Will the
ambassador
be here in person?
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Thomas Otway |
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The spring is the pleasantest of the seasons ; and the young of most animals, though far from being completely fashioned, afford a more agree able sensation than the full-grown; because the imagi nation is
entertained
with the promise of something more, and does not acquiesce in the present object of the sense.
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Edmund Burke |
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The
sovereignpositionof
the Ordinariushad been acceptable,giventhe rathersmall size of the German universitiesbefore the war.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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NIGHT LITANY
oDIEU,
purifiez
nos coeurs!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
"Yes, that's one way to put it--all the flowers
Of every kind
everywhere
in this region
For the next forty summers--call it forty.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Preaching here and there in some Corners ; I bless my God, I have not the least Challenge for it ; and tho' those that con demned me are pleased to call such Preachings Rendezvouses of Rebellion, yet I must say this of them, they were so far from being reputed such in my Eyes, that if ever Christ had a People, or Party, wherein his Soul took Pleasure, I am bold to say, these Meetings were a great Part of them ; the Shining and Glory of God was eminently seen amongst these Meetings, the con
vincing Power and Authority of our Lord went out with his
Servants
in those blasphemously nick-nam'd Conventicles :
This, I say, without Reflection upon any.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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At this point, the motive of the "end of history" begins its
triumphal
procession.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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39, his death is
recorded
at A.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Mary
foolishly
screamed, and the
horse set out, on full gallop, across
the lawn.
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Childrens - Frank |
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Beyond the
barber's, across a street, is seen the dancers' house, and beyond the gamblers'
a hotel with
practicable
doors and windows.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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How
difficult
is it to avoid
censure, when there is a resolution taken to be censorious!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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All that can be said is that we had experiences with the so-called
postmodern
passive and that it does not
Only as a tranquil theory of movement, only as a quiet theory of loud mobilization can a critique of modernity be different from that which
is criticized [.
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Sloterdijk |
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Why are
you crooked when I am
straight?
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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XXXI
To tragedy, the
fainting
fit,
And female tears hysterical,
Oneguine could not now submit,
For long he had endured them all.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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)
This is one of your old tricks, you
graceless
rogue, you.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Ich bin's, bin Faust, bin
deinesgleichen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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From the simple entry of his name, at this date, we do not feel
warranted
in connecting the present Fintan with this locality ; neither is it established, on any fair grounds, that any other so called had been venerated at Howth.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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And cruel though all this
equipage
be, he hath something crueler far, his torch; ‘tis a little light, but can set the very Sun afire.
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Moschus |
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(For impudence the vulgar suffrage draws,
And seems the assurance of a
righteous
cause.
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Satires |
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and prove, that the Names ofthese
precious
Stones are taken from the 54th Chapter of Isaiah, where God promises to Jay
So the
lxxums- Jaspers.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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They 're here, though; not a creature failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle
deference
to me,
The Queen of Calvary.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Edison had methodically searched for a cheap and safe light - so methodically that he brought every
conceivable
type of tropical wood to his laboratory asa possible filament for his bulb.
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
_ How small is our
stature
compared
with that of the giants of old!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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It is, at the
very least, an
extremely
able attempt to solve a very complex problem.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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"I will not apologise for the dinner," said the Stork:
"One bad turn
deserves
another.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Do
after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and
And for to pass the time this book shall be pleasant to read in; but
for to give faith and belief that all is true that is
contained
herein, ye be at
your liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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O GOODLY GOLDEN CHAINE,
chivalry
or knightly honor, the bond that unites
all the virtues.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:02 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Now many an earl
of Beowulf brandished blade ancestral,
fain the life of their lord to shield,
their praised prince, if power were theirs;
never they knew, -- as they neared the foe,
hardy-hearted heroes of war,
aiming their swords on every side
the accursed to kill, -- no keenest blade,
no farest of
falchions
fashioned on earth,
could harm or hurt that hideous fiend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thus naught could evermore push forth and go,
Since naught elsewhere would yield a
starting
place.
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Lucretius |
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The Night-mare Conscience
Has driven him out of
harbour?
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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But in racking to gather money they truly act the part of
bishops, and herein acquit
themselves
to be no blind seers.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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This question is
difficult
to decide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
Be-
cause it is a short vowel
followed
by a mute and
a liquid.
| Guess: |
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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2, New York and London:
Academic
Press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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As the narrator shows, there is a
profound
ambiguity to this crime.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Wyatt, shall we
proclaim
Elizabeth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Beauty is the spell over the spell , which
devolves
upon it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
Excerpts
from Eimi by Cummings (1933) are included in EP's Active Anthology (1933) and poems by Cummings are presented in EP's and Marcell Spann's Confucius to Cummings (1964).
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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On the contrary, a man from whom
the ordinary fetters of life have so far fallen that
he continues to live only for the sake of ever better
knowledge must be able to
renounce
without envy
and regret: much, indeed almost everything that is
precious to other men, he must regard as the all-
sufficing and the most desirable condition; the free,
fearless soaring over men, customs, laws, and the
traditional valuations of things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Finally, this rent does not represent the participation of the
proprietor in the production; since this participation could consist,
like that of the
blacksmith
and the wheelwright, only in the surrender
of the whole or a part of his implement, in which case he would cease
to be its proprietor, which would involve a contradiction of the idea of
property.
| Guess: |
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Oh the
trembling
fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Ah, why does she treat me
harshly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
In describing my own situation I am
suggesting
neither that marriage is unprob- lematic nor that feminists should not have children.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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So, indeed, there are many things which stealthily pass through the eyes and capture and continuously intrude upon the spirit up to the point of the death of the soul, even though they do not cause as much awareness as do less
significant
things.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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και οι δούλοι του Ευρυμέδοντα δυο
σκολαρίκια
φέραν
τριόφθαλμα, πολύτεχνα, 'π' άστραπταν όλα χάρι.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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It euer
prouoketh
vs from all
wicked, cursed, and most obstinate disobedience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
In the
foreword
to his Contribution
24.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The gums of trees, and most rock gems, are similar instances; for both
of them are exudations and filtered juices, derived in the former
instance from trees, in the latter from stones; the brightness and
clearness of both arising from a
delicate
and accurate filtering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
If indeed I am a soul,
A free, a
disembodied
soul, _165
Speak again to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The first and
obvious thing to remark is, that an unquestionably epic effect can be
given without any
supernatural
machinery at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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" And he made a point of
addressing
one of Bly's major bugaboos: "I am still pretty heavy- footed in my private escape from thump-thump-thump iambics, and God knows that Trakl at the height of his power has the most sensi- tively light rhythm in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And ye, that han ful chosen as I devyse,
Yet at the leste renoveleth your servyse;
Confermeth
it perpetuely to dure, 20
And paciently taketh your aventure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your admirers, if not very numerous, include all persons of taste, who,
in your favour, are apt somewhat to abate the rule, or shake off the
habit, which commonly confines them to but
temperate
laudation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
Pseo-|-M2' In mo-|-rem senior succinctiis amictu
( For the
quantity
of Paeonius here, see jEh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
Se hacen planes
respecto
a e?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
Of what
quantity
is the penultimate of supines in ututn,
of more than two syllables?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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porrige
uicturas
dominantia saecula leges
solaque fatalis non uereare colos,
quamuis sedecies denis et mille peractis
annus praeterea iam tibi nonus eat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
If you do not charge
anything
for
copies of this eBook, complying with the trademark license is very
easy.
| 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 - b |
|
-- Answer: There is no personal self since that which has no producing cause is not a
functional
thing, nor is there anything permanent which has a cause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
His
condolence
for the
death of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
Are there not too many humanists writing and teaching today who make look boring and superfluous whatever glorious materials and
problems
the humanities have to offer?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
|
When I think of other men,
Dreaming
alone by day,
The thought of you like a strong wind
Blows the dreams away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
|
I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between,
Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
As
Rousseau
and Montesquieu themselves had stressed, republics simply could not serve as the proper form of govern- ment in large Christian monarchies located in the temperate climate of Western Europe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
And now the mists cleared off, and all at once
Memories on
memories
started into life
In the remotest background of the past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
It perhaps may be said that prejudiced women tend to have a stronger though more ambivalent tie to the mother,
conversely
the prejudiced man to the father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
No more thy mother's smiles,
No more the painted tiles,
Delight thee, nor the playthings on the floor,
That won thy little, beating heart before;
Thou
strugglest
for the open door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
With a united
income of over £3000 a year, they lived in the
simplest
fashion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
|
I have no memory of ever having made an effort-you will not detect any trace of
struggle
in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
|
what the mighty
columns of the Baths of
Caracalla
with the ideal of the people
in whose capital they arose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
|
]
[366] {333}[Michele Steno was not, as Sanudo and others state, one of
the Capi of the
Quarantia
in 1355, but twenty years later, in 1375.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Rapid transformation is the pur- pose of the wonderfully effective
teachings
of the Buddha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
|
"Now, when the raging storms no longer reign, But
southern
gales invite us to the main,
We launch our vessels, with a prosp'rons wind, And leave the cities and the shores behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
|
The crisis
terminated
with $252?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
It is
found in the best MSS, refers to former sermons and has Aelfric's
loose
alliterative
rhythm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
This part of the
design is
represented
by the Moral Essays, of which four were written, to
which was added, as a fifth, the Epistle to Addison which had been
written much earlier, in 1715, and first published in 1720.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
These
treaties
differ in many details from compacts made
under the civil law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
VICHY'S "NEW ORDER" 125
tions, which in turn are joined into the principal or controlling organization with headquarters in Paris, and all working with very great success for the interests of French
industry
and commerce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
The terror of psychic fortifications should be corrected by "the blissful ecstasy that wells from the innermost depth of man, indeed of nature, at [the]
collapse
of the principium individuationis" (N 36).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
|
Hard-natured Queen, half-Spanish in herself,
And grafted on the hard-grain'd stock of Spain--
Her life, since Philip left her, and she lost
Her fierce desire of bearing him a child,
Hath, like a brief and bitter winter's day,
Gone
narrowing
down and darkening to a close.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
"
"Have mercy on me, my father, Petr'
Andrejitch!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The Henrietta entered Queenstown Harbour at one o'clock in the morning,
it then being high tide; and Phileas Fogg, after being grasped heartily
by the hand by Captain Speedy, left that
gentleman
on the levelled hulk
of his craft, which was still worth half what he had sold it for.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
We ought always to be
grateful
to
him for that service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
Her death
was
terrible
to me; but I, once a lord of language, have no words in
which to express my anguish and my shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
Lee press diately discover the Council; insomuch that
towards the Privy-chamber door, and stand Lea was sought for, and found the dusk very near, and
mistrusting
the worst, drew to the evening about the door the queen's wards hion.
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"There's a lot ofselfishness and
instinctive
need for protection and such things in it," Ulrich ventured, but added that it could also be, at least at certain stages, a real passion.
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"12
The miners were back working in the pits one week after
the liberation of the vital Donbas area in the Ukraine;
and within another week newly dug coal from these
mines was
reaching
Moscow.
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In a remote
antiquity
the East conceived the
idea, to which it still adheres, that the animal
is a soul enchanted and cast into deep sleep, a
prisoner on the night-side of nature.
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[Illustration]
I was an
Inkstand
new,
Papa he likes to use it;
He keeps it in his pocket now,
For fear that he should lose it.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In
Italy he fell in love with the
daughter
of a Polish magnate.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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It would be difficult
Application
for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and Liberation $1.
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người
Tiểu Lan Châu huyện Thanh Đàm (nay thuộc xã Duyên Hà huyện Thanh Trì Tp.
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stella-02 |
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We lived on the main residential street in town— Atticus, Jem and I, plus
Calpurnia
our cook.
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mostly because people cannot be
anything
else than weak.
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His feet will turn to desert places
Shadowless, reft of rain and dew,
Where stars stare down with sharpened faces
From heavens
pitilessly
blue.
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