‘I think p’raps I can do
better’n
‘ave another Dell,’ she said.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Then in her heart they grew
The snows of
changeless
winter
Stirred by the bitter winds of unsatisfied desire.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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And some of the
American
dollars that went for gold, went OUT of America to buy gold, well some of that went out to KIKERY.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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"
And we
preserved
an admirable mimicry
Without heeding the drip of the blood
From my heart.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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A wind, almost cold, blew down
the
hillside
and swept a cloud of dust and fine water-vapour before it.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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" And in
like manner Antisthenes the Cynic, being asked how a man should
approach politics, answered, "He will
approach
it as he will fire, not
too near, lest he be burnt; not too far away, lest he starve of cold.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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# {The scholiast says that this commemorates the
relaxing
of harsh restrictions imposed by the emperor Hadrianus, in 139/140 A.
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Roman Translations |
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Within him romantic feelings must have waned with a
more or less
realistic
attitude even when he was quite young.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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muniments
in ANY country.
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Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
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Awful faces
shine forth, and, set against Troy, divine
majesties
.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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As
it is, it resembles a well stacked and ever renewed ware-emporium that
attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have
almost everything,
provided
they bring with them the right kind of
money--admiration.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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The effects to be
expected
from the East India Bill upon the
constitution of Great Britain.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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that rely
On fickle fortune's ever-changing sky--
E'en in that season, when, with sacred fire,
Dan Cupid seem'd his
subjects
to inspire,
That warms the heart, and kindles in the look,
And all beneath the moon obey his yoke--
I saw the sad reverse that lovers own,
I heard the slaves beneath their bondage groan;
I saw them sink beneath the deadly weight
And the long tortures that forerun their fate.
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Petrarch |
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The detection,
imprisonment, torture, and
execution
of disguised priests form a
considerable chapter in Elizabethan history.
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John Donne |
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Included among color
phenomena
are dust, smoke, sunlight, shadow, and mist.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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In the castle were
beautiful
young men
Who waved to me as they went in and out.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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E E ' =
EE{ I
gg
afE
rEgi*iFEi?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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For he, the man, wears woman's heart; if not
Soon shall he know,
confronted
by a man.
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Aeschylus |
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Become
yourselves
my slayers, and kill This destined wretch which way you will.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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And now they see one another; and these Apol-
lonian and
Dionysean
caricatures, this par nobile
fratrum, embrace one another!
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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I am afraid that I shall meet with the same
treatment
here
though, like your majesties, I am come to see the Carnival at Venice.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Political and social connections
with France and Britanny rendered
available
a store of French
material, and Welsh traditions, through the medium of Britanny,
were found to increase that store.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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The union of 1274 was tainted in its core by the
violent
pressure
which Michael Palaeologus brought to bear on his clergy.
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| Answer: |
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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investigations in the nature of commitment in economics and
political
science.
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| Question: |
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Thereafter they
searched
no longer; but, abiding at their ease, were
merry, frolic, jolly, gay, glad, and wise; only that they always and ever
did expect the awful Coming of the Coqcigrues.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Mà sao trong sổ đoạn
trường
có tên.
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| Question: |
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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Veniceinsummerisnotsubstantiveorenduringenoughtomain- tain its character; its lack of
resolution
deteriorates into a blending of all sen- sory phenomena.
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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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(1973: 98)
The ruse was successful, for the weak were also busy trying to gain rewards for themselves, and saw in political institutions at least some
advantage
to
?
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Education in Hegel |
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We now meet everywhere with the firm opinion
that the question of Homer's personality is no
longer timely, and that it is quite a
different
thing
from the real "Homeric question.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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"
"The
perfection
of wisdom, 0 Lord,is the accomplish- ment of the cognition of the all-knowing.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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This very word I speak
is
subtracted
from it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
It's a sweet
material
to work with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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(Sa tête était tournée dans l'ombre, je ne pouvais pas voir si ses
yeux
laissaient
tomber des larmes comme sa voix donnait à le croire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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All those things which mankind
has valued with such
earnestness
heretofore are not
even real; they are mere creations of fancy, or,
more strictly speaking, lies born of the evil instincts
of diseased and, in the deepest sense, noxious
natures—all the concepts, “ God,”“soul,” “virtue,"
“sin,” “ Beyond,” “truth,” “ eternal life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Nor shall I ever be at ease, till this project of mine (for which I am
heartily
thankful to myself) shall be reduced to practice.
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| Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Wise it was to have banded
Such arms as are these for
embracing
of gain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
This can further be split up into the part 'the capital of, which stands in need of supplementation, and the
saturated
part 'Sweden'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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When whatever appears is
unspoiled
by grasping or clinging thoughts, all of appearance and cognition arises as the empty lucidity of naked primal knowing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS
" "DEING no longer human, why should I -D Pretend
humanity
or don the frail attire?
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But though the existence of a
poetical element in the early history of the Great City was
detected so many ages ago, the first critic who distinctly saw
from what source that poetical element had been derived was James
Perizonius, one of the most acute and learned
antiquaries
of the
seventeenth century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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After this, should you
think an
interview
necessary, I will wait upon you in Phila-
delphia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
|
Have they
nostrils
breathing flame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I threw on my clothes and ran down at once; my patient is
too
dangerous
a person to be roaming about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
(Compare
Reeherehes
Cu-
rieuses sur FHistoire Ancienne de VAsie, par Cirbied
tt Martin, p.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
|
I can boast that the seal of her ruby lip is potent as was that of
Solomon: in
possession
of the Great Name, why should I
dread the Evil One!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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"He received an order to leave
Eome in so many days, and to
transport
himself to
Tomi.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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have been somewhat positively commanded, obviously there would have been hardly any
possibility
of collecting the particular rules about animals into one higher totality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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(I find _barfoot_, by the
way, in the
Coventry
Plays.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Undecided as to how he should act, yet solicitous for his own safety, Augus tus had referred the matter to the
decision
of the senate, most of the members of which were far from displeased at the charge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
|
You would say that the sky, in its loneliness,
gazed at itself in the glass, and, up there,
the
mountains
listened, in grave watchfulness
to the mystery nothing that's human can hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
In
Polysyndeton
conjunctions flow, 65
And ev'ry word its cop'lative must show.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
|
Modern
American
poetry, 4th ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
|
The man has
come to the law for the first time and the
doorkeeper
is already there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
”
Rose Naneferkaptah on the couch; he said: “Art thou Setna,
before whom this woman has told these misfortunes which thou
hast not
suffered
— all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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I now reflected that God had chastised me thus grievously that He might save me from that
destruction
in which I had like to have been swallowed up.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
But the vessel of
knowledge
cannot be filled twice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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My sentence hear: with stern distaste avow'd,
To their own
districts
drive the suitor-crowd;
When next the morning warms the purple east,
Convoke the peerage, and the gods attest;
The sorrows of your inmost soul relate;
And form sure plans to save the sinking state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Knopf 1917
The
Solitary
B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Nevertheless
when the sea was stirred by violent blasts which were just rising from the rivers about evening, forspent with toil, they ceased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
So spare the swallow, which the gods allow to nest safely in all your houses, for it is not fair to do
anything
that would make you upset.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
In the opinions of a number of representative high scorers, ideas both of political conservatism and traditional liberalism are frequently neutralized and used as a mere cloak for
repressive
and ultimately destructive wishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Just before the third Punic war, when its strength had been drained by the two long wars with Rome and by the incessant
depredations
of that chartered brigand Massinissa, it contained 700,000 inhabitants ; and towards the close of the final siege, the Byrsa [citadel] alone was able to give shelter to a motley multitude of 50,000 men, women, and children.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
the
Nightingale
begins its song,
"Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
In fact the Path of Seeing (darianamdrgd)
consists
of dharmasmrtyupasthdna; thus the agradharmas are also dharmasmrtyupasthdna since they adjoin dar/anamdrga.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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That is
the
fatality
of faith and the lesson of romance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
|
Ovid then
invented
an inci-
dent in the heavens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
Many of the sacred personnel connected with the Mysteries seem to have held their offices for life, a fact that sets the Eleusinian
priesthoods
apart from most others among the Greeks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
|
Certain authors even think
that this right must have been
formally
reserved in the law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
|
FERGUS
A wild and foolish
labourer
is a king,
To do and do and do, and never dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
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Knightley, if you will not
consider me as doing a very rude thing, I shall take
Emma’s
advice and
go out for a quarter of an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
|
When a human being is practicing and
experiencing
the Buddha's
truth in this state, to get one dharma is to penetrate one dharma, and to meet
one act is to perform one act.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
" To me, at least, such internal connections and line cohesion seem far more important in this intense, impassioned and vengeful dirge than they were in Labīd's more
contemplative
poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Translated Poetry |
|
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding
conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my
literary
ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
But when they were over the sea which lies betwixt Sigeum and the Chersonese, Helle slipped into the deep and was drowned, and the sea was called
Hellespont
after her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Apollodorus - The Library |
|
sicos y
derechos
de igualdad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
hler,
Wolfgang
25, 75
language 27, 30, 100 Lautre?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
And golden crowns were also exhibited to the number of three
thousand
and two hundred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
|
Yorkshire
Nan, Prince George's Cap Woman
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
|
It
appears in four MSS, the one printed by
Cockayne
dating
from the first half of the eleventh century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
At this
juncture
I have only one proper course,
silence : otherwise I trespass on a domain open
alone to one who is younger than I, one stronger,
more "future" than I — open alone to Zara-
thustra, Zarathustra the godless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
So may no ruffian-feeling in my breast,
Discordant, jar thy bosom-chords among;
But Peace attune thy gentle soul to rest,
Or Love, ecstatic, wake his seraph song,
Or Pity's notes, in luxury of tears,
As modest Want the tale of woe reveals;
While
conscious
Virtue all the strains endears,
And heaven-born Piety her sanction seals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
burns |
|
This long letter, full of my own
concerns alone, will be enough to tire even the
friendship
of a Fanny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
But I agree with you that during these
last centuries, unfortunate circumstances having deprived Italy of
her independence, her people have lost all
interest
in truth, and
often even the possibility of uttering it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
|
Always gifted orators, the Poles now spent their time
in
justifying
and preserving the disorder by which their
country was distracted, and in defending the miscon-
ceived liberty in which the minority throve, the political
assemblies were flooded with eloquence, society with
endless streams of poetry religious and political, lyric
and historical, epic, didactic, romantic, erotic and pas-
toral, while the air of the cities was filled with quips
and squibs, lampoons and pasquinades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
"
He cannot keep a good thing or a shrewd piece of
information
in his
possession, though the letting it out should mar a cause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
|
Now it happens that
several things may be taken as several or as one; like the parts of a
continuous
whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
How could you be such a fool as to mention the other
restaurant?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
Even so, the chances of
confusing
people are small.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Neither fhould you regard the
Sweetnefs and Strength of his Voice, or the
We^knefs
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But, though I say't, for maids thus veigled in
I think the wicked men deserve the sin;
And sure enough we all at last shall see
The
treachery
punished as it ought to be.
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When I stamp my hoof
The frozen-cloud-specks jam into the cleft
So that I reel upon two
slippery
points.
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Foucault
mentions
in the 1984 lectures that parrhesia is not about "epistemologi- cal structures", but rather "des formes alethurgiques", forms of unconcealment (Foucault 2009: 5; see Heidegger 1996: ?
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Ill
are already doing, while he advises
Applauds
you, and
by his advice commends your conduct.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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" In our now
meaningless
subscription to a formal
letter, "Your most obedient servant," the same thing is visible.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Songs and Ballads in Chambers's
Cyclopaedia
of Eng.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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We have met the precious
teachings
of the greater vehicle.
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