Roast
potatoes
for.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Through the dark branches of the plane-trees, paintings of the saints - the new
frescoes
in all their glory on the long wall - look straight at you with bright, living eyes.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Wherever, in those vast wards,
suffering
was at its worst and the need
for help was greatest, there, as if by magic, was Miss Nightingale.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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--Thea was
startled
up,
And in her bearing was a sort of hope,
As thus she quick-voic'd spake, yet full of awe.
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Keats |
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Whence I have
derived this firmness,--on what feeling it rests,--you may
inquire at another time; it is sufficient for you now to un-
derstand clearly, that Truth, in every
possible
application
of it, still remains true.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Rudmose Brown;
University
of Cape Town: 29 July 1937, below.
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Samuel Beckett |
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An
organization
well worth your study.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Besides, they
are generally
conscious
of being impotent in action,
for in the midst of work the motives of their activity
almost withdraw their attention from the work.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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So
presently
to the palace there
foemen fearless, fourteen Geats,
marching came.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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There are two
divisions
in this church yet visible --most probably the nave and choir.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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SALOME
ANTICIPATES
DR.
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Oscar Wilde |
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When there was such a sacrifice in
preparation
for a hunt, the men of the state all engaged in it.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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After the war is over there will be powerful forces drawing young people away from the liberal studies- But there will be other powerful forces operating in the opposite direction-
The vindication of
democracy
by victory will raise a vast number ot questions as to the meaning of democracy, of the conditions economic and psychological and spiritual under which democracy can thrive.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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"
Although
the child's mother and grandmother were present, there
was little that could be said about the child responding to a request to re-
cite a "mere" jump-rope rhyme.
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Childens - Folklore |
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Where is the
Vestal silently
ascending
the steps of the Capitol with the holy
fire?
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade--
Each working the grindstone in turn:
But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
No interest in the concern:
Though the
Barrister
tried to appeal to its pride,
And vainly proceeded to cite
A number of cases, in which making laces
Had been proved an infringement of right.
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Lewis Carroll |
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On the Beach at Night
On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching
the east, the autumn sky.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I can think of no other writer who would bewitch me into making the beginning of a spell
of hard work into a kind of joyful ritual, but the solemnisation of dates came naturally to Joyce and it infects his admirers, Indeed, this deadest time of the year (the
Christmas
decorations burnt a week ago, the children back at school, the snow come too late to be festive) is brightened by being a sort of Joyce season.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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" Many have been led
astray by Ferrer del Río's statement that in drawing the character of
the seducer, Don Félix de Montemar,
Espronceda
was painting his own
portrait.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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It is for one reason only that we call our epoch modern: people of the West have been so captivated and impressed by their own great deeds that they found the courage to
proclaim
that they had created the world on their own.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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One will be sure to find in this fair-minded and candid volume a most interesting
expression
on poetry, by a poet of no mean reputation.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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In his treatment of the doctrine of
Terms, Aristotle avoids the mistake of
treating
the isolated name as
though it had significance apart from the enunciations in which it
occurs.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Her
companions
run hastily up and catch their
sinking mistress.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Sir Philip Sidney (1595), for example, defines
imitation
as follows: "Borrow nothing of what is, has been, or shall be, but range (only reined with learned dis-
39
cretion) into the divine consideration of what may be or should be.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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like
emissions
by the states separately $ yet they are of a nature so liable to abuse, and it may even be af- firmed,so certain of bejng abused; that the wisdom at the government will be shown in never trusting itself with the use of so seducing and dangerous an expedient.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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No-one came, and
that made him feel calmer, he went over to the wash stand, rinsed his
face with cold water and, his head
somewhat
clearer, went back to his
place by the window.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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In 1881,
Swinburne
had concluded with Mary Stuart the trilogy
which Chastelard had begun.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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49 In the collection of statements he excerpted from his octavo note- books and arranged in a numbered list (later edited and published by Max Brod under the title
Betrachtungen
uher Sunde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg [Observations on Sin, Suffering, Hope and the
True Path]), the first entry reads:
The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Clearly, he saw himself being served food and
drink by Kamala,
receiving
his first kiss from her, looking proudly and
disdainfully back on his Brahmanism, beginning proudly and full of
desire his worldly life.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds
Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate,
And the Warder is Despair
For they starve the little
frightened
child
Till it weeps both night and day:
And they scourge the weak, and flog the fool,
And gibe the old and grey,
And some grow mad, and all grow bad,
And none a word may say.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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I scarce believe that bolt, or
lightning
flies,
Or darts more swiftly from the parted skies.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It is impossible here to follow in was equally inefficient ; and the capture of Arpi,
detail the complicated movements of the subse which was betrayed into his hands, was the only
quent campaigns, during which Hannibal himself
advantage
he was able to gain.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Yet maybe Fame's but seeming
And praise you'd set aside,
Content to go on dreaming,
Yea, happy to have died
If of all things you prayed for--
All things your valour paid for--
One prayer is not forgotten,
One
purchase
not denied.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Propter simplicitatem autem
suae substantiae a natura eius aliquid
subtrahi
non potest.
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John Donne |
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n) de la humanidad:
extendio?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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I had intended to
write to Reginald myself as soon as my eyes would let me, to point out,
as well as I could, the danger of an
intimate
acquaintance, with so
artful a woman as Lady Susan, to a young man of his age, and high
expectations.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Charles Baudelaire a fait don, sans réserve, de ces poëmes, à un ami
qui juge à propos de les publier, parce qu'il se flatte de les goûter,
et qu'il est à un âge où l'on aime encore à faire
partager
ses
sentiments à des amis auxquels on prête ses vertus.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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In that which is
so infinite, what
difference
can there be between that which liveth but
three days, and that which liveth three ages?
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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"^ One of Ledwich's foolish
derivations
of Irish places is to be found, when he tells us, that Cill-le-lua means "the church upon," or "near the water.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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It lacks as yet caution in generalisation and methodical
circumspection
in the formation of conceptions.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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But in verse you must do more;--there the words, the
_media_, must be beautiful, and ought to attract your notice--yet not so
much and so
perpetually
as to destroy the unity which ought to result from
the whole poem.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Alarmed by the execution of
140 Lefebvre, French Revolution, 2:4; Ross, European
Diplomatic
History, 66-(,7; and John M.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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The
printing
of the poems is also more condensed,
so that they occupy pp.
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John Donne |
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A
lump of either of the above-mentioned salts, of the size of a chestnut,
may be
dissolved
in a pint of water, making the solution weaker or
stronger, as it may be borne without any irritation of the parts to
which it is applied.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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When the first came into power, all
the liberal laws of the past were
restored
to force; when the second
came in, these laws were evaded.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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I know how ridiculous it would be if I pretended that I am trying to slow down or even to stop the
historical
drift of events.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes'
falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Shortly afterwards, the college
trustees
sent him on a European tour
to qualify himself for the chair of foreign languages, one result of
which was a number of translations and his book "Outre Mer.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Two things
preoccupied
him as he went: the aspect of the
gallows at Montfaucon in this bright, windy phase of the night's
existence, for one; and for another, the look of the dead man
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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What rich, but those whom he will load with this world's gifts And he
therefore
said to lie in ambush with them, because he will display their false happiness to deceive men who, when with perverted will they desire to be such as they, and seek not the good things eternal, will fall into his snares.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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It repeats Lucian's open mock ery, in the Sale of Soul Samples, of the seep
[161]
Icaromenippus,
LUCIAN,
SATIRIST
AND ARTIST
tic's equally balanced scales, yet explains how Lucian could find shelter for his own deep- dyed scepticism under the robe of the Epicu rean.
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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The
Perverter
of Taste.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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This robbery was immediately advertised, and a reward of forty guineas offered to any person who would make a discovery, " and no questions asked ;" (which was the manner of advertising felonies at that time ;) but,
according
to an act since made, such a clause in an advertisement would incur a penalty of 50/.
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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It is by no means its colour, white, nor, if it has
retained
this, its floral scent, nor its softness to my touch, nor indeed the dull thud which it makes when I drop it.
| Guess: |
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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And so in His Name Who still protects thee in a certain measure for Himself, in the Name of Christ, as His handmaids and thine, we beseech thee to deign to inform us by frequent letters of those shipwrecks in which thou still art tossed, that thou mayest have us at least, who alone have remained to thee, as
partners
in they grief or joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor--
A
burnished
solitude.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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All these reasons justify
the view that the poems with which we now have to deal were later than
the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", and if we must recognize the possibility of
some conventionality in the received dating, we may feel
confident
that
it is at least approximately just.
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
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10
The final version of
materiality
in de Man is the "prosaic materiali- ty of the letter" (AI 90).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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)
người
huyện Vĩnh Ninh (nay thuộc huyện Vĩnh Lộc tỉnh Thanh Hóa).
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| Source: |
stella-02 |
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Prices rose steadily (with but
slight and short
recessions)
for the 20 years before
the United States entered the World War.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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The rst spectacle, that ofan innu merable
multitude
of worlds, somehow annihilates my importance qua that of a bestial creature which must return to the planet-a mere point in the universe-the matter out ofwhich it was rmed, a er having been-one knows not how-provided with vital rce r a brief span of time.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Based on this trust,
devotion
blazes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Nero examined her by torture, to
discover
what she might know of the plot; but she resolutely bore the torture without revealing anything.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
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I remain an
agnostic
about the answer to this.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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The idea of supervision may have started from Adam Smith's dictum: Men of the same trade never meet without a
conspiracy
against the general public.
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Tell me too, for I would learn--
Took he
perforce
thy sable bark away,
Or gav'st it to him at his first demand?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Antiquest felt at noon
When August, burning low,
Calls forth this
spectral
canticle,
Repose to typify.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She opens the door, and sees one
foremost
lamb, with
other sheep and lambs bleating and crowding towards
her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Unless the
characters
"breathe and move and
have their being" in his song, the work does not count.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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That
impudence
of mine, so daring,
As thou wast home from church repairing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What fanned their resentment to fury was seeing him
take as his confidential adviser a Lorrainer of
undistinguished
birth
named Hagano.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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A happy Warmth he every where may boast;
Nor is he in too long Digressions lost:
His Verses without Rule a method find,
And of
themselves
appear in order joyn'd:
All without trouble answers his intent;
Each Syllable is tending to th'Event.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Let
this be a warning to you to economize, so that you may be able to
have your
enjoyments
at home in all security.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
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There is nothing very extraordinary in this fact: no youth of
the age I then was, can be expected to be more than one thing, and this
was the thing I
happened
to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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The great moments in the individual battle"-\ •
form a chain, a high road for humanity through
the ages, and the highest points of those
vanished
/
moments are yet great and living for men; and /
this is the fundamental idea of the belief in humanity, j
that finds a voice in the demand for a " monumental"
history.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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At length, when the term of my visit was nearly expired, it was given
out that
Peggotty
and Mr.
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| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
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A
glorious
( 205 )
Name and olden is ill without
Children, unto the first a new
Stock as goodly begetting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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He especially assailed the rule of the "three unities,”—of place, time,
and action,-affirming his allegiance only to the third rule, unity
of action; and at the same time he advocated introducing into the
plays what soon came to be called "local color," and invited young
dramatic writers to study Shakespeare rather than the masters of the
French
classical
stage.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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For this reason, a physics professor at the new and very modern Reichsuniversitiit in
Strasbourg
named Ferdinand Braun was the first to discover a possible application of the Edison effect in 1897.
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The essay freely associates what can be found
associated
in the freely chosen object.
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A perfume
of exalted virtue
emanated
from all her being.
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The English Translation
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The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
ATHROW OF THE DICE NEVER, EVEN WHEN TRULY CAST IN THE ETERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE OF A SHIPWRECK'S DEPTH, Can be only the Abyss raging, whitened, stalled beneath the desperately sloping incline of its own wing, through an advance falling back from ill to take flight, and veiling the gushers, restraining the surges, gathered far within the shadow buried deep by that alternative sail, almost matching its yawning depth to the wingspan, like a hull of a vessel rocked from side to side
THE MASTER, beyond former calculations, where the lost manoeuvre with the age rose implying that formerly he grasped the helm of this conflagration of the concerted horizon at his feet, that readies itself; moves; and merges with the blow that grips it, as one threatens fate and the winds, the unique Number, which cannot be another Spirit, to hurl it into the storm, relinquish the cleaving there, and pass proudly; hesitates, a corpse pushed back by the arm from the secret, rather than taking sides, a hoary madman, on behalf of the waves: one overwhelms the head, flows through the submissive beard, straight shipwreck that, of the man without a vessel, empty no matter where
ancestrally never to open the fist
clenched
beyond the helpless head, a legacy, in vanishing, to someone ambiguous, the immemorial ulterior demon having, from non-existent regions, led the old man towards this ultimate meeting with probability, this his childlike shade caressed and smoothed and rendered supple by the wave, and shielded from hard bone lost between the planks born of a frolic, the sea through the old man or the old man against the sea, making a vain attempt, an Engagement whose dread the veil of illusion rejected, as the phantom of a gesture will tremble, collapse, madness, WILL NEVER ABOLISH
AS IF A simple insinuation into silence, entwined with irony, or the mystery hurled, howled, in some close swirl of mirth and terror, whirls round the abyss without scattering or dispersing and cradles the virgin index there AS IF
a solitary plume overwhelmed, untouched, that a cap of midnight grazes, or encounters, and fixes, in crumpled velvet with a sombre burst of laughter, that rigid whiteness, derisory, in opposition to the heavens, too much so not to signal closely any bitter prince of the reef, heroically adorned with it, indomitable, but contained by his petty reason, virile in lightning
anxious expiatory and pubescent dumb laughter that IF the lucid and lordly crest of vertigo on the invisible brow sparkles, then shades, a slim dark tallness, upright in its siren coiling, at the moment of striking, through impatient ultimate scales, bifurcated, a rock a deceptive manor suddenly evaporating in fog that imposed limits on the infinite
IT WAS THE NUMBER, stellar outcome, WERE IT TO HAVE EXISTED other than as a fragmented, agonised hallucination; WERE IT TO HAVE BEGUN AND ENDED, a surging that denied, and closed, when visible at last, by some profusion spreading in sparseness; WERE IT TO HAVE AMOUNTED to the fact of the total, though as little as one; WERE IT TO HAVE LIGHTED, IT WOULD BE, worse no more nor less indifferently but as much, CHANCE Falls the plume, rhythmic suspense of the disaster, to bury itself in the original foam, from which its delirium formerly leapt to the summit faded by the same neutrality of abyss
NOTHING of the memorable crisis where the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes, WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE a commonplace elevation pours out absence BUT THE PLACE some lapping below, as if to scatter the empty act abruptly, that otherwise by its falsity would have plumbed perdition, in this region of vagueness, in which all reality dissolves
EXCEPT at the altitude PERHAPS, as far as a place fuses with, beyond, outside the interest signalled regarding it, in general, in accord with such obliquity, through such declination of fire, towards what must be the Wain also North A CONSTELLATION cold with neglect and desuetude, not so much though that it fails to enumerate, on some vacant and superior surface, the consecutive clash, sidereally, of a final account in formation, attending, doubting, rolling, shining and meditating before stopping at some last point that crowns it All Thought expresses a Throw of the Dice
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Stephane Mallarme
Fragments - Anatole's Tomb
Die Toteninsel / The Isle of the Dead
'Die Toteninsel / The Isle of the Dead'
Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901), Wikimedia Commons
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'Neath blood-red hands my young life
withered
there.
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Yes, a
wonderful
thing!
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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As regards the town and
island of Bombay, where the police arrangements differed ab initio
from those prevailing in the rest of the presidency, it has already been
stated that the earliest force for watch-and-ward was a militia, re-
cruited about 1673 as a
supplement
to the regular garrison and
composed chiefly of Bhandaris and other Hindus of lower caste.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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Faces
People that I meet and pass
In the city's broken roar,
Faces that I lose so soon
And have never found before,
Do you know how much you tell
In the meeting of our eyes,
How ashamed I am, and sad
To have pierced your poor
disguise?
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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It opens the gates most
invitingly
to the wide realm of poetry, not to young people only, but to older folk as well.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Hanrieder
Review by: Ernst Nolte
The American Political Science Review, Vol.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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They had seen that circumcision and other rites of the law were observed at Jerusalem;
wheresoever
they become, they can abide nothing which is not agreeable thereto, as if the example of one church did bind all the rest of the churches with a certain law.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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This renders
the
advantages
equal of ignorance and knowledge.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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And
it seemeth a point of a madman, to enterprise where he is sure and certain
of so great hurt and damage, and is
uncertain
which way the chance of war
will turn.
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Erasmus |
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The log
indicated
a mean speed of between
eight and nine miles.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Can you suggest no
explanation?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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^North Dakota has
forbidden
its sale.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Then came a little
pattering
of feet on the stairs.
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Septumius clasping Acme his adored to his bosom, "Acme mine," quoth he, "if
thee I love not to perdition, nor am prepared to love through all the
future years moreover without cease, as greatly and
distractedly
as man
may,--alone in Libya or in torrid India may I oppose a steel-eyed lion.
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