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In their extensive corre-
spondence, Fichte's powerful and commanding intellect
evidently possesses great
ascendency
over the more diffident
and pliable nature of Reinhold; but his influence never in-
terferes with the mental freedom of his friend.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Whether she was more prodigal of her money or her reputation, it would have been
difficult
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11840
MATTHEW PRIOR
My pen amo
mong the rest I took,
Lest those bright eyes that cannot read
Should dart their
kindling
fires, and look
The power they have to be obeyed.
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"
The word was
scarcely
spoken when the loud cheer answered
the welcome sound; and at the same instant the long line of
shining helmets passed with the speed of a whirlwind.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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That Siege
of Mentz is become famed;-lovers of the
Picturesque
(as Goethe
will testify), washed country-people of both sexes, stroll thither
on Sundays, to see the artillery work and counter-work; “you
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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(1970) Young children in hospital (2nd
edition)
London: Tavistock.
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This fond hope
resulted
in the missions of Friars John of Pian di
CH, XX.
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Doth
he not prescribe to the Thessau ""ns how they shall
be
governed
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SYNOPSES OF NOTED BOOKS
come
on
by her ability to quiet a
restless
spirit in love with her, and persuades her to
that haunts the house of her friends Sir an elopement.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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My cowardly sighs are the more contemptible,
Since glory renders Theseus excusable:
Because as yet myself I've tamed no monsters,
I've
acquired
no right to imitate his failures.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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, 146, Maurras, Charles, 208,
281
338nn23,24
Meaning: in prose, 10, 28-29,
30, 31-32, 34, 38, 52, 267; in poetry, 28--33;
representation
vs.
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Then a dream of great pomp rises o'er,
And it
conquers
the god that it bore,
Till a shout casts us down far beneath;
We so small, and so stript before death.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Gabriel Gauchat (1709-1779), French ecclesiastical writer,
was author of a number of works on
religious
subjects.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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It is true they lie
concealed
at present,
as our indolence deprives them of all resource.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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34-41) And from Phylace two men of exceeding worth sought her to
wife,
Podarces
son of Iphiclus, Phylacus' son, and Actor's noble
son, overbearing Protesilaus.
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Hesiod |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things,
said unto Gilgamish:--
"Truly oh Gilgamish he is
born [56] in the fields like thee.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This is one of Coleridge's most masterly experiments in
dealing with
material
hardly possible to turn into poetry.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" Lysistratus,
as soon as he saw him, let fly this
comparison
at him.
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Aristophanes |
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I have
passed through every
possible
mood of suffering.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy
fragrance
and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Why had Gotama, at that time, in the hour
of all hours, sat down under the bo-tree, where the
enlightenment
hit
him?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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And I am afraid it wouldn't be my first coat's wasting after
striding
on the vampire and blazing on the focoal.
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Finnegans |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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A
scrutiny
was made, which nothing gained;
No choice but pay the money now remained;
This grieved him much, and o'er the fellow's face;
The dewy drops were seen to flow apace.
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La Fontaine |
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"
LX
So with the lady's leave the volume closed,
Whose
precepts
to her will the spirits bent.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Thus in the dreams of Little Hans, the horse comes to embody as unchallengeable a malefic power as the animals sacred to
primitive
peoples.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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Herophilus was one of the most
celebrated
physicians of antiquity, who founded the Medical School at Alexandria, in the time of the first Ptolemy.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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But when we are forced to think reflectively on
unfamiliar
aphorisms from another culture, the usual reaction is to try to read them in a literal- minded way.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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He is a superb writer, and a great advocate for sanity, and an
endlessly
informative resource.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Such nostalgia, in fact, will continue to fuel competition and
conflict
even in the post-historical world for some time to come.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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A thousand clans were composed, since he had with great difficulty found two hundred, the majority having been exterminated by the
savageness
of the tyrants.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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For assonance is indeed a common fixture of English lyric forms that, unlike the sonnet, still depend
primarily
on oral performance and aural consumption.
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Translated Poetry |
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The lips are
delicately cut, slight and
changeable
as an aspen; but there is a
set-up look about the upper lip, a determination of the muscle to
a particular expression, and you fancy that you can almost see wit
astride upon it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Poetry in
Translation
HOME NEWS ABOUT LINKS CONTACT SEARCH
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem et de Jerusalem a Paris
(Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem and Back)
With a
selection
of engravings and lithographs from nineteenth-century travelogues by celebrated artists such as
Edward Dodwell Esq, F.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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After hunger is driven away and the desire of food stayed, King Evander
speaks: 'No idle
superstition
that knows not the gods of old hath
ordered these our solemn rites, this customary feast, this altar of
august sanctity; saved from bitter perils, O Trojan guest, do we
worship, and [189-225]most due are the rites we inaugurate.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
Communists
called modern Western music unhealthy.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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He
nullifies
national traditions by putting them into contact with each other according to the old procedure of the sceptics and Montaigne; he throws them into a basket like crabs, and, without commentary, leaves it to them to tear each other apart.
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II
One of the tales opens thus:
-
“IN THE city of Saragossa there was a rich merchant who,
seeing his death draw nigh, and that he could no longer retain
his possessions, which perhaps he had
acquired
with bad faith,
thought that by making some little present to God he might
satisfy in part for his sins, after his death, -as if God gave his
grace for money.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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u:
EEEi
Eii$E ; :glBii;
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il ilE iliiEil
igififiiaElgEtti!
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Tooutdo the simple code bearing Caesar'sname, Alberti constructed two concentric rings, each inscribed with differently scrambled alphabets, so that a turn of the outer ring changed the
correspondence
between the two alphabets.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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The
Cardinal
was to take off the censures in the Doge's
palace and not in the Cathedral.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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But the
lady's glowed with another feeling when her friend appeared at the door:
she sprang forward, took both his hands, and led him to Linton; and then
she seized Linton's
reluctant
fingers and crushed them into his.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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) yet I hope he will consider, what a mortal fear we were in at that time, when we faw hereditary return again, in the person of & princess whom:
we bad
disdainfully
treated ; and some sought her life, to have brought her into a plot, and to have prevented her accession to the throne of her ancestors, as shewed in Rehears.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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And owing to love affairs of this kind, the tyrants (for friendships of this sort were very adverse to their interests) altogether forbade the fashion of making favourites of boys, and wholly
abolished
it.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Methinks I see from rampired town
Some
battling
tyrant's matron wife,
Some maiden, look in terror down,--
"Ah, my dear lord, untrain'd in war!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Both these gentlemen have rejected the light of revelation
which absolutely
promises
eternal life in another state.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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True Prophets did not speak by Extasy, hut saw and
understood
what they dedar'd, arid were t!
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"Because I fear you," he answered;--"because you are far too fair,
And able to
strangle
my soul in a mesh of your gold-coloured hair.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Có
người
khách ở viễn phương,
Xa nghe cũng nức tiếng nàng tìm chơi.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Come,
now, there is
something
in that,' said she, and so then she was
bound to marry; but she would have a husband who knew how
to give an answer when he was spoken to, - not one who was
good for nothing but to stand and be looked at, for that is very
tiresome.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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unsatisfied
as ta mean- ing, and P.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Elle rit a la Mort et nargue la Debauche,
Ces
monstres
dont la main, qui toujours gratte et fauche,
Dans ses jeux destructeurs a pourtant respecte
De ce corps ferme et droit la rude majeste.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy undulation 57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Harvey and DeGraaf dissected animals at most every period after coition
for the express purpose of discovering the semen, but were never able
to detect the
smallest
vestige of it in the uterus in any one
instance.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To all our joy, a sweet-faced child was born,
More tender than the
childhood
of the morn.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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It was one of Boy
Beloved's
charming
ways to come, with his
open hands placed side by side in front of
41
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with
ceaseless
smoke.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Since I am at it, allow me to
disillusion
you about Mathews.
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Sólo las partes subte
rráneas de la tierra son capaces de superar, aún en falta de luz y dis
tancia a Dios, el lugar de los seres humanos, la superficie terráquea:
por eso en la imagen de mundo de cubiertas
cosmológicas
las re
361
giones del Hades y del infierno se suponen situadas bajo la superfi cie de la tierra, en el último asiento y excusado del todo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Records
even exist, of the year 1534, of formal prohibitions to
print in Polish having been issued by the hierarchy,
prohibitions that called forth
praiseworthy
remon-
strance.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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In Africa, as in Italy,
everything
was in favour of the imperial restoration.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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_ O
thankless
beldames and untrue!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Lucullus had from his earliest years
and in the same year he is mentioned among the devoted much
attention
to literary pursuits, and
judges at the trial of L.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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The bee is
a
geometrician
of the very first order.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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With the same date can be illustrated how the three primary characteristics of this epoch were united at the beginning in a common
primordial
scene.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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At a fair spot
on the earth, his flight comes to an end: his pinions
drop, and
Mephistopheles
is at his side.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Never the full effect
Can I imagine, and describe it less
Which o'er my heart those soft eyes still
possess!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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* * * * *
JOHN FREEMAN
I WILL ASK
I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you
Their smell and hue,
And the bold, trembling anemone awhile to spare
Her flowers starry fair;
Or the flushed wild apple and yet sweeter thorn
Their sweetness to keep
Longer than any fire-bosomed flower born
Between
midnight
and midnight deep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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but
unoriginal
in
plot.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Yes certainly, answered he,
laughing
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The
coincidence
of the thirteenth-century “Renaissance” with the
period of the Crusades is striking, and it would be rash to deny any share
in the outburst of intellectual energy which marks the thirteenth
century to the new ideas and broadened outlook of those who, having gone
on crusade, had seen the world of men and things in a way to which the
society of the tenth and eleventh centuries was unaccustomed.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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a tapestry number of Jews stabbIng the wafer blood gushIng from It
Brussels stone same as BraIntree North Common excellent character, emperor dId not lIke hIm
IntermIxture houses trees shIps canals very startlIng
neatness
remarkable
Van der Capellen tot de Pol fears holders of EnglIsh funds wul etc/
trIed to end some feudal burdens about here and got hImself censured OK, as was Van Berckel
Don Joas Tholomeno Independence of AmerIca IS assured Sept 14th '82.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The blood that had risen to her throat in fear and
vexation
now rushed pell-mell down to her hips.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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I arrived in the Land of the Morning Calm, which might more
suitably
be called the Land of Continual Upheaval, when a revolution was in progress.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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But if,
ascending
this declivity
I gain the woods, and in some thicket sleep,
(If sleep indeed can find me overtoil'd
And cold-benumb'd) then I have cause to fear 570
Lest I be torn by wild beasts, and devour'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He, the
brilliant
causeur, the chief blaguer of a circle
in which young James McNeill Whistler was reduced to the role of a
listener--this most spiritual among artists, found himself a failure in
the Belgian capital.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I therefore deliver
it as a maxim, that whoever desires the
character
of a proud man, ought
to conceal his vanity.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Then there she is in the
piercing
cold at dawn,
hoarfrost adrip from her feathers agleam with day.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Whence is the concept improvement taken P
We find a class of men, the
sacerdotal
class, who
consider themselves the standard pattern, the highest example and most perfect expression of
the type man.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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"Thy acts are like mercy," said Hester,
bewildered
and appalled.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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And for this, I appeal to the judgment and
observation
of mankind.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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When invited to do so, he got up and danced, singing:
I came ten
thousand
leagues
Across sandy deserts
In the service of my Prince,
To break the Hun tribes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any particular
state visit www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He stopped, and she stopped too, in a patch where the boughs let
through some
starlight
and he could see her face dimly.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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PROFESSOR RUDMOSE BROWN TO
UNIVERSITY
OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
5 June 1937 Trinity College Dublin
I have great pleasure in supporting the application of Mr S.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And
listened
to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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On
the north [these
parallels]
pass over Ierna,[743] and on the side of the
torrid zone over the Cinnamon Country.
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Strabo |
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For even if the possibility of morality is incompatible with the idea of the
absolute
woman, it does not follow that man is to make no effort to save the average woman from further deterioration ; much less is he to help to keep woman as she is.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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To be
noble—that
might then mean, perhaps,
to be capable of follies.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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"
"How comes so ill-favoured an animal to have so
fragrant
a breath?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Economically they are justified by the surplus derived from the advantages of uninterrupted work and
multiple
production, as
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The
youngest
blossoms die.
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Christina Rossetti |
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