Una donzella espitregada
i una
cançó
que fa plorar.
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Sagarra |
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' Haidee must have spent her small
fortune
twice over, if not thrice over.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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The shepherds came from out the north,
Their coats were brown and old,
They
brought
Him little new-born lambs--
They had not any gold.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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He
attacked
every weak point in my argument.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Killing
a scribe in those days was punishable by a fine of six marks or nine pence, whereas only a few years ago, a lady's man was hanged for taking that sum covertly from the drawers of his neighbor's safe!
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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I know not what it is makes me so
restless!
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Poe - v06 |
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for me, that I have lost
E'en all almost;
Sunk is my sight, set is my sun,
And all the loom of life undone:
The staff, the elm, the prop, the shelt'ring wall
Whereon
my vine did crawl,
Now, now blown down; needs must the old stock fall.
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Robert Herrick |
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A, Thomas Allom Esq,
William
Henry Bartlett, David Roberts R.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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But now I began to have
scruples, to feel obligations, to find that
veracity
and honor were no
longer goody-goody expressions in the mouths of grown up people, but
compelling principles in myself.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Be quick, my
sisters!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Nor long his followers there pursued the quest,
Ere many they of various
fashions
found.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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35al9), due also to the
encounter
with a Pratyekabuddha (See iv.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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After an approval of the fifteenth re-
solve, that the amendments to the confederation with the
approbation of congress should be submitted to an assem-
bly, or assemblies,
elected
by the people, the Virginia reso-
lutions were reported to the house on the thirteenth of
June.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Tully - Offices |
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Pan Tadeusz is the
national
epic of Poland.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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No amount of analysis can reveal to
us this
mystery
of unity.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Feasts are my theme, my
warriors
maidens fair,
Who with pared nails encounter youths in fight;
Be Fancy free or caught in Cupid's snare,
Her temper still is light.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The disposition to behave in this way is an attribute of the attached person, a persisting attribute which
changes
only slowly over time and which is unaffected by the situation of the moment.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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’ he said to me,
showing
the
presents.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Yet still, not heeding what your heart can teach,
You go to church to hear these
flatterers
preach.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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She
was of the
Scottish
race, and daughter to King Constantine.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The change of content in the preceding passages is not completed in a totally logical form, but the importance of it is that the emphasis is laid upon the pure
positive
character of this notion of the good--and so upon its abstract- ness.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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If in detail, there are three kinds of
conduct
n I co_nsecratlOn or blessing, overpowering and skilful means.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Metafizika
blagoi vesti, republished in
Absoliutnaia rodina, p.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Or, if it be but one Kingdome, either the Civill,
which is the Power of the Common-wealth, must be
subordinate
to the
Ghostly; or the Ghostly must be subordinate to the Temporall and then
there is no Supremacy but the Temporall.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Oxford is not
prodigal
of such tributes, and, as you pass
into Duke Humphrey's Library, you wonder, it may be,
whether, in thus cherishing at her heart the memory of
Shelley the poet after she had cast out Shelley the atheist,
she is thinking of what was, or of what might have been;
of what the man did or of what it might have been
granted him to do but for the sudden squall that swept
him away.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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poem in the
Confucian
Odes above:
old latin bloke: P.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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They shall
inherit
the earth.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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The countrymen
brought
gifts to the goddess, and in their celebrations they sang songs to her.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Many
circumstances
of a
perplexing nature had occurred during the day, to disturb the serenity
of his meditations.
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Poe - 5 |
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The soldiers of the fort,
attracted
by the shots, hurried up; the Sioux
had not expected them, and decamped in a body before the train entirely
stopped.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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There is strong evidence in favour of such a periodicity ; if it occurs it may be associated with the "secessionist taste," which
idealised
tall, lanky women with fiat chests and narrow hips.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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Tie snare by which some
churchmen
ha•ve been drawn in.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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--If the fault b<<
mine, I am sorry for it; but I have been taught (whether right or
wrong, I leave to better scholars than myself to determine)
that, in scanning verse,
whether
Greek, Latin, or English, we are
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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The period of mixture fifth to eighth
centuries
a chaos
of creative forces.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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The ox rolls over, and
quivering
and
[482-516]lifeless lies along the ground.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It was as if
the honest fellow had been commanded to
unchain
a tiger.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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shall I then forget
To urge the gloomy
wanderer
o'er the wave?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Cassius Longinus, the quæstor of Crassus,
had rallied the wreck of the Roman army; he had even
succeeded
in
repulsing vigorously an invasion of the Parthians into the province of
Syria.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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--I ask your
lordship's pardon ten
thousand
times.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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They shout and call, and over all, slowly
and
without
force, the rain drops into the city.
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Amy Lowell |
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Where was inevitable, as especially when during his frequent absence from Rome he had need of higher organ there, the person destined for this purpose was, significantly enough, not the legal deputy of the monarch, the prefect of the city, but confidant
without
officially-recognized jurisdiction, usually Caesar's banker, the cunning and pliant Phoenician merchant Lucius Cornelius Balbus from Gades.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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" The physician cannot
but reject with a shrug of his shoulders the assertion that
"consciousness is the
indispensable
quality of the psychic"; he may
assume, if his respect for the utterings of the philosophers still be
strong enough, that he and they do not treat the same subject and do not
pursue the same science.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Cityful
passing
away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other
coming on, passing on.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Gesco, on his return to his country,
ordered
his enemies to be brought before him in chains.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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28 That Thou givest them they
gather: Thou
openest
Thine hand, they are filled
with good.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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His father only
called him a coxcomb, and
thought
it a very good story; but that Mrs.
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Austen - Emma |
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v1 THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION I23
of nearly 20,000 capable of bearing arms and at least three times that number of women, children, and old men,
persons
who had no land, and slaves, it is necessary to assume not merely that the region between the Tiber and Anio had been acquired, but that the Alban territory had also been conquered, before the Servian constitution was established; a result with which tradition agrees.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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3, a full refund of
any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of
receipt of the work.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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The success of
Calippus did not long
reproach
the indulgence of the
gods.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Whilst others round us sleep,
Unpitied languish, and
unheeded
die.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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As all things on earth have joy so,
Are happy when leaves appear,
Then I'll recall a love I know
And
rejoice
in all the year.
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Troubador Verse |
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_H40_ and _RP31_ give in
immediate
sequence 'The State and mens
affairs,' 'If great men wrong me,' 'True Love finds witt,' 'Shall
I goe force an elegie,' 'Come Fates; I fear you not.
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Donne - 2 |
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One way is to
ask the riddle-question: "Is reading Finnegans Wake a human activi 225
argues, sciousness,
into amind that we would recognize as our own, forces us to place our minds as the
intentional
target of the text.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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650
To
disentangle
that confusing problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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]
[381] [Bertuccio Faliero was a
distant
connection of the Doge, not his
nephew.
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Byron |
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# Pantica of Cyprus was also a very
beautiful
woman and she is mentioned by Phylarchus, in the tenth book of his History [ Fr_21 ], where he says that when she was with Olympias, the mother of Alexander, Monimus, the son of Pythion, asked her in marriage.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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His record of the journey often
contrasts
the meagre contemporary state of civilisation in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land with the richness of classical antiquity and the Christian past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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BUTT (in his difficoltous tresdobremient, he feels a bitvalike a
baddlefall
of staot but falls a batforlake a borrlefull of bare).
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Finnegans |
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Une etoile a vos reins qui boitent
Tournez
vos tours.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What strange words, how
grievous
to hear!
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Troubador Verse |
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After this he made several journeys, and stayed a considerable time in Rome, where he enjoyed friendly intercourse with persons of distinction, and
conducted
the education of the future Emperor Hadrian.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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THE TWO MODES OF
POLITICAL
ACTION.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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[438]
DAMAGETUS
{ H 5 } G
In your first youth you perished too, Machatas, grimly facing the Aetolians in the portion of your fathers.
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Greek Anthology |
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For as long as they still fear, they too have not
yet
attained
but they believe that they shall attain, and
they begin with fear.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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His
manuscript
is not unlike that of Fitz-Greene
Halleck, but is by no means so good.
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Poe - v09 |
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'
"If 'tis still the lordly word,
Service
and obedience;
I'll desert my sov'reign lord,
And so, good bye, allegiance!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The river bears no empty bottles,
sandwich
papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We know
that the
authors
of excellent comedies have often failed in the grave
style, and the tragedian as often in comedy.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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I was suddenly aroused from slumber,
about five o'clock this morning, by a loud, crackling,
and
terrific
sound, for which I could in no manner
account.
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Poe - v02 |
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Be eager to find new evils and new good,
Be
against
all forms of oppression.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly
garrisoned
and await the advent of the enemy.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes a coverlet,
A
coverlet
for his contented slumber.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ave, rosa verni roris, te divini ros amoris totam sic
roraverat
.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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He was examining the apple-trees which the
breath of autumn had
already
deprived of their leaves, and, with the
help of an old gardener, he was enveloping them in straw.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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theia, el descubrimiento, la
revelacio?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Paul
Soboleski
Soc.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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in other types of
writing
has free play in his True Story.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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All Actions, and Speeches, that proceed, or seem to
proceed
from much
Experience, Science, Discretion, or Wit, are Honourable; For all these
are Powers.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
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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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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He had worked at this most of his life, and had received much
information from delegates to the
Council
and from the reports-
in the Archives of Venice.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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My home was
nowhere
other than the saddle,
my refuge was none other than the sword,
My friendship came from faces of desires
laughing with wishes for lips, without a word.
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Translated Poetry |
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and he held in his hand a solid ball emitting the
brightest
ray of light .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
|
*
What a sad prophecy in the playful
* Christina, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, idolized
by the Swedes on account of her father, betrayed their
affection by surrounding herself with corrupt men, and
by
wasting
the public finances in order to gratify her
guilty caprices.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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INDEx OF PERSONS
CELEBRATED
IN THIS POEM .
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Alexander Pope - v04 |
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It made them acquainted with foreign manners and luxuries,
and forced them to learn the arts of navigation, ship-building and
exchange, which again rendered
necessary
an acquaintance with arithmetic
and the art of writing.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
To what extent does the spoils system
operate
in State
Government?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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XXIX
This youth was one of those, who late desired
With that vain-glorious
boaster
to have fought,
But Tancred chosen, he and all retired;
Now when his slackness he awhile admired,
And saw elsewhere employed was his thought,
Nor that to just, though chosen, once he proffered,
He boldly took that fit occasion offered.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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_ Dost thou know
Aught of those
exiles?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
But whether she
were violently set against the match, or violently
delighted
with it, it
was certain that her manner would be equally ill adapted to do credit
to her sense; and she could no more bear that Mr.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
The full texts of these broadcasts are not easy to
obtain at this date, but
Wodehouse
seems to have done five of them between 26th June
and 2nd July, when the Germans took him off the air again.
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Source: |
Orwell |
|
The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
As in the Ægean Sea, when the south and north winds have lost the
violence of their strength, the billows do not subside nevertheless, but
retain the noise and magnitude of their first motion; so the continued
impulse of the combatants carried them still against one another,
hurling them into mutual injury, though they had
scarcely
life in their
bodies.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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But no doubt there are none of
our
readers
ignorant of the innumerable combinations
which may be made from these ten z’s.
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Alobha is the
opposite
of lobha, udvega and an-updddna (?
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'Tis not enough your Poems be admir'd;
But strive your Conversation be desir'd:
Write for
immortal
Fame; nor ever chuse
Gold for the object of a gen'erous Muse.
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103, 107
Robertson, James 23, 35, 49, 60-1; detachment 37; A
Two-Year Old Goes to
Hospital
24 Robson, K.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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for I have been so out of
conceit
with my former performances,
that I have thrown away three Dr.
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Alexander Pope - v06 |
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It is
grounded
in a contradiction that it cannot survive.
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