καϋμένε, τι να ψεύδεσαι; δεν έχω απ' άλλους χρεία
να
μάθω
αν 'ς την πατρίδα του θα γύρη ο κύριός μου.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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the
jealousy
of Sir Charles, who is also The hero, a boy of noble character, is
her admirer.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Generated for
Christian
Pecaut (University of Chicago) on 2014-12-26 11:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Earlier wars, like World Wars I and II or the Franco-Prussian War, were limited by termination, by an ending that occurred before the period of
greatest
potential violence, by negotiation that brought the threat of pain and privation to bear but often precluded the massive exercise of civilian violence.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Bốn
phương
phẳng lặng, hai kinh vững vàng.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Where's your
belested
loiternan's lamp?
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Finnegans |
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As the
Carthusian
Ludolph of Saxony (d.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is,
All the Aire is thy Diocis,
And all the chirping Choristers
And other birds are thy Parishioners,
Thou marryest every yeare 5
The Lirique Larke, and the grave
whispering
Dove,
The Sparrow that neglects his life for love,
The household Bird, with the red stomacher,
Thou mak'st the black bird speed as soone,
As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcyon; 10
The husband cocke lookes out, and straight is sped,
And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed.
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John Donne |
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As I went down the water side,
None but my foe to be my guide,
None but my foe to be my guide,
On fair
Kirconnell
lea;
I lighted down my sword to draw,
I hacked him in pieces sma',
I hacked him in pieces sma',
For her sake that died for me.
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Golden Treasury |
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If they are lavish of their
promises, in just as many words do you promise them; if they give, do
you, too, give the
promised
favours.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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How shall we breathe in other air
Less pure,
accustomed
to immortal fruits?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But the task is a
difficult
one.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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and how can it be
wrought?
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William Wordsworth |
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On every island, that the lookouts sight,
destiny promises its Eldorado:
Imagination
conjuring
an orgiastic rite,
finds only a barren reef, in the afterglow.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Being with
came to
Melampus
to request bis aid ; but he now child by Aeolus, she fled to mount Pelion ; but
demanded two-thirds of the kingdom, one for him- Cheiron made search after her; and in order that
self, and the other for his brother.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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[188] The
listening
multitude is charmed and captivated by the force of his eloquence, and feels a pleasure which is not to be resisted.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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But those things, which may at times be beneficial, and at times injurious, such as walking, sitting down, and eating; or which have
absolutely
no power in any case to benefit or injure any one; these are neither bad nor good.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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HE
following
letter from Henry, Peince of
Wales, then about twelve years old, to his
father, James the First, proves the regard
and gratitude he had for his master, Mr.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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It
happened
that there was in the yard a pile
of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech
spinney was cleared.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Thee
Chauntress
oft the Woods among
I woo to hear thy eeven-Song;
And missing thee, I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven Green,
To behold the wandring Moon,
Riding neer her highest noon,
Like one that had bin led astray
Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way; 70
And oft, as if her head she bow'd,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
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Milton |
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Venlssem
nee dona moror sic | deinde Zo-|-cfitus
( delnde -- synceresis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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"
Savitri said : —
" Thou hast
restrained
all creatures by thy decrees, and it is by thy decrees that thou takest them away, not according to thy will.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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730]
The horie
Sallowes
and the Poplars growing on the brim
Unset, upon the shoring bankes did cast a shadow trim.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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The Porte has
since gone further on that
alluring
path, until
finally it has recently granted a national Head
of the Church to the most numerous of the Rayah-
races, the Bulgarians, and has thus destroyed the
Greeks' ancient ecclesiastical State.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Such
Eviradnus
was a wrong before,
Good but most terrible.
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Hugo - Poems |
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There are also other types of feel- ings which come through the eyes and immediately affect the body for some reason: sad
expressions
in other people make us sad and compassionate and sorry for obvious reasons.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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It speaks the language of a life that not only has the right to make a promise but can also endorse it-and the bigger the resistance
provoked
by the affirmation, the more authentic its occurrence.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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"And it might have been apparent still to our sharp
spectator
.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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and interests of the time, the safer the
assumption
that he must bear the impress of his age, and that the motives determining the form of his narrative must be sought in the circumstances of the time.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Part ofthe reason for the willing- ness of the Carter government to provide no new arms
supplies
was that the bad boy was in no danger.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Choose thou
whatever
suits the line;
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage or Doris,
Only, only call me Thine.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"The admission of his discretion does not admit that it
was
properly
exercised, nor does it admit that the footing
upon which he placed his refusal was proper.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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It would almost be worth while to
complete
the experiment.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Were it to publish abroad the fact that it contains, among other ingredients,
chloroform
and prussic acid, the public would probably
VERDICT OF DEATH FROM BULL'S COUGH SYRUP One logical result of unlabeled poisons.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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It is not social reflec- tion on artworks and their inner chemistry that is false but rather the subordination of artworks to abstract social correlations
determined
from above that are indiffer- ent to the tension between the historical causal nexus and the content of the work .
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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M LN 639
to pay an even higher price for granting this Doctor or rather Magister Faust with a passion for the innermost secrets of nature, a nature which punished loathsome
measurings
or even numeration of her exterior with contempt.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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An unguent, perfume -- what you will --
No name its
qualities
can fill.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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:quil"<: hel"<: al"<: better
criteria
of distinction.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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GD}
They listend to the Elemental Harps & Sphery Song
They view'd the dancing Hours, quick sporting thro' the sky
With winged
radiance
scattering joys thro the ever changing light
[The shades of]But Luvah & Vala standing in the bloody sky
On high remaind alone forsaken in fierce jealousy
They stood above the heavens forsaken desolate suspended in blood
Descend they could not.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I pray thee, brother, seeing that by him the meanes is found
That in mine age without my childe I go not to the grounde,
Permit him to enjoy the price for which we did compounde,
And which he hath by due desert of
purchace
deerely bought.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS
FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER
(FOR MUSIC)
IN the glad springtime when leaves were green,
O merrily the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Till hundred
thousands
we shall kiss.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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22] Being rid of the Harpies, Phineus revealed to the
Argonauts
the course of their voyage, and advised them about the Clashing Rocks190 in the sea.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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I plucked pink
blossoms
from mine apple-tree,
And wore them all that evening in my hair:
Then in due season when I went to see
I found no apples there.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This is "active" or "dynamic" deter- rence, deterrence in which the threat is communicated by pro-
gressive
fulfillment.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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The town with
its fever and its excitements, and its
collision
of mind with mind,
has spread over the country; and there is no country-scarcely
home.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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"For this pur- pose the person writing read aloud while the person dictating
listened
to the reading.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Although Hu's antagonisms scarcely disappeared, his
association
with the Lutherans did seem to agree with him.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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She stops, shot with sharp pain; then
shaking her head, she pours forth these words:
'Ah, hated brood, and doom of the
Phrygians
that thwarts our doom!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And so, with such protracted crash
of deafening, most discordant Orchestra-music, the Scene is
changed; and eight-and-twenty thousand sufficient
firelocks
are
on the shoulders of as many National Guards, lifted thereby out
of darkness into fiery light.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Her glance was loving--but 'twas not for me;
Her step was slow--'twas grace, not coquetry;
Her speech was short--to her
detaining
friend.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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An instinctive taste teaches men
to build their churches in flat
countries
with spire-steeples, which,
as they cannot be referred to any other object, point, as with silent
finger, to the sky and stars, and sometimes, when they reflect the
brazen light of a rich though rainy sun-set, appear like a pyramid of
flame burning heavenward.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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It marks the transition point
from the merely playful and critical to the relatively serious and
dogmatic stage in the mind of Plato:--
{138} "Marvel not," she said, "if you believe that love is of the
immortal, as we have already several times acknowledged; for here
again, and on the same principle too, the mortal nature is seeking as
far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to
be attained by generation, because
generation
always leaves behind a
new existence in the place of the old.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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'Amongst other secret principles of
his
imperial
policy, Augustus had put Egypt in a position by
itself, forbidding all senators and knights of the highest
class to enter that country without his permission.
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Tacitus |
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When I
had her
carefully
wrapped up I put my shoes on her feet, and then began
very gently to wake her.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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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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sit is also remarked, that "they all, both laity and clcry, gave their blessing to every king who should not violate this free- dom for ever ; and they all gave their curse to any king who should violate it ; and though it is dangerous for every king to vio- late Columkille, it is particularly dangerous to the King of Tara, for he is the
relative
of Columkille.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Strong palings at these passages prevented
any
unwelcome
eccentricity in the movements of the beasts, and
confined them to their appointed prey.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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One of the most powerful of all, SS leader Heinrich Himmler, saw homosexuals as a threat to German manhood and the moral fiber of Teutonic peo- ples, for a "homosexual sissy" would not
procreate
or make a good soldier.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Making, even ifunderstood as a
transcendental
aesthetic, functions as a form of representing, o f knowing, and thus ignores how things present themselves to us within the circle of before us, to which we respond, and as already ahead-of-us, determined by our expectations or uses, to which we recall:
When and in what way do things appear as things?
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither
fragments
51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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You can put even the Oxford
Dictionary to evil
purposes
by looking up words like and .
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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She often accuses me and tries me,
And lays false charges now, at will,
Yet
whenever
she acts vilely
All the fault's laid at my door still!
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Troubador Verse |
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So that I plainly discover by the _light_ of _nature_, that
the _Ideas_, which are in me, are (as it were) _Pictures_, which may
easily _come short_ of the _perfection_ of those things from whence they
are taken, but cannot _contain_ any thing
_greater_
or _more perfect_
then them: And the _longer_ and _more diligently_ I pry into these
things, so much the more _clearly_ and _distinctly_ do I discover them to
be _true_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Sie sind von
vornherein
nichts als
tru?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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What's more, they
will reproach you for
cumbering
the place, for being so long over
dying.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Her disease was
diagnosed
as
love and Calasiris persuaded her father to let him see the fillet found
with the exposed baby.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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"
"And an exceedingly
interesting
case it appears to be.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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If that happened to you, please let us know so we can keep
adjusting
the software.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your
countenance
fill'd up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Well knows he to what pass, what evil mart
That lord is brought; how often sighs in vain,
Whoe'er foregoes the sceptre which he swayed,
And to
barbarians
hath recourse for aid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We no longer know the dignified,
peaceful
mournings of
old; but under an unexpected stroke, the torment, the compli
cated rending in the heart, show that it has been secretly under·
mined.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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They stand to the deck through the battle's wreck when the
great shells roar and screech--
And never they fear when the foe is near to
practise
what they
preach:
But off with your hat and three times three for Columbia's
true-blue sons,
The men below who batter the foe--the men behind the guns!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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>>
Et l'Ange,
chatiant
autant, ma foi!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ground
mahamudra
is the view, understanding things as they are.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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So this is why correctness is a
distinct
quality of the Buddhas not shared by anyone else.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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The short preface, a most confused and involved piece of writing,
shows that Pynson was not
thoroughly
acquainted with the
English language, and it is rare to find him making use of it.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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After he had deposited his prize and
chattered
his gratulations
over it, he went away in quest of his mate.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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And of the flecked spottes like starres that on his hide are set
A name
agreeing
thereunto in Latine doth he get.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Nobody really wants to hear what he has to say; the shepherds of the people denounce him from their pulpits, or else so di- lute and
misrepresent
his teachings as to render them innocuous.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Cyrene 's joy and crown ,
Equestrian
seat of high renown .
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Pindar |
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One of the last
reflections
was again devoted to China and how the exerted mechanisms of terror had dislocated the relationships of three generations.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Uprisings
for Italian Unity in the duchies.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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"
--And so the conversation slips
Among
velleities
and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"His memory was so extraordinary, that he could
immediately
put his
hand on any MS.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Inasmuch as it persists, it remains in a kind of proximity, a proximity that preserves what is remote as remote by commemorating it and turning its
thoughts
toward it.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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breath had left him, their whole church
resounded
with lamentations.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Evidently, we are far from completely controlling, say, the
addictive
temptations of e-mail.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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The absence of a clearly
defined purpose in the minds of the working men
auditors
goes far
to explain the failure of Mechanics' institutions to help those
for whom they were especially started.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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You may believe me when I say the
father and I were already
prepared
to die the death of martyrs.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A beauty with a face like jade
4 Faces them as she toys with her
sounding
strings.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Let the gods speak softly of us In days hereafter,
The shadowy flowers of Orcus
Remember
Thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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[533] See Elucidation of the
Significance
of the Four Limbs .
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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