Joseph Addison, The Tatler , No. 224. Thursday, September 14 . 1710.   It is my custom in a dearth of News, to entertain my self with those...

Le nouveau livre de Huysmans, En Ménage , possède une qualité incontestable : l’intensité dans le gris. Maintenant, l’aut...

  — Ah ! mais, à propos, Gautier, vous revenez de Nohant, de chez Mme Sand, est-ce amusant ? — Comme un couvent des Frères Moraves. Je suis ...

Avez-vous réfléchi quelquefois, cher vieux compagnon, à toute la sérénité des imbéciles ? La bêtise est quelque chose d’inébranlable ; rie...

[M]ethinks, it is enough to mortify the Proudest of us all, to remember, that, altho’ we may adorn our outward Parts with fine Cloaths, and ...

Whatever apologies it might become me to make at any other time for writing to you, I shall use none now, to a man who has owned himself as...

Le sans-gêne un peu rustique de Balzac, ses façons brusques, sa personne un peu massive, devaient effaroucher Latouche. Je vis clairement ...

[J]e me sens moi-même assailli par une foule de sensations et d'images que chacun de mes sens m'apporte, et dont l'assemblage m...

First of all, it is noteworthy that a state of consciousness at any one moment is an exceedingly complex thing. It is made up of a mass of ...

Warum wandern die Tschuktschen aus ihrem schrecklichen Lande nicht aus, überall würden sie besser leben, im Vergleich zu ihrem gegenwärtige...

Vn Professeur en Theologie m'a ecrit que depuis peu un gentilhomme ayant prié un Italien qui est soldat dans la garnison de Sedan de luy...

  § 672 Cicero ( De finibus , 2,15) goes so far as to allow two unblameworthy modes of discourse whose aim is not to be understood. One is ...

In 1666, Le Journal des Sçavans published a letter from Amsterdam that described ships returning from the East Indies whose hulls were infe...

Jan Ruyter, Three pieces of wood from the piles on the sea-dikes showing how they were eaten through by the worms , 1731. Rijksprentenkabine...

Sollte nicht eine Naturmythologie möglich sein? — Mythologie hier in meinem Sinn, als freie poetische Erfindung, die die Wirklichkeit sehr m...

So, to our business, now —the fate of such As find our common nature —overmuch  Despised because restricted and unfit To bear the burthen th...

Still, what if I approach the august sphere Named now with only one name, disentwine That under-current soft and argentine From its fierce m...

 

Angels , who do not propagate, nor multiply, were made at first in an abundant number; and so were starres: But for the things of this world...

What might be termed metaphysical detritus: the subtle excremental matter voided by the demons that throng the lower aerial sublunary region...

The Universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics. Out o...

Hanenpoot (1807) is an eight-page picture booklet consisting of pen and ink drawings captioned with rhyming couplets, mostly four to a page...

Ὡς γὰρ οἱ ἐν νοσήμασι χρονίοις πρὸς τὰ κοινὰ βοηθήματα καὶ τὰς συνήθεις διαίτας ἀπειπόντες ἐπὶ καθαρμοὺς καὶ περίαπτα κ...

Weil vom Wohllaut deiner Lieder  Selbst das Totenreich erbebte,  Kam's, daß die Geliebte wieder  In den lichten Äther schwebte.   Hättes...

Hell? but whence came the descriptions of its Torments? From the imagination? But who having experienced what can be suffered in distempered...

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Wagner's operas tend towards magic delusion, to what Schopenhauer calls 'The outside of the worthless commodity', in short towar...