Thus, although the Sino-Soviet
alliance
can be seen as the result of either balancing or ideological solidarity, the Sino-American rap- prochement represented strictly the former.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your
inexperience
on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Nevertheless, these eruptions were not able to bring the German post-war process
decisively
off its basic course.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Least village boasts its blacksmith,
Whose anvil's even din
Stands symbol for the finer forge
That soundless tugs within,
Refining these impatient ores
With hammer and with blaze,
Until the designated light
Repudiate
the forge.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A really severe Puritan like Eden or Morgenthau would
probably
tell you that the pursuit of happiness is on a level with chippy-chasing.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Only he who is in
possession
of the Tao!
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Tao Te Ching |
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" may, probably, be urged in
opposition
to this proof, that, after all, am only conscious immediately of that which in me, that
of my representation of external things, and that, consequently, must always remain uncertain whether anything corresponding to this repre sentation, does or does not exist externally to me.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Kundry appealed often to Parsifal's compassion for her yearnings : but here we see the weakness of sympathetic morality, which
attempts
to grant every desire of those around, however wrong such wishes may be.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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The fourteenth century began with the accession to
the Polish throne of the Czech, Prince Wenceslas, and
for a short time the influence of Bohemia, more civilized
than Poland, in close touch with Western Europe and
already possessing a
university
in Prague, became
predominant.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Only one single corollary of
political
freedom is even
to-day the cause of embittered, passionate discussion.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Led by the
national
flags, commanded
by their own officers, the Polish legions shed their
blood in torrents for the man who they believed
would give them back their country.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Golden Treasury |
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As soon as one of us, Sasha or I or one
of the servants whom he knew to be kindly
disposed
toward
him, passed that way, he would begin to wave his hands, and
beckon us to him, and make signs; and only when we nodded to
him or called to him,- the signal agreed upon, that there was no
stranger in the house and that he might enter when he pleased,
-only then would the old man softly open the door, with a joy-
ous smile, rubbing his hands together with delight, and betake
himself to Pokrovsky's room.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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I am glad Miss Neron has fed
me, for there is no telling what
iniquity
I might wander into on an
empty stomach--I mean, an empty mind.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Particularly
amongst the twenty nine, were Mr.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Cusse, consulted
together
how to take
122 MEMOIRS OF [george 11.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Those whose lives are most exclusively passed amid the ever-changing wonders of sea and land are also those who are most universally insensible to every aspect of Nature not
directly
associated with the human interest of their calling.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Those whose lives are most exclusively passed amid the ever-changing wonders of sea and land are also those who are most universally insensible to every aspect of Nature not
directly
associated with the human interest of their calling.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Or, it may engage in substitution, replac-
ing
commonplace
descriptors with unusual ones:
4.
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Childens - Folklore |
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As Charles judges the case, eology is nec-
essarily
the victor, for her truth surpasses that of all of the other arts.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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I am glad Miss Neron has fed
me, for there is no telling what
iniquity
I might wander into on an
empty stomach--I mean, an empty mind.
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Twain - Speeches |
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It is
calculated
not to produce an
artistic effect but an effect upon the nerves in
general.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Lud Sir Peter would you have me be out of the
Fashion?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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The sense of form, which in the rondo at the very least gave the
impression
of contingency, required guarantees in order not to explode the genre.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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This change he was able to effect because most of his converts
were Jats, the best raw materials for soldiers under proper training
and leadership, naturally fearless, hardy, amenable to discipline, and
ready to march
anywhere
and face any danger at the prospect of
plunder.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections 3 and 4 and the Foundation information page at
www.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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He opened it
respectfully
at the foot of
the steps and held it over the girl’s head as she came down.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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But, in your diet, you grow savages:
Nothing but human flesh your taste can please;
And, as their feasts with
slaughtered
slaves began,
So you, at each new play, must have a man.
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Dryden - Complete |
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The limit of
interpretation
is determined by our involvement in our language not by any special form of words.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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It is reported of the
Pomtschas
in Bogota that the men and women of one and the same settlement are considered brothers and sisters and thus do not enter into marriage with one another; but if the actual sister was born by chance in a different place from the brother, they were allowed to marry each other.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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The
beautiful
colour became livid, the eyes seemed to
throw out sparks of hell-fire, the brows were wrinkled as though the
folds of the flesh were the coils of Medusa's snakes, and the lovely,
blood-stained mouth grew to an open square, as in the passion masks of
the Greeks and Japanese.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Karl Jaspers, Vernunft und
Existenz
(Munich, 1960) pp.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Again, where corselet of the sky girds round
*****
And at same time, some
Influence
of bane,
When from Beyond 'thas stolen into [our world].
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Lucretius |
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He called it a leviathan, the Hebrew word for a monstrous sea
creature
subdued by Yahweh at the dawn of creation.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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[65] All the gifts that come of the Muses have perished dear Neatherd, with you, the dear
delightful
kisses of the maidens, the sweet lips of the lads; round your corse the Loves weep all dishevelled, and Cypris, she’s fainer far of you than the kiss she gave Adonis when he died the other day.
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Moschus |
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) the
greatest
blessing they ever had, their own paper to pay their own debts.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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t :
;i*a*;
re+EiEiz
ji ;"i i;
ii
ii; i;: : ; -'i; a
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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* Mr Pound has grossly
exaggerated
my age.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Τότε της έβαλε 'ς τον νουν η γλαυκομμάτ' Αθήνη,
της
Πηνελόπης
φρόνιμης του Ικαρίου κόρης,
εις τους μνηστήραις να φανή, 'ς τον πόθο τους αέρα 160
να δώση μεγαλήτερον, και σεβαστή να γείνη
'ς τον άνδρα της και τον υιόν, καλήτερ' από πρώτα.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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The two romances also show more than any other of
Lucian’s writings his
brilliant
imaginative powers.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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s^ It would appear, even from a passage in the Prologue to this Life,S3 how that Prelate of Kildare, at the time its author wrote, was
Archbishop
over the
Leinster province,S4 while many bishops had preceded him in rule, since this See of Kildare had been first ruled by Conlaeth.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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After having
received
this instruction, he heard
"grete dynn,” and
«Then come ther develes on every syde,
Wykked gostes, I wote, fro Helle,
So mony that no tonge mygte telle:
They fylled the hows yn two rowes;
Some grenned on hym and some mad mowes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Pitying the poor, he would have shown us
poverty as a ridiculous anachronism, and both the ridicule and the pity
would have
expressed
his indignation.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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ther of Seleucus, whom he
uniformly
supported in
his wars against his elder brother, and by this
PTOLEMAEUS III.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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His death,
combined with the disasters in Germany and Italy, involved the ruin of
the party represented by the descendants of Otto the Great's first
marriage, the two Duke Ottos, and the
ascendancy
of what we may call
the Adelaide party.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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He begs us to state that for reasons of weight
He has lingered so long and
determined
so late.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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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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]
[Footnote 26:
οἱωνῶν
βασιλεὺς.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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And from a cliff-top is proclaimed
The
gathering
of the souls for birth,
The trial by existence named,
The obscuration upon earth.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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The old feeling of indulgent tenderness
overcame
her vexation, and she
grew thoroughly moved and alarmed.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Charlotte answered with a similar confidence, and then Anne
acknowledged that she too had been
secretly
writing.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Tennyson |
|
8
If a life's elevated
possibilities
increase, self-praise can unfold in analogue fashion: once again the work praises the master, who is poised to disappear into the work.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the
creatures
of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Part of the second volume of the Neue Gedichte from 1908, the poem seeks, as do all the other so-called Dinggedichte, to "realize a classical
synthesis
between subject and ob- ject" (Jayne 208).
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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The
jealousy
which this selection inspired,
was believed to have led to the resignation of General
Ward, and was not softened by the presence of Washing-
* "He is their idol," said Schuyler, " because he is at their discretion.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Thy guerdon be a son of
peerless
worth,
Whose wide dominion shall embrace the earth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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On
September
6 Jefferson was blissfully dreaming an ideal republic as follows:
But with respect to future debts would it not be wise and just for the nation to declare in the Constitution that they are forming, that neither the legislature nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 34 years?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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O such
deformities!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The charm of independence, the rich
plunder of monastic institutions, made the
Reformation
attractive in the
eyes of princes, and tended not a little to strengthen their inward
convictions.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Cuddie, however, is dejected by unsuccessful love, and, though
Piers maintains that love (in Plato's sense) should lift him 'above
the starry skie,' Cuddie
persists
in declaring that
All otherwise the state of Poet stands;
For lordly love is such a Tyranne fell,
That where he rules all power he doth expell;
The vaunted verse a vacant head demaundes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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But it began to be felt more convenient to keep
one spelling for a word; and, by the end of the
eighteenth
century,
our orthographical system was practically in its present shape
Early in that century, Robinson Crusoe has surprize, lyon, tyger,
1.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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how
infinitely
superior!
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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In the year 1932 the
resolute
German protestant himself felt called upon to understand and affirm Stalin's kairos.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
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'An Ingrosser of corn' hates tobacco
(a
supposed
substitute for food), and a sexton cannot endure to be
told that 'we ought to live by the quick not the dead.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Je ne
pressentais
nullement
son talent, et son prestige à mes yeux, du même genre qu'autrefois
celui de Mme Blatin, était d'être--quoi qu'elles prétendissent--l'ami
de mes amies, et plus de leur bande que moi.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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147
nerthe trueOraror, hesays,seeksonlytomake tb'dip- those to w h o m he speaks better, and the counterfeit rmi k: '
Orator has no other design than that of perswadingj*7**i "em,
whateverdamage
theysufferbyit.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Do not deceive yourself: I know you well:
Long have you
thirsted
for it.
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
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‘The worst was Colonel Wimpole
sahib, who used to make his orderly hold me down over the table while he came running
from behind and kicked me with very thick boots for serving banana
fritters
too
frequently.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Thus, for example, he begins his treatise _On
Existence_
or _On Nature_
thus: "If nothing exists, then there is nothing for us to talk about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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It offers itself in flat surrender,
tendering
tastes, and smells, and
colours, and metals, and grains, and the white cloth falls over its
side, draped and wide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
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Her
earrings
are made of pearl,
Her underskirt is of green pattern-silk,
Her overskirt is the same silk dyed in purple,
And when men going by look on Rafu
They set down their burdens, They stand and twirl their moustaches.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Illustrious farr and wide, but by his own
First seen, them unexpected joy surpriz'd,
When the great Ensign of Messiah blaz'd
Aloft by Angels born, his Sign in Heav'n:
Under whose Conduct Michael soon reduc'd
His Armie, circumfus'd on either Wing,
Under thir Head
imbodied
all in one.
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
29) and "the industrialand
corporateuse
of slave laborin theconcentrationcampsand ghettoestookthisstructuraplropensityof capitalismtoitsfinalconclusion"(p.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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Over the manhole, up in the iron-clad tower,
Pilot and Captain met as they turned to fly:
The
hundredth
part of a moment seemed an hour,
For one could pass to be saved, and one must die.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Arises, too, this same great earth-quaking,
When wind and some prodigious force of air,
Collected from without or down within
The old telluric deeps, have hurled themselves
Amain into those caverns sub-terrene,
And there at first
tumultuously
chafe
Among the vasty grottos, borne about
In mad rotations, till their lashed force
Aroused out-bursts abroad, and then and there,
Riving the deep earth, makes a mighty chasm--
What once in Syrian Sidon did befall,
And once in Peloponnesian Aegium,
Twain cities which such out-break of wild air
And earth's convulsion, following hard upon,
O'erthrew of old.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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and, considering
the antiquity of the book of Job, it is of increased interest; and
in the close of this chapter, when,
inquiring
the value of wisdom,
he introduces all the precious metals and gems of the earth,
and then puts them all aside; for the value of wisdom--the wisdom
of God, even Jesus--is far above all the glory of the earth.
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Accordingly Strattis in his Callippides says, with reference to Heracles-
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or do you play the
flouting
Jack, to tell us Cupid is a
good hare-finder and Vulcan a rare carpenter?
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And by me, in soft red raiment, the Fenians moved in loud streams,
And Grania, walking and smiling, sewed with her needle of bone,
So lived I and lived not, so wrought I and wrought not,
with
creatures
of dreams,
In a long iron sleep, as a fish in the water goes dumb as a stone.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Greatest
and fairest Empresse, know you this?
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Donne - 1 |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes sparkled and a
constant
smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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This and
shorter
political
articles interest the historian and the biographer,
but hardly count as literature.
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We use information
technology
and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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As soon as your fear was over--and it was not fear for what
threatened me, but for what might happen to you--when the whole thing
was past, as far as you were
concerned
it was exactly as if nothing at
all had happened.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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«Elle n'était pas
fâchée?
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It indeed could become a task for the humanities to insist-- against the absolute dominance of information and speed--on the
presence
dimension of the world and of its phenomena.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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The pound was off 10 percent against the dollar but has firmed at 7 as the $100,000 at a time limit on cross-border
transfers
was relaxed.
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Kleiman International |
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His hatred toward
curiosity
is allied to his hatred to- ward mobility; both are even hammered into the mind by the ripe old saying: stay in the country and earn your living honestly.
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«Écoutez, je dis que je ne veux plus que les choses que nous aurons
entendu crier, mais je fais
naturellement
des exceptions.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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Ah, but I had given over to despair
The mind in me, I ground the
stubborn
tribes,
I quarried them like rocks and broke them small
And ground them down to flinders and to sands;
But never gleamed the jewel-stone therein,
Naught but the common flint of earth I found.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Elinor was grateful for the attention, but it could not alter her
design; and their mother's
concurrence
being readily gained, every
thing relative to their return was arranged as far as it could be;--and
Marianne found some relief in drawing up a statement of the hours that
were yet to divide her from Barton.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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355); but when this city was destroyed by an
inundation of the Ganges in the reign of Nichakshus, the successor of
Adhisīmakrishna, they removed the seat of their rule to Kauçãmbi,
possibly the present Kosam in the
Allahābād
District.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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" We mi&hl Ioa~
moonrise
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Before you, poor devil, of dear memory,
I felt all the beaks, and
ravening
claws,
of swooping ravens, dark panthers' jaws,
that were once so fond of tearing at me.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Their testimony
combined
is most
harmonious and conclusive.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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In a series of poems he had satirized the rapacity of minor
officials and called attention to the intolerable
sufferings
of the
masses.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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