what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my
judgment
fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Following defeat in battle every culture receives the opportu- nity to re-evaluate its normative basic
attitudes
or as Sloterdijk puts it 'its moral grammar'.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Estes, ainda que na loucura, tentam, de fato, negar a lei da vida, o espojar-se ao sol e o
aguardar
da morte sem pensar nela.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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He picked out
the most active,
explored
the country round about, and observed, in the
way by which the enemy was expected, a valley encompassed by hills(98) of
moderate height.
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bede |
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Brazil’s Nagging Next Century Sale
2015 June 18 by admin
Posted in: Latin America/Caribbean
Brazil’s
external
debt went negative on the EMBI and stocks were down 15 percent on the MSCI index despite Petrobras’ dramatic market return with a $2.
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Kleiman International |
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For every other reason also I am
emphatically
of opinion that you should hasten to Rome.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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There were two things, I confess, in thee especially,
wherewith
thou couldst at once captivate the heart of any woman; namely the arts of making songs and of singing them.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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The fate of
Camoens has
hitherto
been very peculiar.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I should have told you that I went back to Hamburg on
Thursday
(Sept.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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But, in the case of epic at any rate, this is not merely the
inertia of
artistic
convention.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Fundamental ontology and its nomencla- ture are not necessary for insights like the following :
In this manner the "they"
provides
a constant tranquil- lization about death.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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One simple-- although somehow draconian-sounding--proposal would be to return to narrow definitions of competence in all those
situations
where thresholds of professional qualification (tenure) or first book publications are concerned.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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The husband had died just in time to be spared the full
knowledge
of
it.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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59 And when he has thus contemplated Thatness, And by stages has
attained
"Warmth" and the rest, Then he will gain the "Joyous" [Level] and on up: Buddha-Enlightenment is not far off.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Before the end
of the reign, Bannockburn had been fought and won, fought and
lost; Scottish girls could sing of the mourning of their southern
sisters for "lemmans loste"; and, in place of an elegy on the death
of a king who "ber the prys” “of Christendome",” we have a poem
in the Auchinleck MS on The Evil Times of Edward II, which, in
some 470 lines, pitilessly
describes
the misery of the state and
the evil of the church.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Ils
perfectionneraient
leur manie`re
d'e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Its suggestions and inspirations
are
traceable
as a permanent enrichment, though its vast fabric
swiftly dissolved.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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The vowel e is short before ram, rim, ro of
every
conjugation
; as, amaveram, amaverim, amavero,
feceram, fecerim, fecero, &c.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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For it may be observed
generally, that wherever two
thoughts
stand related to each other by a
law of antagonism, and exist, as it were, by mutual repulsion, they are
apt to suggest each other.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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The first of these reasons need not detain us, since the
confusion only needs to be pointed out in order to be obviated; but
the second requires some discussion, since it can only be
answered
by
removing current misconceptions, on the one hand as to the nature of
space, and on the other, as to the meaning of causal dependence.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Her
wondering
eyes search carefully and long.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The fact that a kidnap victim is
returned
unharmed, against receipt of ample ransom, does not make kidnapping a nonviolent enterprise.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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When tme
actualizes
the dharmadhatu, the realm of phenomena, the unity of the three kayas, there is no longer any distinc- tion between samsara as a state of confusion to be given up
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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A new edition,
with additional notes,
critical
and illustrative, by Wakefield, Gilbert.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Who
endureth
to praise God all the day long ?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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And is it then
92 Cfje
flfllesftern
S^artprologp
probable that he'd have such Discourses with him as would endanger Head and all ?
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Then you must have commercial men and com-
mercial capital, to take off your
productions
and find the best
markets for them abroad.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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And Leucosia shall be cast on the jutting strand of Enipeus and shall long haunt the rock that bears her name, where rapid Is and
neighbouring
Laris pour forth their waters.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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March 2 2018: There are some
problems
with the automated software used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from hurting site performance for everyone else).
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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would not
that be called
intellectual
castration ?
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:36 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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fiance,
whereupon
a fierce battle ensued, in which
Maolisa Roe Mac Egan, chief professor of Ire Bryan, son of Torlogh O'Conor, the heir pre land in laws and Brehonism, died.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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_Magnitude_ or _extension_ in _Longitude_, _Latitude_, and _Profundity_,
the _Figure_ or _shape_ which arises from the _termination_ of that
_Extension_, the _Position_ or _place_ which divers _Figured Bodies_
have in
_respect_
of each other, their _motion_ or _change of place_; to
which may be added, their _substance_, _continuance_, and _number_; as to
the other, such as are, _Light_, _Colours_, _Sounds_, _Smels_, _Tasts_,
_Heat_, and _Cold_, with the other _tactile qualities_, I have but very
_obscure_ and _confused thoughts_ of them, so that I know not, whether
they are _true_ or _false_, that is to say, whether the _Ideas_ I have of
them are the _Ideas_ of _things_ which _really are_, or _are not_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Hazlitt do not elucidate, by recording the birth of Lodowick, first
Duke of Richmond, in 1574, his succession to the Lennox title in 1583,
creation as Duke of
Richmond
in May, 1623, and death in the following
February.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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THE OBVIOUSLY CONFUSED 87
complexities involved, and the inevitable overlapping, these three categories allow us a deeper appreciation of both the inner effects of thought reform, and the relationship of these effects to already
existing
patterns of behavior.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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My father
continued
to write occasional articles.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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The sultan lord knew not her name;
But to the door that fair shape came:
The hour had struck, the way was right,
Traced by her lamp's pale,
flickering
light.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But, to say nothing of the
different kinds of retainers that could sit at a prince's table in those
days, Can, who was more ostentatious than
delicate
in his munificence,
kept a sort of caravansera for clever exiles, whom he distributed into
lodgings classified according to their pursuits;[20] and Dante only
shared his bounty with the rest, till the more delicate poet could no
longer endure either the buffoonery of his companions, or the amusement
derived from it by the master.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Hence the
constellations
got their names, and now no longer does any star rise a marvel from beneath the horizon.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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In this volume are interspersed some short original poems, which, with
his prologues, epilogues, and songs, may be
comprised
in Congreve's
remark, that even those, if he had written nothing else, would have
entitled him to the praise of excellence in his kind.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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When such doubt is not removed, he will become a person whose 'timir-dosa'<" or clouded eyesight is not removed and who remains
susceptible
to fixation in false insubstantial forms, which cannot be castigated by anyone.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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SECTIONII: 1936-66 99
As I cant cash american cheques, save at risk to the Brits
stealing
'em off the clipper in the Bahamas/ and as nothing (now) comes from English publications, this thin line of supplies from the J/T is, or would be, use- ful if allowed to flow in with proper, i.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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] first year of the 151st
Olympiad
[176 B.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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on the frontiers of Raetia by
Antonius
Primus to xxii.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this eBook, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Tully - Offices |
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His
holding of benefices and grasping of property, to the extent
sometimes of a third of the
property
of nations.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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What is your opinion of the custom that "boys steal
whatever
they can of their food"?
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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When William Harrison,
whom he had assisted to start a
continuation
of The Tatler, was
ill, Swift was afraid to knock at the door; when he found that
Harrison was dead, he comforted the mother.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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EDMONDS
This piece of Anacreontean verse is shown both by style and metre to be of late date, and was probably incorporated in the Bucolic
Collection
only because of its connexion in subject with the Lament for Adonis.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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I know not that: but certainly I know
A mind, that has been feeling for long time
The
greatness
of some hovering event
Poised over life, will rejoice marvellously
When the event falls, suddenly seizing life:
Like faintness when a thunderstorm comes down,
That turns to exulting when the lightning flares,
Shattering houses, making men afraid.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Branwell took up her
residence
with him at Haworth, remaining
there as mistress of his house till her death.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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But often, as in Northern Ireland, these don't apply and religion is the only
divisive
label around.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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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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[308] From
Aphrodite
(Venus), to whom he had awarded the apple, prize of
beauty, in the contest of the "goddesses three.
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Aristophanes |
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fama etiam antiquis ad nos descendit ab annis,
Phaethontem patrio curru per signa uolantem,
dum noua miratur propius spectacula mundi
et puer in caelo ludit curruque superbus
luxuriat mundo cupit et maiora parente,
deflexum solito cursu
curuisque
quadrigis
monstratas liquisse uias orbemque recentem
imposuisse polo; nec signa insueta tulisse
errantis nutu flammas cursumque solutum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But he turned out to be truly savage and bloodthirsty towards his subjects, and reached the peak of arrogance, so that he called himself the son of Zeus, and tinged his face with
unnatural
dyes, adorning it in all kinds of different ways to make it appears glistening or ruddy to those who saw him; and varied his clothing to appear fearsome or elegant.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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" The things I have to relate are so well known and have the con-
current testimony of so many
hundreds
of monks still living, and so
?
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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"Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang 25
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listen'd
motionless
and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill, 30
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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, History of
Caricature
and Grotesque, chap.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Now, we all know that the irresponsible margin ofthe conscious per- sonality that breeds stories and poems is also the home base of all sorts of childish memories that surface on those rare occasions when
Pseudoreality Prevails · 41 5
416 • THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES
the intoxication of fatigue, the release of alcohol, or some other dis-
turbance
brings them to light.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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273
At length the Hunter, tired with running in vain after his prey, left off the chase, and
returned
to his sack.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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I n conseq uence of her mother'
* F or the
following
Memoir, the E
able degree of bright-
s system of education, she
ditor of the " S tandard N
ovels "
is indebted
to Mrs.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Αυτά 'πε, και όλοι εκίνησαν κατά το περιγιάλι•
κ' ευθύς 'ς την γην ετράβηξαν τ' ολόμαυρο καράβι,
και οι ψυχεροί
θεράποντες
με τ' όπλ' ακολουθούσαν.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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His wife
governed
him by the only possible method, namely, by never letting
him out of her sight for more than an hour or two.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Lamentos, palabras, nombres,
cantares, yo no se lo que he oido en aquel rumor cuando me he sentado
solo y febril sobre el penasco, a cuyos pies saltan las aguas de la
fuente
misteriosa
para estancarse en una balsa profunda, cuya inmovil
superficie apenas riza el viento de la tarde.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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I don't know whether this comes from the
manuscript
or from the executant.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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{London " "
{New York:
Macmillan
Co.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" All the peculiarities of dream life are explicable
as the incoherent effort, due to some physiological stimulus, of certain
organs, or of the
cortical
elements of a brain otherwise asleep.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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One other subject there remains for me to touch
upon: this slave of mine and her respectable
pretended
father.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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And yet why am I
excusing
myself to you, when your men come to me empty-handed, and return to you with letters ?
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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" For it pinpoints pre- cisely the
dependence
of stupidity on intelligence.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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If indeed the 800 culei, for which the possessor of the vineyard is
directed
to provide himself with casks (11), formed the maximum of a year's vintage, the whole of the 100 jugera must have been planted with vines, because a produce of 8 culei per jugerum was almost unprecedented (Colum.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Because it conceives of life, in a radically immanent fashion, as the play acted out upon the foundation of pleasure and pain that cannot be overcome, it negates any
metaphysics
of redemption ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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I shall ask him has he any objec
tion to your
reprinting
it when I see him.
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| Question: |
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Samuel Beckett |
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1 THY Land to favour graciously
Thou hast not Lord been slack,
Thou hast from hard Captivity
Returned
Jacob back.
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Milton |
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The Furred Law-cats no sooner heard the
jingling
of the chink but they all
began to bestir their claws, like a parcel of fiddlers running a division;
and then fell to't, squimble, squamble, catch that catch can.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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But if that day suggested
something
good,
And bettered, with one purpose, soul by soul,--
Better means freer.
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wouldbe wrongto
denythelegitimacyoftheaspirationsofthepeople
at large, but the universitiesmust conduct themselvesin a way which is appropriateto theirnature and tasks.
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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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One would say, 'twas
a
hurricane
lashing the sea and rolling the waves before it in its fury.
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Aristophanes |
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(The
increase
of
force, e.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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LXIII
While to the door with eager speed they ran,
From her bare straw the Woman half upraised 560
Her bony visage--gaunt and deadly wan;
No pity asking, on the group she gazed
With a dim eye,
distracted
and amazed;
Then sank upon her straw with feeble moan.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sie kam von ihrem Pfaffen,
Der sprach sie aller Sunden frei
Ich schlich mich hart am Stuhl vorbei,
Es ist ein gar
unschuldig
Ding,
Das eben fur nichts zur Beichte ging;
Uber die hab ich keine Gewalt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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he was
imprisoned
at Wāsit by Sālih.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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What have the
Efficiency
and Economy Commissions
accomplished in the way of improving State administration?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Of oaken twigs they twist an easy bier, Then on their
shoulders
the sad burden rear.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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380]
Made one kinde more of Birdes than was of
auncient
time beforne.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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By the desert's endless vigil
We will
solemnize
your passions,
By the wheel of the black eagle
We will teach you exaltations,
When he sails against the wind, to the white spot up in heaven.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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When a subject gets to the point of
carrying
out the thought "progress," then within him a self-igniter introduces progress-like self-movements.
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Sloterdijk |
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But here the son of Aeson, all helpless, was
brooding
over each event in his mind, like one oppressed with thought.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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For had he been willing to remain quiet
in
possession
of his conquests and prizes, and attempted
nothing further, some of you, I think, would be satis-
fied with a state of things which brands our nation
with the shame of cowardice and of the foulest dis-
grace.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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If you have abused the
sanctity
of so many holy terms in the superscription of your letter to do me honour and flatter your own passion, blot them out and replace them with those of murderer, villain and enemy, who has conspired against your honour, troubled your quiet, and betrayed
[p.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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26 1
her passion, by thus
minutely
considering O swald anew,
even in her very struggle against his image.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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'Tis a sweet tale:
Such as would lull a listening child to sleep,
His rosy face
besoiled
with unwiped tears.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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EUROPA
Moschus tells in Epic verse how the virgin Europa, after dreaming of a struggle between the two
continents
for the possession of her, was carried off from among her companions by Zeus in the form of a bull, and borne across the sea from Tyre to Crete, there to become his bride.
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Moschus |
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Curius (then a tribune of the people) who, when the interrex Appius the Blind, an artful speaker, held the comitia contrary to law, by
refusing
to admit any consuls of plebeian rank, prevailed upon the senate to protest against the conduct of his antagonist; which, if we consider that the Maenian law was not then in being, was a very bold attempt.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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