She wildly view'd the sea below,
Then
headlong
plung'd, to rise no more
Along the wave-worn beach they pass'd.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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You are welcome
I was
expecting
you.
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Longfellow |
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One very interesting fraud carried on under the name of the
Astropathic
Institute by means of this traffic in letters, was unearthed by the Post-office Department recently.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Rather, the name “Hegel” stands for the massif of
metaphysics
as a whole from which existential thinking seeks to break away by no longer leaning on what is objective, but by keeping open the unfathom- ableness of its subjectivity.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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]
5 Traditionally, spirit has a precarious relationship with movement – except that we say of it that it blows where it wants to (which is probably to be understood as a compliment to the
inspired
and also
Notes to pp.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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It was his abnormal sensitiveness to
criticism
that led to
the long war he carried on with the petty writers of the time, whom
he classed together under the general name of dunces.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The older ones also will fatten if they be fed up after
an
incision
has been made into their hide, and air blown thereinto.
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Aristotle |
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LXXIX
He held unsheathed that
thundering
sword in hand,
Which with so many foes has heaped the plain,
That he who thinks to count the slaughtered band,
Has undertaken, hard emprize and vain.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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The problem is instead the preservation and analysis (as a peculiar kind of self-reflection through the transformation of our reading into a
thinking
along the Wake) of the question 'why read?
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Dushmanta — I
respectfully
greet you both.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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When they arrived he dismissed the greater part, ordering
them to
assemble
there again on the morrow; and then taking a short
repast with the few who remained, he delivered his captives to a young
Greek (whom he had not long before taken to serve as an interpreter),
assigning them a part of his own hut for their habitation; giving
strict orders that the wounded youth should have all possible care
taken of him, and the maiden be treated with the utmost respect; and
then, fatigued with his expedition, and the weight of cares which lay
upon him, he betook himself to rest.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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The
Influence
of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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No more for
answering
love I sue,
No more that her untruth be true:
Purge but my heart, my strength renew,
And doom me not my faith to rue.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The
golden circlet gleamed on his brow, his hair
fluttered
in the wind,
and he was clad in steel and iron.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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CHORUS
And yet forsooth dost chide us
following
him!
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Aeschylus |
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As long as Danish literature remains, Baggesen's name will be
known; though his writings are not now widely read, and are im-
portant chiefly because of their
influence
on the literary spirit of his
own time.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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But to her utter amazement she found that to proceed along the
room was by no means the way to
disengage
themselves from the crowd; it
seemed rather to increase as they went on, whereas she had imagined that
when once fairly within the door, they should easily find seats and be
able to watch the dances with perfect convenience.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon and a bitten macaroon.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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therefore, ideas which however agreeable or desirable, are neither practicable nor safe, the follow lowing plan for the
constitution
of a National Bank/is respectfully submitted to the consideration of the house.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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It is
possible
that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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In rueful apprehension enter'd O,
The wailing minstrel of despairing woe;
Th'
Inquisitor
of Spain the most expert
Might there have learnt new mysteries of his art;
So grim, deform'd, with horrors entering U,
His dearest friend and brother scarcely knew!
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Robert Burns- |
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1 and 14 are most probably by the Earl of Pembroke, and the Earl
of
Pembroke
collaborating with Sir Benjamin Rudyard.
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John Donne |
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This, then, must be presupposed as a
condition
of the
possibility of determination of the will.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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This incarnation is be-
tokened by pregnancy, which is
therefore
frank and
open, and even proud, whereas copulation hides itself
like a criminal.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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I
trust your good nature with the whole range of my follies, and really
love you so well, that I would rather you should pardon me than esteem
me; since one is an act of goodness and benevolence, the other a kind
of
constrained
deference.
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Selection of English Letters |
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"
This Concludes the Fourth Chapter on How
Ye-shes mTsho-rgyal
Listened
to the Teachings of the Dharma
77
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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and the support of his utterly useless schools of art
and picture-galleries—to say nothing of all the
energy, time, and money which every family
squanders in
pretended
"artistic interests.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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This proves to demonstration not only the greater frequency of
anomalous skulls (and the same is true of physiognomical,
physiological, and
psychological
anomalies) amongst criminals, but
also that amongst these criminals between fifty and sixty per
cent.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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) Keep your little
Christmas
secrets to yourself, my darling.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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henllded
by bi, admir.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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In
1113 Peter Chrysolanus,
Archbishop
of Milan, held a public debate with
Eustratius, Bishop of Nicaea, but the matter went no further.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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He avers that he saved my life by not exposing Akoulina
Pamphilovna's
stratagem
when she spoke of me to the robbers as her
niece, but it would be easier to me to die than to become the wife of a
man like Chvabrine.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The event of Nietzsche remains epochal not because the author said completely new things about the human
condition
- after all, the call for an over-elevation of man, whether individual or collective, had been in the air since antiquity and had constituted the fluidum of Christianity for a millennium and a half,34 and it continued to be the first self-evident truth of all enlightened communications about the course of the world, even if the pessimistic conservative motto 'man is always the same' had chronically opposed it since the French Revolution.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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But partly they come from an intuition about living things that was first
identified
by the anthropologist James George Frazer in 1890 and has recently been studied in the lab by Paul Rozin, Susan Gelman, Frank Keil, Scott Atran, and other cognitive scientists.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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a sound,
Far and slight,
Breathes
around
On the night
High and higher,
Nigh and nigher,
Like a fire,
Roaring, bright.
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Hugo - Poems |
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as telltale, interspersed
signifiers
out of a flowof speech that is merely the intimidation and resistance, the se- duction and distortion, of a consciousness, the doctor must have recorded them in advance.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Carlyle (your antithesis,
and the
complement
of the Scotch character) supposed; but the morals of
Ettrick are those of rural Sicily in old days, or of Mossgiel in your
days.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Lord, I confess too, when I dine,
The pulse is thine,
And all those other bits that be
There placed by thee;
The worts, the purslain, and the mess
Of water-cress,
Which of thy
kindness
thou hast sent;
And my content
Makes those, and my beloved beet,
To be more sweet.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The
shivering
Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Then Los smote her upon the Earth twas long eer she revivd {This line
inserted
in pencil.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Introdújome Villalta en su alcoba, y
diciendo
sencillamente «aquí tiene
V.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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More telling was the fact that over the years the regime had suc- ceeded in eradicating practically all organized political op- position, so that no means existed for giving
direction
to and translating into action the feelings of disaffection which un- doubtedly developed.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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30
All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own
delivery
nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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No door of cedar,
Alas, shall lead her
Unto the stream that shows forever
Love's face like some
reflected
star!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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As but now
You entered the apartment, I was dazzled
As by a
glorious
vision from on high.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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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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The exhortations sent
him by some eminent French ecclesiastics, such as St Bernard and Peter
of Cluny, only aroused his suspicions of Rome, so that the Pope had to
hasten to declare that those
personages
had acted of their own motion,
and that he was quite a stranger to their overtures.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Est prope
Cimmerios
longo spelunca recessu,
Mons cavus, ignavi domus et penetralia Somni;:
Quo nunquam radiis oriens, mediusve, cadensve,
Phoebus adire potest.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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He did not do this for his own benefit, but he did this so that he could meet great gurus such as Naropa and Maitripa and receive the
teachings
from them and put them into practice.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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About the same time that this
province
had received the
faith of Christ, a grievous pestilence fell upon many provinces of
Britain; which, also, by the Divine dispensation, reached to the aforesaid
monastery, then governed by the most religious priest of Christ,
Eappa;(627) and many, as well of those that had come thither with the
bishop, as of those of the same province of the South Saxons who had been
lately called to the faith, were snatched away out of this world.
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bede |
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III Power and beauty and knowledge
IV O Pan of the evergreen forest
V O Aphrodite
VI Peer of the gods he seems
VII The Cyprian came to thy cradle
VIII Aphrodite of the foam
IX Nay, but always and forever
X Let there be garlands, Dica
XI When the Cretan maidens
XII In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born
XIII Sleep thou in the bosom
XIV Hesperus, bringing together
XV In the grey olive-grove a small brown bird
XVI In the apple-boughs the coolness
XVII Pale rose-leaves have fallen
XVIII The
courtyard
of her house is wide
XIX There is a medlar-tree
XX I behold Arcturus going westward
XXI Softly the first step of twilight
XXII Once you lay upon my bosom
XXIII I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago
XXIV I shall be ever maiden
XXV It was summer when I found you
XXVI I recall thy white gown, cinctured
XXVII Lover, art thou of a surety
XXVIII With your head thrown backward
XXIX Ah, what am I but a torrent
XXX Love shakes my soul, like a mountain wind
XXXI Love, let the wind cry
XXXII Heart of mine, if all the altars
XXXIII Never yet, love, in earth's lifetime
XXXIV "Who was Atthis?
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Sappho |
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The
hastiest
comparison of their
poetic work will show that their only common ideal was the worship of an
exotic beauty.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Goethe's man is a con-
ciliatory and
conservative
spirit, though in danger
of degenerating into a Philistine, just as Rousseau's
man may easily become a Catiline.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Henry,
notwithstanding
this calamity, arrived punctually in
Hungary, and on Whitsunday in Stühlweissenburg, in the banqueting-
hall of the palace, Peter surrendered the golden lance which was the
symbol of the sovereignty of Hungary.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The
beautiful
music which has
accompanied this scenic display now ceases momen-
, tarily and Catullus speaks.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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It is not to the present purpose to mention
particularly
the several
events in the course of this war.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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g(xjc) = g(x) for any c: Then there exists a
peaceful
sub-game perfect equilibrium.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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The other way is to move from the text to the context and locate the author in relation to metapersonal
horizons
that reveal something about his true meaning - at the risk that his own text may be assigned less importance than the larger context in which his words echo.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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be called its _Parts_, for
’tis one and the _same_, _mind_, that _desires_, that _perceives_, that
_understands_; Contrarily, I cannot think of any _Corporeal_ or _extended
Being_, which I cannot easily _divide_ into _Parts_ by my thought, and by
this I
understand
it to be _divisible_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Measure,
fleeting
as lhZ wind,
Leaves remorse and pain behind.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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and
followLd
that vestige
GIles talked and lIstened,
more lIstened, and dId not read
Y oung ]l.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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But as
inexperienced
champions, who, from a passionate desire to distinguish themselves in the Olympic games, can bear the blows of their opponents without shrinking, are often overpowered by the heat of the sun, when it is increased by the reflection of the sand; so he, who had hitherto supported even the sharpest encounters with good success, could not stand the severity of that year of judicial contest, which blazed upon him like a summer's sun.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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My politics are,
that while the present ministry can maintain their seats
and procure supplies, they will
prosecute
the war on the
mere chance of events; and that while this is the plan, they
will not evacuate posts so essential as points of departure,
from whence, on any favourable turn of affairs, to renew
their attack on our most vulnerable side; nor would they
relinquish objects that would be so useful to them, should
the worst happen in a final negotiation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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"Yes, if thou tellest me all,"
answered
Pearl.
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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IV,
Thoughts
out of Season, i.
| Guess: |
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
Into the commentary which folIoW$ the fint parody Joyce
pours all the superfluity of
material
that eQuid not be J<[u~Ltd into the parody itself; "",ful idea.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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What mournful rhymes I wrote and 'rased again,
Spending the
precious
hours of youth in vain!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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[21]
It is
remarkable
that both Adam Smith and Mr.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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-Another bowl of this kind he broke between his first and second
finger,
pressing
them together sideways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
The characters, which are used by the Jews to represent the Hebrew letters, are
different
from those used by the Samaritans; and even the descendants of the Jews agree that the Samaritans use the original and true forms of the characters.
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Hence to the upper
chambers
let me fly
Where slumbers soft now close the royal eye;
There wake her with the news"--the matron cried
"Not so (Ulysses, more sedate, replied),
Bring first the crew who wrought these guilty deeds.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The young man had been the first admirer, but
she trusted there was no other hold, and that there would be no serious
difficulty, on
Harriet’s
side, to oppose any friendly arrangement of her
own.
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
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And are you about to use violence, without even going through the
forms of
justice?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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-- Which, by the way, reminds me how
I caught this
dreadful
hacking cough:
"I cut off the tail of my Ulster furred
To make young Kris a coat of state.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou
succeedest
them,
and dwellest in their land; 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be
not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before
thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did
these nations serve their gods?
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--Ce qu'on ne sait pas, c'est peut-etre terrible:
Nous
saurons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
With some
difficulty
Muriel spelt it out.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Through me the
afflatus
surging and surging, through me the current
and index.
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which are the only two attributes make kings akin to God, and
is the Delphic sword, both to kill sacrifices and to
chastise
offenders.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Who knows if I will not run him
down before he reaches the
fountain?
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She stung him, sapped his firm advance,
But, when her worst was done,
And he, unmoved, regarded her,
Acknowledged
him a man.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_The Catholic Church and the
Principle
of Private Property_.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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_The Catholic Church and the
Principle
of Private Property_.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Setting these two sets of assumptions side by side invites a comparative evaluation of the
strengths
and weaknesses of each.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Peaceful as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd,
In the calm sunshine slept the
glittering
main.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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As for the statement that "the well-destined
accomplishment
will be achieved when one kills the hosts of transcendent buddhas," it is the same as the Root Tantra statement that
Killing the hosts of transcendent buddhas,
One will attain the very supreme accomplishment!
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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But do you have to be
always
thinking
about your trial?
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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Their ghosts, Charlie said, followed the
galley, swimming and choking in the water, and the crew cast lots and
threw one of their number overboard as a
sacrifice
to the strange gods
whom they had offended.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To have bound
up this New
Testament
(a kind of ROCOCO of taste in every respect) along
with the Old Testament into one book, as the "Bible," as "The Book in
Itself," is perhaps the greatest audacity and "sin against the Spirit"
which literary Europe has upon its conscience.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As the
preferred
setting for thematizing everything that appears, the philosopher’s desk turns into a transcendental belvedere.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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I felt my lover look at her
And then turn
suddenly
to me,--
His eyes were magic to defy
The woman I shall never be.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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We have been together
Four Aprils now
Watching for the green
On the swaying willow bough;
Yet
whenever
I turn
To your gray eyes over me,
It is as though I looked
For the first time at the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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" cried,
No hurt he
proffered
him, no blow he strake.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Se condly, an empirical judgment never
exhibits
strict and abso lute, but only assumed and comparative universality (by in duction) therefore, the most we can say --so far as we have hitherto observed, there
rule.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,
Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend,
ourselves
to make a Couch--for whom?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He
speaketh
like a Prophet of the Lord!
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Longfellow |
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