Then,
laughing
loud, he flew
Away, and thus said, flying:
Adieu, mine host, adieu,
I'll leave thy heart a-dying.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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7 Not long after, too, the whole of Greece, stimulated by confidence in the Romans, and the hope of recovering their ancient liberty, to rise against Philippus, made war upon him; and thus, being assailed on every side, he was
compelled
to beg for peace.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Thou seest, first,
How lime alone
cementeth
stones: how wood
Only by glue-of-bull with wood is joined--
So firmly too that oftener the boards
Crack open along the weakness of the grain
Ere ever those taurine bonds will lax their hold.
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Lucretius |
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we observe Ovid
assisting
at the inception of
the modern novel.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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It is said that once he was led out of his house by an old woman for the purpose of observing the stars, and he fell into a ditch and bewailed himself, on which the old woman said to him--"Do you, O Thales, who cannot see what is under your feet, think that you shall
understand
what is in heaven?
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Diogenes Laertius |
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The
dispatch
of Sir
Gerald Graham coincided with Gordon's sudden demand for British and
Indian troops with which to 'smash up the Mahdi'.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Ah, ah,
Cytherea!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Paolo, as well
as any other subject, who has
faithfully
and effectually served and
serves the Republic, shall be respected, and entitled by his own merit
to public protection.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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You seem, my book, to look wistfully at Janus and Vertumnus; to the end
that you may be set out for sale, neatly
polished
by the pumice-stone of
the Sosii.
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Horace - Works |
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Early in the day it was
whispered
that we should sail in a boat,
only thou and I, and never a soul in the world would know of this
our pilgrimage to no country and to no end.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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As I had
promised
I would, long I awaited you there.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Excellent
of its sort though his verse was, the scope of its influence was,
thus, of a limited and superficial character; and, also, it became
clear that Scott's vein was exhausted, even before his popularity
was
eclipsed
by that of Byron, who, while partly borrowing his
methods, applied them in a much more pungent fashion.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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Manuel, like his
grandfather
Alexius, brought a keen interest to
theological questions.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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| archonship of
Morychides
(B.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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In its original sense,
and on the face of it, the word
signifies
"Flatterers of
Dionysius"--consequently, tyrants' accessories and lick-spittles;
besides this, however, it is as much as to say, "They are all ACTORS,
there is nothing genuine about them" (for Dionysiokolax was a popular
name for an actor).
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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" said she to her brother,
"am I to be
affronted
by every mangy hound that you pick up
in the highway?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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] Troy he took part in all the most
important
events
NESEAS, painter.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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That these evidently kindred stories are highly incredible, is plain to every one conversant with the matter; how is it possible that, at a time when the patricians had been divested almost without resistance of the last
privileges
of
their order, and when the plebeians had had their title to share in the consulship not only constitutionally secured ever since men could remember, but also long confirmed by usage, the idea of such a restoration should have entered the mind of a mature statesman?
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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God's
Word, as the Puritan
prophets
of that time had read it: this was
great, and all else was little to him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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But there exist more subtle behaviors, the description of which will lead us further into the
inwardness
of consciousness.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Clemens was the guest of honor at a
reception
held at
Barnard College (Columbia University), March 7, 1906, by the
Barnard Union.
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Twain - Speeches |
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Well may we be proud of him and adopt him as one of our glories--we who
have kept up, for now almost a century, a struggle like to that which
he maintained for the unity of the Roman Empire, we who
consider
Africa
as an extension of France.
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| Question: |
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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| Question: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A number of names of divinities, which occur as
Etruscan
on Etruscan monu ments or in authors, have in their roots, and to some extent even in their terminations, a form so thoroughly Latin, that, if these names were really originally Etruscan, the two
designation
must have been closely related; such as Usi: (sun and dawn, connected with ausum, aurum, aurora, sol), M'nema (menervare), Lara (lam'vus), Mptunus, Voltumna.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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On the contrary, it, too, fulfills a critical function both comprehensive and
fundamental
in nature.
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| Question: |
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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After the July
Revolution
of 1830, his refusal to swear the oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe ended his political career.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Hark to a voice that is calling
To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the
fluttering
leaves have gone,
And why should I stay behind?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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On 20 January 1942, senior German officials met at a luncheon, The Wansee Conference, and generated the plan for the Final
Solution
with trains forming the means for transporting the Jewish population to death camps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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God and
Monsieur
St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Profuit Sptato conduntur
Tybridis
| dlveo
( alveo---synceresis.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
He does not supply a preface, invited, while some of them were con- Lady
Biddulph
of Ledbury," and
or even a foot-note.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
|
He travelled widely from 1806, in Europe and the Middle East, and highly critical of
Napoleon
followed the King into exile in 1815 in Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Be not proud, because you view
You by
thousands
are attended;
For, alas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
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In all probability, he formed his ideas on this woman's character, from the sight of an imperfect print wanting the descriptive lines, otherwise it is
not likely a
reverend
divine would construe cudgel- matches, foot-races, or sea-adventures, harmles recrea- tions for a female.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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He talked in his homely way to those about him, his
direct language seeming to acquire a sort of tragic dignity from
the
approach
of the death that was so near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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Besides that, I have known a factor deal in as good ware, and sell as cheap as the
merchant
himself that employs him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the
sake of emotion is the aim of life and of that
practical
organisation of
life that we call society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Cosins, I hope the dayes are neere at hand
That
Chambers
will be safe
Ment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like
squirrels
ran.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The idea dawns first upon the ancient Greeks, that is to say in
a very late period of humanity, in the
conception
of a Moira [fate]
ruling over the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
The
Epithalamium
we'll sing if so it please my lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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430] Trim
wreathed
up with yvie leaves, and with hir thumbe gan steare The quivering strings, to trie them if they were in tune or no.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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In fact, Nietzsche had imbibed of this basic position vis-a-vis being as a whole, as eternal flow,
directly
before the thought of eternal return of the same came to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
”
Edmund saw it all, and saw Fanny so determined _not_ to see it, as to
make it clear that the voice was enough to convey the full meaning of
the protestation; and such a quick consciousness of compliment, such a
ready
comprehension
of a hint, he thought, was rather favourable than
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Àn rồi, lén xuống vô ra,
ỌuSn dồỉ áo rộng, thât lã
thíình
thưi.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Hence from this time on, for many centuries, the history of philosophy is grown together with that of dogmatic theology,' and the period of religious
metaphysics
begins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Windelband - History of Philosophy |
|
He
believed
in peace, but he believed still more strongly in maintaining peace UNTIL America was strong enough to stand a war without disaster, and when war came in I 8u he expected the Ameri- can army to win it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
Fra Paolo lived for many years after this, attending to his
duties in the state and also putting forth much
literary
work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
What can an Author after this
produce?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
|
The
suzerainty
of Firūz was acknowledged,
the arrears of tribute were paid, and amendment was promised for
the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
|
Thám hoa lang: danh hiệu khoa cử có từ đời Đường, lúc đầu để chỉ 2
người
trẻ tuổi đỗ hàng Nhất giáp, gọi là Thám hoa sứ, đời Tống gọi là Thám hoa lang.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-01 |
|
One day, about a month after Gregor's
transformation
when his sister
no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance,
she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him
still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be
most horrible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
It must
be very
melancholy
to live always in the same spot; but then it
must be odd never to feel a motion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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though the famous "We" were not only in duty
bound to believe in the "All," but also in the
naturalist Strauss; in this case we can only hope
that in order to acquire the feeling for this last
belief, other processes are requisite than the pain-
ful and cruel ones
demanded
by the first belief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
|
Around this baton, in capricious
meanderings, stems and flowers twine and wanton; these, sinuous and
fugitive; those, hanging like bells or
inverted
cups.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
She finds the time
dismally
long;
Stands at the window, sees the clouds on high
Over the old town-wall go by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Now a few
years later the Princes of Kiev accepted for themselves
and their people the Eastern faith, so when, in 1054, the
Church of Rome was divorced from that of Byzantium
a definition of
confessional
spheres of influence was in-
volved ; into this business the prudent directors of the
two faiths entered with a zeal that betrayed anxiety for
temporal as well as for spiritual aggrandizement, and in
its course that rift was made which immediately rent the
Slavonic world into two halves and prevents their recon-
ciliation to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
This thought
haunted him, and he never ceased cursing his
miserable
folly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
67
erfreulich ist, kann auch nie den
Gegenstand
erregter
Debatten bilden.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
On the other hand, the V was
sometimes
expressed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Chu-i was as much _depayse_ at a
provincial
town as Charles Lamb would
have been at Botany Bay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
ing~
its
wrongjdoers
go scot-free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
16] / Spanish
translation
in: Educar 11 [2002], pp 21-30].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
|
Rosinger
believes that the Burma Government will ultimately stand or fall on its handling of the agrarian problem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
Thus she lamented day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still
labouring
in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its treasure to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of
costliest
nard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
The slave holders are
generally
rich, aristocratic, overbearing; and
they look with utter contempt upon a poor laboring man, who earns his
bread by the "sweat of his brow," whether he be moral or immoral,
honest or dishonest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
|
SALADIN'S SUMMONS TO THE HOLY WAR (ABU SHAMA, 11, 148)
'We hope in God most high, to whom be praise, who leads the hearts of Muslims to calm what
torments
them and ruins their prosperity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
|
It is out of the question my going to see her,
however: we are eternally divided; and should she really wish to oblige
me, let her
persuade
the villain she has married to leave the country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
Because these oppositions form part of the speaker's own thoughts and experience and determine him, this concession at once leads us to an observation about the philosopher: that he experienced him- self as a place in which the non-unifying encounter between mutually
incompatible
evi- dences occurred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
In
neighbor
Martha's grounds we are to meet tonight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Trust to me, and I will extend the
dominion
of Sparta till it grasp the whole of Greece.
| Guess: |
Reach |
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
It is the part of genius to select the moment to achieve
its high purposes; and the day after this vote, notice was
given of an
intended
motion for an instruction to congress
to recommend the call of a convention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
" "Doña Ines, the soul of love"
¡Virgen Santa, qué
principio!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
are
referred
to as if they were rarities and printed books common.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
The equivalent
question
is equally relevant in the case of DNA evidence, and it is most certainly being asked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
He had not been long at Jamaica, before he
determined
to leave the Drake, and ship himself for England, to renew his former suit with the doctor's daughter, at Bishop's
Waltham, in Hampshire, about ten miles from Ports mouth.
| 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 |
|
Lear, and of which the best
specimen
occurs
in his last book, "He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled the bell.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He said : Settle
disputes
with half a word, " the Sprout " could do that.
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But on
the brink of the tomb I shall make it my chief care--to follow the
lessons of your philosophy--to despise death in
enjoying
life--to
read your writings full of charm and good sense--as we drink an old
wine which revives our senses.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Under what form known to us," he would seem to have asked, "may we
assume an
identity
in all known things, so as best to cover or render
explicable the things as we know them?
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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are with 1-, W e find -II- as the rose and lil y at 032,11, 485, t 2 and eloewhere, The
Kabbalists
use the two fIowe", from the SO"" of SoImmm, for the opposed Sephirothic pillaR of Judgem~nt and M ercy respectively," Thi' W
The Magnoth Mystery 129
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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A certain monk who always
devoutly
said her Hours was healed of a tumor in his throat by a drop of her milk.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Thinking it might be a useful initiation to African
travel if I devoted a short time to its exploration, I set off one
morning, accompanied by two members of the
Blantyre
staff
and a small retinue of natives.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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"170 From the twel h century, however, it became the custom to compose whole "psalters" of Aves, each verse recalling a
corresponding
verse or image from the Psalms.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a
stricken
bird
That cannot reach the south.
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Lasciàn
costui, che mentre all'altrui vita
ordisce inganno, il suo morir procura;
e torniamo alla donna che, tradita,
quasi ebbe a un tempo e morte e sepoltura.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ne l'aria oscura e nei principi pravi
molto patir le
battezzate
teste;
ma poi che 'l sole uscì del ricco albergo,
voltò Fortuna ai Saracini il tergo.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For
otherwise
every dying Man must of tiers''"">?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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His works have been
translated
into French--they ought to
be translated into English.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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One cat,
scrubbed
in the mill's sink, stink of last week's stew.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Joined to your fate, and in what ecstasy
I'd live
forgotten
by all of humanity!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Perchance to rouse on mine own head
The
sleeping
hate of the world?
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Euripides - Electra |
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