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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
) 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 |
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What did he indulge? |
Answer: |
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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: |
What is Licentius’ preferred meter? |
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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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 |
Question: |
Who did he joust? |
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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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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But oh, the sea came
creeping
up,
And washed the name away,
And on the sand where it had been
A bit of sea-grass lay.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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12 See
Spencer
Brown, Laws of Form (ch.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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In that clear and tranquil climate, whose air breathes of “violet
and lily, myrtle, and the flower of the vine,”
_Where the daisies are rose-scented_,
_And the Rose herself has got_
_Perfume which on earth is not_,
among the music of all birds, and the wind-blown notes of flutes hanging
on the trees, methinks that your laughter sounds most silvery sweet, and
that Helen and fair
Charmides
are still of your company.
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Artemis |
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Did Helen know Charmides? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
TO PERCY BYSSHE
SHELLEY
173
XVIII.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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With these comments we
subjoin
Goldsmith's reply to Mrs.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Always so clean,
without
one taint.
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except |
Question: |
What is spotless? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
|
Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-24 15:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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One kind of food is common to them all,
for they kindle a fire and broil frogs upon the coals, which are
with them in
infinite
numbers flying in the air, and whilst they are
broiling, they sit round about them as it were about a table, and lap
up the smoke that riseth from them, and feast themselves therewith,
and this is all their feeding.
Guess: |
tremendous |
Question: |
Do they garnish the frogs? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Lucian - True History |
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But this makes it all the more important that there be one institutional context, at least, where--in isolation from immediate practical consequences--such
thought
experiments can be undertaken.
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party |
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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It is not true that
men don’t read novels, but it is true that there are whole
branches
of fiction that they
avoid.
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Orwell |
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He then took a fortified place, which was the capital of that district, and the little vil lages that lay around it, and fed his army for three days with the corn and cattle he had taken ; and during these three days, as the soldiers were
neither
obstructed by the mountaineers, who had been daunted by the first engagement, nor yet much by the ground, he made considerable way.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Of greater political importance, however, than the refusal of the {us imagr'num and of the honour of a triumph was the circumstance, that the exclusion of the plebeians sitting in the senate from debate necessarily ceased in respect to those of their number who, as designated or former consuls, ranked among the senators whose opinion had to be asked before the rest; so far it was certainly of great importance for the nobility to admit the plebeian only to a
consular
oflice, and not to the consulate itself.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Each lead letter was
practically
defined or situated by its right, left, top, and bottom neighbors.
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You see before you one who has been
equally careful of his interest: one, who has for some time been a
concealed spectator of his follies, and only punished, in hopes to
reclaim
them—His uncle.
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[375] The echo in the seventh
example
illustrates the non- existent quality but an echo must have a person and a rock to reflect the sound for an echo, while buddha activity is always present without any other conditions.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Mit
der ihm eigenen Findigkeit hatte er in kurzer Zeit
eine Menge von Belegen
gesammelt
zur Unter-
stu?
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The Boston
Evening
Transcript
The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript
Sway in the blind like a field of ripe corn.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Prior to 9,000 years ago, this tuning, which came about only under certain special and generally rare circumstances, would carry - by
various
non- conscious (as well as conscious) means - a 'memory' of a loss-producing circumstance until such time as the overall problem that caused the loss could be solved.
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paradigm |
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And see how dearly earned Torquato's fame,
And where
Alfonso
bade his poet dwell.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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by and by we
arrived
at the house of my lady-love.
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Rhadamanthus also sent Nauplius, the ferryman, along
with us, that if it were our
fortune
to put into those islands, no man
should lay hands upon us, because we were bent upon other employments.
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Lucian - True History |
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