At certain
instants
her eyes seemed about to trust him but he had
waited in vain.
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This is
contemplated
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Inwardly he glows with the flame of charity, without he shines with no
gloriousness
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Nurtured among the
trainers
of the amphitheatre, bred up for the chase, fierce in the forest, gentle in the house, I was called Lydia, a most faithful attendant upon my master Dexter, who would not have preferred to me the hound of Erigone, or the dog which followed Cephalus from the land of Crete, and was translated with him to the stars of the light-bringing goddess.
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HIS IMMORTALITY
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I SAW a dead man's finer part
Shining within each
faithful
heart
Of those bereft.
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8 Then he threw aside all restraint and
compelled
Servianus to kill himself, on the ground that he aspired to the empire, merely because he gave a feast to the royal slaves, sat in a royal chair placed close to his bed, and, though an old man of ninety, used to arise and go forward to meet the guard of soldiers.
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PROGRESS THROUGH THE VARIOUS STAGES
105
is when we are liberated in dharmadhatu, when "rigid mind" or discursive
thoughts
have naturally subsided.
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One of
Lucian’s
greatest works bears the title _Parasites for Pay_.
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But, in all such
cases, it is indispensably necessary that the rhime
should thus begin on the penultimate
accented
syl-
lable, which receives so great a stress of pronuncia-
tion : otherwise, there would, in fact, be no rhime at
all, as Parly, for example, could not be said to rhime
with Beauty, nor Retreating with Pursuing, though
the final syllables are, in both cases, the same.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Baudelaire
worked
and worried.
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It is, like the seventh, constantly present, constantly operating, and it
persists
until the attainment of final awakening or Buddhahood.
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The wood was so
spacious
above them, that He who had stars for His flocks
Could fondle the leaves with His fingers, nor go from
His dew-cumbered skies;
So long were they sleeping, the owls had builded their nests
in their locks,
Filling the fibrous dimness with long generations of eyes.
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Thence issuing oft,
unwieldly
as ye stalk,
Ye crush with broad black feet your flow'ry walk; 1793.
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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That is also why one can speak of its
totalizing
rhythm.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Something
considerable
was
happening.
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The word is obscure to the commentators who merely
describe
it as some sort of white bulbous plant.
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Copyright
infringement
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PHẠM QUỐC TRINH 范國楨28 người huyện Thanh Đàm phủ
Thường
Tín.
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Versum adulterinum ratus est
Schmidt; sed _in ora uulgi_ uidetur
imitatus
Henricus Allocut.
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επρόσταξε ο Τηλέμαχος ωστόσο τους συντρόφους•
«Τ' άρμενα εις τάξι θέσετε, φίλοι, 'ς το μαύρο πλοίο,
και ας αναιβαίνουμε κ' εμείς, να πάρουμ'
ευθύς
δρόμο».
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391
the
attitude
of the Buddha as often rellresemed in the Niklyas.
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_ But this Art is what we
Dullards
call Theft; who call a Fig a
Fig, and a Spade a Spade.
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The sober-minded man, the tired man, the
exhausted
and dried-up man (e.
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The Greeks with
their quick, artistic
instinct
understood this, and set in the bride's
chamber the statue of Hermes or of Apollo, that she might bear children
as lovely as the works of art that she looked at in her rapture or her
pain.
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je ne veux pas que tu sortes
L'automne est plein de mains coupees
Non non ce sont des feuilles mortes
Ce sont les mains des cheres mortes
Ce sont tes mains coupees
Nous avons tant pleure aujourd'hui
Avec ces morts leurs enfants et les vieilles femmes
Sous le ciel sans soleil
Au cimetiere plein de flammes
Puis dans le vent nous nous en retournames
A nos pieds roulaient des chataignes
Dont les bogues etaient
Comme le coeur blesse de la madone
Dont on doute si elle eut la peau
Couleur des chataignes d'automne
Les sapins
Les sapins en bonnets pointus
De longues robes revetu
Comme des astrologues
Saluent leurs freres abattus
Les bateaux qui sur le Rhin voguent
Dans les sept arts endoctrines
Par les vieux sapins leurs aines
Qui sont de grands poetes
Ils se savent predestines
A briller plus que des planetes
A briller doucement changes
En etoiles et enneiges
Aux Noels bienheureuses
Fetes des sapins ensonges
Aux longues branches langoureuses
Les sapins beaux musiciens
Chantent des noels anciens
Au vent des soirs d'automne
Ou bien graves magiciens
Incantent le ciel quand il tonne
Des rangees de blancs cherubins
Remplacent l'hiver les sapins
Et balancent leurs ailes
L'ete ce sont de grands rabbins
Ou bien de vieilles demoiselles
Sapins medecins divagants
Ils vont offrant leurs bons onguents
Quand la montagne accouche
De temps en temps sous l'ouragan
Un vieux sapin geint et se couche
Les femmes
Dans la maison du vigneron les femmes cousent
Lenchen remplis le poele et mets l'eau du cafe
Dessus -- Le chat s'etire apres s'etre chauffe
- Gertrude et son voisin Martin enfin s'epousent
Le rossignol aveugle essaya de chanter
Mais l'effraie ululant il trembla dans sa cage
Ce cypres la-bas a l'air du pape en voyage
Sous la neige -- Le facteur vient de s'arreter
Pour causer avec le nouveau maitre d'ecole
- Cet hiver est tres froid le vin sera tres bon
- Le sacristain sourd et boiteux est moribond
- La fille du vieux bourgmestre brode une etole
Pour la fete du cure La foret la-bas
Grace au vent chantait a voix grave de grand orgue
Le songe Herr Traum survint avec sa soeur Frau Sorge
Kaethi tu n'as pas bien raccommode ces bas
- Apporte le cafe le beurre et les tartines
La marmelade le saindoux un pot de lait
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- On dirait que le vent dit des phrases latines
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- Lotte es-tu triste O petit coeur -- Je crois qu'elle aime
- Dieu garde -- Pour ma part je n'aime que moi-meme
- Chut A present grand-mere dit son chapelet
- Il me faut du sucre candi Leni je tousse
- Pierre mene son furet chasser les lapins
Le vent faisait danser en rond tous les sapins
Lotte l'amour rend triste -- Ilse la vie est douce
La nuit tombait Les vignobles aux ceps tordus
Devenaient dans l'obscurite des ossuaires
En neige et replies gisaient la des suaires
Et des chiens aboyaient aux passants morfondus
Il est mort ecoutez La cloche de l'eglise
Sonnait tout doucement la mort du sacristain
Lise il faut attiser le poele qui s'eteint
Les femmes se signaient dans la nuit indecise
Septembre 1901 -- mai 1902
SIGNE
Je suis soumis au Chef du Signe de l'Automne
Partant j'aime les fruits je deteste les fleurs
Je regrette chacun des baisers que je donne
Tel un noyer gaule dit au vent ses douleurs
Mon Automne eternelle o ma saison mentale
Les mains des amantes d'antan jonchent ton sol
Une epouse me suit c'est mon ombre fatale
Les colombes ce soir prennent leur dernier vol
UN SOIR
Un aigle descendit de ce ciel blanc d'archanges
Et vous soutenez-moi
Laisserez-vous trembler longtemps toutes ces lampes
Priez priez pour moi
La ville est metallique et c'est la seule etoile
Noyee dans tes yeux bleus
Quand les tramways roulaient jaillissaient des feux pales
Sur des oiseaux galeux
Et tout ce qui
tremblait
dans tes yeux de mes songes
Qu'un seul homme buvait
Sous les feux de gaz roux comme la fausse oronge
O vetue ton bras se lovait
Vois l'histrion tire la langue aux attentives
Un fantome s'est suicide
L'apotre au figuier pend et lentement salive
Jouons donc cet amour aux des
Des cloches aux sons clairs annoncaient ta naissance
Vois
Les chemins sont fleuris et les palmes s'avancent
Vers toi
LA DAME
Toc toc Il a ferme sa porte
Les lys du jardin sont fletris
Quel est donc ce mort qu'on emporte
Tu viens de toquer a sa porte
Et trotte trotte
Trotte la petite souris
LES FIANCAILLES
A Picasso
Le printemps laisse errer les fiances parjures
Et laisse feuilloler longtemps les plumes bleues
Que secoue le cypres ou niche l'oiseau bleu
Une Madone a l'aube a pris les eglantines
Elle viendra demain cueillir les giroflees
Pour mettre aux nids des colombes qu'elle destine
Au pigeon qui ce soir semblait le Paraclet
Au petit bois de citronniers s'enamourerent
D'amour que nous aimons les dernieres venues
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupieres
Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je buvais a pleins verres les etoiles
Un ange a extermine pendant que je dormais
Les agneaux les pasteurs des tristes bergeries
De faux centurions emportaient le vinaigre
Et les gueux mal blesses par l'epurge dansaient
Etoiles de l'eveil je n'en connais aucune
Les becs de gaz pissaient leur flamme au clair de lune
Des croque-morts avec des bocks tintaient des glas
A la clarte des bougies tombaient vaille que vaille
Des faux cols sur les flots de jupes mal brossees
Des accouchees masquees fetaient leurs relevailles
La ville cette nuit semblait un archipel
Des femmes demandaient l'amour et la dulie
Et sombre sombre fleuve je me rappelle
Les ombres qui passaient n'etaient jamais jolies
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Et ne puis exprimer mon tourment de silence
Tous les mots que j'avais a dire se sont changes en etoiles
Un Icare tente de s'elever jusqu'a chacun de mes yeux
Et porteur de soleils je brule au centre de deux nebuleuses
Qu'ai-je fait aux betes theologales de l'intelligence
Jadis les morts sont revenus pour m'adorer
Et j'esperais la fin du monde
Mais la mienne arrive en sifflant comme un ouragan
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours
Marquent ma route et je les pleure
Les uns pourrissent dans les eglises italiennes
Ou bien dans de petits bois de citronniers
Qui fleurissent et fructifient
En meme temps et en toute saison
D'autres jours ont pleure avant de mourir dans des tavernes
Ou d'ardents bouquets rouaient
Aux yeux d'une mulatresse qui inventait la poesie
Et les roses de l'electricite s'ouvrent encore
Dans le jardin de ma memoire
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi de ne plus connaitre l'ancien jeu des vers
Je ne sais plus rien et j'aime uniquement
Les fleurs a mes yeux redeviennent des flammes
Je medite divinement
Et je souris des etres que je n'ai pas crees
Mais si le temps venait ou l'ombre enfin solide
Se multipliait en realisant la diversite formelle de mon amour
J'admirerais mon ouvrage
J'observe le repos du dimanche
J'observe le repos du dimanche
Et je loue la paresse
Comment comment reduire
L'infiniment petite science
Que m'imposent mes sens
L'un est pareil aux montagnes au ciel
Aux villes a mon amour
Il ressemble aux saisons
Il vit decapite sa tete est le soleil
Et la lune son cou tranche
Je voudrais eprouver une ardeur infinie
Monstre de mon ouie tu rugis et tu pleures
Le tonnerre te sert de chevelure
Et tes griffes repetent le chant des oiseaux
Le toucher monstrueux m'a penetre m'empoisonne
Mes yeux nagent loin de moi
Et les astres intacts sont mes maitres sans epreuve
La bete des fumees a la tete fleurie
Et le monstre le plus beau
Ayant la saveur du laurier se desole
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
C'est la lune qui cuit comme un oeuf sur le plat
Ce collier de gouttes d'eau va parer la noyee
Voici mon bouquet de fleurs de la Passion
Qui offrent tendrement deux couronnes d'epines
Les rues sont mouillees de la pluie de naguere
Des anges diligents travaillent pour moi a la maison
La lune et la tristesse disparaitront pendant
Toute la sainte journee
Toute la sainte journee j'ai marche en chantant
Une dame penchee a sa fenetre m'a regarde longtemps
M'eloigner en chantant
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Qui dansaient le cou nu au son d'un accordeon
J'ai tout donne au soleil
Tout sauf mon ombre
Les dragues les ballots les sirenes mi-mortes
A l'horizon brumeux s'enfoncaient les trois-mats
Les vents ont expire couronnes d'anemones
O Vierge signe pur du troisieme mois
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Prophetisons ensemble o grand maitre je suis
Le desirable feu qui pour vous se devoue
Et la girande tourne o belle o belle nuit
Liens delies par une libre flamme Ardeur
Que mon souffle eteindra O Morts a quarantaine
Je mire de ma mort la gloire et le malheur
Comme si je visais l'oiseau de la quintaine
Incertitude oiseau feint peint quand vous tombiez
Le soleil et l'amour dansaient dans le village
Et tes enfants galants bien ou mal habilles
Ont bati ce bucher le nid de mon courage
CLAIR DE LUNE
Lune mellifluente aux levres des dements
Les vergers et les bourgs cette nuit sont gourmands
Les astres assez bien figurent les abeilles
De ce miel lumineux qui degoutte des treilles
Car voici que tout doux et leur tombant du ciel
Chaque rayon de lune est un rayon de miel
Or cache je concois la tres douce aventure
J'ai peur du dard de feu de cette abeille Arcture
Qui posa dans mes mains des rayons decevants
Et prit son miel lunaire a la rose des vents
1909
La dame avait une robe
En ottoman violine
Et sa tunique brodee d'or
Etait composee de deux panneaux
S'attachant sur l'epaule
Les yeux dansants comme des anges
Elle riait elle riait
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Les yeux bleus les dents blanches et les levres tres rouges
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Elle etait decolletee en rond
Et coiffee a la Recamier
Avec de beaux bras nus
N'entendra-t-on jamais sonner minuit
La dame en robe d'ottoman violine
Et en tunique brodee d'or
Decolletee en rond
Promenait ses boucles
Son bandeau d'or
Et trainait ses petits souliers a boucles
Elle etait si belle
Que tu n'aurais pas ose l'aimer
J'aimais les femmes atroces dans les quartiers enormes
Ou naissaient chaque jour quelques etres nouveaux
Le fer etait leur sang la flamme leur cerveau
J'aimais j'aimais le peuple habile des machines
Le luxe et la beaute ne sont que son ecume
Cette femme etait si belle
Qu'elle me faisait peur
A LA SANTE
I
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu
Et quelle voix sinistre ulule
Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu
Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe
Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit
Adieu adieu chantante ronde
O mes annees o jeunes filles
II
Non je ne me sens plus la
Moi-meme
Je suis le quinze de la
Onzieme
Le soleil filtre a travers
Les vitres
Ses rayons font sur mes vers
Les pitres
Et dansent sur le papier
J'ecoute
Quelqu'un qui frappe du pied
La voute
III
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaine
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geolier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
IV
Que je m'ennuie entre ces murs tout nus
Et peints de couleurs pales
Une mouche sur le papier a pas menus
Parcourt mes lignes inegales
Que deviendrai-je o Dieu qui connais ma douleur
Toi qui me l'as donnee
Prends en pitie mes yeux sans larmes ma paleur
Le bruit de ma chaise enchainee
Et tous ces pauvres coeurs battant dans la prison
L'Amour qui m'accompagne
Prends en pitie surtout ma debile raison
Et ce desespoir qui me gagne
V
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
VI
J'ecoute les bruits de la ville
Et prisonnier sans horizon
Je ne vois rien qu'un ciel hostile
Et les murs nus de ma prison
Le jour s'en va voici que brule
Une lampe dans la prison
Nous sommes seuls dans ma cellule
Belle clarte Chere raison
Septembre 1911.
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They
complain
of
the extravagant gain of other people, but they say nothing of their
own.
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vessel or
collection
point of oppositions that refused to join and form a simple identity.
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Great understandings are most
racked and
troubled
with it; nay, sometimes they will rather choose to
die than not to know the things they study for.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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By February 1945, the Ruhr was just about
completely
iso- lated.
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Within the vastness of
spontaneous
self-knowing, let be freely, uncontrived and free of
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My
consciousness
is not restricted to envisioning a negatite.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The lion who was
captured
when lame, had a number of his teeth broken; which fact was regarded by some as a proof of the longevity of lions, as he could hardly have been reduced to this condition except at an advanced age.
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Two
dolphins
of
silver were spouting and devouring the mute fishes.
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Over my head there the heavens weighed down so dismal and gloomy;
Colorless, formless, that world round this
exhausted
man lay.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
Straight
I heard
Voices, and each one seem'd to pray for peace,
And for compassion, to the Lamb of God
That taketh sins away.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My
forehead
with a single eye is filled,
Round as a ball, and ample as a shield.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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The Book should begin with
paragraph
2, commencing: 'The meaning of the Banquet at the feudal courts was this.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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cicnce oppO,"", the mechani"ic
philosophy
of Newton (e.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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activities in an
arbitrary
way, or simply reject them, are likely to have children who are un- happy or anxious or difficult.
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LUDVIG HOLBERG
Herman-Let us talk about
something
else.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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"
CORYDON
"This bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in
polished
marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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And then on us the world's curse waxes strong
In
righteousness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Though naturally merciful, so that
contemporaries
wondered at his
clemency towards the followers of defeated rivals, yet when seized by
some sudden outburst of passion he could be terrible in his ferocity.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Pallid soul--thus didst thou ask--is dead the fire
Forever, that
divinely
in us burns?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian,
singular
views of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale
*** END OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK RIVERS TO THE SEA ***
***** This file should be named 596.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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The leading
defendants
pleaded guilty to the most serious counts, no contest to the rest.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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The young ladies
were introduced to each other, Miss Tilney expressing a proper sense of
such goodness, Miss Morland with the real
delicacy
of a generous mind
making light of the obligation; and Mrs.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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He will admit that the most
important
parts of the narrative have
some foundation in truth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Space forbidsuchan exercisehere,and
whetheror
notitis reallyworthwhilweillprobablydependontheimportanceindividualscholars attachto generalanalyticalcategories.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Io Hymen
Hymenaee!
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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When regal autumn's bounteous hand
With wide-spread glory clothes the land;
When to the valleys, from the brow
Of each
resplendent
slope is rolled
A ruddy sky of living gold,
We bless — we bless the plow.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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This is one of those lighter foibles [I was speaking
of]: to which if you do not grant your indulgence, a
numerous
band of
poets shall come, which will take my part (for we are many more in
number), and, like the Jews, we will force you to come over to our
numerous party.
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Horace - Works |
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Let it be your grief
That he is dead
And your
opportunity
gone;
For, in that, you were a coward.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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The Imperial
government
was thereby committed to a
struggle with Ultramontanism.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Console thyself if ptlt in shadow's veiling
Soft shimmering, thou thy
previous
plenty seest,
And a Redeemer through the breezes sailing;
The distant wind that falters from the East.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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2 The later title of the general
Muqarrab
Khan (see p.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Détachée des
violences qu'elle avait ornées si souvent, ce n'était plus qu'une
éloquence quasi mystique qu'embellissaient des paroles de douceur, des
paroles de l'Évangile, une apparente
résignation
à la mort.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Ông làm quan
Thượng
thư.
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stella-03 |
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As a producer of the activity of others, as a pumper-out of surplus labour and
exploiter
of labour-power, it surpasses in energy, disregard of bounds, recklessness and efficiency, all earlier systems of production based on directly compulsory labour.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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"
"You came with your
parents?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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You can now see how this scale is based on its
individual
stages.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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And had I turned the
stranger
from my door,
Who sought my shelter, hadst thou praised me more?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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While everywhere in the West ethics commissions hold meetings, while people of good will sacrifice their
weekends
in order to discuss the principles of a New Morality in idyllically located evangelical academies and political “study centers,” modernity’s best-kept secret seeps out of the studios of hermetic and philosophical fundamental research into the open.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Look, now, how all your
blossoms
are shed on the earth.
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Greek Anthology |
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His work is academic in a good
sense; it is, too, wholesomely though un-
obtrusively
American
— with the American-
ism of a Lowell, not of a Jingo.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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"And three hours after
midnight
Anhelli heard
a knocking at the door, which was of ice, and,
?
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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I ask my God if e'en in His sweet place,
Where, by one waving of a wistful wing,
My soul could
straightway
tremble face to face
With thee, with thee, across the stellar ring --
Yea, where thine absence I could ne'er bewail
Longer than lasts that little blank of bliss
When lips draw back, with recent pressure pale,
To round and redden for another kiss --
Would not my lonesome heart still sigh for thee
What time the drear kiss-intervals must be?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Ultimately
however Napoleon's actions led to Chateaubriand's resignation in 1804, after the execution of the Duc d'Enghien.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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for she is the most
extensive and experienced planter of us all, not
excepting
the Dukes
of Athol.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As we know, all modern
diplomacy
had its origins in the private offices of secretaries or, rather, secret scribes of the Roman Curia and the Venetian Signoria.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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When he had departed, my heart was compressed with
terrible
grief.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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de Charlus, mais de Bergotte cela lui avait paru
plus mal, parce qu'il sentait que Bergotte n'était pas utilitaire comme
les gens du monde et
méritait
mieux.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Resolve to become liberated from (the additional) force of meditation and the
blessings
of the Guru.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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He felt sick and queer and almost stifled; Miss Pepper- dine noticed a drawn
expression
on his face, and passed him a mint lozenge.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Unhappy was he who at
eventide might not meet his friends in her squares,- who was
not
baptized
in the church of San Giovanni, and could not have
his children baptized there.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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" she asked in a maliciously
caressing
tone.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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(1) The tendency toward freedom, so essentially characteristic of human
nature, was
especially
so of the nature of the Greeks.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The absolute purity of the
protagonist raises the entire scheme to a height of
romantic
art from
which the sufferings of Thebes and Pelops' line are by their very horror
excluded, and shows how wrong Aristotle was when he said in his treatise
on the drama that it would be impossible to bear the spectacle of one
blameless in pain.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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No thought of a wise tranquillization of the
shaken elements of France seems ever to have passed through his mind; and I
believe that at no part of his reign could be have
survived
one year's
continued peace.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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thou carry
idolatry
about thee 1
O.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the bystanders started--
His mouth foams, his face
blackens
horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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’
But
she—she
heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Que ni finge valor, ni muestra miedo,
El alma de
invencible
vigor llena, [715]
Fïado en su tajante de Toledo.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Here he
deprecates the custom of minute and systematic
confession
as
injurious rather than beneficial to the morals and the self-control
of the supposed penitent.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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' Valuable historically, as an authority on Henry IV, it
also attracts attention by the
terseness
of its style.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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The
Mongolia
was due at Bombay on the 22nd; she arrived on the 20th.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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commends the use of several new ordeals in testing truth, and shows
a more
conservative
social feeling in objecting to the union of a Brāhman
priest and a slave-woman.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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If
you hadn't been so busy I should have asked you a
tremendously
big
favour, Torvald.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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The word is
used by Spenser in its
derivative
sense, 'Fair lady,' _Faerie Queene_,
ii.
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Keats |
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A liberal education will preserve our souls against the confusion, the negativism that harrass the
untrained
in the face of revolutionary changes.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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It answers the question "What is the most general kind of code or cipher possible," and at the same time (rather naturally) enables me to construct a lot of
particular
and interesting codes.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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or her father, all
included
in a word.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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