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EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks
covered
with grey despair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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7 Thus " Natale Sancti
Disibothi
con- :
nothing
i96 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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are you very
strong?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Now, inly
delighted
with desire,
My body knows itself to be nought else
But thy heart's worship of me; and my soul
Therein is sunlight held by warm gold air.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Shell-fish, as a rule, are
benefited
by rainy weather.
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Aristotle copy |
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[311] Further up there is another Arrow [Sagitta] shot – alone
without
a bow.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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In the presence of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through
thy form of sudden shadows.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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She
understood
the nature of government, and could point out all the errors of Hobbes, both in that and religion.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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They placed the pigeon on Tarma Doday's breast, and as his body began to die, the pigeon came to life, shaking its
feathers
and sitting up.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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i'olians, who
came fiom Lesbos, and
occupied
nearly the whole of
Troas.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Is one
perfect
through the smallness of the task, or
imperfect owing to the extraordinary character of
the aim ?
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Nietzsche - v15 |
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According to
ethics, the practice of birth control means the doing of an act whilst at
the same time
frustrating
the object for which the act is intended.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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The same remark
applies
to a great state—to every-
thing, in short, that man produces.
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Nietzsche - v08 |
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Royalty payments should be
clearly
marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Luego que las dos se han visto,
y abrazos tiernos se dan,
resplandece
Christo
en Juan,
y Juan reverbera en Christo,
cuya gloria y alegria,
siente en su vientre Isabel,
que Christo es sol, y da en el
for el crystal de Mari?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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labore modico
colitur
ille.
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Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
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Such is the
Precious
Rare Sangha.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer explains: "In the work of art, we experience an absolute opposition to this will-to-control, not in the sense of a rigid resistance to the presumption of our will, which is bent on utilizing things, but in the sense of the superior and
intrusive
power of a being reposing in itself" (227).
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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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These do not enter directly into the process, but without them it is either impossible for it to take place at all, or
possible
only to a partial extent.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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This practice is primarily for an individual who has a greater predominance of anger or aggres- sion and
discriminating
thoughts.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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"[3]
Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy,--for the reader
Was youngest of them all,--
But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar
A silence seemed to fall; 20
The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows,
Listened in every spray,
While the whole camp, with "Nell," on English meadows
Wandered
and lost their way.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the
maximum
disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"And what my mirror shows me in the morning
Has more of blotch and
wrinkle
than of bloom;
My eyes, too, heretofore all glasses scorning,
Have just a touch of rheum .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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KAU}
Casting their sparkies dire abroad into the dismal deep {Alternate
reading
of "sparkles" for "sparkies.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But the world does not appear to me such a mere
thought,--the
thought
of a mere power.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Up rises the Hydra’s head and the bright-eyed Hare and
Procyon
and the forefeet of the flaming dog.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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This was
postponed
by the vote of six states--Massachu-
setts and New-York divided.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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"
"To a
distance?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The
digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Poe - v03 |
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considerable cleft between substance and form is
widened; until they have no longer any
feeling
for
barbarism, if only their memories be kept con-
tinually titillated, and there flow a constant stream
of new things to be known, that can be neatly
packed up in the cupboards of their memory.
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Nietzsche - v05 |
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He has a
conception
of beauty which the
sculptor cannot embody.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Almost the first sentence I come upon (I sus- pect it is Mockel's) runs as follows:
"La Revue des deux Mondes publie un roman de
Georges
Ohnet ce qui ne surprendra personne.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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" Yes, my dear children, far better to lose
one's life by the
infuriated
bear, than to fall into the hands of the
ungodly.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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A Pact
I MAKE a pact with you, Walt Whitman
I have
detested
you long enough.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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_ And also the sole bearer of the Seed
Whereby
sin dieth.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Let us suppose farther that, by economical calculation, the annual
expenses of a family are three thousand francs: the possessor of this
farm should be obliged to guard his reputation as a good father of a
family, by paying to
society
ten thousand francs,--less the total
costs of cultivation, and the three thousand francs required for the
maintenance of his family.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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de recoger su dinero; no he podido
procurarle
á
V.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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His story, told at
length, might be like many other stories of the same kind: the
unconnected exclamations of his agony will perhaps be found a
sufficient
comment
for the text of every heart.
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Shelley |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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'To see the
clinging
of that pretty little thing to her uncle,' said
Mr.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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_Bloody
Iambics are not fit for a Feast.
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Erasmus |
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They have something
whereof
they are proud.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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"
The
evening
ended with dancing.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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145
For order with
priidence
is ever allied.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Upon one of these rocks, on one which seemed ready to topple over into
the depths of the waters on whose
surface
was pictured its wavering
image, the heir of Almenar, on his knees at the feet of his mysterious
beloved, sought in vain to draw from her the secret of her existence.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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we are thine allies,
And with this hint be wise,--
The chains of kind
The
distant
bind;
Deed thou doest she must do,
Above her will, be true;
And, in her strict resort
To winds and waterfalls
And autumn's sunlit festivals,
To music, and to music's thought,
Inextricably bound,
She shall find thee, and be found.
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Emerson - Poems |
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unmitigated newts, and vermin who have thrown the world into war in the hope of establishing a gold and money lending monopoly, and
blotting
out the good life in five continents.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For this reason we ought to call these conceptions,
conceptions
of comparison (concept us com-
paralionis).
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Maedoc is said to have more
immediately
belonged.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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I
flicker
with a little glow of light,
A firefly's.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Still, this is
what the commercial nations seek to do, for they
look upon an Army of purely
professional
soldiers
as the best.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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WHERE Humber pours his rich
commercial
stream,
There dwelt a wretch, who breathed but to blaspheme.
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Cowper |
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form themselves into a faction (directed and sup>>
ported by Philip), and hurry away
Euphraeus
to
prison, as a disturber of the public peace.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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These, it appears
to me, may be all reduced to one sophism as their common genus; the
mistaking the conditions of a thing for its causes and essence; and
the process, by which we arrive at the
knowledge
of a faculty, for the
faculty itself.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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The devil seize you for your obstinacy,
Pay you for all that I have
suffered
here !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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That the Deftiny of this Republic is
eminently
glorious,
I verily believe, and behold it confirmed by the Oracles of
Dodonaean Jove, and Pythian Apollo ; but the Deftiny, that
now governs all human kind, I apprehend to be moft cruel
and oppreflive.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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En medio de la red de las rela- ciones de los
hombres
entre si?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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The terms as used
by George defy an exact definition but it may roughly be said
that 'Geist' represents the living in accordance with ones destiny;
'Seele' the elements of enthusiasm,
devotion
and loyalty ^'Lfiib'-
^tne recognition of the body^and_the sensuous.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Their outward
glitter
is taken away, nothing remains within but the smoke of an evil conscience.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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That very Caesar, born in Scipio's days,
Had aimed, like him, by
chastity
at praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The service is carried on without
interruption
- some provide the wood, others the oil, others the fine wheat flour, others the spices; others [93] again bring the pieces of flesh for the burnt offering, exhibiting a wonderful degree of strength.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Raised by his grandparents, Y owed his interest in psychoanalysis to his intellec- tual (paternal)
grandfather
who was interested in Freud.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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It seems hardly
necessary
to point out the merits of so patent a
masterpiece as the 'Epistle to Arbuthnot'.
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Alexander Pope |
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* * * * *
Black is the negation of colour in its
greatest
energy.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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"I mean,"
replied
he, "that you must write something to amuse us; for your pen has been totally silent this long time; and since your treatise On the Republic, we have had nothing from you of any kind; though it was the perusal of that which fired me with the ambition to write an Abridgment of Universal History.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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his arms hang idly round,
His flag inverted trails along the
ground!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--Irishtown, Martin
Cunningham
said.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Prince
Radziwill, Palatine of Yilna, refused to affix
the seal of the State to the
charter
of this
university, and the Diet of 1585 attacked the
King's arbitrary act as unconstitutional; but
in the end the monarch prevailed.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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"This date may be reconciled with the other, if we suppose that the Annals of
Roscrea
anticipated the
««
33
fursey died at Perone, in Picardy, on
Christian era by one year, according to what we find in several other Irish annals.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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This terrible distress, by
universal
consent, opened
the gates for Dion.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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How fine, for example, is the idea
of the unhired magistracy of England, taking in and
linking
together the
duke to the country gentleman in the primary distribution of justice, or
in the preservation of order and execution of law at least throughout the
country!
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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It is unlikely that many,
outside
of
George's own circle, will feel able to accept Maximin as a religious
revelation, even though they may accept him as a poetic inspira-
tion.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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For indeed, on the example of the military legions, he had
mustered
into cohorts workmen, stone-masons, architects, and, of men for the building and beautifying of walls, every sort.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Just as the aesti- val Venice was fated to be overcome by the
assertion
or draw of its essence, so too is the pedestrian use of "fatal" supplanted by its original one.
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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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We descry the
Aetnean
brotherhood
standing impotent with scowling eye, their stately heads up to heaven, a
dreadful consistory; even as on a mountain summit stand oaks high in air
or coned cypresses, a high forest of Jove or covert of Diana.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ
أمراً
فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي ساعةً صَبْرَهُ عَنكَ مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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I was necessary in
achieving
this ?
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manifesting |
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What did you achieve? |
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Will you leave him here, your poor old
Villon?
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Villon |
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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked
soldiers
in the front rank, the result must be a rout.
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The-Art-of-War |
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* * * * *
V
APPENDIX
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THE POET
I
Right upward on the road of fame
With sounding steps the poet came;
Born and nourished in miracles,
His feet were shod with golden bells,
Or where he
stepped
the soil did peal
As if the dust were glass and steel.
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Emerson - Poems |
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When dealing with great virility mere details of imitation concern us, perhaps, as little as the
challenge
of sources for Homer.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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7 and any additional
terms
imposed
by the copyright holder.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"Draw from the town, my songs, draw
Daphnis
home.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And he said, 'When the mind is conscious that it has wrought no evil, and when God
directs
it to all noble counsels.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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359;
objections
to the
Chesterfield in regard to Mr.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope - v05 |
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We end up with a formidable battery of clamps- the scene, the art, the
presiding
physi- cal organ, the technique.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Even the gifts of nature, which may truly be considered as the most solid
and
durable
of all terrestrial advantages, are found, when they exceed
the middle point, to draw the possessor into many calamities, easily
avoided by others that have been less bountifully enriched or adorned.
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Samuel Johnson |
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"
And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys That exquisite nocturne, with which we
explain
The night and moonshine, music which we seize To body forth our own vacuity.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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"And so you are going abroad; and when do you
return?
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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After the July Revolution of 1830, his refusal to swear the oath of
allegiance
to Louis-Philippe ended his political career.
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Thy leave,
My dying song,
Yet take, ere grief bereave
The breath which I enjoy too long,
Tell thou that fair one this: my soul prefers
Her love above my life; and that I died her's:
And let him be, for evermore, to her remembrance dear,
Who loved the very
thought
of her whilst he remained here.
| Guess: |
touch |
| Question: |
How did she die? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
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This
hierarchy
works very closely with the civil and admin- istrative bureaucracy of the state.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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The good which it
concerns
us to remember is the good which it lies in
our power to create--the good in our own lives and in our attitude
towards the world.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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