The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In the next room he heard a
rustle, shortly thereafter loud
smacking
and the sound of
cutlery on a plate.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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No cave on Kyllene has been confirmed as a cultic counterpart of the one described in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, but
Pausanias
(8.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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however, involves the least desirable
condition
for
the community, for it thereby loses the time to pro-
vide for its means of subsistence with the necessary
regularity, and sees the product of all work hourly
threatened.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Let the blessèd
apparition
melt not yet to its divine!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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In most ofthese passages, whether they are long or short, Marcus'
individuality
can scarcely be discerned; most of the time, we have to do with exhortations addressed to a moral person.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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When animals are subjected to
emaciation
the flesh disappears, and the creatures become a mass of veins and fibres; when they are over fed, fat takes the place of flesh.
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Aristotle copy |
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And Death, from my eyes,
stealing
the clarity,
Gives back to the day, defiled, all his purity.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thus many gter-ma texts are not
included
in the collection -some, such as the collections of the major texts of the great gter-ma masters, because they were widely available, others because copies could not be found.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Ulrich observed this with the same atten-
From the
Posthumous
Papers · 1 1 5 1
tion.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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L isten rather to
these
thoughts
on I ndulgence, that I find some pages later,
?
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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In the peculiar
oligarchical
system by which wartime Japan was ruled, the peace faction which gradually emerged and moved toward ascendancy had to proceed most cautiously-even conspiratorially-with respect to the die-hard faction.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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LAURENCE STERNE
1713-1768
To Miss LUMLEY
_The
disconsolate
lover_
[1740-1]
You bid me tell you, my dear L.
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Selection of English Letters |
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The circle of young men around George--der George Kreis,
as it was known in Germany--may perhaps be described as an
assembly of men of intellectual interests and ability which had
something in common with the group of poets who enjoyed the
intimacy of Mallarme and were habitual visitors in the Rue de
Rome, and something in common with the circle of young men
who
surrounded
Socrates as described in the Platonic dialogues.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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[109] There came poison, sweet Bion, to thy mouth, and poison thou didst eat – O how could it
approach
such lips as those and not turn to sweetness?
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Moschus |
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In the midst of the most heart-
rending narratives, Bull
requires
the day of the month, the year
of our Lord, the name of the parish, and the countersign of
three or four respectable householders.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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It was welcomed by the
Emperor's daughter Julia and
immediately
made Ovid the spokesman
of the gay and reckless society which was defying the Emperor's social
reform.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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All my lamps burn scented oil,
Hung on laden orange-trees,
Whose
shadowed
foliage is the foil
To golden lamps and oranges.
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Christina Rossetti |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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The
massacre
of this latter by his
own soldiers made the future dictator feel how insecure was his power;
he sought to put a stop to the opposition to which he was exposed by
accepting as a candidate at the consular comitia L.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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The sign of extraordinary merit is to see that those who envy
it most are
constrained
to praise it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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The wind begun to rock the grass
With
threatening
tunes and low, --
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I have taken for analysis, as a fair sample, the "World's Dispensary Medical Book," published by the proprietors of Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the Golden Medical Discovery,
Pleasant
Pellets, the Pierce Hospital, etc.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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Returning
to his own country in a vessel, and owing to the violence of a tempest, he was carried towards the western shores of Britain.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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“So many wretched souls would speed your flight,
Urge on the
lingering
suns,
Take with their days the canker and the blight;
Forget the happy ones!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Thou understandest, except Myself, Who inspire into the minds of My
servants
the grace of most subtle discernment, in order that, on the unveiling of his malice, they may see his face exposed, which he conceals closely covered under the garb of sanctity.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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No recuerdo si desperté ó me despertaron: pero anochecia cuando abrí
los ojos, y me hallé entre el melancólico Jústiz y el siempre alegre
Allo: interrogábanme ellos y respondíales yo: pero, ni me atrevia, ni
podia explicarles lo que todavía no se acusaba bien
definido
en mi
confusa memoria; excepto la de Stella, que, como la de los Magos, fué
lo primero que brotó claro del caos espirituoso que aún envolvia mis
enmarañados recuerdos.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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_(Todos se agrupan con
ansiedad
al rededor de la mesa.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Mais
demander pitié à notre corps, c'est discourir devant une pieuvre, pour
qui nos paroles ne peuvent pas avoir plus de sens que le bruit de l'eau,
et avec
laquelle
nous serions épouvantés d'être condamnés à vivre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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For us the role of military power is to serve the
national
purpose by deterring an attack upon us while we seek by other means to create an environment in which our free society can flourish, and by fighting, if necessary, to defend the integrity and vitality of our free society and to defeat any aggressor.
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NSC-68 |
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Nothin'
practical
came of it, till Sig.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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" Treatise on the Science of Defence," was of opinion, that he was not overstocked with that
necessary
ingre dient of a boxer, called a good bottom ; and suspected that blows, of equal strength with his own, too much affected and disconcerted him in many of his fights.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We propose to explain what could be the
conditions
of this rehabilitation.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Put all into a bottle,
which may be shaken now and then, and use of it may be
commenced
in
a few days.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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If we went by Metro, Boris
always got out at Cambronne station instead of Commerce, though Commerce was
nearer; he liked the association with General Cambronne, who was called on to
surrender
at Waterloo, and answered simply, ‘MERDE!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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| Answer: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_
THOUGH RACKED BY AGONY, HE DOES NOT
COMPLAIN
OF HER.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
date given for his reign by the
Chronicle
(560-588) cannot be trusted.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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He sobbed in such a heartbroken way
that those who were there,
demoralized
by the distress of it, were obliged
to rebuke him.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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That April should be
shattered
by a gust,
That August should be leveled by a rain,
I can endure, and that the lifted dust
Of man should settle to the earth again;
But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
Between my ribs forever of hot pain.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The opening up of national
territory
to international inspection involved in an adequate control and inspection system would have a far greater impact on the USSR than on the United States.
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NSC-68 |
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They have left
their mark on our literature in many ways; but, in attempting to
survey these early writings on politics and economics, and to group
them conveniently, it is important to remember that the views
they embodied were finding their fullest expression in political
action and fiery debate, rather than in graceful
literary
form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Other
accounts
have it, that St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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--Call it, wait, the
professor
said, opening his long lips wide to
reflect.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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' For the worker then, handicraftsman of whatever kind he
is, art is no longer to be a purple robe woven by a slave and thrown over
the
whitened
body of a leprous king to hide and to adorn the sin of his
luxury, but rather the beautiful and noble expression of a life that has
in it something beautiful and noble.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Extensive
collections
of Wodrow's papers, a large portion of which
is still unpublished, are in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and the
Library of the University of Glasgow.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Jupiter lives luxuriously on
ambrosia
and nectar; and yet we propitiate him with raw entrails and plain wine.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Ideas, whether one's own or those of one's opponents,
dominate
the scene entirely.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Destiny might also be spoken of in the case where a designer latches onto that something that is going to happen in any event,
impelling
it further, and stamping his name on it.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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the Roman case he injected the sacred back into a story conventionally seen as secular, emphasizing the dependence of nation-building on reli- gion--but a civil religion that oriented citizens toward the terrestrial city, not a
transcendent
one that turned them away from it.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Notice that even had the "skepticism" of "the Western left" to which Shawcross alludes existed to any significant degree, the idea that this could have the consequences he describes, coming from people sys- tematically barred from the media and mainstream discussion, is a construction of such
audacity
that one must admire its creator.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Weininger war ein edler Mensch
und es gibt nichts in seinem Leben, was sich nicht
aus dieser Eigenschaft
herleiten
liesse.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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7
Defamations, insults,
calumnies
14.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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you despise the thronging multitude of learne
Do you speak
contemptuously
of the teache
calling?
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Then he began to trim off one by one
the outlying
colonies
and dependencies of the Greek States.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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This argues strongly that attachment patterns are a feature of the parent-child relationship, as yet not 'internalised' at one year,
although
by 18 months patterns have become more stable, with maternal patterns tending to dominate over paternal.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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She doth tell me where to borrow
Comfort in the midst of sorrow,
Makes the desolatest place
To her
presence
be a grace,
And the blackest discontents
To be pleasing ornaments.
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William Browne |
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) This, although I knew the undertaking beyond my strength, I was
yet willing to attempt, with such power as I possessed, and
promised
to do it
according to the best of my ability.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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"--"Through every orb
Of that sad region," he reply'd, "thus far
Am I arriv'd, by heav'nly
influence
led
And with such aid I come.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A
and Poets Elmendorf
z
6ifZ4_try
POETRY AND
POETS
A READERS LIST chosen and arranged by Theresa West Elmendorf
That great poem which all poets, like the cooperative thoughts of one great mind, have built up since, the
begining
of the world.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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It is certain that, more than
three hundred and sixty years after the date ordinarily assigned
for the
foundation
of the city, the public records were, with
scarcely an exception, destroyed by the Gauls.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This address will be followed by
addresses of a similar tendency, from all parts of the
kingdom, in order to
overpower
you with what they
will endeavor to pass as the united voice and sense
of the nation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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American
blacks are not the only blacks in the world: the Tamils of India and Sri Lanka are far blacker.
| Guess: |
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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See in what wanton
harmless
folds.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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[13] G Not long afterwards, a war broke out between the Byzantines and the
inhabitants
of Callatis (a colony of Heracleia) and of Histria.
| Guess: |
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Her stories of the
comradeship
of New
England boys and girls in school or play have made her a popular
author in countries where even brothers and sisters see little of each
other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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"To honour father and mother, and from the root of the soul to do their
will"--this table of surmounting hung another people over them, and
became
powerful
and permanent thereby.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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I vas
fourteen
years old--and he asked me all
questions, religion and philosophy, and all in dhe Latin language--and I
answered him all every one, my dear friend!
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
|
Sau khi Hiến Tông mất, ông cùng
Nguyễn
Quang Bật nhận di chiếu lập Túc Tông.
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stella-04 |
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Mallarme's Preface of 1897
'I would prefer that this Note was not read, or, skimmed, was forgotten; it tells the
knowledgeable
reader little that is beyond his or her penetration: but may confuse the uninitiated, prior to their looking at the first words of the Poem, since the ensuing words, laid out as they are, lead on to the last, with no novelty except the spacing of the text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Further points along the curve mark, apart from the treaty of reparation with Israel in 1952, were the scene of 12th July in 1962 in Reims and Willy Brandt
kneeling
at the memo- rial in the Warsaw ghetto on 7th December 1970.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
|
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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You
are
endeavouring
to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my
will.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
|
343
them, and the water of a very wide river was
scarcely
visible, on
account of the dead carcasses of this innumerable horde, that were
drowned on attempting to come at the reeds that covered it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
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By contrast, the purely strategic successes, however far-reaching in particular instances, were never completely
convincing
to uncommitted observers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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With this purpose, we reason from an actual existence -- an experience in general, to an absolutely
necessary
condition of that ex istence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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let him seize
Pure pleasure while he can; the scorching ray
Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease:
Then let his length the
loitering
pilgrim lay,
And gaze, untired, the morn, the noon, the eve away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Second, while Trakl's potency was
probably
greatest in the hey- day of Deep Image, his methods have continued to be adopted and adapted.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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_ These
Waggoners
are a surly Sort of People; but are you willing
that we put a Trick upon them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
and
sulphurous
acids are not deleterious to their health there must be some- thingpeculiaraboutthemashumanbeings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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On the other
hand, the idea of securing himself against further
injury is in this case so entirely outside the avenger's
horizon, that he almost
regularly
brings about his
own further injury and often foresees it in cold
blood.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Over the next four years, he becomes a double agent who publically advocates
literary
publishing under the Vichy regime while he supports the underground Editions de Minuit and cofounds Les Lettres franc?
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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He impolitely spoke of Ary Scheffer and
the "apes of sentiment"; while his discussions of Hogarth, Cruikshank,
Pinelli and
Breughel
proclaims his versatility of vision.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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The Devil becomes a figure of immanence, and evil even gains
sympathy
through its civility.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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T.S. Eliot |
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36) of the said
anusayas
and the said coexistents, with their following {anuprdptis and laksanas) of the said praptis.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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We must also become
accustomed
to the constant trans rmation of things within and around us, including dust, lth, bad odors, and stenches.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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C'est de la même façon que tout le monde a connu à
Dives un
restaurateur
normand, propriétaire de «Guillaume le
Conquérant», qui s'était bien gardé--chose très rare--de donner à
son hôtellerie le luxe moderne d'un hôtel et qui, lui-même
millionnaire, gardait le parler, la blouse d'un paysan normand et vous
laissait venir le voir faire lui-même dans la cuisine, comme à la
campagne, un dîner qui n'en était pas moins infiniment meilleur, et
encore plus cher que dans les plus grands palaces.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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All the con-
cepts of the Church have been revealed in their true
colours—that is to say, as the most vicious frauds on
earth,
calculated
to depreciate nature and all natural
values.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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It is an established fact that the imagination is restrained
through the
regularity
and adequacy of sexual intercourse while on the
other hand abstention from or great irregularity in sexual intercourse
will cause the imagination to run riot.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Jones's trap, came mincing
daintily
in, chewing at a lump of
sugar.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Lull'd and late is the smoke of the First-day morning,
It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
It hangs thin by the
sassafras
and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Frail as dew upon the grass
Or the
spindrift
of the sea,
Out of nothing they were fashioned
And to nothing must return.
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Sappho |
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Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam,
Viscount
of St.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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When desire blinds the mind with
delusion
and dust, O thou holy
one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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KERR & COMPANY
1908
Copyright
1908
By Charles H.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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