Hot
noontide
sleepeth on the fields.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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In what
condition
he found the town, and what he did in order to reform
it.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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what is
signified
by sheep, but cleanness of heart in the good?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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There was Leonardo, with his majestic beard and
watchful eye, having a bust of
Archimedes
before him; next him
was Raphael's graceful head turned round to the Fornarina; and
on his other side was Lucretia Borgia, with calm golden locks;
Michael Angelo had placed the model of St.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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" H istory informs us how entirely this and all
other
disinterested
efforts failed to check the fury of the
populace.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Sometimes
his Excellency passes our desk in
the office.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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w, in
soarehof
ntamme<, kud}:ucldr.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Thus abstract all conditions that would limit my idea, solely for the purpose of
rendering
systematic unity possible the world of empirical diversity, and thus securing the widest possible exten sion for the exercise of reason in that sphere.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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"
Second: More serious, however, is the effect
of the Money Trust in
directly
suppressing com-
petition.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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For all nagas, seven times every day usually,
scorching
sand falls like rain and flays the flesh to the bone.
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Tennyson |
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" Offi- cially, they were just
supposed
to be against superstition and not against religion.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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MINOR DRAMATIC PIECES
ILLUSTRATIVE
OF THE PERIOD
Clive, Mrs Catherine.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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This
representation
could be an image of the Buddha.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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14601 (#171) ##########################################
ALFRED TENNYSON
14601
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies
grappling
in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-
storm;
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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For as the Pur-
chafer, if he
compleats
his Bargain, is really fuperior to him,
who receives the fordid Price, for which he hath fold himfclf ;
fo the Man, who refufes to receive, and preferves his Incorrupt-
ibility, is undoubtedly fuperior to him, who offers the Price
of Corruption.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ
أمراً
فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي ساعةً صَبْرَهُ عَنكَ مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Helena,
Napoleon
wrote to him:
"Should you see, some day, my wife and son, embrace them.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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With grief the sewer, with grief the cook takes heed,
How on the table cools the
untasted
fare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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What the first stanza initiated through its evocation of a past, which in turn had the poet looking upon the lyrical "I" as it dissolved into evening, is
rendered
explicit in the poem's second half.
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| Question: |
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Bitter breast-cares have I abided, Known on my keel many a care's hold, And dire sea-surge, and there I oft
spent
Narrow
nightwatch
nigh the ship's head
While she tossed close to cliffs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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eorum ex
diversis
Voluminibus Collectus," lib.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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that scarce
themselves
know how to hold
A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least
That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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But the
King of England had already
resolved
upon his course of action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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' 240
"Over wide streams and mountains great we went,
And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent,
Onward the tiger and the leopard pants,
With Asian elephants:
Onward these myriads--with song and dance,
With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians' prance,
Web-footed alligators, crocodiles,
Bearing upon their scaly backs, in files,
Plump infant
laughers
mimicking the coil
Of seamen, and stout galley-rowers' toil: 250
With toying oars and silken sails they glide,
Nor care for wind and tide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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So I
commissioned
a Boston typewriter to
delve among the Boston papers of that bygone time and send me a copy
of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
II
I have begun with the
assumption
that the Orient is not an inert fact of nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
251
Fundamental Principles of the
Metaphysic
of Morals
lutely good which cannot be evil- in other words, whose maxim, if made a universal law, could never contradict itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Nicetas
Eugenianus
Charicles and Drusilla
(verse)
XII Century A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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cole Polytechnique, founded in 1794, was its earliest
institutional
instan- tiation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
The Ten Ways of Ordination are a
traditional
listing, found in AK(LVP).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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) by
sloughing
off my hope and tremors while we all swin together in the pool of Sodom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
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Whether it was because the afternoon had become a little clouded, or
that the tendency of my mind inclined me to
melancholy
ideas, the fact
is that I felt cold and sad, and noticed a silence about me which
reminded me of utter solitude, as sleep reminds us of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
|
Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
Sit
careless
in the shade, and, at your call,
"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
A body which fills a cubic foot will be admitted to consist of
many smaller bodies, each occupying only a very tiny volume; similarly
a thing which
persists
for an hour is to be regarded as composed of
many things of less duration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
|
A number of Greek
painters
and sculptors
had associated Venus with the swan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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George's parish, with an
inscription
on the coffin, bearing his age, and the initials of his name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
Perfect competition, complete collusion,
absolute
control: These different causes produce identical results.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
Until he has prepared the ground more painstakingly than has yet been possible he would
encounter
serious obstacles to either his East European or colonial goals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
The cruelty to animals
shown by children and
Italians
is due to the same misunderstanding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
In fact, these very Achaeans, though but in-
considerable in comparison of the Greeks in their flo-
rishing times, or, to speak more properly, not equalling
in their whole community the strength of one respect-
able city in the period we are on, yet by good counsels
and unanimity, and by hearkening to any man of supe-
rior virtue, instead of envying his merit, not only kept
themselves free amidst so many
powerful
states and
tyrants, but saved great part of Greece, or rescued it
from chains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
In any case, it was a trying journey,
especially
in the
hot weather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Still am I doomed to rue the fate
That such
unfriendly
neighbors made?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
This also seems a fitting
occasion
to notice the other hard words in
that poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Under the "open
door" the United States also
demanded
and received
a share.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
_ Rather let them hear
The truth from you than from a
trampling
world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
Proof of
Proposition
3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
þē þæt sēlre ge-cēos,
_choose thee the better_ (of two:
bealonīð
and ēce rǣdas), 1759; pret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
But by no weeping is he stirred,
inflexible
to all the words
he hears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
and to be
Omnipotent
by Mercy's means?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Quod si te mala mens furorque vecors
In tantam inpulerit, sceleste, culpam, 15
Vt nostrum
insidiis
caput lacessas,
A tum te miserum malique fati,
Quem attractis pedibus patente porta
Percurrent raphanique mugilesque.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Since longer I can't live,
My frolic youths, adieu;
My lamp to you I'll give,
And all my
troubles
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
But it will be
convenient
not to make too much of chronology, in a
general account of epic development.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
It was only on these
conditions that the State allowed the pagan teach-
ing to be
propagated
in the schools; and if, where
classical scholars were concerned, it was more toler-
ant than the Church had been, it must be borne in
mind that the Church had already done all the rough
work of emasculating its enemies, and had handed
down to the State a body of very innocuous and
harmless investigators.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
—
With careful reflection it must be possible to
obtain an explanation free from mythology of
that process in the soul of a Christian which
is called the need of redemption, consequently
a purely
psychological
explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
Such mad
perverseness
who may apprehend?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"What do these tea-boxes
and
breeches
with cuffs matter to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The Lament for Adonis is
generally
believed to be the work of Bion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bion |
|
The suspension of disbelief--this double negation of the
relevance
of the real--now became superfluous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
|
The Arab World has shown itself so far quite incapable of a detailed and rational
analysis
of Israeli-Jewish society, and the Palestinians have been, on the average, no better than the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
|
"
* * * * *
THE
BLITHSOME
BRIDAL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
An advertisement
concerning
Sir W.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
For the Civill Authority being more
visible, and standing in the cleerer light of naturall reason cannot
choose but draw to it in all times a very considerable part of the
people: And the Spirituall, though it stand in the darknesse of Schoole
distinctions, and hard words; yet because the fear of Darknesse, and
Ghosts, is greater than other fears, cannot want a party sufficient to
Trouble, and
sometimes
to Destroy a Common-wealth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of
defeating
the enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
|
^ffiscHiNEs, therefore, hath not accufed Plirynon of having
fent his Son to Philip for the infamous Purpofes of Proftitution ;
but if another, in his Youth excelling in the Beauty of his
Perfon, and not forefeeing the Sufpicions, that naturally attend
on Beauty, hath perhaps Hved a little too Hcentioufly, this Man
iEfchines
indidled
for Impurity of Manners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it
Since what is kept must be
adulterated?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
”
interrupted
Manuel, laughing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
So lent she him ear to burrow his manhood (or so it
appierce)
and borrow his namas?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
1390
Men shal
reioysen
of a greet empryse
Acheved wel, and stant with-outen doute,
Al han men been the lenger ther-aboute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
"Why nods the drowsy Worshiper
outside?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Days and months pass like a
departing
stream, Time is just a ash from a int stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
When the big shops
have their remnant sales Mrs Wheeler’s always at the head of the queue, and it’s her
greatest pride, after a day’s hard
fighting
round the counter, to come out without having
bought anything.
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For example, Dugin repeatedly asserts that he has borrowed from certain socialist theories, in
particular
on economics, since he is in favor of giving the state a crucial role in production structures.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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In this state Educa tion
cultivates
the natural Seed which God hath fow'd in our Souls,andGod,by hisBlesling,makes them grow and bringsthem t o t h e i r p e r f e c t M a t u r i t y .
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Equally rapid have been
developments
abroad.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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There as he lay, the Heaven with its stars
Look'd down on him with pity, and the voice
Of Coelus, from the
universal
space,
Thus whisper'd low and solemn in his ear.
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Keats |
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They're
beginning
to see it now, they are!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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”[621]
But the Corinthians who were
despatched
by Cypselus and Gorgus, obtained
possession of this coast, and advanced as far as the Ambracian Gulf.
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in
whiteness
and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Appoloinaire |
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Varillas's History; but that, as soon as my Reflections
appeared, he
discontinued
his labour, finding the credit of his author
was gone.
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Nature itself teaches slaves to give a just
response
of gratitude or revenge.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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All rights New
Literary
History 36.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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It felt an incongru-
ity, however, in the conception of the sun's having contact with the
sea and invented the
picturesque
idea that Tethys, goddess of Ocean,
allowed him to rise from her boat in the east and met him again with
her boat as he came down to the western waves.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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[961] Now the Doliones and Cyzicus himself all came together to meet them with friendliness, and when they knew of the quest and their lineage
welcomed
them with hospitality, and persuaded them to row further and to fasten their ship's hawsers at the city harbour.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Only the first of seven books appears to have been
printed; it opens the series of what may be called visionary
histories, and
embodies
Blake's interpretation of events in Paris
and Versailles between 5 May and 16 July 1789, though it does
not describe the actual attack upon the Bastille (14 July).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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While I had the money I paid them well, and
when my
resources
were diminished, I debased the
coinage.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Et
l'autre lui avoue ce qui est
nécessaire
pour être aidé, mais,
justement peut-être pour être aidé cache bien des choses.
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"
The girl, doubtful of the future, thus replied in a melancholy tone:--
"When in my present lonely lot,
I feel my past has not been free
From sins which I
remember
not,
I dread more, what to come, may be.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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The manners of the
time thus proved the best
material
for satire and comedy.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
He walks among the Congress, and one
Representative
says to another,
Here is our equal appearing and new.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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His
play, on the
familiar
subject of Medea, has not
[17]
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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After taking their dinner they spent the night drinking and carousing till bed-time came on, and those chiefs of
Tirconnell
hegged to be allowed to go to rest, for unless they were permitted to do so, they would not be in a state of departing and marching on the morrow ; and they all begged they might be permitted to retire to sleep, after which they were shown to their sleeping rooms.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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This might
suggest that history would be the thing for an epic poet; and so it
would be, if history were
superior
to legend in poetic reality.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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