Shading your eye you stand
on the bridge
watching
the flight of the swans.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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"Galatea" : Bion seems to have written a first-person pastoral resembling Serenade, in which the
neatherd
lover of Galatea say to her on the beach.
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persons, for forging the names of gentlemen upon the backs of letters ; but the abuse now complained of is, I conceive, a forgery of a worse kind ; for it tends to
misrepresent
the sense of Parliament, and impose upon the understanding of the whole nation.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Among its
eulogists
is Sir Theodore Martin, the translator
of Catullus.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Ultimately a thing exists only by virtue of its boundaries, which means by a more or less hostile act against its sur- roundings: without the Pope there would have been no Luther, and without the pagans no Pope, so there is no getting away from the fact that man's deepest social instinct is his
antisocial
instinct.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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He longs to get home to his wife, but he is not averse to
fornication
with nymphs and god- desses.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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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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This philanthropic
apparatus
has fostered federal policies that include deregulating business and cutting social services.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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After a disciple has learned
the master's life and has realized the Buddhist truth in his or her own life, the
master gives a
certificate
to the disciple, certifying the transmission of the
truth from master to disciple.
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Shobogenzo |
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The first edition of Thompson's Chinese Religion: An
Introduction
appeared in 1969.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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You cannot always make out exactly what he
means; and it is
doubtful
whether he always had a clearly-thought
meaning.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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{17b} Nephew to Hrothgar, with whom he subsequently quarrels, and
elder cousin to the two young sons of Hrothgar and Wealhtheow, --
their natural
guardian
in the event of the king's death.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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At dinner,
Gustavus
remarked
to Frederick, "After
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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] being,
night cannot be'; and sometimes his worship twists round what we say
somehow or other, till there we are with horns [Footnote: See
_Puzzles_
in
Notes.
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Lucian |
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574
at the limit o f the
interpretative
relations that I have described so far.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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from a higher one already attained ; on the contrary, the development was a gradual one in an upward direction amid a
constant
struggle between the two parties.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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Girard
In conclusion I would like to go into the question as to what sense the expression "Franco-German relations" has from the standpoint of what has been
considered
here.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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The plan of the
structure
is simple : a
square of 115 ft.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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)
CHIEF
MINISTERS
OF Louis XVI.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Mountjoy
having resolved make another
expedition
against O’Neill, marched from Dublin Drogheda, the 23rd May, thence Dundalk on the 25th, and on the 8th June he came the hill
Foghard, encamped near the Moyry Pass, and built fort there,
the Three-mile-water.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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While
I've been lying here, I've kept
fancying
red dogs were running
round me, while you were making them point at me, as if I
were a woodcock.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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Such a philosophy as this, instead of drawing men away from the world of
nature and history, and
confining
them to the narrow circle of their own
consciousness, of necessity sent them back to that world, as the only
means by which any human well-being could be reached.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Beating the
cliffs and
circling
the rocks, they thunder in a thousand valleys.
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Li Po |
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Different from the spec- tators who, especially in the eighteenth century, were intrigued by those chess-playing "machines," we know for a fact that there is no bank or airline employee
involved
when, for example, we use an automatic teller machine (ATM) or when we check in at the airport by using a screen; nor are we really deceived by the usually female voices that lend spatial presence to the naviga- tion system in our cars.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Surprised with this evil no way they find,
Whither for succor to direct their course,
But wise Clorinda soon the advantage spied,
And spurring forth thus to her
soldiers
cried:
CXVIII
"You hardy men at arms behold," quoth she,
"How Heaven, how Justice in our aid doth fight,
Our visages are from this tempest free,
Our hands at will may wield our weapons bright,
The fury of this friendly storm you see
Upon the foreheads of our foes doth light,
And blinds their eyes, then let us take the tide,
Come, follow me, good fortune be our guide.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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‘In a
week’s
time?
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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Hēo wæs on ofste, wolde ūt þanon
fēore beorgan, þā hēo onfunden wæs;
1295 hraðe hēo æðelinga ānne hæfde
fæste befangen, þā hēo tō fenne gang;
sē wæs
Hrōðgāre
hæleða lēofost
on gesīðes hād be sǣm tweonum,
rīce rand-wiga, þone þe hēo on ræste ābrēat,
1300 blǣd-fæstne beorn.
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Beowulf |
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And now Iam come to die; I hope I can truly say, I have nothing else to do but to die ; and having fought a good Fight, and finished my Course, I am now in Expectation of that Crown of Reward, which God the Righteous Judge of the whole Earth has
promised
to all those that love his Appearing and as it is my great Work to be now every Moment fitting my self for my great and last Change, so 'tis the Duty which belongs to you, and the rest of my dear Relations, to resign me up into the Hands of that God, whose I am, and to whom I am going, and not repine at his Righteous Will, which we ought quietly to submit unto.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Mayest thou be happy, O Galatea, wheresoever thou
choosest
to reside,
and live mindful of me and neither the unlucky pye nor the vagrant crow
forbids your going on.
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Horace - Works |
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Neither was your cruelty
satisfied
with a plain and common death; for he was hanged upon a tree.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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, either to seek
assistance
from the friends of my
family, or to turn my youthful talents and attainments into some channel
of pecuniary emolument.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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2
I went
straightaway
to the dragon’s palace in a hidden secluded place;
4 I broke open its golden locks—the presiding gods were worried.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Ille, datis vddibus, ruri qui
extractus
in urbem est.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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Cut it into the shape of
ordinary
cutlets, and serve up in a clean
table-cloth or dinner-napkin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Making Sense in Life and
Literature
(1992);?
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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The swans shook their heads, for what she beheld
were the
beautiful
ever-changing cloud palaces of the "Fata
Morgana," into which no mortal can enter.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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And
fearless
by thy side would I not go,
As once I went, through many unknown lands When I had saved thee from my father's hands ?
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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IMPROMPTU
My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green Sirius;
In thick dark groves trees huddle lifting their
branches
like
beckoning hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The procession
was to be marshalled thence to the town-hall, where a solemn banquet
would complete the
ceremonies
of the day.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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PHILOSOPHY IN
RELATION
TO THEOLOGY.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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arguments
in favour of public
and private education.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Mais j'étais persuadé que l'évolution physiologique de Saint-Loup
n'était pas
commencée
à cette époque et qu'alors il aimait encore
uniquement les femmes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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is a townland of in the Drumrath,
Acta
Sanctoram
Hiber- nice," xix.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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If they cannot, yet still assert the "massive facticity" of the materialist canons of possibility, they are not a scholar, a true seeker of knowledge, but a dogmatic defender of some unexamined preconception about the innate superiority of the
scientific
materialist worldview, the modern academic institution, and the postmodern industrial lifestyle of the crumbling, late great Euro-American empire.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
|
The King said, "Dat het by na voor hem unmogelyck was
to pardoneren persoonen wie so hoog in syn
reguarde
schuldig stonden,
vooral seer uytvarende jegens den Lord Churchill, wien hy hadde groot
gemaakt, en nogtans meynde de eenigste oorsake van alle dese desertie
en van de retraite van hare Coninglycke Hoogheden te wesen.
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Macaulay |
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I scorn to be
A slave to state;
And since I'm free,
I will not wait,
Henceforth
at such a rate,
For needy fate.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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390
Comments
accurateand
satisfactortyoemphasizetheirdifferenceasnd
perforcseubsume them into some broader categoryof radical or revolutionarymass move- ments?
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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Rebus is the
instrumental
case of res: things can be used like words and words like things.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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This brilliant and highly rhetorical
work is metrically more advanced than the Lygdamus elegies
and was
certainly
composed at a later date than these poems.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Foscarini
saw his MS.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Life in the
Clearing
versus the Bush.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
Sau khi mất, ông
được
tặng chức Thượng thư.
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stella-03 |
|
"To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed
Immortals
are swift.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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'"
Two small cousins (into each of whose
homes little strangers had arrived) were over-
heard
comparing
notes as to the respective
virtues of the little brother and sister.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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No
pleasure
in point-lace collars take then,
Nor for the dance thy person deck then!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The communi-
cation closes with a
reference
to the situation of the offi-
cers, which is stated "to be so singularly hard, that the bare
mention of their case is sufficient to bring it home to the at-
tention and feeling of every man of reflection, and will leave
no doubt of the necessity of applying a remedy the most
speedy and effectual.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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In the Maupeou crisis, the parlements turned to the concept of patrie as a key weapon in their
conceptual
armory.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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[18]
GERMANICUS
CAESAR { F 2 } G
On the Same
One dog captured me after another.
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Greek Anthology |
|
The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ruskin's father had good taste both in literature and in art,
and
fostered
these tastes in his son.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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to of it
I of
a
to inSo In of of to
so of of his in so
so as
of of a in
by
if ofof
to of
in be ; is to of
all
his to
all
to to
ofby
as
to all
at
a toin
by
as he
of
of I a
of to of his beofin of so of
toit ofin be of is
2 tonoofto
In
toof
as
he of
he
inor itofof hein ofa 2, to
in to to
in toof
be of of ofof of in of so if
“ofall
ofofto
or at iof l of le .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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sayd,
Bot
graunted
hastyly; 690
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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The luxury and corruption which reigned in the Roman court at Avignon
are fully
displayed
in some letters of Petrarch's, without either date
or address.
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Petrarch |
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May
And may the mosse of
prosperousness
g~ Malthe fireplug of filiality
foggy dews bediamonfi~eJourth~ob~;i:~indbehind glow luck to your reinsure your bungho e.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
What
I mean here by the word philology is, in a general
sense to be understood as the art of reading well, of
being able to take account of facts without falsify-
ing them by interpretation, without losing either
caution,
patience
or subtlety owing to one's desire
to understand.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
His action
and
teaching
gave force and direction, which Count Cavour
gratefully acknowledged, to the Kingdom of Italy in destroying
the Temporal Power of the Pope and establishing a free Church
in a free State.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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1510
The blood froze in our hearts
profoundest
depths
The manes of the startled horses stood erect.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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If such a course of increasing our military power is adopted now, the United States would have the capability of
eliminating
the disparity between its military strength and the exigencies of the situation we face; eventually of gaining the initiative in the "cold" war and of materially delaying if not stopping the Soviet offensives in war itself.
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NSC-68 |
|
]
AN ENIGMA
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the
profoundest
sonnet.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Gilbert, to
mention two familiar examples; but in no other instance of such a
combination have we discovered such
geniality
as is to be found in the
nonsense-pictures of Mr.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the shivering air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that
frightened
marshes hear
From a leper in his lair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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There is another city called Soli in Cyprus; but the inhabitants of the Cyprian city were called Solioi, whereas the inhabitants of the Cilician city were called Soleis, as is made clear by the quotation from
Callimachus
above.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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No king,
And yet the world's high
arbiter!
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sallust - Catiline |
|
There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Cum
gravi\us
dor\so subi\h onus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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But
precisely
here lies the weakness of the critique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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So also is it with the means of production
concentrated
in buildings, furnaces, means of transport, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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There on a shabby
building
was a sign
"The India Wharf " .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Peut-être
croyait-elle vraiment les cacher, de cette croyance incertaine, qui
n'est pourtant pas le doute, qui réserve une
possibilité
à ce qu'on
souhaite et dont Musset donne un exemple quand il parle de l'Espoir en
Dieu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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great consterna-
tion, and he wrote letters to Virginius exhorting him
to act in concert with him, for
preserving
the empire
and liberty of the Romans.
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Milton |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To the beginning of
agitation
for repeal.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Keats had lifted up his hymeneal curls from out
the poppy-seeded wine,
With
ambrosial
mouth had kissed my forehead,
clasped the hand of noble love in mine.
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Wilde - Poems |
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On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent,
unjoyous
attachment
for my native town, that brought me to fill a
place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better,
have gone somewhere else.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Vân rằng: Chị cũng nực cười,
Khéo dư nước mắt khóc
người
đời xưa.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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, to that kind of knowledge, only in case an
intuition (which is always sensible) is taken as a basis, and
therefore merely in order to
conceive
by means of- them an object of
possible experience.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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" The
severest
critic
must allow that the episode related by Veloso, is happily introduced.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" Gregor never
responded to being spoken to in that way, but just
remained
where he
was without moving as if the door had never even been opened.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Microscopic
grains oozed out.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Any one with so keen a sense of delicacy and subtilty as Shakespeare must also be capable of ex- treme grossness^
The more types and their
contrasts
a man unites in his own mind the less will escape him, since observation follows comprehension, and the more he will see and understand what other men feel, think, and wish.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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"You will want some
refreshment
after
our long journey," said the polite Town Mouse, and took his friend
into the grand dining-room.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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On désire plus la personne qui va se donner;
l'espérance
anticipe
la possession; mais le regret aussi est un
amplificateur du désir.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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But with Bonadea it was not only a matter of where she chose to invest her energies but the amazing
intensity
with which she had turned to her new life.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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When he ceased to awe the
barbarians
he found himself at their mercy.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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