,
Met to discuss their affairs,
But the sole result was bills
From lawyers to whom no one was indebted, And even the lawyers
Were
uncertain
who was supposed to be indebted to them.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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No need have we to pray the dead may sleep,
That in such depths of perfect calm can pain
No
entrance
find; nor shall they fear again
To turn and sigh, to wake again or weep.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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I had asked
to be paid daily, so the doorkeeper paid me sixteen francs each evening, and, by not
paying for Sundays (for which of course payment was due),
pocketed
sixty-four francs.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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The fac-simile given in the present volume is from one of
the earlier
transition
periods.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And the clear constellations, that infinite throng,
While thousand rich
harmonies
swelled in their song,
Replying, bowed meekly their diamond-blaze--
And the blue waves, which nothing may bind or arrest,
Chorus'd forth, as they stooped the white foam of their crest
"Creator!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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35 If we cannot be entirely sure that we are justified in accepting any particular view, we also cannot be entirely sure that we would be justified in
rejecting
it.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Should we
therefore
determine in the prefent Conjundture to
remember the Injuries we may poflibly have received from
*' the Thebans, and efteem them, as Enemies, unworthy of
our Confidence, we fhall a6l in the very Manner Philip
would defire.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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And
this her name seems to imply, Collyra being a kind of circular
wheaten cake, either
prepared
in a frying-pan, or baked on the
coals or in an oven.
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Satires |
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Turn in this context
to the most ancient and the most modern philo-
sophers : they all fail to realise the extent of the
need of a justification on the part of the Will for
Truth — here is a gap in every
philosophy
— what
is it caused by ?
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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J*
Hle mi par esse Deo videtur,
Me (si fas est)
superare
Divos,
Qui, sedens adversus, identidem te
Spectat et audit
'
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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— Goethe and the
nineteenth
century, xvi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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But for the lat-
ter half of the song
Nicander
used a recent myth dealing with the war
between the gods and Typhoeus.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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HYMN BEFORE SUN-RISE, IN THE
VALE OF CHAMOUNI
Besides the Rivers, Arve and Arveiron, which have their sources in the foot
of Mont Blanc, five conspicuous
torrents
rush down its sides; and within a
few paces of the Glaciers, the Gentiana Major grows in immense numbers,
with its "flowers of loveliest blue.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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, who has added a valu- able Introduction, a
Translation
from the Irish, and notes.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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And afresh to the race, {13c} the fallow roads
by swift steeds
measured!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Oh, Apollo, my
tutelary!
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Aristophanes |
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Mais je me sentais si
dédaignée par vous, je vous voyais aussi si enflammé pour la musique
de ce Vinteuil que comme une de mes camarades--ça c'est vrai, je vous
le jure--avait été amie de l'amie de Mlle Vinteuil, j'ai cru
bêtement me rendre intéressante à vos yeux en
inventant
que j'avais
beaucoup connu ces jeunes filles.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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The principal distinction between the lay of Horatius and the lay
of the Lake Regillus is that the former is meant to be purely
Roman, while the latter, though national in its general spirit,
has a slight
tincture
of Greek learning and of Greek
superstition.
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Macaulay |
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Every one will admit that
formerly
at various periods a great portion of the mainland has been covered and again left bare by the sea.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Thou wilt yet break and burst by the
numerous
drops.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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And so it is for this reason that the lost soul is
inadequate
to estimate the course of the present 1ife, because from love of the same it is bowed down to the admiration thereof.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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It
appeared likewise in public: for it was thought so
extraordinary and laborious a performance, by the
writer or his friends, (as indeed it is,) that it might
serve to open a new source of
eloquence
in the kingdom, and consequently was printed, I believe, at the
desire of the parties themselves.
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Edmund Burke |
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What is the reason for the great enmity between these schools of
medicine?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Mitte
brachiolum
teres,
praetextate, puellulae.
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Latin - Catullus |
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A
horrible
doubt came into my
mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I
remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of
insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one
in the household who had any influence with the savage creature,
or who would venture to set him free.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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" What remains then of the
orderliness
of the order?
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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He discusses literary values and
interprets
underlying ideas in a very
helpful way.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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You to your
beauteous
blessings add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The Catholic sovereigns had the right,
besides, to banish those of their Protestant
subjects, who refused
compliance
with these
demands.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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And in a few days' time the pigs
intended
to hold a
memorial banquet in Boxer's honour.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Written
originally
in Latin by the late
Rev.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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[Who will say, after reading the following
distressing
letter, lately
come to light, that Burns did not die in great poverty.
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Robert Burns |
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Slowness and deliberation are the last
qualities
suggested by Herrick.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric 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 Brothers Karamazov |
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Should someone
not have
assembled
his or her clothing carefully, he or she might hear
154 SONGS, POEMS, AND RHYMES
?
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Childens - Folklore |
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The
most
important
thing about ‘the theory during the first decade of the twentieth century was that it
worked, and worked staggeringly well.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how
little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic
too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once
according
to my
will.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The Chamber has enabled thorough interchange of
views to take place on weighty matters concerning
relationship
of
the States with the Crown and concerning other points of contact
with British India.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-18 00:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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I had a vision under a green hedge,
A hedge of hips and haws--men yet shall hear
The
archangels
rolling Satan's empty skull
Over the mountain-tops.
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Yeats |
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What is certain
is that orthodox Catholicism was in a very
critical
state.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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No pair of scissors can save the chants of
Zarathustra
for the language games of the stock-standard enlightenment.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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And thou shalt hear, all startled,
A flute blown in the twilight, 10
With the soft
pleading
magic
The green wood heard of old.
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Sappho |
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VI
Ruins of Paestum
On lowlands where the temples lie
The marsh-grass mingles with the flowers,
Only the little songs of birds
Link the
unbroken
hours.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom:
And I trembled as I groped my way
Into my numbered tomb.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Well
might she
weep -- for the
new mother
set right to
work to pnt
her daughters
in the place of
Elsie, and
with cruel
words and
taunts com-
pelled her to
wait upon
these step-sis-
ters, until her
life became one
dreadful
burden.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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And sir
king, Nacien the hermet sendeth thee word that thee shall befall
the greatest worship that ever befell king in Britain; and I say
you wherefore, for this day the Sancgreal shall appear in thy
house, and feed thee and all thy
fellowship
of the Round Table.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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I know the grass
Must grow
somewhere
along this Thracian coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We have
removed the sheets from the
farmhouse
beds, and sleep between
blankets.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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This is the time of his dream, as sacred as the days
of early spring before wind and rain and light have touched the fruits
of the fields, when there is a tense bleak silence over the whole of
nature, in which is wrapped the
strength
of storms and the glow of the
summer's sun.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In so far as the three worlds
represented
in the three books
are spirit, soul and body, at the end of the third book the syn-
thesis of the three has not been achieved, though no one of
the three has been rejected.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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I sat with my
acquaintance
in the
middle of the room, and the evoker of spirits on the dais, and his wife
between us and him.
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Yeats |
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Yet, perhaps, she was sometimes too severe, which is a safe and
pardonable
error.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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This my freehold use content,-
Here no landlord rides for rent;
I
proclaim
my jubilee,
In my Black Republic, free.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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The
spirit of
philosophy
of the eighteenth century, with its
erroneous teachings, was in the ascendant; but Krasicki
overcame that difficulty by boldly yet pleasantly point-
ing out a different and a better way.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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33 and passim: cakkhum ca paticca rupe ca
uppajjati
cakkhu-
vin~n~dnam/ tiHhamsamgatiphasso/ phassapaccaydvedand/ vedandpaccaydtanhd/ ayamkho dukkhassa samudayo.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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_("Oh,
regardez
le ciel!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But to
PRESERVE
is always to EXTEND.
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Orwell |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Russian propaganda
principle
has been effective for a time not yet expired.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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""
So much for programmatic declarations from the
founding
period.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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'^
"While our Apostle was
baptizing
yEngus, the point of his crozier, on which Patrick was leaning, went through the king's sandle-covered foot.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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And in that respect, it is clear that an astounding
transformation
has occurred.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The Buddha himself, the
enlightened
one, was also in the habit of
taking this walk to beg in the morning.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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{20b} The
connection
is not difficult.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical
restrictions
on automated querying.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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All rights New
Literary
History 36.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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”
"That was part of the
arrangement!
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Genji, however, pressed his way into the house, saying:--
"Perhaps the girl is not awake yet, but I will awake her," and, as the
people could not prevent his doing so, he proceeded to the room where
she was unconsciously
sleeping
on a couch.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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For I was born when
Necessity
bare rule, and all creatures, moved they in Air or in Chaos, were kept though her dismal governance far apart.
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Pattern Poems |
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The jury, by its moral judgment,
corresponding
in some degree to
the equity of the ancients, is able to correct the summum jus
with verdicts superior to the written law.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in
summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm
close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn,
provided
I
had love in my heart.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Evidently there had been a
defalcation
on rather a large
scale.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Yet still though his eyes were thick with sleep and sea air life was
full of a host of things and coincidences of a terrible nature and it
was quite within the bounds of possibility that it was not an
entire
fabrication
though at first blush there was not much inherent
probability in all the spoof he got off his chest being strictly
accurate gospel.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Alas,
good Bon Bec,' said he; 'hadst starved
peradventure
but for me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Seen from this angle, some key motifs from Heidegger's conception of ''Seinsgeschichte'' (''History of Being'') seem to offer the
possibility
of a sober reaction to the messy new appeal of incarnation in our broad present.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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The prospect of the Netherfield ball was extremely
agreeable
to every
female of the family.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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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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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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OF WHAT
OCCURRED
SUBSEQUENTLY.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A-t-il fait assez
de folies pour ses
maîtresses!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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He predicted that though the Dharma would spread in the future, difficulties and demons would
increase
as well.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Then would they try
Ever new modes of tilling their loved crofts,
And mark they would how earth improved the taste
Of the wild fruits by fond and
fostering
care.
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Lucretius |
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nde, die man besiegt,
man hasst die
Widersta?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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A typical
confrontation
of unequal forces occurs at the end of a war, between victor and vanquished.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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This air in the composition of one of the worthiest and best-hearted
men living--Allan Masterton,
schoolmaster
in Edinburgh.
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
A podosis
wealthier than he
, he could compel him Coventry Plays, The Three complete
ex-
of
Christianity
under the form of a dia- philosophy he understands culture, sim-
logue between Hermes and his disciple ply; and the chief elements of culture
Asclepius.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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254
While thus the
shepherd
sleeps from passion free,
His state a monarch might with envy see.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Or that young god, the Tyrian, who was more amorous than the dove
Of
Ashtaroth?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Coleridge alluded, unless it be the speech of Joabin the Jew; but
it
contains
nothing coming up to the meaning in the text.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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ohimè, quanto mi grava
che
potendoti
aver notte e dì meco,
quando la tua bontà non mel negava,
t'abbia lasciato in man di Namo porre,
per non sapermi a tanta ingiuria opporre!
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Toi qui, meme aux lepreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes
par l'amour le gout du Paradis,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Quickly he carries the girl as she's clad in chemise of coarse linen--
Just as a nursemaid might,
playfully
up to her bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Briefly
explaining
the purpose of writing these chapters]
L3: [II.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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