The most notable
of his
numerous
stories are: (The Million-
airess) (1852); (The Last Grisette) (1853);
(The King of Yvetot) (1866); "Stories of La
Grève) (1866), which won an Academy prize ;
(The Stonebreaker' (1867).
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And you climbed yet
further!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You, for instance, want to cure men of
their old habits and reform their will in
accordance
with science and
good sense.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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I had sat within that marble circle where the
oldest bard is as the young,
And the pipe is ever
dropping
honey, and the
lyre’s strings are ever strung.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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Before he was nine he was nominated for Colston's
Hospital, a local school where the Bluecoat dress was worn and at
which the 'three Rs' were taught but very little else, so that the
boy, disappointed of the hope of knowledge,
complained
he could
work better at home.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And with rash and strong hand,
Though she resisted,
I drew away the veil
And gazed at the
features
of Vanity
She, shamefaced, went on;
And after I had mused a time,
I said of myself,
"Fool!
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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My Lord will go back
To where he can sleep
Among the white clouds,
When the sun is as high
As the head of a
helmeted
man.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Vasanta-sena, having been told that Caru-datta's
carriage
is ready and waiting for her, goes suddenly out and jumps by mistake into the carriage of the man who is most hateful to her, and the very man who is rep resented as persecuting her by his attentions in the first act.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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34 Children's Bhymes and Verses
How blessed
sometimes
to be alone
With Jesus, our friend, hope of heaven, our home.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Hegel was indeed at one with
Schelling
as to the unsatisfactoriness of the philosophy of reflection, which pro ceeded from the antithesis of thought and being, and was accordingly incapable of apprehending being itself, and could never get beyond the antitheses of finite and infinite, appear ance and actual being, world and God.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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LE LETHE
Viens sur mon coeur, ame cruelle et sourde,
Tigre adore, monstre aux airs indolents;
Je veux
longtemps
plonger mes doigts tremblants
Dans l'epaisseur de ta criniere lourde;
Dans tes jupons remplis de ton parfum
Ensevelir ma tete endolorie,
Et respirer, comme une fleur fletrie,
Le doux relent de mon amour defunt.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxiii
a great extent these external restrictions bring harm to and impose burdens not only on those whom they
directly hit, but mainly on the cause of Christianity in Russia,
consequently
on the Russian nation, con- sequently, again, on the Russian State.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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I’d
hate to see Harry
Johnson’s
face when he gets in from the Mobile run and finds Atticus Finch’s shot his dog.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Yet in his veins there flows a tide Of life's
illimitable
sea;
Yet in his heart there is a voice That calls, and will not let him be.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Professor
Eugene O'Curry thinks St, Aengus Ceile' De must have died about the year 815.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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7 Immediately he showed his wickedness by marrying his sister Arsinoe (this was traditional amongst the
Egyptians)
and murdering the sons she had by Lysimachus.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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At this, he said, Pluto opened the
earth and
vanished
into the Lower World.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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'0 In any event, a summation of partial differential equations only appears as total
movement according, first of all, to the three
dimensions
of space,
and secondly, according to time.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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check on
patriotic
impulses must be inexpedient.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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The
intellectual
process which can- onizes a distinction between the temporal and the timeless is losing its authority.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Stevens his
interest
as lessee of The Public Ledger, and, incorporating that old Paper on their new plan, the sanguine politicians thought fortune was in their hands.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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"
"If they are really
qualified
for the task, will not their own hearts be
the first to inform them of it?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Read the antique documents
extricated, analyzed, and compared, by the assiduous Dyce and Collier;
and now read one of those skyey sentences,--aerolites,--which seem to
have fallen out of heaven, and which, not your experience, but the man
within the breast, has accepted as words of fate; and tell me if they
match; if the former account in any manner for the latter; or, which
gives the most
historical
insight into the man.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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No Assassination
The Despatch of the Doom
The Seaman's Song
The Retreat from Moscow--_Toru Dutt_
The Ocean's Song--_Toru Dutt_
The Trumpets of the Mind--_Toru Dutt_
After the Coup d'Etat--_Toru Dutt_
Patria
The
Universal
Republic
LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
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Hugo - Poems |
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O Dellius, since thou art born to die, be mindful to
preserve
a temper
of mind even in times of difficulty, as well an restrained from insolent
exultation in prosperity: whether thou shalt lead a life of continual
sadness, or through happy days regale thyself with Falernian wine of the
oldest date, at case reclined in some grassy retreat, where the lofty
pine and hoary poplar delight to interweave their boughs into a
hospitable shade, and the clear current with trembling surface purls
along the meandering rivulet.
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Horace - Works |
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Il y a comme cela des mots
nouveaux
qu'on lance, mais ils ne
durent pas.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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For the
romantics
of energy, this acting in anger is a kind of flow.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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It seems like a strange phrase, since Pindar
elsewhere
often praises the work ethic and self-discipline of both athletes and their trainers.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The reform-party was deeply indignant Even men u^e Publius Mucius and Quintus Metellus
disapproved
of the intervention of Scipio.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Thus the
tortoise
goes to just as many places as Achilles does,
because each is in one place at one moment, and in another at any
other moment.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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The total is consistent with the words of the holy Apostle, but it does not include the years of Moses, or of Joshua the
successor
of Moses, or of Samuel, or of Saul.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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First impressions must be given their due here: whoever sought to
carry on enlightenment in such a society was
fighting
a losing battle.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The circuit judges first brought the highest state authority everywhere; with the
distance
that they had as strangers to each part of the realm, and with the sub- stantial similarity of their judgments, they first pulled all parts of the kingdom beyond their scattered condition into a unity centralized under the king by law and administration.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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The
meditator
is mind, not body.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Hold a while—Am I so tied to a _Body_ and
_senses_
that I
cannot _exist_ without them?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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For my part, give me all the year round the dear
delightful
spring, when cold doth not chill nor sun burn.
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Bion |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Wilhelm Dilthey: The Critique of
Historical
Reason.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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In my opinion, the main evil of the present
democratic
insti-
tutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted
in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible
strength.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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For example, using "GEE," the first radar
navigational
aid (which became available in March 1gq2), Bomber Command of the RAF, in attacks on towns in the Ruhr, could drop approximately 50 per cent of its bombs within five miles of the aiming point and 10 per cent within two miles.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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I’d driven through
Westerham
and was making for Pudley.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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in those eyes of thine
There
glistens
neither tears nor joy;
I see not there the doom divine
Which shall uplift me or destroy.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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On the before-named
occasion
he came into the house to
announce his intention of doing nothing, while I was assisting Miss Cathy
to arrange her dress: she had not reckoned on his taking it into his head
to be idle; and imagining she would have the whole place to herself, she
managed, by some means, to inform Mr.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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"*
Marvell sketches the early history and
character
of Parker in both parts of the Rehearsal — though,
as might be expected, with greater severity in the
second than in the first.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Never to
have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never
to make use of money-had not these been among the earliest
resolutions
passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled?
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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What was this
opinion?
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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" The learned prosodian above named, maintains that
this
distinction
is an idle one; that propago is in both cases the same word,
only used on some occasions in its natural signification, on othera metaphori-
cally ; as we say in English, the Stock of a tree, and the Stock of a family.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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The distance between these two meanings is one way o f
describing
what I am calling the distance between the soul and the mind.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Productive mental activity is the mindful activity that analyzes the rise and fall of thoughts and sensations and eventually understands the
futility
of attachment.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Some changes in detail were made in
this resolution by the
provincial
council in October.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in
separate
stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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During walking and running one obtains no clear sensory
perception
of the simultaneous positions of the trunk and limbs because they pass so
rapidly.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Some days after this conversation
was said to have happened, I was informed by the
same person that the Rajah had
received
a message
from one of the Begums at Fyzabad, (I think it was
from Sujah ul Dowlah's widow,).
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Edmund Burke |
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For even the Divine Word may be
understood
by the grape: for the Lord even has been called a Cluster of grapes ; Which
Numb.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Thereasonsareobvious,itis true,butwe
mustagainagreewithKingwhenshemaintainsthatfurtheresearch
inthisfieldis a desideratum.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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And tho', love knows,
Thy
dreadful
woes
We cannot ease,
Yet do Thou please,
Who mercy art,
T' accept each heart
That gladly would
Help if it could.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Ice is heavier than water, because
it is
condensed
water.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Music
The
neighbour
sits in his window and plays the flute.
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Amy Lowell |
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Both this place and the neighbouring settlements on each side of the
mouth of the Palus Mæotis were for a long period under the monarchical
dynasty of Leucon, and Satyrus, and Pairisades, till the latter
surrendered the
sovereignty
to Mithridates.
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When they heard what he said, and perceived that the divinity was
supporting
them in their venture, their spirits were so aroused to revolt that they made no further delay in implementing their plans.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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O happy skylark springing
Up to the broad blue sky,
Too
fearless
in thy winging,
Too gladsome in thy singing, 10
Thou also soon shalt lie
Where no sweet notes are ringing.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It cannot, therefore, be wondered at, that he who was so remarkably defective in a faculty which is the steward of our other intellectual powers, as to forget, even in a written treatise, a material circumstance which he had mentioned but a little before, should find his memory fail him, as it
generally
did, in a sudden and unpremeditated harangue.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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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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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Amidst all these
difficulties
Hastings never lost his head.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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Nietzsche's
spiritual
death, like his whole
life, was in singular harmony with his doctrine: he
died suddenly and proudly,—sword in hand.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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If that happened to you, please let us know so we can keep
adjusting
the software.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Felix visited the grate at night
and made known to the
prisoner
his intentions in his favour.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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You fly me, Chloe, as o'er trackless hills
A young fawn runs her timorous dam to find,
Whom empty terror thrills
Of woods and
whispering
wind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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FISH AND THE SHADOW
" Not so far, no, not so far now, Thereisaplace
butnooneelseknowsit
Afield in a valley .
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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7 in
conjunction
with p.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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an unfortunate return to the lyric manner, and 50 on- the three booh pr"viding a plamihle houi_ for neat
tripartite
IIChcm.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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This is my way to peace and union, to
advertise
this book over again, which makes very de vils of the church of England; and shews them upon what terms we will make peace with them!
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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'
This
courageous
young person of Norway.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But insanity or sanity
pertains
to interiority.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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--
why not
hitherto?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But these others are not the
footprints of man or woman or grey wolves or bears or lions, nor do I
think they are the tracks of a rough-maned Centaur--whoever it be that
with swift feet makes such
monstrous
footprints; wonderful are the
tracks on this side of the way, but yet more wonderfully are those on
that.
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Hesiod |
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Although the two
teachings
are separate paths, they lead to the same goal.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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All
this
weakness
comes to me in sleep; until I dread the very thought.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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The reverse trend among younger historians soon developed into a
movement
that has managed to change the earlier picture entirely in
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
But it stalks
invisibly
over the earth, whispering, counselling,
cautioning.
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Whitman |
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War has always involved uncertainty,
especially
as to its outcome; but with the technol- ogy and the geography and the politics of today, it is hard to see how a major war could get started except in the presence of un- certainty.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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governed
from within, and not from without.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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A LITTLE cooled, then William thus replied,
We'll say no more; you have been drawn aside;
What passed you fancied acting for the best,
And I'll consent to put the thing at rest;
To nothing good such altercations tend;
I've but a word: to that
attention
lend;
Contrive to-morrow that I here entrap
This fellow who has caused your sad mishap;
You'll utter not a word of what I've said;
Be secret or at once I'll strike you dead.
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La Fontaine |
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TIE it remembered, that on the third day of June, hi the
forty-eighth year of the
Independence
of the United States
of America, T.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Title of Work & Name of Person: Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish
Melodies
(1834)
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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King
Sigtrygg
sat there on a high seat, in the middle,
and on either side of the king was placed one of the Earls.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Nietzsche's concept of concurrent genius in any case forced the issue to such an extent that it
conceived
of the intellectual history of Europe as representing merely a spiritual migration on the part of the great intellects, whose path had led from Homer and Heraclitus to Kant and Schopenhauer and, through them, to Wagner and Nietzsche ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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"
The poems of Sappho so
mysteriously
lost to us seem to have consisted of at
least nine books of odes, together with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
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Sappho |
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As to the subjects treated, they are the same for both, Pantomime
differing from tragedy only in the infinite variety of its plots, and in
the
superior
ingenuity and learning displayed in them.
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Lucian |
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THE BONFIRE
"Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves,
As
reckless
as the best of them to-night,
By setting fire to all the brush we piled
With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Scott, in which he
concurred, that it was
difficult
to conceive how so dull a book could
be written on such a subject.
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William Wordsworth |
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Lombía, asociado con Luna, Pedro Lopez, las
Lamadrid y otros se
presentaron
en época avanzada, con las más
sinceras protestas de modestia, á llenar como mejor pudiesen aquel
vacío.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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[105] Tiphys, son of Hagnias, left the Siphaean people of the Thespians, well skilled to
foretell
the rising wave on the broad sea, and well skilled to infer from sun and star the stormy winds and the time for sailing.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Nay, though I were sure an order were issued for my immediate prosecution
by the Attorney-General, I should still confess, that in the present
posture of our affairs at home or abroad, I do not yet see the absolute
necessity of extirpating the Christian
religion
from among us.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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This and the
neighbouring States of Yüeh and Ch'u (the modern Chêkiang and parts of
Hunan, Kweichow, and
Kiangsi)
is the country painted in such lovely,
peaceful pictures by Li T'ai-po and his brother poets.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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