Is the failed
pillager
equal to him who gains?
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Her next
performance
was raising the anvil, (which might weigh nearly 200 lbs.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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This result leads to a philosophy of world negation: which, at
any rate, can be as well
combined
with a practical world affirmation as
with its opposite.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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”
Elizabeth could safely say that it was a great happiness where that was
the case, and with equal sincerity could add, that she firmly believed
and
rejoiced
in his domestic comforts.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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es and his face showed no displeasure, felt constrained to tell the new
minister
about the old minister's (mode of) governing?
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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There is nothing
youthful in its pessimism, nothing even Byronic
in its want of
confidence
in men.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-22 00:49 GMT / http://hdl.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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It needed some imagination, some gift
for day-dreams, to see the horses and the fields and flowers of Colonus
as one listened to the elders gathered about OEdipus, or to see 'the
pendent bed and
procreant
cradle' of the 'martlet' as one listened to
Duncan before the castle of Macbeth; but it needs no imagination to
admire a painting of one of the more obvious effects of nature painted
by somebody who understands how to show everything to the most hurried
glance.
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Yeats |
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"
He spread the pictures before him, and again
surveyed
them alternately.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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To him who went about before to
suppress
the name of Christ is the same now committed to be borne.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Between 1525 and 1531,
he was again in Paris, where he was now regarded by all the
learned world as the most
distinguished
champion of medievalism
in its opposition to the new studies.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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* Lastly we have, Westminster Hall, another sheltered spot where men might
congregate
to learn not only the law's decisions, but the progress of events.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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All
subsequent
authors appear to have agreed with
this idea, but some of them noted only the music of the lyre.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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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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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It is in its nature to
continually
ex- pand the zone of venalities.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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In 1869 Bakunin expressed his hope that those
individual
actions that were committed out of anger or fanaticism would grow "so to say, to an epi- demic passion of youth" until the general revolution would be born out of it.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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The calendar of my daily conduct and labour that
hangs on the outside of my cell door, with my name and
sentence
written
upon it, tells me that it is May.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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drafts that took several months or weeks to get from one part of the country to another and were
replaced
with more paper.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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How angry and how
diverted
he
would be!
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Austen - Emma |
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In a very involved sentence I gave her to
understand
that I
had liked her for a long time.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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When she
was worn out and almost too weary to
move, she did not wish she were an angel,
but she said her simple prayers; and lo,
in a moment it seemed to her that the
prayers became visible
creatures
with
shining wings, and they caught her up
into the air, and carried her, in the
twinkling of an eye, to the place where she
would be.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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VIRGINIA GALILEO
VIRGINIA
GALILEO
May I look through it?
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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I am excessively
provoked, however, at the parade of propriety which prevented Miss
Summers from keeping the girl; and it seems so extraordinary a piece of
nicety, considering my daughter's family connections, that I can only
suppose the lady to be
governed
by the fear of never getting her money.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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-"But what has
happened
to you?
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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the
citizens
of full right, was taken notice of.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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But the better reason was that he despised that kind of bodily train ing; he would not have
condescended
to give up his social evenings, at which he drank freely ; and above all he so delighted in hunting that he felt no interest in athletic meet ings.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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See this story
explained
in the
Translation of the Metamorphoses, p.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away One
Trillion
Etext
Files by December 31, 2001.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The outraged mother, with all the acumen of a modern parent, sided at once with her offspring against his preceptor, her own brother, and,
fortunately
for posterity, saved the boy for a wider career than that of a local stone-cutter.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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283); but they were always printed as
separate
poems.
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William Wordsworth |
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You can't reject the
doctrine
and accept the star charts.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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His trip was ostensibly to provide background
material
for his work Les Martyrs, a Christian epic in prose, but may also have helped to resolve certain problems in his private life.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Translation of John
Addington
Symonds.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Followed him, and when Roland and the Moor
Arrived where tracks upon the herbage green
Of the
Circassian
and the maid were seen,
LVI
Towards a vale upon the left the count
Went off, pursuing the Circassian's tread;
The Spaniard kept the path more nigh the mount,
By which the fair Angelica had fled.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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"
On An
Innkeeper
Nicknamed "The Marquis"
Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm'd,
If ever he rise, it will be to be damn'd.
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burns |
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^ Beyond the Knee-high hill,
That Baby has to travel down
To see the
soldiers
drill.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
|
Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
They are reprinted here for good
for good custom, a custom out of Tuscany and of Provence ; and
thirdly, for convenience, seeing their small- ness of bulk ; and for good memory,
seeing that they recall certain
evenings
and meetings of two years gone, dull enough at the time, but rather pleasant to look back upon.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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All that is terrible and great in nature, the higher men are
not yet
prepared
for; for they retreat horror-stricken into the cave
when the lion springs at them; but Zarathustra makes not a move towards
them.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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He
expounded
and, ac cording to Lucian, even wrote some of their
"
He was called a New Soc
sacred books !
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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That is what I am talking about when I speak of
lacking
educational
establishments.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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O my friends, thank your god, if you have one, that he
'Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea;
Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines,
By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs,
Be true to
yourselves
and this new nineteenth age,
As a statue by Powers, or a picture by Page,
Plough, sail, forge, build, carve, paint, make all over new,
To your own New-World instincts contrive to be true, 1130
Keep your ears open wide to the Future's first call,
Be whatever you will, but yourselves first of all,
Stand fronting the dawn on Toil's heaven-scaling peaks,
And become my new race of more practical Greeks.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He allowed each
family a small house to themselves with a little garden spot, whereon
to raise their own vegetables; and a part of the day on Saturdays was
allowed them to
cultivate
it.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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From _Whence_
therefore
proceed all my _Errors_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
|
If worthy friendship, proffered friendship take, And entering view the
pleasurable
lake :
Range o'er my palace, in my bounty share,
And glad return from hospitable fare.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
When they sometimes
Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed
Behind the door and headboard of the bed,
Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers,
With sounds like the dry
rattling
of a shutter,
That's what I sit up in the dark to say--
To no one any more since Toffile died.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Nor ceased the strife till Jove himself opposed,
And all in
Tempests
the dire evening closed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It was that that I wanted to see your
lordship
about —it's a poor sort of tale for anybody's ears, but your lordship would have to hear it some time or other.
| Guess: |
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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° Supposing liim to have joined the Irish
Apostle, as a mere youth, in 433, he could have been
entitled
to the name of a holy
priest, about A.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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En una situación
cultural
en la que las ciu
dades dependen de una regeneración constante de los sentimientos
comunitarios, ambas clases de ateísmo, tanto la regional como la uni
versal, actúan de modo corrosivo en el más alto grado; equivalen a
una especie de deserción comunal y ontológica.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
|
Shortly after-
conduct of the war against Dolabella, because the wards two legions, which had
formerly
served
consuls Hirtius and Pansa laid claims to it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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”
Miss
Crawford
turned her eye on her, as if wanting to hear or see more,
and then laughingly said, “Oh yes!
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tully - Offices |
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Men of all ranks were now asked to do what had been before forbidden : they were asked to read controversial writings, in which the political points at issue between
Royalists
and Roundheads were canvassed, and News papers multiplied ; the most popular title for such publications being Mercury.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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But it is precisely the bare idea of an unimaginable and
therefore
inescap- able everlasting punishment and agony, the premise of an inexorable change for the worse, impervious to any attempt to reverse it, that has the fascination of an abyss.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
|
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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--
Souls that are voices alone to us, now, yet linger, returning
Thrilled
with a sweet reconcilement and fervid with speechless desire?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[17] But mighty Ladon9 flowed not yet, nor Erymanthus,9 clearest of rivers;
waterless
was all Arcadia; yet was it anon to be called well-watered.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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In an
inscription
of
Grulcr's (p.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
|
Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax
deductible
to the full extent
permitted by U.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Momentous news, calling for
infinite
energy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
"
Who could fail to see in this
description
that
lyric poetry is here characterised as an imperfectly
attained art, which seldom and only as it were in
leaps arrives at its goal, indeed, as a semi-art, the
essence of which is said to consist in this, that desire
and pure contemplation, i.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
XCVIII
Oft with desire was good Rinaldo stung
To ask that sorrow's cause, and the request
Was almost on the gentle warrior's tongue,
And there by
courteous
modesty represt.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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C'est peut-être, me disais-je, le vice lui-même
d'Albertine, cause de mes souffrances futures, qui avait produit chez
elle ces manières bonnes et franches donnant l'illusion qu'on avait
avec elle la même
camaraderie
loyale et sans restriction qu'avec un
homme, comme un vice parallèle avait produit chez M.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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Despite my resolution, I have failed to locate every single one of the book's
copyright
holders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Yesterday
I mourned the death of Xu Five; Today, I take Liu Three to his grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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The background, especially in small theatres,
where its form is broken up and lost when the stage is at all crowded,
should, I think, be thought out as one thinks out the
background
of
a portrait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Strike the
intruder
dumb
with scorn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Imightfindmy education,
mediated
by my speaking in an oracular voice, enacting my language as mine
Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.
| Guess: |
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
Fifteen months after the poet's birth, on
November
7, 1592, Nicholas
Herrick made his will, estimating his property as worth £3000, and
devising it, as to one-third to his wife, and as to the other two-thirds
to his children in equal shares.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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You’ll be saying it’s “not
cricket”
in another moment.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Four times he asked a
question
and four times Wang Ni said he didn't know.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
Schelling’s
late prose shows the pain- ful mask of an idealism that must rally its best forces to bring itself back within the boundaries of mortal reflection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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As he thought
upon all this, the strap of his knapsack pressed across his chest so
that he could hardly breathe; he
loosened
it, but gained no relief.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The rules of decorum, and your position as master and director over me, opposed that ceremony in
addressing
me; and love commanded you to banish it: alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
The
hedgehog
sleeps through the winter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
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But it was my lovers,
And not my sleeping sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful
And iridescent fires;
As the driftwood burning
Learned its
jewelled
blaze
From the sea's blue splendor
Of colored nights and days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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While he gazed in
dismayed
meditation, an
idea began to kindle in his brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
Mon ame
resplendit
de toutes vos vertus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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When they talk to us
about themselves they are nearly always interesting, and if one could
shut them up when they become
wearisome
as easily as one can shut up a
book of which one has grown wearied they would be perfect absolutely.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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O nosso maior esforço dura tempo; o tempo que dura atravessa diversos estados da nossa alma, e cada estado de alma, como não é outro, qualquer,
perturba
com a sua personalidade a individualidade da obra.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
|
36
EXERCISES
IM
The lines inthefourjirst of the following exercises are
already divided into feet, so that the scanning of them will
be completed by marking, and proving by the rules, the
quantity of their syllables: the other lines must be divided,
at well as marked and proved.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Morris):
"Of
_yeddynges_
he bar utterly the prys.
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3 It would be too long to relate all his acts of brutality, but nevertheless I will describe one, no great one in his belief, yet one which was more
distressing
than all his tyrannical cruelties.
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and, to him, Socratic natures were
likewise
unsym-
pathetic.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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1601
Execution
of the Earl of
1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada.
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Geschrei
und Fiedelbogen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ronald, and
Christian
K.
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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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One of the
episodes
of his life was an interview
with Napoleon after the latter's return from Elba in 1815.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Thus there will be no need
for you to exhaust your strength, nor will I allow you to do so--I will
not have you carry out your
disastrous
intention.
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1 The confession by Derrida quoted at the start, namely that he held two completely oppos ing convictions as to his continued presence as an
1 Franz Borkenau, End and Beginning: On the
Generations
of Cultures and the Origin of the West (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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How I got me home I know not; but this I know, a
parching
fever laid me waste and I was ten days and ten nights abed.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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But in our day we intrust the infant to a little Greek servant-
girl, who is attended by one or two- commonly the worst of
all the slaves — creatures utterly unfit for any
important
work.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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4 He then sent a
deputation
to Antipater, who was the only general that seemed a match for the power of Antigonus, to entreat his aid; and Antigonus, hearing that succour was despatched by him to Eumenes, gave up the siege.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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His day began with an heroic offering of its every
moment of thought or action for the
intentions
of the sovereign pontiff
and with an early mass.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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" replied the
old man, endeavouring to check the ri-
sing sigh that burst involuntarily from
his tortured breast : " how much am I
indebted to your hospitality, and how
greatly am I
comforted
by your com-
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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All altruism the
prudence
of the private man
societies are not mutually altruistic.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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unica
sollicitis
quondam tutela salusque,
egregium semper patriae caput, ille senatus
uindex, ille fori, legum iurisque togaeque
publica uox, saeuis aeternum obmutuit armis!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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