He scrupled not to eat
Against his better knowledge, not deceived,
But fondly
overcome
with female charm.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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”
“But I cannot be
satisfied
without Fanny Price, without making a small
hole in Fanny Price’s heart.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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At what-
oppressed
as the land-owners.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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I not ask'd,
What ails theeor such cause as he doth, who
Looks only with that eye which sees no more,
When
spiritless
the body lies; but ask'd,
To give fresh vigour to thy foot.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Therefore it is said, "One does not feel a hair placed on the palm of the hand; but the same hair, in the eye, causes
suffering
and injury.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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The
I talians have ever
devotedly
loved music.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Of these, Julianus, when an attack
breached
his walls, threw himself into a fire.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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If, 'mid the shame of after-days,
The man who wronged his country's trust
(Yet now in worth outweighed all praise)
Remembered
what this woman wrought,
It should have bowed him to the dust!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In the mean Time _Johannes Frobenius_, a famous Printer, having printed
many of his Works at _Basil_ in _Switzerland_, and being much taken with
the Elegancy of his Printing, and the Neatness of his Edition, he went
thither,
pretending
that he undertook that Journey for the Performance
of some Vow he had made; he was kindly entertain'd by him, and publish'd
several Books there, and dedicated this his Book of Colloquies to
_Frobenius's_ Son, and resided till the Mass had been put down there by
the Reformers.
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Erasmus |
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Purity untouched by
experience
plays over into that which it once was unmetaphorically: purity untouched by dirt.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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Never, never,
gracious
Bacchus, may I move thee 'gainst thy will,
Or uncover what is hidden in the verdure of thy shade!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The purpose of this study is to trace some relations between the Greek
tragedies
and some great masterpieces of the Elizabethan time.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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ja
By CLINTON SCOLLARD
ITALY IN ARMS AND
OTHER POEMS 75 CENTS
THE VALE OF SHADOWS 60 CENTS
If it be the duty of a poet to give voice of the
conscience
of his nation, Mr.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And Dexicrates, in the play entitled "The Men deceived by Themselves," says —
But when I'm drunk take draught of snow, And Egypt gives me
ointment
for my head.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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The solution of it is a
shepherd’s
pipe dedicated to Pan by Theocritus.
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Pattern Poems |
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, "descendant of Lugh," which seems a very
probable
rendering, St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Sans vouloir mettre en
doute la bonne foi du gouvernement anglais lorsqu'il
declara l'annee
derniere
n'avoir ' ni intention d'agir,
ni dessein, ni aspiration politique dans ces regions,'
il n'en est pas moins vrai que les musulmans se tour-
nent vers lui et qu'il ne fait rien pour les decourager.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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I'
THE
ELEVENTH
BOOK OF THE _ENEIS 369 Nor Turnus wants a party, to support
His cause and credit in the Latian court
His former acts secure his present fame,
And the queen shades him with her mighty name.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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OCT* Observation, on the Final Syllable of a Verse, as
usually given on works on Prosody : thus --
Syllaba cujuvis erit ultima
carminis
anceps.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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We have also another bit of
evidence
from
Jonson himself.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[TO APHRODITE]
Gentle Dame of Cyprus, be’st thou child of Zeus, or child of the sea, pray tell me why wast so unkind alike unto Gods and men – nay, I’ll say more, why so hateful unto thyself, as to bring forth so great and
universal
a mischief as this Love, so cruel, so heartless, so all unlike in ways and looks?
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Bion |
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A: 1911 im russischen Frontabschnitt und 1915 im ungarischen rontabschni
F: Koennen Sie bitte die Baton, Orte und Einhcibcn angoben, in denen Sie
dienten?
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Nuremburg |
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Esto tibi, O libertatis pulcherrima sedes,
Sors melior, nescire et fata et
crimina
Romas.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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' When the execution was reported to the ruler, he put on white clothes, and did not have a full meal or music, thus
changing
his usual habits.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Reporting an ex-
periment to determine the effects on behavior of
variation
in the amount of
play equipment in groups of three-, four-, and five-year-olds at the Univer-
sity of Michigan Elementary School playground, Johnson concluded, "The
more extensively equipped playground for each group is characterized by a
greater combined amount of bodily exercise and play with materials and
fewer social contacts in games and undesirable behavior [teasing, crying,
quarreling, hitting].
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Childens - Folklore |
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Baudelaire was no more
exception
to this rule than St.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of
scorching
steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Precisely
this unusual quality has generated the sometimes rather exaggerated impartiality so popular among non- professional readers, which Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1999) deploys when he writes about his favorite texts as 'classics.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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But at anchor, carved and gilded,
Lay the dragon-ship he builded;
'T was the
grandest
ship in Norway,
With its crest and scales of green.
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Longfellow |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Though my
strength
is great, my love is too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter,
slumbering
in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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This
representation
could be an image of the Buddha.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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"
But there cannot exist several "Existents," for in
order to
separate
them, something would have to exist
which was notexisting, an assumption which neutral-
ises itself.
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Nietzsche - v02 |
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Princeton:
Princeton
Univ.
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A History of Trust in Ancient Greece_nodrm |
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In the
distance
may be
seen the snow-capped peaks of the Alps.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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The gods are mindful most when men forget --
Take heed lest they, at last,
remember
diee.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Dunque la voce tua, che 'l ciel trastulla
sempre col canto di quei fuochi pii
che di sei ali facen la coculla,
perche non
satisface
a' miei disii?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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The province of Corduene, to which both Phraates and
Tigranes
laid claim, was at the command of Pompeius occupied by Roman troops for the latter, and the Parthians who were found in possession were driven
with the
through
Parthian and Nabataeans was the proximity into which
beyond the frontier and pursued even as far as Arbela in Adiabene,
without the government of Ctesiphon having even been previously heard (689).
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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With painful
stricture
of the cord his hands
They bound and feet together at his back,
As their illustrious master had enjoined, 220
Then weigh'd him with a double chain aloft
By a tall pillar to the palace-roof,
And thus, deriding him, Eumaeus spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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Li Po |
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It is
obtained
either by detachment or by cultivation.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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" Rather, a rela- tively small number of them simultaneously
invented
this problem and kindled a desire to solve it.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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© Oxford
University
Press 1989.
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OED - 21 - a |
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396
Olympus in Lycia,
stronghold
of pirates,
iv.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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It's like hearing an
ironclad
talk about being at the
mercy of the winds and waves.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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It is as this natural appearance that the relation of state and religion hides its own
determinative
role.
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Education in Hegel |
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I hope that he will not take it
amiss that I have acted without
consulting
him.
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Macaulay |
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If we say we are fighting the British Empire to the death, then
obviously
we shall drive even the last of them to arms against us; and do not forget that there are very many among them who never wanted war.
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Hitler-Table-Talk |
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te councils inorder
departmental
topresentheirviewsand
to gainapprovalforthemiftheywereusefuland made sense.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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4
In fact, feminists who were once unequivocally committed to an equal rights approach now find themselves divided on many issues of public policy,
including
no-fault divorce, benefits for pregnant workers, and the rights of surrogate mothers.
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(American Culture) Alice Echols - Daring To Be Bad_ Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975-Univ Of Minnesota Press (1989) |
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The
Princess
in the Tower
I
The Princess sings:
I am the princess up in the tower
And I dream the whole day thro'
Of a knight who shall come with a silver spear
And a waving plume of blue.
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Sara Teasdale |
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figure 3-7
Spiral¬
decorated Butmir vases.
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Marija Gimbutas - The Civilization of the Goddess_ The World of Old Europe-HarperCollins (1991) |
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Identical
copies of the treaty were inscribed on two bronze tablets, one of which was set up at Rome in the Capitoline temple of Zeus [Jupiter], and the other at Heracleia, also in the temple of Zeus.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Henceforward,--relegated to deep seclusion
In a
bottomless
gorge, flanked by precipitous mountains,
Five months on end the passage of boats is stopped
By the piled billows that toss and leap like colts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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when you drive somebody out of the State you create the
same
condition
as prevailed in the Garden of Eden.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Some of the chiefs had spears, with
fanciful
flags
attached, and were really gallant-looking men.
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Poe - v05 |
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No cheekacheek with chipperchapper, you and your last mashboy and the padre in the pulpbox
enumerating
you his nostrums.
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Finnegans |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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"You are
fit" (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) "to
apprehend
that you are
not distinct from me.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Það var einn morgun, að Einar gekk út snemma, og er þá létt af allri
sunnanþokunni
og úrinu.
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hrafnkels_saga_freysgoda.is |
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The youngly delightsome frilles-in-pleyurs are now showen drawen, if bud one, or, if in florileague, drawens up
consociately
at the hinder sight of their commoner guardian.
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Finnegans |
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THE
BEDRIDDEN
PEASANT
TO AN UNKNOWING GOD
MUCH wonder I--here long low-laid--
That this dead wall should be
Betwixt the Maker and the made,
Between Thyself and me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But when the inspectors of this
work saw the people continue their oblations, though all was given
already that was needful, they said to Moses, the people give more
than is needful, and Moses straight
published
an order that no more
should be offered for the use of the sanctuary, because more than suf--
ficient had been offered already, by Which it is manifest that God
would have nothing superfluous and abounding in his temple.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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But in the Popular Health Movement we see a coming together of
feminist
and working class energies.
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(Glass Mountain Pamphlets) Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English - Witches, Midwives and Nurses_ A History of Women Healers-The Feminist Press at CUNY (1973) |
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Succession of short
ministries
of virtual minorities,
1830-40.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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I asked the cause: the aged man grew sad:
They pointed to a
building
gray and tall,
And hoarsely answered "Step inside, my lad,
And then you'll see it all.
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Lewis Carroll |
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That he was
conducting
such transactions at home instead of at the of- fice struck Ulrich.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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This was sent with a prose letter which says, 'By this
messenger and on this good day, I commit the inclosed holy hymns and
sonnets (which for the matter not the workmanship, have yet escaped
the fire) to your judgment, and to your protection too, if you think
them worthy of it; and I have
appointed
this enclosed sonnet to usher
them to your happy hand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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Time’s winged chariot was
hurrying
near.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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) My beloved,--
It may be it were wise, that we took care
Our
pleasant
love come never in the risk
Of being too much known.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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JOHN GAY, 1685-1732--
To
Jonathan
Swift.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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As a
rule, they
commanded
mercenaries, for whom they could
not provide pay without systematically plundering the
allies.
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| Question: |
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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En la puerta de la gallera, donde se había
concentrado
medio pueblo, Prudencio Aguilar lo esperaba.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Anos de Soledad |
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Consider
the embryos of two animals,
or the seeds of two plants.
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| Question: |
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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It has not been sufficiently noted that the constructions, paintings and poem-objects of
surrealism
were the manual realization of the sterilities by which the sceptics of the third century B.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Having disentangled himself from the
difficulties
of rhyme, he may justly
be expected to give the sense of Horace with great exactness, and to
suppress no subtilty of sentiment, for the difficulty of expressing it.
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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20 While being tortured he said, "O contest befitting holiness, in which so many of us
brothers
have been summoned to an arena of sufferings for religion, and in which we have not been defeated!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Roman Translations |
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Most girls are
interested
only in a good time and want fellows with lots of money to spend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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ALABASTER
Like this alabaster box whose art
Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,
Carven with delicate dreams and wrought
With many a subtle and
exquisite
thought.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A political rhetoric has been developed by means of a new kind of cultural
theoretical
approach which is capable of having lasting effects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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The hermits are
unsympathetic
because they have never suffered.
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Horruerim
uoces furiage bu ſitire ipatiéter cæpar.
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A
principal
way in which the old and the new paradigms differ is in their relation to evolution theory.
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--I use cryptography
Lest I his
vengeful
pen should dree--
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--'What we behold
Shall be the
madhouse
and its belfry tower,'
Said Maddalo, 'and ever at this hour
Those who may cross the water, hear that bell
Which calls the maniacs, each one from his cell, _110
To vespers.
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"Is it beautiful," he cried, "my
brother?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thus he: and thus (with prompt invention bold)
The
cautious
chief his ready story told.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And
this will be a
sufficient
Proof of what we affirm, , (c) if we be convinc'd that the Living spring from
the Dead : If otherwise, then we must look out for other Proofs.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Your own
impartial
annals yet proclaim
The Punic glory and the Roman shame.
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Petrarch |
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" Corydon —
Ornitus, just now, as though filled with the sense that the god was anigh,
trembled a feeling stole o'er me where terror and joy inter twine;
But now of the
eloquent
Faun let us worship the godhead be nign.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Here on the lonely
frontier
of the world!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Then the company were all earnest with me to kill those whom we had
taken; but I did not like so well of that, thinking it better to keep
them in bonds until ambassadors should come from the Bucephalians to
ransom them that were taken, and indeed they did: and I well understood
by the nodding of their heads, and their lamentable lowing, like
petitioners, what their
business
was.
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Lucian - True History |
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* See O'Sullevan Beare's
"
Historise Catholicse
Ibernise
Compen-
dium," tomus i.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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The excellence
of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying,
without
striving
(to the contrary), the low place which all men
dislike.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Learned elephants, to borrow a pleasantry from Steven
127
Pinker , would ruefully fail to uphold the comforting notion that
progress, defined as a driven elongation of the nose, is manifested by a
statistical
majority of animal lineages.
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Fassung' [Grodek: 2nd
Version]
(T i, 167).
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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