But of
all kinds of ambition, what from the refinement of the times, from
different systems of criticism, and from the
divisions
of party, that
which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.
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Now, if you accept my point of view you will see that both these objects, apart from their intrinsic value, are strikingly connected with each other, serving to further the
realisation
of
each other, and that they are mutually interdepen- dentfortheirveryexistence.
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to have merited from him, he would have restrained
~ all those inordinate appetites and delights ; and that
he would seriously have applied himself to his go-
vernment, and cut off all those extravagant expenses
of money and time, which disturbed and corrupted
the evenness of his own nature and the sincerity of
his intentions^ and exposed him to the
temptations
of
those who had all the traps and snares to catch and
detain him.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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But massive and repeated irritations can still arise, each of which is then proc- essed into
information
within the system.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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It occurs in
accordance
with the kairos ("right moment"), which, as the Greeks had always known, is unique.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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As an
indication
of the diffusion of the works, see the lengthy and favorable
reviews of Moreau's Me?
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Methinks the air
Is balmier now than it was wont to be--
Rich melodies are floating in the winds--
A rarer
loveliness
bedecks the earth--
And with a holier lustre the quiet moon
Sitteth in Heaven.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Minoan-Mycenaean
religion
and its survival in Greek religion.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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He does not even require for
the
perfection
of his art the finest materials.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Two of my
contemporaries
there- who I believe never attended
any other institution of learning-have held seats in Congress,
and one, if not both, other high offices; these are Wadsworth
and Brewster.
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or so,
disumbunking
from under Motham General Bonaboche, (noo poopery!
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Finnegans |
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The
experiences
of a Quaker family in Soviet Russia told through
letters and journal entries.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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[The good and generous James Burness, of Montrose, was ever ready to
rejoice with his cousin's success or sympathize with his sorrows, but
he did not like the change which came over the old northern surname of
Burness, when the bard
modified
it into Burns: the name now a rising
one in India, is spelt Burnes.
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Robert Burns |
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It was never for the mean;
It
requireth
courage stout.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I make it all facile, the rare and the earned;
Here’s
something
like gold (I create it from dirt)
And something like scent, sap, and spices –
And what the great prophet himself never dared:
The art without sowing to reap out of air
The powers still lying fallow.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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)
F MOSCHUS it is commonly said that he was the friend or dis-
ciple of the
Alexandrian
grammarian, Aristarchus.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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When Adonis yet lived Cypris was beautiful to see to, but when Adonis died her
loveliness
died also.
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Bion |
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The mingled fate my love should give
In these mute emblems shone,
That more
intensely
burn and live--
While I am turned to stone.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But there the twain did stand
Unfaltering, each his iron in his hand,
Edge
fronting
edge.
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Euripides - Electra |
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great passions for power and property to the positions of
protectors
of virtue.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand
breakers
of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and overwhelming all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He
Deceived us all I He led us to
destruction
!
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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,
Government
of the Soviet Union, D.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Some
desperate
attempts were made
To start a conversation;
"Madam," the sportive Brown essayed,
"Which kind of recreation,
Hunting or fishing, have you made
Your special occupation?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Joyce
evidently
want< uS to imagine thaI w me_ thing of the na.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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A more
responsible
writing, for Kraus, requires an allergic attention to the abuse of language as set phrase or slogan, requires a thinking of ideas through, and an acknowledgement of the distinction between aesthetic and journalistic language, which nevertheless does not retreat into an aesthetic sphere to avoid engaging with the issue of the day.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Well, so long, folks See you all
at Wilkins’s tomorrow morning
mrs bendigo Thieving little tart’
Swallers
’er tea and then jacks off without so
much as a thank you Can’t waste a bloody moment
mrs mcelligot Cold?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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It cannot be simply a restoration ot the so-called liberal education of pre-war times, too often merely the con- tinuance of
traditional
ideas, traditional methods.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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The position of those Western Slavs who were fasci-
nated by the Roman orbit was different ; the Latin hier-
archy, independent of the State, undermined monarchical
power, and Roman culture, inferior for the moment to
that of Byzantium, too remote to stir the intellects of the
Czechs and Poles, was made more
inaccessible
to them
by the fact that the Latin monks were ignorant of Sla-
vonic dialects, the use of which amongst their neophytes
for religious purposes those of the East had the fore-
sight not only to sanction but to encourage.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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_ I believe not to you; it is
Midnight
yet to your Eyes.
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Erasmus |
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which is probably meant that of the 20th June 354, no solar eclipse was found
recorded
from observation in the
later chronicle of the city : its statements as to the numbers of the census only begin to sound credible after the begin ning of the fifth century 122, 55) the cases of fines brought before the people, and the prodigies expiated on
The first places in the list alone excite suspicion, and may have been subsequently added, with a view to round off the number of years between the flight of the king and the burning of the city to 120.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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' But if I were to come up with an
entirely
new word, I could create a sensation!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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68 When tyrants bend their force and run violently upon men, flesh indeed is afraid; and all those who are not endued with the spirit of fortitude do tremble with all their heart; but then their con-
sciences
are not properly touched with any temptation.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice
Is a
gentlemanly
game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the secret House of Shame.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Thus, he
showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no
more than his daily walk within doors, if
continuously
extended, would
easily reach.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Warum er
dies tat, ist schon bei anderer
Gelegenheit
erwa?
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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He put a small
dictionary in his pocket, took a guide to the city's tourist sites under
his arm that he had
compiled
for strangers, and went through the deputy
director's office into that of the director.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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t
At the first appearance of Browne's several publications, they
attracted that attention from the learned and
thoughtful
which they
have ever since retained.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Let us note that throughout he is in search of a _definition_, but that
as soon as any attempt is made to define or classify any particular
type of action as just or unjust, _special
circumstances_
are suggested
which overturn the classification.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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)
Molorchus, an old labouring-man near Clconae,
who hospitably entertained
Hercules
when tho Utter
wan on his way against the Nemean lion.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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" This has a connection with re-education --because all of the time they told us that
relations
in society should be on a logical basis, not on a forced basis.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax
treatment
of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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cque, latine; les
impressions
tant e ?
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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"
From whom the answer came unto these words,
Which my guide spake, appear'd not; but 'twas said:
"Along the bank to
rightward
come with us,
And ye shall find a pass that mocks not toil
Of living man to climb: and were it not
That I am hinder'd by the rock, wherewith
This arrogant neck is tam'd, whence needs I stoop
My visage to the ground, him, who yet lives,
Whose name thou speak'st not him I fain would view.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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S: I f one is having
difficulties
with one's ngondro, should
one practice it nonetheless?
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The main point,
however, is that such
resistance
is only justifiable in
the case of the Romanised culture; for this culture,
even at that time, was a falling-off from something
more profound and noble.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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Art finds her own
perfection
within, and not outside of, herself.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Nobody but a
practised
legislator can read the bill and
thoroughly understand it, and I am not a practised legislator.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Strengthened by these alliances, secured in its interior, and defended
from without by strong
frontier
garrisons and fleets, the regency did
not delay an instant to continue a war, by which Sweden had little of
its own to lose, while, if success attended its arms, one or more of the
German provinces might be won, either as a conquest, or indemnification
of its expenses.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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”
“Scout,” said Atticus, “nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean
anything—like
snot-nose.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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'
And 'truth' is at present what the preacher spake who himself sprang
from them, that singular saint and
advocate
of the petty people, who
testified of himself: 'I--am the truth.
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Every animal body must have different members,
subservient to each other; every picture must be composed of various
colours, and of light and shade; all harmony must be formed of trebles,
tenours, and bases; every beautiful and useful edifice must consist of
higher and lower, more and less
magnificent
apartments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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’
‘It will be
difficult
while he has friends among the Europeans.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
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The fact that it cannot do that is one of the enigmas that is concealed in the
omnipresent
chitchat about postmodernism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
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The
treasure
is ours, make we fast land with it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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In these there was much to
interest
and amuse me.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Je
demandai
à M.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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"He next asked me if I would give him a
testimonial
regarding Duffy's Whiskey.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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a man who even without the assistance of these other most illustrious men, would have accomplished this same deed in Cilicia, at the mouth of the river Cydnus, if Caesar had brought his ships to that bank of the river which he had intended, and not to the
opposite
one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Thy sister doth not haunt these fields, Pandion is not here,
Here is no cruel Lord with murderous blade,
No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving
comrades
made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies
With half-shut book, and many a winding walk
Where rustic lovers stray at eve in happy simple talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity
was made for them,
To-night for us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
|
World democracy, finally
realizing
its peril, is arming in earnest to defend the pnnciples of freedom which make individual lives worth living.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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2 Later, when he was in
military
service, there were also many omens predicting, as events showed, his future rule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the
mountains
like a flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
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"Believe me,
"Yours, with
sympathy
and all blessings,
"/Sister Agatha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
National decisions and
activities
seem to be of over- whelming importance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
To
reassure
the bourgeoisie without losing the confidence of the masses, to permit it to govern while appearing to keep up the offensive, and to occupy positions of command without letting itself be compromised--that's the politics of the C.
| Guess: |
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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4 Besides all this, he helped many communities62 to erect new buildings and to restore the old; and he even gave pecuniary aid to Roman magistrates and
senators
to assist them in the performance of their duties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
|
In view of the relatively strong
rejection
of Oklahomans in California, the low mean and D.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
But it
signifieth
condemnation in the Hebrew text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
Consciousness
ex- presses the essence of freedom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
|
The Wiros seem also
to have been
familiar
with corn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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But his
historical presentation of him is false, even to a
parlous degree : just as Wagner's presentation of
Beethoven and
Shakespeare
is false.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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"It is shorter, the
performers are natural, and it has passed away the
interval
before
tea-time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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These
informations of particulars, touching persons and actions, are as the
minor propositions in every active syllogism; for no
excellency
of
observations (which are as the major propositions) can suffice to ground
a conclusion, if there be error and mistaking in the minors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
The sign of extraordinary merit is to see that those who envy
it most are
constrained
to praise it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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If a man should ask, "Are
you at peace, Athenians 1" the answer would imme-
diately be, " By no means; we are at war with
Philic2 Have not we chosen the usual generals and
I name little known in history, Monsieur Tourreil proposes to read Cal-
listratus, who, according to Xenophon and Diodorus, was colleague to
Iphicrates and
Chabrias
in the war of Corcyra.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Yet, perhaps, she was
sometimes
too severe, which is a safe and pardonable error.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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"I think
Wordsworth
possessed more of the genius of a great
Philosopher than any man I ever knew, or, as I believe, has existed in
England since Milton; but it seems to me that he ought never to have
abandoned the contemplative position which is peculiarly--perhaps, I
might say exclusively--fitted for him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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First wash yourselves, and put ye on
Your tunics; bid ye, next, the maidens take
Their best attire, and let the bard divine
Harping melodious play a sportive dance,
That, whether
passenger
or neighbour near,
All may imagine nuptials held within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Yet thou didst not mourn the
widowhood of desolate couch, but the tearful
separation
from a dear
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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For if
any one should render an account of what a primary substance is, he
would render a more
instructive
account, and one more proper to the
subject, by stating the species than by stating the genus.
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The sensuous impulsion
requires that there should be change, that time should have
contents; the formal impulsion
requires
that time should be
suppressed, that there should be no change.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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But no matter how
rabid their hatred and how dexterous their
malignity*
the life of
the friar shines forth immaculate before our eyes.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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The enemies of France,--and all the
population, except
Frenchmen
and British Jacobites, were her enemies,
eagerly felicitated one another.
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When they came to Dermott's house they
saw before the door an unusually large group of the very poor, dancing
about a fire, in the midst of which was a blazing cartwheel, that
circular dance which is so ancient that the gods, long
dwindled
to
be but fairies, dance no other in their secret places.
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Yeats |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But now because those winds
Blow back and forth in alternation strong,
And, so to say, rallying charge again,
And then repulsed retreat, on this account
Earth oftener
threatens
than she brings to pass
Collapses dire.
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Lucretius |
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Je lui en faisais plus, il est vrai, mais une femme
que nous entretenons ne nous semble pas une femme
entretenue
tant que
nous ne savons pas qu'elle l'est par d'autres.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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That racket was just
beginning
on
a big, scale.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n I fear,
For truth proves
thievish
for a prize so dear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Faces too grotesque for laughter,
Faces too shattered by pain for tears,
Faces of such ugliness
That the
ugliness
grows beauty.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It was politic, it was horse- sense to insist on the
productive
basis.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Beautiful things began to be made, beautiful colours
came from the dyer's hand, beautiful
patterns
from the artist's brain,
and the use of beautiful things and their value and importance were set
forth.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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On the other hand, many a one more nobly
and delicately endowed by nature, though he may
have gradually become a critical barbarian in the
manner described, could tell of the unexpected as
well as totally unintelligible effect which a success-
ful performance of Lohengrin, for example, exerted
on him: except that perhaps every warning and
interpreting hand was lacking to guide him; so
that the incomprehensibly heterogeneous and alto-
gether incomparable sensation which then affected
him also remained
isolated
and became extinct,
like a mysterious star after a brief brilliancy.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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_alone supplies_ it (=hit); _all insert_ ful
_before_
wel.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No
manuscript
of
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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129]
'I must not think of thee ; and, tired, yet strong,
I shun the thought that lurks in all delight--
The thought of thee--and in the blue heaven's height,
And in the
sweetest
passage of a song.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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