In such language sown broadcast among a people per-
secuted and deprived of all stable
landmarks
Krasinski
saw the gravest peril to Poland.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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After he had been about four months in prison, he wrote the
following
letter to his brother in Essex :—
"Dear Brother, York, Feb.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Délivrées par
nous, elles ont vaincu la mort et
reviennent
vivre avec nous.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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How
can saintly legends be called
“tradition”
at all!
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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500
Spir: O my lov'd masters heir, and his next joy,
I came not here on such a trivial toy
As a stray'd Ewe, or to pursue the stealth
Of
pilfering
Woolf, not all the fleecy wealth
That doth enrich these Downs, is worth a thought
To this my errand, and the care it brought.
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Milton |
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And so you expect the
particular
character and description of
the persons of this more than amiable brother and sister?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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' And was it then for this that thou wert born, that thou
mightest enjoy
pleasure?
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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OPTICAL MEDIA
the secret of durable pigments,
prophetic
sonnets, the refuge ot art.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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reached the point of
applying
in the domain of
the intellect and artistic ideas that principle of
greater individuality which is truly applicable only
in the domain of the will.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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It had not
been possible, he said, to bring back their
lamented
comrade's remains
for interment on the farm, but he had ordered a large wreath to be made
from the laurels in the farmhouse garden and sent down to be placed on
Boxer's grave.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Because the
reverend
T.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Byzantine culture found an asylum in Italy, where the
literary treasures of the classical world, for centuries
warehoused by the tight-laced and
inappreciative
theo-
logians of the Bosphorus, were enthusiastically wel-
comed, shook off their dust, and emerged in all their
pristine splendour.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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But her big
business is the
Cooperative
Wholesale Society,
?
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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In this the essay becomes
polemical
by treating what is normally held to be derived, without however pursuing its ultimate derivation.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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"7
' %"!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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When evening
quickens
faintly in the street,
Wakening the appetites of life in some
And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript,
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I am
grievously
deceived, if the
following less compact mode of commencing the same tale be not a far
more faithful copy.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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There's no Art,
To finde the Mindes
construction
in the Face.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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541
what members hereafter will be bold'enough not to
be corrupt, especially as the king's highway of
obsequiousness
is so very broad and easy?
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Edmund Burke |
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All
the matter of practical rules rests on subjective conditions, which
give them only a conditional
universality
(in case I desire this or
that, what I must do in order to obtain it), and they all turn on
the principle of private happiness.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Let me make answer: thy
usurping
son.
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Shakespeare |
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As for such hold- ing of the clear light of sleep, it seems to be part of the activities of
attaining
buddhahood in that life.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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The very exist ence, however, of so many employments is an
indication
that labor was in request ; and we cannot doubt that industrious persons could support themselves and their families without much difficulty, even by these inferior trades.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Who is your
representative?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Many rights did the people
surrender at last, not from any such motive, of indulgence or
ignorance, but
submitting
in the belief that all was lost.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Martens who fell a victim to
such a
rascally
trick.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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"Brave men,
powerful
people!
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Petrarch |
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,ala
offering
and Guru-yoga the latter.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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CEREMONIES FOR
CANDLEMAS
EVE
Down with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the misletoe;
Instead of holly, now up-raise
The greener box, for show.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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We could not understand their
French here very well, but the
_potage_
was just like what we had had
before.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Like to a moving vintage down they came,
Crown'd with green leaves, and faces all on flame;
All madly dancing through the
pleasant
valley,
To scare thee, Melancholy!
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Keats |
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" " Because,"
:
replied Columba " I do not wish more clearly to
intimate
the companion
who will injure you, lest frequent remembrance should make you more unhappyuntilthehourofyourdissolutionbeaccomplished.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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His
main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which
even through all the doors would
probably
raise concern if not
alarm.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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pratitya-samutpada -: dependent origination, chain of causation
which brings about an uninterrupted flux of phenomena; it is
depicted
as a wheel with twelve spokes, the twelve 'nidanas ' Clinks) of creation.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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What
compounds
of Dico shorten the vowel i?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Envious twigs in leafy nook
Catch my love's long tresses fair,
E'en as Grecian
branches
shook
Down Diana's crown of hair!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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The great value of this defence of the
occasional
employment of
sensation as a medicine for the soul is obvious.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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The following, likewise from Eumenes,
exhibits
the king as a party in the feud between the priest of Pessinus and his brother Aiorix.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise,
Scarce staining ether; but by fast degrees,
In heaps on heaps, the
doubling
vapor sails
Along the loaded sky, and mingling deep,
Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom:
Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed,
Oppressing life; but lovely, gentle, kind,
And full of every hope and every joy,
The wish of Nature.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Then look out for the little brook in March,
When the rivers overflow,
And the snows come
hurrying
from the hills,
And the bridges often go.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Child Verse
THE CHILD
AT BETHLEHEM
I
T ONG, long before the Babe could speak,
^-^ When he would kiss his mother's cheek
And to her bosom press,
The brightest angels,
standing
near,
Would turn away to hide a tear,
For they are motherless.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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8
The Scriptures then being
generally
both the fountain and subject of modern wit, I could do no less than give them the preference in your reading.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Away went Alice like the wind and was just in time to
hear it say, as it turned a corner, "Oh, my ears and whiskers, how late
it's
getting!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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This can be conceptualised as a series of pathways through childhood that lead in a more or less
positive
direction.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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But the
laughing
rains of spring
Will break the weak green shoots of their love.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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1 Some years later the information was rated by
independent
raters who had taken no part in the study.
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Source: |
Bowlby - Separation |
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The mainquestion,however,is whytheseessays on
thehistoryoftheWeimar
Republic bear the title "Towards the Holocaust.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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He
published eleven books of travel, beginning with 'Views Afoot, or
Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff' (1846),—a work so popular
that it went through twenty
editions
in ten years.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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” Probably you were protected by
the invulnerable armour of an honest vanity, probably you declared that
mere
jealousy
dictated the lines of Boileau, and that Chapelain’s real
fault was his popularity, and his pecuniary success,
Qu’il soit le mieux renté de tous les beaux-esprits.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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They had recourse
immediately
to
the pump; but, having laboured till three in the afternoon, and gained
very little upon the water, they willingly, according to Drake's
advice, set the vessel on fire, and went on board the pinnaces.
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Samuel Johnson |
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" "My social and professional standing protect me from the insult of being classed with
advertising
quacks," he writes in a fine burst of dignity.
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Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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233 (#271) ############################################
THE
WANDERER
AND HIS SHADOW.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Autumns and winters, springs of mire and rain,
Seasons of sleep, I sing your praises loud,
For thus I love to wrap my heart and brain
In some dim tomb beneath a vapoury shroud
In the wide plain where revels the cold wind,
Through long nights when the
weathercock
whirls round,
More free than in warm summer day my mind
Lifts wide her raven pinions from the ground.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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”
Many scenes and incidents of the Anabasis) are used again in
the Cyropædeia' (Youth of Cyrus the Elder), which makes no real
pretension to truth, being indeed the first European
historical
>
novel or romance.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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A more
appropriate
measure for this power is the distribution and differential growth of profit (and of capitalization more broadly), and from this perspective mergers and acquisitions make a very big difference.
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Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
Madame
Blavatsky
will instruct me
In the Seven Sacred Trances;
Piccarda de Donati will conduct me.
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
His manliness and courage Appreciative and sensitive as she seems,
in overcoming obstacles and adversity, she has herself too well under control,
his tenderness, and
kindness
to the is always afraid of going too far, is
sick and suffering, and his deep love never quite sure of Robert Clay's de-
and devotion for sweet Rose Standish, sirability as a husband.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Her
attractive
personality, joined with the
charm of her conversation, and the individual touch that she gave to
everything she said or did, were utterly bewitching.
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Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Silent was all in Jezreel and Ur--
The stars were
glittering
in the heaven's dusk meadows.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"5*6#""
##
"58 '("" #65!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
He who used to send heralds before Him,
hath now deigned to come Himself; He here
speaketh
by
His own mouth, He Who used to speak by the mouths of the Prophets.
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Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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There is an argument here for sometimes not being too explicit or too open about precisely what is demanded, if the demands can be
communicated
more privately and noncommittally.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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at
we han
p{ur}posed
her-byforn.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Honoured
father, give me
Thy blessing.
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Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the South,
Who had an immoderate mouth;
But in
swallowing
a dish that was quite full of Fish,
He was choked, that Old Man of the South.
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Lear - Nonsense |
|
11 they trust In
P~IEI
"AlIa non della", In the Verona
statement
00 ~tXU't'C't xC'tx.
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Source: |
Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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He
wondered
first, then pitied, then he loved :
And with kind hand does the coy vision press.
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Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
This argu- ment is neither for nor against the use of nuclear weapons, but for
recognizing
that this consequence of their use equals in im- portance- and could far transcend- their tactical battlefield accomplishments.
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Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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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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Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The masses mass madder, both
numbskull
and sage;
They root up the arbours, they trample the grain;
Make way for the new Resurrected.
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Hence the sage is able (in the same way) to
accomplish
his great
achievements.
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Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
|
The sage does not act
(so), and
therefore
does no harm; he does not lay hold (so), and
therefore does not lose his hold.
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Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
|
He has Pope's fate before his eyes, to show him what a divorce may be created even between the most gifted
translator
and Homer by an artificial evolution of thought and a literary cast of style.
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
Only
a few old gentlemen decided in my favour, and for
very diverse and sometimes
unaccountable
reasons.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
No pause
Of renovation and of
freshening
rays
She knows; but evermore her love breathes forth
On field and forest, as on human hope,
Health, beauty, power, thought, action, and advance.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
|
Vita Gildae (Caradoc of
Llancarvan
?
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
If one will only notice one's own
uncertainty
in a strange city (much less a strange country with a strange language) one will see how unlikely it is that lower-class people who don't know the language would take to large-scale lawbreaking in a strange land.
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Source: |
Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
|
'
It seems my lady wept and the troll swore
By Heaven he hated tears: he'd cure her spleen;
Where she had begged one flower, he'd shower four-score,
A
haystack
bunch to amaze a China Queen.
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Mobilization
is a category of a world of wars.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
If there is still a single stable door open in them and a smell of a real live cow and dung and such things, to which this experience is no doubt attached, one must be very
thankful
today.
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Source: |
Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Now the prey beneath her lies in
crippling
pain.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
It was his friend Gautier,
with the plastic style, who attempted the well-nigh
impossible
feat of
competing in his verbal descriptions with the certitudes of canvas and
marble.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
The first generation of Christians died with a
question
to which European history would be the answer: How is the absence of the Messiah to be understood?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
I am a dis-
ciple of the
philosopher
Dionysus, and I would
prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
And yet Madame in faith I see
No cause of such a sonne in law ashamed for to bee,
So you
contented
were therewith.
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Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
|
"
Hansei and
Walpurga
sat side by side plying their oars in
perfect time.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
|
Nothing whatsoever is new, nothing is
different
than it was, except arriving back at where you started.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
|
But this alchemy is, you
know, only the
material
counterpart of a poet's craving for
Beauty, the eternal Beauty.
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Bloom in his
disguise
as Robert Emmet.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Ye had no voice of old to launch such doom
On him, my husband, when he held as light
My daughter's life as that of sheep or goat,
One victim from the
thronging
fleecy fold!
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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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To a lake of crystal I pursue the sound,
And, there, amid the waves, a naked maid
Caught on the fish-hook of a Faun, survey,
Who would devour alive his
helpless
prey.
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multis ille bonis flebilis occidit,
nulli
flebilior
quam tibi, Vergili.
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He seemed indeed to be
in the
greatest
distress from hunger and want, and his clothes
were ragged and thin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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The article of the 28th year of Edward I concerned with
standards
of coinage.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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As if he said in plain terms, ‘What wonder is it, if he who has
received
so many blessings upon earth should behave without offence in return for them?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Seek honest gains, without
pretence!
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