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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...y-five years, she tells me. I’ve had her for fifteen years. Cloux The French call this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think ... ... with colorless, limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He... ...as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he trims my hair and beard he likes to f... ...oint. Here, in the heart of France, when I am listening to Francesco talk French I am listening to a clever Frenchman. He could speak the language f... .... At lunch, F said: “I lost again at cards last night... I can’t speak French well enough to win. It’s lucky for me that everyone’s leaving here ... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

... of interna- tional poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume.... ...h Editions. The typeface is named after Claude Garamond (c. 1480-1561), a French type designer and publisher and the world’s first commercial typefo...

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Margele Risipite

By: Florentin Smarandache

... FROM OUR CONTRADICTORY LEAVING IN A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY. I published in French the first paradoxist manifesto in the book titled Le sens du non-s... ...t Petrarca (14 th century) with his love antinomies, or the ancient Greek poets and playwrighters (before Jesus Christ): Pindar, Homer, Sofocles, ... ...pecies of art). Or savoir faire un chef-de non-oeuvre, which paraphrases a French maxim: to know how to make the unmakable. Or ars celare non-artem, ... ...Poetry Society of America; Uniunea Scriitorilor din România; International Poets Academy (India); La Société “Les Amis de la Poésie” (Fran ţa); Asso... ...ie Francophone (Fran ţa); Societatea Român ă de Haiku; Academy of American Poets; Modern Languages Association (SUA); Centre d’Études et de Recherch...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doo... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time and ... ...e already mingled with those of their Viking cousins on the island. The French language of King William‘s Norman courtiers may have had even greate... ...s the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more time in southwestern France or on crusade than in En... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

...f artistic beauty or of beauty itself. Nevertheless, artists, writers and poets do exist, and we recognize them for what they are. They also recogn... ... Sophia-Analysis and Life as a work of Art}, first published in my book in French, “La vie comme oeuvre d’art” (1988), and later chapter one in my bo...

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The Selected Poems of Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud

By: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud; Tony Kline, Translator

................37 The Sleeper in the Valley...................38 Evening Prayer.......................39 My Little Lovers .......................40 Poets at Seven Years.....................42 The Stolen Heart .......................45 The Parisian Orgy, or Paris Repeopled ..............46 Jeanne-Marie’s Hands.....................49 The Sisters of Charity ...............

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In Seven Languages

By: Florentin Smarandache

...In the course of the last decade of second millenium I began an intensive correspondence with poets, writers, and translators from around the world. ]\0 restrictions by any political system were imposed to me and no fear. It was like a lyrical fiesta that I enjoyed, .. This poetry volume, in seven languages, is a resu...

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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

...elopment and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existing on the subject. The time and manner of ... ...f choice and avoidance, and sources of pleasure for different men. [2] The poets well understand this marked difference in human desires, as Homer ... ...nly about other things, but about what it is well to seek and to avoid. The poets have also fittingly spoken 86 about this, for Pindar said— "One de... ...ate the gods as good, and not liable to evil, but they are described by the poets as being wounded, and also as being jealous of each other. We plac... ...orthless. We place law in opposition to mythical belief 159 when we say the poets represent the gods as working adultery and sin, but among us the l... ...ythical belief in opposition 161 to a dogmatic opinion when we say that the poets represent Jupiter as descending and holding intercourse with morta...

...ive a concise presentation of Pyrrhonism in relation to its historical development and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existing on the subject. The time and manner of the connection of Sextus Empiricus with the Pyrrhonean School has also been discussed....

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...ire peculiar affective quality it expresses” (Michel Dufrenne). Another Frenchman, the writer Patrick Marcadet states (cf. Anthology) that he was ... ...poetical productivities, against those regular and exhausted identities by poets who generate continuos versified floods, who untiringly and tediousl... ...nse of nonsense as it its programmatic text. Here is the translation from French: NONCONFORMIST MANIFEST For a new literary movement: PARADOXISM... ...l the continents. We can draw the conclusion that, from the range of the French textualism and all the occidental tropism to the dis-ideologization... ...o Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Morrison. As for the poets, we deal with them at a greater length afterward. one arouses a perma... ...obody ever takes the liberty of provoking simple fruitless agitation; the poets are concerned with well-concluded actions, with an aim, suggestions, ... ...Francois Lyotard). The modern knowledge justifies itself, according to the French aesthetician, through “the plays of language”, that violate any fro... ...(November 1993), under a redactional exigency “to present the readers the poets who have devoted themselves to the most advanced progression of the w... ...n alert even the duplicity of the anecdotal and epigrammatic spirit of the French language, which gave birth to the poetry of gracious conventions. (...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...- Bougainville is entertained by an aged chief -- At the chiefs invitation the French pitch their tents upon the shore -- After a long and delightful ... ...d spirits had set out on the high seas, encouraged by their victories over the French in England, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also dis... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

... I. Proper nouns and adjectives: George, America, Englishman; Elizabethan, French (see 46). 2. Generic terms forming a part of geographical names :... ... geographical name: (I) Holy Roman Empire, German Empire (-Dmtschw Reich), French Republic (=Rt?pdliquce Frawaise), United Kingdom, Northwest Terri... ...ation, the company; but: "He joined the Hall [Tammany]," "a member of the [French] Academy;" "The University announces . . . ." (see 42). 10. The ... ... important events : Thirty yearsJ War, Peasants' War (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey In... ...rbitrator," "the Kaiser's Moroccan policy," "the Pope's attitude toward the French Republic." But do mt capitalize the titles of occupants-of actu-... ...nster Confession, the Thirty- nine Articles." "Shakspere and other, lesser, poets." "The books which I have read I herewith return" (i. e., I return...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The d... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time an... ...already mingled with those of their Viking cousins on the island. The French language of King William‘s Norman courtiers may have had even greate... ...as the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more time in southwestern France or on crusade than in En... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

...eded for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...ur problems with school shootings in America, but we are seeing the seeds of violence planted more often everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French... ... everywhere today. A 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...t that he or she can be. It is a psychological intimacy between people. Here we find in the understandable terms of science that feeling which poets ... ...age was done to public buildings, a thousand cars were burned and at least one death resulted. So an incorrect perception of truth started the French... ...l legate Arnaud when he said ‗Kill them all, for God knows His own.‘ This justified the killing of over 20,000 men, women and children in the French... ... inferiority or worthlessness.‘(22) ―It is possible for some people to skip some needs in the pursuit of achieving the meta-needs. The French...

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