Rather, let me ask the same question, as I could never have hoped
to meet my dear
Constance
at an inn.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Esa armonía que el viento That harmony that the breeze
recoge entre esos millares creates among countless leaves
de floridos olivares, of flourishing olive trees,
que agita con manso aliento; that it stirs so tenderly,
ese dulcísimo acento that sweetest mystery
con que trina el ruiseñor from the tree-top, close to dawn,
de sus copas morador that calls the
approaching
morn,
llamando al cercano día, the nightingale's trill, sweet spell,
¿no es verdad, gacela mía, isn't it true, my gazelle
que están respirando amor?
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Jose Zorrilla |
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If I am right about this, that Faith and
Knowledge
represents the birthplace of the Hegel we know best, i.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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At length, in 1819, a friend in
Edinburgh
sent me
down Mr.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies,
and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few
acres of bramble-covered land which
represent
the family estate,
and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents,
wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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" In 1845 he published "The Psalms of the
Future" (Faith, Hope, and Love), in which he is
rather a
publicist
than a poet, and several short
lyric poems.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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He asked his friends to wait a little, and they noticed how he
continued
along the way alone without looking around.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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If weakened with shame and bad conscience
One of those criminals comes, squinting out over my garden,
Bridling
at nature's pure fruit, punish the knave in his hindparts,
Using the stake which so red rises there at your loins.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The buggy was a new one and, praise Dykes, it stood the strain,
Till the Waler jumped a bullock just above the City Drain;
And the next that I
remember
was a hurricane of squeals,
And the creature making toothpicks of my five-foot patent wheels.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
qualities
of sugar remain with sugar, and those of salt, with salt.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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The chin rose to a mouth he guessed,
But could not see, the lips were pressed
Loosely together, the edges close,
And the proud and
delicate
line of the nose
Melted into a brow, and there
Broke into undulant waves of hair.
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Amy Lowell |
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Indeed, Descartes begins to ask a set of
questions
that perform what they claim cannot be performed: "how can I deny that these hands and this body are mine?
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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And onee in every three years the directors shall lay before the stockholders, at a general meeting, for their information, an exact and particular statement of the debts which shall have remained unpaid, after the ex> piration of the
original
credit, for a period of treble the term of that credit, and of the surplus of profit, if any, after deducting losses and dividends.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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References
Beard's
Readings
in American Government and Politics, New and Re-
vised Edition, Chap.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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" The same account is given by Speed and Grimeston, but the story is so confusedly told in Camden, that any one manufacturing a
Newspaper
account from his statement might easily be led into error.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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I am
satisfied
as I am.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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The
sketches
of the queen and
Shore's wife are drawn by a master.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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His feats of rhyming, in
particular
in a tongue so little fitted
for it as is ours, can be seen in his unfinished poem of 'Queen
Anelida and False Arcite,' in the 'Complaint to Venus,' and in the
envoy which follows the Clerk's Tale.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Like Dunbar, Douglas was of good family, and a cleric; but he
had
influence
and fortune which brought him a large measure of
worldly success.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Will not the
generations
to
come begin again to have an over-abounding faith in kings and queens,
in masterful spirits, whatever names we call them by?
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Yeats |
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Thou, whether broad Timavus' rocky banks
Thou now art passing, or dost skirt the shore
Of the
Illyrian
main,- will ever dawn
That day when I thy deeds may celebrate,
Ever that day when through the whole wide world
I may renown thy verse- that verse alone
Of Sophoclean buskin worthy found?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In these moments, power serves its more
familiar
repressive function, holding back the capacities of those indi- viduals against whom it acts.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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"
With a very
pleasant
smile, he replied, "Yes, I do want to buy some,
are you for sale?
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Peut-être aussi n'avez-vous pas de ce que je
pourrais faire pour vous un assez grand désir pour que je me donne tant
d'ennuis, car je vous le
répète
très franchement, Monsieur, pour moi ce
ne peut être que de l'ennui.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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B) CONSTELLATIONS SOUTH OF THE ECLIPTIC
[319] Now these constellations lie between the North and the Sun’s
wandering
path [the ecliptic], but others many in number rise beneath between the South and the Sun’s course.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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The
earliest
of them to be erected was
>
>
## p.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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And We will also that our FXecutours the
title France and the Cominions and marches
the same continued and
preserved
the same be not destitute such head and
them shall gyve orders for the pay
such Legacyes they shall think governor shall aye and meet rule and
more
ments
meet
whom
this our p’nt Testament.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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The hag be
confounded!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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No, no, no, a
thousand
times no!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Pope
Innocent
I wrote a letter of
CH.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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ad tua me fluctus proiectam litora portent,
occurramque oculis
intumulata
tuis,
duritia ferrum ut superes adamantaque teque,
'non tibi sic' dices 'Phylli, sequendus eram'.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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John Hunt, for libel ; to pay a fine of £100, and to give security for good
behaviour
for five
years.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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drunkenness, and concupiscence, since the Apostle says, neither the effemi- nate nor
drunkards
shall possess the kingdom of God.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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I once knew a certain Benedicta whose
presence
ailed the air with the
ideal and whose eyes spread abroad the desire of grandeur, of beauty, of
glory, and of all that makes man believe in immortality.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ça ne fait mal à personne, et
si ça peut leur faire plaisir à ces bonnes gens, ce n'est pas moi qui
y
trouverai
à redire!
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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85 a day or 21 pounds per shovel - to
distinguish
normal from abnormal workers, with the former denoted by the receipt of white slips and the latter denoted by the receipt of yellow slips.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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My senses wad be in a creel,
Should I but dare a hope to speel,
Wi' Allan, or wi' Gilbertfield,
The braes o' fame;
Or Fergusson, the writer chiel,
A
deathless
name.
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Robert Burns |
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TO
LICINIUS
MURENA.
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Horace - Works |
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* The Bollandistss have a notice of him, at this date, but with many of the doubts expressed, and which intrinsically arise from the
difficulty
of distinguishing this individual saint.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Mưu hì* nhún lác, trơ quây
đồỉ
sang.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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But who is he,
My
terrible
antagonist?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For
therefore
too did the Lord Jesus Christ rise from the tomb in the morning, that what He hath dedicated in the foundation, the same He might promise to
the house.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Insure against street
accident
too.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other
American
magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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His controversy
with John Henry (afterward Cardinal) New-
man, in 1864, led to the latter
publishing
his
celebrated (Apologia pro Vita Sua.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Reeds and some
discarded
garments all hastily cobbled together--
I helped to make it myself: diligent in my own grief.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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for it justly
rejoices
the races whose life is a span
To lift unto Thee their voices--the Author and Framer of Man.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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My dress
fragrant
still with the perfume you wore.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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When some small boys, at this same resort,
ridiculed
the Mohamme-
?
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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From the circle of your cropped hair
there is light,
and about your male torse
and the foot-arch and the
straight
ankle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Die Strassen Adolf Hitlers--ein Dombau
unsererZeit
(Granite and heart.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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' Well then, judging by this test—the only one within our reach— Junius had not an '
immediate
effect,' as Dr.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Until now I believed that I
deserved
more from thee when I had done all things for thee, persevering still in obedience to thee.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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No, it is some
gracious
God through him.
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Epictetus |
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William Browne |
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One would hardly believe how
expensive
such little persons are!
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Which of us two would it be then that
wouldfaytwoismotethanonejwoulditbeI?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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"
_Master Francis
Beaumont
to Ben Jonson.
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Thomas Otway |
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Putting his hand under that of the visitor, he lays hold of the middle of the back, having his face in the same
direction
as the other; and thus he receives (the bow).
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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And much more pleasantly the Jews expect to this day the
coming of the Messiah, and so
obstinately
contend for their Law of Moses.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Paintings again he
mentions
in his
description of a shrine of Dionysus, paintings telling all the myths of
the god.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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| Question: |
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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And when his
labouring
of the strong fence of that place of vines was got all to its end, then would he stick his spade upon the pile of the earth he had digged and put on those clothed he wore before; but lo!
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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The first
Marguerite
was the sister of
Francis the First.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Historical loss describes the diminution and
rejection
of the Pre-Socratic expression of the relation between humans and the world (the conception ofBeing), a rejection that, he claims, precipitated the philosophical confusion ofWestern civilization.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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"
Pancaskandha: prdptih katamdP
pratilambhah
samanvdgamah / .
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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whither are thy wits gone
wandering?
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Theocritus - Idylls |
|
"On the fifteenth day, I will come on moon rays,
with blessings and compassion, shaking the world;
I will empty all the lower realms,
benefitting all beings with my perfect
charismatic
action.
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| Question: |
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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bodhi Sutra
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
The Baizhang Zen
Monastic
Regulations
Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-Eye Treasury vol.
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| Question: |
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Shobogenzo |
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However, the name of the Cavari has
so obtained, that all the
barbarians
inhabiting near now go by that
designation; nay, even those who are no longer barbarians, but follow
the Roman customs, both in their speech and mode of life, and some of
those even who have adopted the Roman polity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Strabo |
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"I can't
remember
things as I
used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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ah, ne'er again
Shall they return unto our eyes,
Car-borne, 'neath silken
canopies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Sometimes
the first foot was a dactyl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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\
And there are other poems in which the same note is struck, v
\
VI
The
tendency
to see George as a figure of masterfulness, of
complete self-possession, to which the later volumes lend some
evidence has been extended to cover the whole of his life.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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Another Eminent Person that
suffered
with him at the same Time and Place, was one Mr.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
into iron.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
|
To a play of low comedy,
he tacks on a romantic plot of a painful
character?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
The
character
of Faust
especially, the man whose burning, untiring heart can neither enjoy
fortune nor do without it, who gives himself unconditionally and watches
himself with mistrust, who unites the enthusiasm of passion and the
dejectedness of despair, is not this an eloquent opening up of the most
secret and tumultuous part of the poet's soul?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
W here applause is
q uick and freq uent, conceit
calculates
all debts instan-
taneously; k nows what success is owed, and claims its due,
i3
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
If he be rich, who is wise, and a good shoemaker, and alone handsome,
and a king, why do you wish for that which you are
possessed
of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
335
'ς τον βασιληά τον
Άκαστο
πιστά να μ' οδηγήσουν
τους είπε, αλλ' εβουλεύθηκαν αυτοί κακό 'ς εμένα,
όπως μεγάλη συμφορά και πάλι μ' απαντήση.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Gervis in the same novel, if not as striking is as finely
drawn a
portrait
as St.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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As boy, I thought myself a clever fellow,
And wish'd that others held the same opinion;
They took it up when my days grew more mellow,
And other minds acknowledged my dominion:
Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow
Leaf,' and
Imagination
droops her pinion,
And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Catullus, 1, 12, 13, 36; Vivamus, mea
Lesbia, atque amemus, 2; Luctus in
morte passeris, 9
Cavaliers Catechisme and confession of his
faith, The, 383
Cavaliers' Catechisme, or the Reformed
Protestant
catechising
the anti-christian
Papist, 382
Cavaliers' Diurnall, The, 388
Cavaliers Letanie, The, 383
Cave of Envy, in Sandys's Ovid, 51
Cavendish family, 282, 289.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Then thrice she stamped the
trembling
ground,
And thrice she waved her wand around;
When I, endow'd with greater skill,
And less inclined to do you ill,
Mutter'd some words, withheld her arm,
And kindly stopp'd the unfinish'd charm.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Some are already sent to
overtake
him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Therefore
the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that
of what is soft and weak is above.
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Tao Te Ching |
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His
wounding
of the Lady of Troezen shall be part cause of his wild lustful bitch shall be frenzied for adulterous bed.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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It is now many years since the writer of the following
letters had his mind more especially directed to the instruction of children ;
and no part of
Scripture
has he found so to arrest their young minds as
Genesis i.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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--With the
exception
of some few
philosophers, men have placed sympathy very low in the rank of moral
feelings: and rightly.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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One reason, no doubt, is the simple fact that the person preoccupied with dodging enemy missiles does not find much time to think about other matters which might
otherwise
disturb him.
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He believes that in savage
life it _is_, and in wisely organized society of duly enlightened and
civilized beings it should be the source of ten-fold more
happiness
than
misery.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Suddenly
rose from the south a light, as in autumn the blood-red
Moon climbs the crystal walls of heaven, and o'er the horizon
Titan-like stretches its hundred hands upon mountain and meadow,
Seizing the rocks and the rivers, and piling huge shadows together.
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Longfellow |
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190] But now the clattring of the swordes and
harnesse
at that tide
With grievous grones and sighes of such as wounded were or dide,
Did raise up such a cruell rore that nothing could be heard.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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"--I am so apt to a _lapsus linguae_, that I
sometimes
think
the character of a certain great man I have read of somewhere is very
much _apropos_ to myself--that he was a compound of great talents and
great folly.
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Robert Forst |
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There is not a man in the world over whom the past has
acquired
such
a power as over me.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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