Lock
consesses
the individuals could not give it.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Hoụccon mtrn inut món chi,
Mál mà đặng, mắt thỉ
klỉỏng
sao.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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He subsequently served as
ambassador
to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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In the former acceptation, it means the division of a verse
into two
portions
or members, affording a short pause or
rest for the voice, in some convenient part, where that pause
may take place without injury to the sense, or the harmony
of the line ; as,
Virg.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Only certain ascetic practices were more closely linked to the
exercise
of a personal hberty.
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Foucault-Live |
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The pilgrims then
descended
through hell-mouth, till they came to a
place dark as pitch, that bellowed with furious cross-winds, like a sea
in a tempest.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The
relevance
of the essay is that of anachronism.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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a
symbolic
arrangement using multiple media and synesthesia through which he wanted to place himself totally in the limelight.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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") There was
uncertainty
for a long time as to precisely which poems were muˁallaqāt.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Do not interfere with an army that is
returning
home.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The
terrible
events of which we have been
witnesses have dried up men's hearts, and
every thing that belongs to thought appeared
tarnished by the side of the omnipotence of
action.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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rkeren
Leben, sie belebt das
geliebte
Wesen, indem sie
dessen Leben mit allen Mitteln fo?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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"Then must we grow numb, be petrified, be
without heart, become as murderers among the
murderers, among the
criminals
be criminal our-
selves?
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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For whereas the former is responsible for one man only, the latter is responsible for many others besides himself, when he reports to the
magistrates
the wrong-doing of the rest.
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Roman Translations |
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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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: t
z,t;i =;;:: iilli
=
*liii
iiliiii?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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^79 By comparing the foregoing, with the collected and
published
edition of his works, it is evident, many of the latter have not yet
seen the light.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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)
[This is a
criticism
of the interpretation of the entire material constituting the
legend as given by Friedrich.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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{and} yif it
to{ur}ni?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--
Who love-warms Zeus's heart, and now is lashed
By Here's hate along the
unending
ways?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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HE LIVES
DESTITUTE
OF ALL HOPE SAVE THAT OF RENDERING HER IMMORTAL.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But for singing, you, Thyrsis, used to sing The Affliction of Daphnis as well as any man; you are no
‘prentice
in the art of country music.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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rard Professor in Literature in the Division of Literatures,
Cultures
and Languages at Stanford University.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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But I felt it quite an affront to
be
supposed
proud, and said I only wanted to be asked.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Further-
more, very largely the same identical
schemata
are predomi-
nant in all these elegies as we find preferred in the Sulpicia
elegies (iv, 2-6) and in the imitation of Tibullus (iv, 13).
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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but I shall use the words and arguments which occur to
me at the moment; for I am certain that this is right, and that at
my time of life I ought not to be appearing before you, O men of Athens,
in the character of a
juvenile
orator - let no one expect this of
me.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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In one year he had seen an
ill wind strike his mother, his sisters, and his wife; but he had
consoled himself for their deaths by
inheriting
their property.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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He's given her time to think of
something
else.
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Robert Burns- |
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Knowing also that the army was not a favourite of con-
gress, he could not but survey, for the last time, with pain,
the war-worn faces of those faithful men, who, while win-
ning the
liberties
of their country, had won for her such im-
perishable renown, requited, as he felt they were to be, by
the grossest ingratitude.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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What an
utterance
is about, its intentional targets, are formulated
through language, so that the way language
by an agreement between language and a thing in the world but by an agreement within language between two related statements.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
Great and
beneficent
lord of the main!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Diversionary
attacks in other areas.
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NSC-68 |
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]
[Footnote V: In the long
vacation
of 1790, with his friend Jones.
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William Wordsworth |
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It
deserves
as many readings as we can give it.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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in some ways the last visitor to the Turkish Empire in its
previous
form" before the progressive revolutions of the Eastern Question gradually weakened Ottoman control.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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The hour went by, we rose and turned to go,
The somber street received us from the glare,
And once more on your
shoulders
fell the snow.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Thus, though he care-
harangues
to the people.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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king: Benton: "I wish to pro- vide against all risk, and every hazard; for, if this risk and hazard were too great to be
encountered
by King, Lords, and Com- mons .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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He was quite indefatigable as he brought
up question after question during our
frequent
small parties,
which lasted late into the night or into the early morning.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other’s way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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My
respects
to Mrs.
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Selection of English Letters |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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TheSibyl'spredicament demonstrates the absurdity ofthis picture (this does not mean we can dismiss it, however;
Reproduced with permission of the
copyright
owner.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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There is a great difference in the
credibility
to be attached to stories of
dreams and stories of ghosts.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Regardless, I suspect that poets like Heaney or Pinsky, in preferring
consonance
as a formal feature, are composing less for the ear than for the eye.
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Translated Poetry |
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We again and again have
occasion to observe how a symphony of Beethoven
compels the individual hearers to use figurative
speech, though the appearance presented by a
collocation of the different
pictorial
world generated
by a piece of music may be never so fantastically
diversified and even contradictory.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Yit can it make a ful gret wounde, 965
But he may hope his sores sounde,
That hurt is with that arowe, y-wis;
His wo the bet
bistowed
is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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30
VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and
fashioned
well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love.
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Sappho |
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He rose early, either to ride or, preferably, to take an hour's walk, which not only
preserves
the body's elasticity but also represents the kind of pedantic, simple routine that, strictly adhered to, consorts perfectly with an image of responsible achievement.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Their offspring were the miraculous horse Areion and a daughter, the Arkadian equivalent of Kore, whose true name was
revealed
only to initiates.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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-
Sermon: Problem of Joy and
Suffering
in Life.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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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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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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The high spirit and strong
passions
of Mrs.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Resolve to become liberated from (the additional) force of meditation and the
blessings
of the Guru.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Ahi anime
ingannate
e fatture empie,
che da si fatto ben torcete i cuori,
drizzando in vanita le vostre tempie!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The capital of every public bank will of course be re- stricted within a certain defined limit It is the province of legislative prudence so to adjust this limit, that while it will not be tod contracted for the demand, which the course of business may create, and for the security which the pub- lic ought to have for the solidity of the paper which may be issued bytinebank, it will still be within the compass of the pecuniary resources of the community j so that there may be an easy practicability of completing the subscrip- tionstoi t When this is once done, the
supposed
effect of ne- cessity eeases.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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They lived always in lodgings, their domestics
consisted
of two maids and one man.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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or her father, all
included
in a word.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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On this day, we find en- tered in the
Martyrology
of Donegal,^ Aedh, bishop, of the now deserted Lis-
on Loch Eirne.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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One who believed no form of
church government to be worth a breach of
Christian
charity, and who
recommended comprehension and toleration, was in their phrase, halting
between Jehovah and Baal.
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Macaulay |
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117); and from this there has been further concocted the war of
Pompeius
with the Medes (Vell.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Leaving only kisses
To be
remembered
by.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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These horses with their fiery eyes, their slight untiring feet,
That flew along the fields of corn like
grasshoppers
so fleet--
What!
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Hugo - Poems |
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quad floret languetque
superbia
Maii,
Floret idem forme?
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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My last owner was in a declining state of health when he bought me;
and not long after he bought me he went off forty or fifty miles from
home to be doctored by an Indian doctor,
accompanied
by his wife.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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chetana - that
consciousness
which understands 'samyaka hetu'
and 'mithya hetu' characteristics.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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=--Coarse men, who feel a sense of injury, are in the
habit of rating the extent of their injury as high as
possible
and of
stating the occasion of it in greatly exaggerated language, in order to
be able to feast themselves on the sentiments of hatred and revenge thus
aroused.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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The royal bed or
whatever
they called it was toppled over and T.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
In 391, the people arrogated the right of appointing a part of the
legionary tribunes,
previously
chosen by the consuls.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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He tried to make us act plays and to enter into
masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of
Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous
train who shed their blood to redeem the holy
sepulchre
from the hands
of the infidels.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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The eye
here
contradicts
science: how can it truly rejoice in
the contradiction?
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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CXVIII
"Neither my love nor length of servitude,
Though by a thousand proofs to you made clear,
Had power even so to fix your
faithless
mood,
That you at least so lightly should not veer:
Nor am I quitted, because less endued
With worth than Mandricardo I appear;
Nor for your conduct cause can I declare,
Save this alone, that you a woman are.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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There are many
different
kinds of proofs.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Here again not only is there amnesia, partial or complete, for the sequence of events but also exclusion from consciousness of the thoughts, feelings, and
impulses
to action that are the natural responses to such events.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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But if every one will sit seeking his pleasure, and studying to
be idle himself, never will he find others to do his work; and
more than this, I fear we shall be under the
necessity
of doing
all that we like not at one time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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All things spring up, and there is not one which
declines
to show
itself; they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership;
they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a
reward for the results).
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Tao Te Ching |
|
—
Sorrise alquanto, ma d'un riso acerbo
che fece d'ira, più che d'altro, segno,
la donna, né rispose a quel superbo;
ma tornò in capo al
ponticel
di legno,
spronò il cavallo, e con la lancia d'oro
venne a trovar quell'orgoglioso Moro.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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One sees what happens to them: in the end, the
punishment
of hell.
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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But Fafnir was by far the
greatest
and grimmest, and would have all things about called his.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
Previous
to
that there had been some desultory discussion, a few essays in the
magazines, and in 1875 a sympathetic paper by Professor James Albert
Harrison of the University of Virginia.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
"Censorship in the Saorstat" was augmented with a
paragraph
about the "618 books and 11 periodicals" listed as banned by the Register "as on 30th September 1935"; SB closes the essay by writing: "My own registered number is 465, number four hundred and sixty-five, ifl may presume to say so.
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Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
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The thrust of the radical science movement was to moralize the scientific study of the mind and to engage the
mentality
of taboo.
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Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Love fills my heart, like my lover's breath
Filling the hollow flute, 10
Till the magic wood awakes and cries
With
remembrance
and joy.
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light |
Question: |
What does the flute remember? |
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Source: |
Sappho |
|
"
"The Red Branch kings a
tireless
banquet keep,
"Where the sun falls into the Western deep.
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Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
|
"
Celsus, again
personifying
a Jew, says to Christ, "When you were washed
by John, you say that the spectre of a bird flew to you from the air.
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Source: |
Tacitus |
|
But in all ages there have been a few, who measuring and sounding the
rivers of the vale at the feet of their furthest
inaccessible
falls have
learned, that the sources must be far higher and far inward; a few, who
even in the level streams have detected elements, which neither the vale
itself nor the surrounding mountains contained or could supply [47].
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Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
|
O mighty dæmon, whose decision dread, the future fate
determines
of the dead,
With captive Proserpine [Kore], thro' grassy plains, drawn in a four-yok'd car with loosen'd reins,
Rapt o'er the deep, impell'd by love, you flew 'till Eleusina's city rose to view;
There, in a wond'rous cave obscure and deep, the sacred maid secure from search you keep,
The cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display an entrance to the kingdoms void of day.
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Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
|
It crosses
Andromeda’s
right arm above the elbow.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
He had continued his correspondence from the be ginning of the year 1756, without any material inter ruption, writing upon the margin of a newspaper such news and observations as were not there con tained ; in this manner the examiners of the post- office were deceived, and let these letters pass, imagin ing there was nothing more
contained
than the news paper.
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In the last decade of the sixteenth
century, England, whose foes, a generation earlier, had judged her
easy to conquer 'because she wanted armor,' had successfully
defied the Catholic reaction and the would-be world-monarchy of
Spain ; towards the middle of the seventeenth, the great war
which had swallowed up all other European wars came to a close
without England so much as
claiming
a voice in the settlement.
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swā ne gylpan þearf
Grendles
maga ǣnig .
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It was a little after eleven The day, which, like some overripe but hopeful
widow playing at seventeen, had been putting on
unseasonable
April airs, had
now remembered that it was August and settled down to be boiling hot
Dorothy rode into the hamlet of Fennelwick, a mile out of Knype Hill She
had delivered Mrs Lewm’s corn-plaster, and was dropping in to give old Mrs
Ptther that cutting from the Daily Mail about angelica tea for rheumatism
The sun, burning in the cloudless sky, scorched her back through her
gingham frock, and the dusty road quivered m the heat, and the hot, flat
meadows, over which even at this time of year numberless larks chirruped
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tiresomely, were so green that it hurt your eyes to look at them It was the kind
of day that is called ‘glorious’ by people who don’t have to work
Dorothy leaned her bicycle against the gate of the Pithers’cottage, and took
her handkerchief out of her bag and wiped her hands, which were sweating
from the handle-bars In the harsh sunlight her face looked pinched and
colourless She looked her age, and something over, at that hour of the
morning Throughout her day-and in general it was a seventeen-hour
day- she had regular, alternating periods of tiredness and energy, the middle of
the morning, when she was doing the first instalment of the day’s ‘visiting’,
was one of the tired periods
‘Visiting’, because of the distances she had to bicycle from house to house,
took up nearly half of Dorothy’s day Every day of her life, except on Sundays,
she made from half a dozen to a dozen visits at parishioners’ cottages She
penetrated into cramped interiors and sat on lumpy, dust-diffusmg chairs
gossiping with overworked, blowsy housewives, she spent hurried half-hours
giving a hand with the mending and the ironing, and read chapters from the
Gospels, and readjusted bandages on ‘bad legs’, and condoled with sufferers
from mornmg-sickness, she played nde-a-cock-horse with sour-smellmg
children who grimed the bosom of her dress with their sticky little fingers, she
gave advice about ailing aspidistras, and suggested names for babies, and
drank ‘nice cups of tea’ mnumerable-for the working women always wanted
her to have a ‘nice cup of tea’, out of the teapot endlessly stewing
Much of it was profoundly discouraging work Few, very few, of the women
seemed to have even a conception of the Christian life that she was trying to
help them to lead Some of them were shy and suspicious, stood on the
defensive, and made excuses when urged to come to Holy Communion, some
shammed piety for the sake of the tiny sums they could wheedle out of the
church alms box, those who welcomed her coming were for the most part the
talkative ones, who wanted an audience for complaints about the ‘goings on’ of
their husbands, or for endless mortuary tales (‘And he had to have glass chubes
let into his veins,’ etc , etc ) about the revolting diseases their relatives had died
of Quite half the women on her list, Dorothy knew, were at heart atheistical in
a vague unreasoning way She came up against it all day long-that vague,
blank disbelief so common in illiterate people, against which all argument is
powerless Do what she would, she could never raise the number of regular
communicants to more than a dozen or thereabouts Women would promise to
communicate, keep their promise for a month or two, and then fall away With
the younger women it was especially hopeless They would not even join the
local branches of the church leagues that were run for their benefit-Dorothy
was honorary secretary of three such leagues, besides being captain of the Girl
Guides, The Band of Hope and the Companionship of Marriage languished
almost memberless, and the Mothers’ Union only kept going because gossip
and unlimited strong tea made the weekly sewing-parties acceptable.
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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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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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Ignatius of Loyola have been formalized and distorted by that broad set of habits and prac
tices
developed
and expressed through literary criticism, and it is not clear any more what reading as part of such "exercises" can mean.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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ANAPATOPOY Warrior in quadriga of horned horses
galloping
r.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no
connivance
none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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Which he explains more
sensibly
when hefeignsthatthereareThreeParcoetheDaugh
tersofNecessity,whichturnagreatSpindle, that's<4<
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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of the
Congregational
Hist.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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