This
island was only a great cheese well pressed (as we afterwards found
when we fed upon it), about some five-and-twenty
furlongs
in bigness:
the vines were full of clusters of grapes, out of which we could crush
no wine, but only milk: in the midst of the island there was a temple
built dedicated to Galatea, one of the daughters of Nereus, as by the
inscription appeared.
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Lucian - True History |
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It was at these Pimodan gatherings, which were no doubt much less wicked
than the participants would have us believe, that Baudelaire encountered
Emile Deroy, a painter of skill, who made his portrait, and encouraged
the
fashionable
young fellow to continue his art studies.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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The country, however, between
the Ebro and the Pyrenees was still free, and its tribes were
not only the natural allies of the Romans, but had also, like
the Saguntines,
received
from Roman emissaries promises
of speedy assistance.
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THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL
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figure in
likeness
of a child, and the visage was as red and as
bright as any fire, and smote himself into the bread, so that
they all saw it, that the bread was formed of a fleshly man, and
then he put it into the holy vessel again.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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_Farmer's Boy_
He waits all day beside his little flock
And asks the passing
stranger
what's o'clock,
But those who often pass his daily tasks
Look at their watch and tell before he asks.
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John Clare |
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~ xcxt VO(l(crf-tCX1:"OC ~eeL
W d / appear to be tetarteron tokens
not
affectIng
the aureus vel pactum pretIum augens
and a few words about hoardIng xcx.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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"
[341] Thus he spake; and the young heroes turned their eyes towards bold Heracles sitting in their midst, and with one shout they all
enjoined
upon him to be their leader; but he, from the place where he sat, stretched forth his right hand and said: "Let no one offer this honour to me.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Good day to you,
gentlemen!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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As for vows, [279aJ they are the twelve
ascetical
practices such as living at the foot of a tree, and so on.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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If he was wanted at Lima, he was
on the
Atlantic
in the next fleet.
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Macaulay |
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This
island was only a great cheese well pressed (as we afterwards found
when we fed upon it), about some five-and-twenty furlongs in bigness:
the vines were full of
clusters
of grapes, out of which we could crush
no wine, but only milk: in the midst of the island there was a temple
built dedicated to Galatea, one of the daughters of Nereus, as by the
inscription appeared.
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Lucian - True History |
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The cruel Parcae are to us unknown;
We wond'rous magick pow'rs have often shown;
But wretched, spite of this, appears our lot
Death never comes, though various ills we've got,
For we to human
maladies
are prone,
And suffer greatly oft, I freely own.
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La Fontaine |
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The
argument of the verse is: 'As such a miraculous star led the Magi to
the infant Christ, so may the beams of virtue transmitted by your fame
guide fit souls to the
knowledge
of virtue; and indeed none are so bad
that they may not be thus led.
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Donne - 2 |
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There is no story, and and
involved
— many containing upwards
the works are noted for their admirable of one hundred and fifty words — and
sayings rather than for their interest the style is heavily figurative; though
as a whole.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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But
when one sums up the results, and compares the relative
position in respect of power of the two States in 1802, when
their
alliance
was formed, with that in 1879, when it
was dissolved, it cannot be honestly asserted that Prussia
fared badly in this alliance.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Now the
elimination
can be non-selective, falling on all
sorts of constitutions with the same frequency and degree.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Death came upon
him after he had fought against it with singular
tenacity
of purpose.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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viewed together, as I will do next, Girri and Cadenas represent a revealing but frequently overlooked current in contemporary Latin
American
poetry.
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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-In some cases spatialization is so essential a part of a concept
that it is
difficult
for us to imagine any alternative metaphor that might structure the concept.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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There, in a gracious and
conciliating
speech, he indicated to them how readily he forgave all those who might have concealed themselves as a result of this revolution in the state; and hoped that they would dismiss all fear of his resentment.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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A town or a country
can be claimed on purely ethnical grounds
only if the
majority
of the population
belong to the claimant's race.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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There were also exhibited a vast number of golden chaplets, which were borne by young maidens
sumptuously
attired, one of which was two cubits high and sixteen cubits in circumference.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Giọng Kiều rền rĩ
trướng
loan,
Nhà Huyên chợt tỉnh hỏi: Cơn cớ gì ?
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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_The Lonely Grave_
Pilgrims
will ascend the road in early summer,
Passing my tombstone
Mossy, long forgotten.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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The
Norwegian
Captain 79
?
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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=C@--FC</FCC
*#!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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We use information technology and tools to
increase
productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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After a
prolonged
inspection, Bwikov seemed
to recover his spirits, for he said something to which I duly replied.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Whether 'tis Spring's first shiver, faintly heard
Through the light leaves, or lizards in the brake
The
rustling
thorns have stirr'd,
Her heart, her knees, they quake.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The latter relates to no underlying pattern ("geometry") of wholeness, and yet (similarly to quantum
mechanics)
it offers us a better guess as concerns the history or aesthetic (or otherwise cognitive) structure of the configuration in question.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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The value for oneself means the
qualities
of enlightenment pertain not only to the body aspect, but to the mind aspect.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Whatever
I said
about Mr.
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Twain - Speeches |
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The faculty of DESIRE is the being's faculty of be- coming by means of its ideas the cause of the actual
existence
of the ob- jects of these ideas.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Neither see I any Reason, Why he should
say that this is
Contradictious
to any former Position.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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The next
morning the old woman brought him his breakfast, looked at his back, and
rubbed it herself with another ointment: in like manner she brought him
his dinner; and at night she
returned
with his supper.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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This, plus their prior identifi- cation of him as an enemy--he was not only a Catholic priest, but a leader of a militant Catholic organization--led to their use of force and
brutality
to a degree unusual even for a Chinese Communist prison.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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It was Doctor Depew's
business
to get up
there and apologise for the Dutch, and Mr.
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Twain - Speeches |
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among warlike peoples may, on the one hand, result from the emphati- cally
contrasting
nature of civil relationships versus the militaristic; on the other hand, from individual psychological motives: the warrior is certainly tyrannical and brutal at home, but yet again tired, at ease, casual, content, provided that he is cared for and another is in charge.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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AR with a page number refers to Allegories of Reading (New Haven: Yale
University
Press, 1979).
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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However, they would come in useful for the pageant For Charles II,
perhaps-or, no, better not have Charles II, have Oliver Cromwell instead;
422 A
Clergyman’s
Daughter
because if you had Oliver Cromwell you wouldn’t have to make him a wig
Dorothy lighted the oilstove, found her scissors and two sheets of brown
paper, and sat down There was a mountain of clothes to be made Better start
off with Julius Caesar’s breastplate, she thought It was always that wretched
armour that made all the trouble' What did a Roman soldier’s armour look
like?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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Li Po |
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Whoever reads the newspaper and eats
mushrooms
is already contaminated.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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My advice to him is, to consult the lives of other men, as
he would a looking-glass, and from thence take
examples
for
his own imitation.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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He now had nothing to do but
to cherish the
consciousness
of his agreeable destiny, to behave
with some consideration towards his father, and to spend an
abundance of pocket-money in whatever way best suited him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Oh, many a crown shall sink in war's turmoil,
And many a new republic light the sky,
Fleets sweep the ocean, nations till the soil,
Genius be born and
generations
die.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sueh too is the
delicacy
of the credit of a bank, that everything which can.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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[Footnote 1: James Boswell, the
biographer
of Dr.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Our problem is that none of these
conceptions
appears to be convincing any more.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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ii:*
i: ;it
iiZ*iiliE?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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Non propter vitam quidam faciunt patrimonia,
Vitio caeci, sed propter
patrimonia
vivunt.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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The
essential
thing, so far
as the victims are concerned, is that the offender goes
unpunished.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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In short, the highest form of ideology does not reside in getting caught up in ideological spectral- ity, ignoring its foundation in real people and their relations, but pre- cisely in overlooking this Real of spectrality and in
pretending
to ad- dress directly real people with their real worries.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of
comrades
slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
None that go return again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I had a
perfectly
good alibi, if I wanted to play things safe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Now, however, a
reformer
arose who was destined to make his
mark on the English drama.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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' The site of
the
monastery
is significant.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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The most salient among them is the solitary walker who, at first glace, seems to be talking to himself, often with great emphasis and expressiveness, and also quite loudly, and thus appears to perfectly fit one of the
traditional
images of the fool as "someone who talks to himself.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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For why is it else, that this offends
not and needs not to be excused, when virtues are styled good: but that
which is spoken in commendation of wealth, pleasure, or honour, we
entertain it only as merrily and
pleasantly
spoken?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
There long time sad at heart he stayed:
"Poor Yorick,"
mournfully
he said,
"How often in thine arms I lay;
How with thy medal I would play,
The Medal Otchakoff conferred!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yet how to handle Bow and shaftes much better did he know,
Now as he was about that time to bende his horned Bowe,
A
firebrand
Persey raught that did upon the Aultar smoke, .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
|
Giọng Kiều rền rĩ
trướng
loan,
Nhà Huyên chợt tỉnh hỏi: Cơn cớ gì ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
Only half the
original
RMB 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
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My boy was by my side, so slim
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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This fame, which all the wide world loves,
I touch with gloves,
And
scorning
beat
Beneath my feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
Zeuxis and
Parrhasius
are said to be
contemporaries; the first found out the reason of lights and shadows in
picture, the other more subtlely examined the line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But it is my resolve, if the
Divine Mercy shall grant me a new term of life, to correct my sinful
habits, and wholly to devote anew my mind and life to
obedience
to the
Divine will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
Rivers,
Harbours
and Lakes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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PREFACE
TO THE FIRST
COLLECTED
EDITION OF MRS.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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Myronides, the
Athenian
general, ordered his men, as soon as the signal for battle was given, to begin the charge from the left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
--
Ah, how I am weary of all the inadequate that is
insisted
on as actual!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
Several of the most
distinguished peers who had hitherto remained at Westminster fled to the
court at Oxford; nor can it be doubted that, if the operations of the
Cavaliers had, at this season, been
directed
by a sagacious and powerful
mind, Charles would soon have marched in triumph to Whitehall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay |
|
Conlath, in
diffusing
a knowledge of the Gospel, must have been as gratifying to St.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
|
Whoever really knows what
progress
is already
is moving toward what has been conceived; he knows it because he has progressed and is progressing further.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk |
|
Chapter Two, “Orientalist
Structures and Restructures,” attempts to trace the development of modern Orientalism by a
broadly chronological description, and also by the description of a set of devices common to the
work of
important
poets, artists, and scholars.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
Beautiful spirit, come with me
Over the blue enchanted sea:
Morn and evening thou canst play
In my garden, where the breeze
Warbles through the fruity trees;
No shadow falls upon the day:
There thy mother's arms await
Her
cherished
infant at the gate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Đã không duyên
trước
chăng mà,
Thì chi chút ước gọi là duyên sau.
| Guess: |
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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To be bound to have a conscience would be as much as to say to be under a duty to
recognize
duties.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
But the
particulars
of the amours of Camoens rest
unknown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Every one of you won the war,
You and you and you--
You that carry an
unscathed
head,
You that halt with a broken tread,
And oh, most of all, you Dead, you Dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Rapine, avarice, expense,
This is idolatry; and these we adore: 10
Plain living and high thinking are no more:
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing
household
laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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He
travelled
the Oxford circuit for some years, and became one of its most distinguished leaders; but during
distinguished sphere.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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For now, we omit all the other classes of motion and their species and
consider
only natural motion in place.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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At all events they treated me
with the most
chilling
indifference, and Gunga Dass was nearly as bad.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The pebble
loosened
from the frost
Asks of the urchin to be tost.
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Emerson - Poems |
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With what
description
can I serve you?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Claudius, as compared with the still more hateful decemvir Appius, plays a mediating and conciliatory part, he afterwards in the dispute regarding the amubium
contends
for the most extreme aristocratic view (iv.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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But the more
confident
I have made thee in the past, the more neglectful now I find thee.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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No one knew how deeply I loved and
honoured
her.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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She began to feel that she had not yet
gone through all the changes of opinion and
sentiment
which the progress
of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of
changes.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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To which is added an
appendix, consisting of his
correspondence
with Clarinda.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Every time
You seem afraid some foe is
following
you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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FAIR and lovely bloom the flowers of youth-
On men and maids they
beautifully
smile;
But soon comes doleful eld, who, void of ruth,
Indifferently afflicts the fair and vile:
Then cares wear out the heart; old eyes forlorn
Scarce reck the very sunshine to behold,
Unloved by youths, of every maid the scorn,-
So hard a lot God lays upon the old.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Pray, doth she feed on
dewdrops
like the cricket?
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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"
Her voice was so
impressive
in its sorrow, her tone was so
tender in its despair, that Raoul was affected, and even decided
to restore the stolen money.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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[B] Yet in his _Farewell to Poetry_ he distinctly says:--
"I've more to bear my charge than way to go";
the line, however, is a translation from his
favourite
Seneca, Ep.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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Therefore
he can win out over things and not hurt himself.
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Chuang Tzu |
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