Every word he uttered had a force that no other grace could
have
imparted
to it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
Had he been privy to her
conversation
with his
son, he would not have wished her to belong to him, though her twenty
thousand pounds had been forty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
In France during the
eleventh
century, many of the new bourgs were labelled communia pro paca, or 'communes for peace' (Le Goff 1965: 66).
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
So she refused to let her mother
dissuade
her.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
Supposing
that I were to leave her
behind, I wonder what would happen to her!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
] Why, sir, 'tis your
own fault--here you have stood ever since you came in, and have
not
commended
any one thing that belongs to him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
|
Christianity has
sided with everything weak, low, and botched ; it
has made an ideal out of antagonism towards all
the self-preservative instincts of strong life: it has
corrupted even the reason of the
strongest
intellects,
by teaching that the highest values of intellectuality
are sinful, misleading and full of temptations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
9 Antiochus, remembering that his father had been hated for his pride, and his brother
despised
for his indolence, was anxious not to fall into the same vices, and having married Cleopatra, his brother's wife, proceeded to make war, with the utmost vigour, on the provinces that had revolted through the badness of his brother's government, and, after subduing them, re-united them to his dominions.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
|
My quatraining of the
distichs
was inspired by the translation practice of my former teacher, Michael Sells, who is in my unapologetically biased view the only decent literary translator into English that pre-Islamic poetry has had in perhaps half a century.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Translated Poetry |
|
The inhabitants of this continent,
exhausted
by the excesses and the pressures of the era from 1914 to 1945, turned their backs on historical passion and developed a post- historical modus vivendi in its stead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
|
I have been idle enough in my time, to make a computation of wits here, and do find we have three hundred performing poets and upwards, in and about this town, reckoning six score to the hundred, and allowing for demies, like pint bottles;
including
also the several denominations of imitators, translators, and familiar-letter-writers, &c.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
|
The last time
I had been there
something
was troubling me, and I had longed for a
message from those beings or bodiless moods, or whatever they be, who
inhabit the world of spirits.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
who reign Where generous
coursers
graze the plain ,
And rule Orchomenos the fair ;
Ye Graces !
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pindar |
|
"If a man finds a woman too fair, he means simply adapted too much
To uses
unlawful
and fatal.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
|
Poor Merry Andrew in the neuk,
Sat guzzling wi' a tinkler hizzie;
They mind't na wha the chorus teuk,
Between
themselves
they were sae busy:
At length wi' drink and courting dizzy
He stoitered up an' made a face;
Then turn'd, an' laid a smack on Grizzie,
Syne tun'd his pipes wi' grave grimace.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I love you when the
teardrop
flows,
Hotter than blood, from your large eye;
When I would hush you to repose
Your heavy pain breaks forth and grows
Into a loud and tortured cry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
"To the
honourable
Mr.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
” For these reasons I attempt to convey to you some
inkling of the present state of that
agreeable
art which you, madam,
raised to its highest pitch of perfection.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
They had fifty schools, in which the majority
of the
children
of the nobles were taught, and
thus they practically superintended national
education.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
The government sent out thousands of
circulars
requesting that incidents of patriotic hero- ism be reported to the periodical's editor, and hundreds of responses filtered back in.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
their advice, had
committed
the examination WQL.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
athletes
appeared
as early as 568 (Liv.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
Hence I say
correctly
in the root text, "ONL Y HE .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
|
Bellowing
there groan'd
A noise as of a sea in tempest torn
By warring winds.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The difference between Sein and Seiendes - previously between the eternal and the
ephemeral
- takes on a hard, concrete profile in Groys's thought: he now refers to the difference between what can be collected in the pyramid's generalized burial chamber, i.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
The appeal to Amaryllis may be
regarded
as consisting of three parts each ending with the offer of a gift – apples, garland, a goat – and a fourth part containing a love-song of four stanzas.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
|
Some are already sent to
overtake
him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
|
Seward:--
"Say, Jack, if that man wasn't
attempting
a bluff, he is about the
sanest lunatic I ever saw.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
“To his
drink”
: cf.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
|
What threatens a third story of this same kind, The Cook's
Tale, is broken off short without any
explanation
after about
fifty lines-one MS asserting that Chaucer 'maked namore' of it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
"
"I confess again," replied the Count, with much suavity, "that I am
somewhat at a loss to comprehend you; pray, to what
particulars
of
science do you allude?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
His work, which
appeared
in France in 1835, and in the U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
|
” «I call this good luck,”
began little brother: "a room freshly scoured, apples
roasting
in
the chimney, half a cold duck in the cupboard; and you all alone
with cat and clock.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
|
A mild penetration, for a hundred years they have bootlicked your nobility and now where is your
nobility?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
His
complexion
was white
as milk, his hair a bright yellow, and he shone as if he had just been
bathing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
|
But the
Portuguese
power was fast
declining.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
|
In very rare cases, when in one
and the same individual are combined the genius
of power and of knowledge and the moral genius,
there is added to the above-mentioned pains that
species of pain which must be regarded as the
most curious
exception
in the world; those extra-
and super-personal sensations which are experienced
on behalf of a nation, of humanity, of all civili-
sation, all suffering existence, which acquire their
value through the connection with particularly
difficult and remote perceptions (pity in itself is
worth but little).
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
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.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
|
When these maxims shall have once taken root
in the rising generations, the fruit of it will be
the world's forming itself into one numerous
family, and the so much celebrated golden age will
come up to that state of
felicity
which I ardently
wish to mankind, and which it will then enjoy
without adulteration.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
Nguyễn
Nhân Thiếp (1452-?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
stella-04 |
|
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Come, with such capricious obstinacy,
You merit neither love nor destiny;
Heaven's just anger will see you wed
To Don Sanche when
Rodrigue
is dead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The only ques-
tion that remains and really concerns
vital English interests is to know where
the southern
frontier
of the future French
Syria should be drawn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
Who was your
handsome
friend?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
It is white in all
cases, and Herodotus is under a misapprehension when he states that
the
Aethiopians
eject black sperm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristotle |
|
Thấy
người
nằm đó biết sau thế nào ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
Several circumstances conspired to ren der his residence at Oxford
unpleasant
; he, therefore, went to London, where his practice became general,.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
|
I would like to call it a feeling that is not yet an emotion; but it is better to present an example, and for that I will take the relatively simple one ofphysical pain
inflicted
externally.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
|
Yet these were often the
products
of reflection.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
The cross-hatchings of rain cut the Tower obliquely,
Scratching
lines of black wire across it,
Mutilating its perpendicular grey surface
With the sharp precision of tools.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Yes, he thought,
standing
there with his head low, what would remain of
all that which seemed to us to be holy?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
|
Has he not first
to translate himself into the grotesquely obvious,
and then set forth his whole
personality
and cause
in that vulgarised and simplified fashion?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
|
6) And so hail to you in my song and to all
goddesses
as well!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hesiod |
|
158),
sometimes
in other ways.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
|
What is meant by preventive
justice?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
For more on the question of Oetinger's influence on Hegel, see Ernst Benz (1983, Mystical Sources of German Romantic Philosophy) and Robert
Schneider
(1938, Schellings und Hegels schwa?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hegel_nodrm |
|
It is called _ventosa_ from the
rarefication
of the air in
the operation, and was applied to relieve the head.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Satires |
|
There's a regularity in the
calamities
that descend on them.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
|
)
And now to present this to you in a form which may
be easily retained, and also to connect it with a previous
illustration:--We have already twice
translated
the words
of John--"In the beginning was the Word, &c.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
|
Under the sign of a
critique
of cynical reason, en- lightenment can gain a new lease on life and remain true to its most intimate pro-
ject: the transformation of being through consciousness.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
[28] And holden in
distress
the lady Rheia said, "Dear Earth, give birth thou also!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Callimachus - Hymns |
|
For deterrence, the trip-wire can
threaten
to blow things up out of all proportion to what is being protected, because if the threat works the thing never goes off.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
Boyle, clad in a suit of armour which had been given him by all
the gods, immediately
advanced
against the trembling foe, who now fled
before him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
But
there
Augustin
was not seeking employment.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
If we strive to maintain a
commitment
that is other than the mind, we will always fail.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
sies me^me qu'il a
compose?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
|
It appears that, gradually, a set of ideas and
practices
was growing that would eventually develop into something specifi- cally and more religiously Daoist.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
|
The upper part of the car was
partially
open, and bright
lights shone upon the sides of the shaft.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
For this purpose, a study of the best models is
notoriously
efficacious.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
What forcible solemnity in his
language!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
|
The
unconscious
is the name for the sources at which the modern ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES 23
necessity for a
reformation
in Poland.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
|
I confess to you all my failings, Philintus; how would my enemies,
Champeaux
and Anselm, have triumphed, had they seen this redoubted philosopher in such a wretched condition.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
|
Because it is a
commandment
for Israel, and
l**xI- a judgment for the God of Jacob.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
|
) and the golden
importunity
of aloofer's leavetime, when, as quick, is greased pigskin, Amoricas Champius, with one aragan throust, druve the massive of virilvigtoury flshpst the both lines of forwards (Eburnea's down, boys!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Finnegans |
|
The nymphs with scorn beheld their foes:
When the defendant's counsel rose,
And, what no lawyer ever lacked,
With
impudence
owned all the fact.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
again ; for after
the Season fitforhisEmbarking was past, he saidhe
would restore but one half of Dion's Estate, and
would reserve the other half for his Son : And
some time after he caus'd all he had to bepublickly
fold, at any Rate, and without speaking a word of
ittoPlato?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
|
To us the dull,
extravagant, and
fantastic
Acts of the Saints, of which its original
works chiefly consist, are tedious and ridiculous except for the lin-
guist or the church historian.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
|
I mention this comparative tolerance of the Bol-
sheviks, because the cruelties which followed were the
result of the
intensification
of the Civil War.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
" cried Zagloba,
throwing
himself into
his arms.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
|
III
In Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
You are long
ago
standing
in his way, and are a drag upon his wishes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Satires |
|
cuerpo desnudo y
decapitado
es ya parecida a la que impulsaba a las futuras vi?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
Many of our emigrants, if
they exercised here the same untiring
diligence
which
inexorable necessity enforces on them in America, could
also prosper in their old fatherland.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
Now, if he acquires, through the Path of Seeing, a pure sukhendriya of the Third Dhyana, he is found to possess a path higher than his result, which is a result of
Anagamin
of the domain of the sphere where he has entered in order to practice the Path of Seeing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
|
There is, however, one point in the scheme which shows that it is
reactionary,
directed
against prevailing tendencies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
lle 175
Gesang des Abgeschiedenen 177
Das Herz 179
Der Schlaf 181
Das Gewitter 182
Die Schwermut 184
Die
Heimkehr
185
Der Abend 186
Die Nacht 187
OFFENBARUNG UND UNTERGANG
In Hellbraun 191
Klage 192
Nachtergebung 193
Offenbarung und Untergang 194
Im Osten 199
Klage 200
Grodek .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
|
Alberto Girri:
existenciay
lo?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
|