[759] And in it was wrought Phoebus Apollo, a stripling not yet grown up, in the act of shooting at mighty Tityos who was boldly dragging his mother by her veil, Tityos whom
glorious
Elate bare, but Earth nursed him and gave him second birth.
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The publica-
tion of this writ excited a sensation in the literary
and
academical
circles that was without example.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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, accumulated good karma from past good deeds (which allowed them to
incarnate
as Wheel-Turning Kings).
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Hanshan - 01 |
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I preached
sometimes
according
to my Talent.
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Erasmus |
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As for Lithuania and Russia, with both of which
countries Poland was always in uninterrupted contact,
the languages of neither of them have influenced Polish,
which, on the contrary, wherever it was politically
supreme, and that was for many centuries over the whole
of Western Russia, for all
purposes
of social and official
intercourse ousted the vernacular, in proportion as the
aristocracy in those lands became polonized or yielded
before the immigrant nobility of the suzerain power.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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(To
Catullus)
Quick, quick, fill me a bumper; no stint
I say; fill to the brim, that I may wreathe my mind in
smiles.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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At no moment is there the
possibility
for it to arise.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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And talk first and foremost to mine
animals!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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It was impos- sible, says Leibniz, that God conferred on man all
perfections
without making man himself into God.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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* * * * *
NOTES ON
ODE ON SOLITUDE
Pope says that this
delightful
little poem was written at the early age
of twelve.
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Alexander Pope |
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Let us understand clearly that there is no question of a reflective, voluntary decision, but of a spontaneous
determination
of our being.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling
mariners?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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G
ewaltig ist das
Schweigen
des verwu?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Their
theories
accounting for Mairchen as broken-down Indo-European
myths are perhaps the main fruit of this orientation.
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Childens - Folklore |
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And civilisation will fall to pieces if
it never again realises the spirit of mutual help and the common
sharing of
benefits
in the elemental necessaries of life.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Alsace an
Imperial
Province i8i
Alsatians, who now return into our kingdom, have
under their old masters been satiated to disgust
with great pompous phrases.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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So, for the moment, I assumed the posi-
tion of the erstwhile minister, and said from the pulpit, "Let us
sing: -
«Oh, what amazing joys they feel,
While to their golden harps they sing,
And sit on every
heavenly
hill
And spread the triumphs of their King!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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They found it in
the records on which their works were, based ; and felt
compelled
to
hand it on.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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But deadly hate,
Repulsive frowns, and love of stern debate,
Hamilcar
mark'd, who at a distance stood,
And eyed the friendly pair in hostile mood.
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Petrarch |
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180 195
171 The reader will be reminded by this passage , espe cially in the original, in which Hiero is spoken of as govern
ing with a clear sceptre , of Macbeth 's commendation of the
royal Duncan :
Besides , this Duncan
Hath borne his
faculties
so meek , hath been
So clear in his great office .
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Pindar |
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But since you care so much, I'll try to
explain as best I can how the
civilian
mind works.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:35 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Countries
would hasten to set up their threats; and if the violence that would accompany infraction were confidently expected, and sufficiently dreadful to outweigh the fruits of transgression, the world might get frozen into a set of laws enforced by what we could figuratively call the Wrath of God.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Our last good
broadside
drove them back a
moment.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Our last good
broadside
drove them back a
moment.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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As we
advanced
our escort took care to fire every large dry
asclepias, to disperse the shades which buried us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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(15)
Cold, cold the year draws to its end,
The
crickets
and grasshoppers make a doleful chirping.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The mingled fate my love should give
In these mute emblems shone,
That more
intensely
burn and live--
While I am turned to stone.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ordinary charge of a seat in
Parliament
was then
fifteen hundred pounds.
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Edmund Burke |
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The
entrance
doors to the vehicles are innumerable.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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)
người
xã Tri Lễ huyện Thanh Oai (nay thuộc xã Tân Ước huyện Thanh Oai tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-04 |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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CONCLUSION
anew about its
thymotic
motives.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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We
despise the
secretive
and those whom we cannot identify.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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It has been availed
of in the most
dreadful
fashion for purposes of re-
pression, and has acted as a support for religious
oppression by disguising itself as “culture.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Differat
in fiuerds ista trofieta suos.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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A sentence is most commonly completed in every dis-
tich or two lines of pentameter or elegiac poetry, but the
elegance of
hexameters
is increased, when neither a sen-
tence nor the clause of a sentence is finished with the
verse, and when each line through several successive
?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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What was swept to power in medicine at camps and
universities
between
274 ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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But, that they might present to the
enemy the
appearance
of six legions, he had divided into six corps the
forty cohorts or four legions which he sent forward.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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The
interesting
letter of Colonel Lau-
rens to Hamilton of the eighteenth December, 1779, will be
recollected; in which the appointment of the latter, as se-
cretary to the minister at Versailles, is mentioned as having
been strongly urged by him.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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I will not dwell upon ragouts or roasts,
Albeit all human history attests
That
happiness
for man--the hungry sinner!
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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On one occasion,
Treitschke took up the
register
he had been studying,
and, jumping about the room on one leg, shouted,
"Aegidi, Aegidi!
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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For example, a created thing is the result of the virile activity and the
predominating
result of the artisan who created it; it is only the predominating result of what is not the artisan.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Poe - 5 |
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He was, as all the rest here commemorated, a firm Lover of his Country and Religion, the true Character of a true Englishman; and Engaged on their Sides against the then Duke of York, and other Ministers, not from any mean Pique or little discontented
Humour, which he has very much above, but meerly from the true Respect he had for 'em, and a Sense of that imminent Danger they were in, which his piercing Judgment and long
Experience made him more sensible of, and his Courage and Vertue more concerned at, than others ; not only those who sat
unconcerned
Spectators, or shared in their Ruins ; but even the most of them who were engaged with him in the same Common Cause of their Defence and Preservation.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Even the mere sight of him brings great
pleasure
to the mind.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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To be really effective,
dictatorship
requires that the dictator be constantly dynamic.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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To remove the difficulty in this way will, surely, in the
opinion of most men, be to destroy that virtue and purity of manners,
which the
advocates
of equality, and of the perfectibility of man,
profess to be the end and object of their views.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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(Passionately)
Aye, that she is beyond thy wildest fancy,
No nymph is there more lithesome or more gay,
No flower sweeter or more
delicate
than she,
A queen is not more regal in her attitude
Nor is there music sweeter than her voice,
Which, when she speaks, discloses all
The beauties of a mind so iilled with pure
And gentle thoughts, that I do marvel that
These attributes should grace a maiden
Of such tender years.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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This was con-
templated by Sparta after the
successes
of the Phocian com-
mander, Onomarchus, in 353 B.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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He
reasoned
properly; when faith's no more,
True honesty is forced to leave the door;
When men with confidence no longer view
Their fellow-mortals,--happiness adieu!
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La Fontaine |
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Pour'
He gave each fifth revolving year , Where falls Alpheus' high career ,
d from her
severing
golden car the
flame
,
40
To judge the well-earn'
d meed of fame.
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Pindar |
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"
VIII
"Some mothers muse sadly, and murmur
Your doings as boys--
Recall the quaint ways
Of your babyhood's
innocent
days.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His record of the journey often contrasts the meagre contemporary state of civilisation in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land with the richness of classical
antiquity
and the Christian past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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And I, hating the light, I have come, my Lord,
To relate to you the hero's final word, 1590
And acquit myself of the painful duty,
That his dying breath
committed
to me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yet the other citi zens, who had never before served on foot, but always among the cavalry, and who, being well
acquainted
with their duty, had signalized their valor in the execution of it, obeyed you and the laws ; they expected not indemnity by the destruc tion of the republic ; they hoped for its greatness, its glory, and its success.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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A little oak spreads oer it,
And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The greenest ever found:
There is not a
woodland
nigh nor is there a green grove,
Yet stood the fair maid nigh me and told me all her love.
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John Clare |
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Batchelor
Mary Morris Duane William Laird
Freshness, strength, beauty and dignity
characterize
the poems in store for subscribers.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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naught sensest thou: did she forget us in silence,
Whole she had been; but now whatso she rails and she snarls,
Not only dwells in her thought, but worse and even more risky, 5
Wrathful
she bides.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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": thus Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
begins a poem about Johann Gensfieisch zum Gutenberg.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Will you never cease showing yourself hard and intractable,
and
especially
to the accused?
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Aristophanes |
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With that
bithought
I me, that I
Hadde a felowe faste by,
Trewe and siker, curteys, and hend, 3345
And he was called by name a Freend;
A trewer felowe was no-wher noon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But many joined him, including even Talaings,
for men
recognise
character when they see it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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It was supposed to do for man's emotional
nature what
Medicine
undertook to do for his body.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536), whose reduplicated Graeco-Roman name could ignore all geographic barriers, is the best liaison be
[143]
LUCIAN, SATIRIST AND ARTIST
tween the members of the brilliant groups of his
immediate
or younger contemporaries — Dutch, English, French, German or Italian — who perpetuated Lucian's influence.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Now you're
eternally
bound.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is to be noted, how- ever, that he seems to regard all religious people as constituting an outgroup,
ascribing
to them some of the same features-weakness, dependence-which he sees in Jews and in the New Deal.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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he re plied, that the
defendant
shook into his hand, he be lieved, forty or fifty ducats ; and that, knowing it was the custom of those people to carry their money in belts, he concluded the whole quantity to be ducats.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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)
người
xã Phù Khê huyện Đông Ngàn (nay thuộc xã Phù Khê huyện Từ Sơn tỉnh Bắc Ninh).
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stella-04 |
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227
authority has been
followed
by Ferrarius.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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He gives as an instance that about the temple of Ammon, and along the road to it for the space of three thousand stadia, there are yet found a vast amount of oyster shells, many salt beds, and salt springs bub bling up, besides which are pointed out numerous fragments of wreck which they say have been cast up through some opening, and dolphins placed on pedestals, with the inscription, " Of the
Delegates
from Cyrene.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Beef is
difficult
to obtain, except in the capital.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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In fact, the individual
consciousness
finds in itself the contiast between a movement of ideas (say of the fancy), for which it claims no validity beyond its own sphere, and, on the other hand, an activ ity of experience, in the case of which it knows itself to be bound in a way that is likewise valid for all others.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
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Milton |
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In other words, Racine's Phaedra (who is a granddaughter but in
contrast
to Greek heroes
only the granddaughter of the "holy sun") must die not because the flame of her incestuous love for her stepson burns so black, as she
87
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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He took so
literally
the German essay's appeal "to listen to one's own thoughts and feelings" that thoughts and feelings turned into their opposites: the lis- tener hears a "humming and roaring of the wild camps" within him, which fight an irreconcilable "civil war.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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'34 information
respecting
their labours
"
will be found in
landistes et leurs Travaux," by Jackanl, archivist of Belgium, 1835.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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But as I have already pointed out, people have been trained for
centuries
in the deprivation of their dignity – the training of death and taxation – and that can’t be shaken off quickly.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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This proposition being established, it becomes easy to understand
why the early history of the city is unlike almost everything
else in Latin literature, native where almost everything else is
borrowed,
imaginative
where almost everything else is prosaic.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
screamed
the General's lady; "you are ill!
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The
generall
end therefore of all the booke, is to
fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Among the self-erected we have cracker-barrel
philosophers
like Henry Ford I and H.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Half asleep,
Straight from the ball to bed he goes,
Whilst
Petersburg
from slumber deep
The drum already doth arouse.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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“Truly are they _De ira_,” said he,
“saved
from wrath, and called to the
mercy of Christ.
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Stephane Mallarme (1844-1896)
Stephane
Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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nergie physique
qui
semblait
exclure la de?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Feminism
is widely seen as being opposed to the sciences of human nature.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Little of a reliable character can be gleaned
regarding
him.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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The former duty on
molasses
im-
1 4 George III, c.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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35 We note in passing that to avoid further evidence of such spiritual career reverie, the stigmati- zation with the wounds of the Lord, following St Francis of Assisi's great example, was the only tolerable form of pretension to holiness during one's lifetime, because it bypassed the self-awareness of the candidate, as it were, and
presented
the status of sanctification as an objective passion fact.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Teil, den Text nebst
Übersetzung
enthaltend.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Wax is certainly used as
a cosmetic, but 'creta' seems to be a preferable reading, as chalk in
a
powdered
state was much used for adding to the fairness of the
complexion.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Let me, if some monster has escaped your eye,
Set at your feet the honoured spoils I'll bring:
Or let the memory of a
glorious
ending, 950
Immortalise my days, a death so nobly won,
And prove to the whole world I was your son.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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On a cru devoir, evidemment dans un but de rehabilitation qui n'a rien a
voir ni avec la vie honorable ni avec l'oeuvre tres interessante,
[illisible] ouvrir le volume par une piece
intitulee
_Etrennes des
Orphelins_, laquelle assez longue piece, dans le gout un peu Guiraud
avec deja des beautes tout autres.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He endeavours to prove,
that mathematics are not a simple analysis,
but a synthetic, positive,
creative
science,
and certain of itself, without the necessity of
our recurring to experience to be assured of
its truth.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Una pared llena de when the staging
requires
it.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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And I live on, a
melancholy
slave,
Toss'd by the tempest in a shatter'd bark,
Reft of the lovely light that cheer'd the wave.
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Petrarch |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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