The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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ISBN: 81-85102-19-8
Published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala-176215, India, and printed at
lndraprastha
Press, New Delhi-110002.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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This result leads to a philosophy of world negation: which, at
any rate, can be as well
combined
with a practical world affirmation as
with its opposite.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Be patient, therefore, until
that (as a strong stomach that turns all things into his own nature; and
as a great fire that turneth in flame and light,
whatsoever
thou doest
cast into it) thou have made these things also familiar, and as it were
natural unto thee.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Then upspake Aphrodite saying,
“Vilest
of all beasts, can it be thou that didst despite to this fair thigh, and thou that didst strike my husband?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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But it was clear to the little band of enthusiasts at
Abba Island that their
position
on the river was no longer tenable.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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by a wonderful
dispensation
of mercy He exalts, while He reproves him.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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An English critic (probably a Northerner at heart) has described them as
“Hawthorne and
delirium
tremens.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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" His
translation
of Trakl's "My Heart at Evening" be- gins: "Toward evening you hear the cry of the bats.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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(So call him, for so mingling blame with praise
And smiles with anxious looks, his earliest friends,
Masking his birth-name, wont to character
His wild-wood fancy and impetuous zeal)
'Tis true that,
passionate
for ancient truths,
And honouring with religious love the Great
Of older times, he hated to excess,
With an unquiet and intolerant scorn,
The hollow puppets of an hollow age,
Ever idolatrous, and changing ever
Its worthless idols!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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One then attempts self- examination with a new steadiness to understand where such divi- dends might arise in
particular
cases.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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"
The nozzle of his gun was pointed full upon me, as I could
see, with the
moonlight
striking on the barrel; he was not more.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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But he did not learn this from them, this out of
all things, this joy of a child and this
foolishness
of a child; he
learned from them out of all things the unpleasant ones, which he
himself despised.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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When Adonis yet lived Cypris was
beautiful
to see to, but when Adonis died her loveliness died also.
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Bion |
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O
trafficked
hearts that break in twain!
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Sidney Lanier |
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You can easily comply with the terms of this
agreement
by
keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
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Imagists |
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The task of this u« ber-humanist would be no less than
arranging
that an elite is reared with certain characteristics, each of which must be present for the good of the whole.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The soul within him became as
water—he
was lost.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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In a note to the _Life of Dickens_, Forster mentions
that in 1847 Lady Blessington received from her brother, Major Power, who
held a military appointment at Hobart Town, an oil
portrait
of a young
lady from his clever brush; and it is said that 'he had contrived to put
the expression of his own wickedness into the portrait of a nice, kind-
hearted girl.
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Oscar Wilde |
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In affection for your native land, Horace, certainly the pride in great
Romans dead and gone made part, and you were, in all senses, a lover of
your country, your
country’s
heroes, your country’s gods.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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After the war is over there will be powerful forces drawing young people away from the liberal studies- But there will be other powerful forces operating in the opposite direction-
The
vindication
of democracy by victory will raise a vast number ot questions as to the meaning of democracy, of the conditions economic and psychological and spiritual under which democracy can thrive.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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It is difficult, however, to
conceive
that the population of England
has been declining since the Revolution, though every testimony concurs
to prove that its increase, if it has increased, has been very slow.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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The earlier volumes were addressed to and
accessible
only
to an elite.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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"
" Thanks, Madam, I'm just now taking my
snuff,"
Quoth the
impudent
chap.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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This step rendered it necessary to resign his post in the Stamp Office, and the wit and author showed his con
stitutional
negligence in money matters by giving up a substantial reality for the honour of adding M.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Eurypylus: prehistoric king of Libya, who offered his kingdom to anyone who should slay the lion which was
ravaging
his land.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Car, par
exemple, tout au contraire chaque matin, le crêpelage de ses cheveux me
causa longtemps la même surprise, comme une chose
nouvelle
que je
n'aurais jamais vue.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Achilles
—There
is none.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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perchance
had seen the heavens opening,
as they opened to the Florentine.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a
stricken
bird
That cannot reach the south.
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Sara Teasdale |
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To us the dull,
extravagant, and
fantastic
Acts of the Saints, of which its original
works chiefly consist, are tedious and ridiculous except for the lin-
guist or the church historian.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Lord Regent, I do greet your Excellence
With letters of
commission
from the King.
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Shakespeare |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great
literary
figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Both accepted the principle of uncompromising
hostility
to the party that stood next.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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My counterargument, in brief, is that the printed book has not simply been played out, but rather that this unique medium was what made
its own high-technological outdoing
possible
in the firstplace.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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_The Stars_
There is a goddess who walks
shrouded
by day:
At night she throws her blue veil over the earth.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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"To my chagrin and surprise, Mansfield opposed my motion and [Hubert]
Humphrey
failed to support it.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Such a storm that hardly
Will Tsar Boris
contrive
to keep the crown
Upon his clever head; and losing it
Will get but his deserts!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"Humorous, and full of a
mischievous
topical fun .
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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It is obvious that
up to the present
morality
has not been a problem
at all; it has rather been the very ground on
## p.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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For
arriving
only at the first milestone after nine hours' travelling, I am charged with idleness and inactivity.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Thus, there are surely no
hindered
geniuses, just geniuses at hindering.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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That is to say, they try to reassure people about certain
essentialities
which, precisely, have become prob-
lematic.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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23
262 THE
UNDIVINE
COMEDY.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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And that is what
they want him to be: that is the meaning of the
present cynical demand for the "full surrender of
the
personality
to the world-process"—for the
sake of his end, the redemption of the world, as
the rogue E.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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vanW/Brooks era: in America's Coming-of-Age (1915) Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) portrays an era
that values not
cosmopolitanism
but a native self-consciousness.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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"
I ordered my men to supply the Armenian with a horse, and with all my detachment
followed
him into the defile.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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At last, upon
a piece of tableland, Madaura comes into view, all white in the midst of
the vast tawny plain, where to-day nothing is to be seen but a mausoleum
in ruins, the remains of a
Byzantine
fortress, and vague traces vanishing
away.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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And
Ovid,
following
the Manual, implied in his tale of Cadmus (Bk.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede,
whirling
in and
out with eddies and foam!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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“Not on my account,” said the
Florentine
deliberately.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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But these new
burgesses
were to be restricted as to the right of voting in a way similar to the freedmen, inasmuch as they could only be enrolled in eight, as the freedmen only in four, of the thirty-five tribes ; whether the restriction was personal or, as it would seem, hereditary, cannot be determined with certainty.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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This question is asked not out of
hostility
to science.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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Luxuriating
in the
D
## p.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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I am not creating a theory of power or an analysis of
contemporary
power.
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Foucault-Live |
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3c: a
knowledge
of Suffering etc.
| Guess: |
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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When like yelping hound
Pursued by wolves, November comes to bound
In joy from rock to rock, like
answering
cheer
To howling January now so near--
"Come on!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Let us, then, for a moment lay
aside the statesman, and
consider
only the warrior, the great captain.
| Guess: |
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
|
"
The hero paus'd--'Twas thus the youth of Rome,
The trembling few who 'scaped the bloody doom
That dy'd with slaughter Cannae's purple field,
Assembled
stood, and bow'd their necks to yield;
When nobly rising, with a like disdain,
The young Cornelius rag'd, nor rag'd in vain:[287]
On his dread sword his daunted peers he swore,
(The reeking blade yet black with Punic gore)
While life remain'd their arms for Rome to wield,
And, but with life, their conquer'd arms to yield.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He enter'd, but he enter'd full of wrath;
His flaming robes stream'd out beyond his heels,
And gave a roar, as if of earthly fire,
That scar'd away the meek
ethereal
Hours
And made their dove-wings tremble.
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Keats |
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Martial is
a sort of
proletarian
Ovid.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
|
They
themselves
might have known that it came to pass neither by chance, neither yet through their own industry, that they were so suddenly changed; but those signs which are here set down were about to be profitable for all ages; as we perceive at this day that they profit us.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
It would be a serious misunderstanding if one were to conceive this 'constructivist'
representation
of the system/environment prob- lem as pure self-delusion on the part of the mass media.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Small ease he got of playing on the bones
Or
hammering
on his stove-pipe, that I see.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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a de la
Fundacio?
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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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_3967
earthquakes
edition 1818.
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Shelley |
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One of
these is the invitation which I have received to edit a selection from
Whitman's writings; virtually the first sample of his work ever published
in England, and
offering
the first tolerably fair chance he has had of
making his way with English readers on his own showing.
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Whitman |
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of prayer, between the far
processions
of blue and verdant peaks
whose names are the names of gods.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Sai Đề điệu là Sùng tiến Nhập nội Hữu Đô đốc kiêm Thái tử Thiếu bảo Lê Cảnh Huy, quyền Thượng thư Chính sự viện kiêm Cẩn Đức điện Đại học sĩ Thái tử tân khách
Nguyễn
Như Đổ; Giám thí là Hàn lâm viện Đại học sĩ, quyền Ngự sử đài Ngự sử đại phu Trần Bàn cùng trăm quan nghiêm túc chia giữ các việc.
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stella-04 |
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He
addressed
Attalus in these words:
Descendant of Teuthras, who for ever holds the heritage of your fathers,
Hear my hymn, and do not thrust it disregarded away from your ear;
For I have heard, Attalus, that your lineage reaches back
To Heracles and wise Lysidice, whom Pelops' wife
Hippodame bore, when he had seized power over the Apian land.
| Guess: |
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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In introspection I try to deter- mine exactly what I am, to make up my mind to be my true self without delay-even though it means consequently to set about
searching
for ways to change myself.
| Guess: |
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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O it were meet
To roll the stone from off the sepulchre
And kiss the
bleeding
roses of their wounds, in love of her,
Our Italy!
| Guess: |
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Wilde - Charmides |
|
The textbook version of Fichte's wild exaggeration of Kant's principle of the "primacy of practical reason" and reliance on a Sollen, or the task of striving toward an unattainable ideal, to solve otherwise "theoretically insurmountable problems" constitutes - suggest Breazeale and Seidel - an
egregious
misreading of Fichte; at least in part, the alleged misreading constitutes the backbone of Hegel's interpretation of Fichte in Glauben und Wissen.
| Guess: |
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Hegel_nodrm |
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These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait
behind,
We to-day's
procession
heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers!
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
|
"
"Strange too," she answered, "that upon this azure
Pale-gleaming ghostly stream, impalpable--
So faint, so fine that
scarcely
it bears up
The petals that the lantern strews upon it,--
These great black barges float like apparitions,
Loom in the silver of it, beat upon it,
Moving upon it as dragons move on air.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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And as you left, suspired confused and jaded
In sighful accents the
deserted
glade.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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China, essentially an agricultural country, was economically
self-sufficient,
producing
everything needed by her population.
| Guess: |
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Within a whyl the hert [y]-founde is,
Y-halowed, and
rechased
faste
Longe tyme; and at the laste, 380
This hert rused and stal away
Fro alle the houndes a prevy way.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
God was wont to exercise his power diverse ways among the Jews; and he had used the prophets in times past as ministers to drive away devils; under color hereof they invented conjuration, 371 and hereupon was erected unadvisedly an extraordinary
function
without the commandment of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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A Pact
I MAKE a pact with you, Walt Whitman
I have
detested
you long enough.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Now he hangs, he rocks between, and his
nostrils
curdle in--
_Toll slowly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Cupid, empire-sure,
Flutter'd and laugh'd, and oft-times through the throng
Made a
delighted
way.
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Because distortion goes far beyond active concealment, it protects the Egyptian
incognito
in a way that is much more secure than the directorate of a con spiracy could ever achieve.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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But weary to the hearts of all
The burning glare, the barren reach
Of Santa Rosa's
withered
beach,
And Pensacola's ruined wall.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Todegradethe signalinadvance,todepreciatethecurrency,toerodegradually a tradition that might someday be shattered with diplomatic effect, to
vulgarize
weapons that have acquired a transcendent status, and to demote nuclear weapons to the status of merely efficient artillery, may be to waste an enormous asset of last re- sort.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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But it is my lot, by the hateful decree of a god, to die
somewhere
afar off on the mainland of Asia.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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The flower
sweetens
the air with its perfume; yet its last
service is to offer itself to thee.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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”
happy memory, reproued and condemned,
out
Hitherto
gentle reader, thou hast heard how 11.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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): for irkdays and for
folliedays
till the comple anniums of calendarias, gregoromaios ant gypsyjuliennes as such are pleased of theirs to walk: and I planted for my own hot lisbing lass a quickset vineyard and I fenced it about with huge Chesterfield elms and Kentish hops and rigs of barlow and bowery nooks and greenwished villas and pampos animos and (N.
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Finnegans |
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Thirty
thousand
pound asked he
To make a peace in this country,-
And so he did and more!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Gawayne besought the Lord and
Mary to guide him to some
habitation
where he might hear mass (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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' Smugglers and
Poachers
in Tales
of the Hall is a terrible story; but, in most of these poems, as in
Tales, Crabbe is dealing with people of a higher social grade
than his early models.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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(To the
coachman)
Pfftt!
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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your father, my good master,
As with his guests he sat in mirth raised high,
And chased the goblet round the joyful board,
A sudden
trembling
seized on all his limbs;
His eyes distorted grew; his visage pale;
His speech forsook him; life itself seemed fled;
And all his friends are waiting now about him.
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Thomas Otway |
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Croesus,
alleging
this against him, sent to consult the oracle if he should make war on the Persians ; and when an ambiguous answer came back, he, interpreting it to his own advantage, led his army against the territory of the Persians.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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There are so few
descriptions that those of the festival of Artemis and of the canopy
over the marriage bed of
Habrocomes
and Anthia are notable.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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The election
promised
to
be stormy.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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