She knew not that she had any right to be surprised, but there was a
something in this mode of
approach
which she certainly had not expected.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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It was
astonishing, when he came to think of it, how the entire routine of this place, down to the meanest detail, was cal- culated to a cow's toe to promote a single end, the relief of
suffering
in the long run.
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Samuel Beckett |
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in their vivid colouring of life--
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality which brings
To the delirious eye more lovely things
Of
Paradise
& Love--& all our own!
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Poe - 5 |
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Nay, Shuisky, swear not, but reply; was it
Indeed
Dimitry?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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As that sun doth oft exhale
Vapours from each rotten vale,
Poesy so sometime drains
Gross conceits from muddy brains;
Mists of envy, fogs of spite,
Twixt men's
judgments
and her light;
But so much her power may do,
That she can dissolve them too.
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William Browne |
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And thus we
may
construct
a criminal sociology, by studying, with such an aim
and by such a method, the abnormal and anti-social actions of
human beings--or, in other words, by studying crime and criminals.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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" And, in a postscript to the same epistle, he adds, " The strong Kentish-man, (of whom you have heard so many stories) has, as I told you above, taken up his
quarters
in Dorset-gardens, and how they'll get him out again the Lord knows, for he threatens to thrash all the Poets, if they pretend to disturb him.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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Tu Fu was, of course, known to the Emperor as
a man who would have been promoted but for the
opinions
aired in his
papers.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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No es casual que los singles
programáticos
insistan a menudo en que el vivir solo sea la forma de existencia más entretenida que conocen.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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_ O pale,
pathetic
Christ--I worship thee!
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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1190
Thanne seyde he thus, fulfild of heigh desdayn,
`O cruel Iove, and thou, Fortune adverse,
This al and som, that falsly have ye slayn
Criseyde, and sin ye may do me no werse,
Fy on your might and werkes so
diverse!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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You should accustom yourself, to walking
straight forward without
twisting
from side to side.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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'
So spoke she, and
wrapping
her head in her gray vesture, the goddess
moaning sore sank in the river depth.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Lament for Adonis is generally
believed
to be the work of Bion.
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Bion |
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Because this tendency is right at the center of
Orientalist
theory, practice, and values found in the
West, the sense of Western power over the Orient is taken for granted as having the status of
scientific truth.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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After we have thus outlined the beginning and emergence of evil up to its becoming real in the individual, there seems to be nothing left but to describe its
appearance
in man.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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"
The Anonymous Poet reads hope from the
very afflictions that
thronged
around his nation
on every side.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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The uneasy
ferment of the last five years,
although
accom-
panied by the disintegration of ancient parties and
an abundance of wild animosity and ungrateful
fault-finding, has also given rise to some wholesome
self-criticism ; we have had our attention drawn to
our weaknesses, and begin to perceive in how many
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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I
think he was a member of the
Presbyterian
Church.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Another way is that which was taken by Klopstock, Platen,
Meyer and George in German poetry, namely to
substitute
for
the generally used word one which for some reason or other has
a loftier, usually more recondite quality, sometimes even a
27
?
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Derrière les décors
De l'existence immense, au plus noir de l'abîme,
Je vois distinctement des mondes singuliers,
Et, de ma clairvoyance
extatique
victime,
Je traîne des serpents qui mordent mes souliers.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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Notumque furens quid femma
possitmshe
was injur'd; she was revengeful; she was powerful.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Looking to the history of continental uni-
versities, analogy would seem to demand, as the nucleus of the
concourse, a cathedral or a
monastic
school.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Would you
affront the
circumcised
Jews?
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Horace - Works |
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From that point on, the attitude of
historians
in the West toward their col- leagues in the GDR can best be summed up in the word neglect.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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When Aratus joined the king, he was well received on account of his learning and his poetry, and he was
instructed
by the king to write the Phaenomena.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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fluence on, 724
Valarsaces, Arsacid King of Armenia, 157
Valencia, tomb of the Empress Constance
at, 496
Valens, Emperor, 233; aqueduct of, 96
Valentinus,
Byzantine
ambassador to the
supreme khagan, 187 sq.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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If twelve chicks are
independently
offered a choice between two alternatives, the odds that they will all reach the same verdict by chance alone are satisfyingly low, only one in 2048.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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They stripped him of his canvas clothes,
And gave him to the flies;
They mocked the swollen purple throat
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with
laughter
loud they heaped the shroud
In which their convict lies.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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The capital
invested
is mostly German and Belgian.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Not a word passed
between the sisters concerning Bingley; but Elizabeth went to bed in
the happy belief that all must
speedily
be concluded, unless Mr.
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Carefolly
establish
mindfUlness and awareness.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Excited by our indignation on the boar ravages,
With fury and
frothing
she made a Delphic utterance: "It only took them a night to devour
A middlesex acre (as Macaulay says) of your yams; Last year they shot a huge one, but nobody
.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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And as to the
English of the East, the sahiblog, Flory had come so to hate them from living in their
society, that he was quite
incapable
of being fair to them.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
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Stephen Crane |
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The categorical
imperative
is therefore less an ethical sentence than a kinetic sentence: it says less about what you should do than what you have to overthrow in order to be able to do it, namely all circumstances that inhibit human kinetic.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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' It is clear there are a good many
mistakes
in
Philo's account as it has come to us.
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Donne - 2 |
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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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Seeing at once from the title that it was yours, I began the more
ardently
to read it in that the writer was so dear to me, that I might at least be refreshed by his words as by a picture of him whose presence I have lost.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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My
betrayal
by traitors, 43.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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In the first cavalry combat the Macedonians retained the superiority; but soon dissensions and desertions occurred in the Macedonian army, and the blunder of the pretender in dividing his army and detaching half of it to Thessaly
procured
for the Romans an easy and decisive victory
148.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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A
kerchief
sae douce and sae neat,
O'er her locks that the wind used to blaw!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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A CERTAIN spouse the same devise had got,
Whose wife by all was thought a
handsome
lot.
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La Fontaine |
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For that reason the need to destroy belongs
essentially
to creation.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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This is not
something
you can change in any way.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Herein lies also the deeper sociological meaning of the close relationship that exists between the authority of a
political
totality and its sovereign.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Colonel Wallis declined sitting down
again, and Mr Elliot was invited by Elizabeth and Miss Carteret, in a
manner not to be refused, to sit between them; and by some other
removals, and a little
scheming
of her own, Anne was enabled to place
herself much nearer the end of the bench than she had been before, much
more within reach of a passer-by.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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An
approach
to poetry.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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, en
eventual
ejemplar de una especie, en <
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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