There were many preachers of righteousness in medieval
times who tried to lead in reforming the evils of Church and
State, with the ain of producing
religious
and civil liberty, a-
gainst the inconceivable corruption and tyranny of the Papacy.
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There were many preachers of righteousness in medieval
times who tried to lead in reforming the evils of Church and
State, with the ain of producing
religious
and civil liberty, a-
gainst the inconceivable corruption and tyranny of the Papacy.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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You know me too well not to keep up your character as an augur by divining that nothing is more entirely alien from my
I will add that while my decision is in itself a great source of
pleasure
to me, to find my conduct approved by you is a triumph of gratification.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Secondly, to carry the cultivation of his will up to the purest virtuous disposition, that, namely, in which the law is also the spring of his dutiful actions, and to obey it from duty, for this is
internal
morally practical perfection.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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And not only individual men but
all mankind will by degrees be uplifted to this manliness when they are
finally
habituated
to the proper appreciation of tenable, enduring
knowledge and have lost all faith in inspiration and in the miraculous
revelation of truth.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But the Marathas were
an ever present menace to his state and proved his chief preoccupation
throughout his rule, and they succeeded in
nibbling
away his state
when he was no more.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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One melodious
mouthpiece
of Calliopè is long dead, and that is Homer; that lovely son of thine was mourned, ‘tis said, of thy tearful flood, and all the sea was filled with the voice of thy lamentation: and lo!
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Moschus |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"We have conquered, friend Hajji," would he say to
"The infidel thought that we were fools; but we will teach
him what
Persians
are.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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But as other commodities
would be raised in price in
proportion
as raw produce entered into their
composition, he would have more to pay for some of them.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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From some old
fortress
on the sun
Baronial bees march, one by one,
In murmuring platoon!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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All
valuations
are only the results of, and the
narrow points of view in serving, this one will: valuing in itself is nothing save this,--will to power.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Poetical language is the key to the ideal world of poetry, poetic measure the key to poetical feeling ; for the man, to whom the eloquent epithet is dumb and the living image is dead, and in whom the times of dactyls and iambuses awaken no inward echo, Homer and
Sophocles
have composed in vain.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Is the last syllable of the
preposition
Penes long or short?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Individual
recognition
is the rule.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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22, 23,
postpones
this instruction, until he had first
parentes rediit.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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[i] 490
--Unfading
recollections!
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William Wordsworth |
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In their
glittering
battle array --
they sweep, with swords upraised in her defence,
after their queen.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Il m'a dit qu'il désirait
beaucoup
être reçu
ici.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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At his command the Graces, three
pretty children, bring
garlands
of flowers and
wreathe them about the lovers -- festoons of ivy and
bay deck the peristyle as if by magic -- flowers de-
scend from above at the call of Eros, who, now
elated at his success runs hither and thither, crying --
Hi-up, Hi-up, touching a flower here and another
there with his magic dart, until the whole scene is
aglow with luminous flowers.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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At Myrson’s request, Lycidas sings him the tale of
Achilles
at Scyros.
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Bion |
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I leave you to judge for yourself whether you will or will not
first
disclose
the business to Arsace.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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This remark, which only concerns the method of
ultimate
ethical
inquiries, is of importance.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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These vis-
ions he subsequently
published
as the Life of the Virgin Mary.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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The theological phantasm
involuntarily
steps in front of the imageless presence of the all-encompassing soul in the individual soul.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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--
And if I hadde y-taken for to wryte 1765
The armes of this ilke worthy man,
Than wolde I of his
batailles
endyte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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Cicero, it is true,
was' a singularly amiable and a most accomplished
man; but he was
unquestionably
vain and self-com-
placent.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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, The "Cuban Crisis" of 1962, Selected
Documents
and Chronology (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1963), pp.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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At first Marcius heard the threats of the tribunes with contempt; but the commons had risen with such violent determination, that the
senators
were obliged to extri cate themselves from danger by the punishment of one.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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To avoid the snares of treachery, to strengthen existing regiments and enroll new ones, to equip two fleets, one of corn-ships, one of men-of-war, to quell the tumult of the court and
alleviate
the hunger of the
Roman populace—what eyes, never visited by the veil of sleep, have had the strength to turn their gaze in so many directions and over so many lands or to pierce so far ?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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He said not, Of all, and if he had said all, we must have under stood all who belong to the city of Babylon, which must be
condemned
together with the devil ; yet he said, the faith of some.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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You may
possibly say, What can Elizabeth have to
explain?
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Why should the writer look at the paper when everything there occursdependably and well as long as the keys on the
fingerboard
are used correctly?
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-19 08:37 GMT / http://hdl.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Such mirth they made, such warblings and such chat
With tongue of music in a well-tuned beak,
They seemed to speak more wisdom than we speak,
To make our music flat
And all our
subtlest
reasonings wild or weak.
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Christina Rossetti |
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She carries in the candles,
And lights the
curtained
room,
Shy in the doorway
And shy in the gloom;
And shy as a rabbit,
Helpful and shy.
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Yeats - Poems |
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' Bacon, _New
Atlantis_
(1658), 22 (O.
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John Donne |
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He was delighted with Cyrus, who, from excess of joy, could not hold his tongue, but, like a young and generous dog, cried out when he
approached
a beast, and encouraged every one by name.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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What is here said of
existence
holds also for oneness.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Espronceda
era el ídolo de mis creencias literarias.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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well, I can't think of the name of that mental disease at the moment, but that's it
exactly!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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- Sometimes on the boards of a cheap stage
lit up by the
sonorous
orchestra,
I've seen a fairy kindling miraculous day,
in the infernal sky above her:
sometimes on the boards of a cheap stage,
a being, who is nothing but light, gold, gauze,
flooring the enormous Satan:
but my heart, that no ecstasy ever saw,
is a stage where ever and again
one awaits in vain the Being with wings of gauze!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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From the asthetic point of view,
Klopstock
is above all a master
of musical expression.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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[Sidenote A: After dinner the company go to the chapel,]
[Sidenote B: to hear the
evensong
of the great season.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[16] G # The friends of Antiochus urged him not to engage in combat against the Parthians, who were so superior in numbers; for they could retreat to the nearby mountains, where the
difficult
ground would protect them from the danger of the enemy cavalry.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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For it is obvious that, in a larger historical perspective, key
concepts
of our self- understanding have undergone profound transformations and that these transformations have been for the better.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Difference only in the grade and
fullness
of individual respon?
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Dashwood, who could not think a man five years younger than
herself, so exceedingly ancient as he appeared to the
youthful
fancy of
her daughter, ventured to clear Mrs.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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nal, the spirit of childlore with the
socialization
of adults.
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Childens - Folklore |
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In the
presence
of
Mars, mocking him, she imitated her husband, and she was beauteous _even
while so doing_; and many a grace was there combined with her charms.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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"But,"
answered
Frank, "he knows
a great deal more.
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Childrens - Frank |
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EXERCISES
IN QUANTITY.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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And as it usually
happens when the sun begins to show his beams, or when after a sharp
winter the spring breathes afresh on the earth, all things immediately
get a new face, new color, and recover as it were a certain kind of youth
again: in like manner, by but beholding me you have in an instant gotten
another kind of countenance; and so what the otherwise great rhetoricians
with their tedious and long-studied
orations
can hardly effect, to wit,
to remove the trouble of the mind, I have done it at once with my
single look.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Military
instabilities
may arise that make the earlier status quo meaning- less.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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4'2]
31
Agesilaus
surprised by night the city of Menda, which supported the Athenians, and occupied the strongest part of it.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Why this fair creature chose so fairily
By the wayside to linger, we shall see;
But first 'tis fit to tell how she could muse
And dream, when in the serpent prison-house,
Of all she list, strange or magnificent:
How, ever, where she will'd, her spirit went;
Whether to faint Elysium, or where
Down through tress-lifting waves the Nereids fair
Wind into Thetis' bower by many a pearly stair;
Or where God Bacchus drains his cups divine,
Stretch'd out, at ease, beneath a
glutinous
pine;
Or where in Pluto's gardens palatine
Mulciber's columns gleam in far piazzian line.
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Keats |
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Ông làm quan Tư
nghiệp
Quốc tử giám.
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stella-03 |
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Friar John espied him going on the quarter-deck, and said to him,
Odzoons!
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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"[75]
From cases of this sort, which
represent
the least striking kind of bad
breeding, the student may pass through many types up to the great tribes
of Jukes, Nams, Kallikaks, Zeros, Dacks, Ishmaels, Sixties, Hickories,
Hill Folk, Piney Folk, and the rest, with which the readers of the
literature of restrictive eugenics are familiar.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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And all of them carefully
observed
this rule and were anxious above everything else to excel each other in [123] its observance and they were all of them worthy of their leader and of his virtue.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Silent and moody he went, and much he
revolved
his discomfort; 730
He who was used to success, and to easy victories always,
Thus to be flouted, rejected, and laughed to scorn by a maiden,
Thus to be mocked and betrayed by the friend whom most he had trusted!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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With your steel face white-enamelled
Were you he, after all, and I never
Saw you or felt you in
kissing?
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Imagists |
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_Waly waly_: an
exclamation
of sorrow, the root and the pronunciation of
which are preserved in the word _caterwaul_.
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Golden Treasury |
|
Works are not depositions of impulses-in any case such depositions are always much disliked by listeners and least likely to be empathically "reexperienced"; they are, rather,
radically
modified by the autono- mous nexus of the artwork.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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In the regular
factories
in which throughout piece wages predominate, particular kinds of work are unsuitable to this form of wage, and are therefore paid by time.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Then the fishes began to show
themselves
in the sea, and the birds
flew over our heads, and all other tokens of our approach to land
appeared unto us.
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
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A GIRL
tree has entered my hands,
The sap has
ascended
my arms, THE
The tree has grown in my breast
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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But the play
produced
on the following evening ‘made
amends for all.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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He knew her illnesses; they never
occurred
but
for her own convenience.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
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but, above all, the flowing
line which
constitutes
grace and beauty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Characteristic of presentations of paradox is that they warn the reader-- outside of the text--not to believe in them, for example, in
dedicatory
prefaces.
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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They are
(a)
fragments
of a translation of Guido delle Colonne's Siege of Troy,
(6) the legends of the Saints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
My object was to go to Canada, but
having no
knowledge
of the road, it was necessary for me to make some
inquiry before I left the city.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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I feed the clouds, the rainbows, and the flowers, With their ethereal colors ; the moon's globe,
And the pure stars in their eternal bowers,
Are
cinctured
with my power as with a robe ;
Whatever lamps on earth or heaven may shine Are portions of one power which is mine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
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And they've a dizzy,
everlasting
fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
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The experience is that of the Soviet Union, but also that of the Communist parties, because sixty to seventy years of contem- porary experience have taught us that the idea of taking over the
apparatus
of the State, of the deterioration of the State, of democratic centralism, that all of this was nothing more than a marvelously simple set of formulas, but ones which absolutely did not take into account what was happening at the level of power.
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
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For to what end had it been to grant liberty to his friends and acquaintance to have access unto him unless they had been present, had showed themselves to be careful for him, and had been
desirous
to do their duty?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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With its noble
optimism
about the knowability of the world and its ethic of the conscious life, Platonism was in a sense the superego of European rationalism which was becoming a world- moving force.
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He has
written (Kürenberg and the
Nibelungen”
(1874);
(Munich's Brutus) (1877); Poem of the Cid'
(1879); (Octavianus) (1883); Monuments of
the English Language and Literature from the
16th to the 18th Century) (1883).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and
maintain
an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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4 In this way the Heracleians
regained
their traditional nobility and constitution.
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Emma soon saw that her
companion
was not in the happiest humour.
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Austen - Emma |
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The
Cakravartin
whose wheel is iron reigns over one continent, the Cakravartin whose wheel is copper reigns over two continents, and soon.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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And, verily, those
tortures
said to be
In Acheron, the deep, they all are ours
Here in this life.
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And first, after collecting a moderate number of men, he encamped near the city of Chalcis, which was
situated
on the borders of Arabia, and was capable of supporting a force staying there in safety.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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If I now act as an intelligent living being, who places himself in the service of the human
community
and who is equal to God, then what more can I ask?
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We prisoners called the sky,
And at every
careless
cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Have you not
understood
me then?
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Aristophanes |
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Simul haec comitibus Atys cecinit, notha mulier,
Thiasus repente Unguis trepidantibus ululat,
Leve
tympanum
remugit, cava cymbala recre-
pant.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The five
pound note was tucked away in its
envelope
in his pocket.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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while seeking to revenge a
trifling
matter, I have met with slavery.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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138), who observes that these excesses usually came at the climax of the capture of a
fortified
post or city.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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