Grey walks,
Mossy stones,
Copper carp swimming lazily,
And beyond,
A faint toneless
hissing
echo of rain
That tears at my heart.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Cormac Mac Cuileannan, king and bishop, who departed this life in the
earlier
part of the tenth century, nor, in fact, of any saint, who died after a.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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My dreams are over, I have ceased to cry
Against the fate that made men love my mouth
And left their
spirits
all too deaf to hear
The little songs that echoed through my soul.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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When the pilgrims emerged from the opening through which they beheld the
stars, they found
themselves
in a scene which enchanted them with hope
and joy.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Such Being should be more than mortality disvalued as
something
thingly-em- pirical.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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The two splendours quickly turned out to be
wings; and Virgil, who had hitherto
watched
its coming in silence, cried
out, "Down, down,--on thy knees!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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"Break this heavy chain,
That does freeze my bones
around!
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blake-poems |
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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained
touches
rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Old-fashioned eyes,
Not easy to
surprise!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Is
Hareton
to be a beggar?
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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To raise the mast, the missile dart to wing,
And send swift arrows from the bounding string,
Were arts the gods made grateful to my mind;
Those gods, who turn (to
various
ends design'd)
The various thoughts and talents of mankind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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1405), Grub mtha' kUIl shes nas mtha' bral grub pa zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos, Thimphu:
Kunsang
Topgey, 1976.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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During the war there
was a by-election which the
Conservatives
won.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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This was a joint undertaking: the
psychological
notes being
furnished in about equal proportions by Mr.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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If in
Nietzsche
we were left with an image of the self seeing itself overcome itself, of unmasking the unmasking of itself, in Rilke it is merely the reverse, a mask of masking.
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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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[951] And others shall dwell in the land of the Sicanians, wandering to the spot where Laomedon, stung by the
ravages
of the gluttonous sea-monster, gave to mariners to expose the three daughters of Phoenodamas that they should be devoured by ravenous wild beasts, there far off where they came to the land of the Laestrygonians in the West, where dwells always abundant desolation.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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"
The Vydkhd quotes the Vibhdsd: sydc chuddhakam
vairagyena
labheta, parihdnyd
?
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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It is remarkable that this man, who, by his perception of symbols, saw
the poetic construction of things, and the primary relation of mind
to matter, remained entirely devoid of the whole
apparatus
of poetic
expression, which that perception creates.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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And, indeed,
This is a cloister that a man could like,
This blue-aired space of grassy land, that here,
Just as it touches the sea's bitter mood,
Is troubled into dunes, as it were thrilled,
Like a calm woman trembling
against
love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Consider the mighty Demosthenes, whose son he
was, and
whither
I exalted him; consider Aeschines; how came a Philip
to pay court to the cymbal-woman's brat?
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Lucian |
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And though the god of war should
numbers
bring,
With all the arms that can his thunders fling,
Before the fort he'll vainly waste his time,
While Cupid, unattended, in shall climb,
Obtain possession perfectly at ease,
And grant conditions just as he shall please.
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La Fontaine |
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It is said that by
accumulating
such merit over three measure- less aeons, one will perfect the Five Spiritual Paths and Ten Spir- itual Stages and will attain Buddhahood, their result.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Can you
imagine
how different your life would be if you hadn't had the presence of mind to call me out when you did?
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Perry - Suzy's Memoirs |
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" Bad as was to me this detection by San
Carlo, this frost in July, this blow from a brick, there was still a
worse, namely, the cloy or
satiety
of the saints.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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A truth passes over me
Like a cloud,
With
invisible
lightnings it strikes me,
On broad, slow stairs,
Its happiness climbs to me:
Come, come, beloved truth!
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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239 (#323) ############################################
SANCTUS JANUARIUS 239
virtues whose very essence is
negation
and self-
renunciation.
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Nietzsche - v10 |
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They let the Germans bleed for
the
freedom
of the left bank of the Rhine--including
Luxemburg--they loudly boast they have no fatherland,
and reserve it to themselves to heap abuse on Germans
as slaves, to shout to the German tide-waiters a scornful
"merde pour la Prusse!
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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And he concedes that for longer trips he
himself
uses an automobile because it's faster and more comfortable than a horse-drawn coach, but he maintains that this box with springs on four wheels has deprived traveling of its true nobil- ity.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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The mill grinds with a grin
through
grains.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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And ye, young men,
prepare
ye for song and for the dance.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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I have other questions or need to report an error
Please email the diagnostic
information
to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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A letter a cold
sleeve a blanket a shaving house and nearly the best and
regular
window.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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"He that
endeavours to free himself from an ill habit," says Bacon, "must not
change too much at a time, lest he should be
discouraged
by difficulty;
nor too little, for then he will make but slow advances.
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Samuel Johnson |
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federal
laws and your state's laws.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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--When females arrive at the age of
puberty
they begin to
have a discharge once every month, by way of the vagina, of the color of
blood.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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O ye spirits of earth,
I almost, from my miserable heart,
Could here
upbraid
you for your cruel heart,
Which will not let me, down the slope of death,
Draw any of your pity after me,
Or lie still in the quiet of your looks,
As my flower, there, in mine.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Is it not said that many years ago,
In a far Eastern town, some
soldiers
ran
With torches through the midnight, and began
To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw
Dice for the garments of a wretched man,
Not knowing the God’s wonder, or His woe?
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Wilde - Charmides |
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carried off the tyrant's head, and then hurried off to overtake the
pursuing
party, being eager to give the soldiers ocular evidence of the fall of the enemy's commander, that they might continue the pursuit of their opponents with all the more confidence and spirit right up to Tegea.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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" Environment
and
Behavior
6:131-68.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Go to the hideously wedded,
Go to them whose failure is concealed,
Go to the
unluckily
mated, Go to the bought wife,
Go to the woman entailed.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Yet
undoubtedly
insufficient nourishment must have accelerated his end.
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Thomas Otway |
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Place me in lowly state, in power and pride,
Where lour the skies, or where bland zephyrs play
Place me where blind night rules, or
lengthened
day,
In age mature, or in youth's boiling tide:
Place me in heaven, or in the abyss profound,
On lofty height, or in low vale obscure,
A spirit freed, or to the body bound;
Bank'd with the great, or all unknown to fame,
I still the same will be!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If the Wake is about us, then we are
it only ifwe can find away
tomatch
ourselves with how it is nonsen
sical.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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The question must nevertheless be asked whether
current
and currently projected programs will adequately support this policy in the future, in terms both of need and urgency.
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NSC-68 |
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Without
activity he will traverse all the paths and levels.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
Would you
rather the state persecuted
philosophers
than paid
them for official services?
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Nietzsche - v05 |
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The literary reflec- tions of Dostoyevsky's visit to London are found in his travel feature Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863), a text in which the author makes fun, among other things, of the "ser- geant-majors of civilization," the hothouse character of the "orangery progressivists," and
articulates
his fear of the Baalish triumphalism of the World Exhibition palace.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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America ought not to be makin' war on Europe, and
America
knows it.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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'*^ The
Munster
narratives will have it, th;;t Morough showed great courage,
notwithstanding, under the depressing circumstance, and at a juncture least expected.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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tive, ou tenait garnison dans
quelque
place de la
Ligurie.
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Stendhal - 1817 - Vie de Napoleon |
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Foreigners, come from all the countries of the
Mediterranean,
plundered
the provinces under its authority.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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And now the hundred mighty portals of the
house open of their own accord, and bring
through
the air the answer of
the soothsayer:
'O past at length with the great perils of the sea!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Finally he
regulates his
conduct
(the highest phase of morality hitherto attained)
by his own standard of men and things.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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If the Pagan world had never before been
conscious
of itself, it had
no excuse to harbour illusions after his coming.
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Lucian - True History |
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With
yawning
mouth the horrid hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty asphalte ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
The fellow had to swing.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Columbae^s"
of
uncertain
date the festival of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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But I will do
something
great and bold.
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Aristophanes |
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We made our great compromiser, Lincoln, President, to carry us
through
the terrible crisis pro- duced by our uncompromisers.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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A summary of many of these arguments can be found in an article by
Professor
Robert S.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Believe me
or not, his intelligence was perfectly clear--concentrated, it is true,
upon himself with horrible intensity, yet clear; and therein was my only
chance--barring, of course, the killing him there and then, which wasn't
so good, on account of
unavoidable
noise.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Give me the food that
satisfies
a guest:
Kisses are but dry banquets to a feast.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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wie doch mein erster war,
Find ich nicht leicht auf dieser Welt den
andern!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Revering Heaven, you rule below;
Be that your base, your coping still;
'Tis Heaven neglected bids o'erflow
The
measure
of Italian ill.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Once more he strode onward
with
elastic
tread.
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Source: |
Poe - v02 |
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For that matter, even
religious worship would have been permitted if the proles
had shown any sign of needing or
wanting
it.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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—To however
high a degree a man can attain to
knowledge
of
himself, nothing can be more incomplete than the
conception which he forms of the instincts constitut-
ing his individuality.
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Nietzsche - v09 |
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s my son, pride of my days, With face paler than Spring snow, Who seeing me turns and weeps, His dusty feet
lacking
shoes.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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But, the plan is not to be
regarded
as not influential, or as not capable of realization for a short time.
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Source: |
A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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[74] O many the lusty steers at his feet, and may the
heifers
slim,
Many the claves and many the kine that made their moan for him.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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This metaphoric comprehension entangles the poet in the very
language
in which hefailstoactorconfiguretheworldorhimselfasmeaningful.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Norris took possession of the
White House, the Grants
arrived
at the Parsonage, and these events over,
everything at Mansfield went on for some time as usual.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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On Silk materials, Ribbons and the like 400,000
On Cloth and other woollen goods 400,000
On Cloth of Gold and of Silver, and on Gold and
Silver jewellery 200,000
On Iron and Steel goods 100,000
And on Copper and Tin goods 100,000
Making a total of 1,200,000
' The
arithmetic
is again faulty.
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
_ What is
ordained
for Zeus, except to be
A king for ever?
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
This is the relation
between
analytic practice and theory.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
They kiss you when you are hot and when you are cold; they kiss you when you are
reserving
your kiss for your wife.
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Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
This parting now makes me rue
The Seigneury of
Poitou!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
'54 one Plebeian card':
one of Belinda's
opponents
is now out of trumps and discards a low card
on her lead.
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Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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That we are still unable
to fulfil our engagement in its
original
meaning will, we, are sure, be
matter of regret to them as to ourselves, especially when they have
perused the following affecting narrative.
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Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Why press so near each other when the touch
Is barred by
graves?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
Will ye gang down the water-side,
And see the waves sae
sweetly
glide,
Beneath the hazels spreading wide?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
By Sidney and
Clifford
Lanier.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Recognizing this reality just as it is, is what is called the "view" of the Great
Completion
beyond rational mind.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
In the Jogmin-gyi Shing11 Buddha Field beyond the three realms, the Perfect
Manifestation
Body arises before all the tenth level Bodhisattvas.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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if
possible
to become one with it.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v15 |
|
Each gallant thane,
Prince, peer, and noble, follow in your train;--
They praise your loveliness, and in your ear
They whisper pleasing things, but insincere;
Thus, as the moths enamoured of the light,
Ye seek these realms of
revelry
each night.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Peters now asked him if he did not think
it would be better to have the body thrown overboard
at once, as it was too
horrible
a sight to see it flounder-
ing about in the scuppers.
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Source: |
Poe - v05 |
|
It is of no avail:
the most
magnificent
temple lies in ruins.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 |
|
V 25 of the Assyrian text, [7]
where
Gilgamish
begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Not only is this Divine adaptation, however, mathe-
matically accurate, but there is that about it which
stamps it as Divine, in
distinction
from that which
is merely the work of human constructiveness.
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Source: |
Poe - v09 |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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No such doubts perplex us when, with all our
hearts, we would
commend
the departed; for they have passed almost beyond
the reach even of envy; and to those pale cheeks of theirs no
commendation can bring the red.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Neither for the second, the first, nor the third part,
have I
required
aday longer.
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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Seven and
twentieth
edition_, London,
1706.
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Donne - 2 |
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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19 Its chronologi- cal scope was determined by the disposition of
available
evidence.
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A History of Trust in Ancient Greece_nodrm |
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Given the obvious " weakness " of the American colonies AND geography, he committed the greatest single territorial
conquest
or acquist that either you or I can at.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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But business is not dedicated to
creating
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