O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Tottering on the verge
freely
GEOftGE
ii.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Many were immediately
stopped
; whilst several of the survivors were united into one publication.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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To keep this slavedom
in
subordination
and to shield the best he calls his own,
i.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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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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informing
people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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I sat, and mused; the fire burned low,
And, o'er my senses stealing, 10
Crept
something
of the ruddy glow
That bloomed on wall and ceiling;
My pictures (they are very few,
The heads of ancient wise men)
Smoothed down their knotted fronts, and grew
As rosy as excisemen.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In animals that live confined to one spot there is no
duality
of sex; nor is there such, in fact, in any testaceans.
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Aristotle copy |
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_("Tu
domines
notre age; ange ou demon, qu'importe!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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From those bright eyes was aim'd the mortal blow,
'Gainst which nor time nor place avail'd me aught;
From thee alone--nor let it
strange
be thought--
The sun, the fire, the wind whence I am so.
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Petrarch |
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The night it was thickening and
closing
around us.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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But I only ask here whether the nature of science does not require that we should always carefully separate the em- pirical from the rational part, and prefix to Physics proper (or em- pirical physics) a metaphysic of nature, and to
practical
anthropol- ogy a metaphysic of morals, which must be carefully cleared of ev- erything empirical, so that we may know how much can be accom- plished by pure reason in both cases, and from what sources it draws this its a priori teaching, and that whether the latter inquiry is con-
204
ducted by all moralists (whose name is legion), or only by some who feel a calling thereto.
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1] L Agathocles, tyrant of Sicily, who
attained
greatness equal to that of the elder Dionysius, rose to royal dignity from the lowest and meanest origin.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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History had shown all free governments, either convulsed
by intestine feuds and foreign influence, or prostrated be-
fore the mob and surrendered to arbitrary hands; exhibit-
ing in every stage of their
progress
deeper shades of
misery and humiliation.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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To you--who despise and detest
the groupings and combinations of fashion, as an idiot painter that
seems industrious to place staring fools and unprincipled knaves in
the
foreground
of his picture, while men of sense and honesty are too
often thrown in the dimmest shades.
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Robert Burns |
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Two swimmers wrestled on the spar
Until the
morning
sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the Jogmin-gyi Shing11 Buddha Field beyond the three realms, the Perfect
Manifestation
Body arises before all the tenth level Bodhisattvas.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Thus Adorno throughout repeatedly restates major motifs: that the
artwork
is a monad, that it is a social microcosm, that society is most intensely active in an artwork where it is most remote from society.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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SANCTUS JANUARIUS 239
virtues whose very essence is
negation
and self-
renunciation.
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Nietzsche - v10 |
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By such words the soldiers' counsel was kindled yet higher and higher,
and a murmur crept through their columns; the very Laurentines, the very
Latins are changed; and they who but now hoped for rest from battle and
rescue of
fortune
now desire arms and pray the treaty were undone, and
pity Turnus' cruel lot.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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) But their presence serves to produce
the air of guarded aloofness which invests his poetry: an air
which is heightened by yet other methods,
calculated
to keep
the domain of poetry within an enclosure which is separated
from actual life.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Whilst others round us sleep,
Unpitied languish, and
unheeded
die.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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what a screaming of
beasts!
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Poe - v04 |
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It was as if
the honest fellow had been commanded to
unchain
a tiger.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Wszczęta
w polskich równinach dwóch ryce-
„rzy bitwa trwogą nas napełnia.
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Trembecki - Poezye |
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Previously, because this was
obscured
by igno- rance or the mind's grasping (for true existence) you could not see it.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Ultimately
however
Napoleon's actions led to Chateaubriand's resignation in 1804, after the execution of the Duc d'Enghien.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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So I got me a bone for a certain girl, whom I knew to be under the
influence of
another
young man.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep
without
those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of Nothingness than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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How else should we sort the
grains?
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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For indeed, on the example of the military legions, he had
mustered
into cohorts workmen, stone-masons, architects, and, of men for the building and beautifying of walls, every sort.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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The
psychological
factor should also be taken into considera- tion.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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"Mark you," whispered the Prussian, "the
first thing which those scoundrels will notice--(for they will begin by
instantly
noticing
the statue in parts, without one moment's pause of
admiration impressed by the whole)--will be the horns and the beard.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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"
The
cobbles
see this all along the street
Coming--coming--on countless feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The abolition of the chorus, and the debasement of this
sensibly powerful organ into the characterless substitute of a confidant,
is by no means such an improvement in the
tragedy
as the French, and
their imitators, would have it supposed to be.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling,
through
endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The ox rolls over, and
quivering
and
[482-516]lifeless lies along the ground.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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They have something
whereof
they are proud.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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And the child grew like some
immortal
being,
not fed with food nor nourished at the breast: for by day rich-crowned
Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he were the offspring of
a god and breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom.
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Hesiod |
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He had brought down two rafts
of lumber for market, and I thought if I could get him to buy me with
my family, and take us to Tennessee, from there, I would stand a
better opportunity to run away again and get to Canada, than I would
from the
extreme
South.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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First, I shall give some, as already stated,
diffuse
examples that tell of a new relationship to classics in our present.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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I am alone, as though I stood
On the
highest
peak of the tired gray world,
About me only swirling snow,
Above me, endless space unfurled;
With earth hidden and heaven hidden,
And only my own spirit's pride
To keep me from the peace of those
Who are not lonely, having died.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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So have I sene two weirs at once give grounde, 125
White fomyng hygh to rorynge combat runne;
In roaryng dyn and heaven-breaking sounde,
Burste waves on waves, and spangle in the sunne;
And when their myghte in
burstynge
waves is fled,
Like cowards, stele alonge their ozy bede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They'll live or die wi' fame, Willie;
They'll live or die wi' fame;
But sune, wi'
sounding
victorie,
May Kenmure's lord come hame!
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burns |
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But Treitsch-
ke's
Heldentum
is a different thing from what
the civilized world has understood as heroism,
?
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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In this system the teacher
transmits
the teachings to a disciple with- out using words or any other indication.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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In its barrow it trusted,
its
battling
and bulwarks: that boast was vain!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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THE OLD MAID
I SAW her in a
Broadway
car,
The woman I might grow to be;
I felt my lover look at her
And then turn suddenly to me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Fire rays fall
athwart
the robes
Of hooded men, squat and dumb.
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Stephen Crane |
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Fare ye well,
farewell!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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So-and-So," or "My Dear Correspondent," and
contains
promises that will fit any case.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, parody it contained of
particular
pas-
died March 17, 1715.
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Alexander Pope - v06 |
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With
yawning
mouth the horrid hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty asphalte ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
The fellow had to swing.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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He sent to Hell every green,
growing
thing,
And he raved at the birds as they fly.
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Amy Lowell |
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--That which is the master of all
art,[1178] the
bounteous
giver of genius--the belly: that artist that
trains them to copy sounds that nature has denied[1179] them.
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Satires |
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Eiufdem ſelectarum
Diſputationum
ad
Hieronymi Gebuileri.
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Pope Alexander VII - Index Librorum Prohibitorum |
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I dare say there was a
difference
when I was staying with them
the other day.
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Austen - Emma |
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Ac- cordingly, there are no information
transfers
from system to sys- tem.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Livia and
Tiberius, anxious to get out of the way a
partisan
of
opposite interests who might possibly be dangerous,
encourage the impulse, and the poet is banished.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The mention of 'three' wives here has
greatly
perplexed the commentators.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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I offer a calm
habitation
to thee.
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Shelley copy |
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The Cartesian jug head with its pineal gland attaching spirit to its mechanical arms, even if the
possibilities
o f our Being are not knowable, sketches being human as living like a jug as thing, unfolding at every point, as a temporal series attached to ontological possibilities (not just existential possibilities as in Being and Time).
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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01)
I think Wi: are
obliged
to .
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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You'll say, when once you've smelled the stuff,
I haven't
praised
it half enough.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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eue:
To
chircheward
he went.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Whence, now, bear ye burnished shields,
harness gray and
helmets
grim,
spears in multitude?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Harper's still harbors him, and he is a
particular
pet of the religious weeklies--at special rates.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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SOMMER
Am Abend schweigt die Klage
Des
Kuckucks
im Wald.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Stephen Crane |
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whose soul steep'd in
unhappiness
all,
Fell from reason away, nor abode thy senses !
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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A few sounds from a Mongol
flageolet
jar the
air.
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Source: |
Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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on my unworthy ills :
Fix all my thoughts in contemplation high ;
How on the cross this day a
Saviour
died.
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Barbarina lady Dacre - 1836 - Traduzioni dall'italiano |
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She never
mistook
the understanding of others; nor ever said a severe word, but where a much severer was deserved.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Let him depart; I promise he shall meet
A guerdon worthy of his
treacherous
feat.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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"
"First tell me what it was you
thought
you heard.
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Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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--
Yes, you are right, we need not hunt for motives:
There is no crime from which this man would shrink;
He recks not human law; and I have noticed
That often when the name of God is uttered,
A sudden
blankness
overspreads his face.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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13); what criteria or rules
describe
the text or its use o f words?
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govern |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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For now
Manning
was to show that he was
not unworthy of the trust which had been reposed in him.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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I knew this as one knows in dream,
Where no effects to causes
Are
chained
as in our work-day scheme,
And then was wakened by a scream
That seemed to come from Baucis.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to
provide
a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Islands of Lethe where exotic boughs
Bend with their burden of
strange
fruit bowed down.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
* * * * *
"How name ye yon lone
Caloyer?
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Byron |
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139
Da limpida
fontana
tutta quella
piaggia rigando va un ruscel fecondo.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nor does laughter-loving
Aphrodite
ever tame in love
Artemis, the huntress with shafts of gold; for she loves archery and the
slaying of wild beasts in the mountains, the lyre also and dancing and
thrilling cries and shady woods and the cities of upright men.
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Hesiod |
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Didn’t seem to sell anything except
tobacco
and the cheapest kinds of sweets.
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waffles |
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What's the favorite candy? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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"It is truly
astonishing!
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Plutarch: Lives of the Ten Orators
Pages 832 - 844
These lives are unlikely to have been written by Plutarch himself, but nevertheless they contain much unique and valuable information about the ten Athenian orators, most of whom lived in the 4th
century
B.
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Roman Translations |
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To telle
shortly
as hit is,
Trewly hir answere, hit was this; 1240
I can not now wel counterfete
Hir wordes, but this was the grete
Of hir answere; she sayde, "nay"
Al-outerly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The result of these
labours
is contained in his chief work, Die Christliche Dogmatik, the first edition of which appeared in 1868, and the second in 1884-5, en" larged by a philosophical introduction in which is expounded the theory of knowledge underlying his metaphysics and theology.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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208 DRYDEN'S
TRANSLATION
OF VIRGIL
And brush the buxom seas, and o'er the billows fly.
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trans |
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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(35)
Yet be the
maidens
pleas'd in woeful fancy to chide
thee.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Some of these birds
are fond of their young and take great care of them, others are
quite the reverse; some are clever in
procuring
subsistence, others
are not so.
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760) he
corrects
hundred to hunderd.
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Milton |
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2 This latter is now represented by the
present
Barony of Tirerill, in the County of Sligo.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Democracy monitors have decried similar tactics by Kiev with the jailing of opposition party head
Tymoshenko
for purported crimes, as the stock market too ended the year at the bottom of the frontier ranks in a form of exile.
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All this interconnected forms a cavity that is filled with a liquid called endolymph and the cavity is
covered
with hair cells that have nerve terminals on their base which transmit electrical signals to the brain in function of the movement of the endolymph, a phenomenon that occurs when the body accelerates or stops completely.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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JUGADOR
TERCERO
¿Quién sabe?
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It seems strange that we
should owe some of the finest poetry in the world to a
sister of the
notorious
Clodius; less strange, perhaps, that
a story of which she was the heroine should end
unhappily.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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