When on the sea-coast he never ate fish, but in places most remote from the sea he regularly served all manner of sea-food, and the country-folk in the
interior
he fed with the milt of lampreys and pikes.
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those
underground)
cannot be
rendered in English.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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When
a lad of fourteen, he witnessed the
transports
of
patriotic hope with which all Poland hailed in
1812 the march of Napoleon to Russia.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a
symphony
of variations on the two great symbolic themes in
the work of Rilke.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Tout à coup mon
anxiété tomba, une félicité m’envahit comme quand un médicament
puissant commence à agir et nous enlève une douleur: je venais de
prendre la résolution de ne plus essayer de m’endormir sans avoir revu
maman, de
l’embrasser
coûte que coûte, bien que ce fût avec la
certitude d’être ensuite fâché pour longtemps avec elle, quand elle
remonterait se coucher.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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"
Then arose a vexed and perturbed murmur, most of the Ionians siding with Antagoras, such of the allies as yet clung to the Dorian ascendency
grouping
round Gongylus.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Thus we understand and
experience
time as the kind of thing that can be spent, wasted, budgeted, invested wisely or poorly, saved, or squandered.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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a) are one item in the Seventeen Ornaments ofthe Religious
Practice
(dge-sbyong- gi rgyan/sriimatJii-alamkiira).
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Despite
the prayer uttered in this inscription that “the divine ruler may press
down the Emperor with his foot,” Omurtag, so far from attacking the
Greek Empire, actually aided Michael II in 823 against the rebel Thomas,
who was
besieging
Constantinople.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
work or any other work
associated
with Project Gutenberg-tm.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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’
To burn with one clear flame, to stand erect
In natural honour, not to bend the knee
In profitless
prostrations
whose effect
Is by itself condemned, what alchemy
Can teach me this?
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Wilde - Charmides |
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That he
prepofid
to hold ass'cmhlies for divine worfiip, dif.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Q: In
precisely
what sense?
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Foucault-Live |
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The strange night-wonder of your eyes Dies not, though passion flieth
Along the star fields of
Arcturus
And is no more unto our hands;
My lips are cold
And yet we twain are never weary,
And the strange night-wonder is upon us,
The leaves hold our wonder in their flutterings, The wind fills our mouths with strange words
For our wonder that grows not old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
The voice of grief and fury till then had not been loud;
But a deep sullen murmur
wandered
among the crowd,
Like the moaning noise that goes before the whirlwind on the
deep,
Or the growl of a fierce watch-dog but half aroused from sleep.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thereafter
I sat me against a tree.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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if I be either
able to stand it out, or have any
knowledge
of the civil laws: and
besides, I am in a hurry, you know whither.
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Horace - Works |
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Even now,
Columbus
o'er the hoary tide
Pursues the ev'ning sun, his navy's guide.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But like this,
Siddhartha
can wait calmly, he knows
no impatience, he knows no emergency, for a long time he can allow
hunger to besiege him and can laugh about it.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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mortals ;
Prometheus
himself was put in chains, Rhod.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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The
elephant
knows how to help his
companion out of the ditch into which the latter has fallen.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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* I am
acquainted
with these fish, which retain their names, but am unable to give their scientific names or nearest English equivalent.
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Greek Anthology |
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These set upon us with two ships
furnished
and fought with us, and
wounded many, casting at us instead of stones the seeds of those
gourds.
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Lucian - True History |
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The
Establishment
of Peace.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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There is
something
I want to tell you.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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By
construction
of B-proO?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Now Close the Windows
NOW close the windows and hush all the fields;
If the trees must, let them
silently
toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties,
including
placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have
gathered
in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul
as it leads.
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Sara Teasdale |
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credas ex aethere lapsam
stare
Pudicitiam
vel sacro ture vocatam 195 Iunonem Inachiis oculos advertere templis.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Or back to oak trees in the spring
When you
unloosed
my hair and kissed
The head that lay against your knees
In the leaf shadow's amethyst.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Women who were
subjected
to sexual excitement
with no physiological outlet appear to have a tendency to develop
fibroids.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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More dreadful fires approach your falling town ^
Than those which burned your stately struc- I
tures down, j
Such fatal fires as once in
Smithfield
shone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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When Thou risest
promise
as
God is
entreated
not to reject the Remnant.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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, do
you, Miss
Millborough?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Qua`que volat, vernus
sequitur
color ; omnis ia
herbas
Turget humus, medioque patent convexa sereno.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Fortunately a maid
exchanged
the goblets.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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— the
lighthouse
on the sea of nonsense, xvi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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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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A number of personal
references
are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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With
the most consummate skill and precision, Wagner
avails himself of every degree and colour in the
realm of feeling ; without the slightest hesitation
or fear of its
escaping
him, he seizes upon the most
delicate, rarest, and mildest emotion, and holds it
fast, as though it had hardened at his touch, de-
spite the fact that it may seem like the frailest
butterfly to every one else.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass
downloads
or automated harvesting of the collection.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats - Lamia |
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But the difficulty and the importance of our task lies in resisting the tempta- tion merely to
celebrate
the break with the past or to decry the past's continu- ing influence on our present life.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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This
description
of the dragon watching the tower from the sunny
hillside is justly admired for its picturesqueness, power, and
suggestiveness.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Contemporaneity, then, being the common condition of all the laws of
association, and a
component
element in the materia subjecta, the
parts of which are to be associated, must needs be co-present with all.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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As a matter of fact,
modernity
has also defined itself from the beginning in kinetic terms because it determined its mode of realization and existence as advancing and progressive.
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Sloterdijk |
|
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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blake-poems |
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Ill
When George turned his
attention
to the writing of poetry in the
later eighties of the century, the great lyric impulse in German
poetry coming from Goethe had reached its end, stung to death
by the irony of Heine.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Moreover, if all nations were
agree about certain
religious
matters, for instal
the existence of a God (which, it may be remarke
is not the case with regard to this point), th
would only be an argument against those affirme
matters, for instance the existence of a God; th
consensus gentium and hominum in general can
only take place in case of a huge folly.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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However, let us leave what is really a very sordid side of the subject,
and return to the question of popular control in the matter of Art, by
which I mean Public Opinion dictating to the artist the form which he is
to use, the mode in which he is to use it, and the
materials
with which
he is to work.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
holy man, in an ecstacy of foreknowledge, beheld the coming of the only
champion fated to
conclude
it; and Godfrey himself the same night had a
vision from heaven, bidding him grant the petition of those who should
sue him next day for the recall of Rinaldo from exile--Rinaldo, the right
hand of the army, as Godfrey was its head.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Almost in the same historical moment when Galileo directed all modern physics to the
reading of that book which Nature was supposed to have written
herself in geometric or, subsequently, algebraic signs, the modern novel and modern theater stepped in as evidence that modern
readers and
spectators
enjoy the effects of those fictions most of all when they are altogether free of science.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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And of how few
Hellenes
can it be said as
of them, that their deeds when weighed in the balance have been
found equal to their fame!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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The wife bewails his mad murder of their children, and gently hints that the mother might give her more
sympathy
in her sorrow if she would not be for ever lamenting her own.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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is 1609, just after his
marriage
into
the circle of Donne's friends.
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Donne - 2 |
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It was apparent that she was
uttering
a
prayer.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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This sort of
Phrase is not to be
inverted
commonly; _Damnum in illo est.
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Erasmus |
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This Hymnhas been
translated
into English verse, by Mary F.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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You will realize that there is no difference between Buddhas and
sentient
beings.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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" Along the whole
range, therefore, of the eastern coast,
although
so con-
veniently situated for intercourse with Italy, the an-
cients had but one harbour, Olbia, and that far to the
north; and in modern days, too, no place of any im-
portance is found along this part of Sardinia.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Norway :
struggle
for home rule.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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346-8
FIVE
DOCTRINES
chos lnga"
I the context in whiCh thIS appears
e:umeration has not been identified.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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Heaven lit the fatal flame within my breast: 1625
That
detestable
Oenone managed all the rest.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I can't hit upon anything that will do;
everything
I think of
seems so silly and insignificant.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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The events could not have happened more opportunely if
they had been planned, and yet they were not planned but merely fell out
so: and since such a combination of circumstances
simulating
design is
unusual, it is not proper to say that the events happened "in the course
of Nature.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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The Life's-End of Peregrinus is also an at tack upon a contemporary whose name is given
and whose spectacular suicide is recorded several
unimpeachable
authorities.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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The unnatural calm weighed over the park like a black cloth; the men looked at themselves, became
restless
- then there was a sound like the lash of a whip, which broke the silence.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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In contrast, Marxists treat class as the key concept in an entire social order known as capitalism (or feudalism or slavery), centering around the ownership of the means of
production
(factories, mines, oil wells, agribusinesses, media conglomerates, and the like) and the need--if one lacks ownership--to sell ones labor on terms that are
highly favorable to the employer.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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"The Pariahs of the Isle of Woe," as he
passionately
names
them, are no longer Pariahs if they have become Men.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Before Marsile aloud has he shouted:
"To
Rencesvals
my body shall be led;
Find I Rollanz, then is he surely dead,
And Oliver, and all the other twelve;
Franks shall be slain in grief and wretchedness.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To them, the ordinary
descendants
of Adam are no more than upright worms.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Well so, I also will seek to reach the
innermost
part
of my self.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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They are: Natural History of a
Voyage on the
Sunbeam)
(1878); .
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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"
Diotima raised her heavy
eyelashes
to give him a single world- weary glance and dropped them again.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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For it was not only the
resentment
of one's fellow citizens that had become intensified there into a strong sense of community; even the lack of faith in oneself and one's own fate took on the character of a deep self-certainty.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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libel ; which, if applied to the
Government
of our own country, would not be deemed to be such.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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'Whatever appears in his Orations, by which his Intentions
with regard to the Republic can poillbly admit of a Difpute,
I fhall pafs over unnoticed ; but
whatever
he hath been openly
convidled of ading in Favour of our Enemies, I fliall defire you
To recolledl:.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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In the night, the clouds and the smoke so obscured the view, that
Epaminondas
and his army were able to cross the bridge without being observed.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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THE BEE'S DREAM
“NI
ight will quickly pass, fair will be the dawn; the sun will
rise in beauty and the
glorious
lilies will unfold them-
selves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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It is always dawn for St Helena as
Veronese
saw her at the
window.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Then, with the bones of fools
He buys silken banners
Limned with his
triumphant
face;
With the skins of wise men
He buys the trivial bows of all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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"
"You have as good as
informed
me, sir, that you are going shortly to be
married?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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O
restless
Fancy, whither wouldst thou fare?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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History is the time of media
installations
– post-history, the era of the program.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Some have dispatch'd their cakes and cream,
Before that we have left to dream:
And some have wept, and woo'd, and
plighted
troth,
And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth:
Many a green-gown has been given;
Many a kiss, both odd and even:
Many a glance, too, has been sent
From out the eye, love's firmament:
Many a jest told of the keys betraying
This night, and locks pick'd:--yet we're not a Maying.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Never have I eaten with more
pleasant
sen-
sations, never has my sleep been better.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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That was the last hail-storm to trouble spring:
He came in gloomy haste,
Pusht in front of the white clouds quietly basking,
In such a hurry he tript against the hills
And stumbling forward spilt over his shoulders
All his black baggage held,
Streaking
downpour of hail.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[6] L At that time, a
struggle
arose between the senate and the people, each desiring to gain control [of the state].
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Roman Translations |
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Having
expressed
both his fear and his dilemma--and indeed, the paradox of thought reform itself--he needed no more prompting to go into the details of his ordeal.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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The great, or such as hold of nature,
and
transcend
fashions, by their fidelity to universal ideas, are
saviors from these federal errors, and defend us from our
contemporaries.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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But
she—she
heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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' Let us mention also, among
the best poems of Musset, 'Lucie,' an elegy as sorrowful and tender
as The Willow; the 'Hope in God,' where the author wishes to
shake off the skepticism of his century, but
presents
to us rather
a pantheistic view of religion; 'Sylvia,' a touching love story.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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I view those faces
with delight, which never felt the
deforming
hand of ambition or
distress.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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A force was sent against them
and defeated them, and Hüshang took refuge in Sehore, but the
leaders convinced the king that they were loyal at heart, and had
rebelled only in consequence of the
intrigues
of Muhāfiz Khān.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Our greatest danger today may be that we yield too large a proportion of our professional world to the bare
exchange
of information through electronic media.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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