"As the
generation
of leaves,
so is the generation of men.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Through my lord's influence it is
inserted
in the records of the
Caledonian Hunt, that they universally, one and all, subscribe for the
second edition.
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Robert Forst |
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Refusing to take part in the first crusade of 1098, he was one of the leaders of the minor Crusade of 1101 which was a
military
failure.
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Troubador Verse |
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The _Republic_ is a
scheme for
removing
these evils and averting the consequent dangers.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To the too-dear, to the too-beautiful,
who is my joy and sanity,
to the angel, to the
immortal
idol,
All hail in immortality!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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’
He went through a pantomime of
examining
a joint of meat, with goatish sniffs.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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ENVOI
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth,
Pierced of the point that
toucheth
lastly all,
'Gainst that grey fencer, even Death,
Behold the shield !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_ Is this the fellow, sir, that
designed
to trick me
of your daughter?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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The volumes
referred
to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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Even to
reproach
a State
with a too touchy sense of honour is to misread
the true moral laws of politics.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Then I went off to Huai-nan to pluck the laurel-branches,[35] and you
stayed north of the Lo, sighing over
thoughts
and dreams.
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Li Po |
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For that no mortal may escape; but on every side a wide snare
encompasses
us.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Gates and Rockefeller played
everything
"by ear," and the style slowly evolved.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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2dae 107
Producuntur etiam monosyllaba in E 109
Praeter Que, Ne, Ve 109
Quin et
adverbia
in E 108
Quibus accedunt Fernte, Fere 107
?
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Nothing whatsoever is new, nothing is
different
than it was, except arriving back at where you started.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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) If we can take Aristophanes' comic
description
as an accurate reflection of ritual, the archo ?
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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2 Jason the Thessalian was being pressed by his men for their pay, and he did not have the money to
discharge
the arrears.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Peire Raimon de
Toulouse
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Odo, Ambaldo,
Satallon
ensue,
And Walter next; of Paris are the four --
With others, that by me unmentioned fall,
Who cannot tell the name and land of all.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The pure
absorption
does not cut off the defilements of a lower sphere, for the ascetic can only obtain the pure absorption of a certain sphere because he is detached from a lower sphere; he does not cut off the defilements of his sphere, for he does not oppose
115
higher sphere, because they are more subtle than he himself.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Such
correcting
selection will continue until the total expenditure on sons in the population balances the total expenditure on daughters.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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The young lion was brought to every other pari of the
place except the steep side of the citadel which faced
Mount Tmolus, this latter part being neglected as al-
together
insuperable
and inaccessible; and yet by this
very part it was subsequently taken.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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I begin with the
proposition
that Artificial Intelligence programs, and the game worlds they spawn, attempt to articulate an aesthetic with ontological force, poems to blow our heads off.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Under this he was to find a pair of sandals and a sword bearing on its
ivory hilt an emblem of the
Athenian
royal family.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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"The picture by Hogarth of David Garrick and his wife was so life-
like that we children were afraid of it, and
persuaded
their father to
sell it to George IV.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The
decision
to be in bad faith does not dare to speak its name; it believes itself and does not believe itself in bad faith; it believes itself and does not believe itself in good faith.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Which is of most
importance?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Joachim Ritter, Hegel und die
franzosische
Revolution (Koln: W est?
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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We cannot without envying view
The eyes with twenty summers gay;
For eyes 'neath which our
childhood
grew
Have long since passed from earth away.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Hack
authorship
was his only
chance.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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The Greek word
which designates the Sage belongs etymologically
to sapio, I taste, sapiens, the tasting one, sisyphos,
the man of the most delicate taste; the peculiar
art of the
philosopher
therefore consists, according
to the opinion of the people, in a delicate selective
judgment by taste, by discernment, by significant
differentiation.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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IN
Florence
dwelt a Doctor of Renown,
The Scourge of God, and Terror of the Town,
Who all the Cant of Physick had by heart,
And never Murder'd but by rules of Art.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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I write,
therefore
I am; I am, therefore I write.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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$ AU these great''Advantages have inspired you with so much Pride, that you have despis d all your Admirers as Ibmany Inferioursnot worthy
ofloving
you, Accordinglytheyhaveallleftyou, andyou havevery well obferv'dit^therefore.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The fear of
ancestors and their power, the
consciousness
of
owing debts to them, necessarily increases, accord-
ing to this kind of logic, in the exact proportion
that the race itself increases, that the race itself
becomes more victorious, more independent, more
honoured, more feared.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Yet
everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the
last resort, nothing more than a piece of
testimony
concerning man
during a very limited period of time.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"
All this is
impossible?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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The
designation
of the "five Maitreya texts" is unknown in the earliest catalog of Tibetan Ifanslations from Sanskrit texts, which was compiled in 824.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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And might not the _Philopseudes_, that masterly analysis of
ghostly terrors, might not _Alexander the False Prophet_, have been
written
yesterday?
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Lucian - True History |
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Profound
it is, dark and obscure;
Things' essences all there endure.
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Tao Te Ching |
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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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It is a proverb almost
universally admitted, that every one is free
in all that concerns himself alone: now, as
in the moral system, founded upon interest,
self is the only question, I know not what
answer could be returned to such a speech
as the
following
:--" You give me, as the
11 motive for my actions, my own individual
"benefit--I am much obliged: but the man-
"ner of conceiving what this benefit is,
"necessarily depends upon the variety of
"character.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Both the expressions flitting over her face,
and the changes of her moods, began to alarm me terribly; and brought to
my recollection her former illness, and the doctor's
injunction
that she
should not be crossed.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Chamberlain
probably
was guided more by humanitarian instincts than by statesmanship.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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But from sheer morning
gladness
at the brim.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The pleadings
of both the orators in this great cause have come down
to us, and they are
specially
valuable as supplying us
with materials for the history of an intricate period.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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What was
interesting
about Zyklon A was that it was a designer gas, in which a specific task of design could be exemplarily observed: the reintroduction in the perception of the user of the functions of the product that were not perceptible or had been made imperceptible.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Falret, Des
maladies
mentales et des asiles d'alienes, p.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Lock
consesses
the individuals could not give it.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Hoụccon mtrn inut món chi,
Mál mà đặng, mắt thỉ
klỉỏng
sao.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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He subsequently served as
ambassador
to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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In the former acceptation, it means the division of a verse
into two
portions
or members, affording a short pause or
rest for the voice, in some convenient part, where that pause
may take place without injury to the sense, or the harmony
of the line ; as,
Virg.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Only certain ascetic practices were more closely linked to the
exercise
of a personal hberty.
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Foucault-Live |
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The pilgrims then
descended
through hell-mouth, till they came to a
place dark as pitch, that bellowed with furious cross-winds, like a sea
in a tempest.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The
relevance
of the essay is that of anachronism.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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a
symbolic
arrangement using multiple media and synesthesia through which he wanted to place himself totally in the limelight.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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") There was
uncertainty
for a long time as to precisely which poems were muˁallaqāt.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Do not interfere with an army that is
returning
home.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The
terrible
events of which we have been
witnesses have dried up men's hearts, and
every thing that belongs to thought appeared
tarnished by the side of the omnipotence of
action.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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rkeren
Leben, sie belebt das
geliebte
Wesen, indem sie
dessen Leben mit allen Mitteln fo?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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"Then must we grow numb, be petrified, be
without heart, become as murderers among the
murderers, among the
criminals
be criminal our-
selves?
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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For whereas the former is responsible for one man only, the latter is responsible for many others besides himself, when he reports to the
magistrates
the wrong-doing of the rest.
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Roman Translations |
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And /,
and Flying-post, and
scandalous
club may answer them, vou think sit !
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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: t
z,t;i =;;:: iilli
=
*liii
iiliiii?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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^79 By comparing the foregoing, with the collected and
published
edition of his works, it is evident, many of the latter have not yet
seen the light.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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)
[This is a
criticism
of the interpretation of the entire material constituting the
legend as given by Friedrich.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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{and} yif it
to{ur}ni?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--
Who love-warms Zeus's heart, and now is lashed
By Here's hate along the
unending
ways?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_
HE LIVES
DESTITUTE
OF ALL HOPE SAVE THAT OF RENDERING HER IMMORTAL.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But for singing, you, Thyrsis, used to sing The Affliction of Daphnis as well as any man; you are no
‘prentice
in the art of country music.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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rard Professor in Literature in the Division of Literatures,
Cultures
and Languages at Stanford University.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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But I felt it quite an affront to
be
supposed
proud, and said I only wanted to be asked.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Further-
more, very largely the same identical
schemata
are predomi-
nant in all these elegies as we find preferred in the Sulpicia
elegies (iv, 2-6) and in the imitation of Tibullus (iv, 13).
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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but I shall use the words and arguments which occur to
me at the moment; for I am certain that this is right, and that at
my time of life I ought not to be appearing before you, O men of Athens,
in the character of a
juvenile
orator - let no one expect this of
me.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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In one year he had seen an
ill wind strike his mother, his sisters, and his wife; but he had
consoled himself for their deaths by
inheriting
their property.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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He's given her time to think of
something
else.
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Robert Burns- |
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Knowing also that the army was not a favourite of con-
gress, he could not but survey, for the last time, with pain,
the war-worn faces of those faithful men, who, while win-
ning the
liberties
of their country, had won for her such im-
perishable renown, requited, as he felt they were to be, by
the grossest ingratitude.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
What an
utterance
is about, its intentional targets, are formulated
through language, so that the way language
by an agreement between language and a thing in the world but by an agreement within language between two related statements.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
Great and
beneficent
lord of the main!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Diversionary
attacks in other areas.
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NSC-68 |
|
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[Footnote V: In the long
vacation
of 1790, with his friend Jones.
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William Wordsworth |
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It
deserves
as many readings as we can give it.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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in some ways the last visitor to the Turkish Empire in its
previous
form" before the progressive revolutions of the Eastern Question gradually weakened Ottoman control.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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The hour went by, we rose and turned to go,
The somber street received us from the glare,
And once more on your
shoulders
fell the snow.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Thus, though he care-
harangues
to the people.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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king: Benton: "I wish to pro- vide against all risk, and every hazard; for, if this risk and hazard were too great to be
encountered
by King, Lords, and Com- mons .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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He was quite indefatigable as he brought
up question after question during our
frequent
small parties,
which lasted late into the night or into the early morning.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other’s way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
My
respects
to Mrs.
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Selection of English Letters |
|
We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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TheSibyl'spredicament demonstrates the absurdity ofthis picture (this does not mean we can dismiss it, however;
Reproduced with permission of the
copyright
owner.
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There is a great difference in the
credibility
to be attached to stories of
dreams and stories of ghosts.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Regardless, I suspect that poets like Heaney or Pinsky, in preferring
consonance
as a formal feature, are composing less for the ear than for the eye.
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We again and again have
occasion to observe how a symphony of Beethoven
compels the individual hearers to use figurative
speech, though the appearance presented by a
collocation of the different
pictorial
world generated
by a piece of music may be never so fantastically
diversified and even contradictory.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Yit can it make a ful gret wounde, 965
But he may hope his sores sounde,
That hurt is with that arowe, y-wis;
His wo the bet
bistowed
is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and
fashioned
well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love.
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Sappho |
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He rose early, either to ride or, preferably, to take an hour's walk, which not only
preserves
the body's elasticity but also represents the kind of pedantic, simple routine that, strictly adhered to, consorts perfectly with an image of responsible achievement.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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