** The beautiful opening
descriptive
lineshavebeenelegantlyrenderedintoEnglishverse,45 andmorethanone
40 See ibid.
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457) at the age of 65, he
had taken no steps to secure his son-in-law's succession, and the throne
lay at the
disposal
of Aspar the patrician and magister militum, who
as an Arian and barbarian could not himself assume the crown, but
might reign in the name of some puppet-emperor.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Ferus ipse sese adhortans rapidum incitat animo, 85
Vadit, fremit,
refringit
virgulta pede vago.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The
violence
of the stroke made its toes loose their hold of the bough, and when it touched the ground, Dharma Dhwaj's blade fell heavily upon its matted brown hair.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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"
Now, while I already felt a
profound
agreement with his description of possible functions for the humanities at large, his more specific observation about the asymmetrical importance of the concept "humanities" for our self-reference on the one hand and for our outside perception on the other was a true eye-opener.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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But oh, the sea came
creeping
up,
And washed the name away,
And on the sand where it had been
A bit of sea-grass lay.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Patrick refers, 59 wl^ere he says,
alluding
to the conversions he had effected :
Patrick from Heaven, and while he was on the sea, coming over to Erinn.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Pope jestingly
attributes
their wisdom to the inspiring
power of coffee.
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Alexander Pope |
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Have they no crafts to mind at home, that
hitherward
they stray?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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In this way the two metaphysicians agree with the result which the
Pythagoreans
(cf.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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In the miniatures which
occasionally
accompany
the romance of Parceval, the Grail is in the
form of a pyx, appearing at all the solemn moments of the poem as a
miraculous source of succour.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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The army carried out the move during the night, but Saladin stayed where he was in the hope that by God's will the Franks in their blindness would be
inspired
to attack him, so that by falling on them from behind he could inflict a blow on them; let God give the victory to whom He would.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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I don’t think anybody in Maycomb’ll
begrudge
me a client, with times this hard.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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I have shown,
in the second place, that universal consent proves nothing in favor
of property; and that, if it proves any thing, it proves
equality
of
property.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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The Ameri- can industrialists would gladly swap
political
power with organized labor, or the veterans, or even the silver producers, and as for the Farm Bloc,--the very thought of its political power must turn them green with envy.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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To this, there-
fore, we may confine our
detailed
notice.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Let there be more
difficulty
in England in producing
cloth, or in Portugal in producing wine, or let there be more facility
in England in producing wine, or in Portugal in producing cloth, and the
trade must immediately cease.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Caesar, it is said, had so high an esteem for him,
that he ordered his officers by all means to save him,
if he would
surrender
himself; and, if he refused, to
let him escape with his life.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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All of us who had the
happiness
of her friendship, agreed unanimously, that, in an afternoon or evening's conversation, she never failed, before we parted, of delivering the best thing that was said in the company.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help
preserve
free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I reached
Uglich, repair unto the holy minster,
Hear mass, and, glowing with zealous soul, I weep
Sweetly, as if the
blindness
from mine eyes
Were flowing out in tears.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Goddard’s
school was in high repute--and very deservedly; for
Highbury
was
reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden,
gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great
deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own
hands.
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Austen - Emma |
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''Tis you are cold--for I, not coy,
Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true;
And Burns, a
Scottish
peasant boy-- _325
His errors prove it--knew my joy
More, learned friend, than you.
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Shelley |
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situation that is by no means equivalent to weakness but, quite the contrary,
suggests
strength with a bad conscience.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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100
Duke Wyllyam drewe agen hys arrowe strynge,
An arrowe withe a sylver-hede drewe he;
The arrowe dauncynge in the ayre dyd synge,
And hytt the horse of
Tosselyn
on the knee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the
diagnostic
information to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Ravelston
started towards him.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The
conversation
at this time was more
reserved than before.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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For by that meanes the web of
Penelopes
is wouẽ and
vnwouen.
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Erasmus |
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It is only fair to say that he seldom
invented a word outright, but he altered and
modified
with a free
hand.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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V The
Publisher
desires to state that the "Ballad of the
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asitappearedinthe EnglishReview.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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That Pierre Bon-Bon was, in an equal degree, skilled in
the
philosophy
of that period is, I presume, still more especially
undeniable.
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Poe - 5 |
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His praise of Monk's
dexterity
comprises such a cluster of thoughts
unallied to one another, as will not elsewhere be easily found:
'Twas Monk, whom providence design'd to loose
Those real bonds false freedom did impose.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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1892); «Natural
Religion (1856); "The
Workingwoman
(1861 ;
9th ed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Jemand
verliess
dich am Kreuzweg und du schaust
lange zuru?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Salvation
is not the
privilege
of Africans only.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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37
Probus, sprung from a rustic father, fond of the fields --
Dalmatius
by name -- , ruled six years.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Ông ngoại của
Nguyễn
Bỉnh Khiêm.
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stella-03 |
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)
người
xã Cổ Kinh huyện Thạch Hà (nay thuộc xã Thạch Kênh huyện Thạch Hà tỉnh Hà Tĩnh).
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stella-01 |
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Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The
troubled
midnight and the noon's repose.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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sed magis, o nuptae, semper
concordia
uestras
semper amor sedes incolat assiduus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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88, 90; Appian, 95), not because consisted of 300 members, but because this was the ancient normal number of
senators
98).
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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That night the qadi al-Fadil, Ibn az-Zaki (qadi of
Damascus)
and I met together.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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So, the student of war who is
unversed
in the art of varying his plans, even though he be acquainted with the Five Advantages, will fail to make the best use of his men.
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The-Art-of-War |
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But art comes into possession of this idea only by way of the subject, only through that
rationality
from which purpose- fulness derives.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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To be thus affected she must consider all worldly objects
both divided and whole:
remembering
withal that no object can of itself
beget any opinion in us, neither can come to us, but stands without
still and quiet; but that we ourselves beget, and as it were print in
ourselves opinions concerning them.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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I had
seen some fat, young turkeys
roosting
in a peai
tree, and I wanted one of them very badly.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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" We thus cry to that
irresistible
might of Nature, and this superartificial power, "O God!
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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The more secure an attachment a woman has
experienced
during her early years, we can confidently predict, the greater will be her chance of escaping the slippery slope.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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8
The keener minds among the
radicals
were not blind to
the change that had come over the merchant class and to the
resulting paralysis which had seized on the public mind.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'°^ Yet, it must be confessed, that the
sentences
employed by Colgan in his account are rather ambiguous.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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It merely pro- jects the
inability
to follow the specific logic of a particular work back onto this work; with astonishing regularity the invectives against new art are enunciated in tandem with a demonstrable lack of comprehension, often even of any basic knowledge.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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But I see no preparations for a
celebration
at court.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Reverting for a moment to these, I feel a mystic
importance
attached
to the minutest circumstances connected with the
place and the time and the man (if man he was) that first laid open to me
the Paradise of Opium-eaters.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Henry had said he should just
go and ask the
Bertrams
how they did, and be back in ten minutes, but
he was gone above an hour; and when his sister, who had been waiting for
him to walk with her in the garden, met him at last most impatiently in
the sweep, and cried out, “My dear Henry, where can you have been
all this time?
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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8 Then he threw aside all restraint and
compelled
Servianus to kill himself, on the ground that he aspired to the empire, merely because he gave a feast to the royal slaves, sat in a royal chair placed close to his bed, and, though an old man of ninety, used to arise and go forward to meet the guard of soldiers.
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Historia Augusta |
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The
Absolute
recto-verso economizes a dimension, two instead of three.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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And now I watch, from the window,
the rain, the
wandering
busses.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
despairing anguish of the forsaken Ariadne, her
reproaches mingled with love for her betrayer, are
hardly any way
inferior
to the dying language of
Dido, (Virg.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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It will be
sufficient
only where systems-level effects are absent or are weak enough to be ignored.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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The anxious
interval
wore away
unproductively.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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work, with some show of
enthusiasm
and little
Philadelphia, Brown Bros.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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But Which of these _Faculties_ did I
attribute
to my _Soul_, my
_Nutritive_, or _Motive faculty_?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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The more dominating this worry, the stronger must be the
connection to be established; between the
contents
of the wish and that
of the worry there need be no connection, nor was there one in any of
our examples.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
|
For the fiction course we have a vir- ginal story by Askold Melnyczuk, a tale about the Second World War, a
literary
thriller about a mythic Icelandic author by Mika Seifert who lives in Germany, a post-college story set in a Costco or Walmart, a translation of a superb Argen- tinean writer, Hebe Uhart, who has been compared to Carson McCullers and Flan- nery O'Connor, and finally a story set in
And if you "have room for a des- sert" (as the waiter usually says) we have one of our traditional essays--this one by John Dewey from our 1944 summer menu, which featured articles on what the post-war future would look like, par- ticularly with regard to food production.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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So--I have gain'd much by my intended expostulation--yet
with what a charming air she contradicts every thing I say--and how
pleasingly she shows her contempt of my authority--Well tho' I can't
make her love me, there is certainly a great satisfaction in quarrelling
with her; and I think she never appears to such advantage as when she is
doing
everything
in her Power to plague me.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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He hath not heart for harping, nor in ring-
having
Nor
winsomeness
to wife, nor world's
delight
Nor any whit else save the wave's
slash,
Yet longing comes upon him to fare forth
on tjie water.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
(_Takes out the
contents
of the letter-box, and calls
to the kitchen_.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
The young Frenchman first became infatuated with Poe's
writings in 1846 or 1847--he gave these two dates, though several
stories of Poe had been
translated
into French as early as 1841 or 1842;
L'Orang-Outang was the first, which we know as The Murders in the Rue
Morgue; Madame Meunier also adapted several Poe stories for the reviews.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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And then would come the end,- the
hospital
and the wooden
shell, and the grave trampled flat to the dust as soon almost
as made, while the world danced on in the sunlight unheeding.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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To any one who has made
acquaintance
with
the Baba log, unless indeed he be a curmud-
geon, none of these things seem strange.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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What Kind of
Euthycrates?
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The diversity given to the inner meaning in the form of time differences can only be reconstructed as
procedures
(also presupposing time) for purposes of knowledge.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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An
American
islander may leave Little Diomede on Wednesday, reach
Big Diomede an hour or two later on Thursday .
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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And
Philippe
read these words, written hastily by the King
himself:
«M.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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To be on one's guard against
science and intellect, and against
everything
that
puff's one out.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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39:8 The range of the
mountains
is his pasture, and he searcheth after
every green thing.
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bible-kjv |
|
There are a w allusions to Marcus' name and his
position
as Emperor, and to his adoptive ther, Antoninus Pius, of whom Marcus traces a brief portrait (VI, 30) which seems to be a sketch r the one that can now be read in Book I.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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And so it is atmosphere, in
Tasso and Camoens, that counts much more than substance; both poets seem
perpetually
thrilled
by something they cannot express--the _non so che_
of Tasso.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For sorrow that you are lost the trees have cast their fruit on the ground, and all the flowers are
withered
away.
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Moschus |
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It first appears in Europe around 1160 in 'aristocratic' French, and was popular well into the
fourteenth
century.
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After they had passed Halle, he threw the little
suitcase
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His earliest poetry was verses, for children, of lovely, haunting music, but these verses, exquisite as they are, should not hide, from any "who look for deep meaning, values, high imagination in the verse they read, the later more serious poems, with their
imaginative
beauty, their glamour, their technical skill and charm, of one of the greatest living masters, the enigmatical figure among poets of today.
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What hast thou to do with a mirror,
when accompanying the herds of the
mountain?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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" THB, then a colonel, came from the
corridor
and saw "Jackson's gun at his [brother's) breast.
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The Powers aboon will tent thee,
Misfortune
sha'na steer thee;
Thou'rt like themselves sae lovely,
That ill they'll ne'er let near thee.
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burns |
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Certain commentators place this _oppidum_ to the west of
Wendover
(_see
Plate 15_), others at St.
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Immediately
male doctors come in, and female doctors depart, and her feet are hoisted.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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"And
certainly
you've given me
The best of wine and victual--
Excuse my violence," said he,
"But accidents like this, you see,
They put one out a little.
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But large-scale
conflict
must involve large states still caught in the grip of history, and they are what appear to be passing from the scene.
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In this regard, all one has to do is ask a question, the very question that
haunts Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment: What systemic good does a murder
achieve?
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Only in the
geographic
sense is it straight.
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" Suppose the circumstances of the
country to be such, that the lowest
labourers
are not only called upon
to continue their race, but to increase it; their wages would have been
regulated accordingly.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They consider themselves more culpable than
their mistresses when they break their chains: they k now
that women mak e the
heaviest
sacrifice; and believe, that
before the tribunal of the heart the greatest criminals are
those who have done most wrong.
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