„V noci jsem snil, že jsem motýlem, a teď nevím, zda jsem člověkem, který snil, že je motýlem, nebo zda jsem motýlem, kterému se zdá, že je člověkem“

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14. Květen 2008
KEATS fell by a criticism. Who was it died of "The Andromache"?* Ignoble souls!- De L’Omelette perished of an ortolan. L’histoire en est breve.
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(1850)

Sub conservatione formae specificae salva anima.
RAYMOND LULLY.
 
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1845)

OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not-especially under the circumstances.
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14. Květen 2008

(1839)

Son coeur est un luth suspendu;
Sitot qu’on le touche il resonne.
De Beranger.
 
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

Chacun a ses vertus.
CREBILLON'S Xerxes.
 
ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus it happened that his seven ministers were all noted for their accomplishments as jokers.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

IN THE consideration of the faculties and impulses- of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

Nullus enim locus sine genio est.
SERVIUS
 
"LA MUSIQUE," says Marmontel, in those "Contes Moraux"* which in all our translations, we have insisted upon calling "Moral Tales," as if in mockery of their spirit- "la musique est le ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1835)

The gods do bear and will allow in kings
The things which they abhor in rascal routes.
Buckhurst's Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex.
 
ABOUT twelve o'clock, one night in the month of October, and during the ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

DURING A pedestrian trip last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as the day declined, somewhat embarrassed about the road I was pursuing.