I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Or must he rest on
an
assertion?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Yea, in His mercy, He the dead will raise; blest be
His Name with
everlasting
praise!
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Now I quite agree that mankind, thus provided,
would live and act according to knowledge, for wisdom would watch
and prevent ignorance from
intruding
on us.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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They knelt in the leaves
And eerily played
With the
glittering
things,
And were not afraid.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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"This is
certainly
the wisest plan," said the written paper; "I
really did not think of that.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Many subsequent letters have been
transmitted both by them and by me to the Court of
Directors: by mne, in protestation against their collduct; by them, in
justification
of it.
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Edmund Burke |
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So he presents both
aristocrat
and
democrat with a like cold severity.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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This doom is
irremovable
so long
as the Ottoman Empire shall last, and
its heavy burden crushes and condemns
to death every spiritual bud that sprouts
from either Turkish or non-Turkish stalks.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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William Browne |
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This
approbation
met, and Rod'rick 'gan
To use his arts and execute his plan.
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La Fontaine |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round,
Show them this meek
apparelled
thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful if it be crowned!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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The pyramid's chamber is thus likewise an object that can be sent on a journey - it especially likes to land in those areas of the modern world in which people are obsessed with the notion that
artistic
and cultural objects should be conserved at almost any cost.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Where'er the radiance of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron
footcloths
spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
lighting
of beacon fires on the stands never ceases,
The fighting and attacking are without a time of ending.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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1This self-referential assertion is less trivial and less
timeless
than it sounds.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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So flies the spray of Adria
When the black squall doth blow
So corn-sheaves in the flood-time
Spin down the
whirling
Po.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Both sides are under similar
pressure
to settle the game or at least to get the white knight out of mis- chief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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La
personne
même d’Odette n’y
tenait plus une grande place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Virginis et saevi contingens namque Leonis 65
Lamina,
Callisto
juncta Lycaoniae
Vertor in occasum, tardum dux ante Booten,
Qui vix sero alto mergitur Oceano.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that
all the
neighbours
came around him, and he told them how he used
to come and visit his gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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My spirit's like a
shattered
tower, its walls
split by the battering ram's slow tireless blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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He, from the taste obscene reclaims our youth,
And sets the passions on the side of truth,
Forms the soft bosom with the
gentlest
art,
And pours each human virtue in the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Beacon fires are still on the Eastern Meadow,4 people look gaunt and
distressed
in court and wilderness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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After this
the CHEF DU
PERSONNEL
appeared and spoke to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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What could your wisdom
perceive
in me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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O captious reader, who peruses with stern countenance certain Latin verses of mine, read six amorous lines of
Augustus
Caesar:----"Because Antonius kisses Glaphvra, Fulvia wishes me in revenge to kiss her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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That ruled all seas, and did our channel grace ;
The
conscious
stag, though once the forest's
dread.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Blake’s translation of Chariton;
to the Columbia
University
Press for permission to quote from S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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so while
opposing
both objectivism and subjectivism, Hegel is at the same time concerned that objectivity and subjectivity receive their due.
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| Question: |
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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And whilst in the political order it was
inspired by
classical
antiquity, in the order of justice it
adopted this institution from England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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If the
dispersion
of this malaria demands a human
hecatomb, it would evidently be better to sacrifice criminals than
honest husbandmen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
Similarly, an eighth
century ring bears, partly in runic, partly in Roman, characters, the
legend
“Æpred
owns me, Eanred engraved me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
X
^#$% !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
Eufeniens
seide in his mende,
'?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The war was over; but the British Army remained in the country, until
the payment of an indemnity by the Chinese
Government
was completed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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In the vital
conflict
for the enlargement of
faith to embrace the real results of science, he stood forth as a leader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Now, of course that
suggested at once that there must be a
communication
between the
two rooms.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Its tech- nical mastery signals the presencing of the
accomplished
poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Axel Who feels the power of love, and does not know
Its mighty
workings?
| 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 |
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Vierges au coeur sublime, honneur de l'Archipel,
Votre
religion
comme une autre est auguste,
Et l'amour se rira de l'Enfer et du Ciel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
(The jury finds
Socrates
guilty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
And the
personality
of Pope himself shines through
every line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
That Baudelaire said, "Evil be thou my
good," is
doubtless
true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
For example, Marcus probably read the l lowing quote om Antisthenes, "To do good and yet to have a bad reputation is something which kings can expect," in the
Discourses
of Epictetus as recorded by Arrian (see IV, 6, 20).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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(4) is also called Efudachi, special in shape, worn by
Samurais
in court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
And the mind of
the thoroughly well-informed man is a
dreadful
thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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TO
ROSEMARY
AND BAYS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Shelley's obviously
imperfect
one, be
regarded in the light of a final recension.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Even thy own Zimri was more
stedfast
known,
He had but one religion, or had none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
|
It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
While in art,
and in human
intelligence
and conduct of life, they had grown into
the civilized condition which made an Aristotle and a Plato possible,
their primitive mythopoeic sense, as it existed some thousand years
before, still retained its hold on them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
ical rigor, and
absolute
impartiality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
, his will: he only
ascribes
to his will any
276
indulgence which he might yield them if he allowed them to influ- ence his maxims to the prejudice of the rational laws of the will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Neither Bale, Leland, Pitts nor Turner
mentions
Rowley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Hovering and
glittering
on the air before the face of Thel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Incidentally, warnings about shortages used to be
something
for intellectuals, but federation officers have taken over from them now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
Strength
to these twain, to right their father's wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
The auxiliary kings, who fought under
his banners were, Bocchus of Africa, Tarcondemus of
the Upper Cilicia,
Archelaus
of Cappadocia, Phila-
delphus of Paphlagonia, Mithridates of Commagene,
and Adallas of Thrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
More than one hundred pages on aphasia research and phonographs, psychoanalysis and paranoia, will perhaps not have been wasted if they make it
possible
to spell out for the first time, and not merely to under- stand, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
"Onora, Onora,"--her mother is calling,
She sits at the lattice and hears the dew falling
Drop after drop from the
sycamores
laden
With dew as with blossom, and calls home the maiden,
"Night cometh, Onora.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
HOW THE COMBINERS COMBINE 33
"In all, 341 directorships in 112 corporations
having aggregate
resources
or capitalization of
$22,245,000,000.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Free Marxism, with the help of its Archimedian point, has a less complex task, and we would do well to keep free Marxism constantly in view to orient
ourselves
by.
| 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 |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Thee it becomes not,
standing
though thou art
On this high action, to think scorn of men
Whom God thinks worthy of having thee for saviour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Secluded
creeks ow trickling on, Winds howl in the lofty pines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
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He
always preferred to exchange rather than buy, and he had a trick of thrusting some useless
article into one’s hand and then pretending that one had
accepted
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
The gay
equipages of the travellers excited a tran-
sient look of admiration, and then were
thought of no more;
sometimes
a weary
or sentimental tourist would stop at the
little inn that offered its "good accommo-
dation," and wander .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Roses and Emily |
|
Actually, this is not a good code because it is
uneconomical
with pulses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
It was therefore indispensable for the internal stabilization of
spiritual
egotisms that they resolutely, even fanatically deny being such programmes from the start.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
|
Chalmers' vast collection, with the whole works of all accessible poets
not contained in it, and the best
Anthologies
of different periods, have
been twice systematically read through: and it is hence improbable that
any omissions which may be regretted are due to oversight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford
University
Press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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_ Forasmuch as it had been better not to begin a good work, than to
think of
desisting
from one which has been begun, it behoves you, my
beloved sons, to fulfil with all diligence the good work, which, by the
help of the Lord, you have undertaken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
"
And
Baligant
looked on him proudly then,
In his courage grew joyous and content;
From the fald-stool upon his feet he leapt,
Then cried aloud: "Barons, too long ye've slept;
Forth from your ships issue, mount, canter well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose,
And armed Edwards looked with anxious eyes,
To see this fleet among unequal foes,
By which fate
promised
them their Charles should rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
|
132
Great virtues ask a lengthen ’d song 140 But to adorn a high emprise
Briefly , is
grateful
to the wise ;
Since its due limits to each act belong .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pindar |
|
Würtemberg was to be raised to a dukedom,-an
elevation
which
excluded the female line from the succession; and in the event
of the stock failing, was to be a "widow's portion" of the realm
to the use of the Imperial Chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
Here, too, the untimely message that Trakl has to
communicate
is underwritten by his status as visionary poet: '[ich fu ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
|
on hIgh, wIll flow
downward
all thru them
1?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
The average human head is less in need of having
something
removed from it, than of having something inserted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
This is a
doctrine
that has been universally repudiated by mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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There is also the risk that the other will genuinely
misinterpret
how far he is invited to go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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And who, though gazing lower, ever thought,
In the young moments ere the heart is taught
Time's lesson, of Man's
baseness
or his own?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
additional
materials through Google Book Search.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the
poets have
dreamed!
| 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 |
|
You know----"
"I know also," said Candide, "that we must
cultivate
our garden.
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Moreover, for a long time now we have been able to observe how capitalist masters' medicine attempts to THE CARDINAL
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In contrast, Trakl could be said not to have
invented
new images but to stage the failure of existing literary idioms.
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Did we but use it as we ought,
This world would school each
wandering
thought
To its high state.
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I would have a man's wit rather like a fountain, that feeds itself invisibly, than a river, that is
supplied
by several streams from abroad.
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And to add, she is assured they are something very rare and scarce,
and
extraordinary
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Blocks
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