By alone I mean without a
material
being, and my cat is a mystic companion, a spirit.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For if nothing is provided after these, thou hast what must be expended at once on thy children, but yet goods must be
acquired
to be laid up in store.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Costui vedendo il
cavalliero
assiso
con la vergine bella entro allo speco,
volto a' compagni, disse: — Ecco augel nuovo,
a cui non tesi, e ne la rete il truovo.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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The result is that if a
satellite
feels able to effect its independence of the Kremlin, as Tito was able to do, it is likely to break away.
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Art reminds us of states of
physical
vigour: it
may be the overflow and bursting forth of bloom-
ing life in the world of pictures and desires; on
the other hand, it may be an excitation of the
physical functions by means of pictures and desires
of exalted life--an enhancement of the feeling of
life, the latter's stimulant.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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For a good discussion of many of these
orgamzatIons
and t?
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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If thou the
circling
year my stay control,
To raise a bounty noble as thy soul;
The circling year I wait, with ampler stores
And fitter pomp to hail my native shores:
Then by my realms due homage would be paid;
For wealthy kings are loyally obeyed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Nowadays the Germans are bored by intellect,
they mistrust intellect; politics have swallowed up
all earnestness for really
intellectual
things—“Ger-
many, Germany above all.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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”
She was
perfectly
sensible that he never had; but she wished to see
whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between
the Bingleys and Jane, and she thought he looked a little confused as he
answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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He pointed out how
inconvenient
a tail was when
they were pursued by their enemies, the dogs; how much it was in
the way when they desired to sit down and hold a friendly
conversation with one another.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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The
simplest
thing in
the world!
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Childrens - Frank |
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Industrial
production
declined by 10 percent between the first quarter of 1948 and the last quarter of 1949, and by approximately one-fourth between 1944 and 1949.
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B ut fate, or, rather, per-
haps, my own weak ness, has
poisoned
my life for ever.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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A sorry lover, how can I be
resigned?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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That which forms the basis for all the different desires of a living natural thing we name its
original
natural drive [Trieb], and it consti- tutes the very being of this thing.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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However, users may print, download, or email articles for
individual
use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Therefore a rib of Adam belonged to the
integrity
of his body.
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Summa Theologica |
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His marvellous
phrases are part of
everyday
English speech, his plays help us to know and judge life, his men and women dwell with us as people of our own time.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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You do not know that
which you are
treating
with such toleration!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Why do we here follow the bare letter that
killeth?
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Erasmus |
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We want to
distinguish
ourselves from the Nazis, for whom everything, from their "nationalism" up to their "socialism," is mere tactics (that is, bluff, trick and swindle), above all through the fact that we are serious about what we say; that we really mean the words and ideas with which we try to draw support for our cause.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Ay, ay, let him have our grievances in a volley, and if
we be to have a spokesman, there's the
corporal
is the lieutenant's
countryman, and knows his humour.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Đệ tam giáp đồng Tiến sĩ xuất thân, 12 người:
ĐOÀN NHÂN CÔNG 段仁公18
người
huyện Thanh Oai phủ Ứng Thiên.
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stella-02 |
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The poets, in front of my poses, so grand
they seem
borrowed
from ancient tomb-covers,
will exhaust their days in studying a hand,
since I, to fascinate my docile lovers,
have pure mirrors that magnify everything's beauty:
my eyes, my huge eyes, bright with eternity.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Tu
Fu, his contemporary, occasionally
abandoned
the cult of "abstract
form.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Whenever we have the whim of
counting
stuff, we do not depend at all on the empiri- cal: numbers have nothing to do with sensibility.
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The more material they accumulated, the more they buried the fertile thought of the enterprise to lay bare the interior and context-creating energy of the
capitalistic
modus vivendi.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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The
population
of Tyre also abandoned the city and the Sultan sent troops to occupy it.
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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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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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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There is no third
course:--either man is not in harmony with the Law, and
then he must despise himself; or he is in harmony with it,
and then he has nothing to allege against himself;--but, in
his fulfilment of the Law, he can by no means transcend its
requirements in aught, and do
something
beyond what he is
bound to do, which would thus be done without command-
ment, and hence be a free and voluntary act;--and there-
fore he can never positively respect himself, nor honour
himself as something excellent.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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And it is in the
religious
pieces of the NOBLE
NUMBERS, for which Jonson afforded the least copious precedents, that,
as a rule, Herrick is least successful.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Ei;i i
itIEEiE?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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The full extent of his literary
activities is not known,
inasmuch
as a great deal of his work has
been lost.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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": thus Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
begins a poem about Johann Gensfieisch zum Gutenberg.
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Jem showed it to Atticus, who said it was a spelling medal, that before we were born the Maycomb County schools had spelling
contests
and awarded medals to the winners.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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If the deputies, however, consider themselves
so completely in the character of delegates as to be at present absolutely
pledged to vote without freedom of deliberation, let a concise, but
perspicuous, summary of the ablest
arguments
that can be adduced on either
side be drawn up, and printed, and circulated throughout the country; and
then, after two months, let the deputies demand fresh instructions upon
this point.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Neither academic nor
spouting the jargon of the usual critic, the Salons of Baudelaire are
the
production
of a humanist.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But in all this objection I find nothing that
requires
an Answer.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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'"52 Or con- sider the argument endorsed by
Lefebvre
de Beauvray in his 1770 Social and Patriotic Dictionary: "The great actions of the Greeks and Romans touch only our minds, and prompt only our admiration; those of our own Na- tion would impress on our souls a livelier sentiment: emulation.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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) Consequently the religion of the Qur'an, like that of the New Testament, was substantially characterized by a position of theological contrast; its first front stood in the
tradition
of the Jewish and Christian zealots who waged war against the gods and idols of their polytheistic surroundings,
while the second opposed the Jews and Christians directly.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Out of it now
develops
the more
arbitrary gesture-symbolism which is not wholly
adequate for its basis: and with which begins the
diversity of languages, whose multiplicity we are
permitted to consider—to use a simile—as a strophic
text to that primal melody of the pleasure-and-
displeasure-language.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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" the word was last and first,
And loud and
bitterly
she wept,
As if her very heart would burst; 1807.
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William Wordsworth |
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Recently this treasury has been
reprinted
in Bhutan, and is now again available.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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If that
happened
to you, please let us know so we can keep adjusting the software.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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If so, the
outstanding
feature is that the
Emperor exercises his influence on behalf of the Christian subjects of
the Caliph, and that the Caliph similarly acts as protector of the
Muslims of the Empire.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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In the valley of the Hermus, near
Magnesia
at the foot
0j \fount Sipylus not far from Smyrna, the Roman
190.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Henryson
supplements this with the tragedy
of Cresseid.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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For which to chaumbre
streight
the wey he took,
And Troilus tho sobreliche he grette,
And on the bed ful sone he gan him sette.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Such comments praise what is defective in
innumerable
works , even if it is a defect that is constitutive of art.
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Meantime the lyre rejoins the sprightly lay;
Love-dittied airs, and dance, conclude the day
But when the star of eve with golden light
Adorn'd the matron brow of sable night,
The mirthful train
dispersing
quit the court,
And to their several domes to rest resort.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And there led I the Bushby clan,
My gamesome billie, Will,
And my son Maitland, wise as brave,
My
footsteps
follow'd still.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Catherine
meanwhile--the anxious, agitated, happy, feverish
Catherine--said not a word; but her glowing cheek and brightened eye
made her mother trust that this good-natured visit would at least set
her heart at ease for a time, and gladly therefore did she lay aside the
first volume of The Mirror for a future hour.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Sometimes the weak
achieve, and
sometimes
the skillful are tricked astray.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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So far she has avenged her
injuries
by the death through your agency of a despot; nothing could be more splendid.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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And it may be, some Christmas night,
When angels walk, they'll say:
"'O strange
interment!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To watch the harvesters their wheat to reap,
And gaze from a distant hill over some silent grave
the willows weep,
And think of the long, long past
And know a few hours'
quietness
had come at last.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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For a
programme
of this kind, which in some places might be an extension of the mothers' self-help groups now beginning to flour- ish, we would need to enlist the active co-opera- tion of sensitive, caring parents.
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seemed to promise
something
more
vOl.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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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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Nay xét các khoa thi Tiến sĩ từ năm Đại Bảo thứ 3 đến nay đều chưa được dựng bia, bọn Thượng thư Bộ Lễ Quách Đình Bảo vâng mệnh Hoàng thượng đem họ tên thứ bậc
người
thi đỗ khắc lên đá tốt, đồng thời xin đem danh hiệu Trạng nguyên7, Bảng nhãn8, Thám hoa lang9 đổi làm Tiến sĩ cập đệ, người đỗ Phụ bảng đổi gọi là đồng Tiến sĩ xuất thân để cho hợp với quy chế hiện nay10.
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stella-01 |
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Doctors' work is based on their alliance with the natural
tendencies
of life toward self-integration and the avoidance of pain.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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is that by the British Bombing Survey Unit (called during the war the RAF Bombing
Analysis
Unit).
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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It is
needless
to say that God is the object of my supreme
passion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Nor is there anything which is
qualified
in contrary ways at one and the same time.
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Aristotle copy |
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Half dead, and
floating
in a bloody tide,
Foot, Knights, and Archer lie on every side.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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It is evident that 'though
martyrdom
for the cause of truth is of the highest moral value, this does not say anything for Ivan the Terrible, as he in that case was not a martyr, but a torturer.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are
significantly
correlated with differences in intelligence.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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My wife and
children
have
nothing to eat.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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And, besides, both with a thrush and
a pigeon, [941] sent as a present, you may show how
attentive
you are to
your mistress.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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of what
advantage
is it, that the face of day
Wears the verdure of returning spring?
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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He treats his opponents with contempt, because he is himself
afraid of meeting with
disrespect!
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Although the ancient Arabs acquired in a
somewhat
higher degree the science of dialectics,
their descendants are singularly deficient in the logical faculty.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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105
about four miles from Oundle, where they were dis covered by Major Creed, one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county, who immediately sent a
dispatch
to Captain Ball, and the next morning, being Whitsunday, he went early in the morning to Lady-wood, and had a conference with the
High landers, whom he persuaded to lay down their arms,
and promised to intercede for a pardon.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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" Hence, also, the
mistrust
he displayed toward anyone who might have dared to tap the author approvingly on the shoulder.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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]
An historical view of the negotiations between the courts of England, France,
and Brussels, 1592-1617,
extracted
chiefly from the State papers of
Sir T.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Voucher of him last riseth a prey
untimely
devoted
E'en to the tomb, which mounded in heaps, high, spheri-
cal, earthen,
Grants to the snow-white limbs, to the stricken maiden a
welcome.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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All next day, he was occupied in
disposing
of his fishing-boat and
tackle; in packing up, and sending to London by waggon, such of his
little domestic possessions as he thought would be useful to him; and in
parting with the rest, or bestowing them on Mrs.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Think of the great story you
compress
into
that simple theme!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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Where the sapphire girdle of the sea
Encinctureth
the maiden
Persephone, released for the spring,
Look !
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revealed |
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What are Encinctureth's features? |
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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'
[260] The king said that this man, too, had
answered
well and asked the tenth, What is the fruit of wisdom?
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questioned |
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What indeed is the fruit? |
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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He briefly looked at the playground in
the yard and beheld some children who were
screaming
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with shrill voices in an incomprehensible language.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Not only do they attack the artificial coloring that hides
truth and replaces reality, but also the
beneficent
appearance that fills
a vacuum and clothes poverty; and they even attack the ideal appearance
that ennobles a vulgar reality.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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And then he said, "How sweet it were
A fisher or a hunter there,
In sunshine or in shade
To wander with an easy mind,
And build a
household
fire, and find
A home in every glade!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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14 plays are
attributed
to him.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Comparing the clear, self-confident letters of
Bismarck with the excited correspondence of these
spirited political amateurs, no doubt can be enter-
tained as to where was the
superiority
of mind and
character.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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As often as a horse was killed or disabled or
deprived of the rider, his fall or his plunge or his ungoverned
pressure had commonly the effect of
enforcing
upon the neigh-
boring chargers more or less of lateral movement, and in this way
there was occasioned a slight distension of the rank in which the
casualty had occurred; but in the next instant, when the troopers
had ridden clear of the disturbing cause, they closed up, and rode
on in a line as even as before, though reduced by the loss just
sustained.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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A
Synopsis
of two of Menander's plays (POxy_1235)
Translated by B.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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And the memory of what I had heard him say
afar there, with the horned shapes stirring at my back, in the glow of
fires, within the patient woods, those broken phrases came back to
me, were heard again in their ominous and
terrifying
simplicity.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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fear his soul suffers for and
that now
punished
for his false accusation.
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beckons |
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Why does his soul suffer for fear? |
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Neither must we think that the nature of the
universe did either through
ignorance
pass these things, or if not as
ignorant of them, yet as unable either to prevent, or better to order
and dispose them.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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