We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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There was a general
disappointment
among the passengers, who, without
reckoning the delay, saw themselves compelled to trudge fifteen miles
over a plain covered with snow.
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| Question: |
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Will you par-
don me r' 'Can
Seraphina
doubt it?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Impressed with this idea, a
gentleman
in this parish, Robert Riddel,
Esq.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Robert Forst |
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It would
be hard to find anybody better fitted than Corliss Lamont
to throw the
spotlight
of reality upon some of the vital
features of this unprecedented civilization.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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I see no
reformer
who asks
himself the question, _What_ is it that I propose to myself to effect in
the result?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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J'ai trois grands amis, je n'en
voudrais pas un de plus, une
maîtresse
adorable, je suis infiniment
heureux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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After his arrival he continued as a common slave about seven weeks, when Lord F , having heard some account of him, feeling for the
hardships
he suffered, kindly re ceived him into his house, treated him with great regard and humanity, and allowed him a horse to ride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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50 MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES
infant, but
intercessions
in her behalf were in
vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
We came to Ventadour
In the mid love court, he sings out the canzon,
No one hears save Arrimon Luc D'Esparo
No one hears aught save the
gracious
sound of
compliments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
I believe everyone who
has been hard up has
experienced
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
You perceive the
noontide
is on its decline; and yet, as if the
fleeting day stood still, you delay to bring out of the store-house the
loitering cask, [that bears its date] from the consul Bibulus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
20 The Modern Age as Mobilization
Now, no one can be under the illusion that
anything
more can be called into question through a critique of political kinetics than just the growth rate of an industrial civilization that is racing – with the force of a train that’s been accelerating for centuries – into the unknown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
which of them
is it that can be
separated
from me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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When the whole state hurts us, the
whole state is reckoned as one
individual
[*Cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
_Love and
Madness_
by Sir Herbert Croft.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
He does not
recognise that these grounds for belief-whatever their value
may be—all assume the postulate of
uniformity
which he is
endeavouring to justify.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
Vernon, how fully I am aware of that; but
I would wish to forget every
circumstance
that might throw blame on the
memory of one whose name is sacred with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
Into this and other literary
questions
I do not enter here, as I
have nothing to add to Sir F.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
and
supposing
that she did
not love me, what a much greater burden she would
be to me in the long run!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
Afflictions
bring us joy in time to come, II.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
It must be confessed that they/
lack the
brilliancy
of the earlier poems.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
My point here is that “Russia” as a general subject matter has political priority over
nicer distinctions such as
“economics”
and “literary history,” because political society in
Gramsci’s sense reaches into such realms of civil society as the academy and saturates them with
significance of direct concern to it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
Are they right who hold that John Chalkhill was but a name of a friend,
borrowed by thee out of modesty, and used as a cloak to cover poetry of
thine own
inditing?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
We may suppose that these rules are supplied in a book, which is altered
whenever
he is put on to a new job.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
|
Given a
will exceptionally infirm, the wonder is that he should have left so
much, rather than so little, as a
monument
of what he was.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
Pippin,
translated
by Adrian Del Caro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
|
Then, on the utmost
headland
of the coast
We timber fell'd, and, sorrowing o'er the dead,
His fun'ral rites water'd with tears profuse.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
A speculator takes pride to himself as the promoter
of his country's prosperity, who employs a number of hands in the
manufacture of
articles
avowedly destitute of use, or subservient only
to the unhallowed cravings of luxury and ostentation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second
morning after Christmas, with the
intention
of wishing him the
compliments of the season.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
The destruction of forests by man or nature -- forests
that hold the soil,
preserve
moisture and temper the
winds -- has been the prime factor in this process and
has in addition led to perennial floods.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
I passed it on my weary way in worry,
I and my brawny mount in the morning haze,
My mount: a camel, onager-swift, strong-spined
her withers smooth as a dune on a windless day,
A nine-year tush has
replaced
her seven-year tooth,
not too young or too old, in the prime of age
Like a wild ass gone rushing through the reeds,
dark-furred with fight-scars round the neck and face.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
In Wagner's music, in his doctrine, in his whole
concept of art, Nietzsche saw the confirmation, the
promotion—aye, even the encouragement, of that
decadence and
degeneration
which is now rampant
in Europe; and it is for this reason, although to the
end of his life he still loved Wagner, the man and
the friend, that we find him, on the very eve of his
spiritual death, exhorting us to abjure Wagner the
musician and the artist.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
Given a
will exceptionally infirm, the wonder is that he should have left so
much, rather than so little, as a
monument
of what he was.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
My point here is that “Russia” as a general subject matter has political priority over
nicer distinctions such as
“economics”
and “literary history,” because political society in
Gramsci’s sense reaches into such realms of civil society as the academy and saturates them with
significance of direct concern to it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
The Life dr
Spiritual
Songs ofMi1arepa
Milarepa.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second
morning after Christmas, with the
intention
of wishing him the
compliments of the season.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
Are they right who hold that John Chalkhill was but a name of a friend,
borrowed by thee out of modesty, and used as a cloak to cover poetry of
thine own
inditing?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
Pippin,
translated
by Adrian Del Caro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
|
13
Moreover against Parmenides could be produced
a strong couple of argumenta ad hominem or ex con-
cessis, by which, it is true, truth itself could not be
brought to light, but at any rate the untruth of that
absolute separation of the world of the senses and
the world of the ideas, and the untruth of the iden-
tity of" Being" and
Thinking
could be demonstrated.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
We may suppose that these rules are supplied in a book, which is altered
whenever
he is put on to a new job.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
|
how shall he maintain them, who
receives
nothing
from you, and has nothing of his own 1 From the skies ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
Trăm năm trong cõi
người
ta,
Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
Then, on the utmost
headland
of the coast
We timber fell'd, and, sorrowing o'er the dead,
His fun'ral rites water'd with tears profuse.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
13
Moreover against Parmenides could be produced
a strong couple of argumenta ad hominem or ex con-
cessis, by which, it is true, truth itself could not be
brought to light, but at any rate the untruth of that
absolute separation of the world of the senses and
the world of the ideas, and the untruth of the iden-
tity of" Being" and
Thinking
could be demonstrated.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
It must be confessed that they/
lack the
brilliancy
of the earlier poems.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
The destruction of forests by man or nature -- forests
that hold the soil,
preserve
moisture and temper the
winds -- has been the prime factor in this process and
has in addition led to perennial floods.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
The woman saw how
surprised
he was and said,
"Yes, we're allowed to live here as we like, only we have to clear the
room out when the court's in session.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
The
personal
calamity could hardly have been severer; but, as
regards the poet, not the man, it was, perhaps, rather a gain than a
## p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
A speculator takes pride to himself as the promoter
of his country's prosperity, who employs a number of hands in the
manufacture of
articles
avowedly destitute of use, or subservient only
to the unhallowed cravings of luxury and ostentation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
In Wagner's music, in his doctrine, in his whole
concept of art, Nietzsche saw the confirmation, the
promotion—aye, even the encouragement, of that
decadence and
degeneration
which is now rampant
in Europe; and it is for this reason, although to the
end of his life he still loved Wagner, the man and
the friend, that we find him, on the very eve of his
spiritual death, exhorting us to abjure Wagner the
musician and the artist.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
how shall he maintain them, who
receives
nothing
from you, and has nothing of his own 1 From the skies ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
The Life dr
Spiritual
Songs ofMi1arepa
Milarepa.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
I passed it on my weary way in worry,
I and my brawny mount in the morning haze,
My mount: a camel, onager-swift, strong-spined
her withers smooth as a dune on a windless day,
A nine-year tush has
replaced
her seven-year tooth,
not too young or too old, in the prime of age
Like a wild ass gone rushing through the reeds,
dark-furred with fight-scars round the neck and face.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
Ah, why
With cypress branches hast thou
Wreathed
thy bowers,
And made thy best interpreter a sigh?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
|
How pleasant, as the sun declines, to view [25]
The spacious
landscape
change in form and hue!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
His
favourite
author in French was Boileau, and in English Cowley.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
Why fence and guard myself, lest bearing high,
Wise words, and beauty rare should
pleasure
me?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
Through the swoon, heavy and motionless
Stifling with heat the cool morning's struggles
No water, but that which my flute pours, murmurs
To the grove sprinkled with melodies: and the sole breeze
Out of the twin pipes, quick to breathe
Before it scatters the sound in an arid rain,
Is unstirred by any wrinkle of the horizon,
The visible breath,
artificial
and serene,
Of inspiration returning to heights unseen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
At length their resent-
ment against the latter
overcame
their kindness for the
former.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
The Pope did not attempt to combat this reasoning effective
ly, but insisted upon his rights, and, though the sympathies of
other nations except Spain were with Venice, and their ambas
sadors endeavored to
restrain
the Pope, he sent out his interdict
and excommunication April 17, 1606.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
He
could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it
should have been; it
certainly
must have rung.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
It is oblong--some thirty feet in length and twenty-five in breadth--a
shape
affording
the best(ordinary) opportunities for the adjustment of
furniture.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
233, speak
approvingly
of this view.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
|
At length their resent-
ment against the latter
overcame
their kindness for the
former.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
Such reexamination would need to consider national policy not only with respect to possible thermonuclear weapons, but also with respect to fission weapons - viewed in the light of the
probable
fission bomb capability and the possible thermonuclear bomb capability of the Soviet Union.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
His
favourite
author in French was Boileau, and in English Cowley.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
Through the swoon, heavy and motionless
Stifling with heat the cool morning's struggles
No water, but that which my flute pours, murmurs
To the grove sprinkled with melodies: and the sole breeze
Out of the twin pipes, quick to breathe
Before it scatters the sound in an arid rain,
Is unstirred by any wrinkle of the horizon,
The visible breath,
artificial
and serene,
Of inspiration returning to heights unseen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Ah, why
With cypress branches hast thou
Wreathed
thy bowers,
And made thy best interpreter a sigh?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
|
Why fence and guard myself, lest bearing high,
Wise words, and beauty rare should
pleasure
me?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
The Pope did not attempt to combat this reasoning effective
ly, but insisted upon his rights, and, though the sympathies of
other nations except Spain were with Venice, and their ambas
sadors endeavored to
restrain
the Pope, he sent out his interdict
and excommunication April 17, 1606.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
Trăm năm trong cõi
người
ta,
Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
The woman saw how
surprised
he was and said,
"Yes, we're allowed to live here as we like, only we have to clear the
room out when the court's in session.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
How pleasant, as the sun declines, to view [25]
The spacious
landscape
change in form and hue!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The
personal
calamity could hardly have been severer; but, as
regards the poet, not the man, it was, perhaps, rather a gain than a
## p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
and behold me henceforth blot my crimes
From thy
remembrance
with a list of virtues.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
Such reexamination would need to consider national policy not only with respect to possible thermonuclear weapons, but also with respect to fission weapons - viewed in the light of the
probable
fission bomb capability and the possible thermonuclear bomb capability of the Soviet Union.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
and behold me henceforth blot my crimes
From thy
remembrance
with a list of virtues.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
He
could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it
should have been; it
certainly
must have rung.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
It is oblong--some thirty feet in length and twenty-five in breadth--a
shape
affording
the best(ordinary) opportunities for the adjustment of
furniture.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
233, speak
approvingly
of this view.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
|
Have I ever blamed Thee or found fault with Thine
administration?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epictetus |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
|
A little while after I was gazetted there was a call for
officers
of the A.
| Guess: |
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I was sitting about half an hour ago with Sir James in
the
breakfast
parlour, when my brother called me out of the room.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 20, 1943
If or when one mentions the
Protocols
alleged to be of the Elders of Zion, one is frequently met with the reply: Oh, but they are a forgery.
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On the part
of Saxony, the Duke Francis Albert of Saxe Lauenberg was to join him
with 4,000 men; and Duke Bernard, and the Palatine
Christian
of
Birkenfeld, with 6,000 from Sweden, all chosen troops.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The happiest is most
wretched!
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Shelley |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He knew how to drag
drachmae
from a hot-blooded
old woman.
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In great measure [it] fulfils [the need for] an explanatory com mentary on those poems of Browning which are most helpful to the average
intelligent
reader.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Gift exchange in the
Geometric
sanctuaries.
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" You who commit no
offences
'Gainst constancy ; have not quested ;
Though a maid send her
Assent not !
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Here
vestiges
of the villa may yet be
seen, and here it was that Napoleon I, who never failed to
recognize the genius of a true artist, drank this toast --
"To the most elegant of Latin poets.
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It was impos- sible, says Leibniz, that God conferred on man all
perfections
without making man himself into God.
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Alors la Duchesse avait passé à la
promulgation
d'autres décrets qui,
s'appliquant à des vivants, pussent lui faire sentir qu'elle était
maîtresse de faire ce qui bon lui semblait.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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The naked
lightnings
in the heaven dither
And disappear.
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Imagists |
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These are the whole, and four's a number round;
You'll probably remark, 'tis strange I've found
Such pleasure in detailing convent scenes:--
'Tis not my whim, but TASTE, that thither leans:
And, if you'd kept your
breviary
in view,
'Tis clear, you'd nothing had with this to do;
We know, howe'er, 'tis not your fondest care;
So, quickly to our hist'ry let's repair.
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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