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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

...n morocco shoes, with high iron heels—danced the gorlitza as swimmingly as peacocks, and as wildly as the whirlwind; how the youths—with their ship-sh... ...other the city of Jerusalem. There are usually but few purchasers of these productions, but gazers are many. Some truant lackey probably yawns in fron... ...to a reverie, and be- gan to ponder as to what sort of people wanted these productions? It did not seem remarkable to him that the Russian populace sh... ...eat man, hard work. He gave vent to his vexation. He ordered all his later productions to be taken out of his studio, all the fashionable, lifeless pi... ...ngs had been removed from the stu- dio, it looked forth, together with the productions of his early youth. As he recalled all the strange events con- ... ... locked his coffers. No monster of ignorance ever destroyed so many superb productions of art as did this raging avenger. At any auction where he made...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... his general literary character and procedure, and one or two of his chief productions which throw light on these, must for the present suffice. A Fre... ...appears as a fond and sad looking back into the Past, belong various other productions of Goethe’s; for ex- ample, the Mitschuldigen, and the first id... ...sthetic maxims and convictions prevail in them. As a whole, however, these productions remain with- out connection; nay, it is often difficult to beli... ...ery one to step forth anew, at a certain age, with surprising and powerful productions, yet just at that period of life, when knowledge is most perfec... ...and would, in the good Old- Testament fashion, build him an altar. Natural productions were set forth as images of the world, over which a flame was t... ...ait of the emperor, one of the boys said to me in derision, that, like the peacock contemplating his feet, I should cast my eyes back to my paternal g...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... the elements! O how delectable then unto nature will be our own works and productions! Whilst Ceres appeareth laden with corn, Bacchus with wines, Fl... ...vering of mavises, drintling of turkeys, coniating of storks, frantling of peacocks, clattering of mag- pies, murmuring of stock-doves, crouting of co... ...issions, delegations, instructions, informations, inquests, preparatories, productions, evidences, proofs, alle- gations, depositions, cross speeches,... ...of the quill, it is ten to one thou art too much in love with thy own dear productions to admire those of one of thy trade. However, I know three or f... ...ant poots. Forced capons. Thistle-finches. Parmesan cheese. Whore’s farts. Peacocks. Red and pale hippocras. Fritters. Storks. 657 Rabelais Cakes, si...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...es the word gold only to his own idea of that colour, and nothing else; and there- fore calls the same colour in a peacock’s tail gold. An- other that... ... cast, and do equally partake, has, I imagine, very much per- plexed the knowledge of natural things. The frequent productions of monsters, in all the... ...ertain that ev- erything that exists has its particular constitution. And yet we find that some of these monstrous productions have few or none of tho... ...he pattern of neither sort alone, but to have jumbled them both together. To which he that shall add the monstrous productions that are so frequently ... ...ould everywhere stick by, in the decision of cases, and determining of life and death, baptism or no bap- tism, in productions that might happen. 28.... ...yellow shining colour; which being the idea to which children have annexed that name, the shining yellow part of a peacock’s tail is properly to them ... ...apted to. From whence it fol- lows, that simple ideas are not fictions of our fancies, but the natural and regular productions of things with- out us,...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...y, had the gall of a bullock with the heart of a hyena and the brains of a peacock. He died, at length, by dint of his own energies, which exhausted h... ...will never behold, that full extent of triumphant execution, in the richer productions of Art, of which the human nature is abso- lutely capable. Mr. ...

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