I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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Li Po |
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HOST Fear not, I will obey you;--but One so young,
And One so fair, it goes
against
my heart
That you should travel unattended, Lady!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Accordingly, Hypereides, the orator, in his speech against Mantitheus, on a charge of
assault
[?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Going out from it,
through
the whole countnj of Fife, he constructed different churches, which he dedicated to the Most High God.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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It was during a scene of this kind that La Fayette arrived, when, after much
gayety, finding the
standing
toast omitted, he requested the gentlemen again
to be seated, and said, " You have forgotten our beloved commander-in-chief,
General Washington, and the army.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Ovid increased the horror by having the event occur in the palace and
in the presence of his mother, and in other ways he
heightened
the
atrocity of the crime.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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To-night
The moon is a
curving
flower of gold,
The sky is still and blue;
The moon was made for the sky to hold,
And I for you.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Fare ye well,
farewell!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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These travellers were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed
through
Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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That
whistling
boy who minds his goats
So idly in the grey ravine,
"The brown-backed rower drenched with spray, 5
The lemon-seller in the street,
And the young girl who keeps her first
Wild love-tryst at the rising moon,--
"Lo, these are wiser than the wise.
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Sappho |
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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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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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XCIX
Till the blue grass tum yellow
and the yellow leaves float In aIr
And long Cheng (Canto 6I)
of the hne of Kang HI
by the sIlk cords of the sunlIght non msurua,
2nd year 2nd month 2nd day
SHENG U, the EdIct
Each year In the elder sprIng, that IS the first month
of the sprIng tIme,
The herald shall1nclte yrJ complIance
There are SIX rItes for festIval and 7 InstructIons
that all converge as the root tunI pen3 the root veneratIon (from
Mohamed
no popery) To dIscrImInate tlungs
mu2 a pattern
faI laws
kung!
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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[107] L I have likewise been often assured by the poet Accius, (an intimate friend of his) that your
ancestor
D.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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His meanings were partly hidden, partly clear, but they
always had something of a symbolic or
prophetic
tone.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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His
Imagination
never ventured fo far; it
refufed the Tafk, and his Confcience recoiled upon him ; while
nothing hindered him from abufing and calumniating.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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54 Waters flow'd o'r my head, then
thought
I, I am
Destroy'd; 55 I called Lord, upon thy name
Out of the pit.
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John Donne |
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His account of Jerusalem is fascinating, and he was one of the last
travellers
to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre before the damaging fire of 1808.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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) Moreover, the prayers of all the godly are the spiritual calves of the lips, (Hosea 14:2,) wherewith God is well pleased, when they are offered up upon the holy altar; that is, in Christ's name, [as] in the
thirteenth
to the Hebrews, (Hebrews 13:15.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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neck and nostrils swollen; Looks full of fire and blood ; thy lips, thy face All livid ; whilst thy knees, thine arms, thy head Are moved convulsively by
trembling
strange !
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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This
account
ran as follows.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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Through its dimness lightly flying,
Through its
infinite
abysses.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Surprised and alarmed they proceeded
directly
into the room she had
just quitted, where they found only Willoughby, who was leaning against
the mantel-piece with his back towards them.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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And in this way he
finished
half the ship in six months; and every part of the vessel as soon as it was finished was immediately covered over with plates of teal.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Hi ha dues perles a la teranyina,
quina
conversa
la pluja i la font!
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Sagarra |
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Till it has ended
parting
and old age
And hail and rain and famine and foolish laughter;
The dead are happy, the dust is in their ears.
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Yeats |
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Waking from
Drunken
Sleep on a Spring Day.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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To Cleis
"I have a fair
daughter
with a form like a golden flower,
Cleis, the beloved.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Waert tijt, ic wists der trouwen2) danc,
Woude si ons dat wesen gheven,
Dat ons
gheleide
in minnen bedwanc,
Ane hare nature een cleven.
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Hadewijch - Liederen |
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Although for the historian of dogma it is a rather embarrassing example of logical Christian thinking, it is of high testimonial value for external interpretations of metaphysical strategies for
working
through rage.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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These we call
Pioneers
or Miners.
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Bacon |
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The United States gained relative- ly when OPEC multiplied oil prices by five
between
1973 and 1977 (cf.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Fourthly, it follows from what I have already said
about the
historical
background of the Soviet Union that
in comparing the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Whether
a book is in the public domain may vary country to country.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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I see men's faces grin with helpless lust
About me; crooked hands reach out to please
Their hot nerves with the flower of my skin;
I see the eyes imagining enjoyment,
The arms
twitching
to seize me, and the minds
Inflamed like the glee-kindled hearts of fiends.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[389] Other stars, sparsely set beneath Hydrochoüs [Aquarius], hang on high between Cetus in the heavens and the Fish, dim and nameless, and near them on the right hand of bright Hydrochoüs, like some
sprinked
drops of water lightly shed on this side and on that, other stars wheel bright-eyed though weak.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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It only the chaff that flies away before the winnowing; but there
remains
both corn and chaff: but the chaff will be winnowed, when the time of winnowing shall come.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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And
seeing the knowledge of all Law, dependeth on the knowledge of the
Soveraign Power; I shall say
something
in that which followeth, of the
KINGDOME OF GOD.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her
By an
Unknown
Woman (5th-6th century AD?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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But the malice of the wicked is the left hand aras of the righteous ; as the same Apostle saith, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, that is, by honour and dishonour ; and he then
severally
recounteth the other points, shewing what were their right hand arms, viz.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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It is
thought
by some to be viviparous;
it survives a long while out of water, and its tenacity of life is such,
that it lives some time even after cut in pieces.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Not that it would not have been a simple matter for me tu give the transitions a briefer form, as I have done in the examples alvcn here and already
indicated
in the preface to my book.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Chrysanthemums
wavering
In the black choked grasses.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Note: The Scythians at the
extreme
end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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Leo XI had
succeeded Clement VIII, but having died shortly after, the French faction
again triumphed in the Conclave, and the
Venetian
Ambassador informed
the Senate that, " after a tedious and, if he might add, a scandalous con-
test, " the Cardinal Borghese was elected Pope.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Well, perhaps he has told the truth in these
instances, but in what was beyond his
observation
both he and the other
writers have indulged in all the marvels of fable.
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Strabo |
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[2] The Battle of Jena marked the end of
history
because it was at that point that the vanguard of humanity (a term quite familiar to Marxists) actualized the principles of the French Revolution.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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In: New Literary
History
40 [2009], pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The same Rothschilds who
plotted
with Sherman, and Vandergould to KILL the American nation, who betrayed the United States in the "sixties".
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Yet in my heart there was a beating storm
Bending my
thoughts
before it, and I strove
To say too little lest I say too much,
And from my eyes to drive love's happy shame.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Structure has to be
studied
in its own right as do units.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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was amazed to discover stat- ues of the Greek gods whi~h the Indians had set up with their own and
worshipped
with their own: "and to the SlIn they sing a hymn every day at midday" [ibid.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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At first he turned to flee,
but
finding
that the Lion did not pursue him, he turned back and
went up to him.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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They were unwilling that
Heraclides
should lose his
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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"
But the spirit, grim and frowning:
"No
flowers
for him.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm
License
for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Particularly outside of the United States, persons receiving copies should make appropriate efforts to determine the copyright status of the work in their
country
and use the work accordingly.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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When Constantinus, reckless and horribly intoxicated, in a display of highway robbery, rushed into
territories
not his own, he was slain and thrown into a river, the name for which is Alsa, not far from Aquileia.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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There is a strong
argument
in favour of
the sharp differentiation of castes and of races (and
even of sexes; see Note on Chap.
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Nietzsche - v11 |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was
created
to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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In the east, in
heavenly
Taklha Gampo,
The honorable physician, the second victorious one, Realized the samadhi of the tenth bhumi.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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A man
invested
$ 27,720 in American Locomotive pfd.
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Tuyl - 1911 - Complete business arithmetic |
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La tarda m'ha sigut
traïdora
i breu,
més la llum era viva.
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Sagarra |
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"
This will be
delivered
to you by Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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8
One of Herakles' oldest known cults
belongs
to Thasos, an island colonized by Greeks from Paros in the seventh century.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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I must leave the reader to adopt which of
these
accounts
he looks upon as the most probable.
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Stories from the Italian Poets - 1846 |
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Every
attempt
at improvement
must begin here.
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Cassirer - 1930 - Form and Technology |
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" They did not bear out what had been promised for a
concentrated
offensiveby air forces of the size we were operating in early 1944.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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We are a nation of fads and one is hard
pressed
to keep up with all of them.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:21 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Une forme humaine qui beugle Contre le
calvaire
se tient
C'est comme une moitie d'aveugle Elle est borgne et n'a pas de chien .
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Let who will praise the fertile Asian fields,
The yellow maize of Egypt and the Nile,
Upon our shore the oat
abundance
yields,
For many a mile and mile.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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And shall I live on,
A burden to the earth, myself, and shame
Unto what
brought
me into life?
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Byron |
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Extinguish my eyes, I still can see you,
Close my ears, I can hear your
footsteps
fall,
And without feet I still can follow you,
And without voice I still can to you call.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In the excite-
ment and
confusion
of battle, such detailed observation would be im-
186
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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There shall be swallows
bringing
back the spring
Over the long blue meadows of the sea,
And south-wind playing on the reeds of rain,
But never Sappho's whisper in the night,
Never her love-cry when the lover comes.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Antipathetic
to the French Revolution, he travelled to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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) Augustus
declared
the place a Roman colony.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
|
You can search
through
the full text of this book on the web at http://books.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history,
culture
and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Tully - Offices |
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He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some
bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa,
put his hands in his trouser pockets,
pushing
back the bottom of his
long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards
Gregor.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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She took a place near the front and began flirting her white
mane, hoping to draw
attention
to the red ribbons it was plaited with.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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She wept
against
his breast, angry with him, hating him, and yet clinging to him like a child.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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“Oil”
: used by athletes upon their bodies.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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forming
the manners of his army, and in chastising
~~all irregularities; insomuch that sure there was
never any such body of men so without rapine,,
swearing, drinking, or any other debauchery, but
the wickedness of their hearts : and all persons
cherished by him, were of the same leaven, and to
common appearance without the practice of any of
those vices which were most infamous to the people,
and which drew the public hatred upon those who
were notoriously guilty of them.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Nor do
his public eulogisers refrain from using the same
expression in
reference
to the work, as the following
passage, quoted from one of the least remarkable
among them, and in which the same expression is
merely paraphrased, will go to prove:—
"The discourse flows on with delightful harmony:
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Nietzsche - v04 |
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The 'vela,' here
referred to, may mean either the 'siparia,' or
curtains
of the theatres,
or the awnings which were hung over them.
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rafters |
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When were the curtains drawn? |
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Whilst animals are
sleeping
the blood is less abundantly
supplied near the exterior surfaces, so that, if the sleeping creature
be pricked with a pin, the blood does not issue as copiously as it
would if the creature were awake.
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Aristotle |
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The holy man, while he preached
renunciation, granted
himself
a good many indulgences: he lay, for one
thing, on feathers, or upon soft goatskin rugs.
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congregants |
Question: |
What did he indulge? |
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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If Miss Hill does not dine with us, I shall think all the
rites of
hospitality
violated.
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Alexander Pope - v10 |
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They are dialogues
between
himself and his pupil,
the poet Licentius, upon metre and scansion.
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between |
Question: |
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The bishop
Augustin
recalls with severity the "superb victories" he won in
jousts of this kind.
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blithely |
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Who did he joust? |
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Kieran,100 but whether or not to the
present
one seems to be unknown.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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The most compelling reason for treating Trakl as a Christian writer is that that is how he appeared to his contemporaries, even to those such as Carl Dallago, to whom being a Christian was not a recommendation, as Dallago
explained
in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker of 19 February 1914.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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On rare oc- casions, a Westerner is sentenced to serve additional time in a new setting (considered a true prison) where he
undergoes
"reform by labor," a procedure of much less emotional involvement.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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never see the sun rise or set
in so many years, but be as they were watching a corpse by torch-light;
would not sin the common way, but held that a kind of rusticity; they
would do it new, or contrary, for the infamy; they were ambitious of
living backward; and at last arrived at that, as they would love nothing
but the vices, not the
vicious
customs.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Mark what a
haughty
Pharisee he is.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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But if the moon of their
natures
shines clear and bright,
8 Then all would open up, illumined endlessly.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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