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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Lo ben che tutto il regno che tu scandi
volge e contenta, fa esser virtute
sua
provedenza
in questi corpi grandi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing,
in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its
forehead, as if
overcome
with a great weariness; and all about others
were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture
of a massacre or a pestilence.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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IO
Yet
somewhat
add; forewarn me in my woe
What time shall bring my wandering to its goal?
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Aeschylus |
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Nor failed the master swain
T' adore the Gods, (for wise and good was he)
But consecration of the victim, first,
Himself performing, cast into the fire
The
forehead
bristles of the tusky boar,
Then pray'd to all above, that, safe, at length,
Ulysses might regain his native home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Plans of campaign throw little light on that: so they
did not interest him, or, if they did, he
suppressed
his interest
because he knew that his public would otherwise behave as Dr.
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Tacitus |
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The general form of relative value, embracing the whole world of commodities,
converts
the single commodity that is excluded from the rest, and made to play the part of equivalent - here the linen - into the universal equivalent.
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Còn các sĩ tử
ngước
mắt nhìn lên cũng sẽ hăng hái lòng trung nghĩa, trau giồi học hành, đức hạnh để mong có ngày hiển dương đắc dụng.
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1The two critics also
identified
a common turn towards a "ruta trascendentalista, expansiva, del sujeto y el lenguaje" (10), for which, they proposed, Octavio Paz, as late as La otra voz (1990), was a paragon.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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3 Consider what mighty nations the Romans have made their
subjects
instead of their enemies after they had often suffered defeat at their hands.
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Nothing for us, we are for nothing fit;
Chance, or ourselves, still
disproportion
it.
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Donne - 2 |
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(Er notigt den
Mephistopheles
zu sitzen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He said: "Whoever
practices
here, because it is my heart place, will receive the Mahamudra siddhis.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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8 Such was the
division
of Europe.
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Roman Translations |
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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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Yen Liû said, 'For the son of Heaven dragons are painted on (the shafts of) the funeral carriage, and the boards surrounding the coffin, like the shell, have a
covering
over them.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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[633] _Cum voce
trementia
membra.
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Satires |
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He
employed
also the Greek rhetorician Eugamius, who was famous in his day.
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CHORUS
O thou, the warder of my home,
Grant, unto us, Fate's
favouring
tide,
Send on the foemen doom!
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Aeschylus |
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The dreamy butterflies bestir,
Lethargic pools resume the whir
Of last year's
sundered
tune.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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His Phaenomena is divided into three parts: constellations, the risings and
settings
of the stars, and weather signs.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:33 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Pope, who had some slight personal acquaintance
with him, disliked his political connections and
probably
despised his
verses, and in the 'Imitation' already mentioned had alluded to him
under the title of Lord Fanny as capable of turning out a thousand lines
of verse a day.
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Alexander Pope |
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com,
for a more
complete
list of our various sites.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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my own
inspired
bard!
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burns |
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This being so, the authentic
transmission
to the present of the skin,
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Shobogenzo |
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Most American workers have too great a sense of humor to permit them to believe that they are
qualified
t^o make such decisions.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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XVI
"The ox toils through the furrow,
Obedient
to the goad;
The patient ass, up flinty paths,
Plods with his weary load:
With whine and bound the spaniel
His master's whistle hears;
And the sheep yields her patiently
To the loud-clashing shears.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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1] But when Zeus was full-grown, he took Metis, daughter of Ocean, to help him, and she gave Cronus a drug to swallow,12 which forced him to disgorge first the stone and then the
children
whom he had swallowed, and with their aid Zeus waged the war against Cronus and the Titans.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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One of the last tasks of philosophy is to
preserve
the healing fiction of a free dialogue.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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If the administration leaves much to be desired and cannot be
criticized
too severely, we must allow that the officials themselves are the most accomplished men we could wish to know.
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She recalled vaguely the
terrifying
story of the
Crucified Child which she had hitherto believed a gross calumny invented
by the populace for the taunting and reproaching of the Hebrews.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The prominence or dominance of French ideas in European history
is also
emphasized
in Guizot's 'History of Civilization in France.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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399 answer
teaching
the keys of the magic body of this noble tradition.
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The motion in question is,
according to common and long-received opinion,
considered
to be that
of the heavenly bodies.
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Bacon |
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" From the following passage extracted from Facciolati, it would seem, however, that German critics repudiate this idea: "De barito clamore bellico, seu, ut quaedam habent exemplaria, bardito, nihil audiuimus nunc in Germaniâ: nisi hoc dixerimus, quòd bracht, vel brecht, milites Germani appellare consueverunt;
concursum
videlicet certantium, et clamorem ad pugnam descendentium; quem bar, bar, bar, sonuisse nonnulli affirmant.
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'Tis
impudence
to think my soul will bear it.
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Thomas Otway |
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Sometimes one can put one’s finger
on a single sentence in which the original
illusion
is destroyed.
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Orwell |
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Why does he make it
any
business
of his, to wonder at what I do?
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Austen - Emma |
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The ancient village self-government
Village organisation
The village headman
The village police
Famine relief
Rural boards
The Bengal ferry committees
Local committees
elsewhere
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Generated for (University of
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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At the end of the day she has not
finished
her task;
Her bitter tears fall like streaming rain.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[b] In other rebirths: it guides one from the
suffering
of samsara, and the suffering of evil destinies, and gives zest for the joys of higher rebirths and Nirvana.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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It very much
resembles
the breath, with a mixture
of heat thrown in, sometimes coming nearer in nature to the first,
sometimes to the second.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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7 or
obtain permission for the use of the work and the Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I joy no child he was of thine:
Thy free-born men should spare what once was free;
Yet they could violate each
saddening
shrine,
And bear these altars o'er the long reluctant brine.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Macleane's
property
being entirely exhausted, his mother's friends, who were the only relations he had in Ireland, quarrelled with him for his extrava
and refused him either advice, shelter, or sub sistence.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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(This
requires
setting fire to the grass behind me as I face the enemy, with the wind blowing toward the enemy.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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When we cautiously
adventured
nigh,
We could see his lips with anguish quiver;
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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It conveys to the patient that the therapist
does not understand him and may indeed con- vince him that the therapist is
behaving
exactly as his parent had predicted.
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There is
confusion
worse than death,
Trouble on trouble, pain on pain,
Long labor unto aged breath,
Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars
And eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilot-stars.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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When he called a council of war, he proposed the question in
a few words: all his generals wrote their
opinions
in his presence
upon separate papers, which he carried away, and, examining them in
private, formed his resolution, without imparting it otherwise than by
his orders.
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Longfellow's longer poems may be conveniently divided into two
classes,
according
to subject-matter.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Wherefore,everyemissaryof
sedition
that came from Norway found welcome at his court.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Because she was so innocent,
That Heaven her character had blent
With an
imagination
wild,
With intellect and strong volition
And a determined disposition,
An ardent heart and yet so mild?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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) in 1889, I think they should
be
received
with caution.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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3) Guelf and
Ghibeline
and degeneracy of the free
cities ; Condotteri princes, and
4) Rise of the Dukedoms.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Sacerdos
has been thought
to be a suspicious name for a presbyter, but though we have been unable
to find any other instance, it may be pointed out that Priest may be
found as a proper name in the clergy list of to-day.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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I have seen
beautiful
feet
but never beauty welded with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;--
The astonished Muse finds
thousands
at her side.
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Emerson - Poems |
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90
Great Goddess, Goddess Cybebe, Dindymus dame divine,
Far from my house and home thy wrath and wrack, dread mistress mine:
Goad others on with Fury's goad, others to Ire
consign!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He threatened that war might become
inevitable
if those states- men should ever come into ofBce.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Where this is not
achieved
in a poem,
the metre merely reminds the reader of his claims in order to disappoint
them; and where this defect occurs frequently, his feelings are
alternately startled by anticlimax and hyperclimax.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Some of them had wings, and were of monstrous forms: others
set out in pomp, as it were in a triumph,
representing
the appearances
of kings, gods, and other persons.
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Lucian - True History |
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effaced by tears, expressions that had no sense, tender ravings, a
thousand ideas that clashed with each other; the purest religious
sentiments and the most devoted love, the severest moral rectitude
and the most passionate forgetfulness, all are united therein, and any
one but a lover would have thought
Maguelonne
bereft of reason.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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"
Reply to Objection 1: The incorruptibility of a glorified body does not
result from the nature of its component parts; and it is on account of
that nature that
whatever
is palpable is corruptible, as stated above.
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Summa Theologica |
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On the
northeast
coast of Van Diemen's Land is a place
called St.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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repressed by the constant
affirmation
of a newly differentiated and separated aesthetic ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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So of
translators
they are authors grown.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In Cromer’s own case as an imperial administrator the
“proper
study is also man,” he says.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw,
And ever nigher still their faces came,
And nigher ever did their young mouths draw
Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame,
And longing arms around her neck he cast,
And felt her
throbbing
bosom, and his breath came hot and fast,
And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss,
And all her maidenhood was his to slay,
And limb to limb in long and rapturous bliss
Their passion waxed and waned,--O why essay
To pipe again of love, too venturous reed!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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After the deal was over, the cards were
shuffled
and the game began
again.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Competition and the neglect of these basic ties
threaten
to destroy us.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's
dreadful
pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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The Wine
I cannot die, who drank delight
From the cup of the crescent moon,
And
hungrily
as men eat bread,
Loved the scented nights of June.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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games: A
reference
to chariot races in the Circus Maximus.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Though the bloom of his early youth was effaced by several
years residence under the scorching sky of Africa, and though altered by
the loss of an eye, his presence gave uneasiness to the gentlemen of
some families of the first rank where he had
formerly
visited.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Rochester
stepped out of his
disguise.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Rochester
stepped out of his
disguise.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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You will go far without finding any sounder
estimates
than his of Jefferson and John Adams, or a better summary than his so brief summary of Jefferson's view.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Here is our
translation
of the citation from St.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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He
perished
in the thirty-second year of his life.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Au
moment dont il est question, fin 1871, nos <> se tenaient au
premier etage d'un
marchand
de vins etabli au coin de la rue Bonaparte
et de la place Saint-Sulpice, vis-a-vis d'un libraire d'occasion (rue
Bonaparte) et (rue du Vieux-Colombier) d'un negociant [en] objets
religieux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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As with the sorcerer's
help man is able to injure a more
powerful
enemy
'and keep him in fear, as the love-charm works at
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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My thesis requires attention because the transformation of our chronotope--which explains why our altered
relationship
to classics is so all-pervading--has escaped the notice of the humanities.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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That 'was my counter-blade under Leonardo Terrene, Master of Fence
GONE while your tastes were keen to you, Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man
parrieth
;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Well, however, let us fast, a God's name; yet I have fasted so long that it
has quite
undermined
my flesh, and I fear that at last the bastions of this
bodily fort of mine will fall to ruin.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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I hear the rustle of wings,
Ye
meditate
what to say
Ere ye go to quit me for ever and aye.
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Emerson - Poems |
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They say that the poet mentions this meadow, in the
words,
“On the Asian mead,”[112]
and they show a temple dedicated to two heroes, Caÿstrius and Asius, and
the
Caÿster
flowing near it.
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Strabo |
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Therefore error is not by its very
nature an
impediment
to marriage.
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Summa Theologica |
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For such a person must necessarily o en reproach universal Nature, r Nature attributes a particular lot to the bad and to the good,
contrary
to their merit; r the bad often live in pleasures and possess that by which they may procure them, while good people encounter only pain and that which is its cause.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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So when facts tip over a sacred cow, people are tempted to suppress the facts and to clamp down on debate because the facts
threaten
everything they hold sacred.
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[Footnote 1:
[Greek: hos eipon, alochoio thilaes en chersin ethaeke paid eon hae d ara
min
chaeodei
dexato cholpo, dachruoen gelasasa.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In others,
smallness
of size formed the mark.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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