To her any neglect to ensure due
protection
for the
children would be as unnatural as to refuse to die for her husband.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
;
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
The London
merchants
professed to be willing to use their
influence for repeal; but, on the advice of Burke and other
of their friends in Parliament, they had been convinced that
it was an unpropitious time to press the matter.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
The
Londoners
are more polite, or more
squeamish, in this matter.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
Sine and cosine,
tangents
and arc tangents are all - the things as well as the words - Arabic innovations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
Our journey here lost
the
interest
arising from beautiful scenery, but we arrived in a few
days at Rotterdam, whence we proceeded by sea to England.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
rbara Crespo de Arnaud writes that Girri's first poetic production shows the more traditional traits of metaphoric lyricism and a strong
presence
of the enunciating subject, characteristics shared with Girri's co-generational peers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
|
The chief duties of a
guardian
consist in knowing
how to appreciate what is good, and in adopting a right course;
then alone has proper attention been devoted to the welfare of
his ward, whereas in opposing what is good he neglects his duty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
|
It is
guaranteed
to impress or infuriate, at five hundred paces.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
XIX
LA RANÇON
L'homme a, pour payer sa rançon,
Deux champs au tuf profond et riche,
Qu'il faut qu'il remue et défriche
Avec le fer de la raison;
Pour obtenir la moindre rose,
Pour extorquer
quelques
épis,
Des pleurs salés de son front gris
Sans cesse il faut qu'il les arrose.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
You will also find
information
on this organiza-
tion in Beatrice King's Changing Man: The Education System of
the U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
As she did so she
noticed that the binding of the hood had ripped in one place,
and that the lining was fraying out, a mishap which should be
promptly
remedied
before it spread any further.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
|
The instincts contra-
dict, disturb, and destroy each other ; I have already
defined
modernism
as physiological self-contra-
diction.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
Spente wythe the fyghte, the Danyshe champyons stonde,
Lyche bulles, whose strengthe & wondrous myghte ys fledde; 785
AElla, a javelynne grypped yn eyther honde,
Flyes to the thronge, & doomes two
Dacyannes
deadde.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Soon after, Captain Ball arrived, and delivered to the Highlanders the general's
conditions
of their sur render: viz, "That they would peaceably lay down their arms, and submit themselves prisoners, the most favourable report should be made of them to the lords-justices.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
Je veux m'aneantir dans ta gorge profonde,
Et trouver sur ton sein la
fraicheur
des tombeaux.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
to playerRi is the discounted utility of the players
consumption
proO?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise
From Hill or steaming Lake, duskie or grey,
Till the Sun paint your fleecie skirts with Gold,
In honour to the Worlds great Author rise,
Whether to deck with Clouds the
uncolourd
skie,
Or wet the thirstie Earth with falling showers, 190
Rising or falling still advance his praise.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Milton |
|
We should plan -
-
a war of nerve, of demonstration, and of bargaining, not just target
destruction
for local tactical purposes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
Not only because Nietzsche
exploded
the interpretation rules of 1800 is it unneces- sary to identify Ariadne with Cosima Wagner, as so often occurs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
A man loves neither his father nor his mother nor his wife
nor his child, but simply the
feelings
which they inspire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
"You will go from here to something lower, another house; a year
later--to a third, lower and lower, and in seven years you will come to
a
basement
in the Haymarket.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
Brydon's brave ward,^12 I saw him stand,
Fame humbly offering her hand,
And near, his kinsman's rustic band,^13
With one accord,
Lamenting
their late blessed land
Must change its lord.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
burns |
|
And yet he shared as patiently
as his father the troubles and cares of this wretched
people, glad from the bottom of his heart of the new
life which was
springing
up under the rough fists
of his peasants, and cried proudly: "I prefer our
simplicity, even our poverty, to those damned
riches which corrupt the dignity of our race.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
Es ist ein gar
beschrankter
Raum,
Man sieht nichts Grunes, keinen Baum,
Und in den Salen, auf den Banken,
Vergeht mir Horen, Sehn und Denken.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Born in Vienna and of half Jewish descent, Borkenau had turned to commu nism early on after a strict Catholic upbringing; he was intermittently a functionary of the Western
European
office of the Comintern, then a fellow at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
|
Nor are they
permitted
to assign to their proper place in history those who condemn the "moral failure" of opposing U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
|
The act is permissible only when one individual or groups of individuals within it
threaten
the basic rights of other individuals or when another society seeks to impose its will upon it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
Why are you
following
me about like this?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
|
Although pre- vious virtuous karma may be small, when one stands fast with faith at death, one is born into a
religious
home.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
|
Tsepagme) The name means
infinitive
life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
His argument was that, owing
to the overwhelming
predominance
of non-
Turks, the only asset which was and would
remain Turkish for ever was the Osman
dynasty : therefore, the State's power
129
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
" Such is
Dionysian
art.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
3 Our friends are terribly alarmed about us; and although they are fully assured of your good faith, still they are
obsessed
by the reflection that a mass of veterans can be more easily driven in any direction by anybody else than held in check by you.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
|
I speake my minde freely of all things, yea, of such
as
peradventure
exceed my sufficiencie, and that no way I hold to
be of my jurisdiction.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
_)
Yonder a bright spear, cast out of a sling,
Has torn through Balor's eye, and the dark clans
Fly
screaming
as they fled Moytura of old.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
|
From which (if any) of these mental or physical
disorders
was he not
totally immune?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
How one gained power by
fighting
for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
(b) Look in the Constitution of 1936
and find the article which gives a
specific
statement on this question.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
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.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
|
Hope is a subtle glutton;
He feeds upon the fair;
And yet, inspected closely,
What
abstinence
is there!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
But good your lord/hip, I have - something else to fay, they are
concluded
by their refrtfen- tatives in parliament.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
Before computers with their explicit purpose of crunching systems of differential equations-at least
numerically-have
come into existence,
scientific
visualization can
only occupy itself with mercilessly simplified formula.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
|
"You must not be surprised," he said to me, "at my
talking so long to you--I pass so much of my time in pain and solitude, yet
everlastingly thinking, that, when you or any other persons call on me, I
can hardly help easing my mind by pouring forth some of the accumulated
mass of
reflection
and feeling, upon an apparently interested recipient.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime
was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke
about the same subject as there were always at least two members of
the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by
themselves
and
it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
XCVII
To Arragon he past out of Navarre,
-- They who beheld, sore
wondering
at the sight --
Then, leaves he Tarragon behind him far,
Upon his left, Biscay upon his right:
Traversed Castile, Gallicia, Lisbon, are
Seville and Cordova, with rapid flight;
Nor city on sea-shore, nor inland plain,
Is unexplored throughout the realm of Spain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
Let us remember that by the low
intensity
of the fountain one has achieved monophotonic rays; in other terms, it is not a front of various photons that goes toward the partition, but a single strip of a photons in which each of the elements advances one at a time.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
8 ) 6+# &+'' #
#%#!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
Before he emerged to be saluted, he partook of a little bread, lest, with his strength consumed as a result of the blood around his heart being cold, he be
interrupted
and too little meet the needs of the business of state, which he used to pursue with, to outward appearance, the unbelievable diligence of the best paterfamilias.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
|
After a short stay in another part of the town
he moved into a pleasant flat on the Frlllig Stift, but
although deaf the noise of the main street
affected
his
nerves.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
ou haue
enclined
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
another,
physiological
nature appears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
A
thousand
fingers pointed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
tuted by the said Long Parliament a justice of peace in quorum for Hampshire, Surrey, and Essex (which office he kept 16 years), and
afterwards
was made by Oliver major-general of all the horse and foot in the county of Surrey, in which emplo y ment he licked his fingers sufficiently, gaining thereby a great odium from the generous Royalists.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
And so they
required
good talking
even from passion on the stage, and submitted to
the unnaturalness of dramatic verse with delight:
—in nature, forsooth, passion is so sparing of words!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
|
The foregoing measures for
sterility
are also suitable in cases of
impotency.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
|
[This letter was first
published
in the Edinburgh Chronicle.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Yet, during all his siege of love, his feathers and his
embroidered
coat have not made any breach in my heart.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
Since then, the story has become a
metaphor
for unrecognized talents.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
Forte sacer Cybelse Ch\o-\-reus o-|-limque sacerdos
(
Chloreus
-- diphthong.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
As a matter of fact, there is a reason for the general
reticence
against Ju?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
--
Not marking how the knighthood mock thee, fool--
'Fear God: honor the king--his one true knight--
Sole follower of the vows'--for here be they
Who knew thee swine enow before I came,
Smuttier
than blasted grain: but when the King
Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up
It frighted all free fool from out thy heart;
Which left thee less than fool, and less than swine,
A naked aught--yet swine I hold thee still,
For I have flung thee pearls, and find thee swine.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Two days later, Times correspondent Henry Kamm concluded his tour of duty as chief Asian diplomatic correspondent with a long article in which he comments "sadly" on the "considerably reduced quality of
248 MANUFAC'tU1UNG CONSENT
life" in Indochina, where in Vietnam "even working animals 3re rare," for unexplained reasons, in
contrast
to "the continuing rise, however uneven in many aspects, of the standard of living" elsewhere in the region.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
|
"
dissipated
the doubts of
those around him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
Mais la vie,
en me
découvrant
peu à peu la permanence de nos besoins, m'avait
appris que, faute d'un être, il faut se contenter d'un autre--et je
sentais que ce que j'avais demandé à Albertine, une autre, Mlle de
Stermaria, eût pu me le donner.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
|
For this reason, many
things had become superfluous which,
although
they could not be
sold, the family did not wish to discard.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
I fixed the various rules of mantic art,
Discerned the vision from the common dream,
Instructed them in vocal auguries
Hard to interpret, and defined as plain
The wayside omens,--flights of crook-clawed birds,--
Showed which are, by their nature, fortunate,
And which not so, and what the food of each,
And what the hates, affections, social needs,
Of all to one another,--taught what sign
Of visceral lightness,
coloured
to a shade,
May charm the genial gods, and what fair spots
Commend the lung and liver.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
|
Making way from the kindling surges, I rode on a bridle-path
Much wondering to see upon all hands, of wattles and woodwork made,
Your bell-mounted churches, and guardless the sacred cairn and the rath,
And a small and a feeble
populace
stooping with mattock and spade.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
|
When on that dismal and cloudy day in May
1872, after the foundation stone had been laid on
the height of Bayreuth, amid
torrents
of rain, and
while Wagner was driving back to the town with
a small party of us, he was exceptionally silent,
and there was that indescribable look in his eyes
as of one who has turned his gaze deeply inwards.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
|
And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
A summary of many of these arguments can be found in an article by
Professor
Robert S.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
in the
diagnosis
and treatment of emotionally disturbed patients and families, its usage hitherto has been mainly to promote research in develop- mental psychology.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
The famous railway was in the hands of the Cossacks, although it ostensibly bore the name of the "Eastern Chinese Line", and
barracks
for Muscovite soldiers were dotted all over the country.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
|
ry6 always refused either to endorse or reject prosaic
commentaries
on their poems.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
--but what
thinking
man has now
any need for the hypothesis that there is a god?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
|
»
Et
cependant
je sens ma bouche aller vers toi.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
THE
SEAFARER
(From the early A nglo-Saxon text)
I for my own self song's truth reckon,
MAY
Journey's jargon, how I in harsh
days Hardship endured oft.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
You have a shared IP address, and someone else has
triggered
the block.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
Does one ever see a Penny
Monster
nowadays?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
How sadly sings the
bobolink!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Between the previous not-yet and the
imminent
no-more, we poor interim devils are only left with the unhappy
After Modernity 151
awareness that we have always lived in the wrong time.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
I'll
discipline
ye!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
); but this was differently
conceived and
differently
striven after at different times and in
different places.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
)
a
specimen
in the lines:-
3.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
|
486 (#520) ############################################
486
HENRI
FRÉDÉRIC
AMIEL
M
ARCH IST, 1869.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
|
But that when he began to devote himself to philosophy, he adopted such a
rigorous
system of morals, that he for the future always continued the same in appearance, and never even changed his voice, on which account Crantor was charmed by him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
|
I myself will kill to you
a good many boldly enough; for why, David killed Goliath very easily; and
then this great lecher, Eusthenes, who is
stronger
than four oxen, will not
spare himself.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
|
So saying, the Goddess gave into his hand
The wond'rous zone, and, cormorant in form,
Plunging
herself into the waves again
Headlong, was hidden by the closing flood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
It would clearly have been to the master's
advantage
to carry his
passengers to Yokohama, since he was paid a certain sum per day; but he
would have been rash to attempt such a voyage, and it was imprudent
even to attempt to reach Shanghai.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
The Tiber flows from the
Apennines, and is swelled by many rivers; it flows partly through
Tyrrhenia, dividing it in the first instance from Ombrica,[1679]
afterwards from the Sabini and the Latini, who are
situated
next Rome as
far as the sea-coast; so that these countries are bounded in their
breadth by the river [Tiber] and the Tyrrhenians, and in their length by
each other.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Strabo |
|
She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
When shall we return to a sound conception of the right to property--
namely, as being official,
implying
and demanding the performance of
commensurate duties!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
But while the little black lizard always felt as though she had been allowed to flit up a high, shimmering wall
whenever
she saw a distinguished visitor to the door, Diotima han- dled her impression ofUlrich with the conscientiousness ofa woman who doesn't really mind feeling touched though she should because she has the ability to keep herself gently in check.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
Later lives of him were
published
by Burnet (1685) and by
Mason, H.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
Wherefore I bid thee pray, when in the open sea, that that
constellation
wrapt in clouds appear not amidst the others in the heavens, herself unclouded and resplendent above with billowing clouds, as often it is beset when the autumn wind drives them back.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
They stood for a few seconds face to face, each
looking more
astonished
than the other at what he had just
done.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
|