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But she had another quality that much delighted her,
although
it may be thought a kind of check upon her bounty; however, it was a pleasure she could not resist: I mean that of making agreeable presents; wherein I never knew her equal, although it be an affair of as delicate a nature as most in the course of life.
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And again the
whiskered
Spaniard all the land with terror smote;
And again the wild alarum sounded from the tocsin's throat;
Till the bell of Ghent responded o'er lagoon and dike of sand,
"I am Roland!
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the visible evidence was in direct
opposition
to it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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Behind it walked the owner, smoking a little,
silver-mounted
Kabardian
pipe.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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"No--no--"
There came
whisperings
in the wind:
"Good bye!
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Wherever the Emperor
showed his lion face, the enemy retreated; and he did more
prodigies in
defending
France than ever he had done in conquer-
ing Italy, the East, Spain, Europe, and Russia.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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"
XXXV
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And
eventually
he achieved it--
It was clay.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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, 1893)
for
permission
to use that text (one of the most carefully edited texts of
any English poet) in this volume of selections.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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She is the
sunshine
o' my e'e,
To live but her I canna;
Had I on earth but wishes three,
The first should be my Anna.
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burns |
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You are childless and rich, and were born in the consulship of Brutus; do you imagine that you have any real
friends?
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Perhaps Tsongkhapa's
greatest
contribution to Madhya- maka thought lies in the depth and the breadth of his exammation of the
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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It were foul
To grudge
Savonarola
and the rest
Their violets: rather pay them quick and fresh!
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the
darkening
green.
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blake-poems |
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'
"'Source of my life,' I cried, 'from earth I fly
To seek
Tiresias
in the nether sky,
To learn my doom; for, toss'd from woe to woe,
In every land Ulysses finds a foe:
Nor have these eyes beheld my native shores,
Since in the dust proud Troy submits her towers.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It had
destroyed
the large estate.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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SB
described
the position to Arland Ussher in his letter !
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Samuel Beckett |
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If, on a sudden, the entire movement of the world
stopped short, and an all knowing and reasoning intelligence were there
to take advantage of this pause, he could foretell the future of every
being to the remotest ages and
indicate
the path that would be taken in
the world's further course.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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For a long time the ways of a poor young woman who belonged
to a little house near his own had attracted Walter, and as she
was sufficiently beautiful, he
considered
that with her he might
have a life peaceful enough; and on that account, without going
any further, he proposed to marry this one, and calling upon her
father, who was very poor, arranged with him to marry her.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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What if these notes should one day meet a
woman’s
eye?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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» en traversant à reculons, dans sa retraite
repliée en bon ordre
jusqu’au
fond de lui-même, le long d’une gamme
descendante, tout le registre de sa voix.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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I saw it move a little more,
and a hand softly
interpose
to keep it open.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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" And he used constantly to quote to those who invoked the
testimony
of their intellects to judge of the senses:
Attagas and Numenius are met.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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There is a curious tension and difficulty in the concept of vAT) in Aristotle; on the one hand it is denigrated, disqualified, censured in every respect, including the moral, while on the other there is the remarkable assumption whereby this element, though
heterogeneous
with regard to form, is endowed with a kind of animation, a tendency, even a certain kind of yearning.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Nazi leaders from Ger- many proper had to be appointed in those areas, and at once we began hearing of Hitler's difficulty in dealing with the frus- trated ambitions and
jealousies
of the local leaders.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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This being, I suppose,
commended
by his friends, he, some time
afterwards, added three or four more; with an advertisement, in which he
represents himself as translating with great indifference, and with a
progress of which himself was hardly conscious.
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Samuel Johnson |
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DANTE AND CHAUCER
At the end of the
Mediaeval
period, its two
greatest writers, Dante and Chaucer, reflect in
their different mirrors all that is most typical
of the age.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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We now leave him in repose and under the full
influence of the more amiable affections, while our admiration of
his great
qualities
is chastened by the reflection that, within a
few short days the mighty being in whom they were united was himself
to be suddenly cut off in the full vigour of their exercise.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Loss and corruption, is in very deed nothing else but change and
alteration; and that is it, which the nature of the
universe
doth most
delight in, by which, and according to which, whatsoever is done, is
well done.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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This would have the odorous narcissus, that the corn-flag; here ‘twas the violet, there the thyme: for right many were the
flowerets
of the lusty springtime budded and bloomed upon that ground.
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Moschus |
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The first matter which seems
to have engaged his
attention
was the exchequer.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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We are not the result of an eternal design, of a will, of a desire: there is no attempt being made with us to attain to an "ideal of perfection," to an "ideal of happiness," to an " ideal of virtue,"--and we are just as little the result of a' mistake on God's part in the
presence
of which He ought to feel uneasy
(a thought which is known to be at the very root
?
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Against thy might the dreadful Typhon fail'd,
Against thy shaft nor heav'n, nor Jove prevail'd;
Unless thine arrow wake the young desires,
My strength, my power, in vain each charm expires:
My son, my hope, I claim thy powerful aid,
Nor be the boon thy mother sues delay'd:
Where'er--so will th' eternal fates--where'er
The Lusian race the victor
standards
rear,
There shall my hymns resound, my altars flame,
And heav'nly Love her joyful lore proclaim.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Still, must I bring, as men have done for years,
These last
despairing
rites, this solemn vow.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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She has written the most
exquisite
verse of the imagist type.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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5 I have
considered
the days
of old, the years of ancient times.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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"We late-lamented, resting here,
Are mixed to human jam,
And each to each
exclaims
in fear,
'I know not which I am!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So
everything
was carried out on a grand scale, in a manner [82] worthy of the king who sent the gifts and of the high priest who was the ruler of the land.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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Why dost thou think of
thyself alone, and live only for thyself--thou who art not a
shoemaker?
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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High o'er the roaring waves the
spreading
sails
Bow the tall mast, and swell before the gales;
The crooked keel the parting surge divides,
And to the stern retreating roll the tides.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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then should de “creed withall, that the papists for difference betwixt them and “others should constrained weare upon their sleeves chalice “with host upon Whereunto they would consent, “would agree the other,
otherwise
would not said con
“sent the setting forth the same, nor ever weare the cap; nor indeed he never did.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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The only
fundamental
fact, however, is
that it does not tend to reach a final state: and
every philosophy and scientific hypothesis (e.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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"
A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A
forgotten
sky of bashful blue.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Ingo Kolbohm7 ex- posed this speech as a stereotype and says: "If the
Chancellor
wishes to be courteous in his statements this is all very well and good, but if this is supposed to reflect the actual facts of the case then he must be contradicted.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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And as they were speaking
together I inquired of them saying, "Is this indeed the Blessed
City, where each man lives
according
to the Scriptures?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In this previously Roman territory the dominating Avar and Bulgar
nomad class merged with the Slavonic peasantry into a national organism,
and powerful
military
States of Slav speech arose: but the real holders of
power were not the Slavs but the Slavised Altaians, and it is a delusion to
think that the Slavs themselves, the Croats, Serbs, (new-) Bulgars, Macedo-
Slavs became fit for war in the Avaro-Bulgar school.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Without having shared
their faults, share their punishment with a noble resignation, and
bend under the yoke which they find is as painful to
dispense
with
as to bear.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
i)
Position
of South German States.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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See at the mirror in the High Hall
Aged men
bewailing
white locks--
In the morning, threads of silk;
In the evening flakes of snow!
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Li Po |
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According
to the entry in The Old Cheque
Book of the Chapel Royal, Bower died 26 July 1563; but Stow
a
1 Of Clement Adams, who is said (Babees Boke, p.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Thou hast bewept them so many times before; are not the
misfortunes
which possess us1 enough each day as they come?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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To have made such an appeal would have been
from the
individualist
point of view bad enough, but what excuse can
there ever be put forward for having made it?
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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And falls our fleet by such inglorious hands--
A rout undisciptin'd, a straggling train,
Not born to glorift of the dusty plain;
Like
frighted
fawns, from hill to hill pursu'd,
A prey to ev'ry swage of the wood?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
"
CANTO XII
With equal pace as oxen in the yoke,
I with that laden spirit journey'd on
Long as the mild
instructor
suffer'd me;
But when he bade me quit him, and proceed
(For "here," said he, "behooves with sail and oars
Each man, as best he may, push on his bark"),
Upright, as one dispos'd for speed, I rais'd
My body, still in thought submissive bow'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Initiative
is good if it means imagina- tiveness, boldness, new ideas.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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On
pourrait
dire avec raison queles Franc?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Doughty often uses the
unexpected effects of his queer syntax instead of the unexpected effects
of poetry, which makes the poem even longer
psychologically
than it is
physically.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I am not here to write a full volume of
detailed
criti- cism, but two things I do claim which I have not seen in reviewers'essays.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Moreover, it
is certain that a woman of parts who has once meddled with literature
will never wholly lose her love for the
discussion
of that delicious
topic, nor cease to relish what (in the cant of our new age) is styled
“literary shop.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
His most recent books
comprise
a trilogy entitled Spha?
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
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Are you afraid,
Who were so
dauntless
till the walls gave way?
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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It is only that his
objection
to curiosity
stems from yea-saying at any price :
curiosity has nothing to do with observing entities and with marvelling at them-Oall,ua?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
|
_Ingenium amœnum et
temporis
ejus auribus accommodatum.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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391
earliest
satirist
whose works were held in esteem under the Caesars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
His grim eye looked askance at
Gordon’s
clothes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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] until the third year of the 120th
Olympiad
[298 B.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
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He will need to fix nis mind upon the definite goal of producing a
liberally
educated man, a civilized man who has resources enough within himself to meet bravely tP changes that crowd in upon a dynamic world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
|
There as I sat and drank
With infinite delight their carols gay,
And mark'd their sport, the earth before me sank
And bore with it away
The
fountain
and the scene, to my great grief,
Who now in memory find a sole and scant relief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
114
This play with artificial
unconsciousness
reached its pinnacle in the 1830s, when laughing gas became the party drug of the British upper class.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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The result was however that Paul V failed
entirely
in his
efforts to maintain his usurpations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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189
dence or their good feeling; and the facts which we learn respecting the condition of Attica prior to the
Solonian
legisla tion raise inferences all of an unfavorable character.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
This speech, later called the "First Philippic", was critical of Antonius' policies, and
although
it was deliberately moderate in tone, it showed that Cicero was prepared to voice opposition to Antonius in public.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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It is not through a higher perfection that art- works separate from the fallibly existent but rather by
becoming
actual, like fire- works , incandescently in an expressive appearance.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
He
discovered
the "Concealed Treas- ures of Dharma" (gter.
| 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 |
|
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.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
|
Canto IV
Ruppemi l'alto sonno ne la testa
un greve truono, si ch'io mi riscossi
come persona ch'e per forza desta;
e l'occhio
riposato
intorno mossi,
dritto levato, e fiso riguardai
per conoscer lo loco dov' io fossi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Tuviéronla muchos años
De los cristianos guardada,
Con mil ardides extraños,
Causándoles
muchos daños
En guerra tan prolongada.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
Riley said that
he might have had more consideration than to
entertain
his "doubtful
friends" at such a time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
On its long path, past
Poisson and Faraday to the Weber brothers, Euler's mathematics of rotational
movements
has arrived in a rotating machine which serves as the "means" or medium of physiological-physical animation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
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The French general was
hastening
to the rescue when a cannon ball
carried off his head.
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The color had forsaken my cheeks; a
leanness
had
seized on my limbs; My reluctant mouth took but little
food.
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With charac- teristic purposefulness both types of
association
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lence and his pity: the great
disciplinary
virtues (" Forgive thine enemies " is mere child's play beside them), and the passions of the creator, must be ele vated to the heights--we must cease from carving marble!
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In the United States it has been
abolished
in
Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Maine.
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" she hath departed--
The word is wandering with her;
And the
stricken
maidens hear afar
The step and cry together.
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She wept
bitterly
over herself.
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The country was full of such goings- on, among them the sort of nationalist movements that rightly at- tracted so much attention in Europe and are so thoroughly
A Sort
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misunderstood today.
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in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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And when he perceived the reason why the misfortune had
befallen
him, he prayed to God for many days and was afterwards restored.
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Till then, let slumber cross thy careful eyes:
The wakeful
mariners
shall watch the skies,
And seize the moment when the breezes rise:
Then gently waft thee to the pleasing shore,
Where thy soul rests, and labour is no more.
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He remembered the tone of
contempt
with which his
mother would say: "Those are workmen, men in blouses, "— the
care she took in the streets to avoid the contact of their soiled
garments.
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In our dealings with such points of life, we are,
I fear, never properly to the point; to be
precise, our heart is not there, and
certainly
not
our ear.
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Sometimes
he stood up for
exercise.
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Is my uncle
dangerously
ill.
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