Oddly enough there is no poet in English except
Goldsmith
who appeals to simple people so much as Moore.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Happy long life, with honor at the close,
Friends' painless tears, the
softened
thought of foes!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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That lately didst exclaim in Lombard phrase,
"Depart thou, I solicit thee no more,
Though
somewhat
tardy I perchance arrive
Let it not irk thee here to pause awhile,
And with me parley: lo!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Via another collectivity, Jung acquitted himself in 1946 for his season of open col- laboration with the Nazi German institution of Aryan psychotherapy through his postwar doctrine of
collective
guilt.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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In the development of the plot Heliodorus makes his set more unified,
less cinematic than
Xenophon
had done.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Yes, I feel it now--I'm
poisoned!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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,
"9 Strange to say, under its modern or an- cient form of name, this
celebrated
historic
1789, 8vo.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
If, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
Of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
And all the woodland ring; nor can there be
A page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
Where,
foremost
writ, the name of Varus stands.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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(The Tao) which
originated
all under the sky is to be
considered as the mother of them all.
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Tao Te Ching |
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IV
"For Christ's sweet sake, I beg an alms;"
The happy camels may reach the spring,
But Sir Launfal sees naught save the
grewsome thing,[29] 275
The leper, lank as the rain-blanched bone,
That cowered beside him, a thing as lone
And white as the ice-isles of Northern seas
In the
desolate
horror of his disease.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Can
_Reality_ be
increas’d
or diminish’d?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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They seemed small and empty, never more than a couple of
customers
in them.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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2 Some therefore advised that they should take Mithridates of Pontus, others Ptolemy of Egypt, but it being considered that Mithridates was engaged in war with the Romans, and that Ptolemy had always been an enemy to Syria, 3 the thoughts of all were directed to
Tigranes
king of Armenia, who, in addition to the strength of his own kingdom, was supported by an alliance with Parthia, and by a matrimonial connection with Mithridates.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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"
And the Apocalypse illustrates in a remarkable manner the fact to
which I have already called attention,- that the loftiest ranges of
human eloquence are not incompatible with the use of inferior dia-
lects; for the language of the Apocalypse exhibits the very worst
Greek in the whole New Testament, the most uncouth, the most
deeply dyed with Hebraisms, and in some
instances
even the most
glaringly ungrammatical,- and yet many of its paragraphs are of
matchless power and beauty.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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White those
haunches
as any cleanly-silver'd
Salt, it takes you a month to barely dirt them.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Yes, there is a rumour that a
young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a
vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the
dream of a dew-washed morning--the smile that
flickers
on baby's
lips when he sleeps.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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You do not choose your time well
to pose as a victim, when like a tyrant you are
refusing
me a
mere trifle.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Such
was the opinion of the King who was present during the trial; and such
was the almost
unanimous
opinion of the public.
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Macaulay |
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_ Quite a
peculiar
juice is blood.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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For discussion of the testimony of Athenagoras, Phil-
ostratus, Eusebius, and
Ammianus
Marcellinus, see Allinson, Lucian, op.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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I
happened
of them but two days agone, and near the byre, too, and faith, gallant was the word.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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We shall clasp hands the
accustomed
way,
As when we met
So long ago, as I remember yet.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"The nature of man
consists
in that he is not what he ought to be" (PR III 109).
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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This is a
powerful
argument in the light of history, but the considerations against war are so compelling that the free world must demonstrate that this argument is wrong.
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NSC-68 |
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That may be the reason why earlier historiantattributed its invention to the same
Renaissance
researchers to whom the camera obscura can also be traced back.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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A LIST OF CLAIMS
Straits ; this implies the
annexation
of
Constantinople and the adjacent part of
the present vilayet of Constantinople on
the European side of the Bosphorus, as
well as of Scutari and surroundings on the
Anatolian side ; further, the possession of
all the islands in the Sea of Marmora, of
the Gallipoli Peninsula and of the Asiatic
coast of the Dardanelles.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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But such a
scene of
drunkenness
was hardly ever seen in this country.
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Robert Forst |
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That is, we
rejoiced
as receiving consolation.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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' But he declined and suggested that the more
suitable
man was the eunuch Shiha?
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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αλλ' ότε αυτοί, τον
πετρωτόν
ακολουθώντας δρόμο,
σιμά 'ς την πόλιν έφθασαν,— μες την τεχνητήν βρύσι 205
την κρυσταλλένια, 'πώπαιρναν νερόν όλ' οι πολίταις,
του Ιθάκου, του Πολύκτορα και του Νηρίτου κτίσμα,
και από λεύκαις ρυάρικαις ολόγυρ' είχε δάσος,
ολούθεν όλο κυκλικό• ψηλάθεν από βράχο
το κρύον έρρεε νερό• κ' επάν' ήταν κτισμένος 210
βωμός, οπού θυσίαζαν 'ς ταις νύμφαις οι διαβάταις,—
εκεί τους ηύρε ο Μέλανθος, το τέκνο του Δολίου,
κ' είχε κατόπι δυο βοσκούς 'που ωδήγαν διαλεμμένα
ερίφι' απ' όλαις ταις κοπαίς, να φάγουν οι μνηστήρες.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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They should serves as allies of the Byzantines, if necessary, and of the inhabitants of Tius and
Heracleia
and Chalcedon and Cierus, and of some other rulers.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Norris could tolerate its being for Fanny’s use; and had Lady
Bertram ever thought about her own
objection
again, he might have
been excused in her eyes for not waiting till Sir Thomas’s return in
September, for when September came Sir Thomas was still abroad, and
without any near prospect of finishing his business.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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*
protract)
i.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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-how could the man with such dream-
experiences and dream-habits fail to find “happi-
ness”
differently
coloured and defined, even in his
waking hours !
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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tte er seine Anschauungen in
einem Roman ausgesprochen, mit ganz denselben
Worten, nur nicht mit diesem
Anspruch
auf un-
bedingte Geltung, so ha?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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"
"My liege, it doth enhance the joy thy words
Infuse into me, mighty as it is,
To think my
gladness
manifest to thee,
As to myself, who own it, when thou lookst
Into the source and limit of all good,
There, where thou markest that which thou dost speak,
Thence priz'd of me the more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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tecting walls of a powerful
institution
?
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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After we have thus outlined the beginning and emergence of evil up to its becoming real in the individual, there seems to be nothing left but to describe its
appearance
in man.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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I34) IjS-
'^ The
surrounding
scene is well described,
by a native poet, William Allingham, in "The Winding Banks of Erne, or the Emi- grant's Adieu to Ballyshannon :"
" The music of the waterfall, the mir- ror of the tide,
When all the green-hill'd harbour is full from side to side-
From Portnasun to Buliebawns, and round the Abbey Bay,
From the little rocky island to Cool- nargit sandhills grey.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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[613] It appears that many
enemies of Pompey secretly
encouraged
and aided Clodius.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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'Since
theyfrequentlyavoid
empiricalanalysis almostaltogethert,heproblemhas oftendegeneratedintoa purelysemantic debateaboutlabels.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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'repov
Toaofirou
non minus ambigue dicilur quam alterum
tantum, ul aul tantumdem signified, ul hoc loco, 21 ?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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For present there I stoode
And saw the
selfesame
Pegasus spring of his mothers blood.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Though he loved hyperbole, and though it would
be easy to cite passages, even in his later works, which must be
called grandiloquent, and others which are wholly artificial, even
in the inversion of their sentences, yet, the
favourite
form of
Disraeli's humour was irony, in which, both as a writer and as a
speaker, he excelled all his contemporaries.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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I bid the
strangers
hail!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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" might receive no countenance there, being, as he
" well knew, sent by the
greatest
rebels to do him
" prejudice.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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In the commentarial literature, then, matika signifies an (earlier) bare-bones list of dharmas, which underwent later elaboration, and the eventual
codification
of this elaboration developed into the various books of the Pali Abhidhamma Pitaka.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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_ I scorn it more, because preserved by thee;
And, as when first my foolish heart took pity
On thy misfortunes, sought thee in thy miseries,
Relieved thy wants, and raised thee from the state
Of wretchedness, in which thy fate had plunged thee,
To rank thee in my list of noble friends;
All I received in surety for thy truth,
Were unregarded oaths, and this, this dagger,
Given with a
worthless
pledge, thou since hast stol'n:
So I restore it back to thee again;
Swearing by all those powers which thou hast violated,
Never from this cursed hour, to hold communion,
Friendship, or interest, with thee, though our years
Were to exceed those limited the world.
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Thomas Otway |
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The
sober fact was, that the contemplation of divine things, which more and
more absorbed the energy of Greek thought, was, except for Aristotle, a
mere vague
asperation
without moral value, and became ever more a sort
of mystic ecstasy, in which the individual, instead of acquiring insight
and power to live worthily and beneficently in the world, was thrown
back upon himself, with his will paralyzed.
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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He wrought a thing to see
Was marvel in His people's sight:
He wrought His image dead and small,
A nothing
fashioned
like an All.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Every new man,
whatever
his renown and the
glory of his deeds, appeared unworthy of this honour; he was as if
sullied by the stain of his birth.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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HE sallied forth the
beauteous
belle to seek,
And found her as he wished:--complying-meek;
Indulged in blisses, and most happy proved,
Save that the devil always round him moved.
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La Fontaine |
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He held the Holy Law in the deepest respect and applied its precepts; for example, a man summoned him to appear before a tribunal, so he appeared,
together
with the plaintiff, and sent to the qadi, Kama?
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| Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon,
Et les soirs au balcon, voiles de vapeurs roses;
Que ton sein m'etait doux!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And guilty lovers in their venery
Forgat a little while their stolen sweets,
Deeming they heard dread Dian's bitter cry;
And the grim
watchmen
on their lofty seats
Ran to their shields in haste precipitate,
Or strained black-bearded throats across the dusky parapet.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Appended
are poems by Mr.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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" and follows from the previous question:
is reading Finnegans Wake a human
activity?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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These amounted to no less than an invasion of the town by the
innumerable souls of all its deceased citizens, and the expulsion in a
body of the living, who remained
encamped
without the walls while.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Así pues, la hora del pensamiento con
pretensiones
sociológicas de la to talidad suena, asimismo, dos veces: primero, en las fundamentaciones tem prano-racionalistas de la cosa pública hechas por la filosofía antigua y, de nuevo, en los redescubrimientos tanto modernos como contramodemos de la colectividad en sentido holístico.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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que Dios le amaba tanto, que en fin le havia da-
do su
unigenito
Hijo.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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The officers of the Temple carried
her to the constable, by whom she was taken before Alderman Brocas, and
committed
to Newgate.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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gEciil
I iiiaE
r r;it EiEgi
iEii i3ii li iiiE
iiigEiii!
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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According to the Daode jing, the notion of ''achievement'' is created by us so that we can give
importance
to our actions.
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| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Birch to give him the holy sacrament, he desired
his
children
to take it with him, and made an earnest declaration of his
faith in christianity.
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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He held the card in
his hand after they were gone, as if deeply
considering
it.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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He is no god of light; he is only a demon of old superstition,
acting, among other influences, upon a sore-beset man, and driving him
towards a
miscalled
duty, the horror of which, when done, will unseat his
reason.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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punar aparam sarva/a dkincanydyatanam samatikramya naivasamjndndsamjndyata- nam upasampadya vibarati
tadyathd
devd naivasamjndndsamjndyatanopagdh.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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But in the case of hearing and sight, or in the power of self-motion,
and the power of heat to burn, this
relation
to self will be regarded
as incredible by some, but perhaps not by others.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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As always, Chateaubriand enriches his narrative with extensive quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and resonant self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and dismayed by the present but stimulated and
inspired
by the past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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377, first pointed out,
and as Ehwald, the latest editor, obtains, by
breaking
up n, o into two poems.
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| Question: |
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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plerique in tempus abusi
mox odere tamen : tenuit sic Graia Philippus
oppida ; Pellaeo
libertas
concidit auro.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still
And solitude of shepherds
High in the folded hill,
By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down
On many a
windmill
turning
And far-discovered town,
With gay regards of promise
And sure unslackened stride
And smiles and nothing spoken
Led on my merry guide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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More importantly, it reflects a world in which
reporting
an event bleeds into promoting the cafe ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Good farmers in the country nurse
The poor, that else were undone;
Some
landlords
spend their money worse,
On lust and pride at London.
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Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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A diduction of the true and catholik meaning
of our Saviour his words, This is my bodie, in the
institution
of his laste
supper.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Based upon
sensation
arises {8) craving for experience, followed by (9} grasping.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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But those who have no
dealings
with nerves or angels are forced to develop techniques of material reproduction.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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For this purpose, it
secured the gratuitous
cooperation
of F.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Defender
la libertad del creador" (Vera 43).
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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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She had not known before how much the beginnings and progress
of
vegetation
had delighted her.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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_ Wetly and wearily, but out of peril:
He paused to change his
garments
in a cottage
(Where I doffed mine for these, and came on hither),
And has almost recovered from his drenching.
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Byron |
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as the
Scholiast
on the Plutus, v.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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Like Aspasia, she has a
Studies,' and
appeared
in 1834.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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He wanted to make intellectuals into
ordinary
people.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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extracts: Igor de Rachewiltz recalls receiving from Fang
extracts
from Shu jing (Book of History) and Mencius.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this
eBook or online at www.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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I met him late in Dejanira's Hall ;
At first his look was
flickering
and vague,
Soon it grew clear and searching ; then he turned
Away in silent scorn.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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a consn- tuirse con bastante
facilidad
en su ma?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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With throat unslack'd, with black lips bak'd
Agape they hear'd me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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If we take these
expressions
in their strict signification,
the Historical and the Metaphysical are directly opposed to
each other; and that which is really historical is, on that
very account, not metaphysical--and the reverse.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Beneath the fluttering
jangling
streamers
They walk
Violet and gold.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Prim Creed, with
categoric
point, forbear
To feature me my Lord by rule and line.
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Sidney Lanier |
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This
mercy, however, is not vouchsafed to all those who are blinded, but
only to the predestinated, to whom "all things work
together
unto good"
(Rom.
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Summa Theologica |
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I am
disgusted
at the sight of a card, and never dealt one in my
life.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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From the fight with wild beasts returned he home: but even yet a wild
beast gazeth out of his seriousness--an
unconquered
wild beast!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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'T is sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with daisies lie,
That
commerce
will continue,
And trades as briskly fly.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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