In the case of human intelligence or art, the "form" to be superinduced
exists in the agent not as _his_ characteristic form, but by way of
representation, as a
contemplated
design.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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"
Thus
reasoned
every drop of the rain brotherhood.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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In addition, he has
something
to write about.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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To accomplish this progress they will
need European
advisers
and furnishers.
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| Question: |
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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--
What light from her country in her
conscience
can she find?
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| Question: |
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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, 9, "Memor Actæ non alio rege puertiæ
Mutatæque
simul
togæ.
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Satires |
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Light is none,
Save that which cometh from the pure serene
Of ne'er disturbed ether: for the rest,
'Tis
darkness
all, or shadow of the flesh,
Or else its poison.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And all these
creatures
are many-toed, and the several toes are cloven apart.
| Guess: |
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Aristotle copy |
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A
celebrated
English As-
syriologist; born in London, March 26, 1840;
died at Aleppo, Aug.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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It is plain now what you meant by
your
proposing
to take her into the house this morning.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Senatus Consulta, the Orders Of The Senate; because when the people
of Rome grew so numerous, as it was inconvenient to assemble them; it
was thought fit by the Emperour, that men should Consult the Senate in
stead of the people: And these have some
resemblance
with the Acts of
Counsell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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parivara - the Buddha-family of boddhisattvas, 'jinas ' divine beings and deities who
surround
Buddha or live in their own different spheres like 'sukhavati'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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He could have turned and
followed
her, almost.
| Guess: |
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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asked
Cranly, facing round on him with an
expression
of wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Each time I cannot drive my car the
universal
will assert itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
|
His excuse
Always was,
whenever
folks would ask him
Where he hailed from, an' _would_ tease an' task him;--
What d' you s'pose?
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But now help god to
quenchen
al this sorwe,
So hope I that he shal, for he best may;
For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060
Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day;
And after winter folweth grene May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And we were
staggering
within ten feet of
the bank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
|
I use words
I hardly know the meaning of;
And the mute birds
Are
glancing
at Love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the implacable radiance of noon,
And in dim
shelters
koils hush their notes,
And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
She cared not a rap for all the big planets,
For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran,
And all the big planets cared nothing for her,
That small
impertinent
charlatan;
But she climbed on a Kentish stile in the moonlight,
And laughed at the sky through the sticks of her fan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The
university!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
"To Sorrow,
I bade good-morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so
constant
to me, and so kind: 180
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
] Reason is rather not to be what one
immediately
is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
|
copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with
permission
of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
|
"This is a
glorious
gift," said he; "the bright stars have
always been a joy to me, and have always shone more brilliantly than I
ever could shine, though I have tried with my whole might; and now
they have noticed me, a poor old lamp, and have sent me a gift that
will enable me to see clearly everything that I remember, as if it
still stood before me, and to be seen by all those who love me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
Adventures
of Susan Hopley; or Circumstantial Evi-
dence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
_ [Used with
ellipsis
of _go_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Nietzsche as Metaphysical Thinker
In The Will to Power, the "work" to be treated in this lecture course, Nietzsche says the following about
philosophy
(WM, 420):
I do not wish to persuade anyone to philosophy: it is inevitable and perhaps also desirable that the philosopher should be a rare plant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
how have I become what I am, and why do I
suffer in this
existence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
Jason answered, whether at haphazard or
instigated
by the angry Hera in order that Medea should prove a curse to Pelias, who did not honor Hera, “I would command him,” said he, “to bring the Golden Fleece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Apollodorus - The Library |
|
Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
For by such deeds they mostly
in sensuality what was their own ; and how do they seek to replenish what they have
squandered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
The paper money was a useful ticket or handy means of reckoning and recording how much work had been done or how much grain (or whatever] grown and delivered to market, hence of recording how produce ought ethically to be handed over to
whomever
held the ticket.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
Monika Zobel
The True Fate of the Bremen Town
Musicians
as Told by Georg Trakl
They haul the donkey, the largest, to the mill first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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The Comic Wit, born with a smiling Air,
Must Tragic grief, and pompous Verse forbear;
Yet may he not, as on a Market-place,
With Baudy jests amuse the Populace:
With well-bred Conversation you must please,
And your
Intrigue
unravel'd be with ease:
Your Action still should Reason's Rules obey,
Nor in an empty Scene may lose its way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
|
For example, the evil
minister
Santi-pa, who had caused mTsho-rgyal such great suffering earlier in her life, had been reborn in one of the hot hells.
| 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 |
|
It is not by accident that the masterminds who
helped to prepare the way for the nation-state, most
importantly
Machia-
velli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Smith, Hamilton, and Hegel, turned their atten-
tion again to the human being as the bearer of valuing passions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
|
The reason perhaps
may be this, that as princes carry a suspicious eye upon those that are
over-wise, and
consequently
hate them--as Caesar did Brutus and Cassius,
when he feared not in the least drunken Antony; so Nero, Seneca; and
Dionysius, Plato--and on the contrary are delighted in those blunter and
unlabored wits, in like manner Christ ever abhors and condemns those wise
men and such as put confidence in their own wisdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
|
' The palaces of the
nobles were adorned within by the matchless efforts of the pencil of Ti-
tian , for twenty four years Sarpi's contemporary, as well as by the
works of Paul Veronese, Tintoretto, and other great masters, by classic
sculpture, both antique and modern, by costly and
gorgeous
furniture, by
rich and rare plate, all reflected in the brilliant mirrors of Venetia, while
without, the graceful piles which Palladio or Sansovino, or others of lit-
tle less renown had reared, drew admiration from every eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
Edouard Manet, qui, comme tous les
tableaux
du même peintre, a
fait esclandre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
To this I reply
that these trivial matters—diet, locality, climate,
and one's mode of recreation, the whole casuistry of
self-love—are inconceivably more
important
than
all that which has hitherto been held in high esteem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
The disruption of French
discoursal
culture becomes apparent simply by the fact that the country's left-wing has for many years failed to produce a book of any merit not to men- tion new perspectives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
|
le
Dios a la tierra de Chanaan , llamada assi de
los Chananeos sus
moradores
entonces, a un her-
moso lugar llamado Sichen, donde le prometio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
|
Kip presenting the dear American who came over and fitted in perfectly, and Henry James the American sentimentalist who came over
expecting
and very much annoyed the British remnant of the family, who didn't understand what the fellow was up to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free
distribution
of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Courier, amateur that he was,
discovered
that the Laurentian
manuscript contained the text of the great lacuna in Book I (cc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for
generations
to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
Scott
Moncrieff
, (New York: 1925) Made available by Miss MariLi Pooler, Brooklyn NY , goldhatted@mindspring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
|
But far more
of them have been
dictated
by the desire to
suppress active or potential competition; or by
personal ambition or greed; or by the mistaken
belief that efficiency grows with size.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
_ Sir, if you'd have me think you did not take
This
opportunity
to show your vanity,
Let's meet some other time, when by ourselves
We fairly may dispute our wrongs together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
King Marsilies hath
bargained
for us cheap;
At the sword's point he yet shall pay our meed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
For example sake, 'Tis against the Law of Nature, To Punish The
Innocent; and Innocent is he that
acquitteth
himselfe Judicially, and is
acknowledged for Innocent by the Judge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
from the soul itself must issue forth
A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud--
Enveloping
the Earth--
And from the soul itself must there be sent
A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth,
Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
What else was e'er
unhealthy
prodigality?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The weeping women, the monsters, the mourners and attendants, the
gigantic
catafalques, and the immense crowd formed one of the strangest sights I ever contemplated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
|
His interest in this began with the study of Albrecht
Dürer, and his
monograph
on the Little Passion' (1868) is the ear-
liest in English on this subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
Music employs a
somewhat similar effect when, for instance, in the opera of
Fra Diavolo, the
approach
of the master spirit is heralded
on the scene by a certain stave of arresting melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
Oh, give it back, good
stranger
!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
Although the ageing hero no longer
possessed the dash to carry out his plan of cam-
paign on so large a scale as he had planned,
Prussia's power proved itself strong enough to
force the Court of Vienna to yield without any
glowing
military
success.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
And must my words be
thus
interpreted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
|
Always I shall be
Limned on the darkness like a shaft of light
That
glimmers
and is gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
I
bitterly
wept and wished that I had had the heart to
give thee my all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
Dans une soirée où j'avais rencontré Robert
avant que je ne
partisse
pour Combray, et où la façon dont il
s'exhibait à côté d'une femme élégante qui passait pour être sa
maîtresse, où il s'attachait à elle, ne faisant qu'un avec elle,
enveloppé en public dans sa jupe, me faisait penser avec quelque chose
de plus nerveux, de plus tressautant, à une sorte de répétition
involontaire d'un geste ancestral que j'avais pu observer chez M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
|
;
Inde genus durum sumus ,
experiensque
laborum Et documenta damus , qua simus origine nati.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pindar |
|
Second, its paradoxical form derives from the historicist assumption that the meaning of a text is dependent on its
specific
historical con- text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
|
They have their stereotyped
smile and their
fashionable
mauve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
But, or shine, or rain, or blow,
I my
resolutions
know--
Living, dying, thrall, or free,
At one height my mind shall be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
|
In a dedication to his
absolute
lord,
^ -
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
If rain falls after intercourse, the ram
impregnates
the ewe again; and it is the same with the she-goat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
The German language speak I not good, but have
numerous
connoisseurs
me assured that I her write like an angel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
Jerusalemwasafree
and now an imperial city.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sovoliev - End of History |
|
Property makes man a eunuch, and then reproaches him for being nothing
but dry wood, a
decaying
tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
|
)
THE
APOSTOLTC
FATHERS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
In the USA's gas chambers, criminals died through the
inhalation
of hydrocyanic acid vapors, which were produced after the introduction of toxic elements in a container.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
|
Ifone lives in accordance with the Dharma until death, is that not
sufficient?
| 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 |
|
Thus Egypt pos-
sesses a Nationalist party whose influence
cannot be overlooked ; its programme
presents the essential features of the Euro-
pean racial aspirations, containing demands
for
autonomy
and for recognition of Arabic
as the only vehicle of all education.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
The situation is especially clear in things which have very strong
sensible
qualities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
|
I thought he was an honest and sincere man, quietly spoken and thoughtful, but his mind had unfortunately been captured by poisonous
religious
nonsense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
|
See her whose darling child a long year past
Has dwelt beyond the wild Carpathian foam;
That long year o'er, the envious southern blast
Still bars him from his home:
Weeping and praying to the shore she clings,
Nor ever thence her straining
eyesight
turns:
So, smit by loyal passion's restless stings,
Rome for her Caesar yearns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
— compared with the
exhausted
ones, xiv.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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There are other moments in which the soul slips free from the flesh,
loses its personality, mingles with the elements of nature, relates
itself to their mode of being and
translates
their incomprehensible
language.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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'* See "
Antverpirc
Antiquitates," cap.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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" Based on a literal reading of certain passages from Nagarjuna, Aryadeva and Candrakirti/9 many of the earlier Tibetan Madhyamikas have consistently argued that the Prasangika
literally
does not have any positions of his own.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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or as the Cilician women, according to the
testimony
of
Dioscorides, were wont to do the grain of alkermes?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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He
murmured a name long forbidden to his priestly lips, and then,
waking one instant to the scene around him, he sprang at the
throat of a Saracen, grasped it with his stiffening fingers, and the
soul of the Paynim went out with his, as he departed to join
the great assembly of the
soldiers
of the Cross.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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But taken together, all these interventions tend to flatten out those contours and rough transitions that used to give a
specific
event-character to lectures in the pre-electronic age.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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To whom the
Patriarch
of mankind repli'd.
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Milton |
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on the condition that he would not embark in so
desperate
an enterprize ; but he was deaf to her entreaties, and so ambitious of serving the Pretender, that he gave his secretary, Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Licinius Calvus, both bat, but both the
brothers
fell.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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When we reached the hall the maid had just opened the door,
and Arthur was
stepping
quickly in.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Lucilius was the man who bravely bold,
To Roman Vices did this Mirror hold,
Protected humble
Goodness
from reproach,
Show'd Worth on foot and Rascals in the Coach:
Horace his pleasing Wit to this did add,
And none uncensur'd could be Fool, or mad;
Unhappy was that Wretch, whose name might be
Squar'd to the Rules of their Sharp Poetry.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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tanto en riquezas , que le fue forzoso dividir-
se de Lot, por escusar las
contiendas
de sus
pastores sobre los pastos y aguas.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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The poem that began by describing tribal lands depopulated and buddilat ahluhā wuḥūšan "their people
replaced
with beastly ones", ends with a simile of the strong preying upon the weak, in a circle of death (or "circle of life" for those at the top of the food chain like the eagle, or the monarchic predators we're supposed to root for in The Lion King.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Now in each pettiest personal sphere of dew
The summ'd morn shines complete as in the blue
Big dew-drop of all heaven: with these lit shrines
O'er-silvered to the farthest sea-confines,
The
sacramental
marsh one pious plain
Of worship lies.
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Sidney Lanier |
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