George the
triumphant
speeds over the wave,
To the long-cherish'd isle which he loved like his—bride.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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As soon as she arrived at her palace, she hurried to her cham ber, and,
throwing
herself upon the bed, in the habit she had on, lay there a long time speechless.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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His relationship with Marius and Cinna (his father’s sister had been the wife of Marius, he himself had married Cinna’s daughter); the courageous refusal of the youth who had scarce out grown the age of boyhood to send a divorce to his young wife Cornelia at the bidding of the dictator, as Pompeius had in the like case done; his bold persistence in the
conferred upon him by Marius, but revoked by Sulla; his wanderings during the
proscription
with which he was threatened, and which was with difficulty averted by the intercession of his relatives; his bravery in the conflicts before Mytilene and in Cilicia, a bravery which no one had expected from the tenderly reared and almost effeminately foppish boy; even the warnings of Sulla regarding the “boy in the petticoat ” in whom more than a
strangely brought forward in opposition to that Caesar "pane M"
was appointed by Marius and Cinna as Flamen of Jupiter (Vell.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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7 In astrology he considered himself so proficient that on the Kalends of January he would actually write down all that might happen to him in the whole ensuing year, and in the year in which he died, indeed, he wrote down
everything
that he was going to do, down to the very hour of his death.
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Historia Augusta |
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It is
improper
to say that one who has entered the 'bhumi' is of 'soft senses'.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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The
following
interesting account of this plaintive dirge was
communicated to Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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Then there she is in the piercing cold at dawn,
hoarfrost adrip from her
feathers
agleam with day.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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In the course of the last year,
I
proposed
it repeatedly to individual members, who gene-
rally approved, and once or twice took occasion to mention
it in congress.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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293-4, and married
boundaries
and the walls of Antioch, and conferred
A.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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It is
in these that "poeta
nascitur
non fit.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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But he needed more
vigilance
than of old.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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By his mother's advice he
sought the patronage of his distant kinsman, Sir William Temple,
the elegant
dilettante
of Moor Park.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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From the perspective of general systems theory, philos- ophy as a whole is an exhausted, totalizing lan- guage game whose instruments corresponded to
4
Luhmann and Derrida
the semantic horizon of historical societies, but can no longer do justice to the primary fact of moder- nity, namely the progressive
differentiation
of the social system.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Funeral-torches at your gateway
Threw a
dreadful
light within.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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By the
suffrages
of his fellow-teachers, Fichte was
unanimously elected Kector.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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There the grey guinea-fowl stands in the way,
The young black heifer and the raw-ribbed mare,
And scorn to move for tumbril or for dray,
And feel
themselves
as good as farmers there.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Cyre: stream at Cyrene which after running some distance under ground reappears at the Temple of Apollo as the
fountain
of Apollo (Herod.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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But even as a bird that waileth upon her young ones’ perishing when her babes be devoured one by one of a dire serpent in the thicket, and flies to and fro, the poor raving mother,
screaming
above her children, and cannot go near to aid them for her own great terror of that remorseless monster; even so this unhappiest of mothers that’s before thee did speed back and forth through all that house in a frenzy, crying woe upon her pretty brood.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Translated by Helen
Zimmern, with
Introduction
by T.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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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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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Tartary,
Who divided his jugular artery;
But he
screeched
to his Wife, and she said, "Oh, my life!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He could not
have devised anything more likely to raise his consequence than this
week’s absence,
occurring
as it did at the very time of her brother’s
going away, of William Price’s going too, and completing the sort of
general break-up of a party which had been so animated.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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An attack by the king's troops was repulsed, and
he again sent presents and offered to
despatch
his own mother to
ask pardon for his offences.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Elements
of Anglo-Saxon Grammar.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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And thus, parallel to the æsthetic
necessity
for
beauty, there run the demands“ know thyself”
and “not too much," while presumption and
undueness are regarded as the truly hostile demons
of the non-Apollonian sphere, hence as char-
acteristics of the pre-Apollonian age, that of the
Titans, and of the extra-Apollonian world, that of
the barbarians.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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The moon is distant from the sea,
And yet with amber hands
She leads him, docile as a boy,
Along
appointed
sands.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Every kind of pain that man or
beast has suffered, we must take upon ourselves and
bless, and have a goal whereby such
suffering
would
acquire some meaning.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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44:5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by
the name of Jacob; and another shall
subscribe
with his hand unto the
LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
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bible-kjv |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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And I, passing near them, as chance led me, was called
by one of these gentle ladies; and she who had called me was a
lady of very
pleasing
speech; so that when I drew nigh to them
and saw plainly that my most gentle lady was not among them,
reassuring myself, I saluted them and asked what might be
their pleasure.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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The Ovid reference is (arguably) to Cycnus, son of Sthenelus, changed to a swan, grieving for
Phaethon
(See Metamorphoses II 367 and also Virgil, Aeneid X 187).
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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I forgot many things which
happened
to me there, but the memory
of such happiness, so humble and so content, was never erased from my
memory.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The
difference
now is that the one worn by the U?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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And yet the
affectionate and tender heart which his had been, always warms his
discussions and his most
abstract
exegesis.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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All-honor'd, prudent, whose sagacious mind knows all that was, and is, of ev'ry kind,
With all that shall be in succeeding time; so vast thy wisdom, wond'rous, and sublime:
For all things Nature first to thee consign'd, and in thy essence
omniform
confin'd.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Our auld guidman
delights
to view
His sheep an' kye thrive bonnie, O;
But I'm as blythe that hauds his pleugh,
An' has nae care but Nannie, O.
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Robert Burns |
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Aristotle extends the principle by suggesting that in
the artificial excitement aroused by violently
stimulating
music or in
the transports of sympathetic apprehension and pity with which we follow
the disasters of the stage-hero, we have a safe and ready means of
ridding ourselves of morbid emotional strain which might otherwise have
worked havoc with the efficient conduct of real life.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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O king Priam,' quod they, `thus seggen we,
That al our voys is to for-gon Criseyde;' 195
And to
deliveren
Antenor they preyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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from the
University
of Cracow ex-
pounded the works of Wyclif and wrote a
hymn in honor of the English reformer.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Alcman
mentions
them too.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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or other equivalent proprietary form).
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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66 --The
improvements
which took place not long ago in frames for making patent net were so great that a machine in good repair which had cost ?
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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This is a bad attack you
have—reason
is
attacking you!
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Heracles
was bettone on three nights.
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Pattern Poems |
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Love answers: "In myself and Heaven what lay,
By
conversation
pure and counsel wise,
All was in her whom death has snatch'd away.
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Petrarch |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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To have attachment to
imaginary
projections of bliss (bde.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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You could further assert that Kung taught that
organization
is
II.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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No help it were to us, the horn to blow,
But, none the less, it may be better so;
The King will come, with
vengeance
that he owes;
These Spanish men never away shall go.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many downloads are occurring from a single
location
(IP address).
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Crawford was
somewhat
distinguishing
his niece--nor perhaps refrain (though unconsciously) from giving a more
willing assent to invitations on that account.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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But he protested, later, that the Fellows treated him with more
than
ordinary
respect' and wished him to stay up at the end of his
seven years, when, in 1632, he took the M.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Poetry in
Translation
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Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Itineraire de Paris a
Jerusalem
et de Jerusalem a Paris
(Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem and Back)
With a selection of engravings and lithographs from nineteenth-century travelogues by celebrated artists such as
Edward Dodwell Esq, F.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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I humbly ask Your Sagely Majesty to show your compassion and provide me with a little good copper to
facilitate
the work of casting [the four vessels].
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Still a figure of
transcendent
interest, the most lion-hearted, the lofti- est-souled of Englishmen, the one consummate artist our race has produced.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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For though he was thoroughly con-
scious of the slenderness of his own abilities, yet he
was
unwilling
to be one of those, who travel only to
indulge themselves in a shameful pursuit of pleasures,
or with a view of merely gratifying their eyes with
novelties.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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OONTS
(Northern India
Transport
Train)
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to @penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?
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Kipling - Poems |
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A
reductionist
theory is a theory about the behavior of parts.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Although an ironic structure of self-consciousness may be missing in Rilke's poem, the
totality
achieving its brilliance in late autumn is every much as descriptive of the poet's heroic struggle as Nietzsche's figuration of the U?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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That all seems to have changed in a split second and be- come a
cultural
moment associated with artisan foods, anti-mall food court cui- sine, and a certain louche style practiced by drunken students in Oxford after a night of carousing.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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' we exclaim ; 'you do
yourself
too much honor.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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The Eugenics
Registry
at Battle Creek, Mich.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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The result was that precise
description was no longer required nor desired, and that ob-
jective lineaments were dissolved into movement, vagueness and
imprecision with a marked
tendency
towards achieving musical
rather than plastic effects.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Your Actors must by Reason be control'd;
Let young men speak like young, old men like old:
Observe the Town, and study well the Court;
For thither various Characters resort:
Thus 'twas great Iohnson purchas'd his renown,
And in his Art had born away the Crown;
If less
desirous
of the Peoples praise,
He had not with low Farce debas'd his Playes;
Mixing dull Buffoonry with Wit refin'd,
And Harlequin with noble Terence joyn'd.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Even as on the Christmas
Eve which Mickiewicz and his companions spent
in Adam's prison cell, they heard the Polish
Christmas carols ringing out from a church near by,
which, says a fellow-prisoner of the poet, "trans-
ported us to our firesides where our mothers
and sisters were weeping for us " ;* so now into
the dungeon where the priest and prisoner are
alone
penetrates
the music of these hymns.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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ay, a
wilderness
of faults and follies; her looks
are scorn, and her very smiles--'Sdeath!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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CATHLEEN
(_rising_)
Has some misfortune happened?
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Yeats - Poems |
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The Court had only just
returned
from their flight.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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They reminded them that in
their fathers' time the Emperor Charles the Fifth had consented
to suspend the
execution
of a similar ordinance.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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I began
to reflect whether I had done
anything
to offend her; and my conscience
whispered me that I had not yet told her about Dora.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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"
This is well
illustrated
by The Lion-Makers' below.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Small clouds float by in the blue sky, and
occasionally
a swallow
passes.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Rather, it has to do with memes fitting in with mutually
compatible
memeplexes.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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How could I show you in one day, my lord,
My castle and my
treasures
and my tower?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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But now, master, when
children
were born to Adam,
how did go then
R.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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In this,
96 foucault
the phenomenon of Foucault resembles that of Nietzsche, in whom quasi-Platonic passions led in an analogous way to anti-
Platonic
spiritual exercises.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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For more
information
about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Do the
peasants
under- stand, one wonders, that in the revival of foreign trade they can obtain relief from the prices that oppress them?
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The number of verses he could
recite was prodigious, and what he
remembered
of the
parts of playes, which he would also act: and when
seeing a Plautus in a person's hand, he asked what
booke it was, and being told it was comedy, and too
difficult for him, he wept for sorrowe.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
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The
National
Army.
| Guess: |
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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It
contradicts
also the maxim ascribed to
him, that "a great book is a great evil.
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(Goethe,
Siimtliche
Werke, vol.
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Men of the jury, listen to this
indictment
I have drawn up.
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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V MODERNIST TRAKL AND BEYOND
The reading suggested by Heinrich and Steuer (Trakl's poetry articulating a meaning which is beyond meaning, but not the undermining of meaning tout court) is an early version of what could be called the strong Modernist account of Trakl which is clearly set out in the
analyses
by Adorno and Heidegger.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Shakespeare
A
Midsummer
Night's Dream
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Do ye know our voices
Chanting
down the Golden?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Whether a child or adult is in a state of security, anxiety, or distress is
determined
in large part by the accessibility and responsiveness of his principal attachment figure.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Christopher Newman, however, is a man through
and through, with the native
qualities
in their most typical form.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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If the project of a joint work with Mason on the history of
English poetry had not fallen through, Gray must have found
his
associate
a terrible incubus.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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They
were
intruders
whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense,
because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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" Like Daguerre, the father of the Lumiere
brothers
was also originally a painter who became a photographer.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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) When the arrow of the
water-clock registered the moment of the change from one
division
into
another, the Cock-man on duty struck the appropriate tally-stick on a
stone set for that purpose beside the door of the Palace.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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If she could only have a few
minutes
conversation
with him again, she fancied she should be
satisfied; and as to the power of addressing him, she felt all over
courage if the opportunity occurred.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Let there be a cottage standing in a valley, eighteen miles from any
town--no
spacious
valley, but about two miles long by three-quarters of a
mile in average width; the benefit of which provision is that all the
family resident within its circuit will compose, as it were, one larger
household, personally familiar to your eye, and more or less interesting
to your affections.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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We
encourage
you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an
electronic path open for the next readers.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For how
Criseyde
Troilus forsook, 15
Or at the leste, how that she was unkinde,
Mot hennes-forth ben matere of my book,
As wryten folk through which it is in minde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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