Woodrow Wilson
International
Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004-3027
Tel.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Anastatia
Robinson's tickets .
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Alexander Pope - v09 |
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She had
suffered
both in the employ of the joyous priest
and the thoughtless poet.
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Robert Burns |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Only what changes
everything
is the fact that in bad faith it is from myself that I am hiding the truth.
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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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The_satires_of_Persius |
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28 POLISH LITERATURE
quarrels about boundaries, resulting in hand-to-hand en-
counters, their bouts of hunting and drinking, dancing
and talking, love-making and mushroom-gathering, their
patriarchal etiquette, their splendid hospitality, their
manners homely yet courteous, their
conversation
down-
right but full of wit, their dress, their cuisine, their
houses and their habits, their rising and their going to
bed.
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The description of daily life and customs in this passage contributes to the themes and messages of the larger book by providing a vivid and detailed picture of the life and society of Mickiewicz's mother-country, Lithuania, as it existed in the early nineteenth century, and as it had existed for centuries past. Mickiewicz's great national epic, 'Pan Tadeusz,' is a bitter lament of one who has lost his country, whose air and water, forests and fields, soil and people he had touched and loved, could still see and smell from afar, but never more regain. The epic is unique and great amongst those of all literatures; it is of local, national, not of universal Homeric dimensions, but it is historical, vivid, and spontaneous, inspired by profound and sincere patriotism, by the wish to crystallize for his compatriots the life in their patria which he and they had known, which was no more. |
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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One translator hazarded
the
admission
that it was owing to their fear of the
sharper wits of women-folk that men by the use of
Latin excluded them from the fields of science.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst bind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
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blake-poems |
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Rather, its own
independent
being is acknowledged.
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Cassirer - 1930 - Form and Technology |
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, it grew into the Christian
conception
of history as a non-defined time of expectation towards the end, judgment, and ultimate redemption of the world (redemption as the full realization of a potential acquired through Christ's sacrifice).
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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O lank-eared
Phantoms
of black-weeded pools!
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lilies |
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The use of the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence contributes to the overall tone of the larger book by conveying a sense of horror and distress. The exclamation mark emphasizes the intensity of the speaker's reaction to the "lank-eared Phantoms of black-weeded pools" and suggests that they are a source of fear and anxiety for the speaker. This contributes to a broader sense of unease and uncertainty throughout the passage and the larger book. |
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Keats |
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My mind, prophetic of thy coming fate,
Pensive and gloomy while yet joy was lent,
On the loved
lineaments
still fixt, intent
To seek dark bodings, ere thy sorrow's date :
From her sweet acts, her words, her looks, her gait,
From her unwonted pity with sadness blent;
Thou might'st have said, hadst thou been prescient,
“ I taste my last of bliss in this low state.
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Barbarina lady Dacre - 1836 - Traduzioni dall'italiano |
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“ And so they did," says
Baretti, “ entertaining him all along the way with the various ex-
cellences they had
discerned
in his poem, and bestowing upon
it
the most rapturous praises.
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Stories from the Italian Poets - 1846 |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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He either seeks Crete, famous for her
hundred cities, ready to sail with
unfavorable
winds; or the Syrtes,
harassed by the south; or else is driven by the uncertain sea.
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Horace - Works |
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It is
possible
that current copyright holders,
heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such
as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
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Poe - v03 |
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"
and then, quietly
prepared
for the worst, waged the
unequal strife.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Normally, the suchness of
everything is distorted by the illusion of samsara, even though the actual nature of suchness of phenomena is
emptiness
and clarity.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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In the time of Napoleon I, the police had stocked the Fouches Archive with files on all persons of actual or virtual
political
significance.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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was not in the mood to hear about the
professional
experiences
of this painter cum beggar.
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Experiences |
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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The poem is
especially
prized because she utters no direct reproach.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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I am afraid, O Senators, lest I should appear to you to have brought up a sham accuser against myself (which is a most disgraceful thing to do); a man not only to
distinguish
me by the praises which are my due, but to load me also with those which do not belong to me.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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stances, being somewhat uncommon, it may not be improper to give some account of the cause, and that it was an inveterate hatred we
conceived
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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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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Tully - Offices |
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) In the imbecilic madman, the intellec- tual organs appear to be
completely
lacking; he conducts himsell on the impulse ol the other person, without any kind of discernment" La Philosophic de la Jolie, 1791 edition, p.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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--And who is the
stunning
gentleman
in the purple and the diadem?
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Lucian |
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The poem demands a
thoughtful
listening that leads one away from a form of speech that seeks to define and apprehend things through language, and back to an area of ambiguity where in the interstices of the verses, things and the subject present themselves through revealing and concealing, in a dynamic relationship in the present moment.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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Once again,
knowledge
wanders into private sectors--the free entrepre- neurship so dear to George W.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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I cannot subscribe myself better than as Horace did ,
Westris amicum
fontibus
et choris.
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Alexander Pope - v07 |
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1
of Captain Wright, now
attracted
his observation.
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Napoleon - 1822 - Memoirs |
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Aquesta plaça és tota recollida,
tan
aquietadora
i tan suau,
que sembla un replanet d'una altra vida
on s'anés a abeurar-hi un glop de pau.
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Sagarra |
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None may know
The sweetness of the joy which made his breath _5
Fail, like the trances of the summer air,
When, with the Lady of his love, who then
First knew the unreserve of mingled being,
He walked along the pathway of a field
Which to the east a hoar wood
shadowed
o'er, _10
But to the west was open to the sky.
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watchful
while they are in peace,
For they know when their shepherd is nigh.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Phedon : Or, J Dialogue
ruSoul
That's
admirably
well spoke, Socrates, and a very great Truth.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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He agilte hir never in other caas,
Lo, here al hoolly his
trespas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But as sensuous
intuition
is peculiar subjective condition, which
priori at the foundation of all perception, and the form of which primitive, the form must be given per se, and so far from matter (or the things themselves which appear) lying at the foundation of experience (as we must conclude, we judge by mere conceptions), the very possibility of itself presupposes, on the contrary, given formal intuition (space and time).
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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The life of Nicander
Dionysius of Phaselis, in his book "About the poetry of Antimachus", says that the poet
Nicander
came from an Aetolian family; but in his book "On poets" he say that Nicander was a priest of Apollo of Clarus, having inherited the priesthood from his ancestors.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Legend has it that the Rolling Stones used cut-up
techniques
to produce the lyrics for Beggars Banquet.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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10), is a type of
the supreme and far-spread
dominion
of the house of the Atrides.
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Iliad - Pope |
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These
activities
occur most often at school in the class-
room, at the lunch table, or on the playground-and during play with friends
or siblings at home.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Most blessed among nations and most sad,
For whose dear sake the young
Calabrian
fell
That day at Aspromonte and was glad
That in an age when God was bought and sold
One man could die for Liberty!
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Wilde - Charmides |
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What machinery does the
committee
selected by the
National Tax Association recommend in their report for the
administration of State taxes?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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Of many examples I would mention only the city ordinance from Harlem that
stipulated
in 1245, there are to be no expatriates: every citizen is duty-bound to live in the city, which one was permitted to leave only for planting and for harvesting up to 40 days for each.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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You sit round saying: We are unknown, if some- body should
recognise
you, what would you do [L.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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The Analytic has, however, shown what it is that makes the prob- lem difficult to solve; namely, that happiness and morality are two specifically distinct
elements
of the summum bonum and, there-
114
fore, their combination cannot be analytically cognised (as if the man that seeks his own happiness should find by mere analysis of his conception that in so acting he is virtuous, or as if the man that follows virtue should in the consciousness of such conduct find that he is already happy ipso facto), but must be a synthesis of concepts.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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[176]
Asterius
and Amphion, sons of Hyperasius, came from Achaean Pellene, which once Pelles their grandsire founded on the brows of Aegialus.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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is d,
it :
a it
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a a
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a
it
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it,
338 The REHEARSAL;
to disprove the
•villainous
lye of the Review, about the mieather-cockiX.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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He was there
below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a
dog in a parody of
breeches
and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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The value in United States money of foreign currency pro-
claimed by the
secretary
of the treasury must be used in determin-
ing the duties.
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Tuyl - 1911 - Complete business arithmetic |
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'64'
The
quotation
is from a song in an opera called 'Camilla'.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tdjjgete
simul os terris ostendit honestum
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Dante had bent down his own head to listen, and in so doing he
was recognised by one of the sufferers, who, eyeing him as well
as he could,
addressed
him by name.
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Stories from the Italian Poets - 1846 |
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She was
meticulous
about timekeeping, kept a close eye on her watch throughout the sessions, because, she said, she was terrified to overrun by a single second.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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I must only exist long enough to see
Prasildo!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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If Bon-Bon had been
astonished
at the incident of the
book, his amazement was now much increased by the
spectacle which here presented itself to view.
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Poe - v04 |
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Earth shaking, dark-hair'd God, the liquid plains (the third
division)
Fate to thee ordains,
'Tis thine, cærulian dæmon, to survey well pleas'd the monsters of the ocean play,
Confirm earth's basis, and with prosp'rous gales waft ships along, and swell the spacious sails;
Add gentle Peace, and fair-hair'd Health beside, and pour abundance in a blameless tide.
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monster |
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Which God appeared? |
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Poseidon appeared. |
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Orphic Hymns |
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O
fortunous
casualitas!
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Finnegans |
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Oenone, nurse and
confidante
to Phaedra.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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For true
religion
differeth from all feigned religions, because the word of God alone is the rule thereof.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Some great
misfortune
is brewing against me.
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Aristophanes |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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The _dunces_ (for by this
name they were called) held weekly clubs, to consult of hostilities
against the author; one wrote a letter to a great minister,
assuring
him
Mr.
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Samuel Johnson |
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His attainments were so far beyond his years that when
he had reached the age of twelve his father invited the
most learned men and best teachers in the country to put
his son through an
elaborate
examination in his palace.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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Think, for instance, of that strange incident
in the history of Augsburg, when all the babes
^of the city were gathered together and laid on
the
pavement
before the high altar of the church,
so that their cries might move the Lord to save
the people from the sword of the besieging
Huns.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Thou lovedst me 120
Too much, as I loved thee: we were not made
To torture thus each other--though it were
The
deadliest
sin to love as we have loved.
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attempt |
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What is the deadliest sin? |
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Byron |
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Now think what bawdy
dialogues
they have,
What Tullia talks to her confiding slave,
At Modesty's old statue; when by night
They make a stand, and from their litters light;
The good man early to the levee goes,
And treads the nasty paddle of his spouse.
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talk |
| Question: |
What did they say? |
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They talked about Tullia. |
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Dryden - Complete |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 12:11 GMT / http://hdl.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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As always, Chateaubriand enriches his narrative with extensive quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and
resonant
self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and dismayed by the present but stimulated and inspired by the past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Rinpoche: To our
perception
it seems that mind arises based on objects.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The Judge told me, all they for thee did dye, 70
And
therefore
had for their Elisian blisse,
In one another their owne Loves to kisse.
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Donne - 1 |
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When corn was
thrown down before it, the duck
stretched
out its neck
to pick it up, swallowed, and digested it.
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Poe - v09 |
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And first they invoke
whatever
they have scraped from the
poets; and in the next place, if they are to discourse of charity, they
take their rise from the river Nilus; or to set out the mystery of the
cross, from bell and the dragon; or to dispute of fasting, from the
twelve signs of the zodiac; or, being to preach of faith, ground their
matter on the square of a circle.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Next a long train of squires and knights appear,
With their attendants in rich liveries;
Each wore a
splendid
scarf with garments meet.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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For the essay perceives that the longing for strict defini- tions has long offered, through
fixating
manipulations of the mean- ings of concepts, to eliminate the irritating and dangerous elements of things that live within concepts.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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The
intention
is to achieve a state of peace and bliss in the highest sense.
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effort |
| Question: |
How do I achieve peace? |
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Gli diè
battesmo
Orlando, e Carlo (come
v'ho detto) a governar la Terra Santa.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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He composed many valuable specimens of his art, and taught the principles of it to others; and not only
excelled
his predecessors in every part of it, but first discovered that a certain metre should be observed in prose, though totally different from the measured rhyme of the poets.
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How
delightful
of you !
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I doubt if anybody equals him, as to the constant inten-
sity and incessant variety of his pictures, and whatever he
paints, he throws, as it were, upon its own powers; as though an
artist should draw figures that started into life, and proceeded to
action for themselves,
frightening
their creator.
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Stories from the Italian Poets - 1846 |
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At his own pace,
Each went to fill his
separate
place.
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Is it really thyself,
Alighieri?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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"It is the character of a people which
determines
the nature of their religion, not the other way around.
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Dietrich Eckart - Bolshevism From Moses To Lenin |
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On each side of
this orifice is a prominence continued from the mons veneris, which
is largest above and
gradually
diminishes as it descends.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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' He does this, along with much else, persuasively and at length, in his book
Consciousness
Explained (1991).
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Eastward
avoid the hour of its decline, Now !
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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Litis, to wake from sleep and find your eyes
Met in their first fresh upward gaze by love,
Filled with love's happy shame from other eyes,
Dazzled with
tenderness
and drowned in light
As tho' you looked unthinking at the sun,
Oh Litis, that is joy!
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Do you see,
Exposure?
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Lucian |
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That I were buried with my
brothers!
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Shelley |
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The future smiled hopefully toward him,
and he, with all that happy population,
thanked God from the depths of his heart,
and responded very
affectingly
to all these
demonstrations of which he was the honored
object.
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quickly |
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What did the future do to make him smile? |
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The future will make him cry. |
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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there outshined above the deep trench a fire inextinguishable, and there rolled about him a
marvelous
great flame.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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Lo, all my service
trampled
down and scorned!
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Aeschylus |
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All Nature's tribes to thee their diff'rence owe, and
changing
seasons from thy music flow
Hence, mix'd by thee in equal parts, advance Summer and Winter in alternate dance;
This claims the highest, that the lowest string, the Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring .
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Orphic Hymns |
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But Trakl had
intervened
and, as Bly says with regard to his friend's psychological torments, "Wright was himself living in the dark.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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He wish'd
sometimes
to shake off his stupor,
And break the charm which bound his senses thus,
Awake to deeds of noble enterprise,
And join the busy crowd which buzz'd around.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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These rival
candidates
for popularity
flourished about the year 1710.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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A confused
murmuring
within--and----
ZIBO.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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