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...ubble, and reinvent capitalism to save their faltering economies. Two anxious giants look on, Russia and China. One a new Industrial power, another ... ...Businesses Rebuild Our Economy? Imagine a game of poker. There are four major players, and twenty very small players. The major players dominate the... ...ther way the game is played, they still get there cut. One evening, the major players realize that they have nothing left to gamble with. So it leav... ... realize that they have nothing left to gamble with. So it leaves the smaller players with nothing to play with, and theirs no more game to play. Wh... ...ter the market crash in 2008. No one wants this to happen again, because when giants fall, they cause earthquakes. But when minor players fall, no o... ... profits from. Small can be beautiful, especially when many of our Corporate giants failed to adjust to the market, and fell leaving the economic me... ...n the last recession, Motorola wanted to cut production at its 9,000-employee Phoenix plant without laying off workers. Layoffs would have created h...

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...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ...destroy all the natural plants and trees… Majestic Trees 500 years old: tall giants that took 500 years to grow: cut down in a day. Whole forests ... ...c notion of work becoming more sacred than love? It made them industrialized giants of industry… It has turned them into producing a glut of consu... ...y; and left almost no trace of their existence. Until they re-appeared like a Phoenix from the ashes of complete destruction; unharmed and twice as ... ... order to survive: Greek culture had to blind the one-eyed Gods, the one-eyed Giants. And hide under the bellies of sheep. Like the worst cowards: ...

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... of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and grudge the common people such publi... ... in drinking. Enterludes and commedies, rejoyce and make us merry, but to players they are tedious and tastelesse. Which to prove, we see it is a de... ...nner of silke, of scarlet, or any goldsmiths worke, except only Enterlude- players, Harlots, and Curtizans. With such an invention did Zeleucus whilom... ... worke, Fair'st booke, his Muses spright, Heav'n on Earth, peerelesse Phoenix, Phoebe bright, Yet said, he was to seeke, of you to write. U... ... who vanished out of the world without any naturall death: The opinion of Giants; the use of drunkennesse, with their manner of drinkes and drinking... ...stifled and overwhelmed every living thing: in which age they affirme the Giants to have beene, and shewed the Spaniards certaine bones of them, acc...

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...urning Sword who with one back-stroke cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants. He thought more of Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he s... ...shing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was 65... ... having had a severe fall with his horse Rocinante when in combat with ten giants, the biggest and the boldest to be found on earth. “So, so!” said th... ...rivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay... ...another ‘He of the Unicorn,’ this one ‘He of the Damsels,’ that ‘He of the Phoenix,’ another ‘The Knight of the Griffin,’ and another ‘He of the Death... ...t is impossible for me for a moment to contemplate mar- riage, even with a Phoenix.” The last words of his master about not wanting to marry were so d... ...d the crown in the hand; but if so, may be there is within some company of players, with whom it is a common thing to have those crowns and sceptres y... ...n when they are so far from it; and if the authors who write them, and the players who act them, say that this is what they must be, for the public wa... ....” To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, “Señor, we are players of Angulo el Malo’s company; we have been acting the play of ‘The C...

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...urning Sword who with one back-stroke cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants. He thought more of Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he s... ...shing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was wea... ... having had a severe fall with his horse Rocinante when in combat with ten giants, the biggest and the boldest to be found on earth. “So, so!” said th... ...rivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay... ...another ‘He of the Unicorn,’ this one ‘He of the Damsels,’ that ‘He of the Phoenix,’ another ‘The Knight of the Griffin,’ and another ‘He of the Death... ... to contemplate mar- 267 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. riage, even with a Phoenix.” The last words of his master about not wanting to marry were so d... ...d the crown in the hand; but if so, may be there is within some company of players, with whom it is a common thing to have those crowns and sceptres y... ...n when they are so far from it; and if the authors who write them, and the players who act them, say that this is what they must be, for the public wa...

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...xote?” asked the barber. 15 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. “With regard to giants,” replied Don Quixote, “opinions differ as to whether there ever wer... ...d arm-bones so large that their size makes it plain that their owners were giants, and as tall as great towers; geometry puts this fact be- yond a dou... ...e adventure of the windmills that your wor- ship took to be Briareuses and giants; others by that of the fulling mills; one cries up the description o... ....” To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, “Senor, we are players of Angulo el Malo’s company; we have been acting the play of ‘The C... ...shows us more faithfully what we are and ought to be than the play and the players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which kings, emp... ...it bore the inscription “Castle of Caution.” Four skillful tabor and flute players accompanied them, and the dance having been opened, Cupid, after ex... ...that sort which their writings are full of. And then when they promise the Phoenix of Arabia, the crown of Ariadne, the horses of the Sun, the pearls ...

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...d come. The child was at first quite terrified by the sight of these gaunt giants—for such they looked as they ad vanced with lofty strides beneath t... ...re about him than they do for a dead cabbage stalk. ’ ‘What becomes of old giants?’ said Short, turning to him again after a little reflection. ‘They’... ...ish or about the streets,” said Mr Vuffin. ‘Once make a gi ant common and giants will never draw again. Look at wooden legs. If there was only one ma... ... purse was exhausted; but although it lay empty by his side, and the other players had now risen The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 232 from the table... ...ap him up before your eyes, he will. ’ It is probable that the loss of the phoenix of clerks, even to a rival practitioner, would not have broken Mr B... ...horoughfare. It might have been expected that when the play was done, both players and audience would have dispersed; but the epilogue was as bad as T... ...se, her grandfather was one; the oth ers she recognised as the first card players at the pub lic house on the eventful night of the storm—the man wh...

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...hakespeare Memorial Theatre, in 44 The World Set Free which the municipal players revolved perpetually through the cycle of Shakespeare’s plays, and ... ...the searchlights wandering over the country-side like the uneasy ghosts of giants. The king sat forward and looked at these flitting whitenesses, and ... ...ties and wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were only the last phoenix blaze of the former civilisation flaring up about the beginnings of...

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...o troops of foreign horse, commanded by Pharnabazus, son to Artabazus, and Phoenix of T enedos, with order to charge as soon as ever they saw the enem... ...- ing specially to recommend him, but his lucky fancy of call- ing himself Phoenix, Alexander Achilles, and Philip Peleus, was therefore well enough e... ...o accept of their repentance for what was past, he only de- manded of them Phoenix and Prothytes, the authors of the rebellion, and proclaimed a gener... ...ity to them. For his alone, of all the Greek or royal armies, had no stage-players, no jug- glers, no dancing or singing women attending it, but was f... ...s, who were shamefully refused admittance, while it was filled inside with players, jugglers, and drunken flatterers, upon whom were spent the greates... ... all munitions necessary for war, so was it also proclaimed that all stage-players should make their appearance at Samos; so that, while pretty nearly... ... the figure of Bacchus was torn by a violent wind out of the Battle of the Giants, and laid flat upon the theater; with both which deities Antony clai... ...alamities of the Roman govern- ment might be likened to the motions of the giants that as- sailed heaven, convulsed as it was, and distracted, and fro...

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...ment of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her sub jects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master’s apprehensions would ... ...ecies of men were originally much larger, but also that there must have been giants in former ages; which, as it is asserted by history and tradition,... ...ption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets. I was chiefly disgusted with modern h...

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...destiny of Simon Giguet. By eight o’clock four card-tables, each with four players, were under way. The smaller salon and the din- ing-room were full ... ...here.” “Ah ca!” said Olivier Vinet, “then he is not a man; he’s a devil, a phoenix, he will poculate—” “Ah, fie! monsieur,” said Madame Mollot, “you u... ...for I dare say you will remember that I always distinguished between organ-players and organists, a superior order of nobility the title of which is n... ...e side of all administrations; your most dangerous adversaries are not the giants of oratory.” “I expect to find out the real weight of the man before...

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...la of the Pantheon and that of the Val-de-Grace looked from there like two giants, and so di- minished the sky space that, walking in the garden, one ... ...peared only at long intervals. There were five card-tables and twenty-five players, and eighteen dancers of both sexes. At one o’clock in the morning,... ...nce, the banker of the poor, finding himself in company with such powerful players, had it in mind to make sure of his own stake at the first chance. ... ... of me, murderer of your own mother! I’ll know whether miserable strolling-players have the right to come and debauch young girls of sixteen!” She wai... ...rged to do so.” “My friend, you are poking fun at me; unless, indeed, this phoenix has some hideous or prohibitory defect.” “Well, I’ll admit,” said C...

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...tic and popular to 128 V olume One the last extreme, goldsmiths and flute-players and shoemak- ers constituting his promiscuous, many-colored common-... ...for the sweetness, abun- dance, and coolness of the streams; one they call Phoenix, the other Elaea, even to the present time, as if Lucina had not be... ...us oblation could not be pleasing to any Superior Beings: that typhons and giants did not preside over the world, but the general father of gods and m... ...he showers at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but t... ...losopher, exhibited magnificent shows, the one an enter- tainment of flute-players the other of dithyrambic singers; Dion, the Syracusan, supplying th... ...which means Philopoemen was educated by him, as Homer says Achilles was by Phoenix, and from his infancy molded to lofty and noble inclinations. But E... ...llery, that in his youthful obscurer years he would con- verse freely with players and professed jesters, and join them in all their low pleasures. An...

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...ven actively, but let it be on the high roads.” “My dear Monsieur de Rochefort,” Mazarin replied in a 34 Twenty Years After tone of raillery, “you th... ... the Order of St. Michael; besides which, the king, fifteen years after- ward, gave him also this ewer and a sword which you may have seen formerly in... ...er Another shot of a carbine was heard. It was Musqueton, who was obeying his master’s command. “On! on!” cried D’Artagnan; “all goes well! we have th... ... effrontery which had in him the appearance of naivete; but if we four had resolved upon it we should do it most certainly.” “I ought,” muttered Anne ...

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...us but for their good-will and kind purpose; and here were swarthy fellows—giants in their way— doing such little acts of tenderness for those about t... ...s putting its head in the mud, and think- ing nobody sees it—’ ‘And like a Phoenix, for its power of springing from the ashes of its faults and vices,... ...us dainties of the earth. When they had feasted, as two grateful- tempered giants might have done, they stirred the fire, drew back the glowing curtai... ...ravel by, and some to spare. Yoho, beside the village green, where cricket-players linger yet, and every little in- dentation made in the fresh grass ...

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...s Heaven to whom she bears the Titans, the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed giants. The Titans, oppressed by their father, revolt at the instigation of... ...eaven and Earth and of their offspring the Cyclopes and the Hundred-handed Giants. How the poem proceeded we have no means of knowing, but we may supp... ...s four times a crow’s, and a raven’s life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of ... ..., the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of Zeus the aegis- holder, outlive ten phoenixes.’ Fragment #4 — Quintilian, i. 15: Some consider that children un... ...ods and supreme in power. And again, they chant the race of men and strong giants, and gladden the heart of Zeus within Olympus,— the Olympian Muses, ... .... And Zeus received the gift, and gave it in turn to the daughter of proud Phoenix. But when the Father of men and of gods had mated so far off with t... ... is through the Muses and Apollo that there are singers upon the earth and players upon the lyre; but kings are from Zeus. Happy is he whom the Muses ...

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... Gargantua is come unto us. In it you may understand more at large how the giants were born in this world, and how from them by a direct line issued G... ...e, and other their neighbours, all stiff drinkers, brave fellows, and good players at the kyles. The good man Grangousier took great pleasure in their... ...ith the ball was over or under the line. The waters are the heats that the players take till they sweat again. The cords of the rackets are made of th... ...r answered, Sir, know for a truth that in the army there are three hundred giants, all armed with armour of proof, and wonderful great. Nevertheless, ... ... more thirsty, nor more will- ing to drink, and his tent is guarded by the giants. It is enough, said Pantagruel. Come, brave boys, are you resolved t... ...r confessor, without default. And therein am I willing to be judged by the players. He had no sooner spoke these words than the works of Virgil were b... ...who, by their means, raises such crimes against me; I would then, like the phoenix, gather dry wood, kindle a fire, and burn myself in the midst of it... ...ith a perpetuity of succes- sion, neither more or less than in the Arabian phoenix. ’Tis true that, about two thousand seven hundred and sixty moons a... ... just as the serpents do, and thus their youth is renewed like the Arabian phoenix’s. This is the true fountain of youth, for there the old and decrep...

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...isition there appears a very strong symptom of Johnson’s prejudice against players; a preju- dice which may be attributed to the following causes: fir... ...ttain. At all periods of his life Johnson used to talk con- temptuously of players; but in this work he speaks of them with peculiar acrimony; for whi... ...ich Garrick had committed in the course of that night’s acting, said, ‘The players, Sir, have got a kind of rant, with which they run on, with- out an... ...n the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewell, and others; those ‘Giants,’ as they were well characterised by a great personage, whose author... ... gentle- man. But after hearing his name sounded from pole to pole, as the phoenix of convivial felicity, we are disappointed in his company. He has a... ... said Mrs. Burney. Johnson. ‘Madam, there were no more six horses than six phoenixes.’ Time passed on in conversation till it was too late for the ser...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 iv THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES . . . . . . ... ...OPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 HIS PHOENIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 A T... ...d in the hidden desolate place THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS 61 Where the last Phoenix died, And wrapped the flames above his holy head; And still murmur a... ...o not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song. THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES Three Voices... ...hosen my company, And chosen what scenery had pleased me best.’ Thereon my phoenix answered in reproof, ‘The drunkards, pilferers of public funds, All... ...om mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen. III Come gather round me, players all: Come praise Nineteen Sixteen, Those from the pit and gallery O... ...ed by many a blow From mace and sword and pole axe, long ago When gods and giants warred. We rode between The seaweed covered pillars; and the green A...

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...speare’s history. He knew that he could find in the provinces many veteran players who knew every gesture and inflection of voice associated by tradit... ... Is he anybody in particular?” “He was a great man once—in the days of the giants. He was champion of England. He has a special interest for us as the... ...at my unworldly friend Lucian is far more deeply con- cerned at seeing the phoenix of modern culture throw her- self away on a man unworthy of her.” “... ... I mean to say, except that you put it too mod- estly. It is a case of the phoenix, not only of modern culture, but of natural endowment and of every ... ... to misun- derstand me as it pleases. First, you will grant me that even a phoenix must marry some one in order that she may hand on her torch to her ... ...ty, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities out of the questio...

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...ch were delivered by Socrates, Alcibiades, and others, at Agathon’s supper. Phoenix, the son of Philip, told another person who told me of them; his ... ...ho told you—did Socrates? No indeed, I replied, but the same person who told Phoenix;—he was a little fellow, who never wore any shoes, Aristodemus, o... ... kill them and anni hilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which me... ...ru ments used to charm the souls of men by the power of his breath, and the players of his mu sic do so still: for the melodies of Olympus (com par...

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...father and daughter equally well, was the problem. Such a man would be the phoenix of sons-in-law. To M. de Negrepelisse pondering over the eligible b... ...o all ap- pearance, to a political discussion; or he looked over the card- players’ hands without a notion of what it was all about, for he could not ... ...ch passed muster as a joke from the play on the word “whist,” several card-players were of the opinion that the reader’s voice needed a rest, and on t... ...n Patmos; but by this time the card-tables had claimed their complement of players, who returned to the accustomed groove to find amusement there whic... ... dif- ficulty; everything has grown smaller of late; this is not an age of giants; men have shrunk, everything about them shrinks, and house-room into...

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...and Maestro, Peter Gast—also one who had been born again—discovered that the phoenix music that hovered over us, wore lighter and brighter plumes than... ...e chances, that thou art to me a table of the Gods, for divine dice and dice-players!— But thou blushest? Have I spoken unspeakable things? Have I abu... ...n of to-day, see just how they roll into my depths! A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren! An example! do according to mine example! And him... ...r they awaken distrust in great things, these subtle false-coiners and stage-players:— —Until at last they are false towards themselves, squint- eyed,... ...iedrich Nietzsche too often noticeable in the case of so many of the world’s giants in art, science, or religion. In verse 19 we are told what Nietzsc...

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...e the votaries of music — poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists, players, danc ers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, ... ...r, for they are not true. No, we shall never men tion the battles of the giants, or let them be embroidered on garments; and we shall be silent abou... ... Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. Neither is Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, to be approved or deemed to have given his ... ... instruments? Certainly not. But what do you say to flute makers and flute players? Would you admit them into our State when you reflect that in this... ...ll their former notions appear to be turned upside down. And as unskilful players of draughts Plato’s The Republic 167 are at last shut up by their ...

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... only his Maison-Bouche, and Valetaille without end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, f... ...less innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spiritual Guidanc... ...ially real and human! The age of Miracles has come back! ‘Behold the World-Phoenix, in fire- consummation and fire-creation; wide are her fanning wing... ...volunteer Fifteen Thousand are shovelling and trundling; with the heart of giants; and all in right order, with that extemporaneous adroitness of thei... ...the Army moribund, fit for no duty:—till it do, in that unexpected manner, Phoenix-like, with long throes, get both dead and newborn; then start forth... ...d. Consciously they did somewhat; uncon- sciously how much! They had their giants and their dwarfs, they accomplished their good and their evil; they ... ... Whereupon the Old Legislative comes solemnly over, to merge its old ashes Phoenix-like in the body of the new;—and so forthwith, returning all solemn... ...tracted to fight Brunswick! Knights Errant themselves, when they conquered Giants, usually slew the Giants: quarter was only for other Knights Errant,...

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...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ...as been old, and has a fair chance of becoming so again. In fact, she is a Phoenix that is known to have secret processes for rebuilding herself out o... ...ry third day as a matter of course, virtually presumed them to be the only giants within the whole range of science. Par- allel and equal is the contr...