For Troy, that was burned with fire
And
forgetteth
not?
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Euripides - Electra |
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"Jones"
designates
Jones County, Ga.
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Sidney Lanier |
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How near a fall was all we had long been
building!
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), the
punishment
inflicted
upon them for the murder of Thomas a Becket.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And how long are we lost in this confusion, unable to exert our reason, to possess our souls, or to rule our
affections?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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hrt eine
Herde von
schwarzen
und roten Pferden ins Dorf.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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A name familiar to students of Spanish
literature from the writings of the
illustrious
brothers Bartolome
and Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (sixteenth century).
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olancnsis
uel landan nomen propnum .
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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A
critical
inquiry into ancient
armour.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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” I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from
gripping
the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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The basic volume in the series is
entitled
The Strategic Air War Against Germany, 1939-45.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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It would have act as
passports
to fame of a sort.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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" A school of the
service of the Lord” is St Benedict's
definition
of a monastery, and the
one thing he requires from the novice is that “in very deed he seek
God.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Thou art sincere and good; of
resolute
mind,
Free from heart-withering custom's cold control, _585
Of passion lofty, pure and unsubdued.
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Shelley |
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The effect of these
publications
stirred up his enemies to re
newed attempts upon his life and reputations; but, in spite of
them, he outlived Paul V and died peacefully Jan.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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There is a slight blush
of shame on the cheek of good men and
aspiring
men, and a spice of
caricature.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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And there were many lights in an upper chamber, where they were
gathered
together.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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""
A woman who can type and sign documents is made to order for someone who systematically avoids
signatures
and yet, when switching from the office to his own desk every evening, is always betrayed by his handwriting.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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The moral law commands me to
make the highest
possible
good in a world the ultimate object of all
my conduct.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Like Bede, these men
compiled
from earlier authors.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Nothing would have
happened
to
us otherwise, not even if they'd found out what we'd done.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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The melancholy tone of "Venedig" results, not so much as Grundlehner argues, from the recog- nition of one's own alienation, confirmed in the poem's final
unanswered
question ("Ho?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Summer, when all our labours are fulfilled, or sweet autumn when our hunger is least and lightest, or the winter when no man can work – for winter also hath delights for many with her warm
firesides
and leisure hours – or doth the pretty spring-time please you best?
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Bion |
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I ever
bopecped
at .
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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There is a certain irony in the fact that, as we can see today, all those who thought that decon struction and systems theory - constructs that emerged with a distinct profile from the 1970s on
had ushered in a new age of thought that
2
Luhmann and Derrida
opened up
unlimited
horizons for theoretical work were mistaken.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Under the spell of such developments, language, where in the sciences it still dares to stir, approximates pseudo-art; and only that scientist proves, negatively, his fidelity to the aesthetic who in general resists language and instead of degrading the word to a mere paraphrase of his calculations prefers the charts that uninhibitedly admit the
reification
of consciousness and so produces a sort of form for reification without resorting to any apologetic borrowing from art.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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The higher the type a man represents, the
greater is the
improbability
that he will SUCCEED; the accidental, the
law of irrationality in the general constitution of mankind, manifests
itself most terribly in its destructive effect on the higher orders of
men, the conditions of whose lives are delicate, diverse, and difficult
to determine.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
English]
The world of
perception
/ Merleau-Ponty.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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But there are some people of that low and
degenerate
fashion of
mind that they look up with a sort of complacent awe and
admiration to kings who know how to keep firm in their seat, to
hold a strict hand over their subjects, to assert their prerogative,
and by the awakened vigilance of a severe despotism to guard
against the very first approaches of freedom.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Αυτά 'λεγαν κ' επλάγιασαν^ ολίγον πήραν ύπνο,
ότ' η καλόθρονη Ηώ δεν άργησε να λάμψη,
του Τηλεμάχου οι σύντροφοι ωστόσο εις τ'
ακρογιάλι
495
με βία λύαν τα πανιά κ' έβγαλαν το κατάρτι•
κατόπι έλαμναν κ' έφεραν εις τ' άρασμα το πλοίο,
έδεσαν τα πρυμόσχοινα, ταις άγκυραις ερρίξαν,
και, αφού 'ς την ακροθαλασσιάν εβγήκαν, ετοιμάζαν
το γεύμα τους και το κρασί το φλογερό συγκέρναν.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Proof of
Proposition
5.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Sensuous
intuition either pure intuition (space and time) or empirical intuition--of that which im mediately represented in space and time means of sensation as real.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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>>
Marie se retourne alors vers ses serviteurs, et leur dit: << Je
<< vous ai
recommande?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Dagseus, Bishop of Inis-Caoin, only alludes to him in a doubtful manner, at this date,
promising
his Life, at the i8th of August.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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(They had
undoubtedly
got the message a month earlier, when Vera Cruz was being pounded into submission.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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and yet, if he should be Chief Justice thirty years longer, he will
construe
our liberties away from us"
[Bruce,Randolph, 11,194-195].
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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In pursuing these objectives, due care must be taken to avoid permanently impairing our economy and the
fundamental
values and institutions inherent in our way of life.
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NSC-68 |
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t Written in Greek with an w, and
consequently
long by nature, it is here
shortened by the figure.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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And now for contrast, close harmony, let us look at a recent emission from Joe's
faithful
companion, fellow idealist, and pledged ally, Mr.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Oh, those sweet strolls in the garden,- those
boatings
on
the blue sea,- that blessed trip to Lampedusa!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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And now
here I come bringing Bijiyau with me, and would humbly
supplicate
thee
to forgive one who was so loved that a man hath given his own son in
exchange for him.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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The aristocracy isolated was not formidable but had just been
rendered
evident in the Catilinarian affair that could certainly still exert some influence, where was more or less openly
supported the men of material interests and by the adherents of Pompeius.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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_Hardwicke
Drummond
Rawnsley_
JIMMY DOANE
Often I think of you, Jimmy Doane,--
You who, light-heartedly, came to my house
Three autumns, to shoot and to eat a grouse!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The physical side of sex in man is less
completely
ruled by natural law than is the case with lower animals.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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I smil'd, and bade him once more prove,
And by some cross-line show it,
That I could ne'er be prince of love,
Though here the
princely
poet.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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'Twas spread afar
how Ongentheow reft at Ravenswood
Haethcyn
Hrethling
of hope and life,
when the folk of Geats for the first time sought
in wanton pride the Warlike-Scylfings.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It was too late for man,
But early yet for God;
Creation
impotent
to help,
But prayer remained our side.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And there shall be on the first Monday of Janua- ry, in each year, a choice of directors, by a plurality of
suffrages
of the stockholders, to serve for a year.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Upon gaining an insight into this
wandering
of the reason and
the imagination, one ceases to be a Christian.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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fer den schwarzen Wald
Und es rauschte ein blauer Quell im Grund, [hinab,
Dass jener leise die
bleichen
Lider aufhob
U?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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It is easier for the turtle to poke his head through the yoke than for someone to obtain a
precious
human birth.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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She vowed to marry the King of the Cranes,
Leaving the Nile for stranger plains;
And away they flew in a
gathering
crowd
Of endless birds in a lengthening cloud.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You must
understand
that we'd given
'em a good many wry faces, in spite of what he had said to us.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
|
259
must decree the
disputed
bays, or the
golden violet.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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In certain mediaeval artistic remains, we have
illustrations
of popular vene-
ration for many holy persons, nor has the present noble confessor been for- gotten in this mode for manifesting devotion towards him.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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A third series of these books
consists
of such as I have written
against certain private persons, whom people call distinguished;
such, namely, as have tried to preserve the Roman tyranny, and
to undermine that view of religion which I have inculcated.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2011 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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It is evident in the first place, as I remarked in the first
edition of this work, and as Righini, Garofalo, Lombroso, Alongi,
and Rossi have confirmed, that a study of the anthropological
factors of crime
provides
the guardians and administrators of the
law with new and more certain methods in the detection of the
guilty.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:36 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Will for the
thinkableness
of all being: thus do
/ call your will!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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He had negotiated with the Vatican
all through 1886, and the word went out from the Vatican
in a diplomatic note (January 3, 1887), from Cardinal
Jacobini, the Vatican
Secretary
of State, that the Catholic
Centre was to vote for the Septennate.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Cuthbert, the following deserve more
especial
notice.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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This last complaint the indulgent ears did pierce
Of just Apollo, president of verse;
Highly
concerned
that the Muse should bring
Damage to one whom he had taught to sing,
Thus he advised me:-“On yon aged tree
Hang up thy lute, and hie thee to the sea,
That there with wonders thy diverted mind
Some truce, at least, may with this passion find.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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For here, O Lord,
For here they travel vainly, vainly pass
From city-pavement to
untrodden
sward
Where the lark finds her deep nest in the grass
Cold with the earth's last dew.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thou too one day shalt win proud eminence
'Mid honour'd founts, while I the ilex sing
Crowning the cavern, whence
Thy babbling
wavelets
spring.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'' Faced with so much existential drama and its pathos, would it not be better to ignore all of this, to ignore Being and latency, and act, without much drama, as if we still believed that the world was our own
construction
and that the conditions of collective and individual survival were within our reach?
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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It can be further correlated with the quantum-mechanical allegories in- volved in the optics of Shelley's poem: the wave and
particle
imagery there; the manifest quantum-like discontinuity of events and textual atoms; the divestiture of marks and traces from all architectonics so as also to reveal their inaccessible (material efficacity); the radical materi- al aesthetics; the collapse of realism and causality; the "algebraic" and "allegorical" nature of whatever patterns or forms of order are left to us; and so forth.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Thirdly, the fate happening to us will of course
challenge
both our mental and our physical capacities, as it may threaten our physical and mental survival.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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"
At Waterloo we were fortunate in
catching
a train for
Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove
for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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hate what is good
because it is good, and promote evil merely from a love of
evil as such,--this
perversity
which alone could excite my
just anger, I ascribe to no one who bears the form of man,
for I know that it does not lie in human nature.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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All we need do is to throw
something
odd and unaccountable in his way.
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The-Art-of-War |
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Though but a lonely way, yet mystery hangs
Oer crowds of pastoral scenes
recordless
here.
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John Clare |
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te licet orantem fuscae deus audiat aulae;
nempe tuas
lacrimas
litora surda bibent.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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knight of his order of the Round Table,
Although there is
probably
much truth and finally departs for some unknown
mingled with the fiction in this chronicle, region, where it is implied he becomes
it is valued now chiefly for the influence immortal, and never desists from the
which it has had on literature.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Break not the dreamy rush
Of the rain:
Touch not the marring doubt
Words bring to the certainty
Of its soft refrain;
But let the flying fringes flout
Their drops against the pane,
And the
gurgling
throat of the water-spout
Groan in the eaves amain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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daient
comme dans les bas-reliefs, sans
combinaison
, sans complica-
tion d'aucun genre.
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
|
+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
additional
materials through Google Book Search.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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Then he said to
his wife, “I know what these
scholars
want of me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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changed its line, these two contradictory implications
destroyed
the very meaning of the reading.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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When I ran
berrying
after hucks and haws.
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Finnegans |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Graces weep the son of Cinyras, saying one to another, The beauteous Adonis is dead, and when they cry woe ‘tis a
shriller
cry than ever the cry of thanksgiving.
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Bion |
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Through many a startled hamlet
Thundered
his flying feet;
He rushed through the gate of Tusculum,
He rushed up the long white street;
He rushed by tower and temple,
And paused not from his race
Till he stood before his master's door
In the stately market-place.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Is it not consciousness which affects itself with sadness as a magical re-
course against a
situation
too urgent?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Upon the table bright
Shrill sang the
_samovar_
at eve,(44)
The china teapot too ye might
In clouds of steam above perceive.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Tis not enough, when swarming Faults are writ,
That here and there are
scattered
Sparks of Wit;
Each Object must be fix'd in the due place,
And diff'ring parts have Corresponding Grace:
Till, by a curious Art dispos'd, we find
One perfect whole, of all the pieces join'd.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The gang had a secret password and an
‘ordeal’
which included cutting your
finger and eating an earthworm, and they gave themselves out to be frightful
desperadoes.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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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 - Love Songs |
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At
the same time he
received
the ominous news that five of his soldiers had
deserted to the Mahdi.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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It will be better policy to harass
and exhaust the soldiery by
frequent
skirmishes and incur-
sions, than to take the open field with them, by which means
they would have the full benefit of their superior regularity
and skill.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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But the director who shall be
president
at the time of an election, may be always re- elected-
XIII.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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No method could be better devised for destroying the cement which holds our society
together
and making of our people a congeries of pressure groups engaged in mutual recrimination and con- flict.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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A medida que desechaba la primera impresion, Garces comenzo a
comprenderlo asi, y riendose interiormente de su incredulidad y su
miedo, desde aquel
instante
solo se ocupo en averiguar, teniendo en
cuenta la direccion que seguian, el punto donde se hallaban las
corzas.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Desire, that
courteous
deity who grants
All wishes, prayers, and wants;
Said he to the two sisters: "Beauteous ladies,
As I'm a gentleman, my task and trade is
To be the slave of your behest--
Choose therefore at your own sweet will and pleasure,
Honors or treasure!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
into iron.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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