So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was
standing
and begob the
sight nearly left my eyes when I saw him land out a quid O, as true as
I'm telling you.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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No, I could never have become
habituated
to such a fate!
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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Or how meet in human elf
Coming and past
eternities?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Had I the
command of millions, were I
mistress
of the whole world, your brother
would be my only choice.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Rollin published his
Histoire
ancienne.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Reason never has an immediate
relation
to an object ; it relates immediately to the understanding alone.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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The night brims with
darkness
flicked with lightning.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The Social Order
I
THIS
government
official,
Whose wife is several years his senior, Has such a caressing air
When he shakes hands with young ladies.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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For, if a proper understanding of the psychodynamics of the condition as it passes from one
generation
to another is to be obtained, it is vital that the neurotic difficulties of the parents of patients should be looked at sympathetically in the context of their own experiences as children.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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No vows
are taken there; all is voluntary; men and
women are not separated, and
marriage
is
not forbidden.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watching
while they are in peace,
For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.
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blake-poems |
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The
Inquisitive
Man's Dream
A Nadar
Do you know, as I do, delicious sadness
and make others say of you: 'Strange man!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Then,
accompanying
him to the spot, Attracta gave thanks to God, with outstretched hands, believing her desires were about to be accomplished, as to the choice of a location for her intended establish- ment.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Apsyrtos had
Habrocomes
flogged, tortured and cast into
prison.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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He gaily chirp'd to her alone;
But now the gloomy path must trace,
Whence Fate permits
returned
to none.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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; his
troubles
may be over but his doubles have still to come;
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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"Or give me, then,
But one small twig from shrub or tree;
And bid my home
remember
me
Until I come to it again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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klesavarana
- cover of mental defilements.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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The unrelenting public attack on the creation of a personal zone of imagination and of thought in totalitar- ian societies largely accounts for its
profound
impact on the self.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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He
resisted her entreaties for awhile; "but partly," says Philips, "his own
generous nature, more inclinable to reconciliation than to perseverance
in anger or revenge, and partly the strong intercession of friends on
both sides, soon brought him to an act of
oblivion
and a firm league of
peace.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
We need not, in a
word, expect the "literary" epic to compete with the "authentic" epic;
for the fact is, that the purpose of epic poetry, and
therefore
the
nature of its subject, must continually develop.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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In private they were so modest, and so attached
to the
principles
of our constitution, that whoever
knows the style of house which Aristides had or Mil-
tiades, and the illustrious of that day, perceives it to
be no grander than those of their neighbours.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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The humanists are initially no more than the cult of the literate: and in this, as in other sects,
expansionist
and universalist projects appeared.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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31:7
craving their
auriculars
to receptible particulars
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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¿Ese es el valor, Tenorio, That is the courage, Tenorio
de que
blasonas?
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Jose Zorrilla |
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' sign, when
supplemented
by a proper name, yields a proper name.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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One of the
ministers
rose to defend the literary champion of his late col league.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
What does he who does not hear the continual
exultation that resounds through every speech and
counter-argument in a
Platonic
dialogue, this ex-
ultation over the new invention of rational thinking,
know about Plato or about ancient philosophy?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
li] The
Juvenile
Works of Ovid 171
ment of 100 verses, which is 70, while its percentage of dactyls
for the distich is also low, namely, 53.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Though Jersey may claim his birthplace, Cooper's childhood from
his second to his
fourteenth
year was passed on the then frontiers of
civilization, at Cooperstown on the Susquehanna.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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» Je sentais tellement qu'il ne me comprendrait
pas si j'essayais de lui expliquer la vérité que je
profitai
sans mot
dire de la permission qu'il me donna de me retirer.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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To be thus affected she must consider all worldly objects
both divided and whole:
remembering
withal that no object can of itself
beget any opinion in us, neither can come to us, but stands without
still and quiet; but that we ourselves beget, and as it were print in
ourselves opinions concerning them.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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| Question: |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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Now at the hour when the sun passes his noon-tide halt and the ploughlands are just being
shadowed
by the rocks, as the sun slopes towards the evening dusk, at that hour all the heroes spread leaves thickly upon the sand and lay down in rows in front of the hoary surf-line; and near them were spread vast stores of viands and sweet wine, which the cupbearers had drawn off in pitchers; afterwards they told tales one to another in turn, such as youths often tell when at the feast and the bowl they take delightful pastime, and insatiable insolence is far away.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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of of of asofbe of
to
fofofofin
ofas of
ofofof tobyof
by of
init of of a asof of
in to to it bewe of
to of all isto of it
in dous
to
of of
as
by
755] STATE TRIALS, 1 MARY, 1553.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
)
Afterward
I went past what you had passed
Before we met and you what I had passed.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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"
"You have opened a wide field of enquiry," said I, "and started a subject which deserves a
separate
discussion; but we must defer it to a more convenient time.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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| Question: |
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
|
Bennet’s
ill-humour or ill
health.
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| Question: |
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
And when a black poet prophesies to his
brothers
a better future, he portrays their deliverance to them in the form of rhythm:
What?
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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He calb I: an
escapist
(151 .
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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And you go on taking it, you go on being diddled, and
listening
to the Jerusalem synagogue radios from London and Jew York City.
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| Answer: |
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
Obviamente, los
ordenadores
no vuelven tangibles a las personas conectadas, pero si?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
His principal works are: (The Chronicle of
the
Sperlingsgasse
(1857); "Woodland Folk)
(1863); (The Hunger Pastor) (1864); Hor-
acker) (1876); "Wunnigel (1879); (The Horn
of Wanza) (1881); and (The Lar) (1889).
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
16731 (#431) ##########################################
SONGS HYMNS AND LYRICS
16731
One
something
sees beyond his reach
From childhood to his journey's end.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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were under
eighteen
years.
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| Question: |
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
The
Committee
of
Revenue was accustomed to such letters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
|
This big, dark,
abstracted
man who was so nervous when a pony cantered
behind him, used to moon in the train of Mrs.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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Therefore
ye were proved to be brave men, one of you from Aeolis, the other from Boeotia.
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Greek Anthology |
|
184 THE LIFE OF
residence at Albany, preferring confident claims upon his
bounty, indulging in mimic representations of their savage
sports, and reminding him that he was
descended
from their
"Great Father Queedir.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
228 THE LIFE OF
repose the most implicit confidence in General Du Portail
and Colonel Hamilton, and I accordingly recommend them
to your best civilities and esteem; and having done so, I
have only to renew the assurances of that sincere attach-
ment and perfect respect, with which I have the honour
to be,
"Your excellency's most
obedient
servant,
"George Washington.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
For well I know that soon the
heavenly
powers
Will give thee back to-day, and Circe's shores:
There pious on my cold remains attend,
There call to mind thy poor departed friend.
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Odyssey - Pope |
|
EUROPA
Moschus tells in Epic verse how the virgin Europa, after dreaming of a struggle between the two continents for the possession of her, was carried off from among her
companions
by Zeus in the form of a bull, and borne across the sea from Tyre to Crete, there to become his bride.
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Moschus |
|
[Nate: The
terminology
in some of these
very short verses must be discussed between students, no one version can be just swal- lowed.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
Baird, John Logie 212
Balazs, Beta 174,201
Balzac, Honore de 139-40,141,
179
The Human Comedy 139
baroque architecture and the
lanterna magica 82-5
baroque theaters 85-8
Basserman, Albert 179
Baudrillard, Jean 37
Bauer, Felice 183
BBC (British
Broadcasting
Corporation) 212,216
Beccaria, C.
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
' she panted,
flinging
her arms round his neck.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
]
read Paulus Silentiarius : Niebuhr is of this opi- AGATHOCLE'A ('Agadókmeia), a
mistress
of
nion.
| Guess: |
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
|
And the first thing that I have got to do is to free
myself from any possible
bitterness
of feeling against the world.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
|
org/3/0/301/
Produced by Faith Knowles and an Anonymous Volunteer
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
Helen, whose spirit was of softer mould,
Whose sufferings too were less, Death slowlier led
Into the peace of his
dominion
cold:
She died among her kindred, being old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley copy |
|
There
is the statue of J upiter
converted
into S t.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
Sooner or
later came a reflux of feeling that swallowed up the astonishment, and
left me not so much in terror as in hatred and
abomination
of what I saw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
When
Voltaire was a young man, and (to Anglicise a
favourite
Gallic phrase)
fancied he had _profounded_ every thing deep and knowing, he thought
nothing of Ariosto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little
children
little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your unrivalled scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
You who consoled me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine
entwines
the rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
lical, Theological, and
Ecclesiastical
Literature )
(12 vols.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
|
A few hours longer, and the deep,
mysterious
ocean
will quench and hide forever the symbol which ye have caused to burn
upon her bosom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
|
[_A curtain is drawn, and discovers the_
QUEEN _alone in
mourning
on her couch,_
_with a lamp by her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
As almost all her other faculties and properties the nature of
the universe hath imparted unto every reasonable creature, so this in
particular we have
received
from her, that as whatsoever doth oppose
itself unto her, and doth withstand her in her purposes and intentions,
she doth, though against its will and intention, bring it about to
herself, to serve herself of it in the execution of her own destinated
ends; and so by this though not intended co-operation of it with herself
makes it part of herself whether it will or no.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
The insistence on the continuity of thought's process tends to
prejudice
the inner co- herence of the object, its own harmony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
"
[Illustration]
There was an old man in a barge,
Whose nose was exceedingly large;
But in fishing by night, it
supported
a light,
Which helped that old man in a barge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
At Roger II's
court the Arab geographer Idrīsi, the Greek author Nilus Doxapatrius,
and the Emir Eugenius who
translated
Ptolemy's Optics into Latin,
might be found side by side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
|
By contrast, who can say whether the narrator of Proust's work really loves
Albertine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
15
Precious
in the sight
of the Lord is the death of His saints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
|
Wherein is mani-
festly proved, that it is not onely
unlawfull
to bee an Actor, but a beholder
of those vanities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
likewise
goes through phase which separates itself
the denaturalisation
morals: this phase
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Why are they
Saiksas?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
|
I caught their
receding
steps through the brushwood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
The wretched ryots, in despair, are
cutting and
bringing
away in boats sheaves of half-ripe rice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
The plan of
founding
an
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Not but I've every reason not to care
What happens to him if it only takes
Some of the
sanctimonious
conceit
Out of one of those pious scalawags.
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It was in June of that
year that the French emperor held court at Dresden, where he played,
as was said, to "a
parterre
of kings.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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kon) had this name given to it by Zenon, in the first instance, its appellation being derived from its coming to, or
according
to some people, apo tou kata tinas h?
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Those who embarrass themselves by blathering that art must not forget humanity , or when - in the face of bewildering works - they ask where the message is, will be reluctantly compelled, perhaps even without gen- uine conviction, to sacrifice
cherished
habits; shame can, however, inaugurate a process in which the external pervades the inner, a process that makes it impos- sible for the terrorized to go on bleating with the others.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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When a song was popular,
it was
repeated
in various publications ; take, as an instance, the
dialogue, possibly written by Sir Walter Ralegh, between Meliboeus
and Faustus, beginning 'Shepherd, what's Love, I pray thee tell ?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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As we know from
devastating
historical experience in the twentieth century, we live better lives as long as our politicians and judges do not claim that their actions are based on new concepts of what it means to be human.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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As the sacred edifice was too much
thronged
to admit
another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of
the pillory.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom
That old divine
insistence
of the sea,
When music flows along the sculptured stone
In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom
Like faithful sunset, warm immortally!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It means that in order to send his son to the right kind of school (that is, a
public school or an
imitation
of one) a middle-class man is obliged to live for years on
end in a style that would be scorned by a jobbing plumber.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Not so with Prévost: he acknowl-
edged soon enough the error of even so formal a surrender of himself
to the religious
vocation
- for which indeed his gift was more than
doubtful.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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I now began, for the first time, to undertake the management of causes, both private and public; not, as most did, with a view to learn my profession, but to make a trial of the
abilities
which I had taken so much pains to acquire.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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Or otherwise ‘the feet are washed with butter,’ when the wages owing are paid to the holy
Preachers
by those that hear, and those whom the imposed labour of preaching exhausts, the richness of good practice exhibited by the disciples cheers; not that they preach for this that they may be fed, but that they are therefore fed, that they may preach; i.
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