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throttled
at my saddle?
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Translated Poetry |
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May Prudence
protect
her frae evil!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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No sents, cor meu, quin plorar i quin
cantar?
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dolor |
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Who hurt you? |
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Sagarra |
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Música
de poetes VINYES VERDES
Vinyes verdes vora el mar:
ara que el vent no remuga,
us feu més verdes, i encar
teniu la fulla poruga,
vinyes verdes vora el mar.
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Sagarra |
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I think you happy, my lord, in being
at least half the year almost as much your own master as I am
mine the whole year: and with all the disadvantageous incum-
tions for which were secretly in pro- 1723, and permanently in 1724,
gress in 1723; see
Suffolk
Correspon- which is perhaps the date of the letter.
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Alexander Pope - v10 |
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Saepe ferox cautum petiit Neptunus Ulyssemj
Eripuit patruo saepe
Minerva
suo.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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111is resistance is objective behavior apprehended from without: the patient shows defiance, refuses to speak, gives
fantastic
accounts of his dreams, sometimes even removes himself completely from thc psychoanalytic treatment.
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false |
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Whate'er might be his worthlessness or worth,
Poor
fellow!
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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From
Longchen
Rabjam's collected writings (Boudhanath: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2005).
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Planning
might have been even more seductive, during those troubled times, if so many Americans had not been able to look out their windows and watch the men at Work on the WPA projects.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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chung), who was
meditating
in a cave at Kha-rag hermitage in Tsang, a province of central Tibet.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Rather, nature should be
exposed
in all its catastrophic contingency and indeterminacy, and human agency assumed in the whole un- predictability of its consequences-- viewed from this perspective of the "other Hegel," the revolutionary act no longer involves as its agent the Luka?
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Let me go
And set those robes in order which best pleased
Manasses' living eyes; and let me fill
My gown with jewels, such as kindle sight,
And have some stinging
sweetness
in my hair.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He took every opportunity to exercise
the power of dispensing with the laws, requiring Catholics to take the
test
agreeable
to act of Parliament.
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Dryden - Complete |
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The book, then, taken as a whole, is the poem both of Personality and of
Democracy; and, it may be added, of
American
nationalism.
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Whitman |
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A happy Warmth he every where may boast;
Nor is he in too long
Digressions
lost:
His Verses without Rule a method find,
And of themselves appear in order joyn'd:
All without trouble answers his intent;
Each Syllable is tending to th'Event.
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lonely |
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What is the secret to the Genius? |
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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" 01: mpts, bº,
mischaº
tº ºld it'i.
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Poe - v10 |
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There is reliable
evidence
that he was of good
family, since his father was the friend and host of
Caesar; that he had wealth, for he owned a yacht
and two or three country estates, a villa at Sirmio
and another on the edge of the Sabine hills.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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There came a drooping maid with violets,
But the spirit
grasped
her arm.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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The blood was ebbing so fast, that the poor
youth was on the point of expiring; but Angelica
bruised
the plant
between stones, and gathered the juice into her delicate hands, and
restored his strength with infusing it into the wounds; so that, in a
little while, he was able to get on the horse belonging to the herdsman,
and be carried away to the man's cottage.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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A preliminary report of the
excavations
at Knidos, 1971.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Ccsleste signum
Minerva
credor
Desiluisse in altus jugum Iliacus urbs.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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which to me hast been a port and shield
From life's rude daily tempests for long years,
Now the full
fountain
of my nightly tears
Which in the day I bear for shame conceal'd:
Bed!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Or may it,
perchance, be their mission to be nurses or
doctors
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Nietzsche - v13 |
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Louis
7
t h e same circumstances illustrate the truth of the po- sition, thajt it is one of the properties of banks to
increase
the active capital of a country.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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The tripwire will not be crossed as long as it has not been placed in an in- tolerable location, and it will not be placed in an intolerable lo- cation as long as there is no uncertainty about each other's
sians could have
rationally
denied at the cost of general war.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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As in Das Jahr der Seele there is the
assumption
of a
companionship of 'ich' and 'du' and many of the poems are
addressed to the 'du'.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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But this is got by
casting
Pearl to Hoggs;
That bawle for freedom in their senceless mood,
And still revolt when truth would set them free.
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tossing |
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Milton |
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He lived in the
seventeenth
century, during the time of the ninth and tenth Karmapas.
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twelfth |
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Did he meet the Ninth Karmapa? |
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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THE
FLOWERS
OF EVIL
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
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flowers |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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n now understand tbe
evolulion
of tbe sig!
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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blue sky and ocean blue,
Thine eagles with one sweep beyond the view--
The sun in golden beauty ever pure,
The distance where rich warmth doth aye endure--
Thy
language
so mellifluously bland,
Mixed with sweet idioms from Italia's strand,
As Baya's streams to Samos' waters glide
And with them mingle in one placid tide.
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Hugo - Poems |
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whither are thy wits gone
wandering?
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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The Latins,
however, lacked the
strength
to take their own
ideas quite seriously ; they succeeded in dividing
their conscience, so that they were able to obey
a Church which they ridiculed.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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The
Consulate
and
Napoleon.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Similarly on the battlefield: tactics that frighten soldiers so that they run, duck their heads, or lay down their arms and
surrender
represent coercion based on the power to hurt; to the top command, which is frustrated but not coerced, such tactics are part of the contest in military discipline and strength.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake,
As the small pebble stirs the
peaceful
lake!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Still the cannon's voice in anger
Rolled and
rattled
o'er the plain,
Till there lay in swarms around it
Mangled heaps of Hessian slain.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I determined, therefore, if that should be
required, to die in
throwing
it off.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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_Silenus_, the nurse and
teacher
of Bacchus--a demigod of the
woods.
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Keats |
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I
hitched
my hat back a bit to get the kind of balmy feeling of the air against
my forehead.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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The thick
darkness
carries with it
Rain and a ravel of cloud.
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Imagists |
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This has
happened
with Amazon Kindle, where Amazon funnels Kindles through their cloud servers.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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And numbers, chief of inventions,
I found out for them, and the assemblages of letters,
And memory, Muse-mother, doer of all things;
And first I joined in pairs wild animals
Obedient
to the yoke; and that they might be
Alternate workers with the bodies of men
In the severest toils, I harnessed the rein-loving horses
To the car, the ornament of over-wealthy luxury.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Of
the 16,000,000 inhabitants of the Balkan Penin-
sula -- that is the calculation of Jakschitsch --
7,500,000 are to-day already
entirely
or nearly
independent, and the Porte possesses now in
Europe only about 8,500,000 direct subjects.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Even
what he
himself
did not believe, was believed in by
the idiots among whom he spread his doctrine.
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Nietzsche - v16 |
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Full Spring it was—and by rich flowering vines,
Dark olive-groves and noble forest-pines,
I rode at will; the moist glad air was sweet,
The white road rang beneath my horse’s feet,
And musing on Ravenna’s
ancient
name,
I watched the day till, marked with wounds of flame,
The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.
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Wilde - Poems |
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that is, the specific volume to be
fumigatedo?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The
[v]screen of the
periscope
grew alive with tiny waves, passing clouds,
and a tail of smoke on the skyline.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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'16'
It was an old convention that lovers were so
troubled
by their passion
that they could not sleep.
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consumed |
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doesn’t fucking summon hypnos |
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^]tant fort bel homme, quand la princesse bistre
entendit
qu'il voulait lui accorder ses faveurs elle montra son allegresse de la faon dont nous venons de paiier.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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How from a deep
breast this
stillness
fetcheth pure breath!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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As on Taurus aloft some oak agitatedly waving 105
Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,
When as his huge gnarled trunk in
furious
eddies a
whirlwind
Riving wresteth amain ; down falleth he, upward hoven,
Fallethon earth ; far, near, all crackles brittle around him,
So to the ground Theseus his fallen foeman abasing, 1 10
Slew, that his horned front toss'd vainly, a sport to the
breezes.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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There is
a
littleness
about him which you discovered, and which I did not: and I
was fully convinced of his being in love with Harriet.
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Austen - Emma |
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There is
a
littleness
about him which you discovered, and which I did not: and I
was fully convinced of his being in love with Harriet.
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Austen - Emma |
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There is
a
littleness
about him which you discovered, and which I did not: and I
was fully convinced of his being in love with Harriet.
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Austen - Emma |
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Quite
wonderful
how she does her
hair!
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Austen - Emma |
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Quite
wonderful
how she does her
hair!
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curious |
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Austen - Emma |
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Quite
wonderful
how she does her
hair!
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Austen - Emma |
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Varium et mutabile
Aeneas!
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Rejoice; thy lord's returned -- Ye Lydian lake
Give answer, bid your
rippling
waves awake
To laughter; ye light winds waft joy along,
And let the whole house ring with mirth and song!
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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He
positively
said that it had been known to no being in
the world but their two selves.
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Austen - Emma |
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The advantage of the match I felt to be all on her side; and had not the
smallest doubt (nor have I now) that there would be a general cry-out
upon her
extreme
good luck.
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Austen - Emma |
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Waiving that point, however, and
supposing her to be, as you
describe
her, only pretty and good-natured,
let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not
trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a
beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an
hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the
subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall
in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with
such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought
after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a
claim to be nice.
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Austen - Emma |
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’”
“I cannot help
wondering
at your knowing so little of Emma as to say any
such thing.
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Austen - Emma |
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_ You know, sir, considering our small acquaintance, you
have been
pleased
to talk to me very freely of love-matters.
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dkin |
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Thomas Otway |
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They mustmake clear by
theirexample
on all occasions that,the "peace
forinstancecannotindeed be solved but must question" scientifically; they
showthatit can be discussedin a scientificspirit.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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no, thou must fit
Measures; and fill out for the half-pint wit: 60
Some shall wrap pils, and save a
friends
life so,
Some shall stop muskets, and so kill a foe.
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John Donne |
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She placed one she had been
perusing
on his hand; he flung it off, and
muttered, if she did not give over, he would break her neck.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Ateas, king of the Scythians, fell in battle
against
Philippus near the river Danube at an age of more than ninety years.
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Roman Translations |
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Not by starting with the
England
of Mr.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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If youthful fury pant for shining arms,
Spread o'er the
eastern
world the dread alarms;[588]
There bends the Saracen the hostile bow,
The Saracen thy faith, thy nation's foe;
There from his cruel gripe tear empire's reins,
And break his tyrant-sceptre o'er his chains.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long
journey
from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Let us but observe
these patrons of music as they are, at close range,
when they call out so
indefatigably
"beauty!
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delicately |
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How are musician lovers up close |
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Nietzsche - v01 |
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Whether
a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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The former has the palate of an
outdoor
man.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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“Phrygium
silicem,” Stat.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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If he turns, how- ever, to philosophical aesthetics he is
beleagured
with highly abstract propositions that have neither a connection with the works he wants to understand, nor with the content after which he is groping.
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met |
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What does he attack this is thinking theory of art? |
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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t o^s|cula^,
Quam
du^l|ci?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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How, in thy father's halls, among the maidens
Pure and reproachless of thy
princely
line,
Could the dishonored Lalage abide?
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father's |
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Lalage lolly? |
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Poe - 5 |
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Some complimentary
yerses from her were prefixed to
the first edition'of Pope's works, but
were
afterwards
omitted, and she is
here and elsewhere sneered at.
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Alexander Pope - v03 |
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* Eryphile, bribed by a necklace,
prevailed upon her husband Amphia-
raus to join in the expedition against
Thebes, although he
assured
her it
would be fatal to him.
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warned |
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What jeweled bedizened the necklace? |
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Alexander Pope - v01 |
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But then our organs them-
selves would be the work of our
organs!
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mind |
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How does an organ play an organ? |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 |
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He
had just made up his mind on these points when his
attention was arrested by an unusual bustle, the
sound of which
proceeded
apparently from the cabin.
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emerged |
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What made the sound? |
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His assailant had rustled. |
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Poe - v05 |
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TALES OF
RATIOCINATION
AND ILLUSION
PAGE
5
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THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE PUR LOINED LETTER
THOU ART THE MAN
I’ALES OF ILLUSION':
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
THE OBLONG Boxº~~
*s, -
THE SPHINX *
THE SPECTACLES
MYSTIFICATION .
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Poe - v03 |
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“Al Aaraaf,” Io, 106—120 ;
issue of, I, 14; read in Bos-
ton by Poe, 65; quoted, 6,
73;
variorum
of, Io, 217, 218;
Poe's Notes to, 219–223; and
See Io, xix.
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Poe - v10 |
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5–6;
Contents
(with blank verso), pp.
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Poe - v10 |
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The charm of
knowledge
would be small, were it
not that so much shame has to be overcome on
the way to it.
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Nietzsche - v12 |
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" These appearances, which bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena not
uncommon
- or it may be that they have
their ghastly origin in the rank miasma of the tarn.
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Poe - v01 |
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At once I called Pompey's
attention
to the subject,
and he — he agreed with me.
Guess: |
butler |
Question: |
what subj |
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Poe - v04 |
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Briefly, the denaturalisation of moral values
resulted in the
creation
of a degenerate type of
man—"the good man," "the happy man," "the
“
wise man.
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Nietzsche - v14 |
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The
best of those who assemble there, German youths,
horned
Siegfrieds
and other Wagnerites, require
the sublime, the profound, and the overwhelming.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 |
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"
Ye want to be paid besides, ye
virtuous
ones!
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 |
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25 (#61) ##############################################
A MUSICIAN'S PROBLEM 25
º
Wagnerites into the bargain, we regard Wagner as
rich, even as the model of a prodigal giver, even as
a great
landlord
in the realm of sound.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 |
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We may hope that England—of late years not behindhand
in welcoming continental
authors—will
to some extent follow the
example of her Teutonic sister-nation.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 |
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"
History understood in this Hegelian way has
been
cgntemptuously
called Qod!
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Question: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 |
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But so willeth it my
creating
Will, my fate.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 |
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This is as near as he came to naturalism,
while in his longer and shorter pieces of this kind his
imagination suddenly gives out, and he is unable to
make a finish, or to
dispose
of his actors.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v01 |
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Tragedia
de Libero arbitrio.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pope Alexander VII - Index Librorum Prohibitorum |
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I am alluding to a man whose politics
you used to consider and whose writings you even
now consider as fantastic, but who, like another
fantast of his race, may possess the wonderful gift
of resurrection, and come again to life amongst
you—to
Benjamin
Disraeli.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 |
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