Broken on the out- side, the
dimensions
seem to have been nearly the same asthoseontheinside.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Pattern Poem 3
THEOCRITUS, THE
SHEPHERD’S
PIPE
The lines of this puzzle-poem are arranged in pairs, each pair being a syllable shorter than the preceding, and the dactylic metre descending from a hexameter to a catalectic dimeter.
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Pattern Poems |
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the
free ages, when the classical type,
sovereign
man, is
attained to—these were certainly not humane times!
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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1330), 181, 182
357
Lenten Stuf, 319, 327, 328
Pierce Penilesse, his Supplication to
the Divell, 321, 322, 328, 352
Terrors of the Night, 325
Natural History, writers on, 542, 543
Naunton, Sir Robert (1563–1635), 51
Navarrenus, Francis
Mildapettus
(i.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Why is the study of State
administration
important?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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The
sacrifice
is great;-'tis needful, Axel,
That you should know its costliness!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Whether it may be good or bad, whether living according to it would be
suffering or joy, I do not wish to discuss,
possibly
this is not
essential--but the uniformity of the world, that everything which
happens is connected, that the great and the small things are all
encompassed by the same forces of time, by the same law of causes, of
coming into being and of dying, this is what shines brightly out of your
exalted teachings, oh perfected one.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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The poor, the outcasts, the homeless ones
received for him a new significance, the
significance
of the isolated
figure placed in the mighty everchanging current of a life in which this
figure stands strong and solitary.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Elle était invraisemblable; trois autres me le semblèrent
moins: l'une que le baron
recevait
quelquefois des hôtes, contre
lesquels pouvant avoir besoin d'aide (mais pourquoi?
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Thus the two main types of corrlXl
knowledge
are ruled out.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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But now those ancient enmities are o'er;
To-morrow we the favouring gods implore;
Then shall you see our parting vessels crown'd,
And hear with oars the
Hellespont
resound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It was the first
evidence
to my mind that I
could think.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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]
SEMI-CHORUS
Great Zeus, this wedlock turn from me--
Me from the kinsman
bridegroom
guard!
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Aeschylus |
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OF THE
QUANTITY
OF SYLLABLES.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Cave
Drawings
in the Kaimūr Range, North-West
Provinces.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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The organs of seeing and hearing are
predominating
influences (1) with regard to beauty, for the body in which they are missing is not beautiful (i.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Formulary of
notarial
acts.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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When Shah Jahan
arrived the principal landholders,
including
the chief of the Ujjainiya
Rajputs, submitted to him, and the strong fortress of Rohtas was
surrendered.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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With all the hills ‘tis Woe for Cypris and with the vales ‘tis Woe for Adonis; the rivers weep the sorrows of Aphrodite, the wells of the mountains shed tears for Adonis; the flowerets flush red for grief, and Cythera’s isle over every foothill and every glen of it sings
pitifully
Woe for Cytherea, the beauteous Adonis is dead, and Echo ever cries her back again, The beauteous Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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, 435
Connecticut, 76, 128, 192, 261, 326
Connecticut
Agricultural
College, 82, Fig.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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[506] _Some deem the warrior of
Hungarian
race.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Allectus, a
praetorian
prefect, who slew Carausius
in Britain, and took possession of his throne, holding
it for three years, from 294 to 297 AD.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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ISSN 1479-1420 (print)/ISSN 1479-4233 (online) # 2011 National
Communication
Association DOI: 10.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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I found that the causal
organism
was killed in thirty minutes by a
temperature of 62°F.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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The premature rejoicings of the Roman
Catholics, too, were
calculated
to increase apprehension.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Now let me crunch you
With full weight of
affrighted
love.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Krasinski gives a description of the Lithuan-
ian guards, almost exclusively officered by
Protestant nobles of that province, and the
fifth
regiment
of infantry which contained
many of them.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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And just as
I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,"
continued
the Pigeon, raising
its voice to a shriek, "and just as I was thinking I should be free of
them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Or
je sentais bien que ces curiosités étaient absolument pareilles, sans
valeur en elles-mêmes, sans possibilité de durer, mais je continuais
à tout sacrifier à la cruelle
satisfaction
de ces curiosités
passagères, bien que je susse d'avance que ma séparation forcée
d'avec Albertine, du fait de sa mort, me conduirait à la même
indifférence qu'avait fait ma séparation volontaire d'avec Gilberte.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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And he was
contented
with one single old woman, as Demetrius tells us, in his People of the same Name.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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These the king treated with the greatest kindness,
ordered his officers to show them the
strength
and opulence of his city;
and, on their return to the navy, he sent a present to Gama of the most
valuable spices, of which he boasted such abundance, that the
Portuguese, he said, if they regarded their own interest, would seek for
no other India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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By every rudder that divides the seas,
Tall Grief shall stand, the
helmsman
of the ship.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There is an
undeniable
grandeur in his wish to restore the
Roman traditions in every branch of the government, to reconquer the
lost provinces, and to recover the imperial suzerainty over the whole
barbarian world.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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This part, whatever it
may be, whether
intellect
(?
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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‘For the
love of God can’t we get out of it
somehow?
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The concept of power will be
discussed
in more depth in other essays in this volume.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Thierry
a famous letter, mildly termed an Apology; in which, by the most
insinuating and biting satire, the laxity and indulgence which had
weakened or effaced the power of monastic example (from which
arraignment the proud house of Cluny was deemed not to escape
scot-free) were lashed with
uncompromising
courage.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted,
redistributed
or used commercially.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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If any of my friends write me, my
direction
is, care of Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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Counterintuitive thinking, I argue, has a chance of acquiring the status and the merit of riskful thinking, because it can engage in thought experiments whose uncertain outcome has the
potential
for innovation.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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With a broader and deeper
background
of experience
and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to
the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and contrast these
opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked
in a restricted locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil
landscape gives a solid texture to the human show.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"I will manage my fortune so well,
44 that I will
preserve
it.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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NGUYỄN THÚC THÔNG 阮叔通17
người
huyện Đan Phượng phủ Quốc Oai.
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stella-02 |
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If for a life's dear joy comes back such only
requital
?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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The furniture is featureless, but not altogether unpretentious, and the
engravings
and pictures are of a sort that nobody cares for.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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for I
myself sometimes sit among those
poetical
gods.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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So Horace had told us:
Scribendi recte sapere est et
principium
et fons,
Rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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This helps to keep the site as available as
possible
for visitors.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Pauses were made at inns with walls thick as the ramparts of citadels,
their interiors
bordered
by stables built in arcades, heaped up with
travellers' packs and harness.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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I was
horribly
worried.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their
vastness
I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Your
charismatic
deeds are equal to all space-
but today your life in Tibet has ended.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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"
XXIII
To this he
answered
thus, "You know," he said,
"In Clarimont by mighty Urban's hand
When I was girded with this noble blade,
For Christ's true faith to fight in every land,
To God even then a secret vow I made,
Not as a captain here this day to stand
And give directions, but with shield and sword
To fight, to win, or die for Christ my Lord.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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In the
East,
maturity
comes early; and this child had already lived through
all a woman's life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Prevent, or go thou,
Like Sir Actaeon he, with
Ringwood
at thy heels.
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Shakespeare |
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I am on fire,
whether quarrels rendered
immoderate
by wine have stained your fair
shoulders; or whether the youth, in his fury, has impressed with his
teeth a memorial on your lips.
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Horace - Works |
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I am enamour'd of growing out-doors,
Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
Of the builders and
steerers
of ships and the wielders of axes and
mauls, and the drivers of horses,
I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
pilgrims
used to turn out in a body and empty every rifle they could
lay hands on at him.
| Guess: |
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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By a fisherman who lately touched at Hammersmith, there is advice from Putney, that a certain person, well known in that place, is like to lose his
election
for church- warden ; but this being boat news, we cannot give entire credit to it.
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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In affability there is no hatred of men, but
precisely
on that
account a great deal too much contempt of men.
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| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[1369] First there shall come a Zeus who bears the name of Zeus Lapersios; who shall come with
swooping
thunderbolt to burn all the habitations of the foe.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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His remark was met with wry smiles and
chuckles
from all of us who had travelled to the meeting.
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Education in Hegel |
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of good store of money to the lawyers,
and of many pokes--id est, prou-sacks--to the pleaders, upon which subject
we have most
celestial
quips, gibes, and girds.
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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"
To this the king: "Ah, why must I disclose
A
dreadful
story of approaching woes?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Adriana Cavarero, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philoso- phy,
translated
by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio and Áine O’Healy (New York: Routledge, 1995).
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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LXXIV
Though it was noon in the happy islands, day
Had vanished in this clime,
displaced
by night;
And, underneath the moon's uncertain ray,
And ill-discerned, were all things hid from sight;
When to the fort Orrilo took his way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He is attired in a gown, a
monastic
robe and brocade
cape,
Has one face, two arms and sits in the playful posture of
a king.
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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(1) 17 Deal
bountifully
with Thy servant, that I may
(2) live, and keep Thy word.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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French forces under de Gaulle's leadership had occupied a province in Northern Italy,
contrary
to Allied plans and
Americanpolicy.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Colman, Son of
Tighernach
Article XII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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But the
doctrine
has little appeal for non-Muslims, and it is hard to believe that the movement will take on any universal significance.
| Guess: |
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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" To me, at least, such internal connections and line
cohesion
seem far more important in this intense, impassioned and vengeful dirge than they were in Labīd's more contemplative poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Translated Poetry |
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It is in
truth
peculiar
to cavalry, suddenly to conquer, or suddenly to fly.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"
Cacambo
applauded
this wise resolution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
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3) Guelf and Ghibeline and
degeneracy
of the free
cities ; Condotteri princes, and
4) Rise of the Dukedoms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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" As a courteous spirit,
That
proffers
no excuses, but as soon
As he hath token of another's will,
Makes it his own; when she had ta'en me, thus
The lovely maiden mov'd her on, and call'd
To Statius with an air most lady-like:
"Come thou with him.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Adolf Loos, 'Keramika', Der Brenner, 4 (1913/14), 224-30 (1
December
1913).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal
movements
all gone by,)
To me was all in all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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From his brows
White,
terrible
in meekness, didst thou see
The lifted eyes unclose?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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I'm not afraid of bullets, nor shot from the mouth of a cannon,
But of a
thundering
'No!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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IN A
RAILROAD
STATION
WE stood in the shrill electric light,
Dumb and sick in the whirling din
We who had all of love to say
And a single second to say it in.
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the sea-shore, while the tide was coming in; and as
the waters approached, he
commanded
them to retire
and to obey the voice of him who was lord of all.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Man is the hunter; woman is his game:
The sleek and shining
creatures
of the chase,
We hunt them for the beauty of their skins;
They love us for it, and we ride them down.
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Tennyson |
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On the other hand, low scorers
sometimes
dissipate their energies in internal conflicts or daydreaming.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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See Johann Beckmann, Entwurf einer allgemeinen
Technologie
(Leipzig, 1767).
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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"It will be more painful to me in some
respects
to be
in company with him, but I shall know better what to do.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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At
Myrson’s
request, Lycidas sings him the tale of Achilles at Scyros.
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Bion |
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Now Lucifer touched the peak of Haemus with
his rays and Titan urged his
hastening
wheel quicker than his wont, so soon to see at last the death of Rufinus.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The 'fury in the words' is not seldom out of proportion to the
value of the words themselves, and the insight of the poet is
dulled by the
excessive
protestations of the enthusiast.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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"We ought to turn him out,"
muttered
Simonov.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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These were old crowns of the
Assyrian
land
And Lydian -- as that paladin was taught --
Grecian and Persian, all of ancient fame;
And now, alas!
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Now, if I must conform my smiles to
lightning, then my smiles must gild a storm too: to _gild_ with _smiles_,
is a new
invention
of gilding.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Ye mighty gods, behold from Valaskjalf
Earl Hakon's faith and truth
confirmed
by deeds!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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That would in deed be a very strange thing : and then certainly I might with justice be brought to trial for not believing in the gods : for I should be
disobeying
the oracle, and fearing death, and thinking myself wise, when I was not wise.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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My watchful senses mark how on their wing
The
circling
years transport their fleeter kin,
And still I bow enslaved as by a spell:
For fourteen years did reason proudly fling
Defiance at my tameless will, to win
A triumph blest, if Man can good foretell.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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