At the mourning rites for duke Hsien of Zin, duke Mû of Khin sent a
messenger
to present his condolences to Hsien's son Khung-r (who was then an exile), and to add this message:--'I have heard that a time like this is specially adapted to the
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That of
February, he tells us, was to be found in the word
februa, a name given by the Eomans of old to certain
offerings of a purifying and
expiatory
nature used at
this time.
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that people might have transferred to quite another topic
something
(originally) said by the Lord in reference to something else?
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In
this
question
Constantius, the“ master of the troops," was now resolved to
interfere.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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He
studied
medicine
in Holland; in France he became intimate with
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perceiving
as I do that the theme is not only old but hackneyed, through the constant succession of new historians [his compet- itors!
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it became
incredibly
deep-rooted [.
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makes unjustifiable demands on, and
usurps the
government
of Benarcs, receives unlawful presents from the
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Edmund Burke |
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Long had it stood there unseen, a guest uninvited, unwelcomed;
Over its clouded eyes there had passed at times an expression 950
Softening the gloom and
revealing
the warm heart hidden beneath them,
As when across the sky the driving rack[57] of the rain cloud
Grows for a moment thin, and betrays the sun by its brightness.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Today*one is almost tempted to say: today, all of a sudden*''incarnation'' is back, back as a
signifier
that points to a vague desire in our present and perhaps, altogether, to an unclear future promise, rather than to the complex history of elaborate theological meanings with which the word had long been related.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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In a new months his
administration
had
become universally odious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For being so very few, they cannot sensibly
detract from the reputation of an author, who is even characterized
by the number of
profound
truths in his writings, which will stand
the severest analysis; and yet few as they are, they are exactly those
passages which his blind admirers would be most likely, and best able,
to imitate.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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how oft does
goodness
would itself,
And sweet affection prove the spring of woe!
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burns |
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Then mightst thou more appal; or, less desired,
Be homely and be peaceful, undeplored
For thy
destructive
charms; then, still untired,
Would not be seen the armed torrents poured
Down the deep Alps; nor would the hostile horde
Of many-nationed spoilers from the Po
Quaff blood and water; nor the stranger's sword
Be thy sad weapon of defence, and so,
Victor or vanquished, thou the slave of friend or foe.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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RELIGIOUS
LOW SCORERS
A clear-cut example of a religious low scorer is the somewhat sketchy inter- view of Fz32, a young woman brought up in India where her parents are missionaries.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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For my part, in my edition of Dryden's Virgil, I
thought myself bound to adopt the pure old
orthography
which
I found in his own original edition, and, after his example, to
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The sole light from without which has been thrown upon the poem comes
from Ben Jonson's conversations with Drummond: 'The conceit of Dones
Transformation or [Greek: Metempsychôsis] was that he sought the soule
of that aple which Eve pulled and thereafter made it the soule of a
bitch, then of a shee wolf, and so of a woman; his generall purpose
was to have brought in all the bodies of the
Hereticks
from the soule
of Cain, and at last left in the bodie of Calvin.
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Donne - 2 |
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Quindi si leva, e porta non che punto,
ma
trapassato
il cor d'estrema ambascia;
pur finge col fratel, che quel furore
non abbia più, che dianzi avea nel core.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Art at,
Velia, ridge between
Palatine
and Esqui-
i.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Here thou behold'st thy large sleek neat
Unto the dew-laps up in meat:
And, as thou look'st, the wanton steer,
The heifer, cow, and ox draw near,
To make a
pleasing
pastime there.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Mine eye
Has scared the gull that sailed
To blacker depths with
shrillest
scream,
Still fainter, till like voices in a dream.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Reply to Objection 2: The pertinacious man exceeds by persisting
inordinately in something against many difficulties: yet he takes a
certain
pleasure
in the end, just as the brave and the persevering man.
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Summa Theologica |
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But she, remembering her old ruined hall,
And all the windy clamour of the daws
About her hollow turret, plucked the grass
There growing longest by the meadow's edge,
And into many a listless annulet,
Now over, now beneath her marriage ring,
Wove and unwove it, till the boy returned
And told them of a chamber, and they went;
Where, after saying to her, 'If ye will,
Call for the woman of the house,' to which
She answered, 'Thanks, my lord;' the two remained
Apart by all the chamber's width, and mute
As two creatures voiceless through the fault of birth,
Or two wild men
supporters
of a shield,
Painted, who stare at open space, nor glance
The one at other, parted by the shield.
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Tennyson |
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And if English
assonance
is good enough for Eminem or the Beatles, then it's good enough for ancient bedouins.
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Translated Poetry |
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t,
In
fondynge
he was y-bro?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Remember
write Greek ees.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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To Jack a merry, merry
Christmas
week ;
Of you we so kindly speak.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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If
Andromache
was clad in a coarse tunic,
what wonder is it?
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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_ Then you know there is a Way between two
straight
Rows of Trees.
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Erasmus |
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His instincts were so
unclerical
as to
enable him to enjoy a jest, even if the subject were of questionable
taste; and he retained throughout the years of his health a certain
buoyancy of spirits that marked him as a true child of the world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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" The situation is a
beautiful
one, and in a field, adjoining the River Liffey.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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It may be said, and has
been said, that these effects were deliberately cultivated; but it
must in justice be admitted that nature had endowed him with
the materials from which to create his effects, and that in the
cultivation of them he was essentially
proceeding
along the
course which she had laid out for him.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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So desert it would have to be, so walled
By mountain ranges half in summer snow,
No one would covet it or think it worth
The pains of
conquering
to force change on.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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In the second half of the seventeenth century the Indian seas were
infested by a most
formidable
breed of European pirates, chiefly
English.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Conflicts in the field, as well
as the attack and defence of
förtified
places, were decided by negotia-
tions and money payments as often as by force of arms.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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This is the cancer gnawing at the vitals of the
propaganda
State.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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I don't mind telling you that Amheim has
complained
to me that you refuse to be friends with him.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Experience is
confined
to impressions and ideas; causation is an
attitude towards them produced by custom-by the mode of
sequence of ideas; its applicability is only within the range of
impressions or ideas; to talk of an impression as caused by
something that is neither impression nor idea may have a very
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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The mother who cannot act as an 'auxiliary ego' for her child exposes him or her to inchoate and potentially overwhelming
feelings
when that child is faced, as will be inevitable (and in the case of an insecure mother to an excessive degree), with loss and separation anxiety.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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From her own disposition, at least as much as from the frequent want of health, she seldom made any visits; but her own lodgings, from before twenty years old, were
frequented
by many persons of the graver sort, who all respected her highly, upon her good sense, good manners, and conversation.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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And yet, in
plumbing
the abyss for judgment,
Something I strike upon which turns my mind
Back on herself, I think, again--my breast
Concentres all the terrors of the Universe:
I look at him and tremble like a child.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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FAUST:
Wie seltsam glimmert durch die Grunde
Ein
morgenrotlich
truber Schein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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office, originally standing by no means in the first rank,
chap, xi THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED II
came to be gradually invested with external insignia which did
not at all belong to it in itself and with an altogether unique aristocratic-republican glory, and was viewed as the crown
and completion of a well-conducted public career; and why the government looked upon every attempt of the
opposition
to introduce their men into this office, or even
to hold the censor responsible to the people for his ad ministration during or after his term of office, as an attack
on their palladium, and presented a united front of re sistance to every such attempt.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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But
whenever
you take upon yourselves to legislate.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Further reproduction
prohibited
without permission.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Then Mary Bayfield seeks the glen,
The white
hawthorn
and grey oak tree,
And nought but heaven can tell me then
How dear thy beauty is to me.
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John Clare |
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When the telegram
announcing
the seizure of Delhi reached Lahore,
John Lawrence was away; but the judicial commissioner, Robert
Montgomery, was a man of action, and the military officers supported
him.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Rivoallan's revision of SB's French
translation
of Murphy for submission toJean Paulhan is deferred.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Luther, in constructing the _Hoch-Deutsch_ (for really
his miraculous and providential
translation
of the Bible was the
fundamental act of construction of the literary German), took for his
distinct masculine article the _der_ of the _Ober-Deutsch_, and thus
constituted the three articles of the present High German, _der, die, das_.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Hera in Italy
The city of Poseidonia/Paestum in
southern
Italy was settled by Greeks from the Argolid.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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The dull
Burlesque
appear'd with impudence,
And pleas'd by Novelty, in Spite of Sence.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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To conclude then, the
conviction
grows upon us
that it can never be the task of political science to
build up for itself phantastic structure in the air;
for only that is truly human which has its roots
in the historical facts of actual life.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Fires ye fear not, or house's heavy downfal,
Deeds unnatural, art in act to poison,
Dangers myriad
accidents
befalling.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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This can
scarcely
be more legibly studied than in Christian Evangelization and its encroachment on European societies' conditions of understanding in the early Middle Ages.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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You
are' too young to become callous; and
I hope the
unfeeling
indisference with
'which you named the unfortunate child
whose situation is so very pitiable, pro-
ceeded rather from want of thought, than
want
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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It is well known that the latter were only conceded a subordinate role in the peace
treaties
of 1919.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Fertilis, assiduo si non
renovetur
aratro,
Nil nisi cum spinis gramen, habebit ager.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Lucie Brock-Broido's poem "Am Moor" (1997), takes off homo-
phonically
from Trakl's "Am Moor" ("On the Moor," in English).
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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[1] Quand
viennent
sur nos fourmilieres (_var.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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She would the champion quickly have subdued,
Though she was gowned, he locked in iron case;
And make him satisfy the Moorish lord,
If
Agramant
spake further of accord;
XLIV
And had; but that Aurora -- on his way
Ushering aye the sun -- no sooner stirred,
Than young Rogero, anxious to display
That rightfully he bore Jove's beauteous bird,
To cut the quarrel short, and lest delay
Be further interposed, in act or word,
Where round the palisade the people close,
Appears in armour and his bugle blows.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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ere
You
CanDeviate
a11d tlae Pour Wl?
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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And then, as I abandoned myself with all the egotism of
passion to my secret ecstasy, some reflection of which was per-
haps painted on my face, I was suddenly roused by these words,
addressed to me in a tone of
affected
tranquillity:- "Monsieur
le Marquis de Champcey, have there been many cowards in your
family before you?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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O I could fly
With thee into the ken of
heavenly
powers,
So thou wouldst thus, for many sequent hours,
Press me so sweetly.
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Keats |
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She had been Lucian's other self; his
constant
companion, his faithful mentor, for three years; it was not until now that she began to realise him.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Taoism also
probably
dates from this period, its oldest text, the Tao Te Ching of the possibly mythical teacher Lao Tzu, establishing its concept of the Way, the matrix of energy underlying the vortex of the natural
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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To conclude then, the
conviction
grows upon us
that it can never be the task of political science to
build up for itself phantastic structure in the air;
for only that is truly human which has its roots
in the historical facts of actual life.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Though she thought so
little of him, and quite
expected
to be bored, she settled herself in a
soft armchair to listen.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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It is peopled by the images of
fabulous
kings, set in stone.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Even the criminals of this class whom I have questioned recognise
a
presumption
of the opposite kind.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Yet keenest powers to see and hear
Seem'd in her frame residing;
Before the watch-dog prick'd his ear
She heard her lover's riding;
Ere scarce a distant form was kenn'd
She knew and waved to greet him,
And o'er the
battlement
did bend
As on the wing to meet him.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And
therefore
finally repeated here is the sociological form now under consideration.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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And with that worde full frantickly he leapeth downe from hie,
And
pitching
evelong on his face the bones asunder crasht, .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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This protracting, slow, consuming illness which hangs
over me, will, I doubt much, my ever dear friend, arrest my sun before
he has well reached his middle career, and will turn over the poet to
other and far more important concerns than
studying
the brilliancy of
wit, or the pathos of sentiment!
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Robert Burns- |
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That one was reserved in
intercourse
and chose choicely.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be
obtained
independently of anything we can address.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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This dependence on their goodwill, but ill
accorded with the grand schemes, which the brilliant
commencement
of the
war had led the imperial cabinet to form.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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But they who wake the meadows and the tides
Have hearts too kind to bid him wake from sleep
Who murmurs sometimes when his dreams are deep,
Startling the Quiet Land where he abides,
And
charming
still, sad-eyed Persephone
With visions of the sunny earth and sea.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Announce law
By freedom; exalt chivalry by peace;
Instruct
how clear calm eyes can overawe,
And how pure hands, stretched simply to release
A bond-slave, will not need a sword to draw
To be held dreadful.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Our modern poets are, all to a man, almost as well read in the
Scriptures
as some of our divines, and often abound more with the phrase.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Hensey, arose from a view to
discover
his accomplices, if he had any ; but as no such discovery was ever made, it is but reasonable to suppose that the favor shewn him arose from a different cause.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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5640), and
translated
by Atisa himself.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Of what is she
dreaming?
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Their column, though the Turkish batteries thunder'd
Upon them, ne'ertheless had reach'd the rampart,
And
naturally
thought they could have plunder'd
The city, without being farther hamper'd;
But as it happens to brave men, they blunder'd--
The Turks at first pretended to have scamper'd,
Only to draw them 'twixt two bastion corners,
From whence they sallied on those Christian scorners.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Might I venture to suggest that your Majesty should have your
claws removed, and your teeth extracted, then we would gladly
consider your
proposal
again.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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' I am a
gentleman
—an Italian gentleman.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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How thou tamest hither I know not;
but I
perceive
by thy speech that thou art Florentine.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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For the
association
of the swan with Apollo cf.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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It is quite
different
with poems like the _Song of Roland_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Instead of poppies, willows
Waved o'er his couch; he meditated, fond
Of those sweet bitter thoughts which banish sleep,
And make the
worldling
sneer, the youngling weep.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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"The boor who ploughs the daisy down,
The chief whose
mortgage
of renown,
Fixed upon graves, has bought a crown--
"Both these are happier, more approved
Than poets!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Dismounted
then, and went--his heart was full,
In his two hands the count's body he took;
With anguish keen he fell on him and swooned.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
They went to the Banyan tree, they sat down,
Siddhartha
right here,
Govinda twenty paces away.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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2 And when finally he sent his son against him, and his son after a
desperate
battle was killed, the old man hanged himself, well knowing that there was much strength in Maximinus and in the Africans none, nay rather only a great faculty for betraying.
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Historia Augusta |
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In his
dedication
to Dr.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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