And indeed Plato did no ways slanderThemistocles, Pericles,axidThucydides, when he made use of them as
Instances
to prove, that V e r t u e c o u l d n o t b e a t t a i n ' d , m e r e l y b y I n s t r u c t i o n ?
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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3 A re- entry must be assumed to be unformulable at first (as observing requires a distinction and therefore
presupposes
the distinction be- tween observation and distinction) yet can still be described in the end - but only in a way that results in an 'unresolvable indetermi- nacy' which can no longer be dealt with in the strict mathematical forms of arithmetic and (Boolean) algebra.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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nddhimuccati) / paritassand
upaddnam
uppajjati paccuddvattati mdnasam.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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RAMON DE
CAMPOAMOR
(Spanish).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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WAGNER:
Es ist ein
pudelnarrisch
Tier.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Gardner, with
8 full page
illustrations
in color by Charles Folkard.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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El septimo dia tuvieron
los antiguos por peligroso en las criaturas : por
lo qual los Romanos , imitando a los Hebreos,
observaban el septimo dia , despues del qual ve-
nian los dias
Lustricos
, en los quales ponian a
sus hijos sus nombres , a las hembras el ochavo
dia, y a los varones el noveno ; de donde tu-
vieron origen las fiestas , que su gentilidad hizo a
la Diosa Nundina.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Ông làm quan
Thượng
thư và từng được cử đi sứ (năm 1471) sang nhà Minh (Trung Quốc).
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stella-04 |
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"
{25a} That is, he is now undefended by
conscience
from the
temptations (shafts) of the devil.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Our
ministering
two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For months--for years--his life hadn't been worth a day's
purchase; and there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all
appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and
of his
unreflecting
audacity.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Είπε, κ' ευθύς ο Θόαντας σηκώθ' ο Ανδραιμονίδης,
και την πορφυρή χλαίνα του πετώντας, εις τα πλοία 500
έτρεξε• κ' εγώ πρόσχαρος μέσα 'ς το φόρεμά του
πλάγιαζα, κ' η χρυσόθρηνη Ηώ 'ς τον
κόσμο
εφάνη•
τώρ' αχ!
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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A single climb to a line, a straight exchange to a cane, a desperate
adventure and courage and a clock, all this which is a system, which has
feeling, which has
resignation
and success, all makes an attractive
black silver.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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But there is no doubt that here again a
property
is being confused with a characteristic mark.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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Tell me, Bertha, what said
Virginius to his dishonored
daughter?
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Friedrich Schiller |
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O
treachery!
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Keats |
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(The jury finds
Socrates
guilty.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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E io, che di mirare stava inteso,
vidi genti fangose in quel pantano,
ignude tutte, con
sembiante
offeso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Both were alike,
resembling
monumental pagodas, gabled in many places designed with the quaint originality of this people, and ornamented with all the fullness of their fancy.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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The
wandering
man went, but did not return.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Modern historians would tend to seek the roots of such conflicts in antagonisms between social classes or some other modern economic category, being
unwilling
to believe that men would kill each other over the nature of the Trinity.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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These articles, were, I fancy, lumbering in style, and
not lively or
striking
enough to be, at any time, acceptable to
newspaper readers; but had they been far more attractive, still, at that
particular moment, when great political changes were impending, and
engrossing all minds, these discussions were ill-timed, and missed fire
altogether.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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He is approached as a living god with that
adoration from which the souls of the Greeks revolted when they came
into the presence of the Great King, though
Alexander
bent them to
endure it.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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-- Even though things are empty of inherent existence, they appear not to be empty and are thought of in this way for various reasons, such as
considering
them truly existent.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep
providing
this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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For those two sects have a good deal in common with one another, on which account they themselves say that
cynicism
is a short road to virtue; and Zeno, the Cittiaean lived in the same manner.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For never in this life is sin so entirely abandoned in the practising of righteousness, that we continue without flinching in the self-same righteousness; in that although right principle does already drive out sin from the
dwelling
of the heart, yet the very sin, that is so banished, taking her seat at the doors of our thought, knocks for it to be opened to her.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Of course they will
finally reduce their
intrenchments
to the circumference of their own
brave hearts.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then read the Schedule of Taxes
appointed
by our
former Laws, and afterwards by mine.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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He wrote to the
old master as follows: "Here in
Heidelberg
my object
was simply to teach youth, on the whole ignorant but
naive; over there my task will be to uphold the positive
powers of the historical world against the petulance of
Radical criticism.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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"
Now
reappears
the godfather, pompous and banal
as ever.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Ma prima che gennaio tutto si sverni
per la centesma ch'e la giu negletta,
raggeran
si questi cerchi superni,
che la fortuna che tanto s'aspetta,
le poppe volgera u' son le prore,
si che la classe correra diretta;
e vero frutto verra dopo 'l fiore>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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: "other people get to know 'nirvana' by observing all dharmas as subject to 'hetu' or cause; however, 0 mahamati' they cannot attain
emancipation
Cmoksa'), because they do not realise the non-self nature of dharmas.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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He was
promptly
boxed on the ears and succumbed
to a nervous spasm.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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' printed after the poem show that the poem must have been
so initialled in the manuscript from which it was printed, and (2)
because, though not in the style of Donne's later
religious
poems, it
is somewhat in the style of the philosophical, stoical letter which
Donne addressed to Sir Edward Herbert at the siege of Juliers in 1610.
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John Donne |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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there
outshined
above the deep trench a fire inextinguishable, and there rolled about him a marvelous great flame.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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The Lord has said this very thing in Lankavatara: "The nature of things is like the reflection in a mirror which is devoid of both singularity and plurality;
although
it (i.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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From fear of that Zeus
swallowed
her.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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And pass, and disappear, and are no more;
But leave behind their
merchandise
and jewels,
Their perfumes, and their gold, and their disgust.
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Longfellow |
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“Say, kid,” he
remarked
after some time, “what does J.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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These three qualities of the self-awareness of mind, the natural clarity or
luminosity
of mind, and the natural liberation of mind are not newly created from meditation, but arise from
the nature of the mind itself and then merge back into the nature ofthe mind.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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From his earliest youth, Curio had been bound by close
intimacy
to Mark
Antony.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Cho soạn bài ký khắc vào đá tốt đặt tại cửa hiền để
khuyến
khích kẻ sĩ.
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stella-02 |
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Then the others passed out in silence one by one; and all the
while the child had not opened his pink eyelids or the fire ceased to
dance, for the one was too
ignorant
and the other too full of gaiety to
know what great beings had bent over the cradle.
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Yeats |
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turpis enim ferme contemptus et acris egestas
semota ab dulci uita stabilique uidetur
et quasi iam leti portas
cunctarier
ante;
unde homines dum se falso terrore coacti
effugisse uolunt longe longeque remosse,
sanguine ciuili rem conflant diuitiasque
conduplicant auidi, caedem caede accumulantes;
crudeles gaudent in tristi funere fratris
et consanguineum mensas odere timentque.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" 43 Whether ques- tions are essential can in any case only be judged by the answers given; there is no way of anticipating, and certainly not by the criterion of a
simplicity
based on meteorological events.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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All on the pyre were plain to see
the gory sark, the gilded swine-crest,
boar of hard iron, and
athelings
many
slain by the sword: at the slaughter they fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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THE AUDIT
Mere living wears the most of life away:
Even the lilies take thought for many things,
For frost in April and for drought in May,
And from no
careless
heart the skylark sings.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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So that the first and best
of the citizens, who had before not
considered
him as
a man, but dreaded him as a fury or destroying demon,
that had suddenly seized the seat of government, now
entertained more pleasing hopes from so promising a
beginning.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Swift, in a fragmentary essay on the
Education
of Ladies,
states the practice thus : 'the care of their education is either
>
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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But Moore used
them without the permission and an
undignified
quarrel arose as to the
true authorship of the passage.
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Alexander Pope |
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Not so the dolphins mourned by the salt sea,
Not so the
nightingale
among the rocks,
Not so the swallow over the far downs,
Not so Ceyx called for his Halcyone,
Not so in the eastern valleys Memnon's bird
Screamed o'er his sepulchre for the Morning's son,
As all have mourned for the departed Bion.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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il CllnaM for thil date as well as the
Observation
about Ihe ab5cnce or the Maitrcya texIS as such.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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But Tam kent what was what fu' brawlie:
There was ae winsome wench and waulie
That night enlisted in the core,
Lang after ken'd on Carrick shore;
(For mony a beast to dead she shot,
And perish'd mony a bonie boat,
And shook baith meikle corn and bear,
And kept the country-side in fear);
Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn,
That while a lassie she had worn,
In
longitude
tho' sorely scanty,
It was her best, and she was vauntie.
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burns |
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By means of words and gestures, and even by his very looks, he will be able to make
such a
startling
impression upon the mind of the wrongdoer that he will instantly see his error and
will forsake the ways of evil.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Gardiner
burns
Already; but to pay them full in kind,
The hottest hold in all the devil's den
Were but a sort of winter; sir, in Guernsey,
I watch'd a woman burn; and in her agony
The mother came upon her--a child was born--
And, sir, they hurl'd it back into the fire,
That, being but baptized in fire, the babe
Might be in fire for ever.
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Tennyson |
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The use of
'far' as an adjective is not uncommon: 'Pulling far history nearer,'
Crashaw; 'His own far blood,' Tennyson; 'Far travellers may lie by
authority,' Gataker (1625), are some
examples
quoted in the O.
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Donne - 2 |
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how
opportunely
everything falls out.
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Aristophanes |
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In the early part of that same day, Brigid sent a messenger to the king, with a true account
concerning
the transaction.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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In this, reason is
concerned with the grounds of
determination
of the will, which is a
faculty either to produce objects corresponding to ideas, or to
determine ourselves to the effecting of such objects (whether the
physical power is sufficient or not); that is, to determine our
causality.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is
sometimes
caught
Without her diadem.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As I seide erst, thou ground of our substaunce,
Continue
on us thy pitous eyen clere!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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1,=;I=: ;z';:;: tL:f
E: zi:i=;+;*;t-::rU::
=j=*i+=i
E !
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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When he thinks that he is struggling against fate
in this way, fate is
accomplishing
its ends even in
that struggle.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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--if only this
obstinate
little person can get her
way!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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" His
translation
of Trakl's "My Heart at Evening" be- gins: "Toward evening you hear the cry of the bats.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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The stress shifts from
the first _e_ to the _a_, giving a pronunciation very
different
from
that of the usual _véame_.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Stilicho and Stilicho alone
commanded
all the nations looked on by the rising and the setting sun.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Themaleprotagonu" in tbe 6nt
question
ofeach ofthese cyclCl (quCltiont I, 3.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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She detested the tyranny and injustice of England, in their
treatment
of this kingdom.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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UPON ROSES
Under a lawn, than skies more clear,
Some ruffled Roses nestling were,
And snugging there, they seem'd to lie
As in a flowery nunnery;
They blush'd, and look'd more fresh than flowers
Quickened
of late by pearly showers;
And all, because they were possest
But of the heat of Julia's breast,
Which, as a warm and moisten'd spring,
Gave them their ever-flourishing.
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My notion is that we may put in and pull
out letters at
pleasure
and alter the accents.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Et sans
doute ne les eût-elle pas crus, si elle n'avait
remarqué
qu'ils ne
pouvaient jamais arriver à me faire venir quand ils le voulaient, donc
que je ne tenais pas au monde, ce qui semblait à la duchesse le signe
qu'un étranger faisait partie des «gens agréables».
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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the board with cups and spoons is crown'd, 105
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round;
On shining Altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,
While China's earth
receives
the smoking tide: 110
At once they gratify their scent and taste,
And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
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Alexander Pope |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He would not come back, the cunning
priest, in that case; he would not risk his
precious
skin in such
company.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Any-
how, the discussions on social questions between him and
Knies were the most interesting
experienced
by the
round table, and we regretted that they were the last.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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91 It is never
restored
brocade.
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Shobogenzo |
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The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show reverence not less for her personality than for
her genius is
sufficient
answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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Sappho |
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Emulously all the provinces rivalled each other
in carrying out their "damned duty," as the
Prussian " phrase ran {ihre
verfluchte
Pflicht und
Schuldigkeit) ; from the gallant peasant of the
Rhenish county of Mors to the unhappy East-
Prussians, who with quiet tenacious opposition
had stood firm against the Russian conqueror, and
would not be disturbed in their determined faith-
fulness when the inexorable King accused them of
falling-off and overwhelmed them with manifesta-
tions of his displeasure.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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" "Rogue, rogue," replied the
spider, "yet
methinks
you should have more respect to a person whom all
the world allows to be so much your betters.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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M Yes ; now I remember seeing in his
book
drawings
of triangles and circles,
and I could not guess of what use they
could be.
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Childrens - Frank |
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It can seem as if there were an
understood
list: drugs-- check; incest--check; madness--check; synaesthesia--check.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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See, among the
pretermitted
saints, p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Cinnia, also, had a sister, named Derfraechia or Derrichia,^s> who is
aggregated
Article hi.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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And where, upon her sheltering plain ,
Beneath the rock fair Cirrha lies , Swift -footed Phricias joy 'd to gain
The Pythian contest 's
glorious
prize .
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Pindar |
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I shall never forget the depth of his
relief or the warmth of his
expressions
of gratitude.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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In 753
Boniface
left, and for two years he worked among
the water-bound washes of the Zuiderzee: when (5 June 754) he was
at Dockum awaiting converts who were to be confirmed a band of savages
attacked him and his followers: they were all slain: the books he had
with him were found and taken to Fulda, and thither also, after
some time at Utrecht, was carried the body of the saint himself: there
in the house of his founding, near the middle of his vast field of
toil, the great hero lay at rest.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Tully - Offices |
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