And the simple hardy fisherfolk
Kept watch and slept no more,
As the wicked wind raved down the street
With gouts of foam and slings of sleet
And
battered
at every door.
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Tennyson |
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Why is the penultimate
lengthened
in the participle
Finitus from finio, finivi?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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We are wont to regard a poetical
technique
determined by feeling alone
as a very modern innovation, and it is interesting to note that the
method is, on the contrary, as old as the hills.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Whenever I receive a message saying: "sent from - somebody's - Blackberry," I feel that I am at the lower end of a regal message and that, rather than offering a response, I should wait for
subsequent
messages - or perhaps even commands.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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You will have to maintain some freedom of the press and get radio
stations
somehow.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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I wuz agoin' on to say thet wen at fust I saw
The masses would stick to 't I wuz the Country's father-'n-law,
(They would ha' hed it _Father_, but I told 'em 'twouldn't du,
Coz thet wuz sutthin' of a sort they couldn't split in tu, 20
An'
Washinton
hed hed the thing laid fairly to his door,
Nor darsn't say 'tworn't his'n, much ez sixty year afore,)
But 'taint no matter ez to thet; wen I wuz nomernated,
'Tworn't natur but wut I should feel consid'able elated,
An' wile the hooraw o' the thing wuz kind o' noo an' fresh,
I thought our ticket would ha' caird the country with a resh.
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James Russell Lowell |
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(To
Catullus)
What said he?
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Je n'eus pas le
courage de
répondre
à ces lettres.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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English
education
tends to produce this result.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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"
This was not
altogether
true.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Immediately
offering
his prayers to God, the holy man set out on his mission of peace and reconciliation.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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No, m’dear-no, no 1 Can’t do that kind of thing, dash nT
But m the end everything was arranged, and with surprising ease, not by Sir
Thomas, who was incapable oftarrangmg anything, but by his solicitor, whom
he had suddenly thought of consulting And the solicitor, without even seeing
Dorothy, was able to suggest a job for her She could, he said, almost certainly
find a job as a schoolmistress Of all jobs, that was the easiest to get
Sir Thomas came home very pleased with this suggestion, which struck him
as highly suitable (Privately, he thought that Dorothy had just the kind of face
that a schoolmistress ought to have ) But Dorothy was momentarily aghast
when she heard of it
‘A schoolmistress 1 ’ she said ‘But I couldn’t
possibly
1 I’m sure no school
would give me a job There isn’t a single subject I can teach ’
‘What?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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In point
of subject-matter they do not greatly differ from the
ordinary
novels of the
day, and some of the tales reappear in the collections of other novelists.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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72;
reviewed
by Nietzsche
himself, 1 1 8-21; the production of very few days,
118; the waste of an all-too-rich autumn in it,
119; the preface written, 30th Sept.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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given, but instead teaches it as representing a
courageous
vic- tory over an alternative world of dark and obscene ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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VIII
And
afterwards
them to his Dame he leades,
That aged Dame, the Ladie of the place: 65
Who all this while was busy at her beades:
Which doen, she up arose with seemely grace,
And toward them full matronely did pace.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Yeats - Poems |
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” said Holden,
with an
abstracted
smile.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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A Rich Closet of
Physical
Secrets.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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And are we to own
that he is the highest and purest type of spectator,
who, like the Oceanides, regards
Prometheus
as
## p.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Her daughter, aged fifteen, was among the punters, and
notified with a covert glance the cheatings of the poor people who
tried to repair the
cruelties
of fate.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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In this text as well,
omniscience
( o r overall omni?
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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One cat,
scrubbed
in the mill's sink, stink of last week's stew.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It must
necessarily
be so.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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When the frantic one fleets,
While no force can withstand,
Through the populous streets
Whirling
ghastly the brand;
For the element hates
What man's labor creates,
And the work of his hand!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
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Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just
possibly it might, it was
inconceivable
that its members
could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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See also Menke- Eggers, Die
Souveranitat
der Kunst, pp.
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| Question: |
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A Prayer
When I am dying, let me know
That I loved the blowing snow
Although it stung like whips;
That I loved all lovely things
And I tried to take their stings
With gay unembittered lips;
That I loved with all my strength,
To my soul's full depth and length,
Careless if my heart must break,
That I sang as
children
sing
Fitting tunes to everything,
Loving life for its own sake.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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57
Di medolle già d'orsi e di leoni
ti porsi io dunque li primi alimenti;
t'ho per caverne ed orridi burroni
fanciullo avezzo a strangolar serpenti,
pantere e tigri
disarmar
d'ungioni
ed a vivi cingial trar spesso i denti,
acciò che, dopo tanta disciplina,
tu sii l'Adone o l'Atide d'Alcina?
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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For America, like Russia, produces grain, timber,
oil, cotton, coal,
manganese
and fish.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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The application of puzzles or riddles to this form of composition was new, but in giving himself the
patronymic
Simichidas the author is probably acknowledging his dept to his predecessor, Simichus being a pet-name for of Simias, as Amyntichus for Amyntas in VII.
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Pattern Poems |
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6 The
critical
edition of Trakl's letters uses a numbering system.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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157 George Buchanan states
Scotorum ex
Hibernia
transitum in Albion factumnostri annalesreferunt,"&c.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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The
trend toward industrial
education
will help to correct this situation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Was it not also
Nietzsche
who most clearly ex- pressed what grief had to say about itself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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CXXIX
Into that gentle palfrey's form, who bore
The beauteous daughter of King Stordilane,
Sir Vivian's brother, simply by his lore,
Made pass an angel of the dark domain;
And the good horse, who never moved before,
Except in due
obedience
to the rein,
Now took a leap, possest by that ill sprite,
Thirty feet long and sixteen feet in height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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This latter office he divided into three
separate
portions : the first was said within the cell ; the second under a spreading tree of large growth, that cast its branches over his rude habitation ; and the third he repeated whilst tied by the neck to a stake, with half of his body plunged in a tub of cold water.
| Guess: |
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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) This
Relation
of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew Prophets to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thou hast told us our parents lie sleeping beneath
The grass, in a
churchyard
lonely:
Now, thine eyes have no motion, thy mouth has no breath,
And thy limbs are all rigid!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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HEN Prince Edward, afterwards Edward the
Sixth, was about five years old, his godfather
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, sent him
as a present, a complete little table service in polished
silver, worked in a
superior
manner: there were
?
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| Source: |
Childrens - Little Princes |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Soviet Union, however,
appealing
to the Euro-
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
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| Question: |
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
Apologies if this happened, because human users who are making use of the eBooks or other site
features
should almost never be blocked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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All these kept silence; but
Schoeneus
cried and said:
(ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
|
Visual Aids
Films
Boston
University
Film Service has several films on Soviet Russia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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quantum est) tec' una (for tecum
una) , ferend' est (for
ferendum
est).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Amongst his letters written
during his sickness, we find a
touching
correspondence with
Ernst Wagner, a true and warm-hearted friend of his coun-
try and of all good men, but whose spirit was crushed al-
most to hopelessness by the pressure of disease and penury.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Some musician has
composed
The Invitation to the Waltz: who shall compose The Invitation to the Voyage, one can offer to the beloved, the sister of their choice?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Historically, it has been autonomous and
nearly independent since 1856 ; its in-
habitants -- Druses and Maronites -- are
distinct by race and creed from their
neighbours of both North and South, and
have
developed
distinct and higher stand-
ards of economic and social life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
"She'll die,"
Siddhartha
said quietly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
|
Lloyd shows with unsparing detail
readers with faith in the infallibility of
and with
unimpeachable
accuracy the
its author.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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I was then dressed
with a
thousand
precautions, and again heard my own praises, and
triumphed in the compliments and prognostications of all that approached
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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The essence of Stoicism is thus the
experience
of the absolute nature of moral conscience and of the purity of intention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Yes: now I am no longer wretched thrall,
My long captivity and moanings all
Are but a slime, a thin-pervading scum,
The which I breathe away, and
thronging
come
Like things of yesterday my youthful pleasures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Prepare a fleing horse,
Whose feete are wynges, whose pace ys lycke the wynde, 805
Whoe wylle
outestreppe
the morneynge lyghte yn course,
Leaveynge the gyttelles of the merke behynde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Historical
collection
of the life of John Aylmer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
ritter, Hegel und die
Reformation
(1968), in: J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
|
EncapSulated by a
mounting
profusion of
wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
|
a
priceless
treasury of mss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
He lived Dinton (county Bucks,) in a cave, had been, a man of tolerable wealth, was looked upon as a pretty good scholar, and of no con
temptible
parts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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All our Law and Story strew'd
With Hymns, our Psalms with artful terms inscrib'd,
Our Hebrew Songs and Harps in Babylon,
That pleas'd so well our Victors ear, declare
That rather Greece from us these Arts deriv'd;
Ill imitated, while they loudest sing
The vices of thir Deities, and thir own 340
In Fable, Hymn, or Song, so personating
Thir Gods ridiculous, and
themselves
past shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
‘Fore Pan I’ll
presently
come thee an evil end if thou stay there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
|
There is also something else common to them:
a predilection to resist intellectual Germanising
--and a still greater
inability
to do so!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
6 Since my last
conversation
with Hirtius I have determined to ask for permission, while we are at Rome, to have a bodyguard at the public expense; but I do not expect they will grant us that privilege, because we shall raise a storm of unpopularity against them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
|
Pero lo que causa esas noches de
insomnio
en las que el tiempo se contrae y se escapa, inu?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
Ah, Lycinus, your
arguments
seem to me more or less logical,
but--but--to be frank with you--I hate to hear you going through them and
wasting your acuteness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
|
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933,
involving
the deaths of
millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English
russophiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
But little gain by that dark ground
Was ours, save, sometime, freer breath
For friend or brother
strangely
found,
'Scaped from the drear domain of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The scrotum of males and matrix of females are also similar instances;
so that the noble formation which constitutes the difference of the
sexes appears to differ only as to the one being
internal
and the other
external; a greater degree of heat causing the genitals to protrude in
the male, while the heat of the female being too weak to effect this,
they are retained internally.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
The nomination of a friend of Sarpi to the
Readership
of the Ducal Chan-
cery must not be omitted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
When the mind is
prepared
through the preliminary practices, just as food is made edible by being cooked, the mind will be capable of enter- ing the actual path of meditation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
The
Israelites
used to say that they alone were righteous, because to them the Law had been given : all other men of every nation they used to call sinners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
A
handsome
man or woman?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
|
That would make
possible
some definite and realistic comparisons which could bring the argu- ment down from the Olympian heights where all is wrapped in verbal mist and New Republic rhetoric.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Compli- anceislikelytobelesscasual,lesscapableofbeingrationalized as
something
that one was going to do anyhow.
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He is a notable lad; he shall be known among twenty:
complexion
not white but rather like to fire; eyes keen and beamy; of an ill disposition but fair spoken, for he means not what he says – ‘tis voice of honey, heart of gall; forward, cozening, a ne’er-say-troth; a wily brat; makes cruel play.
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Moschus |
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And since I am so loyal to you, lady,
That Love grants me no power to love elsewhere,
But lets me pay court to one, maybe,
Who might remove the heavy grief I bear;
So when I think of you to whom joy bows,
All other love's
forgotten
and displaced:
With her my heart holds dearest, there it stays.
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Troubador Verse |
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In the political sphere, the
proposed
changes to the Soviet constitution, legal system, and party rules amount to much less than the establishment of a liberal state.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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The
vines were covered with fruit, but the drink we
squeezed
from it was milk
instead of wine.
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Lucian |
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She began by trans-
lations from French and Italian, and went on with blank verse
dramas after the model of the virtuous and
matchless
Orinda;
she wrote songs after Prior, pindarics after Cowley and fables
after La Fontaine.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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All this neighbourhood is
remarkable
for abounding in salt-springs, 7 scattered in different places.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Some-
thing of this prevailed originally in most nations, and a reminis-
cence of it still exists in the village system among the Slavonic
tribes of Russia and Poland; and nearly all jurists maintain that
the testamentary right by which a man
disposes
of his goods
after his natural death, as well as that by which a child inherits
from the parent, is a municipal, not a natural right.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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If, now in my quiet days, I had youthful faculties at my command, I
should devote myself to Greek, in spite of all the
difficulties
I
know.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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The
Town and Country
Miscellany
(Smith, Albert), 1850.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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In any case, ever since Walther Rathenau, German politics has not seen another case where political intelligence, aesthetic perceptiveness, capacity for sociological analysis, and philosophical
reflection
were all united in a high-ranking leader.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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"
The sound of words ceased in the long night,
It was as though I heard the
darkness
choke with tears.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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ODE
jet Are gather golden net
Lachesis whose locks
with her extended hand
The oath that binds the powers above 120
And stamp with fate the nod of Jove Which the bright isle emerging from the wave
To Phæbus and his latest offspring gave
Hence the land extends his sway Who darts the piercing beams day
124
The charioteer whose guiding
Wide over the celestial plain
His fire exhaling steeds obey 130
With Rhodos there amorous embrace Conjoin the god begat valiant race
125
130
Seven noble sons with wisdom gifts endow By their great sire above the vulgar crowd
117 This ratifying power which distinguishes Lachesis above her sister Destinies also asserted
Plutarch
De
Facie Orbe Lunæ sub finem
129 Their names according the scholiast were Cerca
phus Ochimus Actis Macaresas Tenages Triopes Phae thon
rein
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Pindar |
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— Nietzsche's
suspicion
of his being too clever, x.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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There's nothing does you
so much harm as being in
disgrace
for lying.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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, 1786-90 and
1792-96); (An Exact History of all the Writers
and Bishops who have had their
Education
in
the University of Oxford, from 1500 to 1690)
(last ed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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