Thus he began and ended his
dramatick
labours
with ill success.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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But pastoral subjects have been often, like others, taken into the hands
of those that were not
qualified
to adorn them, men to whom the face of
nature was so little known, that they have drawn it only after their own
imagination, and changed or distorted her features, that their portraits
might appear something more than servile copies from their predecessors.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Pound, used by permission of New
Directions
Publishing Corporation, agents.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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I took
a mental
farewell
of them; I felt sorry to leave them.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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A man who hath ever been in love will be touched by the
reading of these lines; and
everyone
who now feels that
passion, actually feels that they are true.
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Donne - 2 |
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135
Indeed, or so one anonymous fourteenth-century Flemish poet somewhat mischievously suggested, arguably the
greatest
praise one might give to Mary would be to admit that he could never praise her enough.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Septmonts - The
envelope
with his name on it is inside.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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)
[925] “Is that
honourable
.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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But, vain Blasphemer, tremble, when you chuse
God for the Subject of your Impious Muse:
At last, those Jeasts which
Libertines
invent
Bring the lewd Author to just punishment,
Ev'n in a Song there must be Art, and Sence;
Yet sometimes we have seen, that Wine, or Chance
Have warm'd cold Brains, and given dull Writers Mettle,
And furnish'd out a Scene for Mr.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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If the poet of the opera-text has offered him
nothing more than the usual schematised figures
with their
Egyptian
regularity, then the freer, more
unconditional, more Dionysean is the development
of the music; and the more she despises all dra-
## p.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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When, during the first third of the eighteenth century, the swords be- latedly realized how far the robes had outdone them as ministers of the state, high nobility modernized the
curricula
of its knights' schools.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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All they seek is consumption - immediate or
postponed
- and the more the better.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Miss Montag
followed
him a few paces, as if she did
not quite trust him.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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He
stretched
himself out on the grass, his head resting on the
mole-hill, his forehead covered by the hem of her dress.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely whispered sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss
murmured
only in your hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_--I went with the party to the search with an easy
mind, for I think I never saw Mina so
absolutely
strong and well.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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In
The only difference between him
the opinion of the Mantinean lady, the and Socrates is that the latter, without
only way to reach love is to begin with instruments and by his discourses simply,
the
cultivation
of beauty here below, and produces the same effects.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the
quicklime
on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Then I will be ruled by you; and when you think
proper to undeceive Townly, may your good
qualities
make as
sincere a convert of him as Amanda's have of me.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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There, obedient to her praying, did I read aloud the poems
Made to Tuscan flutes, or
instruments
more various of our own;
Read the pastoral parts of Spenser, or the subtle interflowings
Found in Petrarch's sonnets--here's the book, the leaf is folded down!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Fiacre, who is repre-
he is supposed to have been
previously
sented as a good-looking young man, wearing named Morgan.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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further
ilIuminata
lime I"CY~I in book II I:
'0.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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This unavoidable provocation of the human by the unattainable left an unmistakable trace on the
earliest
stage of Western philosophy.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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It was
a tender and respectful
declaration
of affection, copied word for word
from a German novel.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Come winter, with thine angry howl,
And raging, bend the naked tree;
Thy gloom will soothe my
cheerless
soul,
When nature all is sad like me!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
burns |
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It filled the Athenaeum during the whole of a London season, and the financial results were
gratifying
in a high degree, for the glamour and mystery of the affaire Damerel were still powerful, and Lucian had become a personality and a force by reason of his troubles.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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The first
accident
occurred one day during an experiment when a silver spoon lay on an iodized silver plate.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Courted and pursued by Neptune, she called for help, and
Athena
transformed
her into a crow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Her
fascination
endures, with "Eight Takes of Trakl as Himself" in Stay, Illusion (2013).
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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The list of dramatis personae is
headed by a king or duke, and most of the
characters
are courtiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Knowledge in itself in a world of Becoming is impossible; how can
knowledge
be possible at all, then?
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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”
CHAPTER XX
AND now we had climbed to the summit of the
projecting
cliff.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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)
It is
maintained
by Blass, l.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Contarini
all in the
possession of The Rawdon Brown.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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[Illustration]
The
Umbrageous
Umbrella-maker,
whose Face nobody ever saw, because it was
always covered by his Umbrella.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Arnold of Brescia,
Savonarola
and others strove to reform the
Church from within -- and they were burned alive.
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| Question: |
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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This reveals part of Heidegger's strategy: the word `humanism' must be abandoned if the real task of thinking, which has shown itself to have been
exhausted
in the human- istic or metaphysical tradition, is to be furthered in its original unity and irresistibility.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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They
remonstrated with him that it was quite
possible
to save one's soul in
the army, and quoted the example of David, the warrior king.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Literary remini-
scences do duty for genuine ideas and views, and
the assumption of a
moderate
and grandfatherly
tone take the place of wisdom and mature thought.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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Mas como el león audaz But like an
audacious
lion
y cauteloso y prudente both crafty and prudent
como la astuta serpiente.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
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Only--there is no obligation to believe in them; and will not that
mean, no obligation to believe in their concern for the subject, and all
that that
implies?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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In 1869 Esquiros
returned
to France, and was soon after elected
democratic deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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Dr Johnson's way still has followers;
but The Oxford English Dictionary
stresses
the first syllable.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Page 26
Another 26
Prince William, Son of Henry the First 27
Cato the Younger 28
EARLY DISCIPLINE 29
The
Children
of George the Third 30
The Duke of Clarence, afterwards William the Fourth 31
The Princes of Orleans 31
A useful Lesson to check the Pride of Princes 32
The young Soldier's Pillow 32
Childhood of the Great Henry the Fourth of France 33
Early Education of Sesostris, King of Egypt 34
Cyrus the Great and his Grandfather 35
DOCILITY 39
Louis Philippe, King of the French 40
The Dauphin, Son of Louis the Sixteenth 41
Youth of Alcibiades 41
SELF-CONTROL 43
Charles the Twelfth of Sweden 44
Prince Henry, Son of Henry the Fourth 44
Sir Philip Sydney 45
Alexander the Great 46
Heroic Endurance 47
The Twin Sons of Sabinus 48
DECISION OF CHARACTER 60
Charles the Twelfth of Sweden 51
Gustavus the Third of Sweden 53
Frederick the Great and his Nephew 55
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Son of Charles the First 56
Isabella, afterwards Queen of Castile 68
Edward, Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward the Third 58
Alexander the Third of Scotland 60
Cato the Younger and the Deputy 60
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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I am not
speaking
here of the discomforts associated with old age in the epic ideal.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's
presence
out of sight.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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3] L These things being done, he made choice of troops, and
embodied
a regular army; with which, he suddenly attacked several of the neighbouring cities when they were under no apprehension of hostilities.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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"Oh what a
chatterbox
!
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Greek Anthology |
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--Can't you look for some money
somewhere?
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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(I have not the
Japanese
addresses with me here in Siena.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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The light
rendered every limb and joint discernible, and Duncan turned
away in horror when he saw they were
writhing
in inexpressible
agony.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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-He
thinks he knows me, and fancies himself to be
subtle and
important
when he has any kind of rela-
tions with me; and I take care not to undeceive
him.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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The crown was then reduced to the lowest ebb of its authority; and the
king, in a manner, stood single, and yet preserved his negative
entire; but if the clergy and nobility had been on his part of the
balance, it might reasonably be supposed, that the meeting of those
estates at Blois had healed the
breaches
of the nation, and not forced
him to the _ratio ultima regum_, which is never to be praised, nor is
it here, but only excused as the last result of his necessity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
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They know not
grief who in their souls have not a great
capacity
for love
-- (pause).
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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THE
MACEDONIAN
WAR (554) 189
VIII.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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When she gaed up the
Parliament
stair,
The heel cam aff her shee;?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
|
As
an orator and
statesman
he may claim to rank above
Cicero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
He deposited no security either in plate or in mortgage on land ; but as appears by the written instrument
prepared
at the time, he covenanted to pay twelve per cent to the lender, by which interest, as the loan has lasted for ten years, the debt is more than doubled.
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Now any consideration for descent takes a back seat to the prospect of the
Promised
Land.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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When old titles of songs
convey any idea at all, they will
generally
be found to be quite in the spirit of
the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
It was not till night came on that
Bāyazid
consented to withdraw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Some of his words are
painfully
broad for chaste ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Midway the floor (with thatch was it strewn) burned ever the fire-flame
Glad on its stone-built hearth; and
thorough
the wide-mouthed smoke-flue
Looked the stars, those heavenly friends, down into the great hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But
concerning
the Aetolians, Polybius tells us, in the thirteenth book of his History [ 13.
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| Source: |
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Peter Aretine is
said to have laid the Princes of Europe under
contribution
by penning
satires against them: so Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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It was a technology
transfer
from Peking to Hanover that first put the new geometry of book printing and print technology into words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into
happiness
through another man's eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Particularly outside of the United States, persons receiving copies should make appropriate efforts to
determine
the copyright status of the work in their country and use the work accordingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
And he shall come as a
wanderer
to the folk of the Iapyges and offer gifts to the Maiden of the Spoils, even the mixing-bowl from Tamassus and the shield of oxhide and fur-lined shoes of his wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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I had quite
determined
to go away again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
This
concludes
the commentary on the eleventh chapter, showing how to meditate on refuting time, from Essence of Good Explanations, Explanation of the "Four Hundred on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
XII
"and the sins of the fathers shall be
visited upon the heads of the children,
even unto the third and fourth
generation
of them that hate me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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The waters of the ZEgean
were thus an
Athenian
lake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
It is because of their
excellence
and because they are found to
197
35a.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
|
c
Int evehIcleof perfection;andthatofsuch notlound
tantras as the
Guhllasamiba
and C k .
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
II
Withdrawn within the cavern of his wings,
Grave with the joy of thoughts beneficent,
And finely wrought and durable and clear
If so his eyes showed forth the mind's content, So sate the first to whom remembrance clings, Tissued like bat's wings did his wings appear, Not of that shadowy colouring and drear,
But as thin shells, pale saffron, luminous;
Alone, unlonely, whose calm glances shed Friend's love to
strangers
though no word were
said,
Pensive his godly state he keepeth thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Chatterton
and
Spenser here take Milton's place with Keats, and both are more
nearly of his kin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
Nationalism has been a threat to liberalism historically in Germany, and continues to be one in isolated parts of "post-historical" Europe like
Northern
Ireland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fukuyama - End of History |
|
Nothing could now
be clearer than the
absurdity
of her recent fancies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
His more pressing needs were
satisfied
by Antonio Hernáiz,
a friend with whom he had made the journey from Lisbon; but the
remittances from home came promptly and regularly, and Espronceda must
have been one of the most favored among the refugees of Somers Town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
" According to proponents of
functional
things as truly existent, this citation means the aggregates are entirely non-existent in the sphere of nirvana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
A comprehensive, solid understanding of Nietzsche's statements about beauty might re- sult from study of Schopenhauer's aesthetic views; for in his definition of the
beautiful
Nietzsche thinks and judges by way of opposition and therefore of reversal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
The
A Clergyman's Daughter 367
very idea awakened in him a class-instinct which he was usually too vague-
mmded to
remember
‘What 1 ’ he would say ‘A dashed skivvy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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_ So merchants, cast upon some savage coast,
Are forced to see their dearest
treasures
lost.
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Thomas Otway |
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With a broader and deeper
background
of experience
and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to
the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and contrast these
opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked
in a restricted locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil
landscape gives a solid texture to the human show.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Did Heaven so grant
His spirit a sign of
covenant?
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Elton’s would be depressed when he knew her state; and left her at last
tolerably comfortable, in the sweet
dependence
of his having a most
comfortless visit, and of their all missing her very much.
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Austen - Emma |
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How can I get
unblocked?
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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They, fools, broke the
peaceful
truce after it had been legally sealed.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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O dulci iocunda viro, iocunda parenti,
Salve, teque bona
Iuppiter
auctet ope,
Ianua, quam Balbo dicunt servisse benigne
Olim, cum sedes ipse senex tenuit,
Quamque ferunt rursus voto servisse maligno, 5
Postquam es porrecto facta marita sene.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He wrote: "Manet has never seen Goya,
never El Greco; he was never in the
Pourtales
Gallery.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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In the night of
weariness
let me give myself up to sleep without
struggle, resting my trust upon thee.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Near Lough Gill, Sligo, are two great cairns still remaining, which place was
probably
ancient cemetery some the kings Con naught.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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The last interdict had been a century before, and Venice
'occupied most of the century in
recuperating
from its injuries.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Je brulais pour toi d'une telle ardeur de desirs, que, pour ces
voluptes
infames dont le nom seul me fait rougir, j'oublais tout, Dieu, moi-meme: la clemence divine pouvait-elle me sauver autrement qu'en m'interdisant a jamais ces voluptes?
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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It’s merely that she’s part of the picture, part of
‘before
the war’.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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