Now if we consider the fact that it was in the second century of the city that the Greek states in Lower Italy advanced from the pure clan-constitution to a modified one, which placed the preponderance in the hands of the landholders, we shall recognize in that move ment the impulse which called forth in Rome the Servian reform—a change of
constitution
resting in the main on the same fundamental idea, and only directed into a somewhat different course by the strictly monarchical form of the Roman state.
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appearance
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And hence we have
elsewhere
quite as
strong and definite statements as those quoted above about universals
[316] (p.
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Jupiter, reckoning himself to be nothing indebted unto Saturn,
will go near to detrude him out of his sphere, and with the Homeric chain
will be like to hang up the intelligences, gods, heavens, demons, heroes,
devils, earth and sea,
together
with the other elements.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The reader must accept it as a fact that digital
computers
can be constructed, and indeed have been constructed, according to the principles we have described, and that they can in fact mimic the actions of a human computer very closely.
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Elvire
No, I portrayed indifference to either
Raising or
lowering
the hopes of neither,
Your eyes neither too gentle nor severe,
Until your father's choice be made clear.
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What says to the first: 'A
Sepulchre!
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Like far echoes that
distantly
congregate,
in a shadowy and profound unity,
vast as the night air, in its clarity,
perfumes, colours, sounds reverberate.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Haste where thy spiced garden blows:
But in bare Autumn eves
Wilt thou have store of harvest
sheaves?
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Christina Rossetti |
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For example, ignoring race results in the recruitment of predominantly white pop-
ulations
to research studies, and it produces medicine that is tailored to white bodies and therefore may be less helpful to the bodies of members of other groups.
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IN A RESTAURANT
THE
darkened
street was muffled with the snow,
The falling flakes had made your shoulders white,
And when we found a shelter from the night
Its glamor fell upon us like a blow.
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As unconscious as she was obedient, Gertrude Stein took
dictation
from her fellow student.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" Even though we are only to stanza ve, the reader is doubtless already wondering how much longer such an
exhaustive
itemization could possibly go on.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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No loneliness is this, nor misery,
But great content that these should be the ways
Whereby the Fancy,
dreaming
as she strays,
Makes bright and present what she would would be.
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Amy Lowell |
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He rose
rapidly to
national
eminence as a practitioner in the Federal as well
the State tribunals.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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As a writer he is chiefly noted for the even dignity
and general
serviceableness
of his style.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,
And such an
Instrument
I was to vse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The many place-names in the poem are all
situated
around Mecca and Medina have sundry evocative resonances within the tradition.
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Translated Poetry |
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For this reason even Euclid's Elements turned out to be a
different
book when it first entered the galaxy of Gutenbergin 1482.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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A number of novels also date
from this period; and while Jefferies was deficient in
construction
and
action, and not properly a maker of fiction, his fine descriptive powers
and strong thought give even his stories a certain value.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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20 When Dionysius
captured
a city, some of the inhabitants died in the siege, and others were banished by him.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Then there is the burglar; and the
criminal
classes are regularly
increased in town whenever the authorities grow active enough to clear
the main Italian roads of bandits.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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--She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a
handsome
wee thing,
She is a lo'esome wee thing,
This dear wee wife o' mine.
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burns |
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Memoirs of a
celebrated
Literary and Political Character (viz.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Gumbert, Martyr, who with his wife Bertha, is
venerated
at the 29th of April, and at the ist of May, to be indi- cated.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But
Hermeias
and Zeuxis denounced him with many bitter accusations and called him a cheat and dissembler.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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What didst thou say,
Jacinta?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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r welche dieses
Verhalten, so
verkehrt
es scheint, durchaus ange-
messen ist.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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At 23 years of age he went back to the Servites in Venice
as
professor
of philosophy and afterwards of mathematics, in
which study he was the acknowledged head of all Italy.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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2 The
following
day he proceeded to the Capitolium; here he spoke cordially to those whom he was planning to put to death and then went back to the Palace leaning on the arm of Papinian15 and of Cilo.
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Historia Augusta |
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This usage,
however, became in process of time more relaxed, and
then medical secrets began to be imparted to stran-
gers who had gone through the forms of initiation
(refetoi uvipec), and were in this way
rendered
less
exclusive in their character.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great literary figure, and a
champion
of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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It is the famous letter
containing
the words: "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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But as the shroud was thus turning, behold, the other washer-
women surrounded Wilherm; and he
recognized
his aunt, his
wife, his mother, and his sisters.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Eternal things only are our own:
with all these
temporal
things we are barely intrusted by
another - the Disposer and Lord of all.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Incidentally, I have noticed that even the humanist texts that first explicitly discussed the educational capability of human beings, such as the work of Pico della Mirandola, do not really openly con- ceive the
perfecting
of humans; they focused more on the risk that spawns hubris, a transgression of the lower boundary of the middle position (towards bestiality) or of the upper boundary (towards presumptuous divinity).
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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At the fifty-fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street,
followed
by
applause, hurrahs, and some fierce growls.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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The natural drive of the
rational
natural being, or rational de- sire, aims thus necessarily at increasing the degree of personhood [Personalita?
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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The Caspian he
correctly
of the earth.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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The Homeric Hymn
declared
that Latona leaned against a palm
tree.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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The Chorus of
Husbandnvn
(off scene) -- O.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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"
In her
fluttered
heart young May
Mused a dubious while:
"If he loves me as he says"--
Her lips curved with a smile:
"Where Margaret shines like the sun,
I shine but like a moon;
If sister Meggan makes her choice
I can make mine as soon;
At cockcrow we were sister-maids,
We may be brides at noon.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Maximitch has
promised
me he will ensure it reaching you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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You I praise, and love
for so
enveloping
my heart and brain
in vaporous shrouds, in sepulchres of rain.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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As has been elsewhere remarked, the original plan of the bank of North-America, contemplated a capital of ten millions of dollars, which is certainly not-too'broad a
foundation
for the extensive operations to which a na- tional bank is destined.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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When he
negotiated
the socalled peace treaty, he was rather unfortunate in that he had to handle the matter along with the French, and all this a short while after the ignominious Nanking treaty of 1842, when the British drove a rapacious bargain on the strength of the Opium War.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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My father never forgave him for this, and when my uncle
was lying on his
deathbed
at the age of forty, my father refused
his request to come and see him.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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The more 'that which is per- ceived', say, television, plays a role in this, the more communica- tion is based on implicit
knowledge
which cannot even be communicated.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Individuals appear here with a biography, wTith problems, with self-generated life situations and sham existences, with a need (understandable to an
observer)
for suppression, for unconsciousness, for latency.
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Bnngmg forth the
Mahakannendra1']f
the zi-stone
containing the tantra of Aiahottara (NGB
casket
containing
that of Malign Mantra (Vajraman- trabhfru, T 843) to Santigarbha.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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For this reason, the lottery is the greatest moral
achievement
of capitalist society.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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To raise the
standard
of living of the whole world
to that of Britain would not be a greater undertaking than the war we have just fought.
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Orwell |
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These were a collection of his articles that
had been published in the Musical Gazette; striking pen sketches in
the manner of the
celebrated
and eccentric French engraver of the
early seventeenth century, Jacques Callot.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Because abstaining or omitting will eventually be insufficient, it will become
necessary
in the future to formulate a codex of anthropotechnology and to confront this fact actively.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Sallust - Catiline |
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_Wit_ shoots in vain its
momentary
fires,
The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.
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Alexander Pope |
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And in this faith have we taken
such
liberties
of interpretation.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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In me thou see'st the
twilight
of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Governor Wright
wrote to the home
government
that there "are very few
Men of real Abilities, Gentlemen, or Men of Property in
their Tribunals.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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He wrote also
unsuccessful
plays.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Whose
harshest
idea
Will to melody run,
O!
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Poe - 5 |
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[1008] Others, again, in Tereina, where Ocinarus moistens the earth with his streams,
bubbling
with bright water, shall dwell, weary with bitter wandering.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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“A
vigorously
written bit of work, packed full of shrewd
thinking.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Together with the above contributions, Brian, when
conquered
the Danes,
gave them permission reside some the chief cities Leins ter and Munster, for purposes commerce, but for such permis
sion compelled the Danes Limerick deliver him annually 365 pipes red wine, and levied 150 pipes wine the Danes Dublin.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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"
Conillac
remained motionless, and the
What is the matter?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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"The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete"
The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd,
The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage,
The crazed,
prisoners
in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant,
Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;
(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's
orbic scheme?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Whereas in Ecce Homo Nietzsche often appears to be a "Hanswurst," parodically citing and overcoming the originary claims of much of his work, the poem "Venedig"
apparently
privileges the primary experience.
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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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XXXVII
On the horizon the peaks assembled;
And as I looked,
The march of the
mountains
began.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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146 FIGHTING THE RED TRADE MENACE
first glance seems imposing of
articles
of Soviet
manufacture that have become or, threaten to be-
come, competitive with British products.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Lips of childish
laughter!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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No camel but is given to heirs in death,
no plunderer but is
plundered
for his take.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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At his coming to town, no man was more surrounded by all those who really
had or pretended to wit, or more courted by the great men, who had then a
power and opportunity of
encouraging
arts and sciences, and gave proofs
of their fondness for the name of patron in many instances, which will
ever be remembered to their glory.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Trakl's poetry can thus be seen to formulate a model of human fragility that was used, in the pages of Der Brenner from 1912, as a
perspective
from which to articulate a mild form of social critique.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Lòng đâu sẵn mối
thương
tâm,
Thoắt nghe Kiều đã đầm đầm châu sa.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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When whatever appears is unspoiled by grasping or
clinging
thoughts, all of appearance and cognition arises as the empty lucidity of naked primal knowing.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Il y a dans le violon,--si ne voyant pas l’instrument, on ne peut pas
rapporter ce qu’on entend à son image laquelle modifie la sonorité--des
accents qui lui sont si communs avec certaines voix de contralto,
qu’on a l’illusion qu’une
chanteuse
s’est ajoutée au concert.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Through Caesar, his father's friend, he
could get to know
everybody
in Rome worth
knowing, both men of action and men of letters, such as
Calvus the Sheridan and Cinna the Lyly of Rome.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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You should come to London
to know how to
estimate
your conquest.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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I
confesse
it wel q{uo}d I.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thespia and
Platcea, two eminent cities in Bosotia, that had felt the jealousy and
revenge of Thebes, and now lay
subverted
and depopulated, were by the
same plan to be restored and fortified.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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by the fact that it was built and equipped as a night-bombing force :
Prior to the development of long-range fighters and the discovery and improvement of non-visual bombing aids and techniques, the R A F could not undertake daylight bombing without prohibitive losses, nor could it achieve sufficient
accuracy
in night bombing to attack other than very large targets.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Who can
describe
all the different kinds of hobbies ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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, =
_Beowulf
had
not before seen the greedy possessor's favor_.
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Beowulf |
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You have
perceived
the leaves of the flame.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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As member of par-
liament, he was associated with Samuel Whitbread and others
belonging to the active group which
advocated
popular instruction
and the monitorial system.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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The
interesting
point in their
history is the prominent social place now assumed for the first
time by Harrow, under a succession (1760—1805) of former Eton
masters, Sumner, Heath and Drury, and by Rugby under another
Etonian, Thomas James (1778–94).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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] G There was, besides, a man of the name of Lityerses, a bastard son of Midas, the king of
Celaenae
in Phrygia, a man of a savage and fierce aspect, and an enormous glutton; and he is mentioned by Sositheus the tragic poet, in his play called Daphnis or Lityersas; where he says-
He'll eat three asses' panniers, freight and all,
Three times in one brief day; and what he calls
A measure of wine is a ten-amphora cask;
And this he drinks all at a single draught.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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She is of stately Norman figure: in her twenty-fifth
year; of
beautiful
still countenance: her name is Charlotte Cor-
day, heretofore styled D'Armans, while Nobility still was.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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LES EPAVES
I
LE COUCHER DU SOLEIL ROMANTIQUE
Que le Soleil est beau quand tout frais il se lève,
Comme une explosion nous lançant son
bonjour!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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It was pitched on a prairie, with a park all about it,
enclosing
many a tree for more than two miles.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I do love I know not what,
Sometimes this and
sometimes
that;
All conditions I aim at.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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For the sadness of The
Undivine
Comedy is not that
of a young pessimism.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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The food prices and the fees for electricity,
heating and water had
steadily
been raised since 2018.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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