As such, in October 1813,
Jefferson
felt he could send to John Adams the following report of success:
There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Alas, the torn lantern of my hope
Trembles
and sputters in the rain.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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One should
sympathise
with the entirety of
life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and
beauty and energy and health and freedom.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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[617]
“Clodius
is cast down from the tribune, and I steal away, for fear
of accident.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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Fastening their hands
together
they marched them with the postillions into a wood, and ordered them to stay there an hour on peril of their lives.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Murry has shown, without the shadow of a doubt, that in spirit and in act Keats is indeed not only with
Shakespeare
but like him.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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--Voyons,
ma petite Andrée,
pourquoi
nier des choses que je sais depuis au moins
trois ans, je n'y trouve rien de mal, au contraire.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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It would hardly be an
exaggeration
to say that historians of the Federal Republic receive more attention from the GDR than from any other country in the world.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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3 4 Annius Verus, from the town of Succuba in Spain, who was made a senator and attained to the dignity of praetor, was his father's grandfather; his great-grandfather on his mother's side was
Catilius
Severus,4 who twice held the consulship and was prefect of the city.
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Historia Augusta |
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Title of Play : A
Midsummer
Night's Dream
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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The
Russian invasion in Armenia showed that,
where neglect or half-heartedness are more
or less avoided, enormous
territorial
suc-
cesses might be won with forces which,
on any European front, would prove in-
sufficient for any serious push.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Lawrence
Lifschultz, Far Eastern Economic Review, January 30, 1981.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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But Trakl had intervened and, as Bly says with regard to his friend's
psychological
torments, "Wright was himself living in the dark.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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640 (#668) ############################################
640
Index of Names
36
an
Leigh,
Percival
(pseud.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Perhaps you are
beginning
to perceive how very
much this music improves me?
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Chicherin, who
personified
the carefully tailored traditional diplomat rather than the simply uniformed revolutionary, was to refrain from inflammatory rhetoric
for the sake of working deals.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Rousseau
gave this often, and his in-
fluence makes itself felt even in the writings of
Staszyc, though the latter clamours for the con-
solidation of the governmental power, shaken by
the institutions of the noble-republican regime and
the Liberum Veto.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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For assonance is indeed a common fixture of English lyric forms that, unlike the sonnet, still depend primarily on oral
performance
and aural consumption.
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Translated Poetry |
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But as mean natures are numer-
ous, and since it is very
important
whether they
possess that thoroughness or lose it, hence
64.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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L'autre jour, il a
dit qu'il avait mangé des pommes de terre _sublimes_, et qu'il avait
trouvé à louer une
baignoire
_sublime_.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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In 1738 even this modest amount of publicity was
objected
to.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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From Longchen Rabjam's
collected
writings (Boudhanath: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2005).
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Of those I often have contact with 4 I
remember
one, but don?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Here the "seal" is the great seal, the deity body developed in the
creation
stage.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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1) and John Hall Stewart and James
Friguglietti
(vol.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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To consider
explicitly
what some poets have made of Trakl, it is apposite to begin with Wright's "Echo for the Promise of Georg Trakl's Life" (1971):
Quiet voice,
In the midst of those blazing Howitzers in blossom.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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]
[Sidenote D: His wife,
accompanied
by her maids, leaves her seat.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As it is, men who
are not fit to swallow even a morsel, buy whole
treatises
and try to
devour them.
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Epictetus |
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absolute nature - chos nyid
actual state - gnas lugs
agitation - rgod
as-it-is-ness - de bzhin nyid awakening mind - byang chub sems
awareness
- rig pa
being - sku
Conqueror - rgyal wa
consciousness - shes pa
conventional - tha snyad
Crossing Over - thod rgal
Cutting Solidity - khregs chod
cyclic existence -'khor wa
deception - kun rdzob
Devil - bdud
ensuing experience - rjes thob
equipoise - mnyam bzhag
essence - ngo wo
evil destinies - ngan 'gro
expanse - dbyings
experience(s) - nyams
freedom from suffering - myang 'das
going beyond suffering - myang 'das
Great Completion - rdzogs chen
ground - gzhi
impregnable ground - btzan sa
indeterminate - lung ma bstan
indivisible union - zung 'juk
intention - dgongs pa
inner space - klong
insight - lhag mthong
Kyabje - skyab rje
let be- 'jog
let go - 'jog
level - sa
lucidity - gsal wa
luminosity - 'od gsal
Luminous Indestructible Heart Essence - 'od sal rdo rje snying po manifest energy - rtsal
-12-
mind - sems
mindful - dren pa
mountain spirituality - ri chos
nature - rang bzhin
neurotic thoughts - nyon mongs rtog pa
nirmanakaya - sprul sku
practice - drup pa or nyams len
primal knowing - ye shes
primordial nature - gdod ma'i gshis
rational mind - blo
reality - yin lugs
realize, realization - rtogs pa
quiescence - zhi gnas
sacred commitment - dam tsig
self-occurring - rang byung
self-settle - rang babs
sinking - bying
thought - rnam rtog or rtog pa
three gates - sgo gsum
Threefold Being - sku gsum
Total Goodness - kun tu bzang po, skt.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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This turning of the question back on Beaufret is not entirely without
pedagogical
cruelty, for it reveals to the student the false answer contained within the question.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Copyright
(C) 2001, 2002 by
Michael S.
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Whitman |
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CIX
And next
implored
the maid, she of her grace
Would bear her on the croupe to the other shore.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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You may think that I am demanding an awful lot of
subtlety
from
you at this point.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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It was proceeding
most successfully when
unexpectedly
interrupted by the
Nazi onslaught in the middle of 1941.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Pomifer
autumnus
fruges effuderit; et mox
Bruma recurret iners.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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This Rule, founded upon the famous letter of
St
Augustine
to a congregation of religious women, was supposed to
embody the principles upon which he had constituted the common life of
his clerks at Hippo.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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--an Indian had brought them
the tidings,--
Slain by a poisoned arrow, shot down in the front of the battle,
Into an ambush beguiled, cut off with the whole of his forces; 905
All the town would be burned, and all the people be
murdered!
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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The
sensations
of pleasure, of satisfaction, and of equanimity are retribution for good actions.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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For decades,
the Irish Republican Army
terrorizes
the British government and people.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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You
come here with coarse, lustful ears, and you do not
bring with you your
conscience
of the art of listen-
ing.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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--The
friendship
that subsisted
between Tacitus and the younger Pliny is well known.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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_25
The great ship seems
splitting!
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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_25
The great ship seems
splitting!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Out of
consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at
the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did
not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie
quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any
pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit
of
crawling
up and down the walls and ceiling.
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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"First-fruits" are oblations, because they were offered to
God,
according
to Dt.
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this
eBook or online at www.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
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Which in his usual way he re
peateih, saying, And upon the
kingdoms
which have not called upon Thy name.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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IN EINEM
VERLASSENEN
ZIMMER
Fenster, bunte Blumenbeeten,
Eine Orgel spielt herein.
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Towards me he ever turned an eye of favor and kindness, and as his
pupil I felt for him extreme
affection
and devotion, so that I passed
four years in his service.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There was no force to
oppose him, and Husain was
compelled
to flee, leaving not only his
camp, but the ladies of his harem, in the victor's hands.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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1 The
continuity
of secure and insecure attachment
116 Attachment Theory
satisfactory way.
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| Question: |
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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And in that he hath raised him up from the dead, not to return
hereafter
to corruption, he hath said thus, I will give you the holy things of David.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Finally, what still
remained to be
sacrificed?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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When
the German ceases to be Faust, there is no danger
greater than of
becoming
a Philistine and falling
into the hands of the devil-heavenly powers alone
can save him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Away, away, went Auster,
Like an arrow from the bow:
Black Auster was the
fleetest
steed
From Aufidus to Po.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[304] Hortensius joined the army, and served the first campaign as a common soldier, and the second as a
military
tribune: Sulpicius was made a legate; and Antonius was absent on a similar account.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
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We have met the precious
teachings
of the greater vehicle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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"He has a truly interpretative faculty," says Matthew Ar-
nold: "the most
profound
and delicate sense of the life of nature, and
the most exquisite felicity in finding expressions to render that sense.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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The
intention
then is to give pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
March 2 2018: There are some problems with the automated software used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass
downloads
from hurting site performance for everyone else).
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
|
Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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"]
It is altogether incorrect to say, as has often been said, that Bacon was the first man who rose up against the
Aristotelian
philosophy when in the height of its power.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
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AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in
separate
stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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But to
understand
this claim, we need first to have seen more of the context from which Trakl's poetry emerged.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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XIX
A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With
thunderous
blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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And Alexis says that there were many tutors and teachers of that kind of life at Athens,
speaking
thus in his Pyraunus -
I wished to try another style of life,
Which all men are accustomed to call wet.
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| Source: |
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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What is the
prospect
from that mount in our garden, where I
have sat so many happy hours with my Billy?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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He described the core of the logical demand needed to construct the specific psychic
structure
inherent to the totalitarian mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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They who have already
enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know that their desire
to return is little more than the
restlessness
of a vacant mind, that
they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather
to leave the country than to see the town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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The
inclusion
of the judgment
of Rhadamanthys (frag.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
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tl928]
A series of vivid pictures of Polish life,
illustrating
the high spots
of history, written in a simple and intimate style.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Moreover, there
are blackguards like this miserable
Bluntschli
at
the head of the patriots!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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A kumpavin on
iceslant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
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_
For we, though lapped in earth we then shall lie,
By thwart adversities will work our will
On them who shall
transgress
this oath of mine,
Paths of despair and journeyings ill-starred
For them ordaining, till their task they rue.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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He
composed
his first poems for his patron's wife, Marguerite de Turenne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
To
the position of
Voltaire
in Europe in 1770 there has never been
any other man's position in any age wholly comparable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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But to have
received
benefits
from one, whom we acknowledge our superiour, enclines
to love; because the obligation is no new depession: and cheerfull
acceptation, (which men call Gratitude,) is such an honour done to
the obliger, as is taken generally for retribution.
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
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[48]
Anonymous
{ F 67 } G
Through love Zeus became a swan for Leda, a bull for Europa, a satyr for Antiope, and gold for Danae.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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The butterfly and I had lit upon,
Nevertheless, a message from the dawn,
That made me hear the wakening birds around,
And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground,
And feel a spirit kindred to my own;
So that
henceforth
I worked no more alone;
But glad with him, I worked as with his aid,
And weary, sought at noon with him the shade;
And dreaming, as it were, held brotherly speech
With one whose thought I had not hoped to reach.
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But she is
perfectly
amiable, and often condescends
to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.
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His name also occurs in the
Martyrology
of Donegal,* at this date, as Aedhan of Lis-mor.
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He is a notable lad; he shall be known among twenty: complexion not white but rather like to fire; eyes keen and beamy; of an ill
disposition
but fair spoken, for he means not what he says – ‘tis voice of honey, heart of gall; forward, cozening, a ne’er-say-troth; a wily brat; makes cruel play.
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Moschus |
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Yet who
complains?
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Attacked
by an insidious disease, the nature of
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Once again, I insist that this is no reason to abandon the academic
tradition
of the humanities.
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--Several successive acts of
exchange
have only made the last represent the first?
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not only to contribute to the amusement and
advantage of children, but to point out by
what means every father, and still more every
mother, may, by care in the
previous
educa-
tion of their children at home, guard in a
great measure against the danger which they
fear at school; and by what means they may
give to their boys the greatest chance of se-
curing every advantage to be hoped from
public education.
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Childrens - Frank |
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In the sweet shire of Cardigan,
Not far from
pleasant
Ivor-hall,
An old man dwells, a little man,
I've heard he once was tall.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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At last
Hercules
appeared and fought with the monster.
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Le même garde forestier qui
s'y trouvait alors y était encore auprès de la «marquise», quand,
suivant ma grand'mère qui, parce qu'elle avait sans doute une nausée,
tenait sa main devant sa bouche, je montai les degrés du petit théâtre
rustique
édifié
au milieu des jardins.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Old servant, sit and eat, banishing fear
And mute amazement; for,
although
provoked
By appetite, we have long time abstain'd,
Expecting ev'ry moment thy return.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Till lately it was not part of the
repertory
of
the Abbey Theatre, for I had grown to dislike it without knowing what I
disliked in it.
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Yeats - Poems |
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that Ye
Jacobites
by Name, which he got from Johnson's Museum,
was largely the work of Burns.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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In the mean time he had undertaken
the
editorship
of the Fortnightly Review, a position which he held
from 1867 to 1882.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Belacqua, idealised
something
hor- rid, made the widow and her huge escort, who now stalked off, four lovely deaf ears, faces tilted slightly to the starry sky, one in this sordid matter.
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