325
Irish
Archaeological
Society.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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lii THE FIRST
OLYNTHIAG
I ?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Ann was a wife and a mother (he thinks an instant of his own mother and his own guilt-'Who brought me into this world lies there, bronzelidded, under few cheap flowers'), and if
Shakespeare
made an error in marrying her, then it was a volitional error, 'a portal of discovery' .
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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_
_I suggest that men
meditate
at length on Hsieh Hsüan Hui.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Ond' io appresso: <
de l'etterna letizia, che pur uno
parer mi fate tutti vostri odori,
solvetemi, spirando, il gran digiuno
che
lungamente
m'ha tenuto in fame,
non trovandoli in terra cibo alcuno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This has
happened
with Amazon Kindle, where Amazon funnels Kindles through their cloud servers.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies--
You are my
deepening
skies;
Give me your stars to hold.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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what’s
to become of me?
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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THOUGHT
I am not poor, but I am proud,
Of one
inalienable
right,
Above the envy of the crowd,--
Thought's holy light.
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Emerson - Poems |
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There was a little awkwardness at first in their
discourse
on another
subject.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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But man, whose Joy consisteth
in
comparing
himselfe with other men, can relish nothing but what is
eminent.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Ascamus Nds 'era be
conducted
in,
Ord'rmg the more expenenc'd to begin.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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The
Presentation
of Self in Everyday Life.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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Thus he does not go as far as de Benoist on Third Worldism, and uses racist
arguments
in a more pronounced way.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Eine
Absicht jedoch,
namentlich
eine unbewusste, bewirkt
eine solche Verbindung auch unter ungu?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Translated
by Sebastian Evang.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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(1) An aerial picture preserved for all time the
development
of this first toxic cloud of war over the Ypres war front.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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The German unity achieved by Hitler is indeed
formidable
and imposing, but it is much less complete than he has made it appear.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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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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The sea is clear, the
highways
free once more.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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Before you accuse my judgement further
Consult your heart:
Rodrigue
is its master.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Modest, yet withal an Elf
Bold, and lavish of thyself;
Since we needs must first have met
I have seen thee, high and low, 20
Thirty years or more, and yet
'Twas a face I did not know;
Thou hast now, go where I may,
Fifty
greetings
in a day.
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William Wordsworth |
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From this im-
pious Corruption it hath appeared, even more
remarkably
than
formerly, that whenever he hath engaged in the Intereft of
either private Citizen, or Magiftrate, or Republic, he hath in-
volved them in Misfortunes incurable.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the
shivering
air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From a leper in his lair.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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'
To the other cries: 'Life and
splendour!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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As long as their capitalization keeps rising, they
themselves
will happily go under with their thumbs up.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Yea but, said I, my friend, what is the name of
that city whither thou carriest thy
coleworts
to sell?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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And this entirely agrees with the
universal
law of evolution, in
virtue of which, amidst the variation of animal and social
organisms, antecedent forms are not wholly eliminated, but
continue as the basis of the forms which succeed them.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Nietzsche probably went too far when he suggested that the defanging of men was the premeditated project of a group of
pastoral
breedersöthat is, a project of clerical or Pauline insight that foresaw everything that men might be capable of if they were free and left to themselves, and so instituted compensatory and preventative measures against it.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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MAURTEEN
Persuade
the colleen to put down the book;
My grandfather would mutter just such things,
And he was no judge of a dog or a horse,
And any idle boy could blarney him;
Just speak your mind.
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Yeats - Poems |
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El papel de María es paradigmático de la situación de la subjeti
vidad humana en el esquema metafísico-cristiano en tanto se mues
tra en él más instructivamente que en ninguna otra parte cómo el
ser humano epicéntrico ha de
responder
a su solicitud por la lla
mada del centro.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Andromache
was Hector's wife who mourned his death in the Trojan War.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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7 He had still another omen of empire: for once, when he was invited to an imperial banquet and came wearing a cloak, when he should have worn his toga,6 he was lent an
official
toga of the emperor's own.
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Historia Augusta |
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24
pretas; one's spouse is
unattractive
and quarrelsome like an enemy; one is always dissatisfied with one's own spouse and constantly thinks of others; and the country of birth is very dusty.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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20
For this, in other times, at Nero's word,
The ruffian bands unsheathed the murderous sword,
Rushed to the
swelling
coffers of the great,
Chased Lateranus from his lordly seat,
Besieged too-wealthy Seneca's wide walls, 25
And closed, terrific, round Longinus' halls:
While sweetly in their cocklofts slept the poor,
And heard no soldier thundering at their door.
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Satires |
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"'
Writing is the
actegratuit
itself.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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This poem represents my first attempt at
translating
a muˁallaqa.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
) These and other
features
of London life are
described in numerous works of easy access; for a graphic picture of Elizabethan
;
London, drawn with the author's usual felicity of touch, the reader may be referred
to the section ‘Le Pays Anglais' in vol.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Specimen
of Milton's spelling, from the Cambridge autograph
manuscript.
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Milton |
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Is it
sympathy
for the sheep you wish to excite?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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This search for the "great
romantic
love" seems to be based on a wish to restore a successful early relation with a parent, based on nurturance and succor-
?
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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He too, with Alfred de Musset, might have said
Quoi que nous
puissions
faire,
Je souffre; il est trop tard; le monde s'est fait vieux.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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¡gloria
en las alturas!
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Jose de Espronceda |
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'The
official
files,' he
wrote to his wife, 'make a pile higher than my head.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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If the
retribution
which constitutes this organ matures (vipacayate) in Kamadhatu, one necessarily has kdya-mdriya and jlvita-indriya in the first stages of his embryonic life; in the last stages five other organs (indiiya) are added.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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The
Tirynthian
hero was
a baby, and he crushed two serpents in his hands; even in his cradle he
was already worthy of Jove.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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Isn’t this alternative presentism a dull, nirvana-like fundamentalism that has to ultimately fade away in an
uncreative
indifference?
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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To achieve a swift
departure
was his only aim!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thus, Spinozism, in spite of the
absurdity
of its
fundamental idea, argues more consistently than the creation theory
can, when beings assumed to be substances, and beings in themselves
existing in time, are regarded as effects of a Supreme Cause, and
yet as not [belonging] to Him and His action, but as separate
substances.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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How tenderly the Lady Ruth
The cruel dart
withdrew!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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'Tis true, the
contrary
was the opinion of our forefathers, which we of this age have devotion enough to receive from them on their own terms, and unexamined, but not sense enough to perceive 'twas a gross mistake in them.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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His genius in some respect
resembled
that of Horace,
out a long-established habit of familiarity with rhetor-
ical subjects produced an influence on his general man-
ner, which is infinitely graver than that of the friend of
Maecenas.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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For now prone he saw
Grendel
stretched
there, spent with war,
spoiled of life, so scathed had left him
Heorot's battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--Good day now, said the rector,
withdrawing
his hand and bowing.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:57 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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I likewise, since you and I were first acquainted, in the
pride of despising old woman's stories, ventured in "the daring path
Spinosa trod;" but
experience
of the weakness, not the strength of
human powers, made me glad to grasp at revealed religion.
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Robert Burns |
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One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Abrahan nuestro pastor primero:
cuya santa inmortal
genealogia
.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Pound
mentions
Kalenda Maya in Canto CXIII.
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Today he
informed
me that he
had finished his plan before he read Milton.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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And letting on hoon var daft about the warbly sangs from over holmen: High hellskirt saw ladies
hensmoker
lilyhung pigger: and soay and soan and so firth and so forth in a tone sonora and Oom Bothar below like Bheri-Bheri in his sandy cloak, so umvolosy, as deaf as a yawn, the stult!
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Finnegans |
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258 (#292) ############################################
258
AURANGZIB (1658-1681)
Next, from 16 to 20 January, 1664, Shivaji sacked the rich city of
Surat unchecked, its
cowardly
governor having fled away without
any attempt at resistance, though the English, Dutch and French
factories successfully defended themselves.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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168 I What Is
Literature?
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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One of the most celebrated ladies of Arthur's court, Luned,
becomes a saint and a martyr for her chastity, her
festival
being
celebrated on August 1st.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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The significant thing about Browning is that he invaded still another province in the interests of poetry; he showed that the
psychological
analysis of motives underlying human conduct was full of dramatic possibilities.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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The Jews withstood the siege for some time; but when all their provisions were used up, they were forced to send
ambassadors
to him, to seek terms for a truce.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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35 If we cannot be entirely sure that we are
justified
in accepting any particular view, we also cannot be entirely sure that we would be justified in rejecting it.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging,
like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers,
Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they
falter, and, lingering, languish in radiant
choir;
Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering, lily-long
fingers enchant through melodious hours,
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting,
what passionate bosoms
aflaming
with fire!
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Santaraksita and his commentator KamaldTla give what is probably the most famous discussion of this
problemll
in their TaUwzsa'!
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Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
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In my early youth, from the moment I ceased to be under the guardianship
of my relations, I began madly to enjoy all the
pleasures
which money
could buy--and, of course, such pleasures became irksome to me.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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The while she tortured my desire
With blood red mouth and eyes afire --
What though the minx seemed
artless?
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Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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He knows
how to appreciate the hint, and easily guesses there-
by where he has
succeeded
and failed.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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These few lines of
commentary
are an admittedly inadequate gloss on the first four paragraphs for Finnegans Wake.
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Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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When will a great man arise with sufficient
strength of mind to puff away the fumes which pride and sensu-
ality have thus spread over the
subject?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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He proved that genuine
Christianity
may
join faith to courage; and, with Coligny,
Duquesne, Havelock, and others, he showed
what power a religion may have which is
drawn directly from the divine sources of
the Bible.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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No, like hyenas, screeching and
laughing
(no, no better - no matter).
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Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
|
Motto Prefixed To The Author's First Publication
The simple Bard, unbroke by rules of art,
He pours the wild
effusions
of the heart;
And if inspir'd 'tis Nature's pow'rs inspire;
Her's all the melting thrill, and her's the kindling fire.
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Source: |
burns |
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The other buffalo also
extricated itself from the slime and
lolloped
away.
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Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
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CINO
ITALIAN
CAMPAGNA
1309, THE OPEN-ROAD
AH !
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Mas que linguagem
estilhaçada
e babélica falaria eu quando descrevesse o Elevador de Santa Justa, a Catedral de Reims, os calções dos zuavos, a maneira como o português se pronuncia em Trás-os-Montes?
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Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
|
What are the ear marks of a good
translation?
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Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Giffard, who was that time
permitted
perform there without molestation.
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Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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" She had
descended
to put into her place the person who
demanded muffins and an uncracked teapot as though she had a right to
both.
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Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Wyrd they knew not,
destiny dire, and the doom to be seen
by many an earl when eve should come,
and
Hrothgar
homeward hasten away,
royal, to rest.
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Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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On the other hand, the sign that was at the
beginning
has also been incarnated, during Hilbert's lifetime and indeed to his dismay, in digital computers.
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Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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The punishment in this case was banishment;
the form of the sentence declared that the criminal "should be
deprived of fire and water;" that is, the citizens, were prohibited
from supplying him with the
ordinary
necessaries of life.
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Source: |
Oliver Goldsmith |
|
Such things are but chill
consolation
for men.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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Opening tour de force, a study in punks, a cheese souMe of the leprous crust of society done to a turn and a
niceness
save where he puts on the dulcis- simo, vox humana, stop.
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The leaders change
continually
and almost the only
constant figure is that Roric, brother of Harold, who was settled in
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Two
thousand
years--much has gone by forever,
Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men--
But here on the beaches that time passes over
The heart aches now as then.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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So
quantification
can generate sudden moments of insight without any substance and simultaneously more information for those who already have some knowledge.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Such then was Orpheus whom Aeson's son
welcomed
to share his toils, in obedience to the behest of Cheiron, Orpheus ruler of Bistonian Pieria.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Furthermore, its grammatical forms lacked
variety and, while it abounded in monosyllabic words, it was short
of the much-resounding polysyllabic words, so that a rhythmical
grace was not so
inevitable
as in Latin or Greek.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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The Green Knight, laughing,
thus spoke: "Thou hast confessed so clean, and
acknowledged
thy faults,
that I hold thee as pure as thou hadst never forfeited since thou wast
first born.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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People
got tipsy,
pretended
they were mad.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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And when Cyrus the younger was making his expedition against his brother, did he not carry with him a courtesan of Phocaea, who was a very clever and very
beautiful
woman?
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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