He
obtained
a
great victory, near Ormuz, over the combined fleets of the Moors, Turks,
and Persians.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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After the deal was over, the cards were
shuffled
and the game began
again.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Heraus mit Eurem
Flederwisch!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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SEA GARDEN
The editors and publishers concerned have kindly given me
permission
to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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It has been my
purpose to suggest that, while this principle itself is strictly and
simply the Human Aspiration for Supernal Beauty, the manifestation of
the Principle is always found in _an elevating excitement of the soul,
_quite independent of that passion which is the
intoxication
of the
Heart, or of that truth which is the satisfaction of the Reason.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--there need no words, nor terms precise,
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,
Where
Pedantry
gulls Folly--we have eyes:
Blood, pulse, and breast, confirm the Dardan Shepherd's prize.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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There, there it is; there is the Russian
frontier!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Let me wander, let me rove,
Still my heart is with my love;
Nightly dreams, and
thoughts
by day,
Are with him that's far away.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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La Fontaine |
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Whatte
wouldest
thou wythe the kynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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There
quitting
ship,
We landed and drew water, and the crews
Beside the vessels took their ev'ning cheer.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--
'Three centuries and threescore years ago,
With
phantasies
of his peculiar thought.
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Kipling - Poems |
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III
Winter Sun
(_Lenox_)
There was a bush with scarlet berries,
And there were
hemlocks
heaped with snow,
With a sound like surf on long sea-beaches
They took the wind and let it go.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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ie on earde bād
mǣl-gesceafta (_awaited the time
allotted
for me by fate_), 2738.
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Beowulf |
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[114] The third Archon, whose duty was the
protection
of strangers.
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Aristophanes |
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FROSCH:
Weinberge!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He starts in
revulsion
on
seeing_ APOLLO.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The night shall stand upon the
shifting
sea
As yesternight stood there,
And hear the cry of waters through the air,
The iron voice of headlands start and rise--
The noise of winds for mastery
That screams to hear the thunder in those cries.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ye terrible Towns, ne'er claim the
trembling
soul
That, craftless all to buy or hoard or sell,
From out your deadly complex quarrel stole
To company with large amiable trees,
Suck honey summer with unjealous bees,
And take Time's strokes as softly as this morn
Takes waving of the corn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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His partner's death produced
distaste
of life,
And made him fear to seek another wife.
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La Fontaine |
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Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth,
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats |
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Year after year, if
the
narrative
which has come down to us is to be trusted, they
continued to exert, to the full extent, their power of stopping
the whole machine of government.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Were I from
Dunsinane
away, and cleere,
Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For my crime I now
conceive
a perfect terror:
I view my life with hatred, my love with horror.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Faun, illusion escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs,
contrasts
you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But
sickness
gnaws him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XLIV
O but my delicate lover,
Is she not fair as the
moonlight?
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Sappho |
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The
Poetical
Works of Alfred Tennyson.
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Tennyson |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with unslakable yearning
Greatly
desiring
wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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" Forthwith I return'd:
"Fain would I, if 't were possible, mine eyes
Of Briareus
immeasurable
gain'd
Experience next.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Ronsard |
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'143 the shining sphere:'
an
allusion
to the old notion that all the stars were set in one sphere
in the sky.
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Alexander Pope |
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Cupid will hold out his hand:
O, and
entrusting
myself to the rascal, I beg you please may I
Do so in pleasure with no danger or worry or fear.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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the
loveliest
of women has choused and
cheated me.
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Aristophanes |
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incedunt arbusta per alta, securibus caedunt,
percellunt magnas quercus, exciditur ilex,
fraxinus frangitur atque abies consternitur alta,
pinus proceras peruortunt: omne sonabat
arbustum
fremitu siluai frondosai.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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John Donne |
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and ever joyful mayst thou be,
Nor break the
transport
with one thought of me.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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These with a thousand small deliberations
Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a
wilderness
of mirrors.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And while we are toasting
The Fairest of All, they call from the distance
The rare ones of Time, they share our enjoyment;
Their only
employment
to bear jars of wine
And shine like the stars in a circle of glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Of themselves,
Untended, will the she-goats then bring home
Their udders swollen with milk, while flocks afield
Shall of the
monstrous
lion have no fear.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Now I've
bartered
here for booty of treasure
the last of my life, so look ye well
to the needs of my land!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The French Text
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
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The French Text - Compressed, and Punctuated
UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance
retombee
d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le vieillard vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette blancheur rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique, irresistible mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL, sourdant que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Glockenklang
und Chorgesang.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If you are interested in contributing scanning
equipment
or
software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at:
hart@pobox.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We will not ask them to yield us sugar
in the spring, while they afford us so fair a
prospect
in the autumn.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Raise on that dreary Waste a monument
That may record my story: nor let words--
Few must they be, and delicate in their touch
As light itself--be there withheld from Her
Who, through most wicked arts, was made an orphan
By One who would have died a
thousand
times,
To shield her from a moment's harm.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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_45
Then the rain came down, and the broken stalks
Were bent and tangled across the walks;
And the
leafless
network of parasite bowers
Massed into ruin; and all sweet flowers.
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Shelley |
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They had
for their subjects mighty wars, potent cities sacked, great kings routed
and taken captive: or if they
sometimes
reviewed the domestic affairs of
Rome, they there found the mutual strife and animosities of the Consuls
and Tribunes; the agrarian and frumentary laws, pushed and opposed; and
the lasting struggles between the nobles and populace.
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Tacitus |
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And as they walked the guest became aware
Of a white figure in the twilight air,
Gazing intent, as one who with surprise
His form and features seemed to recognize;
And in a whisper to the king he said:
"What is yon shape, that, pallid as the dead,
Is
watching
me, as if he sought to trace
In the dim light the features of my face?
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Longfellow |
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Perhaps she weds regardless of her fame,
Deaf to the mighty
Ulyssean
name.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more
ungainly
Make:
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
What?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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378
_Catullus
hoc turben dicit ut
hoc carmen.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
And the
ploughman
settles the share
More deep in the grudging clod;
For he saith: "The wheat is my care,
And the rest is the will of God.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic metaphysics in
criticising
Plato's 'Idealism'.
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Ronsard |
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The present volume
contains
a reproduction[2] in black and white of
the original MS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a
replacement
was written in the right margin, then the deleting lines and the replacement were thoroughly erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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--
On burgher, squire, and clown
It smiled the long street down for near a mile
II
But evil days beset that domicile;
The stately
beauties
of its roof and wall
Passed into sordid hands.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Shall I your chorus hear anew,
Russia's
Terpsichore
review
Again in her ethereal dance?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Out with it,
DUNCIAD!
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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They arrived, at last, at a village
inhabited
by African banditti.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Di subito
drizzato
grido: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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