This glory of God the heavens declare, and the
firmament
sheweth the works of His hands.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Except for a few poets like Keats and
Wordsworth
he thinks the
modem world — and from his point of view the modern world is the last two thousand
years — just oughtn’t to have happened.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Kohlhaas could not
understand
anything else.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Also
I have
verified
the bill from the shop in Gorokhovaia Street.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Of these, Julianus, when an attack
breached
his walls, threw himself into a fire.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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"The fall," and the strange polysyllable
following
it, introduce us to the propelling impulse of Finnegans Wake.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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If you are
attached
to samsara, You don't have renunciation.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Night coming on, Adam and Eve
discourse
of going to thir rest: thir
Bower describ'd; thir Evening worship.
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Milton |
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Then a damp gust
Bringing rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered
far distant, over Himavant.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What are our woes and
sufferance?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" Whitman
responded
to
the instinctive appreciation of the President, considering him (it is said
by Mr.
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Whitman |
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"feel" as solid as Flaubert; he does not give us "Everyman," but on the other hand, he was aware of things which Flaubert was not aware of, and in certain things
supersedes
the author of "Madame Bovary.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Moreover, even though speaking to every stream of being which is to be trained in places both near and far, the quality of the sound is
perfectly
suited, is lacking in all faults such as speaking too quickly, stutte.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Plato observed a long while ago that those
stomachs
are not
the best that reject all sorts of food.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Mine are those herbs, if yet there be any
such, mine those charms, and mine that
fountain
that not only restores
departed youth but, which is more desirable, preserves it perpetual.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Desine de quoquam
quidquam
bene velle mereri,
Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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figures taken from a
primitive
form of life.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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He speaks of our days failing, either because men fail in them from loving things that pass away, or because they are reduced to so small a number; which he asserts in the
following
lines; our years are spent in thought like a spider1 ; (ver.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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It seemed to him that Miss Montag was mixed
up in
everything
and made it repulsive to him.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Abroad it is the basis of what is known as American
economic
imperialism.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Sydney's birth-day;
among the little
testimonies
of congratu-
lation which were offered, Rose presented
her with the following lines: addressed
<< TO MY MOTUER,.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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LXIX
When they
encounter
in mid field, pell-mell,
And to the sky flew every shivered lance,
At that loud noise, the sea was seen to swell,
At that loud noise, which echoed even to France.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Nor is there much danger of a bank's being betrayed into this error from want of information: The directors themselves being for the most part selected from the class of traders, are to be expected to possess individually, an
accurate
knowledge of the characters and situations of
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Wilt thou follow me in
whatsoever
day I come
for thee?
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Is
this essentially different from the
behavior
of the obstinate man who
says "I would rather be shot than go a step out of my way for this
fellow"?
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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that his thought is greater than one would have
understood
only reading a few poetic poems.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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—
mannerisms
of, x.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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The new place of America in the world as a whole, the awakened interest in other peoples, other
cultures
must inevitably draw the minds of men away from the mere practicalities of living.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Where’d
you get it?
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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My locks (the plenteous harvest of my head)
Hang o'er my manly face; and dangling down,
As with a shady grove my
shoulders
crown.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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If a sincere religious artist were to arise in Ireland in our day,
and were to paint the Holy Family, let us say, he would meet with
the same
opposition
that sincere dramatists are meeting with to-day.
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Yeats |
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1 4 Turkey and the Great Nations
them and the Rayahs stretched a boundless gulf;
the extremest
insolence
of the old French aristo-
cratic arrogance is not within even measurable
distance of those feehngs of cold contempt and
bodily disgust which the believing Turk ex-
periences even to-day against the pork-eating
Giaour.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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if that name thou love
Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove;
Thou who art victory and law
When empty terrors overawe;
From vain
temptations
dost set free,
And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
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Golden Treasury |
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Well, and now your term of
possession
expires.
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Lucian |
|
Here is an
extract from his preface:-
"'Those who have been accustomed to the phraseology of modem writers, if
they persist in reading this book to a
conclusion
_(impossible!
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Poe - 5 |
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4%, while the epic
hexameter
of the
Metamorphoses does not exceed 54.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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They may be modified and printed and given
away--you may do practically
ANYTHING
in the United States with eBooks
not protected by U.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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The phenomena
remain unexplained still, to the great
satisfaction
of those who revere
moral miracles.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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This
exposition
of the connections is finished.
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Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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He has no
independent
value: he may
be compared; he has his equals, he must not be an individual.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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What are
presented
as reflections on politics are actually foundational reflections on rules for the maintenance of the human zoo.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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As they
were walking along, Scipio said, in a quiet and subdued voice,
and with the blood mounting to his cheeks: "Why is it, Polyb-
ius, that though I and my brother eat at the same table, you
address all your conversation and all your
questions
and expla-
nations to him, and pass me over altogether?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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He was son-in-law to Hcrmocrates, who, having been
banished by an adverse party,
attempted
to return by
force of arms, and was killed in the action.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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War and peace
That Caygill finds the theme of war and peace central to Levinas's work is not
surprising
once one recalls Levinas's own life.
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Education in Hegel |
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His abilities as a speaker may be easily
conjectured
from his History, which is neither destitute of elegance, nor a perfect model of composition.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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"Without is
everything
that I feel within myself, and without
and within myself everything is immeasurable, illimitable.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Divorced
or doing thereanent.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Strictures
on the new Government measure.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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The poore old woman was amazde: and bitterly she wept:
She durst not touche the
uncouthe
worme, who into corners crept.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
12
In a person so extraordinary, perhaps it may be
pardonable
to mention some particulars, although of little moment, further than to set forth her character.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Patrick's Hymn Before Tarah
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
1785–1873
9671
BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
An Unwilling Priest (“The Betrothed')
A Late
Repentance
(same)
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Translators have
obviously
used Zottoli as a text.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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His thought is so little obtru-
sive, his art is so careful that we too hastily
circumscribe its limits instead of
stretching
our
own imaginations by its aid.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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This reaction is no different from smokers grabbing their pack of cigarettes as soon as they arrive at one of the few remaining spaces in our world where smoking is not banned; both are
symptoms
of addiction.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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He exhorted all
administrative
districts and
sub-sectors of the world community to watchfulness, in
order to make fanatics and dictators like Matsumoto
innocuous, before they become too powerful.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Amongst the Greeks, the horses fly at the sight of an unarmed elephant; but armoured, and with a tower on its back, from which
missiles
and stones are continually hurled, it is a sight too formidable to be borne.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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'Scuse Dinah, 'scuse her, Marster; for she's sich a little chile,
She hardly jes' begin to scramble up de
homeyard
stile,
But dis ole traveller's feet been tired dis many a many a mile.
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Sidney Lanier |
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a elite, mientras que entre los siglos v y xix su
presencia
resulta asombrosamente dis- continua.
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Tully - Offices |
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Maintenant qu’après cette oscillation, Odette était naturellement
revenue à la place d’où la jalousie de Swann l’avait un moment
écartée, dans l’angle où il la trouvait charmante, il se la figurait
pleine de tendresse, avec un regard de consentement, si jolie ainsi,
qu’il ne pouvait s’empêcher d’avancer les lèvres vers elle comme si
elle avait été là et qu’il eût pu l’embrasser; et il lui gardait de ce
regard enchanteur et bon autant de reconnaissance que si elle venait
de l’avoir
réellement
et si cela n’eût pas été seulement son
imagination qui venait de le peindre pour donner satisfaction à son
désir.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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They were his feelings of weak- ness, of being unable to accomplish what he so wished to do, his self-doubts (and possibly even lapses of faith), and the sense of guilt and shame which
accompany
such doubt.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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Likewise, I assume and I wish that the word "reflection" is not
supposed
to entail the expectation for the possible results of our reflection to be categorically "superior" or of any guaranteed everyday value.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Man now no longer
requires
"justification of evil justification precisely what he abhors: he enjoys evil, far, one he regards purposeless evil as the most interesting kind of evil.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Must I always stand
Lonely, a
stranger
from an unknown land?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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An
Abridgment
of foregoing.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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O that I knew this husband, which you say must
charge his horns with
garlands!
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Shakespeare |
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Es ist so elend, betteln zu mussen
Und noch dazu mit bosem
Gewissen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It seems
probable that, in the last resort, classification in
literature
rests on
that least tangible, least definable matter, style; for style is the
sign of the poem's spirit, and it is the spirit that we feel.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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" Thus spake the gods:
Then swift
ascended
to the bright abodes.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For since there are two things, that is, soul and body, because of these two that the better, which called the soul,
therefore
can thy body be made better by the better, because the body subject to the soul.
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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In several
places at a distance other
soldiers
were drawn up, and we were
told that cannon with lighted matches were stationed on every
side.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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"
He was once asked what his
disciples
ought to do to get on; and he replied, "Press on upon those who are in front of them, and not wait for those who are behind to catch them.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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But all officers, both military and civil, were, accord ing to the
respectful
usages of old, inferior to that of the pre fect of the praetorium, which was the most honorable of all.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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To the fair, has nature, in softer mood,
assigned
these amusements; with
materials more abundant do the men disport.
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Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
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The first discussion was started in my absence and was
provoked by some
newspaper
article or pamphlet on B2
?
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Source: |
Sovoliev - End of History |
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"Bred
Gently to watch a mother left alone;
Bound by a dying father's wish, who feared
The world's accustomed
harshness
when he should be dead;
18
Such was my case from youth, Mynheer Kurler.
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Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Reply to Objection 1: The least baptismal grace
suffices
to blot out
all sins.
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Summa Theologica |
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ossa tegit tumulus, tumulus pro corpore magnus,
quo lapis exiguus par sibi carmen habet:
'colligor ex ipso dominae
placuisse
sepulcro;
ora fuere mihi plus aue docta loqui.
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Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
impostor
has governed my
father but too long, and too long opposed my love and Valère's.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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To
practice
its methods and to take it to heart is to go for refuge in Dharma.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
|
Would you tear from my lintels these sacred
green
garlands
of leaves?
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Hence it is that with none in the whole army are more intimate
relations
to be maintained than with spies.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
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Yo volvia á casa de mi padre, no á la mia; así lo
habia yo entendido, y volvia resuelto á respetar todos los
derechos
y
á acatar todas las disposiciones de mi padre, sin permitirme la más
nimia observacion: puesto que al abandonar á mi familia en 1836, habia
yo renunciado á todos mis derechos de hijo y de heredero, dando á mi
padre el de hacer de su hacienda lo que más á cuenta le viniere, como
si Dios le hubiera quitado por muerte natural el hijo que civilmente
murió, al fugarse del paterno hogar en brazos de su locura.
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Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
The devil, once a shining
angel, a son of the morning, now a foul fiend came in the shape of a
serpent, the
subtlest
of all the beasts of the field.
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Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
430] Trim
wreathed
up with yvie leaves, and with hir thumbe gan steare The quivering strings, to trie them if they were in tune or no.
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Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
|
For this purpose an enemy is
necessary
and he is found in the so called
"inner enemy.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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No
throbbing
hearts awaited his return!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But when
we find the man called, not _the_ butcher, or _that_ butcher, or butcher
in reference to his species, but in plain local parlance "a butcher of
Paris" (_un beccaio di Parigi_), and when this designation is followed
up by the
allusion
to the extinction of the previous dynasty, the
ordinary construction of the words appears indisputable.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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I never have pretended to be a great politician; far from that, I always
have felt for controversies of a
political
nature the greatest aversion;
and if, in my "Essay on Property," I have sometimes ridiculed our
politicians, believe, sir, that I was governed much less by my pride
in the little that I know, than by my vivid consciousness of their
ignorance and excessive vanity.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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At our university we
recently
experienced the problem of individual students having to put up with restrictions and inconveniences because of reorganization in some subjects.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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The barometer announced a speedy change, the
mercury rising and falling capriciously; the sea also, in the
south-east, raised long surges which
indicated
a tempest.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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As the attack went on,
he grew more wild and frantic in his terror; tried to pull away
the bars that guarded the chimney and prevented him from
climbing up; called loudly on the
turnkeys
to cluster round the
cell and save him from the fury of the rabble, or put him in
some dungeon underground, no matter of what depth, how dark
it was, or loathsome, or beset with rats and creeping things, so
that it hid him and was hard to find.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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on
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in vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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