I know they're too valuable to be so
slightly
kept, and as you are
to answer for the loss.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass downloads or
automated
harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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' There is a poem of his about a bush, which
I have never seen, and it may have come out of the
cauldron
of fable in
this shape.
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Yeats |
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For one man to compel anocher to work for him is to exercise powef in its most naked form, a form so ugly that it is now banned
throughout
the civilized world.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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and an
additional
capital of 500_l.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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A costly supper was served, she now and then took some of the viands
for
appearance
sake, but in reality ate nothing, feeding her eyes on
me.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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During the
lifetime of
Gustavus
Adolphus, the combined influence of fear and hope
had suppressed any open complaint, but after his death, the murmurs were
loud and universal; and the soldiery seized the most dangerous moment to
impress their superiors with a sense of their importance.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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See this incomplete epistle in Ussher's Veterum
Epistolarum
Hibernicarum
Syllofje," Epist.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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And she was in his sight
Found fairest — still his prize,
His constant chief delight;
She raised to him her eyes
That led her not aright,
And ever by his side
A patient
huntress
ran
Through forests dark and wide,
And still the Woman's pride
And glory was the Man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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The second
syllable
jor means "to engage" or "to apply.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The
sweetest
flower that deck'd the mead,
Now trodden like the vilest weed--
Let simple maid the lesson read
The weird may be her ain, jo.
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burns |
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; Eu-
celebration
of a festival of Artemis.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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What there is to do will be
instantly
done.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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"
The titles of a number of his principal books, not
hitherto
given,
with dates, are as follows.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Goethe's man is, as I said, the con-
templative man in the grand style, who is only
kept from dying of ennui by feeding on all the
great and
memorable
things that have ever existed,
and by living from desire to desire.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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But lest anyone should be at pains to make out these words after the literal sense, it is of great
importance
to find out in how many ways the mind is affected by images from dreams.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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EgE Ei;iEii
iiiiiiiiii
siEi
:EgIi;iiiElriEiEiigiiiEiiIEiaiiii
s;t;E;
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Island,'* yet living
flesh, who,
Mention being made of the most
reverend
Prelate Chad,
said "in this Egbert,
inthe
tilings, Egbert's
Chronology
See his Acts in
Surius,
" De Probatis Sane-
torum Historiis," &c.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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The portrait of Pixley was
engraved
and published in 1749, with the following inscrip tion :—
For your King and Country prove true, You will be loved and have your due.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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The young
Frenchman
first became infatuated with Poe's
writings in 1846 or 1847--he gave these two dates, though several
stories of Poe had been translated into French as early as 1841 or 1842;
L'Orang-Outang was the first, which we know as The Murders in the Rue
Morgue; Madame Meunier also adapted several Poe stories for the reviews.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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His procedure is
to apply man as the measure of all things, whereby
he starts from the error of believing that he has these
things
immediately
before him as pure objects.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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The train-oil
and
gunpowder
were shoved out of sight in a minute.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Rotherham
and Southwell,
>
## p.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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¶ This wyt
(quod he) I had almoste
destroyed
before I knewe it.
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Erasmus |
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The moment of the triumph of wakefulness over deep mythological dream is
represented
as the arrival of St.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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"
"Do you call it luck to be a
disgrace
to your folks,
And git locked up in jail!
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Amy Lowell |
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5:4 And he shall stand and feed in the
strength
of the LORD, in the
majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now
shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
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bible-kjv |
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Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The
loveliest
things that still remain
Than thus remember thee!
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Golden Treasury |
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It is also possible that it was Kipling who first let loose the use of the word
‘Huns’
for
Germans; at any rate he began using it as soon as the guns opened fire in 1914.
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Orwell |
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After I got out a mile or so from the river, I came into
a large prairie, which I think must have been twenty or thirty miles
in width, and the road run across it about in the
direction
that I
wanted to go.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Urge no more; and there shall be
Daffadils
giv'n up to thee.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Distribution
is ef- fected by little pieces of paper.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Well, to this day I haven't found out what the
business
is.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He lived amid the most eminent men of his time; was beloved liy the
good;
sometimes
troubled by others; hated by none.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Tis time that this
Conversation
should break up
Soc.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The senate did not choose
unworthy
men when it had the power.
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Historia Augusta |
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[Illustration]
III--A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE
They were indeed a queer-looking party that
assembled
on the bank--the
birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close
to them, and all dripping wet, cross and uncomfortable.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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: Excerpt from
“Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats, in The
Collected
Poems.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Je suis très touchée que vous ayez
gardé un bon souvenir de notre
dernière
promenade.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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Sus pies
conoceremos
en la nieve,
y su cueva sacando por la estampa,
tendra?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Well, here we are
back again in the
eastward
wing and nothing else, just where we
were before.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The suns were beauteous in those
twilights
warm.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The best
editions
of this
century are in 5 vols.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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To suffer
hardness
with good cheer,
In sternest school of warfare bred,
Our youth should learn; let steed and spear
Make him one day the Parthian's dread;
Cold skies, keen perils, brace his life.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The theory of temporal
modalities
leaves as open and undecidable the
21 Aristotle, Physics, Book VI, 236a.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Bealize that the best
requires
labor, reflection,
care, study of desired ends and of means.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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"
The
Theologian
made reply,
And with some warmth, "That I deny;
'T is no invention of my own,
But something well and widely known
To readers of a riper age,
Writ by the skilful hand that wrote
The Indian tale of Hobomok,
And Philothea's classic page.
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Longfellow |
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(7) On the rise of a more lighthearted
nephrology
(or, to use the words of Thomas Mann, a theory of the `higher movements') at the beginning of the 19th century, see Hamblyn (2002).
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The reason for this is that he binds many people with his eloquence or
presence
or fame.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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They were
arrested
by the Khan Khanan and were
beaten and stoned to death.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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It is just a matter of directly seeing the real nature of our own mind and thus of
everything
as they really are right now (but to be able to see this we need enough merit, and a path to get there).
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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He wishes to
see them as they are in truth; and he does so see them, for
Love
sharpens
his sight; he judges strictly but justly, and
penetrates even to the very root of every prevalent mode
of thought.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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On the day they are ordered out to battle, your soldiers may weep, those sitting up
bedewing
their garments, and those lying down letting the tears run down their cheeks.
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The-Art-of-War |
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”
“I
certainly
cannot return his affection, and as certainly never meant
to encourage it.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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'Wouldn't strangers, who saw and heard us, talk about a perverse
feeling?
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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XIX
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize;
I barter curl for curl upon that mart,
And from my poet's
forehead
to my heart
Receive this lock which outweighs argosies,--
As purply black, as erst to Pindar's eyes
The dim purpureal tresses gloomed athwart
The nine white Muse-brows.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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O but you've had such
practice
in being caught,
You'll break away quite easily when you want.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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che fu nobil creato / piu` ch'altra creatura, giu` dal cielo /
folgoreggiando
scender, da l'un lato.
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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It was a cress a crescent a cross and an unequal scream, it was
upslanting, it was radiant and
reasonable
with little ins and red.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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The oscillation which he
describes
will certainly take place and
will without doubt be a constantly subsisting cause of periodical
misery.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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200 mIllIon SIX
AmerIcan exports 1774, EnglIsh debt
the AmerIcan debt only
a brItIsh mInIster and stock-Jobber Vergennes IS fixedly
resolved
to commIt hImself to nothIng not even hIS treaty WIth the U Snow eXlStlng
4?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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[45] Nor was Iphiclus long left behind in Phylace, the uncle of Aeson's son; for Aeson had wedded his sister Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus: his kinship with her bade him be
numbered
in the host.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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She would
say that when our bodies sleep our souls awake, and that whatever
withers here ripens yonder, and that
harvests
are snatched from us
that they may feed invisible people.
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Yeats |
|
In addition to what hunters and
shooters
think is right, as a second Archean age, there is a separate rationality of gatherers and seekers, which occurs only when they find what they “can use.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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They named the day to crown him; but its eve
Death bade him to his feast, the
terrible!
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Only Socrates would swear deeply that he
accompanied young men in a cleanly fashion, and therefore every man
condemned him for a perjured fellow: and Hyacinthus and Narcissus both
confessed
otherwise
for all his denial.
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Lucian - True History |
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Such and so great was Typhon when, hurling kindled rocks, he made for the very heaven with
hissings
and shouts, spouting a great jet of fire from his mouth.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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He married the aforesaid Cleopatra, and when she had
willingly
handed over power to him, after an interval of 19 days he murdered her.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The
greater number describe manners, cus-
toms, and events, but the last of the
four Parts is called (Odes of the Temple
and the Altar); and many other pieces
have
something
of a religious character.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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More gently does Alcon cut a
strangulated
hernia, and hew broken bones with his rude hand.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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I
mention the
circumstance
only as a precedent for my present temerity.
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
The bitterness of his satires he mellowed with modera-
tion and indulgence, they were distinguished by objec-
tive sense of humour rather than by subjective irony,
and in an age of shameless
corruption
he never became
cynical.
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Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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She's past the bridge that's in the dale,
And now the thought
torments
her sore,
Johnny perhaps his horse forsook,
To hunt the moon that's in the brook,
And never will be heard of more.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But there was
evidently
no
wish to shine, nor any desire to offend: it was painful to him to hurt
the feelings of those who heard him, but it was a higher duty in him not
to suppress his sincere and earnest convictions.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Notes: Arnaut here invents the sestina, with its fixed set of words ending the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time;
numbering
the first stanza's lines 123456, then the words ending the following stanzas appear in the order 615243, then 364125, then 532614, then 451362, and 246531.
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
When [Musai Ryoha] was the abbot of Tendo, my
brother monk54 Chiyu
secretly
brought it to the Dormitory of Quiescence55
to show to Dogen.
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Shobogenzo |
|
The request was easily obtained,
and the uhfortunate girl quitted her coun-
try, home, and friends, for an ungrateful
and
abandoned
seducer, who, soon after
the ship was paid off, entered on board
another bound for the East Indies, leav-
ing her in a strange country, without
money to support or friends to comfort
her.
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Source: |
Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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They are eaten with
comparatively
little zest,
and have no real _tang_ nor _smack_ to them.
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Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Why one newspaper succeeds and another fails, even the
most
experienced
journalist will (as already hinted) hesitate to
decide.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
The Road to Avignon
A Minstrel stands on a marble stair,
Blown by the bright wind, debonair;
Below lies the sea, a
sapphire
floor,
Above on the terrace a turret door
Frames a lady, listless and wan,
But fair for the eye to rest upon.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Amy Lowell |
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of Thebes, readily
consented
to join with Ihe Lacedaemonians.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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This was the
inference
drawn from her refusal to ally
herself with Megalopolis against Sparta.
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Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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"Matters now began to run
very high and the people to get warm,"
declared
a partici-
pant later; "some of the Gentlemen from Elk Ridge and
Baltimore Town insisted on burning the Vessel" as well
as the tea.
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Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Alternatively, it follows that all three times are
presently
being produced, since all produced and unproduced things are in the process of production.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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FIGHTING THE RED TRADE MENACE 147
Soviet Union now has greatly extended this business
and is also
exporting
dyed furs and these, it is al-
leged, are sold at prices considerably below what the
British have to pay for the raw article.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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When we
recognize
the truth that rags are neither silk nor cotton, and that
they are beyond pearls and jewels, rags are realized and we meet rags for
the first time.
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Shobogenzo |
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Should you give her [777]
anything, you may for that reason be
abandoned
by her: she will bear off
the gift by-gone, and will have lost nothing in return.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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The
Stoic system made the consciousness of strength of mind the pivot on
which all moral dispositions should turn; and although its disciples
spoke of duties and even defined them very well, yet they placed the
spring and proper determining
principle
of the will in an elevation of
the mind above the lower springs of the senses, which owe their
power only to weakness of mind.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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For we had only an Odyssey in Latin, which resembled one of the rough and unfinished statues of Daedalus; and some
dramatic
pieces of Livius, which will scarcely bear a second reading.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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By the
inspiration
of the Kagyii lineage, may the realiza- tion of mahamudra be speedily accomplished.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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205
Honorio turns from side to side,
And now burns with
insatiate
thirst.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Think here of the poisoning of potable water, of which antiquity already provided us with examples, in medieval
infectious
attacks on defen- sive forts, as well burning and smoking of cities and refugee caves by besieging troops, or as with the spreading of horrifying rumors or demoralizing news.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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6, in the
remainder
of the book it is 80.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with
messages
from thee.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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