I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
never cordially liked him,
but he maintained a place at court chiefly through the
friendship
of
the princes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the
Foundation
web page at http://www.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Birkenhead was appointed to write the Mercurius Aulicus; which, being very pleasing to the loyal party, His Majesty
recommended
him to the electors, that they would choose him Moral Philosophy Reader; which being accord ingly done, he continued in that office, with little profit from
till 1648, at which time he was not only turned out thence, but from his fellowship by " the Presbyterian visitors.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
Cela allait
demander
encore
dix minutes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
|
Then
the Lion
attacked
them one by one and soon made an end of all
four.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
My daily vows rose for revenge--a deep and deadly revenge,
such as would alone compensate for the
outrages
and anguish I had
endured.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
' 44
19 The scholiast quotes a fragment of Æschylus in which Mercury is called evaywios ,
president
of the games .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pindar |
|
The unexplained glory files above
them,
Great is the battle-god, great, and his
kingdom--
A field where a
thousand
corpses lie.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
|
[Burns being called on for a song, by his brother volunteers, on a
festive occasion, gave the
following
Toast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns- |
|
An
infallible
one believe me--Prudence like experience must be
paid for--
LADY TEAZLE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
|
The law, which is the fundamentally realistic
formula of certain self-preservative measures of a
community, forbids certain actions that have a
definite tendency to jeopardise the welfare of that
community: it does not forbid the
attitude
of mind
which gives rise to these actions for in the pur-
## p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Laughter, and
spur janglings in
tessellated
vestibules.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Pound HCE to atoms and those atoms prove to be adams: the great circle of
creation
will roll again.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
It was to destroy public confidence in
the victims of slavery, that the system might not be exposed--it was
to gag a poor fugitive who had undertaken to plead his own cause and
that of his
enslaved
brethren.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
|
Y pro-
siguiendo por el largo processo de sus descen-
dientes ,
causabale
notable alegria la memoria de
aquellos antiquissimos pastores y Patriarchas, an-
tecessores suyos, y mucho mayor el tener ya pre-
missas del cumplimiento de la palabra de Dios
dada a Abrahaan trecientos y setenta y siete an?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
|
He turned off his flashlight
and
disappeared
in the darkness.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
|
I believe I owe it to my character to complete
the match between my
daughter
and Sir James after having so long
intended it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
With that hehry antlets on him and the baublelight bulching out of his sockets whiling away she
sprankled
his allover with her noces of interregnation: How do you do that lack a lock and pass the poker, please?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
je n'ai trouve debout
Qu'un gibet
symbolique
ou pendait mon image.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The richest cities, the greatest scenes, we found
never
contained
the magnetic lures,
of those that chance fashioned, in the clouds.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Hence the
consciousness
of the Truths, or the sun, causes an obstacle to the vices, or to the stars.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
), Euripides'
_Electra_
(413 B.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
[3] G Timotheus took over the
government
and reformed it to a milder and more democratic regime, so that his subjects no longer called him a tyrant, but a benefactor and saviour.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Memnon - History of Heracleia |
|
Now place a table as far from the nee-
dle as you wish and place a
vertical
frame on it, parallel to the wall to which the needle is attached, but as high or low as you wish, and on whatever side you wish.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
And no one can qualify as a
historian
of this half century without having examined the Protocols.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
More controversially, Margulis
believes
that yet another kind of bacteria, the spirally moving spirochaetes, invaded the early eucaryotic cell and contributed such moving structures as cilia, flagella and the 'spindles' which drag the chromosomes apart in cell division.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
For example, when Swift's Gulliver comes to the land of the giants - which, as we know, lies only a little north of San
Francisco
- he does not need any perspective or microscope at all, because the giants already appear ten times larger to his hnman eyes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
He had not become more favourably impressed
with the "townlet of clericals," and expressed the
desire more and more
frequently
to be nearer a
town where there were controversy and quarrelling,
and where the mind was exercised, and deeds were
done.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
|
LAMENT OF THE FRONTIER GUARD
Desolate,
desolate
fields,
And no children of warfare upon them,
No longer the men for offence and defence.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
The first edition of the Regensburg Missal of 1485 was praised by the clerics in
charge of its
production
as a "miracle of God.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
This is nowhere more manifest than in his use of two connected terms, "white" and "black," that cover both the great cosmic division of day and night
and the human
conflict
between the native and the colonist.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
|
And graved
Thy column Megara records his name
Great sire immortal Jove On Atabyrius mount enshrined
still may thy propitious mind Th encomiastic hymn approve
Whose valorous arm
159
Which celebrates
The victor Olympia plain
robe obtain characters fame
lawful strain the cæstus knows
wield 164 171
thy constant care
Protected
citizens and strangers eyes
Still more exalted shall rise Whose virtuous deeds thy favor share
Since violence and fraud unknown 175 Treads the straight paths equity alone
His fathers counsels mindful And keep their bright example
Then not inactivity disgrace
pursue still view
The well earn fame
Who sprang from great Callianax and crown
But soon shifts the ever varying gale
The storms adverse fortune may assail 185
Th Eratidæ with splendor
their own
With and festal hymns the streets resound
Then Rhodians crown
your mirth with sober temperance 175
Rhodes which waserected temple
thine illustrious race
180
165 mountain
Jupiter containing brazen bulls that according the
scholiast had the property lowing whenever any unseemly action was about be
committed
there
,
joy
let
he to
to
'
A, ,
In
'
O !
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pindar |
|
In The Siege of
Damascus
(1720), a tragedy far superior
to the mediocre work of Young, John Hughes had turned to an
English source in borrowing from D'Avenant's play, The Siege?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
235
of
Monmouth
was the Legitimate Son of his Father Charles the Second, I had never gone into his Army, judging that without this I could not be freed from the Guilt of Rebellion, which I always resolved to keep my self clear from : And tho' his Father denied he was married to his Mother, I thought it might be answered with this ; That Kings and Princes, for State-Reasons, ofien cannot be fathomed by their Subjects, affirming and deny- ings Thing which otherwise they would not do, and make even their natural Affections to truckle and stoop thereto.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
|
--
And only
yesterday
it was I saw
Veil'd in streamers of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
[Greek: Terontologia], or, [Greek: Ochêma], _shews, as
tho' it were in a Looking-glass, what Things are to be
avoided in Life, and what Things
contribute
to the
Tranquillity of Life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
I felt as if he
had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those
instruments
which
were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
Stands there, hand-
somely abutting on the Lake with two Towers, a
Tower at each angle, which it has on that
lakeward
side;
and looks, over Reinsberg, and its steeple rising amid
friendly umbrage which hides the housetops, towards
the rising sun.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
THE BUBBLE: A SONG
To my revenge, and to her
desperate
fears,
Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
CHAPTER X
THE HELLENES IN ITALY—MARITIME SUPREMACY or THE
TUSCANS AND
CARTHAGINIANS
.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
Then, 'mongst the foreign ladies, she whose faith
T' her husband (not AEneas) caused her death;
The vulgar ignorant may hold their peace,
Her safety to her chastity gave place;
Dido, I mean, whom no vain passion led
(As fame belies her); last, the virtuous maid
Retired to Arno, who no rest could find,
Her friends'
constraining
power forced her mind.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Message
I heard a cry in the night,
A
thousand
miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
I always felt we could have taken ship
And crossed the bright green seas
To
dreaming
cities set on sacred streams
And palaces
Of ivory and scarlet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
|
preyalency of a partial or pernicious system, which will be
produced
by the certainty of periodical changes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
You would have the right to
be angry with a man who could not
understand
you and who
himself had never suffered as you are now suffering.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
But I will have to leave this to Harpham's, and to our readers',
judgment
anyway.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
|
Los comparsas son en
el teatro y en la política de España lo más arriesgado y
difícil
de
presentar.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
No wind, no rain, no
thunder!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
The monkeys too were a species of creature which
naturally
fascinated
the foreigners.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
He kept his heart
continually
open, and thus was
sure to catch the blessing from on high, when it should come.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
Great and
beneficent
lord of the main!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And would we aught behold of higher worth
Than that
inanimate
cold world allowed
To the poor loveless, ever-anxious crowd-
Ah!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
In one moment,
miserable
demon,
you shall die.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
A
messenger
from Rome awaits without my lord.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
He seemed studying
the
familiar
landscape with a stranger's and an artist's interest.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
--_More
Andabatarum
qui clausis oculis
pugnant_.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
While standing on the stairs, I was
amused by the
contents
of the passage-boat which crosses the river once
or twice a day from Hamburg to Haarburg.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
|
Finally, in 1944, the
Tannu Tuva People's Republic, a region south of Siberia
in Central Asia which had been a colony of Tsarist Russia
but whose
national
independence the Soviets recognized
in 1918, voted to join the U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
The
dialect in which they wrote, now called Church
Slavonic, is of great importance to the scien-
tific student of
Slavonic
tongues, which differ
from each other less than Dutch does from
German.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
Tastes are various in matters of poetry,
but the present work
possesses
a more solid claim to attention in
the series of faithful pictures it offers of Russian life and manners.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Their mutual relation- ship was supported by the existence, at the basis of all
cultural
technolo- gies, of bodies and their nonsense.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
problem of this origin has as yet not even been
seriously stated, not to say solved, however often
the fluttering tatters of ancient
tradition
have
been sewed together in sundry combinations and
torn asunder again.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
is usual at that time of life, but desirous of
reconciling
those pleasures, which usually consume wealth,
with the means of making a great and speedy for.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
A Fly bit the bare pate of a Bald Man, who,
endeavoring
to crush it," gave himself a heavy blow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
_ Why then do you command them the
contrary
to what _Peter_ and
_Paul_ did?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
*** *
Thus it is to the
contending
interests
that we have to return in our search for
the root of the present evil.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
That already in the early sixties the Holocaust was interpretedin anthropological
categoriessuchas
"transcendence"seemstobe unknowntotheauthors.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
|
I found that the youth spent a great part of each day
in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often
took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home
firing sufficient for the
consumption
of several days.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
_, for which
exchequer bill, no more interest will be
annually
paid than 4_l.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
There is the food also which
disperses itself
throughout
the body, in trees and cattle.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
He knew
every little wheel- work of the gigantic machine;
now he watched with
satisfaction
how it worked.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
who her
speechless
agonies
Could not in that brief moment guess!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow,
and I thought it unfair in me to
prejudice
the soil towards roses and
strawberries.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
|
Also the rocks transform
themselves
into property in Laurens County, Georgia; the citizens of this area are the "gorgios,"* fruit of Topsawyer's rocks--rocks now meaning "testicles.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
The war literature of the 1750s and 1760s, for the first time in French history,
presented
an international conflict neither as a duel between royal houses nor as a clash of religions, but as a battle between ir- reconcilable nations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
DARWINISM
AND RACE PROGRESS.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
Matthew Paris quite overshadows every other
chronicler
of
the time of Henry III.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
You
bewitched
the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was festering in your blood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
So that the whole scheme of his
accusers
(or
the whole effect of tbelr accusations) is to warn nil people to grant him
nothing, &c.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
But because we need not stand any longer to refute them, let this one thing suffice us, that Paul bound himself with a vow that he might bring those which were weak to Christ, at least that he might not offend them, which vow he knew was of no
importance
before God.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
|
Devasarman refutes the doctrine of Mu-lien or Maudgalyayana: this latter denies the
existence
of the past and future, exaaly as does Tissa Moggaliputta in
the Pali language ecclesiastical histories.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
|
To
which I answer, first, that there are no Ecclesiasticall Princes but
those that are also Civill Soveraignes; and their Principalities exceed
not the
compasse
of their Civill Soveraignty; without those bounds
though they may be received for Doctors, they cannot be acknowledged for
Princes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
In both
respects
we can now see many critical and perhaps unnecessary errors which delayed our success.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
|
Ere this was
banished
from its lofty sphere!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
|
—The greatest paradox
in the history of poetic art lies in this: that in all
that
constitutes
the greatness of the old poets a
man may be a barbarian, faulty and deformed from
top to toe, and still remain the greatest of poets.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
If this change should come, it would
be
necessary
to take steps!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
I
Such a
representation
would emphasize that the two parts of each metaphor are linked only via an experiential basis and that it is only by means of these experiential bases that the metaphor can serve the purpose of understanding.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
|
Swift's work came to astonish the world in 1727,
and some
fourteen
years later in the century Holberg astonished the
wits of Denmark with a satire cast in Lucian's mould.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
|
Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A
cluttered
incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
|
Because, after all, what IS a road like
Ellesmere
Road?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sallust - Catiline |
|
These poets lived at the time of Ptolemy
Philadelphus
[282-246 B.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
|