Unswerving
and swift had a bullet
Passed through his brain, and he fell with both hands clutching
the greensward,
Seeming in death to hold back from his foe the land of his fathers.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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One house was already in flames and a move had been made
towards the imperial palace when at length the authorities took action,
the
governor
(or comes orientis) interfered and the crowd was dispersed.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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It is also a study
peculiarly
adapted to
an early stage in the education of philosophical students, since it
does not presuppose the slow process of acquiring, by experience and
reflection, valuable thoughts of their own.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Only the
friendship
and the sympathy
Of one about to reach her journey's end.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He was a man of very expensive habits, and on this account he used to go from city to city, and at times he would
contrive
the most amazing devices.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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" cried the Mouse, who was
trembling
down to the end of its
tail.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Many sources report on the growth of the armaments budget in Egypt and on
intentions
to give the army preference in a peace epoch budget over domestic needs for which a peace was allegedly obtained.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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To speak
of German scholarship and culture as having con-
quered, therefore, can only be the outcome of a
misapprehension,
probably
resulting from the cir-
cumstance that every precise notion of culture has
now vanished from Germany.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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I quitted Aristotle and his dry maxims to practise the
precepts
of the more ingenious Ovid.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Pray mark how good it smells;
you’ll
be thinking it hath been washed at the well o’ the Seasons.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Now we have no certain
knowledge
yet of the facts which he
quotes.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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(a) In the first place, it is true that a population _might_ increase in
geometrical progression, and that a woman _might_ bear thirty children
in her lifetime; but it is wrong to assume that because a thing _might_
happen, it
therefore
does happen.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Ver adeo frondiuemorum, ver utile sj'lvis :
Vere turnent terra; et
genitalia
semina poscunt.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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this
acquired
body abides like a heap, piled up as a mass of things, such as the measure of flesh.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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From the first, in the dirge on Lesbia's love-bird
there is a
suggestion
that Catullus--" Catullus, whose dead
?
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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So I suppose his students still remain
sheltered
from the dis- tressin' fact that France has two kinds of money, one for home use and one good both at home and abroad.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:31 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Porus ordered his
elephants
to be formed against him, himself taking station on an elephant at the head of his left wing.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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1,4 —
Venerable
Bede says of Petram Cluith
"estenim juxta fluvium nominis illius.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The tension became
unbearable
in 1938 when Dr.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Hannah was
evidently
fond of talking.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Some months after our marriage, the unfeeling master to whom I
belonged, sold his farm with the view of moving his slaves to the
State of Missouri, regardless of the separation of husbands and wives
forever; but for fear of my resuming my old practice of running away,
if he should have forced me to leave my wife, by my repeated requests,
he was
constrained
to sell me to his brother, who lived within seven
miles of Wm.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Labyrinth
SICA: Rabinbach,
Austrian
~dcialism REED: West, Prophesy Deliz~erance!
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Cuckoo eggs laid in dunnock nests do not
resemble
dunnock eggs.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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He usually
came in the morning, and while my son and I
followed
our occupations
abroad, he sat with the family at home, and amused them by describing
the town, with every part of which he was particularly acquainted.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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_A Woman
Standing
by a Gate with an Umbrella_
Late summer changes to autumn:
Chrysanthemums are scattered
Behind the palings.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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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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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Here again we see the victory of the idea of the universal
homogenous
state.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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289
ence which has been called toleration, and
that destructive labour which has passed
for
impartial
inquiry.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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_ He has reaped his joys, and now he would be free,
And to effect it puts on jealousy:
But I'm as much a
libertine
as he;
As fierce my will, as furious my desires;
Yet will I hold him; though enjoyment tires,
Though love and appetite be at the best,
He'll serve, as common meats fill up a feast,
And look like plenty, though we never taste.
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Thomas Otway |
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Now I sell,
nay, I give and bequeath for ever and aye, the mould of my doublet to
fifteen hundred hampers full of black devils, if ever any archer in the
country (though they are
singular
marksmen in Guienne) could hit the white.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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This charter contained a renunciation of the forests
made by his predecessor, a'grant to the ecclesiastics
of a jurisdiction over their own vassals, and to the
people in general an
immunity
from unjust tallages
and exactions.
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Edmund Burke |
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258 Z)
We have seen what the ethical is for Hegel: the
intersubjective
rights and duties free of, and contrasted with, a narcissist morality and a positive Right that would make them depend on legislations.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Excellent anonymous songs--all probably, and some certainly,
not of earlier date than the eighteenth century-are Ettrick Banks,
Here awa there awa, Saw ye my Father, The Lowlands of
Holland, Bess the Gawkie, I had a horse and I had nae mair,
Hooly and Fairly, Willie's gane to Melville Castle and O'er the
Moor amang the Heather (which Burns said he wrote down from
the singing of a
disreputable
female tramp, Jean Glover, and
which, if not largely by Burns, is not all by Jean, and is probably
in part founded on an old song).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Here the traveling skilled worker,
especially
in the Middle Ages, is the best example.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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But a tribrach is never admitted into the last place, nor
a proceleusmatic into any but the first;* according to the
following scale of an Iambic
Trimeter
Acatalectic.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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He little deems that in this hand I clutch what still can save
Thy gentle youth from taunts and blows, the portion of the slave ; Yea, and from
nameless
evil, that passeth taunt and blow —
Foul outrage which thou knowest not, which thou shalt never know.
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| Question: |
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
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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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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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more sweet and
malleable?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
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An excellent
description
of
a tobacconist's shop is given in _Alchemist_, _Wks.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Torture me not,
Charming
Marina; say not that 'twas my rank
And not myself that thou didst choose.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But it was meet that the holy servant of the Lord should be thus humbled, that all the preachers of the gospel might learn to give over them- selves wholly to obey Christ, that when they be
excluded
from one place, they may be ready immediately to go to another, and that they may not be discouraged, nor cease off from doing their duty, though they be undeservedly loathed.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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" Lucan then bestowed
on the Modern a pair of spurs, and
Blackmore
gave Lucan a bridle.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Sara Teasdale |
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The alteration of his taste
in poetry, from an exclusive
admiration
of the age of Queen Anne to an
almost equally exclusive one of that of Elizabeth, is, we suspect, owing
to Mr.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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"A boiling pot for the
helpless
little ones,"
thought one of the fathers, "but it has served its
day for that use -- only one more victim shall
ever fill it, and that is Diddle Dee himself.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of
screaming
shell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You may adore all this if you please, but not to flatter you, what is beauty but a flower which may be blasted by the least fit of
sickness?
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| Question: |
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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Many a
farewell
have I taken; I know the heart-
breaking last hours.
| Guess: |
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Stephen Crane |
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Και ο άνδρας, 'που κρυφόσμιγε μ' αυτήν, της απαντούσε 430
«δεν έρχεσαι
κατόπι
μας οπίσω 'ς την πατρίδα,
να ιδής και το παλάτι σου, να ιδής και τους γονείς σου;
ότ' είναι ακόμα 'ς την ζωή, και υπέρπλουτοι λογιούνται».
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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But there
are some few who come only to look at the fair, to inquire how and why
it is being held, upon what
authority
and with what object.
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Epictetus |
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William Kitchener
flourished
his beadle's staff about the beginning of the reign of George the Second.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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: but to me,
who had
squandered
three times fts v>.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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130
152 SOCIAL RESEARCH
highly complex operating
conditions
and of the narrow limits of effectiveness these mechanisms are subject to.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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It also happens sometimes with TOR, with classrooms/schools, and other
situations
where the same IP address is being shared.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Wherefore should I go
needlessly
beyond
the luminous disc into the darkness and cold
behind?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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In any case, you need to
understand
the key point of risk and benefit.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Tully - Offices |
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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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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Without
advocating
any specific religious or theological stance, the series aims nonetheless to be faithful to the radical emancipatory potential of religion.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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En primer lugar hay que nombrar el útil para lan zar, porque a su
utilización
constante hay que agradecer que los homíni dos se pudieran emancipar un poco de la fuerte presión del medio.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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After the
chronology
of the Chaldaeans, the Assyrians and the Hebrews, it it time to move on to the records of the Egyptians.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Of course this loss fell chiefly on the flower of the burgesses, who in fact
furnished
the tlitc as well as the mass of the combatants.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"
Then
answered
lady Brunhild, "Nay, how can that be shown?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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From the boats there arose a shout: 'Hurrah, hurrah for
Bertel
Thorwaldsen!
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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thys
traytour
vile 85
Has scorn'd my power and mee;
Howe canst thou thenne for such a manne
Intreate my clemencye?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Nor are we only concerned with
the great names : the author aims at catching the spirit of
the people, and the thoughts and feelings of soldier, artisan,
trader, and their
womenfolk
find ample voice in his pages.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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They were now come to a very wild and desert place, overgrown with shaggy bushes, and so silent and solitary that nobody seemed ever to have dwelt or
journeyed
there.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Compare the
Teutonic
with the Gaelic
hero,--Beowulf with Peredur, for example.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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You will have heard of the interesting discoveries recently
made in various parts of western Europe, of flint implements,
obviously worked into shape by human hands, under circum-
stances which show
conclusively
that man is a very ancient
denizen of these regions.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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It is far
more
probable
that the original fourth stanza of Catullus
was lost than that he made such a blunder in taste
and feeling.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
He opened the letter, and began reading it half aloud, with a running
fire of remarks--
"'Sir, I hope your excellency'--What's all this
ceremony?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Regrettons
que M.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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However, the truth of such disintegration is
achieved
by way of nothing less than the triumph and guilt of integration.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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[Illustration]
The
Fizzgiggious
Fish,
who always walked about upon Stilts,
because he had no legs.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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LORD BYRON
2973
Then rose from sea to sky the wild
farewell!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Think of the
ocean of pleasing tears that has flowed from the
narration
of noble,
great-hearted deeds!
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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My head flew to my feet and yet I never
fled,
wherefore
I deserve to be called the better man.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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His decisive victory was the theme
of pulpits in Germany, Italy, and even in the
Protestant
churches
of England.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Child Verse
THE CHILD
AT NAZARETH
I
/^NCE, measuring His height, He stood
^^ Beneath a cypress-tree,
And, leaning back against the wood,
Stretched wide His arms for me ;
Whereat a brooding mother-dove
Fled
fluttering
from her nest above.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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The
Authorised
Version has nothing
else.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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’ he said,
‘dere’s
good food goin’ to waste.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Baudelaire
is more human than Poe.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Is that a good cure for
overwork?
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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It was, of course,
Heidegger
that reminded us of a singular world philosophy teth- ered to the question of Being (existence), a question that West- ern philosophy forgot.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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And she went to ask the
dark-clouded Son of Cronos that he should be
deathless
and live
eternally; and Zeus bowed his head to her prayer and fulfilled her
desire.
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Hesiod |
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Much flesh, assailing him oblique, he tore
With his rude tusk, but to the Hero's bone
Pierced not; Ulysses _his_ right
shoulder
reach'd;
And with a deadly thrust impell'd the point
Of his bright spear through him and far beyond.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[87] The Wedding-God (Hymenaeus) hath put out every torch before the door, and
scattered
the bridal garland upon the ground; the burden of his song is no more “Ho for the Wedding;” there’s more of “Woe” and “Adonis” to it than ever there was of the wedding-cry.
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Bion |
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377
taken by Force ; made their
Inhabitants
Slaves, and rafed
their Foundations.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Friend, I receiue you: but (withall) I
acquaint
you, 40
Aforehand, if yo' offend mee, I mu?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Hardy
pictured
this as tragedy:
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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He was a capital draughtsman with a strong nervous line
and made many pen-and-ink
drawings
of her.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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England
claims that it was
impossible
to avoid going into this struggle if
it was to keep faith with and fulfill its obligations to Belgium
and Luxemburg.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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