Schwere
Hindrung
ist's, die nun
deine Antwort mir entzieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The subject is not great or
inspiring, but, such as it is, it is treated with insight and a power
of verisimilitude that brings vividly before our imagination the
modes and manners of the Edinburgh
populace
in the eighteenth
century.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Her, sly
Cellenius
loved: on her would gaze,
As with swift step she form'd the running maze:
To her high chamber from Diana's quire,
The god pursued her, urged, and crown'd his fire.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Through various approaches, I attempt to fix the logical locus of German fascism in the
convolutions
of modern, self-reflective cynicism.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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"
"Who by resistless power hath forced me sue his dance,
That if I be not much abused had found much better
And when I most resolved to lead most quiet life, chance;
He spoil'd me of discordless state, and thrust me in
truceless
strife.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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His Ecclesiastical History itself, massive
in conception, and covering a large body of more or less un-
assimilated materials, does not disdain
occasional
resort to modern
issues, and, while it remains on the whole a trustworthy book
of reference, is by no means devoid of interesting and even
stimulating passages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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“Tell you, Atticus,” Cousin Ike would say, “the Missouri
Compromise
was what licked us, but if I had to go through it agin I’d walk every step of the way there an‘ every step back jist like I did before an’ furthermore we’d whip ‘em this time.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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57: In the
"Great Eoiae" it is said that Endymion was transported by Zeus into
heaven, but when he fell in love with Hera, was
befooled
with a shape of
cloud, and was cast out and went down into Hades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hesiod |
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There had much need be many
pleasures
annexed to the states
of husband and father, for, God knows, they have many peculiar cares.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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Now filled with confidence, now doubtfulness,
I promise
deliverance
to my captive heart,
Trying in vain to fool myself by art,
Between hope, and doubt, and fearfulness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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Robert II of Flanders
(1093-1111) was pre-eminent for his soldierly qualities and had greater
monetary
resources
than either Robert or Godfrey ; but as a leader of
the Crusade he stood in the second rank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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95
=Ethic of the
Developed
Individual.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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It was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger
daughters, as Jane’s marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of
other rich men; and lastly, it was so
pleasant
at her time of life to be
able to consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that
she might not be obliged to go into company more than she liked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
Why, Troilus, what
thenkestow
to done?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There is no summer in the leaves, And
withered
are the sedges ;
How shall we weave a coronal, Or gather floral pledges ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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All hail,
beautiful
boys !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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But when they turned their faces,
And on the farther shore
Saw brave
Horatius
stand alone,
They would have crossed once more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For works
representmg
thIS genre m general, see DZ Vol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
After the July
Revolution
of 1830, his refusal to swear the oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe ended his political career.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Q: Sartre would simply be one of the end points of this
transcendental
philosphy that is falling apart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
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I have no power
permitted
to deny
What thou inquirest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I have had
Paris and I like some
greatly admire at least
being what it is, the Hun hinterland epileptic, largely stuck in the bog of the seventeenth century, with lots of crusted old militars yelling to get back siph'litic Bill and lots more wanting pogroms, and with France
completely
bamboozled by La Comite des Forges, and, in short, things being what they are in Europe as Europe, I believe in a
one German, but EUROPE
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
The
magistrates
sent to ask me to help
them to receive him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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He saw how ill he had judged, in
expecting
to counteract what
was wrong in Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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They were the common food of fancy and
delight to our forefathers, as they
gathered
round the fire in stormy
weather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Emerson says, 'The
nobbiest
thing I ever wrote was "Barbara Frietchie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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Hermes proclaims the
opportunity
for free discussion as to full-breed gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
Tottering
on the verge
george ii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
|
Review of Laing's edition of Ossian in
Edinburgh
Review.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
adju Cesas
ure
eçcreen
S
ue i) has add
dorisien
Jestem bare is
first porn
e app to the car
be passages of Guru
in skich the ri
dar clearis
; tt 5.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
|
]37
Such words recall Carl Becker's famous contention about the
eighteenth
century, that "there is more of Christian philosophy in the writings of the Philosophes than has yet been dreamt of in our histories.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
Smith's Elizabethan Critical Essays, one sees at once the
limitations and the experimental
character
of their work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
|
This is what makes talk of love after
marriage
seem, in most cases, make-believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
|
Mitchell's
treatment
recommended for pangs of conscience,
xiv.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
red brick
as much as you will, it is a red brick
still, and at times will shew itself so; 4o-
do these people,
notwithstanding
their
fine dress^ shew themselves to be of coarse
materials by their conduct at the balls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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This was noticed so frequently that, in 1743, a clause was inserted in an act* decla ring, that as great numbers of Newspapers, pamphlets, and other papers subject and liable to the stamp duties, but not stamped, were " daily sold, hawked, carried about, uttered and exposed for sale by divers obscure persons, who have no known or settled habitation," it is enacted, that all hawkers of
unstamped
Newspapers may be seized by any person, and taken before a jus tice of the peace, who may commit them to goal for three months.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
|
To ensure he gives it
continuous
attention, he is required to 'shadow' that message by repeating it word for word as he is hearing it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
The new forms of morality :--
Faithful vows
concerning
that which one wishes to do or to leave undone; complete and definite abstention from many things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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They are the scions of learned, tormented, and
reflecting
generation, a thousand miles away from the Old Masters who never read, and only concerned themselves with feasting their eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
1615
Erection
of the Cockpit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
And Russia's contempt for the present pawn brokers regimes in London and Washington is even more
vigorous
than that of the Axis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
The
importance
of the reconstruction of the first edition
* .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
|
People now "drawn" to obscene as were people of Milton's period by an equally disgusting bigotry; one unconscious on author's part; the other, a
surgical
treat- ment of a disease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
The son was subject to the father within the household, but in
political
duties and rights he stood on footing of equality.
| Guess: |
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| 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 |
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quid uero, ut Phoebi fax, tristis nuntia belli,
quae magnum ad columen flammato ardore uolabat,
praecipitis caeli partis
obitusque
petessit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
If you discover a Defect in this eBook within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an
explanatory
note within that
time to the person you received it from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Never have I listened to a cleverer or more
eloquent
woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
The Buddha
manifests
in the form kayas so he can be visible to other beings and adopt the most perfect form of all 32 marks and 80 signs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
To form some
estimate
of how much money this man obtained daily, it is necessary to state that Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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A walled
city, it is laid out--like one of those German towns of the Re-
naissance which were planned with geometrical
precision
by
some autocratic prince of the age--with gardens, open places,
fountains and palaces, a temple surmounting all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
And how great a
happiness
is
this, think you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
|
And as for you and me, it must appear as if everything
between us were as before--but
naturally
only in the eyes of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
But yet, with fortitude resigned,
I'll thank the
Inflictor
of the blow—
Forbid the sigh, compose my mind,
Nor let the gush of misery flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
|
la bague etait brisee
Que s'ils etaient d'argent ou d'or
D'emeraude ou de diamant
Seront plus clairs plus clairs encore
Que les astres du firmament
Que la lumiere de l'aurore
Que vos regards mon fiance
Auront
meilleure
odeur encore
Helas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
It is said that
Simonides
had two boxes, one of favours, and one of sponsors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
|
Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Dryden, Annus Mirabilis {Account of the Poem), Discourse
concerning the Original and
Progress
of Satire, Preface
to the Fables.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
|
"Yes" I
whispered
"this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright splendor what common guise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
" *
If the colonists had been more intent on their theoretical
rights than on immediate business concessions, the keener
minds would have
perceived
that rejoicing was premature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
"With
these preachers of
equality
will I not be mixed up and confounded.
| 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 |
|
Bread still the lawyer earns; but tell me yet,
What your
Chrysogonus
and Pollio get 275
(The chief of rhetoricians), though they teach
Our youth of quality, THE ART OF SPEECH?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
[149]
"And 'tis the village mason's daily calling,
To keep the world's
metropolis
from falling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
Once to know the fight had not been in vain, And in life dead hope would arise and start—
Start and bring visions of thy lost face
Bring
ecstasies
we alone could share;
But the leaves are falling on that still place, And on my heart falls the old despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
The creation stage is a method of tantric meditation that involves the visualization and
contetnplation
of deities for the purpose ofpurifying habitual tendencies and realizing the purity of all phenomena.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
For exactly as paralysed limbs when we intend to move them to the right turn on the contrary to the left, so is it with the soul; the impulses of
incontinent
people move in contrary directions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
Bononiensis Rufa Rufulum fellat,
Vxor Meneni, saepe quam in sepulcretis
Vidistis ipso rapere de rogo cenam,
Cum devolutum ex igne prosequens panem
Ab semiraso
tunderetur
ustore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
For
religion
then was
every one's concern, and it was no wonder if each party employed arts promote Had they
been use now, they would doubtless have turned much upon politics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
|
the first and only traveller who has no need of etchings and drawings to bring places and monuments which recall
beautiful
memories and grand images before his readers' eyes" this new edition also collates a selection of engravings and lithographs from nineteenth-century travelogues by celebrated artists such as Edward Dodwell Esq, F.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
|
Now I see that I am wrong, and I
tell you frankly that though I am busy with many important matters, I am leaving this
discussion
mainly because I consider it a sheer waste of time to discuss things which can be of interest only to Papooses and such like.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sovoliev - End of History |
|
These
birds sang a very
beautiful
song that made the
woods ring with melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
|
There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce profaned - by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The
_Wardrobe_
- of our Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
For a public as functionally
illiterate
as our own, scientific socialism must be watered down to a few slogans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
Now Dido the
Phoenician
holds him stayed with soft
words, and I tremble to think how the welcome of Juno's house may issue;
she will not be idle in this supreme turn of fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Were you given me to lose my
Chimene?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
But those who bear their punishment
patiently, and are so much wrought on by that pressure that lies
so hard on them that it appears they are really more troubled for
the crimes they have
committed
than for the miseries they suffer,
are not out of hope but that at last either the Prince will by his
prerogative, or the people by their intercession, restore them again
to their liberty, or at least very much mitigate their slavery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
|
Dermod, son Manus, where Bryan, son Torlogh (O'Conor), Owen submitted the English, and claimed
protection
O'Heyne, Conor Buidhe, son Torlogh, and Mac for his people and property.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
|
So
threaten
not, thou, with thy bloody spears,
Else thy sublime ears shall hear curses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
i;i*;i
iiiiziitit
i= iii:r
; il j ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
It has been justly said of
Schopenhauer
that he
was one who again took the sufferings of humanity
seriously: where is the man who will at length take
## p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
|
His countenance was often disguised, owing to the
combined
effects of sweat and dust, which covered his features.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
|
How should scientists respond to the allegation that our 'faith' in logic
and
scientific
truth is just that - faith - not 'privileged' (favourite in-
word) over alternative truths?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
|
I
[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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The only way I can think of this I = X is to think of the task of obtaining a concept of this X--a task that can be stated as follows: 'Think of the rule in
accordance
with which you would have to proceed if it were possible to think of X.
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The adept then moved on to breathing
exercises
similar to Tantric Yoga, aimed at arousing the e?
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The arch
traversed
a narrow street between the church of the same
name and the convent of Santa Ines.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Helen's answer is as
delicately
contrived as
Paris's appeal; the opening lines tell the story:
"Could I unread, oh Paris, what 1 read,
Chaste should I be, as chaste I once was bred.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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After the lapse of a few minutes,
pointing to a man a short
distance
off, who I
noticed had lost one of his legs, he asked:
"How does that poor man sit down, father?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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A woman, alarmed at the storms of the
South, wished to remove to the frigid zone,
where thunder is not heard, nor lightning
seen:--our
complaints
against our lots are
much of the same sort, says Engel.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Let me tell you one last thing about crystals, and it may be the most
fascinating
of all.
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And, being come to the strength of a man, Jason determined to set all this
business
to rights, and to punish the wicked Pelias for wronging his dear father, and to cast him down from the throne, and seat himself there instead.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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The
dentist "from Paris," established with great pomp on his un-
horsed carriage, a huge case of
instruments
in the front, held
firmly on the seat a peasant adorned with a swelled face, and
informed the public that he was going to extract the tooth with
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sometimes
the weak
achieve, and sometimes the skillful are tricked astray.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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"
"Herman is a German, therefore economical; that
explains
it," said
Tomsky.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
This
narrative
reminded Clinias of the unhappy death of Charicles, and
he shed tears, which though in appearance they flowed for another's
grief, were, in reality, drawn forth by his own sorrows.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Adam
replies that he does not wish her to be tempted, and that united they
would be
stronger
and more watchful.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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-- Answer: When the eye looks at a form, does it look after
traveling
to the object or without doing so?
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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By doing so, you will fulfill your guru's wishes and be of service to the Buddhadharma; you will repay your parents' kindness and spontaneously accomplish the benefit of
yourself
and others.
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