It happened thus: One day, long
before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all
my masks were stolen,--the seven masks I have
fashioned
and worn in
seven lives,--I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting,
"Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder
crawling
coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help--for It
As impotently moves as you or I.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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15
In the
advanced
sphere of consumption, on the other hand, loving, wish- ing, and enjoying become the most important civic duties.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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As examples of this trend,
see Silvia Rosman's Being in Common: Nation, Subject and Community in Latin American Literature and Culture (2003), which includes
analyses
of the works of Paz and Borges, among others, or Michelle Clayton's monograph Poetry in Pieces: Ce?
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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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_ Nay, it is indeed an admirable Thing to be a pure Virgin, but you
may keep yourself so without
running
yourself into a Cloyster, from
which you never can come out.
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Erasmus |
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I finde it lesse
void of
incommodities
and crosses than vertue.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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A peasant was
compelled
to sleep in a caravan on
his own field, as he might not build a house.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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What wall is built
between
the hand and corn?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Have thither come the noble Martiall crew, 395
That famous hard atchievements still pursew;
Yet never any could that girlond win,
But all still shronke, and still he greater grew:
All they for want of faith, or guilt of sin,
The
pitteous
pray of his fierce crueltie have bin.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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3
1 Cibber says he yielded to the
depraved taste of the public against
his conscience, and
ascribes
the de-
gradation of the stage to the com-
petition between the rival play-
houses.
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Alexander Pope - v03 |
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n, hay que
tomarlos
en serio como pocas cosas, y ello independientemente de toda atencio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Gesco, on his return to his country,
ordered
his enemies to be brought before him in chains.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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But [it] is a feeling that applies merely to what is practical, and depends on the conception of a law, simply as to its form, not on account of any object, and therefore cannot be reckoned either as pleasure or pain, and yet produces an
interest
in obedience to the law, which we call the moral interest, just as the capacity of taking such an interest in the law (or respect for the moral law itself ) is properly the moral feeling.
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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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--virtue's carried to excess;
Wherewith our vanity endows us,
Though
neither
foe nor friend allows us.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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VII
As a free gift to him the martial fair
Brunello
bore, nor had she done him wrong.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lame-Hunchback-No-Lips talked to Duke Ling of Wei, and Duke Ling was so
pleased
with him that when he looked at normal men he thought their necks looked too lean and skinny.
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Chuang Tzu |
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' Then the action (the gift and the absorption) which should
produce
a retribution-in-joy produces a retribution-in-life.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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One would think that the whole
science
had been engaged proving that the moral man the most powerful and most
this ideal
moral perfection
godly.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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5 percent and
investment
15 percent in Q3, as inflation and the budget deficit hit 10 percent.
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Kleiman International |
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Pluralis casus si crescit,
protrahit
a, e,
Atque o ; corripies i, u ; verum excipe bubus.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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And the child grew like some
immortal
being,
not fed with food nor nourished at the breast: for by day rich-crowned
Demeter would anoint him with ambrosia as if he were the offspring of
a god and breathe sweetly upon him as she held him in her bosom.
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Hesiod |
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The Ceteans are said to have been a people
of Mysia, of which
Eurypylus
was King.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Apollo com-
manded Alexander Piccolo mini, Prince of the Italian Comick
Poets, to give his opinion of thofc Comedys to the College, which he
prefently did, enlarging fo much in the Praifc of Sforza's
extraordinary
Wit, that Immortality was again decreed to liim with great Applaufe of
all the Literati : and when the Solemnitys above- mcntion'd were pcrform'd,
Sforza left the Audience, well fatisfy'd and full of Joy.
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Boccalini - 1611 - Advices from Parnassus, in two centuries, with the Political touchstone |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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To secure the assistance
of those who could turn the balance of public opinion with
their pens, became a matter of importance to rival states-
men, and preferment in Church or State was
liberally
be-,
stowed by each party in payment for good service of this _ -º
kind.
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Alexander Pope - v04 |
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fil1r the worn1,
SyphIlIs
of the State, of all k.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Epic poetry in the
regular
epic form has before now seemed unlikely.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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The Achaean group embraced Sybaris and the
greater
part of the cities of
Magna Graecia.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Do the peasants under- stand, one wonders, that in the revival of
foreign
trade they can obtain relief from the prices that oppress them?
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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A land
inherited
by death it is.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Last year, we established "VOU Club" and have
continued
our lively strife for the newest art.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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The Longwy
dock strikes, in 1905, arose out of the efforts of a Republican
federation which attempted to organise the syndicates
that might
possibly
serve its policy as against that of the
employers ; ^ the business did not quite take the turn
desired by the promoters of the movement, who were
not familiar enough with this kind of operation.
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Sorel - Reflections on Violence |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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Thus if thou art thinking of mysteries, Christ is the Saint of saints : if of a
subject
flock, the Shep herd of shepherds: if of a structure, the Pillar of pillars.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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[Not translated in the Bohn except by the verse translation, which gives the general sense; Ker's
translation
in the Loeb is also misleading]
When with desire you see me racked,
The beggar's part you always act;
And if I grant not on the spot
Whatever you ask, you'll kiss me not.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Also, Nicholson's Irish
Historical
Library," chap, ii.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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There was incessant fighting at very different points —on one of the hottest days at six places simultaneously —and, as a rule, the tried valour of the Caesarians had the advantage in these skirmishes; once, for instance, a single cohort maintained itself in its entrenchments against four legions for
several
hours, till support came up.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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His
enthusiasm
was not
only false, but for the false.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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I went up her stairs and was received as if I had been a
flamingo
or sortie other rare exotic.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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[To the COUNTESS, who cannot
conceal
her triumph.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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But heaven in thy creation did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should
nothing
thence, but sweetness tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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”
“What two
letters!
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Austen - Emma |
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_ Curse on my fatal
beauty!
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Thomas Otway |
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_ to be divided between himself and his always equal number
of labourers; in
proportion
therefore as they get more, he must retain
less.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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The fact that a kidnap victim is returned unharmed, against receipt of ample ransom, does not make kidnapping a
nonviolent
enterprise.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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But in pity to their kind,
Or
sway’d
by envy, or through pride of mind,
They hid their knowledge of a nobler race, 15
Which own'd, would all their sires and sons disgrace.
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Alexander Pope - v04 |
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] He frequently spoke of (and kept refining his
expression
about) the Odes, the Historic Documents,
the observance of rites (ceremonial, correct procedure) all frequently (or polished) in his talk.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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But
_I_ killed my enemy, and not my host, on the free
highway
and in the
dark wood, but not in the house, and behind the stove with axe and club,
neither with old women's gossip.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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I
don't suppose
anybody
thinks it worth while to look after me any more.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
the rib bones shine, the rib bones curve,
shine with savage, elegant curves--
a jawbone runs with a long white slant,
a skull dome runs with a long white arch,
bone triangles click and rattle,
elbows, ankles, white line slants--
shining in the sun, past the White House,
past the
Treasury
Building, Army and Navy Buildings,
on to the mystic white Capitol Dome--
so they go down Pennsylvania Avenue to-day,
skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose dark leaves at their white jaw slants--
and a horse laugh question nickers and whinnies,
moans with a whistle out of horse head teeth:
why?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SONG
I SAW thee on thy bridal day--
When a burning blush came o'er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
The world all love before thee:
And in thine eye a kindling light
(Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
Of
Loveliness
could see.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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n Ille huius mundi
veraciter
mala ſeurie
6.
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Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
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Before his pride must his
superiors
fall;
His word the law, and he the lord of all?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Asceticism, which would regard
pleasure
in itself as immoral, is itself immoral, inasmuch it attributes immorality to an action because of the external consequences of it, not because of immorality in the thing itself ; it is the imposition of an alien, not an inherent law.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Alas the aged men, who mourn to-day
The
ruinous
sorrows that the gods ordain!
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Aeschylus |
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All which days, except Sundays, he
prolonged his fast till the evening, according to custom, and then took no
other
sustenance
than a small piece of bread, one hen’s egg, and a little
milk and water.
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bede |
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Towards the fallow
deserts
ever turning,
And crops of barren summers still regret?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Although attachment
behaviour
develops in important ways during the second and third years of life, a child's behaviour in these experimental situations when mother is absent continues to be very different from what it is when she is present.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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This makes the question of the
realization
of form the central problem.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Here, too, he
began to teach his
countrymen
the value of German literature.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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"O Earth, O Earth,
return!
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blake-poems |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Secretary
of State, and President of the United States .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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The first part, after a complaint to the Nymphs of their neglect, tells how the herds and the herdsmen
gathered
about the dying man, and Hermes his father, and Priapus the country-god of fertility whom he had flouted, came and spoke and got no answer.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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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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Somebody that understood Scotch, asking him what he
was, he said such-a-one's herd in Alloway, and by some means or other
getting home again, he lived long to tell the world the
wondrous
tale.
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Robert Burns- |
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These
optimists
are not, however, to be
found in the timber trade itself.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Worthy to reap men's
praises
Is he who'd gaze upon
Truth's mazes.
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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And as men who
are upon the attack, are
generally
more sierce than
the defendants ; so is it in the present cafe.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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I Germanicus Csesar, to whom Ovid addresses a com-
l plimentary letter, and Cotys, a
tributary
king, the
boundaries of whose dominions were not far from
Tomi.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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King Marsilies was therefore sore displeased;
In the first year he sealed and sent his brief
To Baligant, into Babilonie:
('Twas the admiral, old in antiquity,
That clean outlived Omer and Virgilie,)
To Sarraguce, with succour bade him speed,
For, if he failed, Marsile his gods would leave,
All his idols he worshipped formerly;
He would receive blest Christianity
And
reconciled
to Charlemagne would be.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Poro, James, an
extraordinary
Twin
.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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A brilliant
thought
suddenly dawned upon me.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Sweet poesy from heaven
Around thy form is placed,
A mother's beauty given,
By father's
thought
is graced!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Canamus miraculis Plenum a cunabulis Christi uatem,
Aquam in mel transtulit Quo nutrici contulit
Sanitatem,
3** The
following
is the text of that Decree :—
DECRETUM URBIS ET ORBIS.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Italian agriculture was ruined by the
dumping
of cheap grain from Egypt.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Ole massa on he
trabbels
gone;
He leaf de land behind;
De Lord's breff blow him furder on,
Like corn-shuck in de wind.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Awed with these words, in camps they still abide,
And wait with longing looks their
promised
guide.
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Dryden - Complete |
|
The measure
has yet to stand the test of
practice
and experience.
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Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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This
abominable
notion seems to
have been acted upon by the Poet himself.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Not only has it undergone some change during the last 1900 years, but it
was
founded
upon Judaism, which itself involved diverse elements.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am diseased flowers and stones
I love the most
chinese
of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He sacrifices, however, if the dead to whom he does so had no
relationship
with him requiring him to wear mourning.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
|
1 must be
the same as before, or he would not obtain the common profits of stock;
and consequently, after paying seventy out of his 100 pounds for tax,
the value of the remaining thirty must be as great as seventy were
before, and therefore the value of the whole
hundred
as great as 233
pounds before.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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There is no proper path, but those that have
Been up, I understand, have
climbed
from Ladd's.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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and even openly
clamoring
for the Party's 'quitting the stage' .
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GusTAvus
Adolphus,
princes of Germany, who feared for Ms in-
fluence over their subjects, and looked upon
him as a rival more than a friend, decided
to accept of an alliance with France.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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57,® and holds that
what IS commonly called the Vikrainhditya era com-
menced during the reign of the Iiido-Scythic King Kanishka,
Imt was only revived by a
Vikrainfulitya
of Ujjain, who lived
liotwcen the 5th and Otb centuries, or perhaps about A D.
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Carllelye - 1871 - Report Of A Tour In Eastern Rajputanain 1871-72 And 1872-73 Vol-vi |
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Whether the leaders of
last year after
engendering
new leaders are killed by the new brood,
and whether this occurs invariably or whether they can live for a
longer time, has not been ascertained by actual observation; neither
can we speak with certainty, as from observation, as to the age
attained by the mother-wasp or by the wild wasps, or as to any other
similar phenomenon.
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If I now
choose to compare myself with those
creatures
who
have hitherto been honoured as the first among men,
the difference becomes obvious.
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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Bernard’s
arrival
before
the walls filled them with lively joy; and there was much reason to fear
that they would support the attempts of the besiegers without, by
exciting a tumult within.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The
inhabitants
ended by becoming accustomed to the shells falling on
their houses.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that
haunted
nigh
Had sought their household fires.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In the social
satires
of Pope's great admirer,
Byron, we are at no loss to perceive the ideal of personal liberty which
the poet opposes to the conventions he tears to shreds.
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In a person so extraordinary, perhaps it may be
pardonable
to mention some particulars, although of little moment, further than to set forth her character.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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When the matter of such discourses is but mere clay, or, as we usually call it, sad stuff, the preacher, who can afford no better, wisely moulds, and polishes, and dries, and washes this piece of earthen-ware, and then bakes it with poetic fire, after which it will ring like any pancrock, and is a good dish to set before common guests, as every
congregation
is, that comes so often for entertainment to one place.
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