CLYTEMNESTRA
A Sea there is--and who shall stay its
springs?
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common men fell close on her right side; upon which she fired and killed the very man that shot her comrade ; and was very near
Lieutenant
Campbell when he was wounded.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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She writes of that into which
she was born; and her creations - even when they are in such foreign
settings as Irish-American life, in the inimitable stories The Bro-
gans,' Between Mass and Vespers,' and A Little Captive Maid'-
glow with that
internal
personality which is never counterfeited, as
has been said of Hawthorne's Marble Faun.
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At evening He loved to walk
Among the shadowy hills, and talk
Of
Bethlehem
;
But if perchance there passed us by
75
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Every great career, whether of a nation or of an individual, dates
from a heroic action, and every downfall from a
cowardly
one
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and the main thing, millionaires, because in substance everything will be settled by the
question
of figures.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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"Aesthetics" thought of itself as a cogni-
tive possibility, as a philosophical science whose task was to demarcate and
142
to
investigate
its own terrain.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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The price for the new beginning of a thinking
orientation
from the position of being-in-the-world is inevitably a loss of distance, whose main symptom is the handing over of humans to concern and their immersion in the lived situation.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Of what value is money to modern
civilization?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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None of these distinctions belongs to the point of view of sensation itself, but they all be- long to a
posterior
reflection of the soul when it has determined itself as self and spirit - [.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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DOMITIUS
AHENOBARBUS AND APPIUS CLAUDIUS PULCHER,
CONSULS.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Il
soupçonna
aussi mon
grand-père.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Therefore
Derrida must develop a passionate interest in the Egyptian pyramid, for it constitutes the archetype of the cumbersome objects that cannot be taken along by the spirit on its return to itself.
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at the
time, many local
denominations
have Lann
and
church, gather many
Sons of
to The church of the — also the Light, parish
Wales,
present
becompanionsoftheAngels.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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So Buddhahood is perfectly at peace and free from
emotional
obscurations.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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continued
to look
round the room, it was a large room with a high ceiling, the clients of
this lawyer for the poor must have felt quite lost in it.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Gumbrecht
of us, living in the early twenty-first century (not only for those in intellectual or formerly ''liberal'' professions), has become insuperably and thereby also sometimes grotesquely ''Cartesian,'' in the sense of making our lives indeed largely
coextensive
with the functioning of consciousness.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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short US, and are only deprived of the S by the ancient
mode of pronunciation, in order to preserve the syllable
from
becoming
long by its position before a consonant at the
beginning of the following word; as Plenit' for filaius.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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The wildest and most
courageous
animals hath he envied and robbed of all
their virtues: thus only did he become--man.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Undisturbed by such predecessors,
we venture the following
exposition
of the phenomena alluded to.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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FOOTNOTES
[Footnote 1: The authority of Milton and Shakespeare may be
usefully
pointed out
to young authors.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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_The
Dominant
City.
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Imagists |
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The careful
housewives
make an ample cake for mc
at home, rich with almonds and plums.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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For what
excellence
of mind or body did not adorn thy youth?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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[312] When the matter was
reported
to the king, he rejoiced greatly, for he felt that the design which he had formed had been safely carried out.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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It seemed to them quite worth while, for one and ninepence, to make their
own boots
practically
unwearable.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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"Ah," said he,
"No
gratitude
from the wicked.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Falkenberg was named by the
magistrates
governor of the town
during the war.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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-- Finally the chapter
presents
a critique of liberation as asserted by the opponent.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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26 That stone is a very curious specimen of the bid- fan*"* or rock-basin memorials, so commonly found in Ireland, and the holes in it have been
artificially
formed in the undisturbed rock.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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In the ruddy glow of a blaze
which threw the shadow of that infernal group on the walls of the
church, she thought she saw that some were making efforts to raise a
heavy cross, while others wove a crown of briers, or
sharpened
on a
stone the points of enormous nails.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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We have learnt that
soldiers
are evil tools,
But wise men have not accomplished the ending of war, and still we
employ them.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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ou merciable to widewe; & to
faderles
childe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But a
fanciful
eugenist might have
argued that Hartley only inherited that portion of poetical spirit
which his father had shown before the child's own birth.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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But since you are devoted to piety, no such
misfortune
will ever come upon you.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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There are
traditional
designs for each of the many types of torma.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find
unwithered
on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
Phocians
had a statue of him made and sent it to Apollo at Delphi.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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The
ascription
to Walter Map of the prose Quest of the Holy
Grail links his name with the most intricate branch of Arthurian
romance.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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tis not an
exaggerationto
speak of the Nazificationof radical nationalistor fascistmovementsin Europe after1937-38.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Thou from a mother's arms canst wrest her daughter
asunder, [ing,
Wrest from a mother's arms her daughter
woefully
cling-
Then to the burning youth his virgin beauty deliver.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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I The revolt of the slaves in morals begins in the
very principle of resentment becoming creatiye^nS"
givinglDirth to values — -a,, resentment __exg,erijgDced^
bj^ creatures who, deprived as they are of the
proper outlet of action, are forced to find their_ _
compensation in an imaginary revenge, j Whi]e _
every aristocratic
morality
s prings from a tri-
umphant affirmation^ of .
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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In his face were written ages
Of patient treachery
And the
knowledge
of his hour.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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querying
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Nor ever cease to seep
The varied
echoings
athrough the air.
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Lucretius |
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They came
while we were at tea, and I never saw any
creature
look so frightened as
Frederica when she entered the room.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Ted Hughes had written both men from England in 1961, praising their ongoing Trakl work and their unusual
attention
to translation.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Let them come
in to you on
friendly
terms, as it were.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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She had a fresh, round face, and her hair was
smoothly
put back
behind her ears, which were red with shyness and modesty.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Across the travelling landscape evenly drooped and lifted
The
telegraph
wires, thick ropes of snow in the windless air;
They drooped and paused and lifted again to unseen summits,
Drawing the eyes and soothing them, often, to a drowsy stare.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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However,
Benjamin
and Clover could only be with Boxer after working
hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take
him away.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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But I have been
accustomed
to _Imagine_ many other things besides that
_Corporeal Nature_ which is the _Object_ of _pure Mathematicks_; such
as are, _Colours_, _Sounds_, _Tasts_, _Pain_, &c.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Stands
Scotland
where it did?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Gods and
goddesses
evil heap upon ye,
Rogues to Romulus and to Remus outcast.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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He writes about a quiet way of existence, among friends and family, about the practise of simple pleasures, creating poems,
cultivating
his land, and enjoying natural beauty.
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or to the
circumstance of an emphasis having been laid upon the
single consonant,
producing
the same effect as if it had been
actually doubled.
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"When it comes to molecules and cranial pathways, we"-that is, the brain researchers and art physiologists of the turn of the century-" auto-
matically
think of a process similar to that of Edison's phonograph.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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It is
unlikely that the fabric of the church was
seriously
injured.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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It is impossible to avoid the
conclusion
that Bismarck
threw away a great opportunity between 1883 and 1885,
and threw it away deliberately.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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_City Lights_
The city gleams with lights this evening
Like loud and yawning
laughter
from red lips.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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(He points at the hut in front of which
Andrea is
sitting)
A witch lives there.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Pelinæum
was the native city of the victor .
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Pindar |
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Tras el hecho de que la tierra está circunvolucionada y que los
pueblos y culturas más alejados han
accedido
a ella bajo la presión
de la mediación, no puede ya retroceder ocupación teórica alguna
con el presente.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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the mediocre) defending themselves, by means of against the strong (and finally destroying them
their growth on the other hand, we find all the
instincts
with which these classes are
best able prosper, sanctified and alone held honour by them.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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When the British Government refused to
move in the matter and the
condition
of Mahatma Gandhi became
sericus on account of his fast unto death, the Indian leaders made
up their minds to get the Award modified by mutual agreement.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High
mountains
are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture: I can see
Nothing to loathe in Nature, save to be
A link reluctant in a fleshly chain,
Classed among creatures, when the soul can flee,
And with the sky, the peak, the heaving plain
Of ocean, or the stars, mingle, and not in vain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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One conduces to the poet's aim, the completing of his work, which he is driving on,
laboring
and hast'ning in every line; the other slackens his pace, 5
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Observe
for a century the work of the human mind in all its applications:
one would say that a legion of workmen had been busy in turn-
ing over, to replace upon its base, some
enormous
pyramid which
was leaning upon its apex.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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They are not blind, my dear boy; but the
ignorant
misconceptions
now so prevalent obscure their vision.
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Lucian |
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The air is pure and fresh,
like the kiss of a child; the sun is bright, the sky is blue--what more
could one
possibly
wish for?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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#"
$" 3
6 &+''
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Thoreau noted the trend wisely in Walden when he com- mented on the fashion of his day: "We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae [Roman
godesses
of destiny] but Fash- ion.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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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 in Italy |
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Others boggle or are at fault in their career, or give back at a pinch,
they split into
different
factions, have various objects to distract
them, their private friendships or antipathies stand in their way; but
he has never flinched, never gone back, never missed his way, he is an
_out-and-outer_ in this respect, his allegiance has been without flaw,
like "one entire and perfect chrysolite," his implicit understanding is
a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air
of the most determined independence, and he has
"Read his history in a Prince's eyes!
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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For a tribute to the brilliant
abilities
of the elder
Cotton, see Clarendon's _Life_ (i.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
educator
will need to rethink his whole system of educational values.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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They came on to Cincinnati,
and with but little effort they soon rallied a mob of ruffians who
were willing to become the watch-dogs of slaveholders, for a dram, in
connection with a few
slavehunting
petty constables.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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As from the nature
of the subject, and the too frequent
quaintness
of the thoughts, his
TEMPLE; or SACRED POEMS AND PRIVATE EJACULATIONS are Comparatively but
little known, I shall extract two poems.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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It plays at ball in old, blue Chinese gardens,
And shakes wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples,
Amid the broken
flutings
of white pillars.
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Imagists |
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There were others who hadn't believed
strongly
in their own music, and they changed right away.
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Out of this moment, when the world melted away all around him, when he
stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of a cold and
despair,
Siddhartha
emerged, more a self than before, more firmly
concentrated.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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A refugee within a
stranger
land,
I marked, while mingling with the proud and grand,
The rare profusion in their homes displayed;
I saw the riches which surrounded them,
But envied not this wealth of gold and gem --
It was far other wealth for which I prayed.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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The tragedy that has
befallen
the speaker's people, at the hands of a stronger party, is chiastically echoed in the final eagle-simile used to characterize the speaker's mount, in which a bird of prey strikes and brutalizes a fox, pillaging his heart to take to her eyrie.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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44 The
Festival
of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Of those so many fires not now I tell
Which on our farms and
pleasant
places fell.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But, in place of the woodpecker, he swallowed in his throat a scorpion and
bewailed
to Phorcus the burden of his evil travail, seeking to find counsel in his pain.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Developed in the 1940s for the purpose of war
reporting
along battle lines where no record had gone before, the magnetic tape recorder, through motori- zation and mobilization, released broadcasting from its record stores.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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The proper place for these Fenwick Notes is doubtless that which
was
assigned
to them by the editor of 1857, viz.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And
alemandres
greet plentee,
Figes, and many a date-tree
Ther weren, if men hadde nede, 1365
Through the gardin in length and brede.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This
coarseness
of the street and the tone of the
Freiburg democratic journals against Prussia
filled the politician, so inconsiderate against his
own Saxony, with immense indignation.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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"Romanticism," says Stendhal, ❝is the art of pre-
senting to people the literary works which, in the actual state of
their habits and beliefs, are capable of giving them the greatest
possible pleasure; classicism, on the contrary, of
presenting
them
with that which gave the greatest possible pleasure to their
grandfathers.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Tully - Offices |
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THE WAKING OF THE LARK
O
BONNIE bird that in the brake, exultant, does prepare thee -
As poets do whose thoughts are true — for wings that will
upbear thee,
Oh, tell me, tell me, bonnie bird,
Canst thou not pipe of hope
deferred
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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With these words I turned him out,
strictly
enjoining him not
to return or in any manner to disturb us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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