The
beginning
of that book is
a monument of the poet's temperament.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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"
Possibly
it might; but a life thus ruled is
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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"
The
whispered
"No"--how little meant!
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Coleridge - Poems |
|
Hart was the
originator
of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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In addition, many specific ideas have come from discussions with literally
hundreds
of people.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Dreams and epiphanies,
miracles
and
necromancy are partial manifestations of a deep-seated interest in cults
and philosophies that is a phenomenon of the times.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Li Po, styled T'ai-po, was descended in the ninth
generation
from
the Emperor Hsing-sh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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And in
this way my thesis is to be
understood
and con-
## p.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Rilke's poem is an apparent reversal of the dissolution of
otherness
that haunts Nietzsche's remembrance of his final evening there.
| Guess: |
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
|
Eighty years ago England
possessed only one
tattered
copy of Childe Waters and Sir
Cauline, and Spain only one tattered copy of the noble poem of
the Cid.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It may be compared to a champion, who maintains the honour and claims of the party he has adopted, by offering battle to all who doubt the validity of these claims and the purity of that honour ; while nothing can be proved in this way, except the
respective
strength oi the combatants, and the advantage, in this respect, is always on the side of the attacking party.
| Guess: |
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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PLUNGE
WOULD bathe myself in
strangeness
: These comforts heaped upon me,
smother me !
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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minime cum reris, in ipso flore juventae,
Morsinopiua domu^s
spemprotinus
abripit omnem.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
|
His
efficiency
in Berlin exceeded
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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fica del presente en una
construccio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
"
XLIII
There came
whisperings
in the winds
"Good bye!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
On
theintelligence
of this desertion, their
barbarous enemies break in upon the Britons, and are no longer resisted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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"
The
rejection
by congress of the conciliatory bills which
had been proposed by the British government, in conse-
quence of the state of our negotiations at Paris, was fol-
lowed by the arrival of Mr.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
On,
marching
men, on
To the gates of death with song.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
His Attic style, although
veneered
upon the " Common " Greek of his day, has rela tively few flaws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
If it were total, one concept would C
actually
be the other, not merely be understood in terms of it.
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| Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
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In one is a lion, which
my father's slaves brought from the desert of Ninavah; in the other
is a
songless
sparrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Loud did wail his
familiar
hounds, and loud now weep the Nymphs of the hill; and Aphrodite, she unbraids her tresses and goes wandering distraught, unkempt, unslippered in the wild wood, and for all the briers may tear and rend her and cull her hallowed blood, she flies through the long glades shrieking amain, crying upon her Assyrian lord, calling upon the lad of her love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bion |
|
"31 That is, they fail to dislodge the
oppressive
discourse practices to which they respond, because "this 'alternative' discourse exists outside the meaning structure recognized and legitimated by the school authorities.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
|
Rosinger believes that the Burma Government will ultimately stand or fall on its
handling
of the agrarian problem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sallust - Catiline |
|
J
5-
It was then that I learnt the
hermitical
habit of
## p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
Then indeed would the
individual
man be confronted with something for which only the Old Testament names of Behemoth or Leviathan seem ap- propriate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Gathering fresh
darkness
and terror as they
rolled on, the congregated bodies at length obscured the sun of Italy
and sunk the whole world in universal night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
|
And
is not the regent perpetually reverting in her despatches to the fact
that nothing but the want of a
suitable
military force has hitherto
hindered her from enforcing the edicts, and stopping the progress of the
rebels?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
W e pose the
question
in order to come to know something about mimesis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
Passed
Gibraltar
and out through Straits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
Scripture
teaches us a va-
riety of uses for history.
| 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 |
|
Actually, he asked Drukpa Padma Karpo, another great lama, to write a book in
refutation
of all the accusations of Sakya Pandita.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
|
[This and the
following
poem are, with some alterations, introduced
in the Play of "The Robbers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
The bee is
a
geometrician
of the very first order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
the two delusive things
Stamp
impatiently
it seems,
Yours has heavenward soaring wings,
Mine is of the land of dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The reasons for this, as
Lawrence
K.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
Enfin, on prétend que l'oncle
François
a demandé la
cadette, cela fera qu'elles ne seront pas toutes restées filles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
|
I will not ask your pardon for endeavoring to interest you in the subject of Greek Mythology ; but I must ask your
permission
to approach it in a temper differing from that in which it is frequently treated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
After a momentary hesitation he reached Plassey at midnight 22-23
June, and found himself within striking
distance
of Siraj-ud-daula's
army, consisting of some 50,000 men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
|
In face of these facts it is sheer
comedy to learn that our
Malthusians
are sending a woman to preach birth
control amongst the Japanese!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
|
5% growth in the last quarter but worse 5%
inflation
came with it, and Prime Minister Modi’s ruling coalition lost ground in his home state of Gujarat and now faces a dedicated opposition Congress Party with Rahul Gandhi officially elected leader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
|
Yet sometimes Artless Poets, when the rage
Of a warm Fancy does their minds ingage,
Puff'd with vain pride, presume they understand,
And boldly take the Trumpet in their hand;
Their Fustian Muse each
Accident
confounds;
Nor can she fly, but rise by leaps and bounds,
Till their small stock of Learning quickly spent,
Their Poem dyes for want of nourishment:
In vain Mankind the hot-brain'd fools decryes,
No branding Censures can unveil his eyes:
With Impudence the Laurel they invade,
Resolv'd to like the Monsters they have made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
|
A reader who un- derstands how Kleist's longing to die arose will be able to discover more relationships between this dimension of Kleist's texts and spe- cific questions, which may change his own views--and, beyond that, perhaps suggest the beginnings of
protracted
paths of argument and reflection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
|
During her fifteen years' residence in
Florence
she threw herself
with great enthusiasm into Italian affairs, and wrote some political
poems of varying merit, whose interest necessarily faded away when
the occasion passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
You were the notes
Of cold
fantastic
grief
Some few found beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
How deserved your fame: they speak it
everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Too often literature and culture are presumed to be politically,
even historically innocent; it has regularly seemed otherwise to me, and certainly my study of
Orientalism has convinced me (and I hope will convince my literary
colleagues)
that society and
literary culture can only be understood and studied together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
The text of "El
Estudiante
de Salamanca" has
been based upon the "Poesías de D.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
Cytherea grows mad at his thin gasping breath,
While the black blood drips down on the pale ivory,
And his
eyeballs
lie quenched with the weight of his brows,
The rose fades from his lips, and upon them just parted
The kiss dies the goddess consents not to lose,
Though the kiss of the Dead cannot make her glad-hearted:
He knows not who kisses him dead in the dews.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
|
The muˁallaqāt are a collection of pre-Islamic poems especially
esteemed
by tradition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
|
But like any set of durable ideas, Orientalist notions
influenced
the people
who were called Orientals as well as those called Occidental, European, or Western; in short,
Orientalism is better grasped as a set of constraints upon and limitations of thought than it is
simply as a positive doctrine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
They string an
instrument
against the sky
Wherein words whether beaten out or spoken
Will run as hushed as when they were a thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
— hazardous
enterprises
and, as extinct, ix.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving
foresight
may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley,
An'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
burns |
|
That is, he
recognized
the mechanisms of industrialization that force men into alienated social patterns and reified communica- tions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
|
It is Hegel's misfortune to be known now primarily as Marx's precursor; and it is our misfortune that few of us are familiar with Hegel's work from direct study, but only as it has been
filtered
through the distorting lens of Marxism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fukuyama - End of History |
|
I distinguished a
moor-sheep
cropping
the short turf on the graves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
It
told of the dispute between Agamemnon and Menelaus, the
departure
from
Troy of Menelaus, the fortunes of the lesser heroes, the return and
tragic death of Agamemnon, and the vengeance of Orestes on Aegisthus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
|
First, for springs of excellent sweet water; secondly, for vineyards, and olive plantations, and rich lands for tillage; and thirdly, that it was an
impregnable
position, built upon a high and inaccessible rock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
I don't like you
standing
over me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
|
Will you then discover a total
disregard
of all these offenses?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
|
It is, for all
practical
purposes, the only experience we have with strategic bombing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
|
" He laughed at the
absurdity
of the notion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
O would to thee kind Artemis, great Queen of us poor women, would I too had fallen with a
poisoned
arrow in my heart and so died also!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
|
Soliman looked as if he had fallen asleep on his chair with his eyes wide open; as his master reached the end ofthat one-sided conversa- tion, the eyes set
themselves
in motion, while the body refused to stir, as though still waiting for the word to wake up.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
The Adri-
atic was the property of Venice, the
Ligurian
Sea
of Genoa, the Gulf of Bothnia of Sweden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
|
"
Often the choice of the saint was
determined
by a kind of
pun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
So the Cretans followed him to
Pytho, marching in time as they chanted the Ie Paean after the manner of
the Cretan paean-singers and of those in whose hearts the
heavenly
Muse
has put sweet-voiced song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
|
1 “Yoga”
translates
伸縮 (“stretching and shrinking”), a term that occurs in early texts to describe di erent forms of exercise (especially breath control).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
The proud Bavarian,
He and the Spaniards stand up your accusers--
That there's a storm collecting over you
Of far more fearful menace than the former one
Which whirled you
headlong
down at Regensburg.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
"I knew how it would be; your
irregular
life will soon be the ruin
of you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Jones went into
Willingdon
and got so
drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
|
He would
have found a
congenial
atmosphere in the Curia of Boniface VIII.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
|
Alliance between
Gladstone
and Parnell.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
|
The epoch of nationalistic humanism has come to an end because the art of writing love-inspiring letters to a nation of friends, however professionally it is practised, is no longer sufficient to form a
telecommunicative
bond between members of a modern mass society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
|
For our laws have not been drawn up at random or in accordance with the first casual thought that
occurred
to the mind, but with a view to truth and the [162] indication of right reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
"
All this howling of
Kassandra
comes at one from the page, and the grimness also of the Iambics
"Ohime!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
5 (1861), Topograpbia Hibernica,
and
Expugnatio
Hibernica; vol.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
oute moeuyng certys it
so{ur}mounte?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
For when they ad vanced far into the sea towards the south, the shadows them selves also were seen turned towards the south, and when the sun reached the middle of the day then they saw all things
destitute
of shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
|
A robber, who had noticed
this, went and dug up the gold and
decamped
with it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Jesus and Joseph toiled together,
Mary was watching them,
Thinking
of kings in the wintry weather
At Bethlehem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Both of these were used as authorities by the Hellenist Luke writing his history and only
subsequently
appeared the Greek Gospel of Matthew, consisting of a free translation and amplification of the Gospel of the Hebrews.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
|
Now two
things have to be
considered
with regard to man's honor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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How
Heracles
Slew the Lion
IDYLLS 26 - 30 & INSCRIPTIONS
26.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Unto his horse, that's feeding free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read,
--'Tis Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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As the ordinary shows of the theatre and of other such places,
when thou art presented with them, affect thee; as the same things still
seen, and in the same fashion, make the sight
ingrateful
and tedious;
so must all the things that we see all our life long affect us.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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He has left the dust-gray archives and entered the arena or, to put it a better way, the maternity ward in which
European
culture is reborn as a tragic one.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For hence it is, that while holy men gather themselves within themselves, they detect even the
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secret faults of others, with a
wonderful
and penetrating keenness of sight.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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" No, thou clear, scornful spirit, so long as
the illogical rules as it does to-day,—so long, for
example, as the world-process can be spoken of as
thou
speakest
of it, amid such deep-throated assent,
—the last day is yet far off.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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‘No I suppose not ’
‘Well, then' You’d better go upstairs and start packing your box It’s no
good your staying any longer, because I haven’t got anything m for your
dinner ’
Dorothy went upstairs and sat down on the side of the bed She was
trembling uncontrollably, and it was some minutes before she could collect her
wits and begin packing She felt dazed The disaster that had fallen upon her
was so sudden, so apparently causeless, that she had difficulty in believing that
it had actually
happened
But m truth the reason why Mrs Creevy had sacked
her was quite simple and adequate
Not far from Rmgwood House there was a poor, moribund little school
called The Gables, with only seven pupils The teacher was an incompetent
old hack called Miss Allcock, who had been at thirty-eight different schools m
her life and was not fit to have charge of a tame canary But Miss Allcock had
one outstanding talent, she was very good at double-crossing her employers
In these third-rate and fourth-rate private schools a sort of piracy is constantly
gomg on Parents are ‘got round’ and pupils stolen from one school to another
Very often the treachery of the teacher is at the bottom of it.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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