When Adonis yet lived Cypris was
beautiful
to see to, but when Adonis died her loveliness died also.
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Bion |
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The wretch should have died;
But age robbed me of my noble pride;
And this blade my hand can
scarcely
bear,
I place in yours to punish and repair.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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zirziiij
i i;1,iJ.
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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GHOST OF DARIUS
Ye aged Persians, truest of the true,
Coevals of the youth that once was mine,
What
troubleth
now our city?
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Aeschylus |
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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,
17, 83; members with aberrant men-
tality: probable schizoid traits, 25;
non-Jewish home, 57; culture that of
assimilated Jews, 83; no insanity in,
154; traces of sadism, 175
Weininger,
Adelheid
(Mrs.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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8'
%!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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" When we heard this we were so frightened
that
Ascyltos
plunged off through the briers toward town, while
I rushed back into the wood at such a pace that the precious
mantle fell from my shoulders without my knowing it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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XVII
"And is it,"
meditates
Eugene.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yet it would have pre- vented the Prussian reaction; saved
equality
and enlight- enment without a mortal quarrel with religion; uni- fied Europeans and perhaps
avoided the Parliamentary corruption and the Fascist and Bolshevist revenges.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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I also visited the magnificent temple and saw the statue
of the Milichian Jove, and after paying our
devotions
to his great
divinity, and praying him to end at last, our troubles, we returned to
the lodgings which Menelaus had engaged for us.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Từ khi đặt niên hiệu Thuận Thiên đã cho mở mang việc học, giáo hóa thấm nhuần, vận hội văn
chương
thịnh sáng, nền thái bình muôn thuở chính nhờ đó mà bắt đầu.
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stella-02 |
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-
Cannot be quiet searce a
breathing
while
But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
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Shakespeare |
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How much happier should we be if by our humiliation and tears we could make our
repentance
sure.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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_He has evidently bathed and changed his
garments
and
drunk his fill, and is now revelling, a garland of flowers on his head.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Philosophy
as a ',discipline' does not have its own theory of 'theoretical fascism' because the latter is considered beneath all cri-
tique.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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lement l'horreur
croissante
en marque le progre`s.
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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This
unmerited
impertinence pro-
voked Mr.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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Many have
pontificem tuum inter innumera mirabilia
thought, that it was designed as a
sculptural
representation of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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160 ships came battle with the Danes Snamh Eidhneach, now
considered
Belfast Lough, and having fought with great fury both sides for three days and three nights, the Danes were
length victorious, and the Norwegians were obliged leave
their ships their hands.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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As a
matter of fact, a great number of impressions will soon occur, with
which others will
associate
themselves.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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I will wait here till Helmer comes; I
will tell him he must give me my letter back--that it only
concerns
my
dismissal--that he is not to read it--
_Mrs.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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Again, this distinction can be located in the
tradition
of the Enlightenment, particularly in the tradition of the distinction between the sublime and the beautiful.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Yet,
(Knowing the while that they were very kind)
Remembrance
clamoured
in him: 'She was wild and free,
Magnificent in giving; she was blind
To gain or loss, and, loving, loved but me,--but me!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now it is
becoming
disastrous because it coin- cides with decades of the state pursuing terribly wrong fiscal policy.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been absorbed into the
prevailing
consciousness of his people.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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The first transforms the character of events which are
emerging
recombinations of independent contingencies into a carrier func- tion of the process of determination.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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[138) False
thoughts
are also independent of the speaker.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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They remain at a
distance
and do not involve the viewer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
His record of the journey often contrasts the meagre contemporary state of
civilisation
in Greece, Turkey and the Holy Land with the richness of classical antiquity and the Christian past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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I did hear/
affirmed
Mr.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
In the opinion of the learned of Pyatigorsk, the hollow in
question
is
nothing more nor less than an extinct crater.
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| Answer: |
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Still Hegel finds
sufficient
reason for its being conceived in the creed of the
Christian Church as the external history of the incarnation God in Christ, as the atoning death of the God-man.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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The bird flew away from my bosom, upwards towards the dark, heavy
canopy above me, but a long, green band kept it
fastened
to me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Gustavus
Adolphus does not belong
to a single nation, but to the whole of Protestant
Christendom.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
Note: 9 send] lend
Cambridge
Autograph MS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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You my kisses, a million happy kisses,
Musing, read me a silky thrall to
softness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
S: Should one nevertheless keep in mind the goal of be- coming a
mahasiddha?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
How does Orientalism transmit or reproduce itself from one epoch to
another?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
Most
important
in receiving blessings is to have devotion.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
|
Jefferson
at least stood out against Alex Hamilton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Do próprio desejo da glória
lentamente
me despi, como quem cheio de cansaço se despe para repousar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Of course, the
specimens of this poetry which can be found now are rude enough;
for the life has gone out of it, and to find it at its best one must go
back to
conditions
which brought the undivided genius of the com-
munity into play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
|
A romanticism of brotherliness is
replaced
by a co- operative logic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
|
Indeed, if the primitive epic poet could avoid some of the
anxieties peculiar to the composition of
literary
epic, he had others to
make up for it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
|
Small
craw-fish[387] go up as far as the mountains,[388] and the larger as far
as the
confluence
of the Indus and the Acesines.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strabo |
|
Whereupon Boaz
murmured
in his heart,
"The number of my years is past fourscore:
How may this be?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Then let your fancy travel over seas
and into still remoter times, till at last you
come to the market-place of a Syrian town,
where the small dark-eyed
youngsters
have
fallen out in their sport, and will neither dance
to the marriage pipes nor beat their breasts
when they hear the wailing of the mourners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
|
"
Your grace, sweet Muses, shields me still
On Sabine heights, or lets me range
Where cool Praeneste, Tibur's hill,
Or liquid Baiae
proffers
change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I have walked upon the waters, and from
the
dwellers
in the tombs I have cast out devils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Salt,
of the main
documents
relative to the social 1 Character Training, a Graded Series of 1/ net.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
|
Stat
for|tuna
do|mus, et a|vi nume|rantiir a|vorum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
|
9:1 Oh that
my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter
of my people!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
bible-kjv |
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SINCE, that's the fact, replied the cunning jade;
To burn it, quickly William seek fort aid;
The tree accurst no longer shall remain;
Her will the servant wish'd not to restrain,
But soon some workmen brought, who felled the tree;
And
wondered
what the fault our fair could see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Art has
preserved
no likeness of Catullus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
By recognising their
worth in this sanction alone (as in the case of
marriage, for
instance)
their natural dignity is
reduced, and under certain circumstances denied.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
And it is ralelly more than three
fut and a bit that there is, inny how, of the little ould furrener
Frinchman that lives jist over the way, and that's a oggling and
a
goggling
the houl day, (and bad luck to him,) at the purty widdy
Misthress Tracle that's my own nixt-door neighbor, (God bliss her!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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That
brilliant
gift shall so enrich me,
Spring, Summer, Autumn, cannot match me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
XVIII
The apathy, ere a crime resolved is done,
Is scarce less dreadful than remorse for crime;
By no allurement can the soul be won
From
brooding
o'er the weary creep of time: 420
Mordred stole forth into the happy sun,
Striving to hum a scrap of Breton rhyme,
But the sky struck him speechless, and he tried
In vain to summon up his callous pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"
'Tis said that the triremes
assembled
in council and that the oldest
spoke in these terms, "Are you ignorant, my sisters, of what is plotting
in Athens?
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Aristophanes |
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Let me
congratulate
you, my dearest Mother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
By
KATHARINE
ALICE MURDOCH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
|
How exactly is it
practiced?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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When he thinks that he is struggling against fate
in this way, fate is
accomplishing
its ends even in
that struggle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
These appear to have been the
Ministers
of Instruction, War, and Works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Confucius - Book of Rites |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Marianne was in a
silent agony, too much
oppressed
even for tears; but as Mrs.
| Guess: |
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
|
But precisely because Wittgenstein was no longer capable of being a proposition-happy philosopher of systems and
totality
in the traditional style, he was virtually predestined to lift the patchwork of local life games and their rules into the light.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Dashwood; she had never been used to
find wit in the
inattention
of any one, and could not help looking with
surprise at them both.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Be still thyself, in arms a mighty name;
Maintain
thy honours, and enlarge thy fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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an evil
conscience
a pit to the wicked, iii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
For while his sturdy and youthful limbs are fit to
bear arms,[690] and while he is hot in blood, he is driven[691] (not
indeed forced to it, but unchecked by the tribune) to copy out[692]
the instructions and
imperial
commands of the trainer of gladiators.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
Cuando los filósofos entonan las alabanzas de lo óptimo, bajo títulos como kósmos, ágathon, ón y semejantes, practican una alabanza indirecta del imperio: la contraposición objetiva a la alabanza del príncipe, de la que sabemos, por todas las
culturas
que produjeron condiciones regias, que fue una escuela de jactancias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
|
--Very well, sir--the
performers
must do as
they please; but, upon my soul, I'll print it every word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
|
t addressing
baroque
very "specialised philistinism"{Fachidiotie,) which radical students
denouncedso
vehementlyin 1968.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
|
The earlier volumes were addressed to and
accessible
only
to an elite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
This last, however,
Antiochus
did not wait to receive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
Iphi-
crates, with that
confidence
which an established reputation inspires,
asked him, " Would you be guilty of such a piece of treachery V " By
no means," answered he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
II
Yet sad he was that his too hastie speede 10
The faire Duess' had forst him leave behind;
And yet more sad, that Una his deare dreed
Her truth had staind with treason so unkind;
Yet crime in her could never
creature
find,
But for his love, and for her owne selfe sake, 15
She wandred had from one to other Ynd,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Child Verse
HIDE-AND-SEEK
"\70U hid your little self, dear Lord,
-*- As other
children
do ;
But oh, how great was their reward
Who sought three days for you 1
72
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:31 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
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”
“While
thinking
not of harm ”— whilst innocently, without fore-
thought, like a poor sheep, "I watch my fair ” — that is to say,
I amuse myself by considering, observing, contemplating you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The
effeminate
among the Romans were very fond
of having their hair in curls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Art of Love |
|
—Thence-
forward there was gradually imported into the type
of the Saviour the doctrine of the Last Judgment,
and of the "second coming," the doctrine of sacrificial
death, and the doctrine of Resurrection, by means
of which the whole concept“ blessedness," the entire
and only reality of the gospel, is
conjured
away—in
favour of a state after death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
"
Dante was
proceeding
to delight himself further with these sculptures,
when Virgil whispered hint to look round and see what was coming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
For as the Psalms and other Scriptures do often invite
us to consider and magnify the great and wonderful works of God, so if we
should rest only in the
contemplation
of the exterior of them as they
first offer themselves to our senses, we should do a like injury unto the
majesty of God, as if we should judge or construe of the store of some
excellent jeweller by that only which is set out toward the street in his
shop.
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Bacon |
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In the
_Pleasures
of Hope_ Mr.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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He
was about fifty years of age, with a sharp and
intelligent
counte-
nance, expressive of determination and obstinacy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Then there is no one who has so sure
an ear for "the chimes at midnight", not even
excepting
Mr.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Or even at times, when days are dark,
GAROTTE?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In the rolling tide of spreading Clyde
There sits an isle of high degree,
And a town of fame whose
princely
name
Should grace the Lass of Albany.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Las Sibylas
bien lo significaron , dixo Ergasto, en sus sa-
grados versos: y yo me acuerdo haver oido a
pastores doctos en las sagradas antiguedades,
que la Erythrea dixo notabLes cosas de la venida
de este Principe, y que era de tres maneras su
prophecia , o con voz viva, o con
escritura
y se-
n?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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You look like someone
Who has swallowed gold: Someone will slit your belly
Be clever, you rich
Make a present of it to
yourself
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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Prim- wins the prize, and Emma bestows the
rose, gives the chief
interest
to the tale.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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The Life of a
Scottish
Probationer; being a
memoir of T.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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An
education
you would have a part,
But be blind, and a broken heart.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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