he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself did not expect to reap some Advantage'
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Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can enter these gates without my permission.'
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Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.'
This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multi ... Read more
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a world without love would be no world'
Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1 ... Read more
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About this coast...In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.'
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'the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.'
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In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have ... Read more
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9,600 clear and concise entries on all aspects of biomedicine
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The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader wi ... Read more
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