The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show reverence not less for her personality than for
her genius is
sufficient
answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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Sappho |
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Emulously all the provinces rivalled each other
in carrying out their "damned duty," as the
Prussian " phrase ran {ihre
verfluchte
Pflicht und
Schuldigkeit) ; from the gallant peasant of the
Rhenish county of Mors to the unhappy East-
Prussians, who with quiet tenacious opposition
had stood firm against the Russian conqueror, and
would not be disturbed in their determined faith-
fulness when the inexorable King accused them of
falling-off and overwhelmed them with manifesta-
tions of his displeasure.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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" "Rogue, rogue," replied the
spider, "yet
methinks
you should have more respect to a person whom all
the world allows to be so much your betters.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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M Yes ; now I remember seeing in his
book
drawings
of triangles and circles,
and I could not guess of what use they
could be.
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Childrens - Frank |
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It can seem as if there were an
understood
list: drugs-- check; incest--check; madness--check; synaesthesia--check.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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See, among the
pretermitted
saints, p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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''^
Cinnia, also, had a sister, named Derfraechia or Derrichia,^s> who is
aggregated
Article hi.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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And where, upon her sheltering plain ,
Beneath the rock fair Cirrha lies , Swift -footed Phricias joy 'd to gain
The Pythian contest 's
glorious
prize .
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Pindar |
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I shall never forget the depth of his
relief or the warmth of his
expressions
of gratitude.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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In 753
Boniface
left, and for two years he worked among
the water-bound washes of the Zuiderzee: when (5 June 754) he was
at Dockum awaiting converts who were to be confirmed a band of savages
attacked him and his followers: they were all slain: the books he had
with him were found and taken to Fulda, and thither also, after
some time at Utrecht, was carried the body of the saint himself: there
in the house of his founding, near the middle of his vast field of
toil, the great hero lay at rest.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Tully - Offices |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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At the
expiration
of six months, the violence of
my grief began to subside; time acts as medicine upon sorrow and heals
the wounds which have been inflicted upon the soul, for the light of
day, and the bright sun are full of cheerfulness, and though the mind
may be fevered by excess of sorrow for a time, yet it is gradually
cooled and overcome by the persuasive influence of time.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Indeed I did not know how much I had lost,
for having always heard and thought more of my wit and beauty, than of
my fortune, it did not
suddenly
enter my imagination, that Melissa could
sink beneath her established rank, while her form and her mind continued
the same; that she could cease to raise admiration but by ceasing to
deserve it, or feel any stroke but from the hand of time.
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Samuel Johnson |
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They had
scarcely
settled down again in that marvellous Palace which they had expected never to revisit.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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But he did
it for love of his works, of his law-giving; and
to be a law-giver is a
sublimated
form of tyranny.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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The Reformation certainly seemed at one moment to be
carrying all before it, but several causes
contributed
to
a decay of the new faith which was as unexpected as
had been its success.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Disoouooed
beIoor, Po 'J+ "Boo,t" >\6.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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To
mightier
force,
To better nature subject, ye abide
Free, not constrain'd by that, which forms in you
The reasoning mind uninfluenc'd of the stars.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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not
objective
may in l trate its way into you.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Napoleon III, as the Emperor of the French" Napoleon III had ordered that no guard should
surround
him on his entry, saying "If I die at the hands of an assassin, I die alone!
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Be careful even of great words, great
attitudes
.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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" He also used often to say that most philosophers were wise in great things, but ignorant of petty subjects and chance details; and he used to cite the saying of Caphisius, who, when one of his pupils was labouring hard to be able to blow very powerfully, gave him a slap, and said, that
excellence
did not depend upon greatness, but greatness on excellence.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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This spectrum includes a plethora of right-wing groupuscules that produce an
enormous
number of books and an impressive quantity of low-cir- culation newspapers, but are not readily distin- guishable from each other and display little the- oretical consistency or sophistication.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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His father's whistle, his
mother's mutterings, the screech of an unseen maniac were to him now so
many voices
offending
and threatening to humble the pride of his youth.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Juno delivering
Io to Argus
inspired
a great work of Rubens and a later work of
Claude Lorraine.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Daughter of great Protogonus, divine, illustrious Rhea, to my pray'r incline,
Who driv'st thy holy car with speed along, drawn by fierce lions,
terrible
and strong.
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Orphic Hymns |
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For St
Germigny
read Germigny.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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For not only are the goals that we set for the humanities always and perhaps
necessarily
quite vague.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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We use information technology and tools to increase
productivity
and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
beautiful
warm rain.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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1; the
problem of the value of, 5; the equal values of
semblance and, 50; something tickling in the
search for, 50; its independence of virtuous or in-
jurious results, 53; qualifications favourable to
the seeker after, 54; the
attitude
of the coming
philosophers to, 57; the dogmatic ideal regard-
ing, 57; ultimate relation of things, 58 ; the fear
Human, ii.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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And although the table was plentifully furnished with rich dishes of meat, he only
distributed
some bread and flesh amongst them that came along with him.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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A full-scale invasion was accordingly being projected for the
following
November.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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However
horrible
this system may seem to us, IT WORKS.
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Orwell |
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Men but make monuments of sin
Who walk the earth's
ambitious
round;
Thou hast the richer realm within
This garden ground.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Both were endowed with
sharpness
of wit and the
highest natural powers; and we three formed a close friendship
together.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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NO sooner in a house the urchin gets,
But rules and laws he at
defiance
sets;
The place of reason whim at once assumes,
Breaks ev'ry obstacle, frets, rages, fumes.
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La Fontaine |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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igiiiiiiE
ii;iiiu:lii
:EEiigE t Ei{g$;?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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But if I have got to say
how I shall feel, why, I shall feel sorry they didn't succeed; for
I believe they have a
righteous
cause, though they go the wrong
way to help themselves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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--La llama que arde
Inextinguible, inmensa
En mi pecho, Zoraya idolatrada,
Al amor que en el tuyo se atesora,
Digna
procurará
dar recompensa.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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He looked searchingly in the old man's
face for the beloved
features
of the youth, but found not what he
sought.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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It must be added, nevertheless, that
metaphysics
is often associated
with theology in popular consciousness; and there are doubtless more than a few among you who tend to draw no very sharp distinction between the concepts of theology and metaphysics, and to lump them together under the general heading of transcendence.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Hee speaketh
honestly
yet, but surely if hee rayle at mee,
I may not abide him, by the masse, I promise thee.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Now say, says the Apostle, that Jesus Christ was a
minister
of the Circwrwision for the
3.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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O blessed
stillness
around me!
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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The only time that is free from these
torments
is when I am
being worn out at the bar, and in the suits of my friends.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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-----
The
quotation
is from 'King Lear', Act iii, Sc.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Indeed, no two
portraits of such a man can be alike: they will vary according to
the
temperament
and limitations of the painter.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Do not let us mention
the poets in the same breath: nothing perhaps has
ever been
produced
out of such a superabundance
of strength.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Disdainful
of reality, this object represents the essence of narcissism and becomes 'The Ideal' or 'The Model', incontestable and therefore pure and absolute.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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But, on the other hand,
there is a boundless and
infuriated
hatred of philo-
logy wherever an ideal, as such, is feared, where the
modern man falls down to worship himself, and
where Hellenism is looked upon as a superseded
and hence very insignificant point of view.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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My soul lies bare before you; ye have seen
With what
humility
and fear I took
This mighty power upon me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So, at least, it was believed and
taught by the
recognized
authorities on the subject.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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It is a misuse of terms, due to
erroneous
ideas, to speak of the " classics " of science or of pedagogy in the sense that we speak of the classics of philosophy and art.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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So, even at this day we must use holy days; for we must
therefore
omit all other things that we may the more freely serve God.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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And if we may
understand
it in a spiritual sense, nature is not unappropriately called our ‘mother,’ and habit too a ‘sister,’ in that we are from the one, and along with the other; which same ‘mother and sister’ are ‘worms,’ in that in virtue of a corrupt nature and evil habit we are necessitated, as by a kind of ‘worms,’ so by disquieting thoughts to be gnawed in the mind.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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A sort of curse against its guzzling
And its age-lasting wallow for red greed
And yet, full speed
Though it should run for its own getting, Will turn aside to sneer at
'Cause he hath
No coin, no will to snatch the
aftermath
Of Mammon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
"
At first the whole thing may seem to be mere madness and rhetoric, a vain
exhibition
of force and passion without beauty.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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The famous simile of the egg-
Thou,
glorious
king of hosts, through strong might wonderfully didst
establish the earth so firmly that she inclineth not on any side nor may she
sink hither and thither any more than she ever did.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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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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There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our
insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in
cold, malignant and, above all,
everlasting
spite.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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"
Tides
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the
starlike
sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
High on the rocky shore.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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The
Athenians had sent Chares at the head of a
powerful
force to reduce
Byzantium, Cos, and Chios, which had revolted from them.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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In her
perplexity
Mary felt a woman's need of some man on whom she
would have the right to lean, and whom she could make king consort.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Whoever then
expecteth
not these things but from the Lord, is very dif ferent from those who expect them even from devils, or from h Oxf.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Like a cry and an huzza will I
traverse
wide
seas, till I find the Happy Isles where my friends
sojourn ;-
And mine enemies amongst them!
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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It refers to the compact formula with which, early in his essay, Harpham characterizes a possible general function for the humanities: "The
scholarly
study of documents and artifacts produced by human beings in the past enables us to see the world from different points of view so that we may better understand ourselves.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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'
VII
Bitter the
knowledge
we get from travelling!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Nay, there is a subjec- tive
necessity
(a need of pure reason) to assume them.
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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 |
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This
precaution
was of very little use, as he afterwards found ; but he all along imagined that proceedings against him would not be carried to any great extreme, and that he could, by the intercession of friends, procure a mitigation of his punishment ; but, alas !
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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all have perished, all,
By
charging
galleys crushed and whelmed in death.
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Aeschylus |
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But, for the sake of world understanding and lasting
peace, it is vitally
important
that such a book as Soviet
viii
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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"Pan, Priapus, Satyrs, Nymphs" : the
effigies
of these deities which stood in the pastures.
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Moschus |
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He had
therefore
little hopes of making himself master of it.
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
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On the other hand there is
definitely
so much
culture in the serious sense of that word in Italy.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Now mark a htfle, if your
Lordship
pleases, why Virgil is so much concern'd to make this marriage (for he seems to be the father of the bride himself, and to give her to the bride- groom) : it was to make away for the divorce which he in- tended afterwards; for he was a finer flatterer than Ovid, and I more than conjecture that he had in his eye the divorce which not long before had pass'd betwixt the emperor and Scribonia.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Say, is it Love, that was divinity,
Who hath left his godhead that his home might be The shameless rose of her
unclouded
heart?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Crimson, frosty with dew, the roses bend where
thou afar moving in the
glamorous
sun drinkst in life of earth, of the air, the
tissue
golden about thee.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Họ Cao Dương cũng có 8
người
con hiền có tài đức, thiên hạ gọi là Bát Khải.
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stella-03 |
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The curiously mixed
feelings of this scene of leave-taking have never
received
adequate
recognition.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Nay thì rộng chọn thực tài, không ngại số
người
trúng tuyển tăng lên gấp bội.
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stella-02 |
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In such cases the principal role of the
volunteer
is to mother the mother and so, by example, to en- courage her to mother her own child.
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My lectures were always crowded, and my beginnings so fortunate, that I entirely
obscured
the renown of my famous master.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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418 References
Mann, Michael,
Giovanni
Arrighi, Jason W.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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The second crisis appears to have centred round the great
plague of 1582—3, though there are signs of its approach several
In 1578, we find Fleetwood, the city recorder,
referring to certain standing orders by Burghley for dealing with
plays * ; and, in the correspondence of 1580, it is evident that
a campaign is on foot for the abolition of the stage not only in
the city but also in the fields An
earthquake
in April that
year, celebrated in a contemporary ballad beginning:
Comme from the plaio, comme from the playe:
the house will fall so people saye:
the earth quakes lett us hast awaye 6,
probably did much to strengthen the city's cause, and the plague
came to its assistance in 1581, so that the playhouses were shut all
through the summer.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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84 The
Historia
Augusta sums up Marcus' entire attitude in the llowing terms:
Toward the people, he behaved exactly as ifhe were acting in a ee State.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,
And what enchantment held the king in thrall
When lonely Brynhild
wrestled
with the powers
That war against all passion, ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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No one had noticed him, probably, because Miss Caroline and I had
entertained
the class most of the morning.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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But it seemed entirely opportune
to the public which read and admired it, and it
continued
to be
a sort of symbolic book to the party which set its hopes on Frederick
prince of Wales, and, after his death in 1751, with perhaps more
show of reason, on his son, afterwards king George III.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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He's
terrible
for finding a way out
From the irremediable.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But another voice said: what does one rose
signify?
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Some reasons why IP
addresses
are blocked include:
- Your program is trying to "harvest" the contents.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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The poem closes with an address to the lady, on
whose nuptials it was composed, persuading her to
lay aside her girlish bashfulness, and commit her-
self cheerfully and
confidently
to the arms of her
husband.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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