Man
founders
in deceit, all the age of his life.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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But who is in any doubt as to what I
want, as to what the three
requisitions
are con-
cerning which my wrath and my care and love
of art, have made me open my mouth on this
occasion?
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The chief
creation
of Hesiod is called 'Works and Days'; i.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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Korea mayor may not be a good model for speculation on limited war in the age of nuclear violence, but it was dramatic evidence that the capacity for violence can be consciously restrained even under the provoca- tion of a war that measures its
military
dead in tens ofthousands and that fully preoccupies two of the largest countries in the world.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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William Browne |
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On the floor above Byng is Cecil
Dreeme, a
mysterious
young artist, who
is evidently in hiding for some unknown
reason.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Stretched
on the floor, here beside you and me.
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T.S. Eliot |
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the
most artful and alluring amorous ideas are
conveyed
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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I am already living, but
something
is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living prop- erly.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of
anything
we can address.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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In the
emphatic
essay, thought gets rid of the traditional idea of truth.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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His idea was that the conquering of this particular problem, perhaps originally for
purposes
of hunting, equipped the brain to do lots of other important things as a by-product.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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He held the office
of constable in that militia district, and in seasons
favorable
to
law business made about fifty dollars a year.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then
gudewife
count the lawin;
The lawin, the lawin,
Then gudewife count the lawin,
And bring a coggie mair!
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Robert Burns |
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Between which
caterpillars
crawl ;
And ivy, with familiar trails.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Such a course would never have been pursued, were it not for that need of reason which requires it to suppose the
existence
of n neces
?
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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On the other side
approached
the fraudful foe,
So pleased to work Geneura's infamy;
And, while I nothing of the cheat divine,
Beneath my bower renews the wonted sign.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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(3) The Rowley Poems, including the controversial literature
as to their authorship
Poems
supposed
to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others
in the 15th century.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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370
To whom
Alcinous
answer thus return'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I then sought another counsellor
among the old superstitious influential slaves; one who
professed
to
be a great friend of mine, told me to get a lock of hair from the head
of any girl, and wear it in my shoes: this would cause her to love me
above all other persons.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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The zājirātu ṭ-ṭayri "women who chase birds away" (here
rendered
as "auguresses") were women who tried to divine the future in some manner that involved scaring birds.
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Translated Poetry |
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The nature that is the great spontaneously present qualities of primal knowing, has never been a blank,
nihilistic
emptiness.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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"
The same retrograde
movement
may be traced, in the relation which the
authors themselves have assumed towards their readers.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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A Discourse concerning the Being and
Attributes
of God, the Obligations
of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian
Revelation.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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"
It is not only inexperienced girls but even elderly and married women who copy each other in everj'thing, from the nice new dress or pretty
coiffure
down to the places where they get their things, and the very recipes by which they cook.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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somewhat
gifted though by nature,
And we make a point of asking him,--of being very kind.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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»
Et tandis qu'un sourire désenchanté
fronçait
d'une gracieuse sinuosité
sa bouche douloureuse, la duchesse fixa sur Mme d'Arpajon le regard
rêveur de ses yeux clairs et charmants.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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We do not mean, of course, to suggest that all the natives who have died
in the New World since the landing of Columbus, have died because the
evolution of their race had not
proceeded
so far in certain directions
as had that of their conquerors.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Oh, she
trembled!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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1
1 Though the last image may simply refer to the separation of husband from wife, it is not impossible that it may refer to the punishments both wife and husband will receive in Hell—since Hell punishments are mentioned almost
inevitably
in the HS and SD poems as the result of meat-eating.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Elton’s engagement had been the cure of
the
agitation
of meeting Mr.
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Austen - Emma |
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Crabbe
presents
an entire contrast to
Mr.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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"Ho/ ", he shouts in
gurgling
tones,
Stepping pedetentim.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Oblige
me by giving what you
consider
the right answers to my questions.
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Lucian |
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman's arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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Stephen Crane |
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Study the lives of the heroes of old to
accustom
thee for wars that are to be.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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But as all conceptions
of things in themselves must be referred to intuitions, and with us
men these can never be other than sensible and hence can never
enable us to know objects as things in themselves but only as
appearances, and since the unconditioned can never be found in this
chain of appearances which consists only of conditioned and
conditions; thus from applying this rational idea of the totality of
the
conditions
(in other words of the unconditioned) to appearances,
there arises an inevitable illusion, as if these latter were things in
themselves (for in the absence of a warning critique they are always
regarded as such).
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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I have not told thee
How the stars, with their perilous overlooking,
Have raught away from all his manhood Gwat,
Our
fiercest
strength.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Loveless
come home, and walking on the lawn!
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| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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There the castle stood up black with the red sun at its back--
_Toll slowly_--
Like a sullen
smouldering
pyre with a top that flickers fire
When the wind is on its track.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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it is a
beautiful
story: I have challenged all the religions and made a new "holy book"!
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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I" This so-called proof is hardly convincing, and its very weakness is an indication of the relative unimportance it was accorded by
Buddhist
philosophers.
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| Question: |
what wasnt proved |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
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Darcy is
particularly
fond of,
that I may have it to-morrow.
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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So in comedy
circumstances
wholly absurd
THE VIGIL OF VENDS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
is comedy ever serious |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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' the Catholic Church, are
satisfied
that England's method in
resuming the autonomy of the nation and church was the more
direct and effective way of promoting civil and religious liberty.
| Guess: |
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Na- tions need roads, canals, and eventually railroads; postal services and even- tually the telegraph; widespread
publishing
and eventually newspapers; public schools and perhaps conscription.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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34 If Hitchcock's (non)"act" of sabotage aims at a passage from trope to performative, from mimesis to inscription in a
Benjaminian
fashion, and this be- cause--as the blackout performs--the very techne ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
how does one not enact sabotage |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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Indeed, we can discuss
this dire necessity only in so far as the modern
State is willing to discuss these things with us, and
is prepared to follow up its demands by force:
which phenomenon
certainly
makes the same
impression upon most people as if they were
addressed by the eternal law of things.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Music, spleen, perfumes--"colour, sound, perfumes call to
each other as deep to deep; perfumes like the flesh of children, soft as
hautboys, green as the meadows"--criminals, outcasts, the charm of
childhood, the horrors of love, pride, and rebellion, Eastern
landscapes, cats, soothing and false; cats, the true
companions
of
lonely poets; haunted clocks, shivering dusks, and gloomier
dawns--Paris in a hundred phases--these and many other themes this
strange-souled poet, this "Dante, pacer of the shore," of Paris has
celebrated in finely wrought verse and profound phrases.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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illusory
musician
of supreme bliss and emptiness, Lord Lodro Thaye, I supplicate you.
| Guess: |
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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The relation of aesthetic to real purposiveness was historical: The immanent purposiveness of artworks was of
external
origin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
arent arts self teleological |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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tives of the Seleucid dynasty, Antiochus called the Asiatic and his brother, moved by the
favourable
turn of the
Pontic war, had gone to Rome to procure a Roman inter vention in Syria, and at the same time a recognition of their hereditary claims on Egypt.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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This illusion then
continues
to learn how philosoph- ically it is substantial and a real philosophical experience.
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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Una falta moral se
convierte
en un estímulo económico
inteligente.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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223 ]
Patroclus
the knight [ Iliad 16.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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"
Then
becometh
it kin to the faun and the dryad, a woodland- dweller amid the rocks and streams
" consociisfaunts dryadisque inter saxa sylvarum" Janus of Basel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A
Russian-American
Oriental
writer; born in 1835.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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The
childhood
of our hymns!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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_Seventh
Edition_,
_1899_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
(This
file was produced from images
generously
made available
by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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There was no joy in the
brilliance
of
sunshine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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She was
sitting on the stone steps, a salt fish of some sort was in her hand;
she was crying, wailing something about her luck and beating with the
fish on the steps, and cabmen and drunken soldiers were crowding in the
doorway
taunting
her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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His
aaocialion
with the left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Yet the offensive
implications
of this military innovation should not be overstated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Now if _I_ could have laid hands on Athens, I might have used the
poet's right to introduce the loves and
judgements
and sojourns there
of the Gods, the gifts they lavished on it, the tale of Eleusis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian |
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It would be the greatest
pleasure
to
them, if you could allow me to attend you there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Emma |
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Thánh hoàng6 trung hưng
nghiệp
lớn, rộng mở nhân văn, đổi mới chế độ, lừng lẫy tiếng tăm.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
stella-01 |
|
)
Hence this object is also
thoroughly
transparent to_thy_
mind's eye, because it is thy mind itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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To find the former elections legitimizing and the Nicaraguan election a farce, the media would have had to use different standards of evaluation in the two sets of cases, and, more specifically) it would have been necessary for them to avoid discussing state terror and other basic electoral conditions in the Salvadoran and
Guatemalan
elections.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
|
Jane, cried the first, is ev'ry way complete;
No freckles on the skin: as balm she's sweet:
Antoinetta
is, her spouse replied,
Ambrosia ev'ry way: no fault to hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Am I thus whitened by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but
withered
laurels?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
XIX
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize;
I barter curl for curl upon that mart,
And from my poet's forehead to my heart
Receive this lock which
outweighs
argosies,--
As purply black, as erst to Pindar's eyes
The dim purpureal tresses gloomed athwart
The nine white Muse-brows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thy sister doth not haunt these fields, Pandion is not here,
Here is no cruel Lord with murderous blade,
No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving
comrades
made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies
With half-shut book, and many a winding walk
Where rustic lovers stray at eve in happy simple talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
This is a
complaint
I would gladly remedy, but, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns- |
|
He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side
as he
crouched
there on the floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
Orpheus, the Thracian bard, bewailing Long since the
death of Eurydice, his wife, After he had by his mourn-
ful strains made The woods move, and the flowing Rivers
stand still, The stag
fearlessly
drew near the fierce lions,
Nor did the hare fear The dog before her, that was now
rendered harmless by the song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
|
[An attempt, notable, but not convincing, to father
MacFlecknoe
on Oldham.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
|
XI
"King Pharamond so trusted to the seer
That he
resolved
to turn his arms elsewhere;
And Merlin, who beheld with sight as clear
The things to be, as things that whilom were,
'Tis said, was brought by magic art to rear
The painted chamber at the monarch's prayer;
Wherein whatever deeds the Franks shall do,
As if already done, are plain to view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
What do we
understand
of
their art, the soul of which was the passion for
naked masculine beauty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
Then he shut down the trap door with a ring in it
That jangled even above the general noise,
And came up stairs alone--and gave that laugh,
And said
something
to a man with a meal-sack
That the man with the meal-sack didn't catch--then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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From the first section, we did the Bodhicitta practices for the enlight- enment ofall sentient beings, the peaceful sadhanas
associated
with the deity Vajrasattva.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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" It said the United States
government
was "assuming the right to demand that states should account to it for the way in which they organize their de- fense, and should notify it of what their ships are carrying on the high seas.
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His
influence
is great
With Henry, our good King;--the Baron might
Have heard my suit, and urged my plea at Court.
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Clamor' Incendunt ccelum
Troesque
LM-\-tinl-
qtf Advolat
( qu' Advolat -- synapheia, and elision.
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Upon the whole, we despair less of the first than
of the last, for the
principle
of life and motion is, after all, the
primary condition of all genius.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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And ugly shapes, did nigh the Man dismay,
That, were it not for shame, he would retire;
Till that him thus bespake their
sovereign
lord and sire:
"Behold, thou Faerys son, with mortal eye
That living eye before did never see!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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No trace has been preserved of any advance in architecture among the Etruscans during this period we find among them neither any really new recep tion, nor any
original
creation, unless we ought to reckon as such the magnificent tombs, e.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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You will be finding
enjoyment
in toothache next," you
cry, with a laugh.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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This attribution is, however, denied by
Monnier on account of the weak and
childish
character of the work.
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Ξεϊνε, Φιλητάς ειμί • λόγων ο ψευδόμενός με
With this exception he plays no part in history:
ώλεσε
και νυκτών Φροντίδες έσπέριοι,
(Liv.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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The importance of
i`divisible
threatsi^is not limited to international negotiations.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Indeed,
And seest thou not, when near the nightly lamps
Thou
bringest
a flaxen wick, extinguished
A moment since, it catches fire before
'Thas touched the flame, and in same wise a torch?
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Having been a deeply
interested observer of the slavery quarrel in America, during the many
years that preceded the open breach, I knew that it was in all its
stages an
aggressive
enterprise of the slave-owners to extend the
territory of slavery; under the combined influences of pecuniary
interest, domineering temper, and the fanaticism of a class for its
class privileges, influences so fully and powerfully depicted in the
admirable work of my friend Professor Cairnes, _The Slave Power_.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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perch: "The
division
of the pound of account into twenty parts, and each of these into twelve, was in this reign extended to the pound weight, used for the assize of bread.
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