„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“

Květen 2008

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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

The garden like a lady fair was cut
That lay as if she slumbered in delight,
And to the open skies her eyes did shut;
The azure fields of heaven were 'sembled right
In a large round ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1838)

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

-all people went
Upon their ten toes in wild wondernment.
Bishop Hall's Satires.
 
I AM, that is to say I was, a great man, but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask, for my name, I ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

I AM now growing in years, and- since I understand that Shakespeare and Mr. Emmons are deceased- it is not impossible that I may even die. It has occurred to me, therefore, that I may as well retire from the field of Letters and repose upon my laurels.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

O Breathe not, etc.
Moore's Melodies
 
THE MOST notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy- as the most stubborn city to the ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus.
Joseph ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez vous en eau!
La moitie de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau.
CORNEILLE
I CANNOT just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine-looking fellow, Brevet ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1842)

THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY'S BOOK:
I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the "Toughkeepsie Seer") of an odd-looking MS.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession- an unprofitable and disreputable tribe.