”
The book, of course,
mentions
Lot's wife; and says that
the pillar of salt “stands there to-day,” and “has a right salty
taste.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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by the fact that it was built and equipped as a night-bombing force :
Prior to the development of long-range fighters and the discovery and
improvement
of non-visual bombing aids and techniques, the R A F could not undertake daylight bombing without prohibitive losses, nor could it achieve sufficient accuracy in night bombing to attack other than very large targets.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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But by putting it, whether instinctively or deliberately, on
a lower plane of
credibility
than the main action, the poet obeys his
deepest and gravest necessity: the necessity of keeping his poem
emphatically an affair of recognizable _human_ events.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Or else flat calm, vast mirror there
of my
despair!
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Some of these great lords, who were
not always themselves sprung from old Roman families, prided themselves
upon their
uncompromising
nationalism, and made a point of treating
foreigners with considerable haughtiness.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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needs |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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With
an
Introduction
by Dr.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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The Romans influenced Europe by
providing
archetypes for bothöon the one hand, their overweening militarism; on the other, their precedent- setting entertainment industry of bloody games.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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quine fugit lentos
incuruans
gurgite remos?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
The Daily
Chronicle
:
All his poems are like this, from begin
?
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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For it is a distinction
resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and
modifies
the
images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many downloads are occurring from a single
location
(IP address).
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Weaves in thy
fluttering
hair, Sweet,
Ivy and celandine.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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At the end of several months, I again had an
opportunity
to leave the
Capital for three or four days.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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I88
Where
something
great makes its appearance and
lasts for a relatively long time, we may premise
a careful breeding, as in the case of the Greeks.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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3
The divisions of the twenty-two similes and their corresponding virtues or qualities into stages of Cause-Path-Result are not found explicitly in the
Ornament
o f Realisations, but rather in the many commentaries on them; e.
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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required |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Grendles
grāpe, _all of Grendel's
claw, the whole claw_, 837; dat.
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Beowulf |
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Its
realisation
would be possible through meditation on the union of 'samatha' and 'vipasyana' constantly over a long period coupled with reverence.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Upon the
accession
of
Queen Mary to the throne, John Laski left
England, and after sojourning in Friesland
and Frankfort-on-the-Main, where he estab-
lished a church for the Belgian Protestant
refugees, he returned in 1556 to his native
land.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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We should imagine his body as white like a snow-mountain reflecting the light of one hundred
thousand
suns.
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Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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lionourable persons and
counsellors
sent call Mr.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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This
Soller declares to be a complete
description
of the Codex.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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The choice of
poems would have been very different if the author had selected from the
whole range of T'ang poetry, instead of contenting himself, except in
the case of Li Po and Tu Fu, with making
extracts
from two late
anthologies.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Chinese
scholars
rank their principal poets in the following order: Tu
Fu, Li T'ai-po, and Po Chü-i.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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It was a
spacious
chamber (Oda is
The Turkish title), and ranged round the wall
Were couches, toilets--and much more than this
I might describe, as I have seen it all,
But it suffices--little was amiss;
'Twas on the whole a nobly furnish'd hall,
With all things ladies want, save one or two,
And even those were nearer than they knew.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Nor can
communication
systems--that is to say, social systems--per- ceive.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Molocus, who is said to have
flourished
a.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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From the theory of
hysteria
we borrow the proposition that _such an
abnormal psychic elaboration of a normal train of thought takes place
only when the latter has been used for the transference of an
unconscious wish which dates from the infantile life and is in a state
of repression_.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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As
with the Jews, their
ecclesiastical
obstinacy was at once their danger and
their strength: it left them friendless, but it enabled them to survive
political extinction.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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As
for her government, I assure myself (I shall not exceed if I do affirm)
that this part of the island never had forty-five years of better tines,
and yet not through the
calmness
of the season, but through the wisdom of
her regiment.
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Bacon |
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What we find in Kraus's essays, therefore, is critical engagement with standardized forms of language, and a position on art which
combines
aesthetic autonomy with ethical responsibility.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Her power over him must now be
boundless, as she has
entirely
effaced all his former ill-opinion,
and persuaded him not merely to forget but to justify her conduct.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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We are still compro- mising, right and left, between public and private enterprise, between farm and city, between social
security
and social flexibility.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Irresponsible king;
appointed
council ; comptroller general.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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The transition from the
passivity
of sensuousness to the activity of
thought and of will can be effected only by the intermediary state
of aesthetic liberty; and though in itself this state decides
nothing respecting our opinions and our sentiments, and therefore
leaves our intellectual and moral value entirely problematical, it
is, however, the necessary condition without which we should never
attain to an opinion or a sentiment.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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The Roman burgesses began to perceive that dominion over a foreign people is an annoyance not only to the slave, but to the master, and
murmured
loudly regarding the odious war- service of Spain.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Each minister was
assisted
by one secretary of state and one councillor.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Fabius Maximus vanquished the Arverni and the
Ruteni, Rome
pardoned
them, and neither reduced them to provinces nor
imposed tribute upon them.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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I have once called
attention
to the embarrassment
of Hesiod, when he conceived the series of social
ages, and endeavoured to express them in gold,
silver, and bronze.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Since I have now had questions from you and since I've felt some
resistances
.
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Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
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He may be an utterly contemptible and pitiful creature; but there
nothing
intrinsically
despicable about rebellion-- in fact, in our particular society revolt far from
simply suppressed.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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As he perceived that the man
had done it rather out of cowardice than any treason-
able design, all the penalty he laid on him was to car-
ry about a woman on his
shoulders
a whole day in the
market-place.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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But neither will the rich, who
lavishes
his substance on his
desires, attain it.
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Lucian |
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The ground
under him rocked and pitched; it grew darker and darker, till
everything was visionary; and he thought himself
surrounded
by
spirits, and in the mansions of the damned.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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His great ambition was to shoot flying,
and he therefore spent whole days in the woods pursuing game; which,
before he was near enough to see them, his
approach
frighted away.
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Samuel Johnson |
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_
He walked calmly and read mutely the nones, walking and reading till he
came to _Res_ in _Beati immaculati: Principium verborum tuorum veritas:
in eternum omnia indicia
iustitiae
tuae.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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The use of this language will diminish greatly the number of
punishments
and rewards required.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Or must he rest on
an
assertion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Yea, in His mercy, He the dead will raise; blest be
His Name with
everlasting
praise!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Now I quite agree that mankind, thus provided,
would live and act according to knowledge, for wisdom would watch
and prevent ignorance from
intruding
on us.
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
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They knelt in the leaves
And eerily played
With the
glittering
things,
And were not afraid.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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"This is
certainly
the wisest plan," said the written paper; "I
really did not think of that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Many subsequent letters have been
transmitted both by them and by me to the Court of
Directors: by mne, in protestation against their collduct; by them, in
justification
of it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
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So he presents both
aristocrat
and
democrat with a like cold severity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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This doom is
irremovable
so long
as the Ottoman Empire shall last, and
its heavy burden crushes and condemns
to death every spiritual bud that sprouts
from either Turkish or non-Turkish stalks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
|
This
approbation
met, and Rod'rick 'gan
To use his arts and execute his plan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round,
Show them this meek
apparelled
thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful if it be crowned!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Dein
entschlagen
will ich mich,
weil weil mich deine Antwort flieht.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
|
The pyramid's chamber is thus likewise an object that can be sent on a journey - it especially likes to land in those areas of the modern world in which people are obsessed with the notion that
artistic
and cultural objects should be conserved at almost any cost.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Where'er the radiance of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron
footcloths
spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
The
lighting
of beacon fires on the stands never ceases,
The fighting and attacking are without a time of ending.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
|
1This self-referential assertion is less trivial and less
timeless
than it sounds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
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So flies the spray of Adria
When the black squall doth blow
So corn-sheaves in the flood-time
Spin down the
whirling
Po.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Both sides are under similar
pressure
to settle the game or at least to get the white knight out of mis- chief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
La
personne
même d’Odette n’y
tenait plus une grande place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
|
Virginis et saevi contingens namque Leonis 65
Lamina,
Callisto
juncta Lycaoniae
Vertor in occasum, tardum dux ante Booten,
Qui vix sero alto mergitur Oceano.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that
all the
neighbours
came around him, and he told them how he used
to come and visit his gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
My spirit's like a
shattered
tower, its walls
split by the battering ram's slow tireless blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
He, from the taste obscene reclaims our youth,
And sets the passions on the side of truth,
Forms the soft bosom with the
gentlest
art,
And pours each human virtue in the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Beacon fires are still on the Eastern Meadow,4 people look gaunt and
distressed
in court and wilderness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
After this
the CHEF DU
PERSONNEL
appeared and spoke to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
What could your wisdom
perceive
in me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
|
O captious reader, who peruses with stern countenance certain Latin verses of mine, read six amorous lines of
Augustus
Caesar:----"Because Antonius kisses Glaphvra, Fulvia wishes me in revenge to kiss her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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That ruled all seas, and did our channel grace ;
The
conscious
stag, though once the forest's
dread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Blake’s translation of Chariton;
to the Columbia
University
Press for permission to quote from S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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so while
opposing
both objectivism and subjectivism, Hegel is at the same time concerned that objectivity and subjectivity receive their due.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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And whilst in the political order it was
inspired by
classical
antiquity, in the order of justice it
adopted this institution from England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
If the
dispersion
of this malaria demands a human
hecatomb, it would evidently be better to sacrifice criminals than
honest husbandmen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
Similarly, an eighth
century ring bears, partly in runic, partly in Roman, characters, the
legend
“Æpred
owns me, Eanred engraved me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
X
^#$% !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
|
Eufeniens
seide in his mende,
'?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The war was over; but the British Army remained in the country, until
the payment of an indemnity by the Chinese
Government
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In the vital
conflict
for the enlargement of
faith to embrace the real results of science, he stood forth as a leader.
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Now, of course that
suggested at once that there must be a
communication
between the
two rooms.
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Its tech- nical mastery signals the presencing of the
accomplished
poet.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Axel Who feels the power of love, and does not know
Its mighty
workings?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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Vierges au coeur sublime, honneur de l'Archipel,
Votre
religion
comme une autre est auguste,
Et l'amour se rira de l'Enfer et du Ciel!
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(The jury finds
Socrates
guilty.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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And the
personality
of Pope himself shines through
every line.
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Alexander Pope |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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That Baudelaire said, "Evil be thou my
good," is
doubtless
true.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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For example, Marcus probably read the l lowing quote om Antisthenes, "To do good and yet to have a bad reputation is something which kings can expect," in the
Discourses
of Epictetus as recorded by Arrian (see IV, 6, 20).
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