The problem of indeterminacy, then, cannot be solved either by inserting into the
independent
variables of the mathemati- cal equations values which might emerge from conditions in the world.
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The poetic aura then, or whatever else distinguishes the content of A from that of B, does not belong to what is accepted as true; for if this were the case, then it could not be an
immediate
consequence of anyone's accepting the content of B that he should accept that of A.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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It is true that we have achieved an
enormous
range in numerous areas through the movement progress of modern generations, and what members of the modern bourgeoisie and middle class have achieved in the course of less than two centuries in the fields of politics, economics, language, informa- tion, traffic, expression, and sex can almost be considered a miracle.
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Sloterdijk |
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Eichhorn's lectures on the New
Testament were repeated to me from notes by a student from Ratzeburg,
a young man of sound learning and indefatigable industry, who is now,
I believe, a
professor
of the oriental languages at Heidelberg.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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ve ever preferved for Athens, and for all
her Citizens, may now be prefent to me in this
Contention
:
and next, that they will infpire you to determine in fuch a
Manner, as may beft promote the general Glory of the State,
and preferve to every fingle Perfon the Religion of his Oath inr
violable.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Some poets lift up sordid biographical factoids, despite much uncertainty; others make free use of
Traklian
special effects.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Siente usted este profundo
silencio
que reina en todo el monte, que
no suena un guijarro, que no se mueve una hoja, que el aire esta
inmovil y pesa sobre los hombros y parece que aplasta?
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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13: samdhito bhikkhave bhukkhu
yathdbhutam
pajdndti; ii.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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He is competent in many ways
to teach a Bible class, but when it comes to
veracity
he is only
thirty-five years old.
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Twain - Speeches |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Barrett, as part of his
original
MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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15560 (#514) ##########################################
15560
EDMUND WALLER
The seat of empire, where the Irish come,
And the
unwilling
Scots, to fetch their doom.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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On
the summit of this hill two
videttes
were posted, to give
intelligence of the enemy's advance.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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At the fruition level one takes refuge in the dharma of realization rather than in the dharma as a teaching and becomes the
realized
sangha.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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The Crepet volume is really but a series of notes; there are
some letters addressed to the poet by the
distinguished
men of his day,
supplementing the rather disappointing volume of Letters, 1841-1866,
published in 1908.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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His heart was too sensitive,
too
passionate!
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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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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Constitutional
History of England.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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The situation is much the same today, with professional athletes--especially baseball, football, and basketball players--being paid much higher
salaries
than most of the spectators.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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All rights New
Literary
History 36.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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gritude seems basically to be this immobile springing-forth, a unity of phallic
erection
and plant growth, one could scarcely exhaust it with this single poetic theme.
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463
fie snor'd secure till morn, his senses bound
In slumter, and in long
oblivion
drown'd.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Thanks to increasing literacy, all nation-states saw the growth of reading populations who were exposed to
insistent
media fitness training: they embodied the equation of humans and readers.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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He who can modify his tactics in relation to his
opponent
and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The case of the turtledove is the most
notorious
of all, for we would defy any one to assert that he had anywhere seen a turtle-dove in winter-time; at the beginning of the hiding time it is exceedingly plump, and during this period it moults, but retains its plumpness.
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Aristotle copy |
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They can talk to the
subalterns
though, and the
subalterns can talk to them.
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Kipling - Poems |
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= Fleay's identification with Edmund Howes I am
prepared to accept, although
biographical
data are very meagre.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But it is almost impossible to conceive that such an
agreement
could be
adhered to.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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While I was writing this text, I occasionally checked the
incoming
e-mails and, as it is mid-July, I also just saw who won today's stage of the Tour de France (it was, to my great American regret, Alberto Contador from spain).
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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these are nothing pertinent to my imprison ment, for I am not imprisoned for knowing and talking with such and such men, but for sending over Books ; and therefore I am not willing to answer you to any more of these questions
because I
for seeing the things for which I am imprisoned cannot be proved against me, you will get other matter out of my exami nation : and therefore if you will not ask me about the thing laid to my charge, I shall answer no more: but if you will ask of that, I shall then answer you, and do answer that for the thing for which I am imprisoned, which is for sending over books, I am clear, for I sent none ; and of any other matter you have to accuse me of, I know it is
warrantable
by the law of
see you go about by this Examination to ensnare me :
God, and I think by the law of the land, that I may stand upon myjust defence, and not answer to your interrogatories; and
that my accusers ought to be brought face to face, to justify what they accuse me of.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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As the
narrator
shows, there is a profound ambiguity to this crime.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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This prejudice and the ambition it engendered have long been absent, both among the generation of nicely-
208 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
competent young scholars today and in the youngest generation of students, who accept the basic premise that reading
classics
pays divi- dends, particularly with relation to the present.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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denarii: A denarius was a commonly
circulated
silver coin, equivalent to four sestertii.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that
this perfect
sweetness
had blossomed in the depth of my own
heart.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Most of them are hungry for land of their own and for relief from the high rentals and
interest
rates that grind
them into poverty.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The lab'ring
Mountain
must bring forth a Mouse.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly
outwards
to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was securely bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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15
Clarifications on the Question of Power
Q: Your
research
since, let us say.
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Foucault-Live |
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If you are
attached
to samsara, You don't have renunciation.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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His
departure
for the last battle in front of the walls of Troy marks the beginning of the sequence of action with which the down- fall of the hero became necessary.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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And for
citharode
you have Phemius; for singer Demodocus.
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Roman Translations |
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Behold our
daughter
whome I sought so long is found at last:
If finding you it terme, when of recoverie meanes is past.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Pepys at the bookseller's in London Strand on a February
morning in 1663, making haste to buy a new copy of Hudi-
bras,' and carefully
explaining
that it was “ill humor of him to
be so against that which all the world cries up to be an example of
wit.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Dryas was almost tempted by these promises to give his assent to
the marriage; but on the other hand,
reflecting
that the maiden was
deserving of a better match, and fearing lest if ever discovered, he
might get himself into great trouble, he refused his assent, at the
same time intreating Dorco not to be affronted, and declining to accept
the gifts which he had enumerated.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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By a
marvelous
fortune, no man was
lacking of those who had sat on the evening benches around the
hearth at Hreptyoff; all had brought their heads safely out of
that war, except the man who was their leader and model.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Above,
in the firelight, winks the coronet of
tarnished
gold.
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Amy Lowell |
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But they will
probably
leave '^his task to the less respectable and more fanatical Marxians, ^hose lack of a sense of humor often makes them very funny.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Go you
earnestly
about your matters.
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Erasmus |
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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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"" If the buildings which housed machines im- portant to war production were too
severely
damaged, the machines often could be moved to other locations.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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One might also refer to them, perhaps, as second essences;19 although the word 'second' clearly indicates that they are not pure immediacies but
products
of abstrac- tion.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Bringing down his historic figure to the present would have revealed the fiction involved in his statements, would have shown a marvelous shrinkage in nominal values, would have noted the downfall of business prosperity and business morals and would have
pictured
as few can do so graphically as he, the furnace fires dying out, the wheels of factories standing still, wages reduced, beggary usurping the place of labor, bank and business failures, creditors and depositors wantonly defrauded, homes lost, and crookedness in public affairs.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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For
innocent
was the Lord I chanced upon
And clean as mine own heart, King Pheres' son,
Admetus.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It was at this point that some young
villager
called, in pro-
fuse compliment, "Three cheers for the Prince!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Not
translated
in the Bohn.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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No longer seeking nor caring that my name should be
blazoned
abroad on
title-pages, I smiled to think that it had now another kind of vogue.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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On loan and on land, I believe not
That any earth-weal eternal standeth Save there be
somewhat
calamitous That, ere a man's tide go, turn it to twain.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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And moreover, we say that though any
man may have gained mastery of a kingdom by any of the law-
ful means whereof we have spoken in the laws going before this,
yet, if he use his power ill, in the ways whereof we speak in
this law, him may the people still call tyrant; for he turneth his
mastery which was rightful into wrongful, as Aristotle hath said
in the book which
treateth
of the rule and government of king-
doms.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The books which were collected there came not only from the Greeks, but from all other nations,
including
the Hebrews.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Or to what purpose, think you, should I
describe
myself
when I am here present before you, and you behold me speaking?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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The
Invitation
to the Voyage
My sister, my child
imagine, exiled,
The sweetness, of being there, we two!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Retengamos: sin los gases motores de la ligereza no puede
formarse
ni manieiterse en forma una burbuja de (sur)realidad habitable.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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"44
As with the full O ce of the Virgin, this "abbreviated O ce" was to become popular among monastics, clergy, and laity alike over the course of the next century or so, such that even those who could say only the invitatory antiphon were able to
participate
in Mary's service.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Rursus, quid virtus, et quid sapientia posait,-
Utile proposuit nobis exemplar Ulyssem,
Qui, domitor Trojae, multorum providus urbes
Et mores hominum inspexit ; latumque per aequor^
Dum sibi, dum sociis reditum parat, aspera multp-
Pertulit,
adversis
rentra immersabilis midis.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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All through the night we knelt and prayed,
Mad
mourners
of a corpse!
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Je ne trouve pas monotone
La verdeur de tes quarante ans;
Je
préfère
tes fruits, Automne,
Aux fleurs banales du Printemps!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Talk me no love talk, no bought-cheap fiddl'ry, Mine is the ship and thine the merchandise, All the blind earth knows not th' emprise Whereto thou
calledst
and whereto I call.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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"Physics do not know that they think like that
Englishman
who was happy because he knew how to speak prose" (GP III 426).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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It follows from this that every attempt to understand creation that does not hold to the self-production of the spirit recourses inevitably to an imaginative
figuration
but not to a concept.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A few words, however,
may be
pertinently
employed here in explaining the true bearing of
Coleridge's mind on the politics of our modern days.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
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devaputra-mara), the
disturbing
emotion mara (Skt.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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They advance, they float in, the
Olympians
all!
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Jasion
was killed by lightning, for his crime against Ceres;
Dardanus
moved
away from Samothrace, and built a city, to which he gave the name of
Dardania, at the foot of Mount Ida.
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Strabo |
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He also reports that
Aristotle
bought "a very few books of the philosopher Speusippus" for the equiv- alent of 72,000 sesterces.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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You will certainly, Paula, no longer say to your stupid husband,
whenever
you wish to run after some distant gallant, "Caesar has ordered me to come in the morning to his Alban villa; Caesar has sent for me to Circeii.
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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" ( Nashe has one hundred
quotations
from Ovid, twenty
from Homer, and twelve from Virgil.
| Guess: |
metaphors |
| Question: |
What is his third quotation from Virgil? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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A
Paraleipsis
cries ; " I leave 't behind, 47
I let it pass ;" tho' you the whole may find.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Not only did it concern him to deliver the
Gauls from a foreign yoke, but he sought to deprive the Germans of the
possibility of
settling
on the banks of the Saône, and thus threatening
the Roman province, and perhaps Italy itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Recovery
came with food: but still, my brain
Was weak, nor of the past had memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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«Comment, alors, elles ne
sont même pas venues à la répétition de
tantôt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
ότι
έχουν
όλ' ανέγγικτα 'ς το σπίτι τ' αγαθά τους,
τον σίτον, το γλυκό κρασί• τρέφονται μόν' οι δούλοι•
κ' εκείνοι εδώ 'ς το σπίτι μας ολοκαιρής συχνάζουν,
και βώδια σφάζοντας, αρνιά κ' ερίφια σαρκωμένα, 535
συντρώγουν και το φλογερό κρασί μας καταπίνουν,
χαμένα, και όλα φθείρουν τα• ότι άνδρας δεν υπάρχει,
ως ο Οδυσσέας άλλοτε, το σπίτι αυτό να σώση.
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JONES VERY
(1803–1880)
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parallel
were sought from nature in describing a poet
like Jones Very, the hermit-thrush might well be named.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Discontent is every- where
increasing
at an
alarming rate, and my conscience permits
me no longer to conceal from you the true
state of affairs.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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I have given up too much, have been too
easily worked on, but
Frederica
shall now feel the difference.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Babylon itself also is
situated
in a plain.
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And in order that this little trea-
tise may, in every point of view, be regarded as complete, Stir-
ling's excellent System of Rhetoric has been appended ; leaving
nothing to be desired in the
formation
of the perfect Prosodian.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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The next day the list appears
in the papers--a column and a quarter of names, in fine print, and every
man in the list a
billionaire
and member of a couple of churches.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Aebutias smote Mamilius
So fiercely, on the shield
That the great lord of
Tusculum
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Well nigh rolled on the field.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Upon its vast sur-
face it contained nothing
whatever
except the three outlines, so
remarkably fine as to escape the sight: among the most elabor-
ate works of numerous other artists it had all the appearance of
a blank space; and yet by that very fact it attracted the notice
of every one, and was held in higher estimation than any other
painting there.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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In further support of this fact,
Foscarini
cites from the life of Pereisc,
by Gassendi; Fabricius Acquapendente obit.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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The dames, by lot, their gallant
champions
choose,[426]
And each her hero's name, exulting, views.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Neither the
levelled weapons or the flashing knives of the gipsies in front, or the
howling of the wolves behind,
appeared
to even attract their attention.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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No work of author wise
Can match the thought half springing to your eyes,
And your dim reveries, unfettered, strange,
Regarding man with all the
boundless
range
Of angel innocence.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Given Western interests in the area, however, it had to pur- sue this objective without
alarming
the other great powers.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Of all the
Hellenic
settlements in Italy, Tarentum was destined to play the most brilliant part.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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