Historia Augusta |
|
ima
uidebatur
talis inludere palla:
namque haec in nitido corpore uestis erat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And I think shows fairest where
These
rummaging
small rogues have been at work.
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This makes it quite unnecessary to look anxiously to see that the leeway allowed by the
conditions
is not exceeded.
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Source: |
Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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A kind and bountiful
Providence has never deserted us;
punished
us he perhaps has,
for our neglect of his blessings and our misdeeds.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
Inasmuch as he had coins struck bearing the effigy of Justin I,
Hilderic
formally
gave the impression of recognising a kind of suzerainty
of the Byzantine Empire.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
|
The earlier half of the poem
contains
a description of Europa’s flower-basket.
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Source: |
Moschus |
|
Now what I think is important is that throughout the Middle Ages, up to and including the sixteenth century, the
disciplinary
apparatuses we see in religious communities basically played a double role.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
)
Gómara,
Francisco
Lopez de.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
The author died in 1654 and was
buried where my
forefathers
ashes sleepe.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
It shows in even the
leisurely
charm of "Lettres aI'Amazone.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Of what
quantity
is the pronoun Te?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Go as a great wave of cool water,
Bear my
contempt
of oppressors.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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This is still
depicted
in the postcommunist literature, e.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Any one who thinks I do Kant wrong in
saying this does not know what a
philosopher
is—
not only a great thinker, but also a real man; and
how could a real man have sprung from a savant?
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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According to Dugin, however, the alter- natives to globalization remain limited: either left-wing ideologies worked out in the West, or a right-wing
liberalism
and the stagnation typi- cal of Asian countries.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Y also
experienced
painful stomach symptoms, which subsided when he could name them as an evil inner Red Guard.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Each of these numbers in our fingerprint is the number of times a particular piece of
nonsense
is repeated in our genome.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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