Why is the
penultimate
lengthened in the participle
Finitus from finio, finivi?
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Keats - Lamia |
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What though Achilles'
wrathful
fleet postpone
The day of doom to Troy and Troy's proud dames,
Her towers shall fall, the number'd winters flown,
Wrapp'd in Achaean flames.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Not a foot steps into the snow,
or along the ground, but prints in
characters
more or less lasting,
a map of its march.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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His
discrimination
of 'thou' and 'you' is very marked
throughout the poems.
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Donne - 2 |
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And, in their stead, upstart and haughty now,
A race, which ne'er to her in
reverence
bends,
Her husband, father thou!
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jacques derrida is
director
of studies of the E?
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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There seemed to be a
combination
among all that knew her, to treat her with a dignity much beyond her rank; yet people of all sorts were never more easy than in her company.
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(4) That greatness in man should have been given the meaning of disinterestedness, self-sacrifice
for another's good, for other people; that even in
the scientist and the artist, the elimination of the
individual personality is
presented
as the cause of the greatest knowledge and ability.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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When cruel Death his paly ensign spread
Over that face, which oft in triumph led
My subject thoughts; and beauty's sovereign light,
Retiring, left the world
immersed
in night;
The Phantom, with a frown that chill'd the heart,
Seem'd with his gloomy pageant to depart,
Exulting in his formidable arms,
And proud of conquest o'er seraphic charms.
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Petrarch |
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Written
originally
by David
Garrick, Esq.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Oscar Wilde:
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
The Importance of Being Earnest(1895) A Woman of No Importance (1893)
De
Profundis
(1905)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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The dramatic dialogue Eckius Dedolatus,10S published anonymously about 1530, is a not wholly
negligible
addition to this literary form descended from Plato, via Lucian, to the Col- loquia of Erasmus.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Such a poet would naturally take for
his subject the battle of Regillus, the appearance of the Twin
Gods, and the
institution
of their festival.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In any event, the fact that certain business concerns are at war with each other does
fit readily into anbcher collectivist theory, according to
monopoly
has been "synchronized" and developed a "centrally-organized system of power," in the language Professor Lynd.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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: Harvard UP (Loeb
Classical
Library), 1929], 122-125)
81.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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For, in this case, we should be cogitating in the mere idea of absolute totality, an object which is not and cannot be given in
experience
; inasmuch as we should be attributing a reality objective and independent of the em pirical synthesis, to a series of phenomena.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Neither the soldier nor anyone else sees
anything
curious in this.
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Orwell |
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All these scars, that you count upon my chin, like those that sit upon the brow or an aged boxer, were not
produced
by the nails of an enraged wife, but by the steel and cursed hand of Antiochus.
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Imagists |
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How did he come to be
footless?
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Chuang Tzu |
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The only thing that can help is the
practice
of Dharma.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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--"DISONS DONC
HARDIMENT QUE LA RELIGION EST UN PRODUIT DE L'HOMME NORMAL, QUE L'HOMME
EST LE PLUS DANS LE VRAI QUANT IL EST LE PLUS
RELIGIEUX
ET LE PLUS
ASSURE D'UNE DESTINEE INFINIE.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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It becomes real because it is
executed
by us in a mode of spontaneous will that does not allow criticism.
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Sloterdijk |
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The muˁallaqāt are a collection of pre-Islamic poems especially
esteemed
by tradition.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Shun had five men [emphasis on "men," I thinle] for
ministers
and the en1pire was governed.
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1610
`For I have herd wel more than I wende,
Touchinge
us two, how thinges han y-stonde;
Which I shal with dissimulinge amende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ruth Roper, sister to Abel Roper, the
celebrated
bookseller ; his' uncle, Abel, having been very successful in trade, and probably remem- ^ring the kindness dohe him In early hffe by an uncle, sent for his nephew to London, and bound him ap-
prehtjce to himself as a bookseller : but soon after, leaving Pff shop-keeping, and tnaking it his whple business tp collect news for his PPst-bPy, he wanted some one to attend him, and carry his copy to the printer; and in this capacity he^&Spl:^ed his nephew, who, having a remarkable cast iri each of his eyes, and a face covered with warts, was particularly noticed
wherever he.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Their view was, as outlined above, similar to that of the Milinda-paflha, where Buddha's omniscience,
functioning in much the same way a s ordinary knowledge, is
dependent
upon volition for its activity.
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This is where we touch on the most anxious point of the contemporary crisis: as long as modernity does not confess that it has established itself discreetly but relentlessly as an end-times kingdom, it remains stuck in its claim that after modernity no other age is
permitted
to create new epochs.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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sufficiently warm; and in the things of the mind he values the
liberty to use his own
faculties
as a kind of happiness in itself.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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The poetry, like the fiction, has a little of this and that; of the nine poets, eight are new to our pages and come from here and there, meaning Edmonton in Cana- da, Alpharetta in Georgia, Fitzwilliam in New Hampshire and Madison in Wiscon- sin, all known for their peculiar
culinary
styles and taste.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Under Greek
Testament
Scholars :
Moulton, James Hope (1863–1917).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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And it is
perhaps not only the agreeable and friendly
pictures that he
realises
in himself with such
perfect understanding: the earnest, the troubled,
the dreary, the gloomy, the sudden checks, the
tricks of fortune, the uneasy presentiments, in
short, the whole “ Divine Comedy" of life, and
the Inferno, also pass before him, not merely like
## p.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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The enjoyment of the
sufferer
finds expression in those moans;
if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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What mean these
masterless
and gory swords
To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
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"16
Acarya
Santideva
speaks that way too in his Compendium
o f Training:
"Do not look down on the [mere] Thought of Enlighten- ment, even without the practice.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other
testimony
of summer nights.
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If we mention progress we mean the kinetic and kinetic- aesthetic fundamental motive of modernity, which has as its only goal the
elimination
of the limits of human self-movement.
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Sloterdijk |
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What are you
reading?
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Yeats - Poems |
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Further
reproduction
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Pages in purple run madly about,
Rolling their eyes and grinning with huge,
frightened
mouths.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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When Thestylis withdraws with the
collected
ashes in the libation-bowl, her mistress begins her soliloquy.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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orie forte-
ment
raisonne?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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* This short poem , which the scholiast asserts to be mono strophic , and which , both in its construction and metrical ar rangement, has much embarrassed the commentators , opens with a declaration on the part of the poet to proceed to the temple of the Delphian god , placed in the centre of the earth ,
in order to celebrate the praises of
Xenocrates
, father of his friend Thrasybulus , which had before been sung by Simoni .
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Pindar |
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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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La Fontaine |
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So susceptible has the
political
pride in
this nation become, which a few decades before
was demoralized by its domestic troubles.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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"Tremble before the Prætor's seat to show
His livid features, swoll'n with many a blow:
His eyes closed up, no sight
remaining
there,
Left by the honest doctor in despair.
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Satires |
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He is master of the subject, and, in
questions
of this kind,
experience is better than inspiration.
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Tacitus |
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Are you not
scorched
by the heat?
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Epictetus |
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Lestmanknownot That he on dry land
loveliest
liveth,
List how I, care-wretched, on ice-cold sea, Weathered the winter, wretched outcast
Deprived of my kinsmen ; 25
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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He reel'd, and
staggering
back, sunk to the ground.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Indeed, as we shall see, some like Richard of Saint-Laurent, a canon of the metropolitan chapter of Rouen, would insist that nearly all of the scriptures showed forth her praise insofar as they contain images of her spiritual and
physical
beauty and of the mystery of her relationship with God.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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To be sure, the essay relates itselfto theory as
cautiously
as to the concept.
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at Yale (1965), he helped found Chinese programs at Oberlin, Denison, and Wabash, and the program in trans- lation and interpretation at the City
University
of Hong Kong, where he taught from 1986 to 1998.
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It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it skilfully
overcomes; not to speak, and yet it is skilful in
obtaining
a reply;
does not call, and yet men come to it of themselves.
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Tao Te Ching |
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_I_ muse now, Dante, and think verily,
Though
chapelled
in the byeway out of sight,
Ravenna's bones would thrill with ecstasy,
Couldst know thy favourite stone's elected right
As tryst-place for thy Tuscans to foresee
Their earliest chartas from.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Where I will ruminate on woman's ills,
Laugh at myself, and curse th'
inconstant
sex.
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Thomas Otway |
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The loftiest place is that seat of grace
For which all worldlings try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a
scaffold
high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Would it not have amazed Voltaire to learn that he would
live only through 'Candide,' and Diderot that his work would reduce
itself to the Neveu de Rameau,' two pamphlets
scribbled
in a few
days, the second not even published by its author?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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1190, Acre), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of Canterbury, put it in one of the earliest extended commentaries on the Ave Maria: " e matter of our salvation begins with a salutation, and the commence- ment of our reconciliation is
consecrated
by a proclamation of peace.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Ông từng
được
bổ chức Ngự tiền học sinh.
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stella-02 |
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Fourth, the revolution had obvious and important effects on perceptions of the offense-defense balance, such that the use of force
appeared
more at- tractive.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Cette opinion des autres, il la partageait lui-même;
souvent de
mauvaise
humeur contre sa femme, il était fier d'elle.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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But at the early age of thirteen, his pen had
commenced
to run
in the cadence of rhyme and metre.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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The outward shows of sky and earth,
Of hill and valley, he has viewed;
And
impulses
of deeper birth
Have come to him in solitude.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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ROBERT FLINT (1838–1910)
The
Philosophy
of History in France and Germany.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Henry Julian Hunter on the excessive mortality of infants in some rural
districts
of England.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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" Treitschke's friends were infallible,
but not the later "
Ministry
of Emperor Frederick.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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HERBERT That Chapel-bell in mercy seemed to guide me,
But now it mocks my steps; its fitful stroke
Can
scarcely
be the work of human hands.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So, when the sun
restores
the purple day,
Their strength and skill the suitors shall assay;
To him the spousal honour is decreed,
Who through the rings directs the feather'd reed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE LADY BLANCHE
THE
HE Lady Blanche was saintly fair;
Not proud, but meek, her look;
In her hazel eyes her
thoughts
lay clear
As pebbles in a brook.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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It would be unwise, though, to deny the unpredictable in the emergence of such turning points – as unwise as are the thought patterns that circulate today that directly run from danger to salvation and from a hopeless world
situation
to a logic of salvation.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Therefore
What
sort of Things were they?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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(For in a dream we look upon that dream as reality, that is, we
accept our
hypotheses
as fully established).
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Then
wherefore
in these merry days
Should we, I pray, be duller?
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William Browne |
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The themes here darkly announced are
developed
later with such organic inevitability that the reader, having finished the book, gazes back with amazement at the prophetic con- tent and germinal energy of the first page.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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life of any other Roman, with the single
exception
of Cicero.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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He became extremely famous for his skill in
composing
bucolic poetry.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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The recollection of the man covered with the blood of so many innocent
victims, and the thought of the punishment
awaiting
him, never left me
any peace.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The question of
precedence
stands over for a future session.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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The book is a valuable piece of
reportage, and together with a few other scraps of honest writing that happened to be
produced at the time of the debacle, it is a
reminder
of the depths that bourgeois
democracy can descend to.
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Orwell |
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If one can look at and question one's own mind, the
instructions
of the ultimate guru will be received.
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' I
do not make my
progress
among mankind as a bowl does among its
fellows--rolling through the crowd without bearing away any mark or
impression, except where they hit in hostile collision.
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We are thus in a position to view the constella- tion containing the concepts of difef rance and 'distortion'
mentioned
above in a different light.
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The Anonymous Poet of Poland
And the Christian Caesar, higher by a whole past epoch
than his predecessor, filled with the knowledge of himself, and
with the aim for the sake of which the Spirit of God that
directs history had sent him here below, said, as he died on the
rock of exile, "The
beginning
of the new era will be reckoned
from me.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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); and
further, you may be sure that
“things
as they are”
will suffer no change.
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And where the purple Nullahs threw
Their branches far and wide,
And silvery Goreewallahs flew
In silence, side by side,
The little Bheesties'
twittering
cry
Rose on the flagrant air,
And oft the angry Jampan howled
Deep in his hateful lair.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Funnily enough, one of the last German silent films, which had
actually
been made in the era of sound film, illustrated the difference between the two media within the plot as the difference between two generations.
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Elle
m’avait
prié de lui en rappeler le titre exact,
et le soir je lui avais adressé un petit télégramme en écrivant sur
l’enveloppe ce nom de Gilberte Swann que j’avais tant de fois tracé
sur mes cahiers.
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Had
Babur found Kabul safely in the power of his cousin 'Abdur-Razzaq,
ne would have had no good excuse for trying to take possession of
that important military post, but seeing that it was in the hands of
an usurper, whom 'Abdur-Razzaq had been unable to withstand,
he not only
attacked
but, as much by ruse as by daring, captured it,
and having done so asserted his hereditary right to the kingdom of
Kabul and pensioned off his cousin with an estate.
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and, in thy scale of sense,
Weigh thy opinion against providence;
Call imperfection what thou
fanciest
such,
Say, here He gives too little, there too much;
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust;
If man alone engross not Heaven's high care,
Alone made perfect here, immortal there:
Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod,
Re-judge His justice, be the God of God.
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The
Thracian
could (though all those tales were true
The bold Greeks tell) no greater wonders do:
Before his feet so sheep and lions lay,
Fearless and wrathless while they heard him play.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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(4) Whether it is only of the end
possessed?
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Oh, a moon face in a shadowy place,
And a light touch and a winsome grace,
And a
thrilling
tender voice that says:
'Safe from waters that seek the sea--
Cold waters by rugged ways--
Safe with me.
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"
Now Johnny all night long had heard
The owls in tuneful concert strive;
No doubt too he the moon had seen;
For in the
moonlight
he had been
From eight o'clock till five.
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It is
essential
to willing that something should
be commanded (but that does not mean that the
will is carried into effect).
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