O Bethlehem palm-trees That move to the anger Of winds in their fury,
Tempestuous
voices, Make ye no clamour, Run ye less swiftly,
Sith sleepeth the child here Still ye your branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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I've paid thee what I promis'd; that's not all;
Besides I give thee here a verse that shall
(When hence thy
circummortal
part is gone),
Arch-like, hold up thy name's inscription.
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Robert Herrick |
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Had
chastisement
for perjured truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest, lovelier far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He had great
parts and quickness of apprehension, ,nor does it appear that he was wanting in application^; for we are told, that he was very well
skillfid
in the Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and Spani^ languages, even before he was sent to Oxford.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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And whereas the greatness of the price doth not call them back from
endamaging
themselves so much, they do thereby better declare the study [zeal] of their godliness.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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)
How vainly men themselves amaze,
To win the palm, the oak, or bajs,
And their
incessant
labours see
Crowned from some single herb, or tree,
Whose short and narrow-verged shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid,
While all the flowers, and trees, do close.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Mary
Berry would have stood higher in the numerical list; but Walpole
did not become
intimate
with her and her father and sister until
late in his life in the winter of 1788).
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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But would any one have given the preference to Philippus, though otherwise a smooth, a sensible, and a facetious
speaker?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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The time of
singing!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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cualquier momento debe dar una respuesta a la pregunta: ¿te has da
do cuenta de tu
dignidad
real?
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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CENCI:
Why
miserable?
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Shelley |
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In fact, we need to un- derstand that ''achievement'' and ''accomplishment'' are the
creations
of a self- centered mind, and that in this world there are only appropriate and inap- propriate actions.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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The political target of the bomb was not the dead of
Hiroshima
or the factories they worked in, but the survivors in Tokyo.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Eujak, Franciszek
The
economic
development of Poland.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Among the possible effects of
practical
adherence to a theory, that aims
to identify the style of prose and verse,--(if it does not indeed claim
for the latter a yet nearer resemblance to the average style of men
in the viva voce intercourse of real life)--we might anticipate the
following as not the least likely to occur.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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The history of the Queens College of St
Margaret
and
St Bernard in the University of Cambridge.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Legend had it that she blinded the poet Stesichorus for singing of her adultery at Troy, and then restored his sight when he wrote a
recantation
denying that she ever traveled there.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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| Question: |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Eadmer, the follower and
intimate
friend
of Anselm, wrote in six books a history of his own times down to the
year 1122—Historia Novorum in Anglia—which is full of fresh
and vivid detail.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Carlyle had begun
life on the same terms as
innumerable
young Scots.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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—After a complimentary preface, the letter pro ceeds thus :
" His native country is
Auvergne
; his parents are persons in a somewhat humble position in life, but free and unencumbered with debt ; their duties have been in connection with the service of the church rather than of the state.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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However,sinceLa thesintreatedyoutodetainmeandobligeme to
speak ; pray suffer m e to intreat you in m y turn, not to suffer Laches and Nicias to be gone, but to p r e s s ' e m t o m a k e a n s w e r -, b y t e l l i n g t h e m t h a t S a - cratesknows nothing oftheseMatters,and isunca- pable to determine which of them has the better of it : For he had no Masters, and could not find out theArtby himself WhereforeNiciasandLaches, say you, pray tellus if ever you saw any
excellent
Man for the Education of Youth ?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The ray as of pure starlight
and fire, working in such an element of
boundless
hypochondria,
unformed black of darkness!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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It is so nice and such
a distinction to have one's own
antipodes
!
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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She rightly grants
bacteria
centre stage among life forms on our planet.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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And, dear Bertha, let me keep
On my hand this little ring,
Which at nights, when others sleep,
I can still see
glittering!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Anthony the hermit of the
Thebaid, after years of maceration, cries, like Emma, like Frédéric,
"Of old I was not so
wretched!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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A
Plattdeutsch
dialect poet;
born at Greifswald, Jan.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
|
)
This hollow box
remembers
every foot
That danced upon the level grass of the world,
And will tell secrets if I whisper to it.
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Yeats - Poems |
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He will need to fix nis mind upon the definite goal of producing a
liberally
educated man, a civilized man who has resources enough within himself to meet bravely tP changes that crowd in upon a dynamic world.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Shall I not see all these and all your
treasures?
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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If you do not make the
offering
when Pristine Awareness arises, later nothing you do may lead co fulfillment.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For example, Dugin repeatedly asserts that he has
borrowed
from certain socialist theories, in particular on economics, since he is in favor of giving the state a crucial role in production structures.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Opes Atticae: Miscellanea
philologica
et historica Raymondo Bogaert et Hermanno van Looy oblata.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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No evil has
happened
unto me.
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Epictetus |
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Mitten durchs Heulen und Klappen der Holle,
Durch den grimmigen, teuflischen Hohn
Erkannt ich den sussen, den
liebenden
Ton.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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My asking for this
certificate
of succession to be brought out [happened as
follows]: Around the seventh lunar month of the previous year [1223], in
the Hall of Serene Light, Chief Officer56 Shiko had told Dogen about it in
secret.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
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” And one said, “I have well
diagnosed
thee, and thou
art in a fair way to have the gout.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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PLANH
It is of the white
thoughts
that he saw in the Forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
110
Here was the bird's primeval nest,
High on a promontory
Star-pharosed, where she takes her rest
To brood new aeons 'neath her breast,
The future's
unfledged
glory.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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--
NOTE:
_29
pleasures]pleasure
1824.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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I suppose in the whole of India there are
few men whose
learning
is greater than his, and I don't think
there are many men more beloved.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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As regards the indefinite article there are
probably
no exceptions to our rule at all for us to remark, apart from obsolete formulas like Ein edler Rath ['Councillor'].
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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) người xã Lam Điền huyện
Chương
Đức (nay thuộc xã Lam Điền huyện Chương Mỹ tỉnh Hà Tây).
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stella-01 |
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4: The epic poem, which the Greek call
the "Great Eoiae", says that she (Mycene) was the
daughter
of Inachus
and wife of Arestor: from her, then, it is said, the city received its
name.
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Hesiod |
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Reconheço
que sou o mesmo que era.
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| Question: |
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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The
current
attitude
of the French Government and its
plans for the future are based on the assumption
that there is a better than even chance that the Five-
Year Plan will succeed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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Or that even the eternal
Jew gets saved and settled down when he
marries?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" the
youngest
and most serious reporter
asked.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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Three of them she
rejected
as
well known; the fourth she told as something quite new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Thou knewest well when thou
causedst
that
they should cut down the acacia for Pharaoh, that it was to my
hurt, that I might not be suffered to live.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
|
Swdp-us : the
mercenaries
of ?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe
that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments
that imply not only the original
imperative
of conduct, but the original
metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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" In far-fetched
connection
with this I quote:
"To earth, this weary earth, ye bring us,
To guilt ye let us heedless go.
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| Source: |
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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Do
after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and
And for to pass the time this book shall be pleasant to read in; but
for to give faith and belief that all is true that is
contained
herein, ye be at
your liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
Raquel Berman introduced the session, speaking of interminable elaboration as not only related to the Holocaust but
applicable
to all areas of trauma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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His statement that
art becomes more delightful when 'strangeness is added to beauty'
foreshadows Pater's definition of romanticism, and his assertion
that art works by felicity not by rule' places him in opposition to
the whole
tendency
of criticism in the century that was to follow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
In the shop
windows there were, I knew, the signs of a life very unlike that I had
seen at Killeenan; halfpenny comic papers and story papers, sixpenny
reprints of popular novels, and, with the exception of a dusty Dumas or
Scott strayed thither, one knew not how, and one or two little books of
Irish ballads, nothing that one calls literature, nothing that would
interest the few
thousands
who alone out of many millions have what
we call culture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Since
sessions are short and members are busy in their regular
occupations, each Soviet elects an
Executive
Committee to carry
on its functions between meetings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
650
To
disentangle
that confusing problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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His friend was a man of talents, but
strong and quiet; rather stout and lethargic in his appearance;
controlled always by sound
provincial
common-sense, which con-
demns originality as folly, and sacrifices the pleasures of the
present for the sake of enjoying a too distant future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
|
If
one who is thus
affected
with regard to fishes, should be forbidden to
feed on flesh and milk-food, will he not be hardly treated?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus |
|
1331) and the
Franciscan
poet and former schoolmaster Walter of Wimborne, would dispense with the formal psalm structure altogether, retaining only (if that) the number of the psalms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Such speeches,
with their
exposition
of the realities, were a tonic and an
inspiration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
|
The
Symplegades
or Cyanean rocks were the clashing rocks at the entrance of the Bosphorus which were said to come together and smash ships.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
'
There swelled a tumult at the gate, high voices waxing higher; 91
A flash of red reflected light lit the
cathedral
spire;
I heard a cry for faggots, then I heard a yell for fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
There were eccentric
characters
in the hotel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
)
I am the work of the husband1 of a mannish-mantled quean,2 of a twice-young mortal,3 not Empusa’s4 cinder-bedded scion,5 who was the killing6 of a Teucrian neatherd7 and of the childing of a bitch,8 but he leman9 of a golden woman; and he made me when the husband-boiler10 smote down the brazen-leggèd breeze11 wrought of the twice-wed mother-hurtled virgin-born12; and when the slaughterman13 of Theocritus14 and burner15 of the three-nighted16 gazed upon this wrought piece,17 a full dolorous shriek he shright, for a belly-creeping18 shedder of age did him despite with enshafted venom19; but when he was
alackadaying
in the wave-ywashen,20 Pan’s mother’s21 thievish twy-lived bedfellow22 came with the scion23 of a cannibal, and carried him into the thrice-sacked daughter24 of Teucer for the sake of Ilus-shivering25 arrow-heads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pattern Poems |
|
1905-7
[by far the fullest
statement
of the evidence that exists at present].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
|
Roses, you can never die,
Since the place wherein ye lie,
Heat and
moisture
mix'd are so
As to make ye ever grow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
|
False conclusions
are the rule in older ages; and the mythologies
of all peoples, their magic and their superstition,
their
religious
cult and their law are the inex-
haustible sources of proof of this theory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
And he went home and all
But banked the
daylight
out of Avery's windows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
The
Merovingian
or Frankish race.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Your logic, my friend, is perfect,
Your moral most
drearily
true;
But, since the earth clashed on _her_ coffin,
I keep hearing that, and not you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
I am very sensible of its many
imperfec
tions, and I feel altogether assured, that future his toric investigators will be able to correct the writer's various oversights and inaccuracies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
|
les colliers
tinteront
cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Phải ỉo học vố, bọc mav,
Thiu, vtẽn, mạn, dột, khéo tay, thạo thuẫn,
Học‘cho
biểt cut ảo quàn,
Bấn đo thước lac.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
|
I may
or may not be able to utter the formula of my faith in this mystery in more
logical terms than some others; but this I say, Go and ask the most
ordinary man, a professed believer in this doctrine, whether he believes in
and
worships
a plurality of Gods, and he will start with horror at the bare
suggestion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
He chose the field; he saved the second day;
And,
honoring
here his glorious name,
Again his phalanx held victorious sway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Then praise the Lord Most High
Whose
Strength
hath saved us whole,
Who bade us choose that the Flesh should die
And not the living Soul!
| Guess: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And all the ex-
pedient they
proposed
for the avoiding this war was,
that he would consent to the nineteen propositions,
which they had formerly made to him at York, and
to which he had long since returned his answer;
and both the one and the other were printed.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Little by little I
overcame his reserve, but found that each of these conversations left me
filled with a sense of
vexation
at myself.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Through what channels are
negotiations
with foreign
countries carried on?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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He has
continued
to speak the plain truth, proving it by the Word
of God, without reproving anyone by name; and, above all, it has been
his way to reprove that ignorance which would adopt the opinions of others
in place of understanding one's own duty.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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In other Sciences, without disgrace
A Candidate may fill a second place;
But Poetry no Medium can admit,
No Reader suffers an indiff'rent Wit:
The ruin'd
Stationers
against him baul,
And Herringman degrades him from his Stall.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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And authority here means for “us” to deny
autonomy
to “it”-the Oriental country-since we
know it and it exists, in a sense, as we know it.
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Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Now such synthetic propositions are only possible in this way: that the two cognitions are
connected
together by their union with a third in which they are both to be found.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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1 Strype's Me
“Freinds
and good Christian people, am
mor.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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G, 'wipe oii',' 'eii'ace,' 61rd
pirarfiopiis
11"]:
Knhi'dos', Tfis 'YEVO/le?
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Papa was still
painting
old-fashioned/musical, the way he still does today, brown gravy and peacocks' tails.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Dal 'voi' che prima a Roma s'offerie,
in che la sua
famiglia
men persevra,
ricominciaron le parole mie;
onde Beatrice, ch'era un poco scevra,
ridendo, parve quella che tossio
al primo fallo scritto di Ginevra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In this sense one can contend that the thinking of radical modernity
floating
in experiments begins with Kierkegaard.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Thiers' indictment that
Napoleon
in 1866 had allowed the
Empire of Charles v.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Presents a little known and delightful literature by means of critical and biographical sketches with verse translations of
specimen
poets.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Slip past, slip fast,
Uncounted hours from first to last,
Many hours till the last is past,
Many hours
dwindling
to one,--
One hour whose die is cast,
One last hour gone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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