249), whose true character as strolling
musicians
is evinced by their ancient privilege—maintained even in spite of the strictness of Roman police—of wandering through the streets at their annual festival, wearing masks and full of sweet wine.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Upon an
ottoman, directly beneath her, her daughter Edith was sitting
in a very pretty and
graceful
attitude: her elbow resting on her
knee and her face hidden by her right hand, while her left was
held by Walter Brune, who was kneeling at her feet.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Nay
Thượng
hoàng đế: chỉ Lê Thánh Tông.
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stella-02 |
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5 6
1 2
Tietz and Volker Kapp, eds, La pensee
religieuse
dans la litterature et la civilisation du XVIIe siecle en France (Paris, 1984), pp.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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In this con-
nection, however, it must be remembered that
wealth produces almost the same effects whether
one have three hundred or thirty thousand thalers
a year; there is no further
essential
progression
of the favourable conditions afterwards.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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— on
sticking
to, vi.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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~
Another basic point about the brain has been lost in the recent
enthusiasm
for plasticity.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
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Stephen Crane |
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Wang is the poet of a tranquil and
meditative
world, where nature provides a correlative of inner harmony and peace.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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Albeytte
nete maye to mee pleasaunce yev, 360
Lyche thee, I'lle strev to sette mie mynde atte reste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thon van Irach thóc
thướng
ngày,
CQng lồ vi b&i che hai kèn lira,
Ghi lòng ỈHC ilạ s<5uu trưa,
Lẩy chòng, lựầ cliỏ xứng vừa, thi thỏi.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Yet, thus adorn'd with every
graceful
art
To charm the fancy and yet reach the heart--
Must we displace her?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Gauntlet, the mother, who was sincerely
rejoiced
to
see our hero in the capacity of her son-in-law.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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Tze-Kung wanted to
eliminate
the sheep from the sacrifice to the new moon.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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She shakes frost off her feathers, then shakes herself
alert, preparing to launch out for the take,
Then
launches
aloft, swift as a hungry spear,
aiming in one sharp swipe to fell her prey.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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And when he raised it dripping once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only
disinterestedly
to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Also, another of his
children
recently
fell ill and died--which meant yet further expense.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Such
had been the parcel with which Miss
Crawford
was provided, and such the
object of her intended visit: and in the kindest manner she now urged
Fanny’s taking one for the cross and to keep for her sake, saying
everything she could think of to obviate the scruples which were making
Fanny start back at first with a look of horror at the proposal.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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As to what regards the commonwealth (for this is by no means to be omitted since he never neglected it), he behaved with such public spirit that while others excited
seditions
from views of profit or ambition, he exposed his life for the safety of his country.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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in the brimming bath,
The heavy plash--the dying cry--
Hark--in the laver--hark, he falls by
treachery!
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Aeschylus |
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XXIX
But while these lords their private fight pursue,
Made fierce and cruel through their secret hate,
The victor's ire destroyed the
faithless
crew
From street to street, and chased from gate to gate.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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On her return from the drive, she hastened to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of
excitement
mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Process has been unmasked as repetition and has thus become an
embarrassment
to art.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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We gaze and turn away, and know not where,
Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart
Reels with its fulness; there--for ever there--
Chained to the chariot of
triumphal
Art,
We stand as captives, and would not depart.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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En vano los pilotos y marineros toman consejo
en la ultima
resolucion
de el mar contra la rota
nave; lo que la razon pide, vence y niega el fu-
ror.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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The trodden plants form three paths here,1
4 While the clouds I see are
neighbors
in four directions.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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That is what
political
economy, speaking in the name of eternal justice,
calls PRODUCING BY HIS CAPITAL,--PRODUCING BY HIS TOOLS.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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See, I lie here
extending
my arms toward your knees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The results established by Faraday have led to the conception
of atoms of electricity, a conception which has been of great
service in
advancing
the study of radioactivity.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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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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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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This should have started him really thinking hard, but it only brought the
unwelcome
reminder, in his half-drowsy state, that he still had much to do.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Like the phrase Es gibt, it is
addressed
to and includes human beings, and so acknowledges the way we are addressed by the world, and involved in it.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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I recently called attention in print to a typical instance in which a GDR historian, by citing a paraphrase written by a like-minded colleague rather than the original text, was able to destroy a
political
enemy.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Through the swoon, heavy and motionless
Stifling with heat the cool morning's struggles
No water, but that which my flute pours, murmurs
To the grove sprinkled with melodies: and the sole breeze
Out of the twin pipes, quick to breathe
Before it scatters the sound in an arid rain,
Is
unstirred
by any wrinkle of the horizon,
The visible breath, artificial and serene,
Of inspiration returning to heights unseen.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Formerly financiers were
looked down upon with honest scorn, even though
they were recognised as needful; for it was gene-
rally
admitted
that every society must have its
viscera.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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The rich who buy on credit and let their money rust;
Foolish is the merchant who'll an idle
spendthrift
trust.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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5
In a nursery setting
battered
infants and tod- dlers have a reputation for finding it difficult to make relationships, either with caregivers or with other children, and also for being very aggressive.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Talk of
interpolation
here is absurd.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then said the lord, “This glass to praise,
Fill with red wine from
Portugal!
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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Hitler, National Socialist, hated riiost the Social
Democrats
and the German Nationalists.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The gross, the coarse, the brazen,
God knows I cannot pity them, perhaps, as I should
do,
But, oh, ye delicate, wistful faces,
Who hath
forgotten
you?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Three weeks ago I got him to insure with us, and
now he is the brightest, happiest spirit in this land--has a good steady
income and a stylish suit of new
bandages
every day, and travels around
on a shutter.
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Twain - Speeches |
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]
To my worthy Friend, Mr Wase, the
translator
of Gratius.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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What
a chap you are for asking
questions!
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe -
My heart's in the Highlands
wherever
I go.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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He answered nothing,
bearing, as he always did, a due respect to his majesty;
but his governor, soon after, using the same speech as
a persuasion to diligence, his
Highness
asked him,
whether he really thought his brother would prove so
good a scholar, and being answered that it was likely,
"Then," quoth his Highness, "will I make him Arch-
bishop of Canterbury.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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38
We must not conclude om this, however-as has been done by the majority ofhistorians and commentators-that all ofEpictetus'
teachings
are contained in the Discourses as reported by Arrian.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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When a word is
ambiguous
we are uneasy, and we are right to be uneasy when that word is s~t i?
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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Stephen first speaks it to himself, in Matthew Arnold's words: 'To
ourselves
.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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» exclamó Aija, á nuestra vida
También
atentan!
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| Question: |
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Jose Zorrilla |
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"
That is an art in which the
Ancients
excelled.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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at the
British Museum, there Life bishop
Fisher, which
contains
an account his
Trial the same words the printed life.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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He had been allowed to march triumphantly into a
defenseless
country, at the head of his troops, at the hour he hadfixed.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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H ow
pitiable
is the feeling, delicate woman, who commits
a great imprudence for a man whose love she k nows in-
ferior to her own!
| Guess: |
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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--
Fallacious
sign of hope!
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Quin mecum
historiis
ad largum circulus ignem
Decipere hyberna e taeclia noctis amet.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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(The Kokuyaku-issaikyo series was an edition of important works from the Far Eastern Buddhist Canon, translated into Japanese with often
valuable
introductions and annotations to the texts).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Hearts that are
happiest
hold not by it;
Better we let, then, the old view reign;
Since there is peace in it, why decry it?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Stars
There is no
oversight
of human affairs.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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* Thebes is said to have been destroyed by
Alexander
to the accompaniment of the flute-player Ismenias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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" And Caranus, who had begun
drinking
in small goblets, ordered the slaves to bring round the wine rapidly.
| Guess: |
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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This view
suggests
that there are several
12 In fact.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Garbage collection turns into sanitation, which turns into
environmental
services.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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6* However, those in the northern parts had not received it very
generally
until after the close of that century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Sunset-clouds iridescent,
Opals, and mists of the day,
Are thrilled alike with the crescent
Delight of a
deathless
ray
Shot through the hesitant trouble
Of particles floating in space,
And touching each wandering bubble
With tints of a rainbowed grace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
THE BRIDE
Call me,
Beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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" The song on the Prussian eagle,
which from Hohenzollern flew towards the north
and now returns southwards a subject inspired
by Baumgarten is a
beautiful
memento of his
elated feelings at that time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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It has often been said that American tactical superiority and ease of access in the Caribbean (coupled with superiority in strategic
weaponry)
account for the success in inducing evacuation of the Soviet missiles.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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The object has one
thousand
characteristics and aspects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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One can
certainly
understand what historians critical of the church mean when they date Christianity's own Fall to the moment when it began to cohabit with worldly power.
| Guess: |
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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As he was of surpassing beauty, the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, and he chose to sleep for ever,
remaining
deathless and ageless.
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| Source: |
Apollodorus - The Library |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
additional
materials through Google Book Search.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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LES EFFARES
Noirs dans la neige et dans la brume,
Au grand
soupirail
qui s'allume,
Leurs culs en rond,
A genoux, cinq petits,--misere!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In poetry it is
practicable to preserve the diction uncorrupted by the affectations
and misappropriations, which promiscuous authorship, and reading not
promiscuous only because it is disproportionally most conversant with
the compositions of the day, have
rendered
general.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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The poor
in that case would be rendered as
improvident
as the
rich, which would not be at all good for them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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The fountain sang and sang
The things one cannot tell,
The
dreaming
peacocks stirred
And the gleaming dew-drops fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Then
came the more
practical
education derived
from a familiarity with men and things, for
in early manhood he began newspaper
work as war correspondent, in Turkey and
the Crimea, of the London Daily News.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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The National Front is itself a largely republican party; it flies the republican tricolor even as its supporters
celebrate
Joan of Arc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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Husband is described as
personally
and sexually compatible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
Idyll 17
This idyll is
addressed
to Ptolemy Philadelphus, who was the son of Ptolemy, son of Lagus, and of Berenice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You’ve
seen ‘em, Scout.
| Guess: |
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the madhouse episode in the Undivine Comedy] *
Krasinski handles a
terrible
sifuation with artistic
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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they
ventured
beyond the narrow cavity
in the rock which leads into the interior
of the cavern ; the preparations for which
produced a great deal of mirth amongst
the whole party.
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TO A FRIEND,
COUNSELLING
HIM TO ABANDON EARTHLY PLEASURES.
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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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Experience
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461, where they add, we must suppose
regarding
the Leinster-
" Cremthantunc men, quibus
observed, if our Irish kings and toparchs ad-
pre-erat.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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In this description of the dissolute manners of Philip and his court,
one would imagine that the orator had
aggravated
a little ; yet we have
the whole description still more heightened in his*ory.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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" The questionis
indispensablewhether
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I sit and think of it all,
And the blue June twilight dies,--
Down in the
clanging
square
A street-piano cries
And stars come out in the skies.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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What have they to do with my
wretched
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Then the company were all earnest with me to kill those whom we had
taken; but I did not like so well of that, thinking it better to keep
them in bonds until ambassadors should come from the
Bucephalians
to
ransom them that were taken, and indeed they did: and I well understood
by the nodding of their heads, and their lamentable lowing, like
petitioners, what their business was.
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Between two neighboring towns a deadly hate, 45
Sprung from a sacred grudge of ancient date,
Yet burns; a hate no
lenients
can assuage,
No time subdue, a rooted, rancorous rage!
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