nunc te cognoui: quare etsi
impensius
uror,
multo mei tamen es uilior et leuior.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It was night-time
when we came to the grove that is outside the walls, and the air was
sultry, for the Moon was
travelling
in Scorpion.
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Oscar Wilde |
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He subsequently served as
ambassador
to Prussia and the United Kingdom, and was Minister of Foreign affairs from 1822 to 1824.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Thou hast divined, I know it well, how the man
feeleth who killed him,—the
murderer
of God.
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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I can not treat my sadness as an impulse finally achieved and put it on file without recreating it, nor can I carry it in the manner of an inert body which
continues
its movement after the initial shock.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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HELMER _has taken up a
position
beside the stove, and during
her dance gives her frequent instructions.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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» Tout cela
corroboré par la
rencontre
d'Albertine et de Mme Verdurin que m'avait
révélée Andrée.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth,
All matter quick, and
bursting
into birth.
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Alexander Pope |
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)
Apollodorus
places these
fled to her villa near the Lucrine lake, and inform- events before the expedition of the Greeks against
ed her son of her happy escape.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"Tell me, was Werther
authentic?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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See, see our honor'd Hostesse:
The Loue that
followes
vs, sometime is our trouble,
Which still we thanke as Loue.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I protest, sir, I don't
comprehend
your meaning.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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, 220,
221, 342
Poems (Edinburgh, 1787), 205
Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten
Daughter, 212
Poor Mailie, 211, 214
Prayer in the prospect of Death, 206
Rantin Dog the Daddie O't, 230
Red, Red Rose, 225, 229
Remorse, 206
Reply to a
Trimming
Epistle, 211
Ruined Farmer, 206
Scotch Drink, 212
Scots Wha hae, 229
Tam o' Shanter, 215, 217 ff.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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It means exploiting the danger that some- body may
inadvertently
go over the brink, dragging the other with him.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Kalidasa
completed
the stanza without difficulty; but a woman whom he
loved discovered his lines, and greedy of the reward herself, killed
him.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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The situation of the prisoners being still a source of great
disquietude,
Hamilton
was sent on a commission, with Gene-
ral St.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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The
slowly
reforming
him, when Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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The Love of an
Uncrowned
Queen
(Sophie Dorothea).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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When God with us was
dwelling
here,
In little babes he took delight;
Such innocents as thou, my dear,
Are ever precious in His sight.
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William Browne |
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Subterranean galleries and
dungeons
; iron
bars, grated doors, chains, handcuffs and broken instru-
ments of torture.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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, some of which reappear in later jest-books,
designed to represent the type of
conversation
most appropriate for students
in hours of relaxation at table), The Schoolemaster or Teacher of Table
Phylosophie, 1576(7), is practically a translation; Dyalogus Salomonis et
## p.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
into iron.
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Stephen Crane |
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Behind me was iEgina, in front Megara ; on the right, the Piraeus, on the left,
CORRESPONDENCE
OF CICERO.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Or darest thou
Contend that never hath it come to pass
That divers strokes have
happened
at one time?
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Lucretius |
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It is difficult to understand
what the reasons could have been which induced the Government, not only
to
override
the hesitations of Sir Evelyn Baring, but to overlook the
grave and obvious dangers involved in sending such a man as Gordon to
the Sudan.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
|
Knowing that his wife's
confessor
is
Gree
ITS CONQUEST BY
responsible for her conduct, he offers to
THE RO-
MANS TO THE PRESENT TIME: 146 B.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
1666), collection
of tracts of the times (1641-1660), 346 Udall,
Nicholas
(1505–1556), 327, 328
Thompson, Edward, 184
Ulster, 211, 212
Thomson, James (1700-1748), 137 Underwood, 356
Richard (d.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
In 1826 he accepted the
Oriental
chair at
Erlangen; and in 1841, shortly after the accession of Frederick Wil-
liam IV.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
The Angel, appearing to him, then said
is
expressed
the several states of change Ireland shall undergo, in succeed-
:
" By that variety
March 17.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by
following
the mob.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
|
MENALCAS
"In
dazzling
sheen with unaccustomed eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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When an insurrection took place at Syracuse, and a great band of slaves was
gathered
together, Hermocrates sent an envoy to their leader Sosistratus.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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"
And at the
blindness
of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool!
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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the while the active finger
Runs
division
with the singer.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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There were religious houses, of course, but
most of these seem to have been in the condition of Abingdon
when Aethelwold was appointed abbot"a place in which a little
monastery had been kept up from ancient days, but then desolate
and neglected, consisting of mean buildings and
possessing
only
a few hides.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
Nor was this
phenomenon
seen at Blakehill only, it was
seen by every person at every cottage within the distance of a mile.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Their good will and
patriotism
were limited only by their talent.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
404
Let busy Scandal, with malignant tongue,
Repeat, with savage joy, thy n'i-\-teous tale: |
The feeling soul shall, by thy sorrows wrung,
In
sympathetic
strains thy fate bewail.
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Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
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My mother, who knew all his
whims and habits by heart,
generally
tried to keep the unlucky book
hidden, so that sometimes whole months passed without the _Court
Almanack_ falling beneath his eye.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_The_ Franciscans, _or rich poor Persons, are not
admitted
into the House of a Country Parson_.
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Erasmus |
|
try our
Executive
Director:
Michael S.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
O durs talons, jamais on n'use sa
sandale!
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Answer: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Until its
destruction
by a conflagration in 1936, it counted as a technological wonder of the world-a triumph of serial fabrication planned with military precision.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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And the warbler's voice
resounds
clear :?
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Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
"52
And he
continues
at length to speak [of the rest of the Aggregates and phenomena].
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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"Like one who hears a
glorious
language and feverishlyconceives plans to write, to create in it,''IZ1 Brigge leaves and runs to his desk.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
It is our sheer inability to predict the consequences of our actions and to keep things under control, and the enemy's sim- ilar inability, that can
intimidate
the enemy (and, of course, us too).
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Rumour reached me that on that last night,
outwearied
with endless
slaughter, thou hadst sunk on the heap of mingled carnage.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Und wer Hans Ulrich
Gumbrechts
Pla?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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a:hniques and
explains
them to hi.
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and
donations
can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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John Milton:
Lycidas (1637)
Paradise
Lost (1667)
?
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Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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But who can be found, however perfect, who has not
offended
in idle words?
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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As I cannot help agreeing with Harpham's insistence on the necessity, for us
humanists, to return to a closer
disciplinary
focus in our daily work, I might as well name the historical move (a move away from a traditional form of academic practice) that makes such a return to our disciplines an important issue today.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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225
I die to evade this
disastrous
urge to confess.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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and its mouth, on a coast scantily provided with harbours,
became
necessarily
the anchorage of seafarers Moreover, the Tiber formed from very ancient times the frontier defence of the Latin stock against their northern neigh bours.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"There's more
evidence
to come yet, please Your Majesty," said the White
Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
Since this applies to each one of the genes that
constitute
the climate - since every gene is potentially part of the climate of every other - the result is that a species gene pool tends to coalesce into a gang of mutually compatible partners.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
470
και ο ήλιος ως βασίλευσε και έσκιαζαν όλ' οι δρόμοι,
με γοργό πάτημ' ήλθαμεν εις τον λαμπρόν λιμένα,
αυτού 'ς το καλοθάλασσο
καράβι
των Φοινίκων.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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The wounds on Snowball's
back, which a few of the animals still
remembered
to have seen, had
http://www.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
|
Our present purpose is to avail ourselves of this series of states or
conditions
as a guide to an existence which may be the high est condition of all changeable phsenomena, that to ne- oessary being.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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For God's sake seek another
way and means yourself
obnoxious
to make.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
Safety will not be in
our world of
investment
until there is a return to a
higher conception of duty.
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Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
Everything indicates--the smallest does, and the largest does;
A
necessary
film envelops all, and envelops the Soul for a proper time.
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Whitman |
|
prehensive, and more useful than if it had
exhibits will
illustrate
the history and Certain auxiliary tables are included to been divided into persons, places, and
development of marine propulsion into steam lessen the labour of interpolation.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Li Po |
|
Had it been the rankest Roan ague
(Anglice, the Covent-garden gout), 'twas all one to him; touching only
their dentiform vertebrae thrice with a piece of a wooden shoe, he made
them as
wholesome
as so many sucking-pigs.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
|
Conflagration and
destruction
of the
world.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lucian |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Answer: |
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
|
' 1680
This
Pandarus
gan newe his tunge affyle,
And al hir cas reherce, and that anoon;
Whan it was seyd, sone after, in a whyle,
Quod Troilus, `As sone as I may goon,
I wol right fayn with al my might ben oon, 1685
Have god my trouthe, hir cause to sustene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The moment of
repentance
is
the moment of initiation.
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Oscar Wilde |
|
497, add An
Eighteenth
Century Correspondence, ed.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
For he whom I propose by such a promise to use
for my own purposes cannot
possibly
assent to my mode of acting
towards him, and therefore cannot himself contain the end of this
action.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Their private income
was contracted, while that of the
community
was great.
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Horace - Works |
|
But all such fanciful thoughts as these
Were strange to a
practical
man like Burns,
Who minded only his own concerns,
Troubled no more by fancies fine
Than one of his calm-eyed, long-tailed kine,--
Quite old-fashioned and matter-of-fact,
Slow to argue, but quick to act.
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Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
ter of Sidney's Stella), 113
Markham, lady, 113
Rutland,
countess
of (Sidney's
daughter), 113
6
B.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
Even in the scientific domain it has come about that criminal
experts have abandoned the
question
of indemnification to the
civil experts, and these in their turn have almost suffered it to
pass into oblivion, inasmuch as they always regarded it as
belonging to matters of penal law and procedure.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
|
octrine]
opportunity
to practise freely
of study, exegesIS, and me was due to the kindness of the
l·b f n and omnISCIence h
the path to 1 era 10 _ .
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
BUT they are also for
starting
the next one.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
The hateful severity of the father thus not only yielded benefit, but
conciliated
affection, to the son.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
The flapping of the sail against the mast,
The ripple of the water on the side,
The ripple of
girls’
laughter at the stern,
The only sounds:—when ’gan the West to burn,
And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
The educator will need to rethink his whole system of
educational
values.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
|
ect whether or not
any of the whole of existence or any of the whole
universe
has leaked away
from the present moment of time.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
I come abroad
on the winds: the
tempests
are before my face.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
Thersander
would give no
credit to my words, or, if he did, my freedom of speech might be the
cause of injury to my best beloved!
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
|
He also ap-
that of the
accompanying
nerves.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
|
The dreams themselves differed widely in
character
and appearance.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lucian |
|
The true
perfection
of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man
is.
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Its title runs " The
Breviary
of *' See Gough's Camden's "Britannia," Britayne.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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There were six others tried with Townley and Fletcher, the Surrey Sessions, and after the sentence the law was passed, they declared that they had
viction, he behaved the most reserved
scarcely
speaking any one but his brethren misfortune.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Therein is the
fountain
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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It was impossible to stay under water any longer, and yet to
rise to the surface meant to be seen and
attacked
by enemy warships.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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To see
and explore either the ramparts and keep of the one, or the cloisters
of the other, had been for many weeks a darling wish, though to be more
than the visitor of an hour had seemed too nearly
impossible
for desire.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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