He
presumes
to be a judge of who speaks well, who discourses better, who commits philosoph- ical incongruities and errors, but when his turn comes, and not knowing what to offer himself, he starts to spin out from the sleeve of his hollow pedantry a little salad of puny proverbs and phrases in Latin and Greek, which have nothing at all to do with what the others are saying, whence any blind man can see without much strain how mad he is, with his Latin, while the others are wise with their vulgar tongue.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Tho' they trIed a star chamber
and held It all of four years
tIll HIEN TSONG removed them another Lord seeking elixIr
seekIng the transmutatIon of metals seekmg a word to make change
HOAI of SUNG was nearly rurned by taozers HIEN of TANG died seeking ehxlr
and In '97 they made a law code
a bear walked mto PekIn unnoticed though they strafed the watch for allowmg It and there were 53 mIllIon folk m the EmpIre at trIbute average of five measures
of, say, 100 lbs each
c au TI of LEANG, HOEl-TSONG of SUNG were more than all other Emperors
Laoist and foelst, and came both to an evu end To hell wIth the pyramid
YAO and SHUN lIved WIthout any such monument TCHEOU KONG and
Kungfutseu
certaInly wd/ not have
ordered one
nor wIll It lengthen YR MAJESTY'S days
It WIll shorten the lIves of YR subjects
they WIll, many of 'em, dIe under new taxes:'
DIed HIAO TSONG aged 36, after peace and hIs 18 years
on the throne
And 8 bloody eunuchs conspIred WIth LIeu,
II d 1105
31 3
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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140
The cause y-told of hir cominge, the olde
Pryam the king ful sone in general
Let here-upon his parlement to holde,
Of which the effect
rehersen
yow I shal.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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rackt their
Inventions
to draw Burton and his Wife to charge Mrs.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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For needfully bihoveth it not to be
That thilke thinges fallen in certayn 1005
That ben purveyed; but nedely, as they seyn,
Bihoveth it that thinges, whiche that falle,
That they in certayn ben
purveyed
alle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He was but a few
years in his grave when two of these were teaching
regularly
in the two
old gymnasia of Athens.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The owlets through the long blue night
Are
shouting
to each other still:
Fond lovers!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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little didst thou
think what thou thyself
advisedst
me to promise!
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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On the basis of this idea, Etienne-Jules Marey then
perfected
his chronophotographic rifle, which allowed its user to aim at and photograph an object moving through space.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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'
Deiphebus
him answerde, `O, is not this,
That thow spekest of to me thus straungely,
Criseyda, my freend?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Love played its part in the earliest
dreams and follies and romances I can remember--may I say the earliest
follies and romances we can
remember?
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Coming nearer home I cannot but acknowledge the help I have
received
in
looking over proof-sheets from my sister, Mrs.
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Milton |
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, contains 130 pages of pictures 5" x 7" from International
News Photos, Press
Association
and Sovfoto, per copy 25
Life, March 29, 1943.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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I stand
prepared
to clear my own city of her
obligations.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Some of these were afterwards introduced into the
editions
of 1842,
1846, and 1849; others were not made use of.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Benedicti, Gale's Historiae britannicae saxonicae,
anglo-danicae Scriptores, Oxford, 1691 and Raine's
Historians
of the
Church of York, Rolls Series.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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202 Nor did Caius Marius 203 in Italy, the deified Julius in Gaul, or Drusus, Nero, or
Germanicus
204 in their own country, defeat then without loss.
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Tacitus |
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In mad game
They burst their
manacles
and wear the name
Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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to write with full
emotional
rontrol, .
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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The work-house of
Louisville
was a very large brick building, built on
the plan of a jail or State's prison, with many apartments to it,
divided off into cells wherein prisoners were locked up after night.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Integral self-affirmation encompasses the everyday things that the regime of
metaphysical
misology had talked down, and stands in gratitude to them for the gift of being able to give.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Lack of knowledge, however, reflects in part a lack of concern, and a distorting
perspective
that removes certain questions from the focus of investigation.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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The Latin text used
throughout
is Mr.
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bede |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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He asked to see the documents giving proof of ownership, but they replied that the Franks had taken everything,
including
the title-deeds.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Khi ăn
kiiồng
có cằn nhấn,
Khi lám, sao cố cẳng rãng khóc than,
Kbì ân, VOI vc hĩ hoan,
Khi lảm, cbàu bạu, chí MI chan mặt mảy*
Khí ăn, lẹ miệng mau tay,
Khi Um, chậm chạp, dẮng cay cực lòng.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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There was on both sides much to say;
She'd hear the cause another day;
And so she did, and then a third,
She heard it--there she kept her word;
But with
rejoinders
and replies,
Long bills, and answers, stuffed with lies
Demur, imparlance, and essoign,
The parties ne'er could issue join:
For sixteen years the cause was spun,
And then stood where it first begun.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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A nest of
pirates,
concealed
under the side of yonder promontory, are lying in
wait for your Phœnician vessel.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Besides his
denunciation
of usurped Papal
claims, he showed the evil history of the benefices and traced the
growth of the error of Mariolatry.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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No;
these and all his expeditions are really
intended
to
facilitate the conquest of Athens.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Different things are bonded by
different
things in every species, and the same bonds do not of themselves carry the same power when they orig- inate from different sources.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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And while many trumpets in turn poured out their clang from the city, the gates were opened to receive our men, if they should be able to reach them : and the engines for missiles creaked, though no javelins were shot from them, in order that the captains of the advanced guard of the Persians, ignorant of the slaughter of their comrades, might be terrified by the noise into falling back, and so allowing our gallant troops to be
admitted
in safety.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Now the savage minds of the persecutors, when they desire the power to smite, are
inflamed
against the life of the good not with the ardour of purifying, but with the firebrands of envy; and they do that indeed, which Almighty God allows to be done; in that while there is one cause with God transacted too by their agency, yet there is not one will maintained in that cause, since whilst Almighty God, in loving, is enforcing purification, the wickedness of the unjust is exercising malice in raging.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Brendan's Land, celebrated in mediaeval roman- ces, that various expeditions were
organized
for its exploration, even after the returnofColumbus.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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There the small birds with their harmonious notes
Sing to a spring that smileth as she floats:
For in her face a many dimples show,
And often skips as it did dancing go:
Here further down an over-arched alley,
That from a hill goes winding in a valley,
You spy at end thereof a standing lake,
Where some ingenious artist strives to make
The water (brought in turning pipes of lead
Through birds of earth most lively fashioned)
To
counterfeit
and mock the sylvans all,
In singing well their own set madrigal.
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William Browne |
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260), and to whom
high may be his judicial or military rank, shall be Porphyry
addressed
Homeric Questions.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Enter
Macbeths
Wife alone with a Letter.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'Tis as in midmost us there glows a sphere
"" Translucent, molten gold, that is the I
And into this some form
projects
itself: Christus, or John, or eke the Florentine ; And as the clear space is not if a form's Imposed thereon,
So cease we from all being for the time, And these, the Masters of the Soul, live on.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot,
My tongue is
ineffectual
on its pivots,
My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
I become a dumb man.
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Whitman |
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The very last section of Chapter Three characterizes
the shift from British and French to American hegemony; I attempt there finally to sketch the
present
intellectual
and social realities of Orientalism in the United States.
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Miller (Oxford: Oxford
University
Press, 1977), 18-19.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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To thequestionofwhetherornottheformula- tionof any sortof "fascistminimum"or
pluralistcategorizationis
of any value,however,I wouldrespondwitha qualified"yes.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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A Recommendation to
Mercurius
Morbicus.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
]
[Sidenote C: All come
together
by the side of a cliff.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From
innocent
play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Great epic poetry will always frankly accept the social
conditions within which it is composed; but the conditions contract and
intensify the conduct of the poem, or allow it to dilate and absorb
larger matter, according as the narrow primitive
torrents
of man's
spirit broaden into the greater but slower volume of civilized life.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Thus
Vitellius
entered the Capitol, where he embraced his
mother and conferred on her the title of Augusta.
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Tacitus |
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"
"If you mean this dog," said Gabriel, "it would be the first
time he ever did
anything
good.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Your
lordship
has met Mr.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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His eyes were fixed and flash-
ing, and his lips
slightly
moving.
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| Source: |
Sovoliev - End of History |
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This is the sort of thing which introduces elements of criticism and dis-
integration
in a ruling party at points where it ought to be most strong.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Saltwhite
crumbling
mush of corpse: smell, taste
like raw white turnips.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is not enough, however, that they
should lift their mouths against God and blaspheme the Church,
but the very children of the Church must rend the
entrails
of
their mother, and cover her with opprobrium.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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"Much is
reckoned
higher than life itself by the
living one.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Teaching is not a species of a genus called domination, a hegemony at work within a totality, but is the presence of
infinity
breaking the closed circle of totality.
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Education in Hegel |
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As a necessary preliminary to such a condition, intelligent people must
cultivate the attitude of conscious selection, and get away from the
crude, fatalistic viewpoint which is to-day so widespread, and which is
exploited _ad
nauseam_
on the stage and in fiction.
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| Question: |
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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not for wild beasts to roam
But many stood silent & busied in their families
And many said We see no Visions in the darksom air
Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights the dismal darksom day
Set stations on this
breeding
Earth & let us buy & sell
Others arose & schools Erected forming Instruments
To measure out the course of heaven.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The mission-dynamic constitution of
essential
history condemns any historically achieved state of affairs to embarrass itself before what has not yet been achieved.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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upon my death I feed,
And live in flames, a
salamander
rare!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Sh~m is
threatening
to .
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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I am all the
daughters
of my father's house,
And all the brothers too- and yet I know not.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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In this connection, Buchheim cites a passage from Fichte's
Doctrine
of Science in which Fichte notes that "[t]he theoretical part of our Doctrine of Science .
| Guess: |
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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On this side, life and lucky chance ascends; Loaded with death, that other scale
descends
Rais'd on the stretch, young Turnus aims a blow Full on the helm of his unguarded foe:
Shrill shouts and clamors ring on either side, As hopes and fears their panting hearts divide.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Here in the Nyingma tradition there are five, namely, the buddha-bodies of reality, perfect rapture, emanation, awakening and
indestructible
reality.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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The flaring lamps
Of gilded cha-|-j'lilts, drawn | by pamper'd steeds,
Illume the snowy street: the silent wheels
On heedless
passewgtr
steal wnperceiv'd,
Bearing the splendid fair to flutter round
Amid the mazy Xatfrinths of the dance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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On le sut à Combray dans ce
qui restait de notre famille et de nos relations, et, comme on savait
que je fréquentais le marquis de Saint-Loup et les Guermantes on se
dit:
«Voilà
où mènent les idées de grandeur.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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One current fashion has to do with "food trucks" that ply their wares seem- ingly on every street corner in America,
including
this humble hamlet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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What queen or
powerful
lady did not envy me my joys and my bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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And they would have been even less inclined to regard massive
acceptance
of their ideas as a substitute for sound arguments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And yet the world
Has
beautiful
women to please every man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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‘I’m
not going
round there to fetch them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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He exhorts
Maternus
to relinquish the muses, and devote his whole
to eloquence and the business of the bar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
84
Edge of Fear
poem, which his sister has made it
possible
for me to publish,
shows the same feeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Mais je les
reconnaissais bien à l’angoisse qui les précédait comme à la rigueur
du châtiment qui les suivait; et je savais que celle que je venais de
commettre était de la même famille que d’autres pour lesquelles
j’avais été sévèrement puni, quoique
infiniment
plus grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Of the three
principal
agents-printer, bookseller, author-
concerned in the production and distribution of books, the printer
had his day in the sixteenth century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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May my blessings and
compassion
rain upon all Tibet!
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Organski'sviewofHitleras "odd manout"; obviously he would liketo separatethestudyofsmallermovementtshatare
oftencalled
fascisticfromtheItalian-Germanmodel;he is notsatisfiedwiththebipolar patternofinterpretatiobnecausetheHitlerianepisodeis unique;butthenhe
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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First, the 1960s poststructuralist wave sought to produce an
epistemological
fissure with Western metaphysics, which Wolfe locates chiefly in Foucault's famous call for "the death of Man" (xii).
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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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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_ [_Aside to_ AMANDA
_squeezing
her
hand_.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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At this point, the agony of the search reaches its crisis point when it gains insight into the
unattainability
of what is being sought.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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This fact distinguishes cinematics since 1836 from linear perspective, which
has been
promoted
to the very principle of phenomenality and thus of visibility at the latest in the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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And for asmuch have alleged my book many old authors, both Greeks and Latins, which above
thousand
years after Christ continually taught
do; they could bring forth but one old author, that saith these two points they say, offered six seven years ago, and offer yet still, that will give place unto them.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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not less than twenty thousand dollars, with
condition
for his good behaviour.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
My heart was full of my new love's glory,--
But my eyes were
suddenly
afraid.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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A later poem of Girri's, with the suggestive title "Cuando la idea del yo se aleja,"
outlines
an initial answer, entailing a radical shedding of the "I": "De lo que va adelante/ y de lo que sigue atra?
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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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"
A too
prophetic
remark, which has been in fulfilment from the year
1680, to the present 1815.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Certainly, "the human spirit of invention has most recently achieved the
construction
of
steam engines which, without being pulled by animals, move with great speed and power.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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But that Poe had overwhelming influence in the
formation
of his
poetic genius is not the truth.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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We indeed will
gratefully
carry these words to our
fathers' city, and, if fortune grant a way, will make thee at one with
King Latinus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I shall not once utter before you meet my
induction
with a
suitable answer, according to the manner of those in Plato that dispute
with Socrates.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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The ills of others, if I may be plain,
Except your husband's, never give me pain;
But him I'd serve for ever, while I've breath;
To do him good I'd e'en
encounter
death.
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La Fontaine |
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The thing that cannot be imitated is his
fertility
of invention,
which is invention not so much of characters, still less of ‘situations’, as of turns of
phrase and concrete details.
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Orwell |
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There was a clock (not worth your pur-
chasing, my friend)
standing
high up on a wooden shelf.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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