Let the future and the
furthest
be the motive of
thy to-day; in thy friend shalt thou love the Super-
man as thy motive.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Both books are printedin typewritecrharactersand are
thereforedifficulto
read.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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" In my opinion, the man may take
his price, and be secure from any punishment: you
wittingly
purchased a
good-for-nothing boy: the condition of the contract was told you.
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Horace - Works |
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It is not obliged to erase the traces of the process by which it has come to be what it is, its artificiality; the phan- tasmagorical is its opposite in that through its appearance it
portrays
itself as achieved instead of carrying through the process whereby it might actually suc- ceed; this is the only moral of artworks.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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I shall be with you very soon, and am ever,
Your
affectionate
brother,
R.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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I shall be with you very soon, and am ever,
Your
affectionate
brother,
R.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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'
If one imagines
other“
things to be non-
existent, a thing has no qualities.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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It can be done, but you need
colossal
pressures and high temperatures, presumably the conditions that naturally manufacture diamonds, deep in the earth.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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The delight of the city, the wit of the Nile,1 the art and grace, the
sportiveness
and joy, the glory and grief of the Roman theatre, and all its Venuses and Cupids, lie buried in this tomb, with Paris.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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33 did not sit in the
Apostolic
See until a.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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4 He incited others by the example of his own soldierlyº spirit; he would walk as much as twenty miles fully armed; he cleared the camp of banqueting-rooms, porticoes, grottos, and bowers, 5 generally wore the
commonest
clothing, would have no gold ornaments on his sword-belt or jewels on the clasp, would scarcely consent to have his sword furnished with an ivory hilt, 6 visited the sick soldiers in their quarters, selected the sites for camps, conferred the centurion's wand on those only who were hardy and of good repute, appointed as tribunes only men with full beards or of an age to give to the authority of the tribuneship the full measure of prudence and maturity, 7 permitted no tribune to accept a present from a soldier, banished luxuries on every hand, and, lastly, improved the soldiers' arms and equipment.
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Historia Augusta |
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lient "PpoMle< - the go:eat<:st of all noise, which begi"" ,he cycle< and the ah>enc~ of all oound in which they ~nd-an i'kntity to which he
frcqu~nlly
allude.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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The blue sky was overhead, the red sun upon the castellated
walls a thousand feet above us, the
purpling
chasm opened be-
fore.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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I'm tir'd to see an Actor on the Stage
That knows not whether he's to Laugh, or Rage;
Who, an
Intrigue
unravelling in vain,
Instead of pleasing, keeps my mind in pain:
I'de rather much the nauseous Dunce should say
Downright, my name is Hector in the Play;
Than with a Mass of Miracles, ill joyn'd,
Confound my Ears, and not instruct my Mind.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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They manned
fortresses,
assassinated
Helots, and, in cases of need, even took the
field against an enemy.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Yet she appeared confident in
innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by
thousands, for all the
kindness
which her beauty might otherwise have
excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the
imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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He then
garrisoned
and held it for some time in war- like opposition to the Fitzpatricks.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Joe Paper Company of
Jacksonville
worth $35,515,148.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose
embraces
Clasp but wind that past thee bloweth?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Austin has decided thus--and it has worked, it has been imprinted on all
typewriter
ribbons (more or less correctly, because the rigorous definition of the performative is infinitely prob- lematic; but the word is now ineffaceable).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Through the inter-
once a ship-carpenter, is overshadowed vention of General D'Auvergne and
by her aggressive nature, and by the
Mademoiselle
Marie de Meudon, the sis-
great wealth which is hers from her ter of Charles, with whom he has fallen
grandfather, and which she hopes will in love, Burke is se free.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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' Although this was not strictly true}, it
sug-
gests a just estimate of James
Chelsum’s
Remarks on the Two
Last Chapters of Mr Gibbon's History (1776), a pamphlet not
discourteous in tone, but devoid of force.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
Can I have a big coach candle
fixed up just at the head of my bed, so that I can read
comfortably?
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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And then
the
agonized
thoughts returned more horribly, and her wailing
cry broke out again as she beat her head against the wall.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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inaiime Jovis Imperils Imposta Tf-\-pho-eo
( Typh5-e5 --ph5, a
distinct
long syllable (See
Georgic 1, 279) -- EO, a syntcresis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Der Mittellateiner: Lebenswerk und Lebensform des
Philologen
Bernhard Bischoff.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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(short] (see below, ii);
also in special notes in:
Hefele-Leclercq, Les
Conciles
(see Gen.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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"
She always
maintained
that A Life for a Life' was her best
book, a judgment shared by many of her friends and critics.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Man, the second of the Three Orders,
Owes his
precedence
to Me.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For, if a house be sacked, new wealth for old
Not hard it is to win--if Zeus the lord
Of treasure favour--more than quits the loss,
Enough to pile the store of wealth full high;
Or if a tongue shoot forth
untimely
speech,
Bitter and strong to goad a man to wrath,
Soft words there be to soothe that wrath away:
But what device shall make the war of kin
Bloodless?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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This formlessness should also be understood as a violent erasure of (previous) forms: whenever a cer- tain act is posited as a founding one, as a historical cut, the beginning of a new era, the
previous
social real- ity is as a rule reduced to a chaotic ahistorical conundrum--say, when the Western colonialists "discov- ered" Black Africa, this discovery was read as the contact of "prehis- torical" primitives with civilized history proper, and their previous history basically blurred into form- less matter.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
|
'
ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S
EXISTENCE
99
nuclear energy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Name of poem:
Robert
Browning
(1812-1889): Pippa Passes (1841)
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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340 The place is commonly supposed to be near
Oswestry
in Shropshire
(_i.
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bede |
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I know the public palate, that's confest;
Yet never pined so for a sound suggestion;
True, they are not
accustomed
to the best,
But they have read a dreadful deal, past question.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
audience
sat bewildered.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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The wayfarer,
Perceiving
the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Women played a
commanding
role in his life.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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' And
the king apparently
accepted
all kinds, not rare ones only, but cranes and
geese and ducks and pigeons.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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E di pochi
scaglion
levammo i saggi,
che 'l sol corcar, per l'ombra che si spense,
sentimmo dietro e io e li miei saggi.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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THE
EPISODES
OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Hie ego concede saltern, non multus qui rogo,
Nudusque
cupressinus
(enall.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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2, from which ninety quarters only can be obtained after supporting the
labourers, rent would
commence
on No.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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s no
sublimado
ni superado de los dominadores, A COrto plazo, y de forma irresistible, el intere?
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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And they brought round horns of wine, and all pledged one another; but Arystas, when the cup-bearer came to him with the wine, said, as he saw that
Xenophon
was no longer eating any supper, 'Give him the wine, for he has time to drink it, but I have not time yet.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Again, the want of unanimity
amongst the reformed, the fissiparous
multiplication
of
their sects, their mutual jealousies, bewildered and dis-
couraged those whom they might otherwise have
attracted.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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She stretched up tall to
overlook
the light
That hung in both hands hot against her skirt.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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haec uestis priscis hominum uariata figuris 50
heroum mira
uirtutes
indicat arte.
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Latin - Catullus |
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OF THE BATTLE OF CAEN, AND HOW THE ENGLISHMEN TOOK THE TOWN
THE same day the Englishmen rose early and
appareled
them
ready to go to Caen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
|
POEM
Abbreviatedfrom
the Conversation of Mr T.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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-- Seeing is not feasible because such a form -- a
particle
which firstly has no front, nor any middle, and finally does not
have a .
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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wings of our Mother the Divine Wisdom, since that Wisdom -- -- --
voluntarily
weakened Herself on our behalf, when the Word*0*TM >, was made flesh.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
|
i
Vix furor ultoris
tristior
esset heri.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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"
A
thousand
voices called to me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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But neither of them
fixed his
residence
by choice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
This
means keeping the "flavor" of the original, trans-
lating one-self, so to speak, into the past rather
than the
original
into the present.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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For the use (in the first instance) of gentlemen applying to
me for assistance in acquiring a knowledge of Prosody and
Versification -- and with the further view of aiding others
who may be
desirous
of correctly understanding the struc-
ture of Virgil's lines, and pronouncing them with metrical
propriety -- I publish this "Clavis," in which I have distinctly
noticed and analysed every verse of his Eclogues, Georgics,
and JEne'id, containing any poetic licence which I thought
capable of creating difficulty to the inexperienced Prosodian.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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And all these
questions
I ask myself?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
|
Isabella
then tried another method.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
And
prodigies with a vengeance have I known thus produced;
prodigies
of
self-conceit, shallowness, arrogance, and infidelity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
|
Since it became evident in Austria that
the growth of the Slavs menaced, though
in a remote future, to
undermine
the
dominating part which belonged to the
German element, the German Nationalists
lost every interest for the conservation
of Austria's unity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
We were all on the
deck; but in a short time I
observed
marks of dismay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
ORIGINS OF AIR STRATEGY
STRATEGIC BOMBING IN WORLD WAR I1
It is true that the effects of reduced morale upon German production look very
different
if one concentrates on the last two months of the war rather than on the entire two years of heavy bombing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
|
It would not do to push
this theory to its
ultimate
logic, but there is some-
thing In it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
|
VII
Yea, seeds of crescive sympathy
Were sown by those more
excellent
than he,
Long known, though long contemned till then--
The gods of men in amity.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
To my
mistress
may he sing and whistle,
Clear, so her heart feels the sharp bristle,
Who can sing nobly, with joy and grace,
For it suits no singer vile and base.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
there comes me the
lightsome
dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
|
,
Harvard
Lectures
on the Revival of Learning, 1905 (chap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
The urban cult seems to have involved a girls'
footrace
or dance on the banks of the Eurotas, and the placing of wreaths on a plane tree sacred to Helen, acts in celebration of Helen's wedding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
|
If,
notwithstanding, one of the good
individuals
does something unworthy of
his goodness, recourse is had to exorcism; thus the guilt is ascribed to
a deity, the while it is declared that this deity bewitched the good man
into madness and blindness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
|
II
I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
BESIDE the bad conscience hath
hitherto
grown all KNOWLEDGE!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
It is not unlogical; rather it obeys logical criteria in so far as the totality of its
sentences
must fit together coherently.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
The sage has in the world an
appearance
of indecision, and keeps
his mind in a state of indifference to all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
|
* * * * *
The wonderful powers of machinery can, by multiplied production, render the
mere _arte facta _of life
actually
cheaper: thus money and all other things
being supposed the same in value, a silk gown is five times cheaper now
than in Queen Elizabeth's time; but machinery cannot cheapen, in any thing
like an equal degree, the immediate growths of nature or the immediate
necessaries of man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
Mas se quiser dizer que existo como entidade que a si mesma se dirige e forma, que exerce junto de si mesma a função divina de se criar, como hei-de empregar o verbo “ser” senão convertendo-o subitamente em
transitivo?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
|
n, benefi- ciarse de la eficiencia de las
comunicaciones
glo- bales y sus tecnologi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
)
Raging at the charge of imitation, Baudelaire said in this same epistle:
"They accuse even me of
imitating
Edgar Poe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which
thunders
down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As careless as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
So those
passionate
letters, that audacious pursuit were
not the result of tenderness and love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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preciouse
stones; 591
In seue dayes it was dy?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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These simple
Passions
called Appetite, Desire, Love, Aversion, Hate,
Joy, and griefe, have their names for divers considerations diversified.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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up too long, and fine weather invited me forth, I could not
wait; but was
speedily
off to throw myself all alone into a boat,
which, when the water was smooth enough, I used to pull out
to the middle of the lake.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Their generative
strength is being
extinguished
in the sodomy and
voluptuousness of the harem.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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It has no
Dividends
to Pay, and nobody is trying to make Money out of it.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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SLOTERDIJK: The catalyser represents a form of hygiene edu- cation of the
automobile
self.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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l lễ nghi,
126 —
Cau khỏ, trâu héo, rnợu Ihl
hường
hơi.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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] [85] Meanwhile the assassins were making ready, some of them
stationing
themselves beside his chair, others in front of it, others behind it.
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Roman Translations |
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This structure meant not only the destruction of the political
capabilities
of isolated men, but also that of groups and institutions forming the tissue of man's private relations.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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It
acquired
pomp, power,
riches, but lost its soul.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Besides these, there was one which had been expressly
executed
at his
own order by Kim-mochi.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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aptauitque
suis incongrua tegmina membris
et miserum tanto pressit honore caput.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And
among the
Ethiopians
the first fruits of victory in war are offered in
the form of sacrifice of human captives to their gods.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Then wearied in this hour of sorrow, she was at first silent, but afterwards kneeling, she thus broke forth in " All who alone doest
prayer : powerful God,
marvels, whom the powers of Heaven serve, whom the elements obey, on whom all creatures justly wait, I give Thee thanks with praise and blessing, since Thou hast vouchsafed to Thy
handmaiden
to lead her to the presence of her brother.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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It ended with the marriage of the
daughter and heiress of King Louis of Hungary and
Poland to Ladislas Jagiello, Prince of Lithuania; as
a result of this
desirable
and convenient match, Poland
peacefully and economically acquired not only a new
dynasty, but also a vast accession of territory, wealth,
and power, and became a determining factor in European
calculations.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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It is equally clear
that two equal forces acting in
opposite
directions, both being finite
and each distinguished from the other by its direction only, must
neutralize or reduce each other to inaction.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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