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"The Heliotans and their colleagues have made a peace with the
Selenitans and their associates upon these conditions, that the
Heliotans shall cast down the wall, and deliver the prisoners that
they have taken upon a ratable ransom: and that the Selenitans should
leave the other stars at liberty, and raise no war against the
Heliotans, but aid and assist one another if either of them should
be invaded: that the king of the Selenitans should yearly pay to the
king of the Heliotans in way of tribute ten thousand vessels of dew,
and deliver ten thousand of their people to be pledges for their
fidelity: that the colony to be sent to the Morning Star should be
jointly supplied by them both, and liberty given to any else that
would to be sharers in it: that these
articles
of peace should be
engraven in a pillar of amber, to be erected in the midst of the air
upon the confines of their country: for the performance whereof were
sworn of the Heliotans, Pyronides and Therites and Phlogius: and of
the Selenitans, Nyctor and Menius and Polylampes.
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Lucian - True History |
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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blue; sad; shimmering (màu xanh da trời; buồn; lung linh) |
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tại sao khi còn trẻ họ lại giết tình yêu của mình? |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and
from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising
achievements - although he did not really
distinguish
one from the
other.
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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kill |
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Tại sao lại dùng dao là cách nhanh nhất giết chết tình yêu của chính mình? tại sao khi còn trẻ họ lại giết tình yêu của mình? |
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Trong đoạn văn trên không trực tiếp nói tới việc sử dụng dao là cách nhanh nhất để giết chết tình yêu của chính mình, tuy nhiên có một câu nói về việc "The kindest use a knife, because the dead so soon grow cold" : những người tốt bụng sẽ dùng dao để giết, bởi vì người chết sẽ sớm trở nên lạnh lẽo. Câu này có thể gợi ý rằng dùng dao là một phương pháp nhanh chóng và có thể là tốt hơn những cách khác.
Về việc tại sao khi còn trẻ họ lại giết tình yêu của mình, đoạn văn trên đề cập đến việc "Some kill their love when they are young, and some when they are old". Điều này cho thấy việc giết tình yêu không chỉ xảy ra khi còn trẻ mà còn khi đã già. Lý do có thể đa dạng, bao gồm việc một số người sợ ràng buộc, sự ích kỷ hoặc không chấp nhận được những thay đổi trong cuộc sống và tình yêu. |
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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For
southern
wind and east wind meet
Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide empire.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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630
For which him lyked in his songes shewe
Thencheson
of his wo, as he best mighte,
And made a song of wordes but a fewe,
Somwhat his woful herte for to lighte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Sedan was the site of the great
Prussian
victory in the Franco-
Prussian war, on this day in 1870.
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Dietrich Eckart - Bolshevism From Moses To Lenin |
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Naylor & Vickers, on the other hand, in conformity with the interest of their business, considered that periodically changed night-labour might
possibly
do more harm than continual night-labour.
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--Nous avions un ete semblable
Lorsque je devins
amoureux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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;
and, Us he marks them steer their course sublime,
At
intervals
their clamors strike his ears.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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The words answering for
_forest_
and _door_
([Greek: hul_e and thura]) in Greek only differ slightly in sound.
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Aristophanes |
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The master can learn again the truth of the slave, and learn how to embrace the
powerless
as its own truth.
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slavery |
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Tại sao người chủ lại phải học cách coi kẻ bất lực như sự thật của chính mình giống như người nô lệ? (Why should the master learn to treat the helpless as his own truth like the slave?) tại sao người chủ lại bất lực trước sự học hỏi từ nô lệ? |
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Người chủ nên học cách coi kẻ bất lực như sự thật của chính mình giống như người nô lệ vì điều này giúp họ thấu hiểu và đồng cảm với hoàn cảnh của những người bất lực hơn, nhằm tạo ra một môi trường công bằng và hòa bình hơn cho tất cả mọi người. Ngoài ra, khi học hỏi từ nô lệ, người chủ cũng có thể nhìn nhận lại bản thân và nhận ra những thiếu sót, từ đó giúp họ trở thành một người lãnh đạo tốt hơn. Việc học hỏi từ người nô lệ không phải là dấu hiệu của sự bất lực, mà là một phương pháp để người chủ tiếp tục phát triển và mở rộng kiến thức, kỹ năng của bản thân. |
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Education in Hegel |
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), and he bitterly
complains
that the Metamorphoses
were uncorrected and lacked the finishing touches at the moment of his banish-
ment, as in Trist.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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If we turn now to Marx's view of its content, we may often have the impression that he
ascribes
"faithfulness to fact," and therefore true scholarly rigor, only to the natural sciences and that he sees his own research as having scientific character in that it reveals the workings of social and economic laws.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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THE
HIGHLAND
WELCOME.
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Robert Burns |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Tully - Offices |
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A Rose
The beautiful red rose,
How
naturally
it goes to my nose.
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unique |
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How does the rose go to your nose? |
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The rose goes to your nose naturally, as mentioned in the line, "How naturally it goes to my nose." |
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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When will we be rid of this
commonplace
that so many books are still recount- ing today?
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boredom (Sự nhàm chán) |
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Why should we escape this popularity when so many books are still recounting today? (Tại sao chúng ta lại phải thoát khỏi sự phổ biến này trong khi rất nhiều cuốn sách vẫn đang kể lại ngày nay?) |
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We should escape this popularity because it perpetuates the idea that misunderstood madnesses and witches were simply victims of a society without psychiatrists. This idea can be seen as a commonplace that many books still recount today. Instead, what we should focus on, as Szasz emphasized, is the historical continuity from the institution of witches to the institution of psychiatrists, rather than simply going from witches to madness. |
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Foucault-Live |
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They are
difficult
to record,
but are perhaps more convincing than any quantity of statistics.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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The
Companions
— D you, we'll make you pay for this thrashing, Mr.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Many
territories
are just not worth a war, especially a war that can get out of hand.
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conflict |
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Why are there territorial disputes?( tại sao lại xảy ra tranh chấp lãnh thổ?) |
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There are territorial disputes because many territories are not worth a war, especially a war that can get out of hand. The challenge lies in communicating intentions and making a persuasive threat of war to deter an aggressor, without it sounding like a bluff. Military forces are expected to defend their homelands, sometimes even in a futile effort. |
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Cioran has
correctly
observed, "His misere was therapeutic for us; he opened up the era of ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Ah, how skilful grows the hand
That obeyeth Love's
command!
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bad |
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Why is it that in order to know how to skillfully grow our hands, we have to obey the command of love? (Tại sao để biết cách khéo léo mọc bàn tay thì chúng ta lại phải tuân theo mệnh lệnh tình yêu?) |
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In the passage, it is mentioned that "Ah, how skilful grows the hand / That obeyeth Love's command!" This means that when someone follows the command of love, their skills and abilities grow because they are driven by the passion and devotion in their heart, rather than just their brain. In this context, the young man's love for the maiden motivates him to work skillfully and diligently on the noble task of building a ship, which ultimately leads him to excel and stand out from others. The heart's devotion to love fuels the desire to improve and become more skillful in any task. |
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Longfellow |
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Just so, a miser may conceive a passion for gold,
diamonds
and carbuncles, or a man for the beauty of a foul woman.
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authorities |
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Why is money so attractive? |
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Money is so attractive because, like a hidden treasure or the beauty of a divine face, it inspires passion and the desire to defend it against plunder, negligence, and contamination. Similar to a miser's passion for gold or diamonds, money holds value and can create a sense of jealousy and protectiveness in those who possess it. |
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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was that the most heavily-bombed cities did not necessarily show lower morale than those less
severely
hit.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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You would rather such
revolutions
occurred in the Punjab or in Bessarabia.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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So our little menu has a little
something
from here and a little something from there.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Peter Kann, "Clinton Ignores History's Lessons in Vietnam," Wall Street Journal,
September
9, 1992.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five
mountain
ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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for every one
remembers
all these things.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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[324] Anonymous { F 27 } G
Beneath this stone I lie, the
celebrated
woman who loosed my girdle to one man alone.
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betray (phản bội) |
| Question: |
Why did that famous woman loosen a man's strings for another man? (Tại sao người phụ nữ nổi tiếng ấy lại nới lỏng dây của người đàn ông cho một người đàn ông khác?) |
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The passage does not provide information about a famous woman loosening a man's strings for another man. |
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Greek Anthology |
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Although
he does not seem an imposing figure, a founder of a new discourse?
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The distracted consciousness of Anyone is condemned to
remaining
discontinuous, impulsively reactive, automatic, and unfree.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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His hand lays
blindness
(on their eyes).
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gently; lightly (dịu dàng; nhẹ nhàng) |
| Question: |
Tại sao anh ấy lại đặt tay lên mắt của họ? (Why did he put his hand over their eyes?) |
| Answer: |
Anh ấy đặt tay lên mắt của họ để làm cho họ bị mù (His hand lays blindness (on their eyes)). |
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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this and the envisagement of fate are the acme of experience, to die imperturbably through an empty caprice, not from natural causes, nor through the
external
force of circumstances, nor in consequence of offending against something ethical.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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S he
strove to thank him, but he begged her so naturally not to
speak of it, that she obeyed; charging him to inform L ady
E dgarmond that she refused the legacy of her uncle; and
to do so, as if she had sent this message from I taly; for
she did not wish her
stepmother
to k now she had been in
E ngland.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Deucalion has no
offspring
so divine
As is my Zeus--of thunder naught I know.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Uber des
Erschlagenen
Statte schweben rachende
Geister und lauern auf den wiederkehrenden Morder.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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52
Est
Epanorthosis
positi correctio sensus.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Translators have
obviously
used Zottoli as a text.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It was clear that a
disturbing
influence had found its way into Gordon's
mind.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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It is entitled
A Collection of
Original
Poetry
written about the time of
Ben: Jonson
qui ob.
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John Donne |
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The Origin o
fEuropean
Thought about th Body, the Mind, the Soul, the
World, Time, and Fate.
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Salió el wazir, brillando en su pupila
El fuego del rencor: y la Sultana,
Luego que oyó el rumor de los cerrojos
De la postrera cámara lejana,
La carta á desplegar volvió tranquila,
Devorando
lo escrito con los ojos.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Ground
mahamudra
is the view, understanding things as they are.
| Guess: |
outside (bên ngoài) |
| Question: |
Tại sao đại ấn lại có thể thấy và hiểu khi chúng thể hiện? |
| Answer: |
Đại ấn có thể thấy và hiểu khi chúng thể hiện, vì đại ấn là quan điểm, hiểu và nhận thức về mọi vật theo chính bản chất của chúng. |
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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his
children
wel; sore sawe?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Indeed, in these days
of adaptations, it is to be wondered at that no
enterprising
librettist has
attempted to build a children's comic opera out of the materials supplied
in the four books with which we are now concerned.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are
within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other
such are
generally
not so.
| Guess: |
just |
| Question: |
What is in the power of the will? |
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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silence it Still m darkness, she knelt
down at her bedside and repeated the Lord’s Prayer, but rather distractedly,
her feet being troubled by the cold
It was just half past five, and coldish for an August morning Dorothy (her
name was Dorothy Hare, and she was the only child of the Reverend Charles
Hare, Rector of St Athelstan’s, Knype Hill, Suffolk) put on her aged
flannelette dressing-gown and felt her way downstairs There was a chill
morning smell of dust, damp plaster, and the fried dabs from yesterday’s
supper, and from either side of the passage on the second floor she could hear
the antiphonal snoring of her father and of Ellen, the maid of all work With
care-for the kitchen table had a nasty trick of reaching out of the
darkness
and
banging you on the hip-bone-Dorothy felt her way into the kitchen, lighted
the candle on the mantelpiece, and, still aching with fatigue, knelt down and
raked the ashes out of the range
The kitchen fire was a ‘beast’ to light The chimney was crooked and there-
fore perpetually half choked, and the fire, before it would light, expected to be
dosed with a cupful of kerosene, like a drunkard’s morning nip of gin Having
set the kettle to boil for her father’s shaving-water, Dorothy went upstairs and
turned on her bath.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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SECOND FAUN:
'Tis hard to tell;
I have heard those more skilled in spirits say, _70
The bubbles, which the enchantment of the sun
Sucks from the pale faint water-flowers that pave
The oozy bottom of clear lakes and pools,
Are the pavilions where such dwell and float
Under the green and golden atmosphere _75
Which
noontide
kindles through the woven leaves;
And when these burst, and the thin fiery air,
The which they breathed within those lucent domes,
Ascends to flow like meteors through the night,
They ride on them, and rein their headlong speed, _80
And bow their burning crests, and glide in fire
Under the waters of the earth again.
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Shelley |
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O
proudest
heart that broke for misery!
| Guess: |
swollen |
| Question: |
Why did my heart break? |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The
conscience
of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Coleridge
was then extremely ill;
but certainly did not believe his end to be quite so near at hand as it
was.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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The mentor's totalitarian self is identified with an object constructed through irreducible
operations
of psy- chic denial, splitting off and projective identification.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Ein weisses Sternenhemd ver-
brennt die
tragenden
Schultern und Gottes Geier zer-
fleischen dein metallenes Herz.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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You are
overwrought
and perhaps over-anxious.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of killing
And a field where a
thousand
corpses
lie.
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Stephen Crane |
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Austin (1962, 1970), Goffman (1967),
Garfinkel
(1967), and E.
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Childens - Folklore |
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He decided to buy the entire royal equipment of
Dionysius
the tyrant of Sicily, who had been removed from power.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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As that work
gives the Catholic
population
and the number of infant baptisms during the
previous year in each diocese of Great Britain, and as Catholic children
are always baptized soon after birth, it is possible to estimate the
birth-rate of the Catholic population.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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His mother was the
daughter
of a ship owner in Nantes.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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The Nightingale that in the
Branches
sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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She had a
faithful
and favorite attendant,
named Gigis, who, as Dinon tells us, assisted in the
affair of the poison ; but, according to Ctesias, she was
only conscious to it, and that against her will.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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"
Chang Wu-tzu said, "Even the Yellow Emperor would be confused if he heard such words, so how could you expect
Confucius
to understand them?
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Chuang Tzu |
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Wait only till the stars peep out,
The fairest shall be thine:
"Wait only till the hand of eve
Hath wholly closed yon western bars,
And through the dark we two will steal
Beneath the
twinkling
stars!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We bowed down before a man of mean birth, of
ungraceful demeanour, of
stammering
and most vulgar utterance, of
scandalous and notorious hypocrisy.
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Macaulay |
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SAS}
Luvah & Vala trembling & shrinking, beheld the great Work master {According to Erdman, the first
rendition
of the line read "beheld the lord of ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Irving's back the same
compliment
of
reading it at a sitting.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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But this did not suit them, so they sent another
petition
to Jove,
and said to him, "We want a real king; one that will really rule
over us.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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chte des Holunders
Sich
staunend
neigen u?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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TO A GERMAN, PREVENTING A ROMAN YOUTH
FROM
DRINKING
OF THE MARTIAN WATER, WHILE
HE DRUNK IT HIMSELF.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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In a world in which there are four billion human beings and economic and energy resources which do not grow proportionally to meet the needs of
mankind, it is unrealistic to expect to fulfill the main
requirement
of Western Society,1 i.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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And whereas Paul doth not doubt of Agrippa's faith, he doth it not so much to praise him, as that he may put the Scripture out of all question, lest he be
enforced
to stand upon the very principles.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have
gathered
in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul
as it leads.
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Sara Teasdale |
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For thilke night I last
Criseyde
say,
She seyde, "I shal ben here, if that I may,
Er that the mone, O dere herte swete!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yet all thefe Accidents often
happened
by your former Laws,
becaufe the Poor were incapable of paying their Taxes, i From
hence many infuperable Difficulties arofe.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Euripjdes—and this is the solution of the riddle
just
propounded—felt
himself, as a poet, un- 1
flnnhtprHy si]pprinr tr» \hp masses, but not to two /
of his spectators: he brought the masses upon
the stage; these two spectators he revered as the
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Antwerp is never omitted from his memoratida, for a resting place in the tourist's itinerary ; and, by
starting
at an early yet suitable hour from this city, the morning train to Turnhout will leave the traveller at Herenthals station.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:08 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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"
To what poem Dorothy
Wordsworth
referred under the name of the
"Inscription of the Pathway" has puzzled me much.
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William Wordsworth |
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One of the girls was brought to bed about a
fortnight
before the other, and he found it no small difficulty to give security to the parish-officers.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But, though in haste thy voyage to pursue, 390
Yet stay, that in the bath
refreshing
first
Thy limbs now weary, thou may'st sprightlier seek
Thy gallant bark, charged with some noble gift
Of finish'd workmanship, which thou shalt keep
As my memorial ever; such a boon
As men confer on guests whom much they love.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then would they try
Ever new modes of tilling their loved crofts,
And mark they would how earth improved the taste
Of the wild fruits by fond and
fostering
care.
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Lucretius |
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This
principle
is maintained consistently in all George's poems,
even in the hortatory poems in the later volumes.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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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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Sallust - Catiline |
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You see, I too
sometimes
know how
to make puns.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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One reading is that the many teachings called "vast" and "profound" are
deception
for those of lesser intelligence because only those of the highest intelligence are capable of assimilating the vastness and profundity and arriving at the essential key point without becoming distracted or confused.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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= Gifford says that the side note 'could scarcely
come from Jonson; for it
explains
nothing.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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(59) A pity that he didn't add how they
administer
it.
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Dietrich Eckart - Bolshevism From Moses To Lenin |
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