The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ovid had spoken of the satyr's entire body as
becoming
a single
wound.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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"Why any
seconds?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
zieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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quipement d'un monde en tant que soumis aux commandes d'une science
technicise
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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In they rushed and killed the game,
shooting
lustily away;
And whene'er they slew a rebel, those who came too late for
slaying,
Not to lose a share of glory, fired their bullets in his clay;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Saw his sons fall dead beside him, and between them laid him
down.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Then as the lights grow
dim, showing by
contrast
the moonlit lake, the paean
of love of Julian and Hermia is heard ift the dis-
tance.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Thence issuing often with unwieldy stalk,
They crush with broad black feet their flowery walk; [74]
Or, from the neighbouring water, hear at morn [75] 245
The hound, the horse's tread, and mellow horn;
Involve their serpent-necks in changeful rings,
Rolled wantonly between their
slippery
wings,
Or, starting up with noise and rude delight,
Force half upon the wave their cumbrous flight.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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TO HERCULES [HERAKLES]
The
Fumigation
from Frankincense.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Bernard
covering
his eyes that they may
not dwell upon the beauty of the lakes of Switzerland, or with
the violent rhetoric of the Book of Revelations?
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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I met an under-officer from the Black Sea
to-day--he’s an acquaintance of mine--he was in my
detachment
last year.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Voialtri
pochi che drizzaste il collo
per tempo al pan de li angeli, del quale
vivesi qui ma non sen vien satollo,
metter potete ben per l'alto sale
vostro navigio, servando mio solco
dinanzi a l'acqua che ritorna equale.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
(2) It is a consequence of this way of thinking of the "soul" that the
process of bodily and mental development is
regarded
by Aristotle as one
single continuous process.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Soon after Homer the old Heroes prais'd,
And noble minds by great Examples rais'd;
Then Hesiod did his Graecian Swains incline
To till the Fields, and prune the
bounteous
Vine.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Stephen Crane |
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It does not bring
“forth”
its products in the true sense, rather its production mode is a motherless forcing of things that function.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Sincerely
gracious
one morning, sincerely graciously trembling, sincere
in gracious eloping, all this makes a furnace and a blanket.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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And he swore a fearful oath, by the name of the Almighty,
He would hunt this ravening evil that had scathed and torn
him so;
He would seize it by the vitals; he would crush it day and
night; he
Would so pursue its footsteps, so return it blow for blow,
That Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Should be a name to swear by, in
backwoods
or in town!
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country |
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What evil scathed? |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Eight other dignities were specially reserved for
eunuchs, of whom there were many in the
Byzantine
court and society.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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The tumult and the shouting dies--
The
Captains
and the Kings depart--
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What distinguishes this from the
ordinary
view is that in the ordinary view the emotion has validity as a specific experience, which we do not always recognize with certainty.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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This membrane
floating
above,
And bellied out by the up-pressing soul.
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poised |
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Between what the membrane? |
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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As he advanced
up the mid-aisle, the interest was so intense that the low murmur
of conversation in the great assemblage died out and was suc-
ceeded by a
profound
hush, a breathless stillness, through which
his footfalls pulsed with a dull and distant sound.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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```Nec tibi turpe puta crinem, ut Phylleia mater,
````Solvere: et effusis colla
reflecte
comis.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Interviews
and Comments on the work of H.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Then there is the
curious modern feeling--which is sometimes but dressed up by erroneous
aesthetic theory (the worship of a quite national "lyricism," for
instance) but which is really nothing but a sign of covert
barbarism--that lengthy poetic composition is somehow undesirable; and
Homer is thought to have had a better excuse for
composing
a long poem
than Milton.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Peter in Antioch, called in
Byzantine
sources Ka?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Upon one of these occasions, one of my pupils, reading
his extract, and speaking of two lovers, said that the
princess declared her love: the Duke de Montpensier
interrupted him:'The expression,'said he, 'is not pro-
per; a man
declares
his love, a woman acknowledges
hers.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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nz, Von
Bismarck
bis Bu?
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Up to this extent the history
of the moral
feelings
is entirely different from the
history of moral conceptions.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Le valet de pied rentra avec la carte de la
comtesse
Molé, ou plutôt
avec ce qu'elle avait laissé comme carte.
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| Question: |
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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These same fellows here,
ignorant
as they be, are as sharp and knowing as
other folk.
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| Question: |
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the pastures all
Be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
By no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
Through taint
contagious
of a neighbouring flock.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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that " evil " out of the
cauldron
of unsatisfied hatred
— -the tormer an imitation, an " extra," an additional
nuance; the lafterJ'oiTthe otli«'Tian37tKe~original,
the' "beginning, the ^senlial"act in the conception]
ti f^" srave-mo rality— -thgse .
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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in this connection, a new appreciation of animism is necessary in order to correct the devalu- ation of this religion, which has
occurred
in the period of enlightenment and of colonialism.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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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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How did philology, lexicography, history, biology, political and
economic theory, novel-writing, and lyric poetry come to the service of
Orientalism’s
broadly
imperialist view of the world?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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But the Star Chamber could not reach the minds
of the people ; and whilst Elizabeth and her successors
were using its irresponsible power for the suppression of what were
regarded
as heretical books, the number of readers was increasing, and the power of the press was growing in the same proportion.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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For a further
discussion
of St.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Publius
Silicius
was observed to burst into
tears; and this was the cause why he was afterwards
proscribed.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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] these verses determine the
position
of the
constellation, having Bootes on the east, Leo on the
west, northward the fore feet of Ursa Major, south-
ward Virgo.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The Greek
versions
of the names of the Egyptian kings have been preserved by Syncellus, and the spelling of these names follows the usual rule for transliteration of Greek names.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Second, new iterations of this same
question
lie at the heart of the poetry of various younger writers such as Mexicans Elsa Cross (1946), Alberto Blanco (1951), Coral Bracho (1951) and Leo?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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The mother of the abyss, she who created them all,
Unconquerable warriors, gave them giant snakes,
Sharp of tooth,
pitiless
in might,
With poison like blood she filled their bodies,
Huge poisonous adders raging, she clothed them with dread,
Filled them with splendor
He who sees them shuddering shall seize him,
They rear their bodies, none can resist their breast.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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But praise and utility and respectability may
suffice for him whose only desire is to have a good
conscience,—not however for thee, the " trier of the
reins," who hast a consciousness of the
conscience!
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Above
suggestions
should not be followed with intem- perance.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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| Question: |
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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When Adonis yet lived Cypris was beautiful to see to, but when Adonis died her
loveliness
died also.
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Bion |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 20, 1943
If or when one mentions the
Protocols
alleged to be of the Elders of Zion, one is frequently met with the reply: Oh, but they are a forgery.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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In this poem is a very
confident
and discriminative character of Spenser,
whose work he had then never read[160].
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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and when Pope
Eugenius
had sent his Legate
T72 and
with all appurtenances around that city, and in the district of Wyglo,'7S
belong
to the aforesaid
abbey, scilicz, ffertir,
magmersa,
east coast of Dublin County.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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And she unto the ceiling of her shrine carven of wood shall turn up her eyes and be angry with the host, even she that fell from heaven and the throne of Zeus, to be a possession most precious to my great
grandfather
the King.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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lā tabˁadan is
equivocally
"do not depart" and "do not perish.
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Translated Poetry |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nor does
this wild
diversity
of invention suggest romance.
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Lucian - True History |
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"59 Such remarks can only be made plausible by illuminated
interpreters
insisting on their right even under the most difficult of circumstances to interpret world history to the last detail as a history of salvation.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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at length being
earnestly
pressed by their
indulgent mother they revealed it, de-
claring they could never be happy at
school if the boys were in the habit of
acting with so little principle.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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Where is (said
Satyrane)
that Paynims sonne,
That him of life, and us of joy hath reft?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Novels he despised; and here was this woman, the
queen of the English stage, as he regarded her,
laughing
at his drama
and telling him to make a novel of it.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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--
Is there no daring Bard will rise and tell
How
glorious
Wallace stood, how hapless fell?
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burns |
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The imperial viceroys of Mistrâ had been
appointed
for much longer
periods than had been the case before; and, in 1348, the Emperor John
Cantacuzene had sent his son Manuel as Despot for life to the Morea.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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The
immortals
at once set out for the scene of action in two hostile groups.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The chill, the solitude of sepulchres 1
' N eath our fair sk y, beside our funeral urns
S o numerous, less haunt the
frighted
soul.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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34
寒山詩
HS 23
妾在邯鄲住,
歌聲亦抑揚。
賴我安居處,
4 此曲舊來長。 既醉莫言歸, 留連日未央。 兒家寢宿處,
8 繡被滿銀床。 HS 24
快搒三翼舟,
善乘千里馬。
莫能造我家,
4 謂言最幽野。
巖岫深嶂中,
雲雷竟日下。 自非孔丘公,
8 無能相救者。
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Hanshan’s Poems 35
HS 23
Your handmaid lives in Handan city, And the notes of my song rise and fall.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Wenn
Phantasie
sich sonst mit kuhnem Flug
Und hoffnungsvoll zum Ewigen erweitert,
So ist ein kleiner Raum ihr nun genug,
Wenn Gluck auf Gluck im Zeitenstrudel scheitert.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This way
happiness
doth ever blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pattern Poems |
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God
and the Blessed Virgin and the saints help a poor
ignorant
soul trying
to do his duty.
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| Question: |
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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1 Press,
Parliamentary
attacks on, i.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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287; the Inferno quoted, come P
uom s'eterna, 387; Taine quoted as regarding
Napoleon as the posthumous brother of Dante
and Michelangelo, 397; the inscription, / also
am the
creation
of eternal love, 406.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Doch den Tod bringt Alles dir,
wo dich dein
Verhängnis
zieht.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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In the real countenance
there are no tears or grievances, but a quizzical, humorous expression
which shows, when one has torn the subterfuge away, that here is a
spirit whom life may menace with its
contradictions
and fatalities, but
never dupe with its circumstance and mystery.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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So the story that is put about by some, that Aratus lived at the same time as
Nicander
of Colophon, the writer of the Theriaca, is shown to be false, [that they made an agreement, Aratus to work on the Phaenomena, and Nicander on the Theriaca], because Nicander is shown to have lived twelve whole Olympiads later than Aratus.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
; il j ?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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” He needed only to press upon it, when
the mountain would again open its treasures to him — not weap-
ons and gleaming armor as in his childhood — not honors and
homage and social
position
as in his youth—no, something better
than all these.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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The latter pairs itself with an attitude of not being bound and thus becomes available in the midst of the de-
mythified
world; or, as it might be put in paramilitary modern German, it becomes einsatzbereit, mobi- lized.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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If not the state- ment of the coming historical issue of the moral
struggle has been made by me in sufficiently clear, though brief, outlines, and I publish this little work with the
grateful
feeling of a fulfilled moral duty.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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The
Standard
Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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"The volume contains many obiter dicta of great shrewdness,
and of
particular
value to our own race.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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If so, it forms a link in the development of such pieces between the two
preceding
poems and Theocritus’ Pipe.
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Pattern Poems |
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But there are deep-rooted vested interests in the
criminal
exploitation of
the Burmese peasant.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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One of the first acts of the new reign was the
recognition
of Majorian
(April), after whose death (461) Leo, though not recognising Severus,
accepted the Western consuls, and, while sending an embassy to Gaiseric
to secure the liberation of the widow and daughters of Valentinian,
urged him to cease attacking Italy and Sicily.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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CCXXVII
That
Emperour
canters in noble array,
Over his sark all of his beard displays;
For love of him, all others do the same,
Five score thousand Franks are thereby made plain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I’m like a magnet that pulls nails out of a rotten old ship – I have the curious ability to attract people from the
intellectual
scene who function completely as non-drivers.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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For he was exceedingly covetous, and not scrupulous as to the means he
employed
for getting money, so that indeed no one was over less so.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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But his health had failed; the lady was an
invalid also; and somebody
described
the lovers as supping together
at nine o'clock on water gruel.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Now, come on, arraign with me luxury and Nomentanus; for reason will
evince that foolish
spendthrifts
are mad.
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Horace - Works |
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tribulation : and in Thy mercy shalt bring mine enemies to
destruction
: and Thou shalt destroy all them that afflict
Rom.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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According
to these later authentic sources, no saint, mentioned in the work alluded to, found to have lived after a.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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This is crucial if we are to develop any accurate picture of the dynamics behind the
works of a historically
influential
thinker like Tsongkhapa and appreciate his role within the overaH history of Tibetan thought.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it skilfully
overcomes; not to speak, and yet it is skilful in
obtaining
a reply;
does not call, and yet men come to it of themselves.
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Tao Te Ching |
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25
December
1938
My dear Maria,
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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