Diseases
like snakes
crawling
over the earth, leaving trails of slime.
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Imagists |
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Radbert was a
man of very wide reading and had one of the best
libraries
of the time
at his command.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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"
"Nothing, good nurse, there's nothing wrong,
But send your
grandson
before long.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nor were his
accomplishments
entirely those of the scholar.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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A
modest woman may be
ravished
once, but her virtue is strengthened by it.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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He saw too deep into the world and took things too rebelliously to produce calm and
successful
poetry.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Anhes of Rocacoart, Ardenca, Aemelis,
From the power of grass,
From the white, alive in the seed,
From the heat of the bud,
From the copper of the leaf in autumn,
From the bronze of the maple, from the sap in the
bough ;
Lianor, loanna, Loica,
By the stir of the fin,
By the trout asleep in the gray-green of water ;
Vanna, Mandetta, Viera, Alodetta, Picarda, Manuela From the red gleam of copper,
Ysaut, Ydone, slight rustling of leaves,
Vierna, Jocelynn, daring of spirits,
By the mirror of
burnished
copper,'
O Queen of Cypress, Out of Erebus, the flat-lying breadth,
Breath that is stretched out beneath the world :
Out of Erebus, out of the flat waste of air, lying
beneath the world ;
Out of the brown leaf-brown colourless
Bring the imperceptible cool.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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[5] The Ganges is
represented
as a white woman, with a water-lily in
her right hand, and in her left a lute.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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To his Russian confreres gathered
there he read fragments of "Konrad Wallenrod,"
published in Moscow in 1828, the poem in which
the sentiment of
patriotism
finds its best expres-
sion.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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1722), 342, 470
James, Choice Collection, 204, 217
Richard, bishop of
Llandaff
(1737–
1816), 98, 400
Watt, William, 445; Kate Dalrymple,
243; Tinkler's Waddin, 243
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 373, 383 ;
Divine and Moral Songs, 184, 372 ;
*Hush !
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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On the level of the
individual
we need a new logic of discretion, of distance or even of not-knowing.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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When he got to Master Sang's gate, he heard something like singing or crying, and someone
striking
a lute and saying:
Father?
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Chuang Tzu |
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Likewise, Cadenas' poetry can be read in two movements: the first---influenced by the ideologically
revolutionary
"Tabla Redonda" group-- spans roughly from Una isla (1958) to Intemperie (1977).
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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244 I have a place on the
Chungnan
slopes.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Out of some forty dramatic pieces
recorded
as Shirley's, not more
than three have been lost.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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and statistics coming up
in the
seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries corresponds closely to an emerging interest in the future and to the idea that it may be a rational and even a secure strategy to prefer the insecure over the secure.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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The
strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is in his letters, however,
that he fully
expresses
his individuality.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Can a brave man do more or less
Than with nice conscientiousness
To exercise the calling he
inherits?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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From the tone
of resignation in which you have just referred to
students many would be inclined to think that you
had some peculiar
experiences
which were not at
all to your liking; but personally I rather believe
that you saw and experienced in such places just
what every one else saw and experienced in them,
but that you judged what you saw and felt more
justly and severely than any one else.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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On my first arrival,
the Greeks received me without enthusiasm: they did not, however,
wholly reject my advances; by slow degrees I gained over seven men to
be my
companions
and disciples, and Samos, Ephesus, and Abdera,[7] each
added one to the little company.
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Lucian |
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Dympna's mother, the daughter and king with their attendants standing beside the bed and
bewailing
the queen's departure.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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VIGNETTES
OVERSEAS
I
Off Gibraltar
BEYOND the sleepy hills of Spain,
The sun goes down in yellow mist,
The sky is fresh with dewy stars
Above a sea of amethyst.
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Sara Teasdale |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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"Bloody Fingers," another very popular variant of type 326, some-
times has a
victorious
baby as its central character.
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Childens - Folklore |
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We feel sure that this
easy-going
appreciation
of the Paris deci-
sions cannot be shared in Germany.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Some mothers would have insisted on
their daughter's accepting so good an offer on the first overture; but I
could not reconcile it to myself to force Frederica into a marriage from
which her heart revolted, and instead of
adopting
so harsh a measure
merely propose to make it her own choice, by rendering her thoroughly
uncomfortable till she does accept him--but enough of this tiresome
girl.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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XLIV
She pricks her horse behind the two, and gains,
Well nigh as soon as they, that valley; how
Her coming thither either lover pains,
Who lives and loves, untaught by me, may know:
But sorest vext sad Bradamant remains;
Beholding
her whence all her sorrows flow.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Thus
speaketh
one Ferdinand in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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TO EVA
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies
At the same torch that lighted mine;
For so I must interpret still
Thy sweet
dominion
o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
|
Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Και των μνηστήρων την καρδιάν ηύρ' εντροπή και λύπη•
απ' το
παλάτι
'ς την αυλή σιμά 'ς το μέγα τείχος
εβγήκαν όλοι κ' έμπροσθεν της θύρας εκαθίσαν,
και ωμίλησεν ο Ευρύμαχος, το τέκνο του Πολύβου• 345
«Έργον μέγα ο Τηλέμαχος κατώρθωσε μ' αυθάδεια,
τέτοιο ταξείδι, κ' είπαμε 'που δεν θα το τελειώση.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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They were not
to eat of the fruit of the
forbidden
tree.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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i=;ii:i'ii1t-=ii+
; :j i:
=i,i=i: :i f ; : i'zii i
+\=r=ii=
?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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To oppose this
we can enhance courage, insight, hardness, inde-
pendence, and the feeling of responsibility; we can
also subtilise and learn to forestall the
delicacy
of
the scales, so that favourable accidents may be
enlisted on our side.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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I shall feel
myself under an obligation to anyone who is the means of sending my
brother home, because,"
recollecting
myself, "I know my father wants
very much to see him.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Horos Dios: An
Athenian
shrine and cult of Zeus.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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The
whole train of their thought runs, as was always
the ,_way__5r oldTasEiohecf " pBirosopHefsP^ori
thoroughly unhist6ncaniH5sT"'thef6~ is n5' doubt
on~ THI5''poinl:r~ TTiS ~ crass ineptitude of their
genealogy of morals is immediately apparent
when the question arises of ascertaining the origin *
of the idea and
judgment
of " good.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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'Molecular clock' refers to the observation that certain
biological
molecules change at a rather fixed rate over the millions of years.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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) And we
should note for what it is worth the observation in the ancient Greek
argument: "The play is
somewhat
satyr-like ([Greek: saturiphkoteron]).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As for the Greeke, wherein I have but
small understanding, my father purposed to make me learne it by art;
But by new and uncustomed meanes, that is, by way of
recreation
and
exercise.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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'Tis known that he was Vishnevetsky's servant;
That to a ghostly father on a bed
Of sickness he disclosed himself; possessed
Of this strange secret, his proud master nursed him,
From his sick bed
upraised
him, and straightway
Took him to Sigismund.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[1] I cry woe for Adonis and say The
beauteous
Adonis is dead; and the Loves cry me woe again and say The beauteous Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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Behold, the heedless, torpid, yearn to try
And block the
insidious
entry, there they lie,
Whom the herald summons urging them to rise.
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Troubador Verse |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Tully - Offices |
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Elsewhere
dukkhassantakaro hoti (Puggalapanfiatti).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Dehors, des
thèmes populaires finement écrits pour des instruments variés, depuis
la corne du raccommodeur de porcelaine, ou la
trompette
du rempailleur
de chaises, jusqu'à la flûte du chevrier qui paraissait dans un beau
jour être un pâtre de Sicile, orchestraient légèrement l'air
matinal, en une «ouverture pour un jour de fête».
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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--Whoever examines the conscience of the present-day European,
will always elicit the same imperative from its
thousand
moral folds
and hidden recesses, the imperative of the timidity of the herd "we wish
that some time or other there may be NOTHING MORE TO FEAR!
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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It was published and preached through all their territories, and the
Romanists were ashamed and
confounded
at it, and knew not what
to doe, lest this discovery should proceed further.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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The growth of the Russian empire implies not only the extension of
the area of its civilisation but also the
absorption
of many elements
belonging to foreign races and speaking foreign tongues, and their
coalescence with the dominant Russian nation.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Golding, Lodge, Webbe, and others,
with whatever delight they may have read poetry and discussed
it with their intimates, ventured to defend the poems of Ovid only
on the ground that superior insight into such matters or the proper
method of interpretation enabled them to see deep meanings of
moral or philosophical import where
ignorant
or untrained readers
saw only "toyes.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Later
invasion
of the Turk and his character.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Your wise men don't know much of navigation;
And
swimming
long in the abyss of thought
Is apt to tire: a calm and shallow station
Well nigh the shore, where one stoops down and gathers
Some pretty shell, is best for moderate bathers.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Such work requires an idealized version of democracy, one that rests on a fundamental cleavage between actual existing
democracy
and democracy itself.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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pars acrior anni
exulat ; aeterni patet
indulgentia
veris.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Who can exhaust the possibilities of their
combination?
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| Question: |
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The-Art-of-War |
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"Would,"
exclaims
Cicero, "that
we still had the old ballads of which Cato speaks!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
downward
path—hitherto this had been called
the road to "Truth.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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```Me voces audire juvat sua gaudia fassas:
````Utque morer memet,
sustineamque
roget.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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You have a shared IP address, and someone else has
triggered
the block.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Elections for a new National
Assembly
were held in August 1923, the new Republic of Turkey was officially pro- claimed in October with Mustafa Kemal (Atatiirk) as its first president, and the capital was moved from Istanbul to Ankara.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Meantime the organized political anarchy, symbolized
in the phrase 'A Pole in his castle's as strong as a
king', and cunningly guaranteed by the neighbouring
powers, resulted in the luxuriant
omnipotence
of the
great nobles, too selfish and jealous of each other to
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
The slaughter of the Masurian Lakes was paralleled by the demoralizing catastrophe of Caporetto --a catastrophe which appears to have been repeated in but
slightly
different form on the plains below the Guadarramas during the Spanish Civil War.
| Guess: |
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Do
you know that you run a risk of being lost in the
marshes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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No practical
knowledge
of
a man, for example, stood he never so near to us, can be complete--so
that we could have a logical right to form a total estimate of him; all
estimates are summary and must be so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Jerome (Chron_1696 , Chron_1725), and
Phaedrus
(5'1).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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So those passionate letters, that audacious pursuit were
not the result of
tenderness
and love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Diotima
suddenly
felt uneasy and moved to get back to the car.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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" Trí Thiên said: "Then
comprehend
it by yourself.
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| Question: |
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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individual
Project Gutenberg(TM) electronic work is posted
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Stephen Crane |
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After her come Rothari and Grimoald, and the great king Liutprand,
and
parallel
with the main narrative is traced the history of the duchies
of Friuli and Spoleto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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The latter was not a
technical
term yet.
| Guess: |
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
The memorandum of his but notorious as one of the
accusers
of Socrates,
death is in Cap.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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But one could also say that his solitude-a condition that was present within him as well as around him, binding both his worlds-it could be said, and he felt it himself, that this
solitude
was growing greater or denser all the time.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Having thus come to Furnillos,
a small place of fourteen or fifteen houses, she perceived there a
pretty house with a fine view, and remained there; "for it was
unseemly for a widow to live in a
populous
city.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come,
To kiss and bear away
The richer
cowslips
home.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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His sword in splinters smites the Moorish lance:
Arronchez
won revenges Lira's fall:
And lo, on fair Savilia's batter'd wall,
How boldly calm, amid the crashing spears,
That hero-form the Lusian standard rears.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Since the
Iausafire
hulo.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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In 1836, long before Marey and Muybridge, the attainment of the differential system was at
first possible only in stasis, as if Daguerre's long-term
exposures
had found a scientifically parallel maneuver.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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Those with the wisdom that perceives the suchness of functional things without
distortion
see the self as non-existent.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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However, if you provide access to or
distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the
official
version
posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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not the courage to deprive an innocent being, who led so
lonely a life, of an
amusement
she so much desired.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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A day it was when I could bear
To think, and think, and think again;
With so much
happiness
to spare,
I could not feel a pain.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Are these fond dreams of
happiness
confess'd.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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Four handmaids of the day
Had finish'd now their office, and the fifth
Was at the chariot-beam, directing still
Its balmy point aloof, when thus my guide:
"Methinks, it well behooves us to the brink
Bend the right shoulder'
circuiting
the mount,
As we have ever us'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Upon reflection, however, I understand that his argument honors enough of the grand academic tradition to which we belong and appears open enough for the
contemporary
situation to suit both my conservative and my presentist tastes.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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solid or true in all
Arguments
whatsoever.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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These
considerations, obvious as they are, may
afford some comfort under the impos-
sibility of sudden change, and may recon-
cile us to the slow
operations
of time and
truth, acting as they do irresistibly together.
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Childrens - Frank |
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It is to be
uncommonly
dreadful.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Ifyou were to be reconciVd to the church
meaning
Home, you must
subscribe
the creed of pope jP/ko IV.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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There cannot be a more cer tain way of
misinterpreting
and distorting Grecian phenomena than to read them in this spirit, which reverses the maxims both of prudence and morality current in the ancient world.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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It is
impossible
where I live; there is no private
entrance to my rooms.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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