The
Northern
Diver is the largest of this family.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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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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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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ANCIENT GUEBER HYMN
W*
HERE goest thou, keen soul of heat,
So bright, so light, so fleet;
Whose wing was never
downward
bent,
Aye pluming for ascent?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Note not the pigment the while that the painting
determines
humanity's
joy and pain!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Your Life shall moil i' the ground, and plant his seed,
A farmer
foisoning
a huge crop of grief.
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Sidney Lanier |
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This
interesting
event occurred in 1834.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Deep dis-
tress was experienced at Newfoundland and the various
fishing settlements because of their reliance on New Eng-
land for food; but after a time the British government suc-
ceeded in affording them some relief, and they were also
surreptitiously aided by the
enterprise
of Nantucket fisher-
men.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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In one farewell verse only, the great wind blows:
Though earth and man were gone
And suns and
universes
ceased to be
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee;
for, in poetry, what was elemental in her was not to find expression.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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Whatever
is realised is right.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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And yet thou
speakest
truth, for Circe's spell
is death.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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One could also remark that the sickly smile, by
contradicting
what one would ordinarily expect of youthful expression, is already eliding expecta- tions.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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If men nearly all dissimulate, if the duplicity of a part forces
others at least to be reserved, does it not follow
necessarily
that
they augment the inevitable harm which many for their own ben-
efit do to others, with a much greater mass of needless injuries?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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that with stroke
Of Aspes sting her selfe did stoutly kill:
And thousands moe the like, that did that dongeon fill; 450
LI
Besides the
endlesse
routs of wretched thralles,
Which thither were assembled day by day,
From all the world after their wofull falles
Through wicked pride, and wasted wealthes decay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In many of his educational and social doctrines
he is
surprisingly
in advance of his age.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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Whether he comes to you in anger or merely
to give you a
patronising
pat on the back, you are done for, cracked in
either case.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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In the editions 1815-1832 this and the following line
preceded
lines
399-400.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In time, as Esmein has pointed out', the
personal
laws and the
Capitularies fell into desuetude.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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For
such a man it will be quite
difficult
enough to regard
the questions raised in this work as actual problems.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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yes--I do not think I should be easily frightened, because there
would be so many people in the house--and besides, it has never been
uninhabited and left
deserted
for years, and then the family come back
to it unawares, without giving any notice, as generally happens.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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We are there while we fulfill our
professional
duties, when we communicate with our beloved ones and, above all, when we are faced with the threat of being alone.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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As I live
There's just one dainty left to give--
A scent,
distilled
by Love and Venus
For Lesbia, which we'll share between us.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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) So Cicero says,
speaking of them: “The comitia, which are retained only for the sake of
form, and because of the auspices, and which, represented by the thirty
lictors, are but the
appearance
of what was before.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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25 There they burned him with maliciously contrived instruments, threw him down, and poured
stinking
liquids into his nostrils.
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Roman Translations |
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1 I found it out t’other day; my
thoughts
were of you and whether or no you loved me, and when I played slap to see, the love-in-absence2 that should have stuck on, shrivelled up forthwith against the soft of my arm.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:38 GMT / http://hdl.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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He
attendeth
here hard by
To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.
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Shakespeare |
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“He must be a brave sailor,” I thought, “to have
determined
to cross
the twenty versts of strait on a night like this, and he must have had a
weighty reason for doing so.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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The "Free merchants" whom early governors-general had
wanted to encourage had been driven away by the severely mono-
polist policy on which the
Seventeen
insisted.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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"
I listened to the branchless pole
That held aloft the singing wire;
I heard its muffled music roll,
And stirred with sweet desire:
"O wire more soft than
seasoned
lute,
Hast thou no sunlit word for me?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Louis, Missouri, where she
attended
a school
that was founded by the grandfather of another great poet from St.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Cæsar
directed
his
march from Joigny towards Franche-Comté, across the country of Langres.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Was never so arrayed ;
Yet far more beautiful is one --
A MOTHER and a MAID --
Whose
loveliness
and lowliness
God stooped from highest heaven to bless.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Looking under his
who found her sitting between two
watchmen
near the Inner Temple gate.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Do not compete with those who bear the name or
trappings
of realized yogis or monks.
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MF: The difficulties arose from the project itself, which was
intended
to avoid them.
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Foucault-Live |
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The
difference
is that the Marxist critic accords 'correct false consciousness' the chance to enlighten itself or to be enlightened - by Marxism.
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THE
PROCURATOR
It's worth infinitely more, Mr.
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Mahayana formula embracing essential principles and practices of the bodhisattva path: the Four Applications, the Four Right Efforts, the Four Bases of Miraculous Power, the Five Dominants, the Five Powers, the Seven Limbs of Enlightenment, the
Eightfold
Path.
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There WAS the
militarist
Germany of the Kaiser, there was the Germany of Mr.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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1
If thou aimest at
polished
manners, call not him whom thou accostest [loudly?
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Many writers deplored this popularization of war, this in-
volvement
of the democratic masses.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Thrice, above all, in the course of his life he inter-
vened in this way in the course of European politics—for his two
Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen (on the state prosecutions of the
Neapolitan government, 1851); his Vatican Decrees in their
Bearing on Civil Allegiance (1874), with its sequel Vaticanism
(1875), and his Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East
(1876), followed by Lessons in Massacre (1877), sensibly affected
the development of some of the most
important
political problems
of the times.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55] Literally "he
attained
my front.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In the past century, there have been two major
challenges
to liberalism, those of fascism and of communism.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Mere honesty becomes a mode of writing for
ruthlessness
towards oneself.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Woodfall
continued
to conduct the Paper till 1789, when he set up Paper on his own account
reporter,
under the title of The Diary, in which he continued his series of reports.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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As he had made himself universal, he could have only universal readers, and what he required of the freedom of his
contemporaries
was that they cut their historical ties in order to join him in universality.
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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Alstone, who was placed in a dark place to note her
conversation
with the witness.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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It stands
out with the most tragic
significance
when the trial of
Zygmunt Krasinski's life swept down upon him.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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And here we had an instance showing how very important it is
that a captain of a man-of-war should be a good sailor, and have
his ship in such
discipline
as to be strictly obeyed by his ship's
company.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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3, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work under this agreement, disclaim all
liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:35 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Written by a leading Polish
statesman
to promote practical under-
standing between his country and Great Britain.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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The
inhabitants
of Cirra thought that their safety was assured by this, because the sacred land, which was next to their city, was far distant from the sea.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Black thought joined to white action would be like
erecting
a monastery or stupa for the sake offame, etc.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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All those, too, who were of any party opposed to that of the senate, were desirous rather that the state should be embroiled, than that they
themselves
should be out of power.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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98 (#134) #############################################
98
EDUCATION AND
MISSIONS
TO 1858
of natural philosophy might follow in time, above all the principles of
mechanics and their application to agriculture and the useful arts.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
; il j ?
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Then came the
time for discrimination, it came then and it was never
mentioned
it was
so triumphant, it showed the whole head that had a hole and should have
a hole it showed the resemblance between silver.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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" (In fact those among them who claim also to be "Anti-Stalinist" are in reality more
Stalinist
than Stalin, with Israel being their god which has not yet failed).
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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188 ROSE AND EMILT J OR,
their plate; and by these polite, easy,
and kind
attentions
soon dissipated the
reserve that hung upon the younger ones.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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We enjoy with him the simple rustic
beauties
of Wellsby, and from the moment he arrives at the Httle village station until that final tragic scene in the dry-bed of
South African river we are held as in vice.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Étude morale sur Lord Byron et sur son
influence
à l'égard de
la littérature contemporaine en France.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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These notes
may be payable every three months, or oftener; and the
faith of
government
must be pledged for the support of the
bank.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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downwards, it is equally
consistent
in
regarding Homer and Hesiod as 'prehistoric'.
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Hesiod |
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Again, you must not fail to dress your muse in a forehead cloth of Greek or Latin; I mean, you are always to make use of a quaint motto in all your compositions; for besides that this artifice bespeaks the reader's opinion of the writer's learning, it is
otherwise
useful and commendable.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Lodois Bnffaut: "We see the hysteric becoming epileptic, remaining both the one and the other, which
constitutes
hystero-epilepsy, or epilepsy increasingly dominating, and suppressing, as it were, the original hysteria" Rapports de I'hysterie et de I'epilepsie, Medical Thesis, Paris, no.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Malcolm was
peculiarly
grave,
and Duncan seemed to ' have lost''his
wonted spirits.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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These three maxims of the scientific
treatment
of ethics are opposed to the older apophthegms:
1.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
It
IS
characteristic
of the Germans that the question: "What is German?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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--Two wings this orb
Possess'd for glory, two fair argent wings,
Ever exalted at the God's approach:
And now, from forth the gloom their plumes immense
Rose, one by one, till all
outspreaded
were;
While still the dazzling globe maintain'd eclipse,
Awaiting for Hyperion's command.
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Keats |
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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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May I receive the full benefit Of
praising
Thy royal hosts.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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" -- " H ow
beautiful
it
was," thought L ucy, " while Corinne shared it with you!
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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My trust were vain to try
And see her ere I die,
For, though awhile he dare
Such dreams indulge, Hope ne'er can constant be,
But falls back in despair
Her, whom Heaven honours, there again to see,
Where virtue,
courtesy
in her best mix,
And where so oft I pray my future home to fix.
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Petrarch - Poems |
|
XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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'Twere damnation
To think so base a thought; it were too gross
To rib her
cerecloth
in the obscure grave.
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Shakespeare |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A lamp with
a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the
fireplace
and by its light
his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
He gives the death desir'd; his safe return
By southern
tempests
to the seas is borne.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The
theoreticians
of Art for Art's Sake and of Realism have confirmed him in that opinion.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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"
provided with pistols,
likewise
damned
and said he had a mind to blow his brains out for the refusal.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
Once he saw a cradle come gyrat-
ing along, and urging all his might, intercepted it; but hardly
knew whether he was more sorry or
relieved
to find it empty.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
Thus all who call you, by the name itself,
Are taught at once to LAUd and to REvere,
O worthy of all
reverence
and esteem!
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Source: |
Petrarch |
|
"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The point of continuing to implicate critique in this way was, as Adorno and Horkheimer remarked in Dialectic of Enlightenment, that the enlighten- ment must
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Humanity becomes a
political
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While any one of his talents, taken on its own and developed to a professional
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Theopompus
says, that there are fourteen Epirotic nations.
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Strabo |
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Is this the best example of bloodthirsty Red oppression that the
capitalist
restorationists in Czechoslovakia could find?
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And /,
and Flying-post, and
scandalous
club may answer them, vou think sit !
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I collar a citizen, and I
think I am going to get some
valuable
information out of him.
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LXXII
To
Tisipherne
the damsel turning right,
"And what say you, my noble lord?
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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