Slater's poem, entitled Palae-Albion, on the history of Great Bri tain, in which is the
following
passage, speaking of king James I.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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They were unfailing in their
attendance
at the secret meetings in the barn, and led the singing of Beasts of
England, with which the meetings always ended.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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'
And Lancelot slowly rode his warhorse back
To Camelot, and Sir Pelleas in brief while
Caught his unbroken limbs from the dark field,
And
followed
to the city.
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Tennyson |
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I sit, this
beautiful
morn, and watch the rising sun.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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THE
PHILOLOGY
OF EXISTENCE, THE DRAMATURGY OF FORCE
most impressively in his book Der kommende Gott (The god to come) that this device was not without preconditions,
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage.
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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, 32 only a few years after the
Sulpicia elegies, the Ciris, and the Aetna, Ovid had had little
opportunity to develop a marked dactylic
virtuosity
and to
become a highly artistic elegiac poet.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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At any event, these so-called "evolutionary achievements" are inevitably piling up, and this cumulative effect produces the
impression
of a trajectory that we can then interpret, in a Hegelian mood, as "historically necessary.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Indeed, the
heptad of things finite is in all cases
reducible
to the pentad.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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It ensconced itself in every vacant place, prodigiously augmented
the number of places, and accustomed itself to live almost as
much upon the
treasury
as upon its own industry.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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5 In this fleet were some ships which had been sent from Heracleia, six-bankers and five-bankers and transports and one eight-banker called the lion-bearer, of
extraordinary
size and beauty.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Fox,
Caroline
(1819-1871).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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And, above all, he
formulates
the
new ideal?
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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--On one
occasion
(1839) an old grasping banker (in the city) in his private room raised the lid of the desk he sat over, and displayed to a friend rolls of bank-notes, saying with intense glee there were ?
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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Master of the situation, Ferdinand fei^rned
for three months to have forgotten his ran-
cors against the Bohemians, but as soon as
the chiefs of the revolt,
deceived
by an ap-
parent amnesty, returned to Prague, he
?
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Nowe bie the seynctes I wylle notte lette thee goe,
Ontylle thou doeste mie
brendynge
love amate.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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' On parting from his mistress, he recalls the
sorrow with which men in
Greenland
see the sun sink for half
a year under the horizon".
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Así hacian Cárlos y
Bárbara
_Sancho García_.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Zephyritis
LXVI 57.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
XIX
WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT
ACQUAINTED
WITH
MARTIN.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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2 Quare qui a Latinis exigit illam gratiam
sermonis
Attici, det mUii III
loquendo eandem jucunditatem, et parem coplam.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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The capital stock-of the hank shall not exceed ten - millions of dollars, divided into twenty-five thousand shares, each share being four hundred dollars; to raise which sum, subscriptions shall be opened on the first Monday of April next; and shall
continue
open until the whole shall be subscribed.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Ecgig=Fi
ii3EEEii
igiiiiEiilii?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Andrew Mueller, 'An
argument
with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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'40) In the Criginal, 'vuhen -ive left (4') The Reader may
remember
tlie
i}:e Thclans lebind as, v.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Then they
decorated
it so beautifully that it
was quite dazzling to look at.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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But while they were sinking into this condition,
they found themselves
unexpectedly
engaged with
a very formidable enemy, Philip, king of the Mace-
?
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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The above quotation will also serve to
illustrate
Herrick's
wonderful command of metre.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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A
CONJURATION
TO ELECTRA.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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And at the same time, what dangerous model that might pres- ent for penal justice in its current usage, if, in effect, a penal decision is habitually made a
function
of good or bad conduct.
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Foucault-Live |
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κάποτε
εις μαύρο πλοίο
θα τον περάσω εγώ πολύ μακράν απ' την Ιθάκη,
κέρδος να λάβω περισσόν• ότ' είθε μες το δώμα 250
του αργυροτόξου Απόλλωνα τα βέλη να νεκρώσουν
σήμερα τον Τηλέμαχον ή η λόγχαις των μνηστήρων,
ως ο Οδυσσέας χάθηκε πολύ μακρυά 'ς τα ξένα».
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Am I sure that I
have not myself already
suffered
this great loss?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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a Judea, y
recibido
bien de los pueblos,
que no podian tolerar el imperio de los estran-
geros , formo?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To
wretches
such as I!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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C’est aussi
que cette idée de la revoir revenait parée pour lui d’une nouveauté,
d’une séduction, douée d’une virulence que l’habitude avait émoussées,
mais qui s’étaient retrempées dans cette
privation
non de trois jours
mais de quinze (car la durée d’un renoncement doit se calculer, par
anticipation, sur le terme assigné), et de ce qui jusque-là eût été un
plaisir attendu qu’on sacrifie aisément, avait fait un bonheur
inespéré contre lequel on est sans force.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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”
She promised, however, to think of it; and pretty nearly promised,
moreover, to think of it, with the
intention
of finding it a very good
scheme.
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Austen - Emma |
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--Strange
gallants
should not stay
A woman's goings.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Is then your
knowledge
worth
So little, unless others know you know?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Well
might Catherine deem that heaven would be a land of exile to her, unless
with her mortal body she cast away her moral
character
also.
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| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the
murmuring
and fleeting grain!
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And you let the
goldfinch
sing in the alder near in spring--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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HAMLET:
Quotation
ACT TWO
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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If
structure
influences with- out determining, then one must ask how and to what extent the structure of a realm accounts for outcomes and how and to what extent the units account for outcomes.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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Existence, as such-the world as it is, with its ritual, or
routine, of use and wont-was less
characteristically
the home and
haunt of their imagination.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
_
I do not know, Sir, whether you are a
subscriber
to _Grose's
Antiquities of Scotland.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
So much was Baudelaire
absorbed in Poe that a writer of his times asserted that the translator
would meet the same fate as the
American
poet.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
bourgmestres
vous bateliers
Et vous conseillers de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois voudraient bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In these and such like ways the attempts made
by the government to raise the condition of the masses and place new facilities of
self-advancement within their reach, are thwarted by the absence of opportunities
and by the caste
prejudices
of the country.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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palma] The parties were engaged in a con-
test of
poetical
and musical skill.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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The Taoist classic Daode jing is
attributed
to him.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
|
It is tine, that k
wonld be the real interest of
thegovernment
net to abuse yt 5 its genuine policyto-husband and cherish it with the most .
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
And Chariclea when she is
questioned
by
physicians as to the cause of her illness only keeps repeating:
“Achilles, Peleus’ son, noblest of Greeks!
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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feel as if we are firmly placed in the real world - which is exactly as it should be if our constrained virtual reality
software
is any good.
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Honteuses d'exister, ombres ratatinees,
Peureuses, le dos bas, vous cotoyer les murs,
Et nul ne vous salue,
etranges
destinees!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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13401
under the Prussian eagle at
Gravelotte
and Sedan.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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] G There were also some instruments besides those which were blown into, and those which were used with
different
strings, which gave forth only sounds of a simple nature, such as the castanets (?
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| Source: |
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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No
habíamos
hablado de nada: nada nos habíamos dicho: ni una palabra
del pasado, ni una alusion al porvenir, ni una observacion sobre lo
presente.
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated,
sprawling
on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
|
" Somewhat later, a volume of Celtic
investigations more
especially
occupied his learned leisure.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
|
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.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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ski, and later he
obtained
a
position as librarian in the great library of Count
Zamoyski.
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| Source: |
Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
Cæsar was defending there the
cause of Nysa, daughter of Nicomedes; he recalled the
obligations
which
he owed to this king.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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840
Ynne honnoure, & a greater love, be dreste;
Botte I wylle call the
mynstrelles
roundelaie;
Perchaunce the swotie sounde maie chafe your wiere[99] awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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How have those useless efforts brought
success?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Marked, too, ere now as sign of wind have been the
withered
petals, the down of the white thistle, when they abundant float, some in front and others behind, on the surface of the silent sea.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
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What time I am where others be,
My heart seems very calm-- 20
Stone calm; but if all go from me,
There comes a vague alarm,
A
shrinking
in the memory
From some forgotten harm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Which was a method of
calumniating
they began
then, and shortly after prosecuted and exercised
upon much greater persons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
|
However, the Dionysian does not realize itself as
forgetful
ecstasy, but does so in decentering reflections.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
"That's what I said", replied the
cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with
the broom, sending it
sideways
across the floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
In age what aches and pains abound:
The
torturing
gout racks us awhile;
Blindness, a prison dark, profound;
Or deafness that provokes a smile.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Fouqué
was introduced to
romanticism
by Wilhelm
von Schlegel, and drew his first inspiration from Cervantes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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When not
perverted
by his translators, it is perhaps better
## p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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This, of course, is com-
paratively easy, presupposing, on the part of the
translator, merely a knowledge of the foreign lan-
guage (and, we may add incidentally, of his own),
and a
thorough
understanding of the subject matter
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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littered
on the coast,
Where the Gorgonian hack a pinion lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
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Never in my worst
moments of
superstitious
terror on earth did I dream that Hell was so
horrible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
_ Yes, I will love, and think I'm happy too,
So long as I can find that you are so;
All my disquiets banish from my breast;
I will
endeavour
to do so at least.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
Bắt đầu từ năm Nhâm Tuất mở khoa thi, hiền tài lọt vào vòng trọng dụng, cổ động chí khí anh hào trong bốn bể, mở mang vận hội văn
chương
thịnh đạt muôn vạn năm, há chẳng phải gọi là mở đường giúp người sau, không để có chỗ thiếu sót đó chăng?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-04 |
|
In short, unless you mingle your mind with the Dharma, it is
pointless
to merely sport a spiritual veneer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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7101 (#499) ###########################################
JOHN HAY
7101
the day; and as the problem grew, so did his
comprehension
of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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That the object is not in itself passive, but contributes some
positive
force of its own to the action, is in harmony both with scientific
lawandwithordinaryexperience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
269; their colour-blind-
ness, 310; the
hierarchy
of, 320.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
No pangs of ours can change him; not though we
In the mid-frost should drink of Hebrus' stream,
And in wet winters face Sithonian snows,
Or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
Of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
In
Aethiopian
deserts drive our flocks.
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* _For without doubt those Ideas which Represent substances are something
more, or (as I may say) have more of
objective
Reality in them, then
those that represent only accidents or modes; and again, that by which
I understand a mighty God, Eternal, Infinite, Omniscient, Omnipotent,
Creatour of all things besides himself, has certainly in it more
objective reality, then those by which Finite substances are exhibited.
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El secreto del éxito del monoteísmo (y del sumoteísmo, que
colaboraba estrechamente con él) queda así claro: quien quiera go
bernar tiene que ampliar la casa al cosmos y describir el
universo
co
mo casa residencial.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Only 160,800 tons of bombs were dropped on the home islands of Japan,
compared
with
1,360,000 tons dropped within the borders of Germany.
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Hence also his generous
tolerance
of tendencies in his own time with which he could not sympathise (e.
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Because neither legs nor pendula are true wheels, that is, they simply do not create angles of any size, the
periodic
term
12Ibid.
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Thrice
she rose, and strained to lift herself on her elbow; thrice she rolled
back on the pillow, and with
wandering
eyes sought the light of high
heaven, and moaned as she found it.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"You prefer to stay here and imagine that all the world is gaping at
your
pictures?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Aristotle
does not
mean by this that such things as horses and oxen are thoughts or
"ideas.
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Their
abilities would be equal with ours, if their
education
was the
same.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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THE CASKET OF OPALS
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Deep,
smoldering
colors of the land and sea
Burn in these stones, that, by some mystery,
Wrap fire in sleep and never are consumed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Encubierta
fatídica figura.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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He
hurriedly
tore open his coat
and pressed the muzzle of the pistol against his shirt.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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I'll just let the
translation
try and show you some of how it goes.
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Translated Poetry |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Whatever occurs and
whatever
you experience, strengthen your conviction that they are all insubstantial and magical illusions, so that you can experience this in the bardo as well.
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Even Porrex his yonger sonne, Whose growing pride sore suspect,
That being raised equall rule with thee,
Mee thinkes see his envious hart
swell,
Filled with disdaine and with
ambicious
hope.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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