That is the lion great
Of history ; -- all pride
And servility are;
But idle straws that caught
By passing breath may glide
To
nothingness
afar.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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Per veder tutta Spagna indi ne vanno,
e passar poi nel regno di Siface;
e 'l dì che da Valenza si partiro,
ad
albergare
a Zattiva veniro.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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If
any peril had ever
threatened
her, it had now passed.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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Walter
Cunningham
from Old Sarum?
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Do you accept my
solution of the
mystery?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Them she found in the isle of Lipara – Lipara in later days, but at the at time its name was Meligunis – at the anvils of Hephaestus,
standing
round a molten mass of iron.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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See key to
translations
for an explanation of the format.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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41 (#77) ##############################################
A MUSICIAN'S PROBLEM 41
relatively
innocuous
effect of it is the corruption of
their taste.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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OF THE
DIFFERENCE
BF.
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Edmund Burke |
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Perhaps that other life
is
contrast
always to this.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You must believe, because
you feel: all
argument
will be inferior to
this fact.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Leprobleme de la pyramide juive (Der- rida, an Egyptian: the problem of the Jewish pyramid) (Paris:
Editions
Maren Sell, 2006).
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Oh, the imitative
sunsets!
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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_ He'll part with nothing; and
especially
he'll not trust me again,
when he comes to understand I have spent what I had to no Purpose.
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Erasmus |
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The concept of philosophy may no longer be defined
according
to the pattern of the teacher of morality who posits another higher world in opposition to this presumably worthless one.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of
damages.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Thus the race of men:
Though training make them equally refined,
It leaves those
pristine
vestiges behind
Of each mind's nature.
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Lucretius |
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This weightier reason (thou shalt also say)
Some God
suggested
to me,--lest, inflamed
With wine, ye wound each other in your brawls,
Shaming both feast and courtship; for the view
Itself of arms incites to their abuse.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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{41} As
Euripides
saith, "No lie ever grows old.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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If it takes more time to start a car than to stop one, you may be unable to give me the "last clear chance" to avoid collision by
vacating
the street.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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125]
was permitted only for those who were ill, and was
apparently
made at the Paraclete and doctored with herbs.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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The battle to replace
institutional
care for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped with care within the family, or at least provision of a family-type home atmosphere, is still being waged.
| Guess: |
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it cautions arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt"
exclaim!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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men
exhausted
by a
38
?
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| Question: |
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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But at
present these talents are being turned from the
road their instinct has chosen by the seductive
tones of the “fashionable culture,” that plays on
their selfish side, their vanities and weaknesses ;
and the time-spirit ever
whispers
in their ears its
flattering counsel :-“ Follow me and go not thither!
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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} ; notions of grammar, arithmetic, French history and
geography
( .
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| Question: |
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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It was some-
thing similar to the demonian warning voice which
urged him to these practices ; it was because of his
Apollonian insight that, like a
barbaric
king, he
did not understand the noble image of a god and
was in danger of sinning against a deity—through
ignorance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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—I would not build myself a
house (it is an element of my
happiness
not to be
a house-owner!
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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i wille it be, 609
Graunte vs alle god endyng,
And in heuene a
wonying!
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I have be negligent, in good fey, 3900
To chastise him;
therfore
now I
Of herte crye you here mercy,
That I have been so recheles
To tamen him, withouten lees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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After a
time others were sent, who
advanced
about 1500[1283] stadia beyond the
strait, to an island consecrated to Hercules, and lying opposite to
Onoba, a city of Iberia: considering that here were the Pillars, they
sacrificed to the god, but the sacrifices being again unfavourable, they
returned home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Strabo |
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As little as we can adapt
ourselves
to the ne^ technology without adequate training.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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I was telling His Eminence the
Cardinal
about it recently, when we were out hunting in Miirzsteg-no, it was Miirzbruck, at the Hostnitz girl's wedding-and he laughed and clapped his hands together: 'Some- thing new every year,' he said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Result: Within three
lifetimes
one shall attain Buddhahood in the realm of the Beautiful Array (stug.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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But harme it did him none,
It sticked in the
Bedsteddes
head that Persey sate upon.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
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For want of such a man, the
instructed
Radicals
sank into a mere _Cote Gauche_ of the Whig party.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
|
Discontinuity
is essential to the essay; its concern is always a conflict
brought to a standstill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
|
"Weren't you ashamed," I said to him, angrily, "thus to
denounce
us to
the Commandant after giving me your solemn word not to do so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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, _very
powerful,
exceeding
strong_].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
178),
connect 'Nature and grace' with what follows, and Chambers and the
Grolier Club editor have
accepted
this, though they place a semicolon
after 'Art'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Their verses
were handed round, copied out into the
manuscript
books, of
which many survive in public and private libraries, and admired
in a small circle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
* (Recording:) human
28
November
1973 69
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
being seen in different shapes and because of the received and the recepient being incapable of the same existing nature as a
consequence
of the contradiction between the one and the many, the 'one' cannot be of the nature of 'many'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Unfix'd yet fix'd,
Ever shall be, ever have been and are,
Sweeping the present to the
infinite
future,
Eidolons, eidolons, eidolons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
That lively exchange of ideas between nations, on which
the present
generation
rightly plumes itself, has never
been a mere give-and-take.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
The feeling of receptiveness, which this surpasses, is an
experience
belong- ing to the path of connection (sbyor-lam, Skt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
5), "very
conscious
of this missing quality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
Perception and
understanding
have come to a stop and spirit moves where it wants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
440
O state
perplexing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
the evil principle, 346 ; the
psychological
old age
of, 369; what the Greeks derived from, 374; and
the springs of happiness, 382; alluded to, 338,347.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
Afterworkingmanymiracles, andfoundingmanymonasteries forinadditiontoMayoandElytheria,or Tempul-Gerald, in Connaught, that of Tegh-na-Saxon is named, besides a convent—of sacred Virgins, which he
committed
to the care of his sister St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
Raised in the forests, he has their
wildness
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The joy was too great for them, since
the very idea itself came to them as a freedom--a freedom from the
sense of their
measureless
insignificance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
In ease of the death, resignation, absence from the United' States, or removal of a director by the stock- holders, his place may be filled by a new choice for the
remainder
ofthe year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
You were the wind and I the sea--
There is no
splendor
any more,
I have grown listless as the pool
Beside the shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
'
The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it
fracture
for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier, transparent with flights not made?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
With the grasses a-bending I
followed
them,
Through the brown grasses of Ahva unto the green of Asedon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
Vydkhyd: samvrtijndnam samvrtijndnam eva svabhavdsamgrahatah/ ekasya ca
paracittajndnasya
bhdga ekadesah/.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
|
None of Bacon's writings gives in short apace
so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this
fragment
of
the plan of an ideal commonwealth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
For there's a
vaporous
thing--that may be nothing,
But that's the buyer's risk--a second self,
They call immortal for a story's sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
|
Lazily I lounge through
labyrinthine
corridors,
And with eyes suddenly altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a startled face that penetrates my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
On the other side of
the Morelle lived a young fellow named
Dominique
Penquer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
|
I taly; though I cannot
disguise
from you, that at first her
emotions on that intelligence caused her a relapse of fever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
Some of the methods
employed
to that end have already been outlawed and perhaps there are others which should be proscribed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Unfortunately the systems staff will not be
available
until Monday, to apply fixes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use prohibit mass downloads or automated
harvesting
of the collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
His
calamities
seem to have
broken his spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
It was
difficult
to reduce the whole cine- matic apparatus, the whole filmic apparatus, to such a thin- ness, and that is really extraordinary, rather unique I think in the history of the cinema.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
|
Her aunt came forward and took
Elizabeth’s
shoulders in her delicate, saurian
hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
|
"
LXXXII
And now, when you see brothers apparently good friends and living in
accord, do not
immediately
pronounce anything upon their friendship,
though they should affirm it with an oath, though they should declare,
"For us to live apart in a thing impossible!
| Guess: |
Rajesh Toleti |
| Question: |
Submit,question,question |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epictetus |
|
Nay, sirrah me no
sirrahs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Two
men dressed in blue
observed
him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
|
The
"big drab-coloured River spreads out into Islands, of a con-
"fused sort, as it passes; which are partly built upon, and con-
stitute suburbs of the Town, -- stretching over, here and
"there, into
straggles
of farther suburb beyond the River,
"where a road with its bridge happens to cross for the Eastern
"parts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
But even when these de- remarkable exemplification of some of the leading
signs were betrayed by some of the Helots, the features and faults of the Spartan
character
and
ephors were still reluctant to act upon this inform- constitution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
|
nberg's
response
to the
37 Oskar Kokoschka, Schriften 1907-1955, ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
|
[The person to whom these verses are
addressed
lived at Adamhill in
Ayrshire, and merited the praise of rough and ready-witted, which the
poem bestows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns- |
|
By chance, in the shady vales of the woody Ida, there was a white hull,
the glory of the herd, marked with a little black in the middle between
his horns; there was but one spot; the rest was of the
complexion
of
milk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
|
For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
They consisted
in Bismarck's rupture with the National Liberals,
the resignation of ministers Hobrecht, Falck,
and
Friedenthal
the reconciliation of Bismarck
with the Roman Curia, and the passage of the
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
|
At the same time there now strikes as in France
for many-stringed poetic souls the hour of
decadence; they look for
inspiration
in every
domain of the external world instead of seeking
it within their own breasts, and become, like
Antoni Lange, virtuosos of form but lacking in
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
be
vnparygal
to the strokes of fortune / as 1708
who seyth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
¡cuán süave resonó en mi oído
El
bullicio
del mundo y su ruïdo!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
Meanwhile, it appears that
downloads
of epub and mobi (Kindle) formatted eBooks is triggering blocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
--
What
sacrilege
have waves and bulk of brine
And floating fields of foam been guilty of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
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These shall conduct me forth, for well I know
That evil threatens you, such, too, as none
Shall 'scape of all the suitors, whose delight
Is to insult the unoffending guest
Received beneath this
hospitable
roof.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Tis love that
conquers
all the world.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual
portions
of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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The supposed
approach of death loosens their fettered souls and
allows them a short moment of thrilling happiness,
just as though they had actually escaped from the
present, from
illusions
and from life: the theme of
Tristan and Isolde.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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A slight moral
distinction
remains, not to be so easily got
over.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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It is such an abominable trick to be ill here
instead of at Bath that I can
scarcely
command myself at all.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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He was not an old man when he died; but was eaten up with
the gout, which he
sometimes
had in his eyes, in his nose, and
in his tongue.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Suffisaunce
and power 2296
ben ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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