Be this our charin,
mellowing
earth's ruder noise
Of griefs and joys:
That we may cling forever to Thy breast
In perfect rest!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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how they
aredriven
away by God, i.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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'Do
you imagine,' he said, 'that
Vitellius
will be so hard-hearted as not
to show me some gratitude for saving his whole household?
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Tacitus |
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They reached the closing scenes Birnam Wood had come to
Dunsinane-that part was settled, anyway, now what about the man who was
not of woman born* They came to the fatal passage
A Clergyman' s
Daughter
387
macbeth Thou losest labour.
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Nhiều
qgừqỉ
IỎỸ dạo phu thử,
Cũng u yl hai sa IUÊ* theo đởn.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Fogg might take it into his head to get
out; but that
gentleman
contented himself with saying to his servant,
"See what is the matter.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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rnern wie das
Drachenblut
die Haut Siegfrieds.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Heathcliff
is
accustomed to be looked after and waited on; and that she has been
brought up like an only daughter, whom every one was ready to serve.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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***Young flowers were whispering in melody
To happy flowers that night--and tree to tree;
Fountains
were gushing music as they fell
In many a star-lit grove, or moon-lit dell;
Yet silence came upon material things--
Fair flowers, bright waterfalls and angel wings--
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang:
* Eyraco--Chaldea.
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Poe - 5 |
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The things," he
continues, "which have the greatest value in use, have
frequently
little
or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the
greatest value in exchange, have little or no value in use.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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55
Yet shadowes turne; Noone point he hath attain'd,
His steeds nill bee restrain'd,
But gallop lively downe the
Westerne
hill;
Thou shalt, when he hath runne the worlds half frame,
_To night put on perfection, and a womans name_.
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Donne - 1 |
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=[13]--A decided
disadvantage, attending the termination of metaphysical modes of
thought, is that the individual fixes his mind too attentively upon his
own brief lifetime and feels no strong inducement to aid in the
foundation of institutions capable of enduring for centuries: he wishes
himself to gather the fruit from the tree that he plants and
consequently he no longer plants those trees which require centuries of
constant cultivation and are
destined
to afford shade to generation
after generation in the future.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Thereforeno public statementfsromtheirsides can be
tracedto
condemn"euthanasiaand sterilisation programmes.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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There are
individual
men and women, and there are families.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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With you goes my
handsome
friend,
The gentle, noble, and brave I send;
Into great sorrow I must descend,
Endless longing, and tears so bright.
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Troubador Verse |
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) I have
suffered
long and painful
sickness, my beloved Marcus.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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For Egypt was not just another colony: it was
the vindication of Western imperialism; it was, until its annexation by England, an almost
academic example of
Oriental
backwardness; it was to become the triumph of English knowledge
and power.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Its fourth function, which only
developed
much later, was also to serve as an electronic image storage device.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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When the swain views the star of day
Quench in the pillowing waves its ray,
And scatter darkness o'er the eastern skies
Rising, his custom'd crook he takes,
The beech-wood, fountain, plain forsakes,
As calmly
homeward
with his flock he hies
Remote from man, then on his bed
In cot, or cave, with fresh leaves spread,
He courts soft slumber, and suspense from care,
While thou, fell Love, bidst me pursue
That voice, those footsteps which subdue
My soul; yet movest not th' obdurate fair!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The elbow of his companion touched him and his heart was
touched: and when he spoke to answer a question of his master he heard
his own voice full of the quietude of
humility
and contrition.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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Besides that this court had always
been guided by the counsels of France, with whom hatred of the House of
Austria was the ruling principle, a regard for his own safety urged him
to secure in time the doubtful assistance of the Lutherans against a
near and
overwhelming
enemy.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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If the land be changed, its folk
displaced
and scattered,
it is no wonder, nor theirs the first such fate,
Though all that mighty expanse be now deserted
though it now be home to drought and dearth and plague.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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It was just a
question
of having the guts
to stand firm.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Oxford: Oxford
University
Press.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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The assertion is not always what we
should call noble; but it is always
forceful
and unmistakable.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Along the skies,
Toss'd and retoss'd, the ball
incessant
flies.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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L'apre
sterilite
de votre jouissance
Altere votre soif et roidit votre peau,
Et le vent furibond de la concupiscence
Fait claquer votre chair ainsi qu'un vieux drapeau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The human soul was his stage, he its
interpreting
orchestra.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Am I thus whitened by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but
withered
laurels?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Arethusa
In the previous tale about Ceres, Ovid had
introduced
the nymph
Arethusa.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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He was the
son of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational
minister, and was himself
minister
at North-
ampton, Mass.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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Dumas pe`re
The Three
Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES SPEAKETH IT SOMEWHILE AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the
goodliest
fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thus time becomes the dominat- ing dimension of meaning, and in this dimension the
distinction
of future and past becomes that distinction which defines time, start- ing with the before/after distinction.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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Iona has become now the locus classici of the Gaelic, not to
say the whole
Scottish
race.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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3357 and 6930_]
[4 with our cryes] with
mournful
cries _Crane_]
[6 his] the _Crane_]
[16 all forlorne] soe forlorne _Crane_]
[22-3
To your Harpes sing us some layes
To the praise _Crane_
]
[24 merry.
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John Donne |
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Khrushchev
was able to claim, after the Cuban crisis, that he had pulled back
?
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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All the barbarous
nations of Africa and America agree in placing their heaven in beautiful
islands, at an immense
distance
over the ocean.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_180
NOTE:
_180 Felsensee 1862 ("Relics of Shelley", page 96);
Felumee 1822; Felunsee
editions
1824, 1839.
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Shelley copy |
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But to the riddle-maker and his public a poem was primarily
something
heard, not something seen, and the variation in the heard length of the lines would correspond naturally enough to the variation in note of the tubes of the pipe.
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Pattern Poems |
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TheHy- Connaill sept, being numerically inferior to their enemies, had
recourse
to St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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)
Freeman: The
Southern
Slavs (ib.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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In fact _la falta de
metálico_
is the
burden of his song.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ أمراً فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي ساعةً صَبْرَهُ عَنكَ مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت
للمَنايا
بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Nevertheless Demaratus has recorded that Hercules sailed to Colchis; for
Dionysius
even affirms that he was the leader of the Argonauts.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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The pseudodialectic that tries to dissolve any particular notion and place it under skepticism is a cheap
sophistic
recourse, and this dialec- tic always stands in the middle of the road, since the end of the road is to understand.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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’
CHAPTER XXX
The next morning we began looking once more for Paddy’s friend, who was called Bozo,
and was a
screever
— that is, a pavement artist.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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I have three unanswerable reasons for
disliking
Colonel
Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has
found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him
to buy my brown mare.
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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I don't know how to describe it exactly, because only three
syllables
have shown up so far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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nnte man nicht
einverstanden
sein?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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tistruethat "basic educational qualifications"are often deficientsince
instruction
duringthelastyearsofsecondaryschoolhas tendedto concentratemainly
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| Question: |
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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You have fared but very indifferently because this is a poor
village; but everywhere else, you will be
received
as you deserve.
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
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Surely, sir, my sister's
inclinations
should be consulted
in a matter of this kind, and some regard paid to Don Antonio, being
my particular friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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To whose
protection
might I safely go?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
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The protagonist or
discoverer
of an enlightened thought took this step only earlier and usually by surrendering a former opinion of his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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He
constructed
cells around it, in which to lodge his monks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You
persuaded
the housewife that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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In the Tale of Genji there is an
evocative
scene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Close under the
flanking camp lay the fleet, fenced about with mounds and the waters of
the river; it he attacks, and calls for fire to his
exultant
comrades,
and eagerly catches a blazing pine-torch in his hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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His body was
belted by a band of gold, a collar of fine thread lace floated on
his neck and shoulders, and even his feet were clad in a sort
of buskins, that were
ornamented
with fringes of real lace and
tassels of bullion.
| 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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Lysimachus died in this war, after being struck by a spear which was thrown by a man from Heracleia called Malacon, who was
fighting
for Seleucus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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"
In his genial way he proceeded to say
(Forgetting all laws of propriety,
And that giving instruction, without introduction,
Would have caused quite a thrill in Society),
"As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird,
Since it lives in
perpetual
passion:
Its taste in costume is entirely absurd--
It is ages ahead of the fashion:
"But it knows any friend it has met once before:
It never will look at a bribe:
And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
And collects--though it does not subscribe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Ye
recording
angels,
Open your books and read?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
I'll just let the
translation
try and show you some of how it goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Translated Poetry |
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When, therefore, during the German War, a current
of greater
magnanimity
and freedom seemed to
run through every one, Wagner remembered the
duty to which he had pledged himself, namely, to
rescue his greatest work from those successes and
affronts which were so largely due to misunder-
standings, and to present it in his most personal
rhythm as an example for all times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
|
Li-shih, who thought such a task beneath him, took
revenge by affecting to
discover
in one of Po's poems a veiled attack
on [the Emperor's mistress] Yang Kuei-fei.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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5
Lamtjertus
calls him "Servus Dei prae- cipuus," in his Vita S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
|
And then for a while
We picked, till I feared you had
wandered
a mile,
And I thought I had lost you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Towards dawn, at the hour of the rising of the star of love, he had a
dream, in which he saw a young and beautiful lady coming over a lea,
and bending every now and then to gather flowers; and as she bound the
flowers into a garland, she sang, "I am Leah, gathering flowers to adorn
myself, that my looks may seem
pleasant
to me in the mirror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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"'21The
rigorous
discipline and the deep respect for facts and sources that Meinecke demands22 clearly cannot be taken for granted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
He came of a wealthy and distinguished family and received a careful philosophical training at Athens under the
Peripatetic
philosopher Ammonius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
As both the Guru and
disciple
must not make any
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
This
membrane
floating above,
And bellied out by the up-pressing soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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At first I
inclined
to slack off sail
and beat about till the fog was lifted; but whiles, I thocht that if
the Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to
do it whether we would or no.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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And, since the laws by which
the existence of things depends on
cognition
are practical,
supersensible nature, so far as we can form any notion of it, is
nothing else than a system of nature under the autonomy of pure
practical reason.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Thus a Latin hexameter is formed from dactyls and
spondees,
differently
combined; the English heroick admits of acute or
grave syllables, variously disposed.
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He founded the city of
Alexandria
in Egypt, and ruled for 12 years and 7 months.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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_proram_
O ||
_amphitritem_ GBA: _a_(_am_ Ven)_phitritem al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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And what shall we say
of
government
by a majority of voices?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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" This last has certainly been a line of the original
song; so I took up the idea, and, as you will see, have introduced the
line in its place, which I presume it
formerly
occupied; though I
likewise give you a choosing line, if it should not hit the cut of
your fancy:
By Allan stream I chanced to rove.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I absolutely declined to accept or admit the
enormous
truth
hidden in them.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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--Pour rendre le juge propice,
Lorsque de la stricte justice
Paraîtra
le terrible jour,
Il faudra lui montrer des granges
Pleines de moissons, et des fleurs
Dont les formes et les couleurs
Gagnent le suffrage des Anges.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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It is a bad
thing for a boy to be and to know himself far beyond his tutors, whether
in
knowledge
or in power of mind.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Si l'histoire était vraie, et si
Albertine
m'avait caché
ses goûts, c'était pour ne pas me faire du chagrin.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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As little as we can adapt
ourselves
to the ne^ technology without adequate training.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Most
recently
updated: March 2, 2018.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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_ Good Heaven forbid that I should ever dare
To
question
virtue in a queen so fair,
Though she her eyes cast on your glorious son!
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Thomas Otway |
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He
delights
in the wild tumult of
his desires and the sharp pain of sin, in the very idea of being lost.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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They made emperors
and unmade them, and
devoured
the substance of the State, exacting
continually lavish largess at the sword's point.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last
night, as I lay awake, thinking over her
terrible
fate, I
suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which
had been the herald of her own death.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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We are sometimes told by
Frenchmen
or Russians that Oscar Wilde
is greater than Shakespeare.
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Li Po |
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What a diplomatic coup it would have been, had it been
contrived
that way!
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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The streets were a blaze of flambeaux and torches carried in the hand;
fireworks
by the ton were discharged as the people passed; elephants, camels, and horses, richly caparisoned, were placed in conven ient situations; and before the procession had reached the house of the bride, half a dozen wicked boys and bad young men were killed or wounded.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Do take a little pickled
cucumber
with honey
or half a glass of brandy to sober you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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