And with all their craft and cunning,
All their skill in wiles of warfare,
They perceived no danger near them,
Till their claws became entangled,
Till they found
themselves
imprisoned
In the snares of Hiawatha.
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Longfellow |
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Louis, still one hundred and fifteen feet below the summit of the
citadel, overlooking the Lower Town, the wharf where we had landed,
the harbor, the Isle of Orleans, and the river and
surrounding
country
to a great distance.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The paucity of its topicks enforces perpetual
repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the
ornaments
of
figurative diction.
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Samuel Johnson |
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who, to vain life tied,
Counts every hour and deems each hour a day,
By land or ocean, to himself a prey,
Where'er he wanders, who one form pursues,
Indulges
one desire, one dream renews,
Thought, speech, sense, feeling, there for ever bound!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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A similar
development
can be seen in Evelyn Waugh's parody The Loved One.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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”
“No, it is not handsomer, not at all
handsomer
in its way, and, for
my purpose, not half so fit.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Kinkel (Epicorum Graecorum
Fragmenta
i), Leipzig, 1877.
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Hesiod |
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They have all
something
in common : they keep
their ears closed in presence of the delirious folly
and noisy spouting of the democratic bourgeois.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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She that in bed such love does win,
Is
cleansed
forever of her sin.
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Troubador Verse |
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Enough for the present: nor will I add one
word more, lest you should suspect that I have
plundered
the escrutoire
of the blear-eyed Crispinus.
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Horace - Works |
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Npds toùs åtopnvapevous rà nepi at one time held that opinion, though he afterwards
Deoü, Adversus eos qui fulem
detrahunt
rebus di- renounced it; and the cautious and judicious Lard-
vinis.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Far be it from me to desire you to believe them, or lay any great stress upon their authority, (in that you may do as you think fit) but to read them as a piece of necessary
furniture
for a wit and a poet; which is a very different view from that of a Christian.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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88;
5 of DANIEL in the lions' den, fed with Abacue's food, 234-263; and of Apostles and Friars
preaching
Christianity, 264-7; p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Peter is a delightful
fellow, and a first
favourite
of mine.
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Robert Burns |
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Maintain
attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Tully - Offices |
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Miller (Oxford: Oxford
University
Press, 1977), 18-19.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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And nothing evil groweth in thee any longer, unless it be the evil that
groweth out of the
conflict
of thy virtues.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Betwixt them there
happened
a terrible clutter.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Then a dainty finger heaving to the tremulous hide o'
the bull, 10
He began this
invocation
to the company, spirit-awed.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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But the New Yorker is often provincial; I mean when
provincial
a Parisian is the most limited of Frenchmen and the New Yorker the worst hecker in Uncke Sam's once happy dominions.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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It was always
springtime
once in my heart.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Like a final sign-
post to other ways, there appeared Napoleon, the
most unique and violent anachronism that ever
existed, and in him the incarnate problem of the
aristocratic
ideal in itself — consider well what a
problem it is : — Napoleon, that synthesis of
Monster and Superman.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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We are at the end of the first book, with prom-
ise of some excitement in the continuation of
the tale, -- a device appreciated by Ovid long
before the
invention
of the serial novel.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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"
"Forty
thousand
rubles," said Herman coolly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We
organic beings are primordially interested by nothing whatever in any
thing (Ding) except its relation to ourselves with
reference
to pleasure
and pain.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging,
like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers,
Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they
falter, and, lingering, languish in radiant
choir;
Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering, lily-long
fingers enchant through melodious hours,
Eyes ravished with rapture,
celestially
panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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is not the object of intellectual
speculation
and can only be understood through the deepest aspect of understanding, prajna.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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In a chamber high above the Piazza just
mentioned, from which one
obtained
a general view of Rome and could
hear the fountains plashing far below, the loneliest of all songs
was composed--'The Night-Song'.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Burns
6
on its behalf, he was influenced partly by the desire to help 'a
good, worthy, honest fellow' in a
patriotic
undertaking, the
lucrative character of which was very doubtful, and which,
without his guidance and help, seemed almost certain to collapse.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Contented
wi' little, &c.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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At the same time you can't deny it makes
It not a mite worse, sitting here, we three,
Playing our fancy, to have the
snowline
run
So high across the pane outside.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Wherefore
one de-
manded of him if he would run at the great game
of Olympus, whereto, out of all parts of Greece, came
the most active and valiant persons to essay mastery.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Can you believe me if I tell you, that notwithstanding my sex, I thought myself peculiarly happy in having a lover to whom I was obliged for my charms; and took a secret pleasure in being admired by a man who, when he pleased, could raise his mistress to the
character
of a goddess.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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That phantom now
Slides with slack canvas and
unwhispering
prow
Through the dark sea that this dark room has made.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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onitis) denotes those inner rooms of a Greek or Roman house occupied
exclusively
by women.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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When the
immensity
of your sins weighs you down and you are bewildered by the loath- someness of your conscience, when the terrifying thought of judgment appalls you and you begin to founder in the gulf of sadness and despair, think of Mary.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Je ne les
rejoignis
pas.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a wary violet,
Drooping
from sun-caresses,
Answering mine carelessly--
Woe is me.
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Stephen Crane |
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It is not enough to possess a talent: one must also have your
permission to possess it;--eh, my
friends?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Christ, had he been asked, would have said--I feel quite
certain about it--that the moment the prodigal son fell on his knees and
wept, he made his having wasted his substance with harlots, his swine-
herding and
hungering
for the husks they ate, beautiful and holy moments
in his life.
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Oscar Wilde |
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"[182]
How like you my
philosophy?
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Robert Burns- |
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We could see,
six or seven miles distant, in the northeast, an indentation in the
lofty shore of the northern channel,
apparently
on one side of the
harbor, which marked the mouth of the Montmorenci, whose celebrated
fall was only a few rods in the rear.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, 175
O Hymen Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Men who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there
are many accidents to
disorder
and discompose, but few to please them.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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162 Most particularly (singulariter), however, he is the Lord who inhabits the singular court of Mary's body and soul, in
relation
to whom Mary is at once Daughter of the Lord Father, Mother of the Lord Son, Bride of the Lord Holy Spirit, and Handmaid of the Lord ree-and-One.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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And the ice of despair
Chilled the wild throb of care,
And he sate in mute agony still;
Till the night-stars shone through the cloudless air, _35
And the pale
moonbeam
slept on the hill.
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Shelley copy |
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In other words, you, with your weak health,
are proposing to kill yourself in order to relieve me to term of my
financial
embarrassments!
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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I'll sing no more,
resigned
I'll be,
And banish joy and love of her.
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Troubador Verse |
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The gibbet was
surrounded
by a party of the guards, and a block
and a pile of faggots were placed near it.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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leimt zusammen,
Braut ein Ragout von andrer Schmaus
Und blast die kummerlichen Flammen
Aus eurem
Aschenhaufchen
'raus!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O misery that the bow and arrows given him of the great Apollo should prove to be the dire shafts of a Death-Spirit (Ker) or a Fury, so that he should run stark mad in his own home and slay his own
children
withal, should reave them of dear life and fill the house with murder and blood.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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48 In the
penultimate
line of Trakl's 'Psalm: 2.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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As there is no means of
deciding
which
of these two has the better authority, my choice of readings has been
guided by personal preference.
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Li Po |
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He is
generally
poor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Wouldst thou give pleasure at once to the
children
of earth and
the righteous?
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Spectacles could hardly fail to
become "little windows"; a
quivering
compass-
needle "a bird "; a butterfly a "flying pansy.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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To defy with
Promethean
constancy a
hostile universe, to keep its evil always in view, always actively
hated, to refuse no pain that the malice of Power can invent, appears
to be the duty of all who will not bow before the inevitable.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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In the Suttas, again the Brāhman
Kasibhāradvājais
employ-
ing 500 ploughs and hired men (bhatikāls to guide plough an oxen 9,
Rice was the staple article of food0 ; besides which seven other kinds
of grain are mentioned21, sugar-cane" and fruits, vegetables and flowers
were also cultivated.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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It is likewise to be remembered, that forasmuch as the increase of any
estate must be upon the foreigner (for
whatsoever
is somewhere gotten,
is somewhere lost), there be but three things, which one nation selleth
unto another; the commodity as nature yieldeth it; the manufacture; and
the vecture, or carriage.
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Bacon |
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Barri in Ciarrigi, in illud Ibracense a Cormaco rege extructum Ispich, &c," as perpetual
possessions
de quo loquitur S.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Imagists |
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Always
in war, he
considered
his dominions only as a resource for his armies.
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Edmund Burke |
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Or if you are reading in a library you can dash out and get a terrific
souvlaki
sandwich on the corner.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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An
effective
preacher and lecturer, he was one
of the powers for good in his day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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18
with small
probability
ends the game with payo?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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or a
prepared
constitution?
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Whitman |
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When
he was leaving, his master gave him a set of five weapons; armed
with which, after bidding adieu to his old master, the prince set
out from
Takkasila
for Benares.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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In
revolutionary
Iran at that time iden- tification with the Islamic tradition combined with "the renewal of spiritual experiences", that is, the "desire to renew their entire exist- ence" (2005c: 255).
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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"
"Jane, be still; don't
struggle
so, like a wild frantic bird that is
rending its own plumage in its desperation.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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)
SCENE XVIL
Re-enter
Catullus
from his chamber, right, later Eros
from left.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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The gods have well
prevented
it, and Rome
Sits safe and still without him.
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Shakespeare |
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It was too little to alarm her
seriously
now.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Blandford
was in quest of a
proper person to introduce Emily, she
still remained with her beloved friends at
the parsonage.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Is there a RACE left in
England?
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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”
I answered that I was
sacrificing
my own pleasure for the sake of the
happiness of a friend.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Of the "Oedipodea"
practically
nothing is
known, though on the assurance of Athenaeus (vii.
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Hesiod |
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10, 11); he gives the
meaning of
_coemption_
(p.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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In fact it
forecloses
that question in order to demonstrate that at the most fundamental stage of the recognition of a thing (or non-
conceptual seeing) our stance toward the world is determined as meaningful.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base thoughts and stilleth troubled waters,
Is like the gold where
sunlight
plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The _reem_, those great beasts with
eighteen
horns,
Who mate but once in seventy years and die
In their own tears which flow ten stadia high.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He made a
splendid
fight of it too, and the children got so
excited that they stood up upon the benches, and waved their lace
handkerchiefs and cried out: _Bravo toro_!
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
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'Tis from high life high characters are drawn;
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn;
A judge is just, a
chancellor
juster still;
A gownman, learn'd; a bishop, what you will;
Wise, if a minister; but, if a king,
More wise, more learned, more just, more everything.
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Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sai Đề điệu là Sùng tiến Nhập nội Hữu Đô đốc kiêm Thái tử Thiếu bảo Lê Cảnh Huy, quyền Thượng thư Chính sự viện kiêm Cẩn Đức điện Đại học sĩ Thái tử tân khách
Nguyễn
Như Đổ; Giám thí là Hàn lâm viện Đại học sĩ, quyền Ngự sử đài Ngự sử đại phu Trần Bàn cùng trăm quan nghiêm túc chia giữ các việc.
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stella-04 |
|
I made up my
mind that I would carry along a
reticule
next time, let it look
how it might and people say what they would.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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His ill-omened
apprenticeship to a
sculptor
gave him that taste and feeling for
art which he turned to so admirable an account.
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The first char- acter to carry out the prospects and the risks involved in the ambivalent disaster across the stage in an
affirmative
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Having said as much, the Weber
brothers
had already brought forth Du Bois-Reymond's argu- ments, even in a more polite fashion.
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{133a} Is it such an
inexpiable
crime in poets
to tax vices generally, and no offence in them, who, by their exception
confess they have committed them particularly?
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Each one
received
clear and lengthy instructions, and then all of the disciples went to the places where Guru Rinpoche had instructed them to do their practices.
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to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Des
Einsamen
Gestalt kehrt also sich nach innen
Und geht, ein bleicher Engel, durch den leeren Hain.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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But why a little soldier in an
obsolete
dress?
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Amy Lowell |
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"
Now all my hours are trances;
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances
And where thy
footstep
gleams,
In what ethereal dances,
By what Italian streams.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days,
(Seven days to the week I allow),
But a Snark, on the which we might
lovingly
gaze,
We have never beheld till now!
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I
understand
that already.
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