what
holy cheat,
That would'st
encroach
upon my credulous ears,
And cant'st thus vilely!
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Thomas Otway |
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"
He spread the pictures before him, and again
surveyed
them alternately.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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What has not
cankering
Time made worse?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For the allegation that such an order was issued to veterans because it was your
intention
to bring forward the question of their interests in the month of June is as frivolous as it is futile.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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But I will go my way to yonder hillside, singing low to sand and shore my supplication of the cruel Galatea; for I will not give over my sweet hopes till I come unto
uttermost
old age .
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Bion |
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" replies a
pampered
goose:
And just as short of reason he must fall,
Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Give aid in any land you find
yourself
in,
and say not to yourself "I am a stranger.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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The lower classes in China tie cords around the
picture of their god in order to defy his departing favor, when he has
left them in the lurch, and tear the picture to pieces, drag it through
the streets into dung heaps and gutters, crying: "You dog of a spirit,
we housed you in a beautiful temple, we gilded you prettily, we fed you
well, we brought you offerings, and yet how
ungrateful
you are!
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate
royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Because the rate of
interest
is 7 or
8 per cent.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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banshee: a supernatural being in Irish and Scottish folklore, supposed to give
warnings by its wails of an
approaching
death in the family.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Thereforei,ntheend,thereaderfacesconfusionratherthanclarityregarding thegeneralevaluation,and
concerningtheresultsof
theresearchwe can hardly suppressa doubtwhetherinthechaptersabouttheWitnessesithas gonea step beyondtheonesofFriedrichZipfelandMichaelKater.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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To help our bleaker parts
Salubrious
hours are given,
Which if they do not fit for earth
Drill silently for heaven.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It seems also to have been done when the patient was pining
through
unrequited
love.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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May you sleep, you wicked girl, The sleep you give your lover :
Pity even in a dream You cannot
discover
!
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Z1)'IOC; TCup6c; FormalIty Heydon polluted Apollonlus unpolluted
and the whole creatIon concerned WIth "FOUR" 'my blkml IS worth your raft"
And there be who say there 15 no road to fehclty tho' swallows eat celandIne
"before my eyes mto the aether of Nature" The water-bug's mIttens
petal the rock beneath, The natrlx ghdes sapplure mto the rock-pool
NUTT
overarchmg
"mand'lo a la Plnella"
sdj Gwdo
6I6
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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He has
illustrated
the 'influence' of Marot, du Bellay,
de Pontoux, Jacques de Billy and Durant upon our bards, great
and small.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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That it is only man's self-respect which has been so thoroughly forced into woman, is clear from its nature and the way it shows itself, as Vogt, who extended and verified
experiments
first made by Freud, discovered from self-respect under hypnotism.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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As
to Hampden's speech[1], no doubt it means a declaration of passive
obedience to the sovereign, as the creed of an English Protestant
individual: every man,
Cromwell
and all, would have said as much; it was
the antipapistical tenet, and almost vauntingly asserted on all occasions
by Protestants up to that time.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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and how from the start you were anxious to see
* This
omission
is in the original.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Aleksandr
Dugin, "Evraziiskaia platforma," Zavtra, 21 January 2000.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Please guide even such a lowborn savage as myself, Who
possesses
the merest mark ofyour noble lineage, Quickly to the kingdom ofnonmeditation.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-05 01:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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By his mother's advice he
sought the patronage of his distant kinsman, Sir William Temple,
the elegant
dilettante
of Moor Park.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Him, in the wood of the hill Aventine, Rhea the
priestess [660-693]bore by stealth into the borders of light, a woman
mingled with a god, after the Tirynthian
Conqueror
had slain Geryon and
set foot on the fields of Laurentum, and bathed his Iberian oxen in the
Tuscan river.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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52 A letter from an adviser to a Parisian convent is particularly telling: "I
informed
[the nuns] that they are in circum- stances in which it is essential that they appear patriotic, and ready to obey His Majesty's wishes.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Even Ravelston,
though rich, could not
manufacture
jobs out of nothing.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Nor was that the meanest of mighty helps
which Hrothgar's orator offered at need:
"Hrunting" they named the hilted sword,
of old-time heirlooms easily first;
iron was its edge, all etched with poison,
with battle-blood hardened, nor
blenched
it at fight
in hero's hand who held it ever,
on paths of peril prepared to go
to folkstead {21b} of foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Patrick, as
translated
by William M.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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It has been reprinted from
Society of
Antiquaries
of Scotland," vol.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Here likewise he began his " Universal Grammar," and finished ten languages, with dissertations prefixed, as the most ready in
troduction
to any tongue whatever.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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;
;
;
it,
CJESAR'S FIRST
INVASION
OF BRITAIN.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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546
Grete
grucchyng
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by
returning
to my
rooms.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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For
nineteen
years, 1932-1951, the illustrated month-
ly Soviet Russia Today, the only American magazine
that has concentrated entirely on the U.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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O Melpomene, on whom your father has
bestowed
a clear voice
and the harp, teach me the mournful strains.
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Horace - Works |
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some
livelier
plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite:
Scarves, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before;
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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John Longs and other quacks the protection which the law is
inclined to throw around the
mistakes
or miscarriages of the regularly
educated practitioner.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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The corrupt minister at last was chopped to mince,4 124 and his evil
partners
were then swept away.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He made' choice of a boy about nineteen years old;
and he says he made that choice upon the principle
of this boy's being
descended
from Bulwant Sing
by the female line.
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Edmund Burke |
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Mais a present, le labeur comble, toi, tes calculs, toi,
tes impatiences, ne sont plus que votre danse et votre voix, non fixees
et point forcees, quoique d'un double evenement d'invention et de succes
une liaison, en l'humanite
fraternelle
est discrete par l'univers sans
images;--la force et le droit reflechissent la danse et la voix a
present seulement appreciees.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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There the
road leads through a long tunnel, and the moment
the
traveller
passes out of the dark into the
departement of the Vosges, he sees that the country
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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In the 60th Psalm David begins by recalling the
struggles and
disasters
of the Israelites whenever
they ignored the laws of God.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Every man has within him his does of natural opium, endlessly
secreted
and renewed, and how many hours do we count, from birth to death, that are filled with positive pleasure, by successful deliberate action?
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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It could have been a
meteorite
strike like the one that, with greater likelihood on present evidence, caused the later extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us and to our
children
for ever, that
we may do all the words of this law.
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bible-kjv |
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He said : One can talk of high things (or, of the better things) with those who are above mediocrity, with those below
mediocrity
one cannot.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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What is now the
intellectual
authority
of the clergy?
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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In the case of an 'immature' personality he not only has the means to make
forecasts
but the forecasts he makes, and makes with conviction, are that attachment figures will be unavailable unless he maintains constant watchfulness or is constantly humouring them.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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But the purpose of all of them was to arrest
progress
and
freeze history at a chosen moment.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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The burgesses dispersed ; the elective assembly was practically dissolved ; the Capitoline temple was closed ; it was rumoured in the city, now that Tiberius had deposed all the tribunes, now that he had resolved to continue his
magistracy
without re-election.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Did you need
For pastime, as you handled it,
Some Gothic missal to enrich
With your designs
fantastical?
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Hugo - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Sara Teasdale |
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We cite you the reply of
the
Province
of Magdeburg, because it appears to us
to be the clearest and the most satisfactory.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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In the age of engineers an armature construction set replaces the growth of plants and
originary
script.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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--a sophism, which I fully agree with Warburton, is
unworthy
of Milton;
how much more so of the awful Person, in whose mouth he has placed it?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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a mistake very
significant
of the
pathetic tenderness of Newman's manner with those dear to him, and
of the depth of his feelings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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His attitude includes then an
undeniable
comprehension of truth.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Charles was a nervous, frail youth, but unlike most children of genius,
he was a scholar and won
brilliant
honours at school.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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As for how such
disagreements
arose:
[First of all,] based on the Integrated Practices statements that
one remains in the beginner's samadhi when learning the yogas of conceptuality and single-mindedness and one learns body isolation after having already so remained .
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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For so it was, that neither of the pair
Could
recognise
the other knight while there.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Yet, on the time- scale of our trilobite, those vaunted
antiquities
are scarcely yesterday.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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LU KUN, 19th Century
ON THE CLASSIC OF THE HILLS AND SEA
In what place does the cinnabar-red tree of the
alchemists
seed?
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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The gentlewomen, were hunting the park; proud and
aspiring
duke Northumberland found her her chamber, reading Phaedon treats with the duke Suffolk, about mar Platonis Greek, and that with much de riage between the lord Guilford Dudley, his light, some gentlemen would read merry fourth son, and the lady Jane.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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But the real
troubles
of
the wicked ought to be endured for the society of the good.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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And the virtue and grace
That are in the obedience
And unshaken allegiance
Of all the archangels and angels above,
And in the hope of the resurrection
To everlasting reward and election,
And in the prayers of the fathers of old,
And in the truths the prophets foretold,
And in the Apostles' manifold preachings,
And in the confessors' faith and teachings;
And in the purity ever dwelling
Within the
immaculate
Virgin's breast,
And in the actions bright and excelling
Of all good men, the just and the blest.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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“And why don't you men carry
yourself
like Cibber here?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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To-night what girl
Dreamily
before her mirror shakes from her hair
This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils?
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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The necessity/freedom distinction is replaced by the dis-
tinction
necessity/contingency.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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When Davy was gone, Mackintosh
said to me, "That's a very
extraordinary
young man; but he is gone wrong on
some points.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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Boian Gauls compelled
Herennius
and his colleagues Pomp.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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3 This is a figure from the Yi: the dragon and serpent
hibernate
to protect themselves.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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" The son
strained
and strained, but with all his efforts was
unable to break the Bundle.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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To be in advance of one's age, if one is a genius, is to tread a
sure path to immortality; but if, like Madame de Staël, one is only
the
possessor
of intellectual ability, it is the straight road to for-
getfulness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Thus, if one
absolutely
wishes to speak of the commitment of the poet, let us say that he is the man who commits himself to lose.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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She was indeed under some
apprehensions
of going in a boat, after some danger she had narrowly escaped by water, but she was reasoned thoroughly out of it.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and
distributing
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protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark.
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Keats - Lamia |
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All
yielding
she tossed my hair.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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RICHARD BLOCK
University of Washington
Falling to the Stars:
Georg Trakl's "In Venedig" in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke
In "Tod in Venedig," Thomas Mann describes Venice as "die unwahrschein-
lichstederSta?
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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340 hoc generi fatale tuo : dum sanguis in orbe
noster erit, semper
pallebit
regia Bocchi.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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IX
Thou sinkest, and my fancy sinks with thee:
For thee I took the idle shell, 170
And struck the unused chords again,
But they are gone who
listened
well;
Some are in heaven, and all are far from me:
Even as I sing, it turns to pain,
And with vain tears my eyelids throb and swell:
Enough; I come not of the race
That hawk their sorrows in the market-place.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But I now thought that this end was only to be
attained
by not making it
the direct end.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Its
'treatises' and its
pamphlets
embodied studies of manners and
character-sketches; it comprised tales of adventure as well as
romance; it dealt with contemporary life and events of the past,
with life at the court, and life in the city ; it was, by turns,
humorous and didactic, realistic and fanciful, in short, it repre-
sented the first rough drafts of the later novel.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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And if a suffering friend said to me,
“See, I shall soon die, only promise to die with
me”-I might promise it, just as—to select for
once bad examples for good
reasons—the
sight of
a small, mountain people struggling for freedom,
would bring me to the point of offering them my
hand and my life.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Here the women of their company
succeeded
first in bringing them to speak, and afterwards to eat and sleep together.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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And in my ears seems a voice of lamentation from the tower tops reaching to the windless seats of air, with
groaning
women and rending of robes, awaiting sorrow upon sorrow.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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But all this clearly applies only to their weak subspecies, those who cannot
comprehend
reality or who, in their melancholic condi- tion, avoid it.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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But it was
already night and, greatly to his regret,
the battle had to be
postponed
until
morning.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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LXVI
It stands in the Comitium
Plain for all folk to see;
Horatius in his harness,
Halting upon one knee:
And underneath is written,
In letters all of gold,
How
valiantly
he kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Aricia
Go, Prince, and pursue your
generous
plans.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And to whate'er pursuit
A man most clings absorbed, or what the affairs
On which we
theretofore
have tarried much,
And mind hath strained upon the more, we seem
In sleep not rarely to go at the same.
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Lucretius |
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For the last two and half years of his life, a period in which much of the poetry for which he is remembered was written, Trakl was actively involved with a group of writers and artists clustered around the
Innsbruck
bi-weekly journal Der Brenner that had been published by Ludwig von Ficker since 1910.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Trying to
frighten
me like that!
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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And I watch his spears through the dark clash And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And pries wide my mouth with fast music When I see him so scorn and defy peace,
His lone might 'gainst all
darkness
opposing.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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