Phlaccus, at
Professor
Channing-Cheetah's
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
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T.S. Eliot |
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This danger of the
separate
associa- tion for the surrounding total society appears magnified when it comes to the secret society.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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'
Spiritual
mercies best.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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The Girondins' predictions of a universal crusade for liberty were disappointed; "Bolshevik" uprisings in Finland, Hungary, and Bavaria collapsed quickly, the Polish proletariat welcomed the Red Army with bayonets instead of flowers; and Soviet attempts to spark Communist
revolutions
in the Near East and China all failed.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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And the
laughter
and love
And the glad life above,
Down there all alone in the nightf
Ah, God, is there never an answer?
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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As little had he his
knowledge
by outward teaching and
?
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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He received, there is reason to believe, no sacrifices of blood ; and it was his comparatively pure and spiritual worship which, as we see repeatedly in Carthaginian history, formed a chief link in the chain that bound the parent to the various daughter cities
scattered
over the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Yea, I will send
Thy
heedless
body among risks that thou,
Looking alone at the great shining God
Within thy mind, seest not; but I see
And sicken at them.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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My true prescience 465
Anticipated the cause of his long absence:
Death alone, limiting his
brilliant
efforts,
Could hide him so long from the universe.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Crowding
into my heart without giving it time even to
breathe, they would cause my whole being to become lost in a wondrous
chaos.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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We should request that the Fully Awakened Beings, their spir- itual sons and all
realized
teachers do not leave this world for the state of Nirval)a, and that they remain within the world for the sake of beings until all sentient beings have attained Buddhahood and cyclic existence has been emptied.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Every one knows Grub Street is a market for small ware in wit, and as necessary, considering the usual
purgings
of the human brain, as the nose is upon a man's face.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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He has a great power of
vision; seizes the very type of a thing;
presents
that and nothing
more.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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20
Be thy
heavenly
name whate'er
Name shall please thee, in hallowing ;
Still keep safely the glorious
Race of Romulus olden.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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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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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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, was an old figure for the way the feudal lords were
attached
to the ruler.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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May a god, and a god in whom we can put our trust, now grant that the senate shall form a like judgement
concerning
me.
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Historia Augusta |
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Would that I could invent reasons by which in
excusing
thee I might cover in some measure my own vileness.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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JOHN DONNE
Under such outward
conditions
Donne was born, in London, "of
good and virtuous parents," says Walton, being descended on his
mother's side from no less distinguished a personage than Sir Thomas
More.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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quantitative
relations
of matter were its original
20.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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"To F----" (Frances Sargeant Osgood)
appeared
in the "Broadway
journal" for April, 1845.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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We discussed (VI, 1) that
naturalness
is egoism, and sin consists in "deepening-on-self in nature", and every man commits that sin in his first free action.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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peace, has not weakened its title to their
patronage
and favour.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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In sheer malignity, thinking to set back
our plans and avenge himself for his
ignominious
expulsion, this traitor
has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a
year.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Paul Shorey,
University
of Chicago.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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Each of the rebirth states bas its own
peculiar
disadvan- tage as mentioned in the text.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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All this proves to us that
Catholicism
was in bad shape in the diocese
of Hippo.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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if she
deviates
(because a war will result).
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Schwarz - Committments |
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The
wandering
bees cannot bear to leave them;
The sweet birds also come there to roost.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Of
resurrection?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Je trone dans l'azur comme un sphinx incompris;
J'unis un coeur de neige a la
blancheur
des cygnes;
Je hais le mouvement qui deplace les lignes,
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I should think such a
reaction
almost as much
a miracle as that the shadow should go back upon the dial.
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Macaulay |
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What am I to do if my malady
increase?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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It would be an especially natural choice in the case of such an author as Derrida, who never wanted to be anything other than a radically attentive reader of the major and minor texts whose sum total con stitutes the
occidental
archive - assuming one gives the word 'reader' a sufficiently explosive meaning.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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What a
difference!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
In the interim there will be hindrances and obstacles along the paths and levels, and
ultimately
you will certainly fall into the hell of Utmost Torment.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Most terrible came that day from Zeus upon the Doliones, women and men; for no one of them dared even to taste food, nor for a long time by reason of grief did they take thought for the toil of the cornmill, but they dragged on their lives eating their food as it was,
untouched
by fire.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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A sine qua non for success was the advent to autocratic power of a
primitive
individual, with a mind unburdened by educa- tion, free from all the inhibitions created by any knowledge of his- torical precedents, economic laws and social morality, free from all traditions of responsibility, chivalry and refinement, but pos- sessed of indomitable courage and determination, unlimited personal ambition, self-confidence and will, of crude peasant logic and cunning, untiring energy and perseverance, and entirely lacking in any sense of humor.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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She sits in an inner chamber,
And her eyebrows,
delicate
as a moth's antennæ,
Are drawn with grief.
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| Question: |
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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His heart knew peace, for none came here
To this lean feeding save once a year
Someone to salt the half-wild steer,
Or homespun
children
with clicking pails
Who see no little they tell no tales.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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SATISFACTION FOR SUFFERINGS
For all our works a
recompence
is sure;
'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t'endure.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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The commitment process on which alAmerican overseas deterrence depends- and on which all
confidence
within the alliance depends- is a process of surrendering and destroying options that we might have been expected to find too attractive in an emergency.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Great hindrances which exist in our own day to the communication of
such Knowledge,--partly because its strictly determinate form is opposed
both to the propensity towards arbitrary opinion and to the mere want of
opinion which calls itself scepticism;--partly because its
substance
seems
strange and monstrously paradoxical;--and finally, because unprejudiced
persons are led astray by the objections urged by perverse fanaticism.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did
proceed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Looking south to the Martello Tower, Stephen
reaffirms
his loneliness.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
In the first week in the mother's womb, the
suffering
is like being roasted or fried on hot copper.
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| Question: |
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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March 2 2018: There are some problems with the
automated
software used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from hurting site performance for everyone else).
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
Verdurin
eût
sournoisement arrangé les choses d’avance pour faire plaisir à sa
femme et n’eût averti les fidèles qu’au fur et à mesure, d’Alger ils
allèrent à Tunis, puis en Italie, puis en Grèce, à Constantinople, en
Asie Mineure.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Shakespeare's
Knowledge
and Use of the Bible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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And even if your education in studies and reflections is boundless, unless you succeed in being in harmony with the Dharma, you will not tame your enemy,
negative
emotions.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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The reason is to be found in the
ubiquitous
presence
of offensive men and women.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Vocabula Chauceriana quaedam
selectiora
et minus vulgaria, by
P.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
Ya en las Kentucky Resolutions, de 1798, había
establecido
Thomas Jefferson: «El gobierno li bre se funda en los celos y no en la confianza».
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
|
The most famous examples of an anarchistic waste of rage deposits are the
assassins
who, on March 1, 1881, killed Czar Alexander II, the famous emancipator of the serfs.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Falret, "Du traitement generale des alienes" Des
maladies
menlales et des asiles d'alienes, p.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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For this reason, the terrorist act always possesses, right from the start, the characteristic of being an attempt, for the definition of the attempt (in Latin: attentatum, attempt, essaying an assassination) includes not only the unexpected hit of
(8)This was so named by Fritz Haber after the responsible scientists Dr Lommel (Bayer,
Leverkusen)
and Professor Steinkopf (associate at Haber's Dahlem Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, the `Prussian Military Institute' during the war).
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
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To those he gave gold chains, and arms studded with silver;
ornamented
with which, they marched out to battle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
Domitius Ahenobarbus and Appius
Claudius
Pulcher,
Consuls.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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It whirred like the water at a mill, and rushed and re-echoed,
terrible
to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
_ 'Thou prechest
abstinence
also?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The same
vein is
apparent
in the work of Chapman, of Jonson, and even in places
of Spenser, and the imagery of _Hamlet_ and the tragedies owes some of
its dramatic vividness and power to the same quality.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
What is the quantity of a final
syllable
ending in b?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
|
478, or accord-
And this passage also
strengthens
the proof
41 See "
9^ LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Ever the trembling of the grass I say,
And the boughs rocking as the breezes play,
Have stirred deep
thoughts
in a bewild'ring way.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Whether as Apollo or as Dionysus, the named, identified, and masked subject is never
permitted
to believe that it has arrived at the foundation of its own identity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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The means
employed
by the Kremlin in pursuit of this policy are limited only by considerations of expediency.
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Though, in his preface, Ralegh said of James I that
if all the malice of the world were infused into one eye, yet could it not
discern in his life, even to this day, any one of those foul spots, by which the
consciences of all the fore named princes (in effect) have been defiled; nor
any drop of that
innocent
blood on the sword of his justice, with which the
most that forewent him have stained both their hands and fame,
James I was displeased with the book.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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As, during these labours, I have advanced pretty far in years -- this month
I reach my sixty-fourth year -- it will be
necessary
for me to economize time, if I am to carry out my plan of elaborating the Metaphysics of Nature as well as of Morals, in confirmation
)f the correctness of the principles established in this Critique af Pure Reason, both Speculative and Practical ; and I must, therefore, leave the task of clearing up the obscurities of the present work -- inevitable, perhaps, at the outset -- as well as the defence of the whole, to those deserving men who have made my system their own.
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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The distinction which we have already noticed in the
modes of the direct application of the Idea in general, is
obviously also applicable in
particular
to him who comes to
the possession of this Idea through Learned Culture;--that
is, to the Scholar.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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And at the military level, the Kremlin has thus far been careful not to commit a technical breach of the peace, although using its vast forces to intimidate its neighbors, and to support an aggressive foreign policy, and not
hesitating
through its agents to resort to arms in favorable circumstances.
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| Source: |
NSC-68 |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
A
sinister
mediaeval
man, but superbly Gothic, just like the bishops carved
on stalls or on portals: and when one thinks that once people mocked at
stained-glass attitudes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
See Colgan's Acta
Sanctorum
Hiberniae, xi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
|
"
But the love and the
laughter
die away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
Fuése picado, y
concluyó
su primer acto en aquella noche: el viernes
concluimos cada cual la mitad del tercero que le tocó: el sábado
lo copié yo, el domingo lo presentó él al teatro y cobró tres mil
reales, y el lunes cobré yo otros tres mil de Delgado.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
"
Casting a farewell look at the glimmering sail of the
Mayflower
700
Distant, but still in sight, and sinking below the horizon,
Homeward together they walked, with a strange, indefinite feeling,
That all the rest had departed and left them alone in the desert.
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| Source: |
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
|
EXPLICATION DU FRONTISPICE
Sous le Pommier fatal, dont le tronc-squelette rappelle la déchéance de
la race humaine, s'épanouissent les Sept
Péchés
Capitaux, figurés par
des plantes aux formes et aux attitudes symboliques.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
'53 Curll':
a notorious
publisher
of the day, and an enemy of Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
; i' ii:g
Eiiiljiii
ii;11i1;i?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
The order of their
entrance
is as follows:
First come eight Vestal Virgins bearing wreathes of
flowers.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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However, users may print, download, or email
articles
for individual use.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Tully - Offices |
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exhihita I dcpresoing
indifference
to context and continuity, which ","ults r""" the di,- proportiona.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Their situation, though much
happier than that of the
wretched
beings who cultivate the sugar
plantations of Trinidad and Demerara, cannot be supposed to be more
favourable to health and fecundity than that of free labourers.
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Macaulay |
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Suffice it is to say, Poland is the one country in Eu-
rope which, even more than Rumania, is under per-
manent Soviet suspicion and is
constantly
being
charged by Moscow with plotting war.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Young
Hyacinth
is slain,
Pan is not here,
And will not come again.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Believing
he has at last found the woman
of his fancies, he decides to "descend to earthly mar-
riage.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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OF THE
DIFFERENCE
BF.
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Edmund Burke |
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If we ARE to
part, it will at least be handsome to take your personal leave--but
I have little heart to jest; in truth, I am serious enough; for to be
sunk, though but for an hour, in your esteem is a
humiliation
to which I
know not how to submit.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Does the
possible
incommunicability and experiential nature of their task make for infertile grounds for writing, especially for academic explorations?
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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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As though one
returning
to his country who had
sojourned for the night in a fair inn, should be so captivated thereby
as to take up his abode there.
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Epictetus |
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Each day, each moment, to increase my glory,
Laurels heap on laurels, victory on victory:
The prince, at my side, might test his mettle
Protected by my arm, in every battle;
He would learn to conquer by
watching
me;
And matching his great character, swiftly
He would see.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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One’s only excitement was the
periodical
tea-and-two-
slices.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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