November 30, 2008
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THE fashion of a thing is the form thereof. “Thou hast fashioned me,” thou hast made me: we pay a silversmith five shillings an ounce for the silver of our tea-spoons or our epergne, and five or fifty more for … Weiterlesen
November 18, 2008
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When he had compleatcd himself in the first Rudiments in Learning, he made his appearance at the Imperial Court of Claudius; but his great Assiduity there was no Impediment to the chief design of perfecting himself in the Liberal Sciences, … Weiterlesen
November 16, 2008
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St. Evremond spielte eine der glänzendsten Rollen in der Gesellschaft der geistreichen Epikureer, deren Schule bald einen so großen Einguß auf die französische Litteratur erhielt. Aber er wußte seine Zunge und seine Feder nicht so gut zu beherrschen, wie Chaulieu … Weiterlesen
November 13, 2008
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M. Lautour-Mézeray, , il y a une dizaine d’années, a créé le Journal des enfants. Cette entreprise, qui a eu entre ses mains un immense succès, , l’a fait passer pour un digne successeur de Berquin. M. Lautour, qui a … Weiterlesen
November 8, 2008
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SATIRE IV. ARGUMENT. OUR author, living in the beginning of Nero’s reign, was sensible how unfit he was to govern the Roman people, as he was young and inexperienced; in the person of Alcibiades he arraigns his ambition of meddling … Weiterlesen
November 6, 2008
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A libertine, my dear cousin, a plotting, an intriguing libertine, must be generally remorseless , Unjust he must always be. The noble rule of doing to others what he would have done to himself, is the first rule he breaks; … Weiterlesen
November 5, 2008
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There’s a blog post “Who you callin’ macaroni?” on videogame dandys at the Vorpal Bunny Ranch. Notable characters are said to be Kefka, Balthier, Setzer (Final Fantasy) an Dante (Devil May Cry). What makes these figures dandy is their effeminized … Weiterlesen
November 3, 2008
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I. SURE ’tis hard still to love, yet despise what I love, To know him unworthy my heart; All extremes of disgust or of tenderness prove, Which pride and which fondness impart. II. If to lawless indulgence his passions incline, … Weiterlesen
November 2, 2008
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CONTRAST the hour of Fashion’s brief delight, With that of fearful Death’s unhallow’d night; When life and time are ebbing to their close, And martyr’d pleasure dreads the tomb’s repose:, Alone and fever’d, on his sleepless bed, Yon dying libertine … Weiterlesen
November 1, 2008
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Falsus honor juvat. False honour delights many, HOR. I KNOW of no obstacle to improvement in morals and learning, greater than that which arises from a wish to be admired for audacity in culpable conduct. A young man no sooner … Weiterlesen