A lackey in the Imperial livery entered the room, announcing that the
Tzarina deigned to call to her
presence
the daughter of Captain
Mironoff.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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nealles Hetware hrēmge
þorfton
(i.
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Beowulf |
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Such verbs may be almost
infinite
in number.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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During the years when the character
of a growing man usually takes its decisive bent, Prince
Wilhelm could only cherish the
ambition
some day, as
213
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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A friend of
and vices of Parisian life in the middle that author, charmed by the
freshness
of
of this century.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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The Greek
Romances
and Their Re-dating.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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These extracts
are taken from the edition by
Forshall
and Madden, but its exhibition of the
textual evidence leaves much to be desired.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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That many of the majority seemed sensible of the imprudence of the first complaint ; yet when it was in their power to retract decently, they chose to renew the attack, and to bring six
printers
before the House, when one had proved too many for them.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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To
Amphietus
Bacchus
53.
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Orphic Hymns |
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The
corncrake
calls them in the night, and when the birdcatchers hear the croak of the bird in the nighttime they know that the quails are on the move.
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Aristotle copy |
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My flame, of which thou tak'st so little heed,
And thy high praises pour'd through all my song,
O'er many a breast may future
influence
spread:
These, my sweet fair, so warns prophetic thought,
Closed thy bright eye, and mute thy poet's tongue,
E'en after death shall still with sparks be fraught.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It was somewhat
surprising
to learn here that re-
sentment against America--ill feeling over our tariff
--had played a role in the development of Italy's
economic rapprochement with the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Second Gambler — He has run as far as this point ; but here the
They enter and make signs to each other on
discovering
the object of their search, who pretends to be an idol fixed on a pedestal.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images,
marvellous
ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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"I have been wondering frequently of late
(But our
beginnings
never know our ends!
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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a
291 _flamati_ O: _flam_(_mm_
Ven)_anti_
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the place ofan idealistic aesthetics, which considered beauti l only that which mani sted the ideal rm and the canons of proportion, Aristotle, Marcus, and the entire
Hellenistic
period substituted a realistic aesthetics.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Bunyan makes no attempt to present his pilgrims as more
sensible
or
better conducted than Mr Worldly Wiseman.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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"1 Alphonse Aulard, late nineteenth-century official historian of the French Revolution, found d'Aguesseau's
language
to be "not just of 1789, but of a patriot of the Year II [i.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I
disclose
my secret
to him, you shall share the confidence.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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” To emphasise his own
position
of superiority, as
successor to the Emperor, he summoned him to Worms, where Odo
agreed to hold his crown of him.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The waiting woods, the open plain,
Arrayed in consecrated white,
Received
and ushered them, along.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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" The little
^ ^
stranger
smiled,
" And who art ^Aou f " Whereto she made
reply,
" Theresa I of Jesus am, my child.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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] _Re-enter_
CORPORAL
FLINT
_and two_ SOLDIERS.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Finally
they bade the lay brethren give me a hiding, and take me out
a back way and put me on the road; and threatened me did I
come back to the town to hand me to the
magistrate
and have
me drowned for a plain impostor.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Those who have pos-
sessed
themselves
of the lucrative dignities
of the Church have engaged in unworthy
occupations.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Heathcliff's step,
restlessly
measuring the floor,
and he frequently broke the silence by a deep inspiration, resembling a
groan.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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AND yet what joy it were for me
To turn my feet unto the south,
And
journeying
towards the Tiber mouth
To kneel again at Fiesole!
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Wilde - Charmides |
|
This
synopsis
of 'bhavana-krarna ' has been done by Karnalasila on the command of King Devaraja.
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| Question: |
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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But thanks be to God, that in this way at least no jealousy prevents thee from restoring to us thy presence, no
difficulty
impedes thee, no neglect (I beseech thee) need delay thee.
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| Question: |
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Thus it was made certain that no ruler
should arise in Mysore like Tipu who could intervene in a conrest of
sea-power, or hold out a hand to
European
enemies of England to
give a landing for troops which might threaten British power in the
south of India, as it had been threatened in the days of La Bourdonnais
and Dupleix.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
|
Once on the statute books, the law proved of special value in preventing the rise of labor organizations (since these were held to be inherently of a "corporative" character); but it did not wholly prohibit various forms of commercial and employer collusion (since the
employers
still lacked any real sentiment for all-inclusive group action).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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No need to
question
long; close-lipped and tall, 80
Long trained in murder-brooding forests lone
To bridle others' clamors and his own,
Firmly erect, he towered above them all,
The incarnate discipline that was to free
With iron curb that armed democracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
6 Braun and
Haevernick
1981.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
|
A shock electric--the night
sustained
it;
Till, with ominous hum, our hive at daybreak poured out its myriads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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Now at last I have made a complete
revision
to make
it suitable for performance at the Abbey Theatre.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Yeats - Poems |
|
17 According to the
Ecclesiastical
Taxa-
tion of the Diocese of Connor, compiled in
the year 1306, temporalities belonging to the Abbot of the Desert of Connor are set down at £8 6s.
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
|
from an unseen stairway which is
supposed
to extend
around the outside of the tower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The real motive of all
action had been
declared
bad: therefore, in order
to make action still possible, deeds had to be
prescribed which, though not possible, had to be
declared possible and sanctified.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
: t
z,t;i =;;:: iilli
=
*liii
iiliiii?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
To
the last moment of his existence he
remained
faithful to the memory of
the royal woman who had given herself so utterly to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
|
That helps somewhat to lessen the scandalous contradiction between the postulated unity of truth and the factual plurality of
opinions
- as long as the contradiction cannot be removed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
|
—
Credendo l'un provar l'altro bugiardo,
la risposta
aspettavano
ambedui.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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' I believ", indt<:d, thai, far from
rcpracntiog
the waking l!
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Burchell, "that you are apprised of my
circumstances, and of my
incapacity
to support her as she deserves?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oliver Goldsmith |
|
Afterwards
it was caused to be sacrificed, and
when it was in the hands of the men, it shook its neck, and
threw two drops of blood over against the double door of his
Majesty One fell upon the one side of the great door of
Pharaoh, and the other upon the other side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
|
They were not
defeated
but deceived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
XXIII
"To
Sarraguce
I must repair, 'tis plain;
Whence who goes there returns no more again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
to obtain a Whether such an
approximation
was to take place, and what
command through the senate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
The
contemporary
Egyptian author Sa'id Ayyub postulates the God-given duty for Muslims to shed their blood
in the Holy War against the anti-Muslim Satan: ‘That is our destiny, from the battle of Badr (in 624) to the day of the antichrist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
|
The shah's immediate ambitions were limited, however; al- though Iran annexed small portions of foreign
territory
on several occa- sions, the shah did not seek to transform the existing state system or eliminate any of his immediate neighbors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
|
"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For
suddenly
all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,--
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
The purpose or object of the present volume is to afford
admirers of Wilde's work the same innocent pleasure
obtainable
from
similar compilations, namely that of reconstructing a selection of their
own in their mind's eye--for copyright considerations would interfere
with the materialisation of their dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
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Then, we have the trials of the Jacobites,
and, for a time, there is peace, broken by the excitement of
Wilkes's
publication
of The North Briton and subsequent riots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
The school at Pforta retained many traces of its monk-
ish origin: the teachers and pupils lived in cells, and the
boys were allowed to leave the
interior
only once a-week,
and then under inspection, to visit a particular play-ground
in the neighbourhood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
|
You know
you
promised
ever so long ago.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Let Grief be her own
mistress
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
And just as
I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,"
continued
the Pigeon, raising
its voice to a shriek, "and just as I was thinking I should be free of
them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
Read aloud the lines that best
describe
the scenery.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
I mentioned the
suggestion
to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
Things do not happen according to plan
The Modern Age as Mobilization 3
because we have left
movement
out of the calculation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
What kind of
empowerments
have you received?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something
different
from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
AND GOD MADE THE BEAST OF THE EARTH AFTER HIS KIND, AND
CATTLE AFTER THEIR KIND, AND EVERY THING THAT
CREEPETH
UPON THE EARTH
AFTER HIS KIND : AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
He will go back with his errand done, leaving a dark shadow on my
morning; and in my desolate home only my forlorn self will remain
as my last
offering
to thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
that finds him
travelling
to, and living in, the north perhaps soon after his first wifei?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
|
More
Troublesome
even than Enemies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
LÊ CẦU 黎球48
người
huyện Phúc Lộc phủ Quốc Oai.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-01 |
|
)
A Rope for Pol; or a hue and cry after
Marchemont
Nedham, the late
scurrulous news-writer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
-- Ah, go on now, Masta Bones, a gig for a gag, with your
impendements
and your perroqtriques!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
Ellos refuerzan -de una manera catastrófica con toda probabilidad- el efecto invernadero primario,
respecto
al que la ciencia del clima nunca podrá subrayar suficientemente el hecho de que sin él no habría sido po sible vida alguna en nuestro planeta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
|
This
insurance
chain letter runs through the generations; the later we take our place in the recipients’ line the more certain we are to be losers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
I reflected on this, and by touching
the various branches, I discovered the cause and busied myself in
collecting a great
quantity
of wood, that I might dry it and have a
plentiful supply of fire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
|
All, to please
The donna waving measures with her fan,
And not the judgment-angel on his knees
(The trumpet just an inch off from his lips),
Who when he
breathes
next, will put out the sun?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
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forth in this agreement, you must obtain
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both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
--I mean the very reverse of what the
Radicals
mean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
ii:*
i: ;it
iiZ*iiliE?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
—
Gittar fe' in mare il
palischermo
seco,
con tutto quel ch'era atto al suo disegno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Wyth sweet semblate and an angel's grace
Shee 'gan to lecture from her gentle breste;
For Trouthis wordes ys her myndes face,
False oratoryes she dyd aie deteste: 70
Sweetnesse
was yn eche worde she dyd ywreene,
Tho shee strove not to make that sweetnesse sheene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
61 (#77) ##############################################
Denham's Later Years
61
6
the poem Of Old Age, a paraphrase in verse of Cicero De Senectute,
is said to have been
published
in 1648Denham himself tells us
that, on behalf of queen Henrietta Maria, he gained admittance to
Charles I in captivity, and that Charles, after referring kindly to
his lines on Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Il Pastor Fido,
advised him to write no more, as verses were well enough for idle
young men, but stood in their way when they were thought fit
for more serious employments?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
When the shadow fell on the lake,
The
whirlwind
in ripples wrote
Air-bells of fortune that shine and break,
And omens above thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Generated for
anonymous
on 2014-06-11 22:50 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
But the nation's
criticism
was to buy the
book and read it, and they and other nations have been so doing
ever since.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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On his
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV,
Lusignan
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At first, together with
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In the form realm, one still
experiences
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Amongst the BarbarousandlnhumaneActionsmentionedinthe preceding Sheets, there having been but very little mentioned of the Illegal Whipping-Sentences, pronounced by the merciless Judge, or rather Hang-man, Jeffreys ; the Editors of this Edi tion have procured a Relation of the said Whipping-Sentences, from a
Gentleman
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The Case, Trial, and Sentence of Mr.
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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In view of the "rapid dissemi- nation of this
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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466) : " Catullus, his lifelong model of
the perfection of
literary
grace.
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Pale grew her immortality, for woe
Of all these lovers, and she grieved so
I took
compassion
on her, bade her steep
Her hair in weird syrops, that would keep
Her loveliness invisible, yet free
To wander as she loves, in liberty.
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Why art thou thus
insatiable?
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The 'fury in the words' is not seldom out of proportion to the
value of the words themselves, and the insight of the poet is
dulled by the
excessive
protestations of the enthusiast.
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He was too
valuable to them, trusted and loved by all the
citizens
and
greatly respected by foreign courts.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Modern
Language
Review.
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