I have left Gide and Van
Lerberghe
unquoted, un- mentioned, but I have, I dare say, given poems enough to indicate the quality and the scope of the poetry in La Wallonie.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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— the dominating
influence
of custom over, ix.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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The laws of
1547 and 1656
prescribe
a like punishment, in case of a second offence.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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And the sailing was ever delayed from one day to another; and long would they have lingered there, had not Heracles,
gathering
together his comrades apart from the women, thus addressed them with reproachful words:"Wretched men, does the murder of kindred keep us from our native land?
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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No cloud in heaven; while all around repose,
Come taste with me the fragrance of the rose,
Which loads the night-air with its musky breath,
While
everything
is still as nature's death.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It’s a field day for
Fortunatus
and idlers.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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The really significant
activity
of Appius belongs to the field of civil life.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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# Hamilcar noticed that a Greek tactician, whom he kept as an adviser, was
disclosing
all his plans to Agathocles.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the
possibilities
of expression in the German
language.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But the object
which had moved the Elector to this bold step was not completely gained,
for the offended pride of Gustavus
Adolphus
was not appeased till he had
obtained a free passage for his troops through Treves.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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EEEii
I',ieE t
iEiEiiaEg?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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i=aFi:;j5;r'-t==
oE oo F -co)
i- ;
+t+lz=izl
1i;: :
z -.
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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His fame rests even more on his
historical
essays, his unsur passed speeches, and his "Lays of Ancient Rome.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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This
ceremony
was not therefore new in our Saviours time.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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To this point I have left a number of loaded terms
scattered
throughout my description, and it is precisely the danger of these loaded terms that occupied much of our work in Harbor.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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[LOVE AND SONG]
May Love call the Muses, and the Muses bring Love; and may the Muses ever give me song at my desire, dear melodious song, the
sweetest
physic in the world.
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Bion |
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Remember, that as it is a shame for any man to wonder that a fig tree
should bear figs, so also to wonder that the world should bear anything,
whatsoever it is which in the
ordinary
course of nature it may bear.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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People were shoved into meaningless jobs and then forgotten by the
authorities
for years
on end.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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This per-
spective
will retain the upper hand, and I admit that I said a bit too much.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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To
modestly
embrace a small happinessöthat they call `resignation'.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Weariness over all
Spoileth that heart of power,
despoiling
me.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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"
"Dear Kamala, thus advise me where I should go to, that I'll find these
three things most
quickly?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia, whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means, would be
strategically
and politically unacceptable to the United States.
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NSC-68 |
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O shell-borne King
sublime!
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Keats |
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The narrow street was full of cries,
Of bickering and
snarling
lies
In many keys--
The tongues of Egypt and of Rome
And lands beyond the shifting foam
Of windy seas.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Come, shake the branch with thy
almighty
arm, dismiss thy darts and noxious fate disarm.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
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A GIRL
tree has entered my hands,
The sap has
ascended
my arms, THE
The tree has grown in my breast
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
" Their battlecry was, as an ironic
verse put it, " Das Vaterland soil kleiner
sein " -- let the
Fatherland
be smaller.
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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Even in the tentativeness of the early writing, the letters show his care for his work as well as what he must share or
relinquish
to allow it to have a life beyond himself.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
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DAnb nhau bầm mặt u dầu,
Nguôi ngoai hi t giậu,
tniỉốc
dầu bop Ihoa.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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"
And her own feet were caught in nets of gold,
And her own soul
profaned
by sects that squirm,
And little men climbed her high seats and sold
Her honour to the vulture and the worm.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Gnatho — In that case, then, lend me your
services
a little ;
let me be introduced to her.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
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An
American
story-
writer; born in Warren, R.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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" Similar flattering
expressions were
showered
upon him by the Ultra-
montane journals, which, on account of his mono-
mania, would have liked to have him bundled off
to a lunatic asylum.
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| Question: |
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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HALPINE
[Sidenote: 1861-1865]
Comrades known in marches many,
Comrades, tried in dangers many,
Comrades, bound by memories many,
Brothers
let us be.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" The mere fact that the question makes sense shows that
evolutionary
success and goodness are not the same thing.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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--hard
straight
lines
To score lies out!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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ITIS longum,
firoducito
semfier.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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And the same holds in boxing and in the
pancratium?
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Let bear or
elephant
be e'er so white,
The people, sure, the people are the sight!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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" May I seize this
opportunity
to say something on my own behalf?
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| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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Few men have left to
posterity
a mem-
ory more admirable than that of Gustavus
Adolphus.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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I don't wonder
at your
antipathy
to it.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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The mood of The Lament is one of unavailing sadness, ennobled
by pride and transfigured by the Italian poet's love for Leonora
d'Este; and the expression of this love and grief is marred by no
rhetorical artifice on Byron's part, whose sympathy with Tasso
renders him for once
forgetful
of self and capable of giving voice
to a passion that was not his own but another’s.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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" when the main royal worked
loose from the gaskets, and blew
directly
out to leeward, flap-
ping and shaking the mast like a wand.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The Crusades have also been named by many writers as an indirect
way in which the Church influenced the
communal
movement, since this
great ecclesiastical war did so much to awaken commercial enterprise and
to encourage the sale of town privileges by needy kings and crusaders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Jamais elle
ne m'avait dit une fois: «Pourquoi est-ce que je ne peux pas sortir
librement,
pourquoi
demandez-vous aux autres ce que je fais?
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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If thou couldst please me with
speaking
to me, thou
mightst have hit upon it here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Some
rival of Lesbia is
gibbeted
with scorn: --
And can the Town call you a belle,
And say that you're a Lesbia ?
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| Question: |
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The
argument
in favour of the principle of rotation is this; that by lessening' the danger of combinations among the directors, to make the institution subservient to party views, or to the accommodation, preferably, of any parti- cular get of men, it will render the public confidence more Arm, stable, and unqualified.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sallust - Catiline |
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The Cotys to whom Ovid writes was, if the
poet is to be believed, of a
different
temper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The essence of the situation was that a hundred or
two hundred people were
demanding
individually different meals of five or six courses,
and that fifty or sixty people had to cook and serve them and clean up the mess
afterwards; anyone with experience of catering will know what that means.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
*
Nothing remained for Saldern but to fall ill, and retire
from the Service; which he did: a man
honourably
ruined,
thought everybody; -- which did not prove to be the case, by
and by.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Carlyle |
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Disse Orlando: Rimetti l'elmo in testa,
E torna a la
battaglia
al modo usato:
Vedrem che segnirà: tanto ti dico,
Ch' io t'arò sempre come il Veglio amico.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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No sooner had I set out from the early east
than I had westered out past twilight's end,
Alone, as dunes delivering me to dunes
moved me from
rainless
waste to rainless waste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Translated Poetry |
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El
corregidor
liberal, el apuesto y caballeroso garzon, arriesgó su
favor y su empleo por amparar al magistrado en desgracia y fué el
primero que auguró al hijo un porvenir tan brillante como inútil para
uno y otro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
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' Nor, though it is
impossible wholly to omit, would there be much good in dwelling
upon the
prosodists
of the nearly forty years between Foggl and
Guest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
|
In Asia at expense of petty
Mohammedan
principalities
more or less tributary to Turks, or of Barbarian tribes
mostly in the reign of Alexander II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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"It was evening," he says, "when a messenger arrived
with tidings for the
Presidents
that Elateia was taken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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You brought me even here, where I
Live on a hill against the sky
And look on
mountains
and the sea
And a thin white moon in the pepper tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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The dull compulsion of economic relations completes the
subjection
of the labourer to the capitalist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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For he, who offers a sacrifice makes an
offering
also of his own soul in all its moods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
|
It would be simpler if,
following
the French custom, nothing after the
final stress were counted; but Spaniards prefer to consider normal
the verse of average length.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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I happened to bespeak pigeons for my supper, upon which one of
my
janissaries
went immediately to the Cadi (the chief civil officer
of the town), and ordered him to send in some dozens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
Our more modern
Scholiasts
are
equally acute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
”
Artistic
in the Horatian sense he is not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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The cure for the greatest part of human
miseries
is not radical, but
palliative.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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accipe supremo dictum mihi
forsitan
ore,
quod, tibi qui mittit, non habet ipse, uale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
dpa'; Bodhisattva) or the TantricPractitione~
The goal attained by all these means, that are appropriate to the various
dispositions
of people, is perpetual liberation (thar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
|
As to the citizens,
he now
understood
what their huzzas and bonfires were worth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay |
|
"
Thus Drances; and his words so well
persuade
The rest impower'd, that soon a truce is made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
|
” Kissinger’s proof for this is the Newtonian
revolution, which has not taken place in the developing world: “Cultures which escaped the early
impact of Newtonian thinking have retained the essentially pre-Newtonian view that the real
world is almost
completely
internal to the observer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
|
The
intentionality
of our language is not dependent on the attachment of language to the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
|
He can have no true regard for
me, or he would not have listened to her; and SHE, with her little
rebellious heart and
indelicate
feelings, to throw herself into the
protection of a young man with whom she has scarcely ever exchanged
two words before!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
" They had
acquainted
me with the whole event while he
was speaking, in brief words befitting such occasion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Another merit of the work consists in its having been written in pure
classical Japanese; and here it may be mentioned that we had once made
a remarkable progress in our own language quite
independently
of any
foreign influence, and that when the native literature was at first
founded, its language was identical with that spoken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
There began a friendship which had
great
influence
on the lives of both men, and lasted through life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Lepidus, the governor of
Narbonese
Gaul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
|
[_As the
bitterness
of her tone increases, the_ PEASANT _comes forward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
This is what is called 'The
mysterious
Quality' (of the Tao).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
|
There are analogous cases of discon- tinuity in the animal kingdom, although they have always been thought of as unique and
isolated
phenomena, as the parallel with heterostylism had not been suggested, in
c
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
|
If this be so, the
traditional epic manner will
scarcely
survive the separation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
|
You will be eager, I know, to hear
something
further of Frederica, and
perhaps may think me negligent for not writing before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
"
Jean Renaud was kept by
Besnardeau
at the top of his
tree till after three o'clock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
I regret the
personal
correspondence of a small number of writers, who mostly don't write to each other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Laidgen or Laid- cend, of
Clonfert
Molua, now Kyle, Queen's County, at January 12th, in the First
Volumeofthis Art.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Adjustment of the blocking software in late February and early March 2018 has
resulted
in some "false positives" -- that is, blocks that should not have occurred.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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In
disoccupied
moments she had more than once covered a sheet of paper
with signs and hieroglyphics which she stated were Greek and Irish and
Hebrew characters.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Reinalter, in: Mitteilungen des
Instituts
fu?
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The
greatest
name in Polish
literature is that of Mickiewicz, the leader of the
romantic movement, who found a welcome and a
chair in Paris when he was exiled from his native
Lithuania.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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" She was forced out, crying
as she went, "God Almighty's
judgments
light on you!
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Macaulay |
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”[531]
On the northern slopes of the
mountain
of Flavigny (at the point marked
_J C_, _Plate 25_), Cæsar had chosen the most convenient spot for
observing each incident of the action, and for sending assistance to the
places which were most threatened.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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