I'll add my plea to thine, good friend, for well I know
that
wherever
love holds sway the will of man is impotent.
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It would be fruitless to
catalogue
the works of Eichendorff that are
no longer read.
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Let them not hesitate
to express their wishes upon any scruples of false
delicacy
and
consideration for my feelings; I assure them they will do me too much
honour by "demonstrating" on such a crazy body as mine, and it will give
me pleasure to anticipate this posthumous revenge and insult inflicted
upon that which has caused me so much suffering in this life.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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But Marius is little more than a
spectator: an ideal spectator indeed, and one to whom it is given 'to
contemplate the spectacle of life with appropriate emotions,' which
Wordsworth defines as the poet's true aim; yet a spectator merely, and
perhaps a little too much occupied with the comeliness of the benches of
the
sanctuary
to notice that it is the sanctuary of sorrow that he is
gazing at.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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But
whatsover
happens in that time,
Look not from us for succour or relief.
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28 The store and charter,
Treetown
Castle under Lynne.
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Finnegans |
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Stein, struck with vertigo, and his heart wrung, would have
chosen flight: his
timidity
kept him where he was.
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Merleau-Ponty's response is brief: poetry, or at least the kind of poetry
Mallarme?
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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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Once again, Dugin is playing the "guide," using the innumerable Western texts he is familiar with to adapt classic ideas from the history of Russian thought to
contemporary
debates.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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"
This language, as Dr Kleiner remarks, indicates
that the Anonymous Poet reached his point by a
process of his own, and
probably
only discovered later
that it was several centuries old5.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Lieutenant
Zverkov," I began, "let me tell you that I hate phrases,
phrasemongers and men in corsets .
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The
shepherd
swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.
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Golden Treasury |
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The Roman Catholics wished to terminate the war to
their own advantage; the
Protestants
advanced equal pretensions.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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So the other
bloke’s
name was George too.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Within the which she lay when the fierce war
Of wintry winds shook that
innocuous
liquor
In many a mimic moon and bearded star
O'er woods and lawns;--the serpent heard it flicker
In sleep, and dreaming still, he crept afar-- _285
And when the windless snow descended thicker
Than autumn leaves, she watched it as it came
Melt on the surface of the level flame.
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As he had a very large diamond
on his finger, and the people of the inn had taken notice of a
prodigiously heavy box among his baggage, there were two physicians to
attend him, though he had never sent for them, and two
devotees
who
warmed his broths.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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There are people, you know, who have an
unaccountable
dread
of spiders, beetles, mice.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_ Do but then see the
Prudence
of Artists.
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Erasmus |
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subjecttothegeneral supervision and control of the
Executive
Committee.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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In the case of humans, we have reason to expect not only a single immune system - the
biological
one, which is the first in evolutionary terms, but the last in terms of its discovery history.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Como en la
reiteracio?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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But more he loathed and hated the clear light
Of wisdom and free thought, and more did fear,
Lest, kindled once, its beams might pierce the night,
Even where his Idol stood; for, far and near
Did many a heart in Europe leap to hear _4085
That faith and tyranny were trampled down;
Many a pale victim, doomed for truth to share
The murderer's cell, or see, with helpless groan,
The priests his
children
drag for slaves to serve their own.
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Shelley |
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For examples representing the
tradition
of Sgam-po-pa, see DZ Vols.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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he complacently
observed, "that the criticism was tolerably well done,
considering
that
he had not read one of Rowe's plays for thirty years!
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dreadful
price of being to resign
All that is dear _in_ being!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Candrakirti
had his con- secration54 to the Truth through the counsel of Nagarjuna, and attained the realisation of all phenomena as illusory.
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XL
Nor them he less had recognized at sight;
Because (such was the usage of the pair)
One by a vest all black, and one all white,
He knows, and by the
ornaments
they wear.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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He alm"'t
prevented
the publication of Chamh", Musil,' and Mrs.
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The systematic killing of prisoners of war with the help of motor exhaust gases (in the Belzec, Chelmno, and other camps), as well as the extensive killings of German psychiatric patients with gas showers installed on trucks, acted as a
catalyst
for the union of the idea of the antiparasite struggle with the execution of human beings by means of hydrocyanic acid gas.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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Yet it was from the "Pall Mall
Gazette" that the impulsion which
projected
him into a blaze of
publicity finally came.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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sez he, "I guess,
Though physic's good," sez he,
"It doesn't foller that he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed 'J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Although it seems unlikely that Weininger's in-
terior change resulted from such external
influence
as these
friends exerted, nevertheless external factors of the sort may
very well have been instrumental in urging forward a develop-
ment which was already under way.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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But, on coming to the top of a high hill, they
perceived
at a
long distance off a Clangle-Wangle (or, as it is more properly written,
Clangel-Wangel); and, in spite of the warning they had had, they ran
straight up to it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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thing by himself, so he
answered
cautiously, " Oh, something !
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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But if anyone says that this is not my teaching, he is
speaking
an
untruth.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Heracles, as son of
Amphitryon
son of Alcaeus.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Against my
will I waited: she came back a minute later with an expression that
seemed to ask
forgiveness
for something.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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To
captivate
her how devoted!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What seemed so far
away
Is but a child's balloon,
forgotten
after
play.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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For with
Napoleon’s
occupation of Egypt
processes were set in motion between East and West that still dominate our contemporary cultural
and political perspectives.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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Imagists |
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Both
Stymphaea
and Tymphaea seem to be attested, though the latter seems to have the better authority (Steph.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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3
All goals have been annihilated, mankind must
give
themselves
a fresh goal.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Familiar with the waves and free
As if their own white foam were he,
His heart upon the heart of ocean
Lay
learning
all its mystic motion,
And throbbing to the throbbing sea.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Hie farcta
premitur
angulo Ceres omni.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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der Kirche and his Ethik} But this combination of Christian idealism and large-hearted humanity was then so new in England, that Arnold's proposed reforms were obnoxi ous to all parties alike to the High-churchmen they breathed heresy and revolution, and the Liberals
considered
them too conservative and narrow.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Prudentius, later bishop of Tarazona, who had been a
companion
of
the hermit during the last seven years of his life.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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" I am on a plane where no
reproach
can touch me since what I really am is my transcendence.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Latin - Catullus |
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See Lionel
Johnson in the Treasury of Irish Poetry, edited by
Stopford
A.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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"
Just then came the Barbarians, pouring in distinct droves: here, with
stones, with wooden javelins
hardened
in the fire, and with the broken
limbs of trees, they battered the palisade: there with hurdles, faggots
and dead bodies, they filled the trench: by others, bridges and ladders,
both before framed, were planted against the battlements; these they
violently grappled and tore, and struggled hand to hand with those who
opposed them.
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Tacitus |
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But how to purify myself, before going back into the
citadel?
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Aristophanes |
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Who the dark pomp of sorrow has
delayed?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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org/2/4/246/
Produced by Judy Boss, and Gregory Walker
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Lo que vale de los cosmonautas es aún más
verdadero
para los ha bitantes de la «caja baja» flusseriana404sobre el suelo de la Tierra.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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A typical
illustration
follows.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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We came in
sight of a large
plantation
one morning, where we saw people of color,
and Jack said he could get something there, among the slaves, that
night, for us to eat.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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I think we could then trace the future development, and transformation of these scenes, and find again how, and under what conditions, these proto-psychiatric scenes are
developed
in a first phase, between 1840 and 1870, of what could be called moral treatment, of which Leuret was the hero.
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For language hath not sounds more like in sense,
Than are these chances, if the origin
And end of each be
heedfully
compar'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It was Colgan's
intention
to have published the Acts of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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SEVENTH, a new
Bibliography
of the Poems and Prose Works, and of the
several editions issued in England and America, from 1793 to 1850, is
added.
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3929 (#295) ###########################################
PHILIPPE DE COMINES
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But it pleased God at one blow to subvert this great and
sumptuous edifice and ruin this powerful and illustrious family,
which had maintained and bred up so many brave men, and had
acquired such mighty honor and renown far and near, by so
many
victories
and successful enterprises as none of all its
neighboring States could pretend to boast of.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Tormented by hunger and thirst, he went into the coun-
try, and having
perceived
a fountain of pure water, clear as
crystal, he approached with longing to taste it; but the moment
his lips touched it the water was turned to silver.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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I’m tough, I
can talk people into buying things they don’t want, and even if they slam the door in my
face it
doesn’t
bother me.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Otho sent
to him there; and he first
attempted
to bribe the mes-
senger with large sums to suffer him to escape.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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The evidence was in sub stance, that Miss Mary Wharton, being an heiress of
considerable
fortune, and under the care of her guardian, (Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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The constant
stimulation
of the skilled by competitors was one of the effects of the network's increasing density.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Approbation was evident in the face
where certain signs already showed themselves: the writing of
Adolphus became quite
recognizable
there.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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His wife, Alcestis, though no blood
relation, handsomely
undertook
it and died.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_The Bride in Chastity may she
Superior
to_ Paterculana _be.
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Erasmus |
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Are they
resolved
to dust,
And have their Country's Marbles nought to say?
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Byron |
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His lesson ended, the Master
identified
the Birth by saying:-
"This brother was the good hermit of those days, and I the hermits'
master.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Thus, economy
required
that attacks be aimed at the city center, ensuring that the maximum tonnage of bombs would fall somewhere on the target.
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Even the timid Inez hastened to the side of Middleton
to gaze at the sight, and Paul
summoned
Ellen from her culi-
nary labors to become a witness of the lively scene.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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This too I know—and wise it were
If each could know the same—
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their
brothers
maim.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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No more, on prancing palfrey borne,
He caroled light as lark at morn;
No longer, courted and caressed,
High placed in hall, a welcome guest,
He poured, to lord and lady gay,
The
unpremeditated
lay:
Old times were changed, old manners gone;
A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne;
The bigots of the iron time
Had called his harmless art a crime.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Who knows how our
descendants
will judge us?
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Would it be possible to secure agricultural relief through
a
protective
tariff?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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for many years, through their
weakness
or disorders
lived without any thought of command.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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O
studious
Poet, eloquent for truth!
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Apres
sceut jamais trouver, mais
t'ay commandé, seroys
faict, car sont
Seigneurs
portier luy vist, qu'il l'allast chercher
pais, avec moy, qu'avo»t commis vouldroys qui'l meust coste oo.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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PHERES, _his father,
formerly
King but now in retirement_.
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Nay, how could I, torn
From thee, live on, I and my babes
forlorn?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
I hope I shall be granted this "
consequently
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at any rate, I am not going to prove it first.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Thisispossiblebecauseanyindividualisalsoanexample of
humanity
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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) ; it subjects itself to no power, rather does
it believe In its own precedence over everjr"power
^^^^it~believes
that nothing~p6w^firl exists "in-the
world that has not first got to receive~fronr""it""~a
meaningj_a_j;ight_to^^^exist,_a^ Y^^, as ^eing an
i nstrument in its w ork,_a-.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Seward's unconscious cerebra- tion "to give the wall to [its1
conscious
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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' Further, all
three are mentioned in the
_Epigrams_
of Sir John Davies, e.
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Donne - 2 |
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I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is
mastered
now,
And I 'm accustomed to him grown, --
He hurts a little, though.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Her mother pleads that she is much too young to
wed, and sighs and tears now rend our home where once
such
happiness
prevailed.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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He was
referring
to the Camp David agreements (Ha'aretz, 11/3/78).
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu
regardais
un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Alors la
différence
d'optique
s'étend non seulement à l'aspect physique, mais au caractère, à
l'importance individuelle.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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