13), we should
first ask ourselves whether we have ever heard
the maxim about tempering the wind to the
shorn lamb, -- the
utterance
of a somewhat
Ovidian author -- attributed to the Bible.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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And those who speak may be university
professors!
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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"You know
Thornfield
Hall, of course?
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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The greater part of the year 11 43 was occupied, by the primate, in
effecting
a great work of peace and charity, and in composing differences between two rival opponents.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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But as we walked, we saw a man sitting on a grey rock taking pinches
of salt from a bag and
throwing
them into the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What sholden
straunge
to me doon,
Whan he, that for my beste freend I wende,
Ret me to love, and sholde it me defende?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Each
attribute
is text, each trans-
lation, yet neither interferes with the other.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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In abolishing the true world we have
also
abolished
the world of appearance !
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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By this circumstance, Luke showeth how
necessary
it was for Paul to gather new and fresh strength of faith, that he might not quake in most great and sudden danger.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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page 6, paragraph 11, line 2
According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a wish-fulfilling jewel is an extremely rare precious gem which, when
properly
cared for, will manifest whatever one might wish for in much the same way as a genie would in Western legends.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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According to undisputed testimony before the NLRB, in 1937 the United Automobile Workers Union started to
organize
employees at Ford's River Rouge plant.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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": thus Hans Magnus
Enzensberger
begins a poem about Johann Gensfieisch zum Gutenberg.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Tully - Offices |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats |
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The autonomy plan ought also to be rejected, as well as any compromise or division of the
territories
for, given the plans of the PLO and those of the Israeli Arabs themselves, the Shefa'amr plan of September 1980, it is not possible to go on living in this country in the present situation without separating the two nations, the Arabs to Jordan and the Jews to the areas west of the river.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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And yet it was they who’d have looked on me as
a stranger, they didn’t know anything about the old Lower Binfield,
they’d
never heard of
Shooter and Wetherall, or Mr Grimmett and Uncle Ezekiel, and cared less, you bet.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Woe upon spouse and spouse,
Whatso of evil sway
Held her in that
distress!
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Euripides - Electra |
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That also
explains
Rilke's remarks about Venice to Gisela von Heydt in 1908 when he described Venice as coursed ("durchblutet") with will, seeking to come to it- self, and finally, of having found itself (Briefe an Heydt 146).
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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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He ordered them to pile up earth, or dig trenches, or cut down wood, or shift their camp, or repair their baggage; because he considered that
idleness
was the parent of plots and mutiny.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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tier soft embraces soon refuse desire;
His bones and marrow sudden x_armth inspire; And all the godhead feel_ the wonted fire
Not half so swlft the ratthng thunder files,
Or forky
lightnings
fla>h along the skies.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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As a body of liter-
ature, Greek poetry is the richest legacy that the modern
world has
received
from ancient times.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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256; A
Treatise
on Insanity, Section VI, p.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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His seminal books Critique of Cynical Reason (University of Minnesota Press, 1988) and Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism (University of Minnesota Press, 1989) are his only works to be
translated
into English.
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Sloterdijk |
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As a rule, a recess meant a general exodus, but today people
weren’t
moving.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
|
At the
ramshackle
gate sparrows raise a din?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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I be no thief nor
highwayman
– ‘tis not for that I’m abroad at night – , but a lover; and lovers deserve all aid.
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Bion |
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It was as if my bosom bled,
So much she
troubled
me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Obituary
in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
The once heavy and
mutually
ben- eficial commerce between them has been reduced to a trickle, as their economies get tied into the investment and extractive needs of global capitalism.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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Thou seest
Dispersedly
the people are returning.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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and we have none
inheritance
in the son of Jesse: every man to
your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house.
| Guess: |
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bible-kjv |
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If your pride has solidified to this extent, then there is no way for
positive
qualities to penetrate.
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| Source: |
Kalu Rinpoche |
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Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in
tropical
climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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The arcades constituted a canopied
intermezzo
between streets and squares; the Crystal Palace, in contrast, already conjured up the idea of a building that would be spacious enough in order, perhaps, never to have to leave it again.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Is it not because
there is more truth in it than may be
altogether
palatable to you?
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| Question: |
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made,
additional
rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Prager's main thesis was the
remarkable
overlapping of private and public life in his patient's narra- tive inasmuch as this distinction had failed.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The
sunshine
threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So much must be conceded :
there could have been no life at all except upon the
basis of perspective estimates and semblances; and
if, with the virtuous enthusiasm and
stupidity
of
many philosophers, one wished to do away alto-
gether with the “seeming world”-well, granted that
you could do that,—at least nothing of your "truth ”
“
would thereby remain!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
Such sentiments
doubtless
were current in Greece.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Couldst thou see that majestic air of Abelard without being jealous of
everyone
who beholds so attractive a man?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
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: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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But in each case, while
the occurrence of regular epic was seeming so improbable, it
nevertheless happened that poetry was written which was certainly
nothing like epic in form, but which was strongly charged with a
profound
pressure
of purpose closely akin to epic purpose; and _De Rerum
Natura_ and _La Divina Commedia_ are very suggestive to speculation now.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We have no accomplish'd blackguards, like Tom Jones,
But
gentlemen
in stays, as stiff as stones.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Pray
whativer
wor ta doin'?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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in the hotel at
Birmingham?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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And because of this strife she bare without union with Zeus who
holds the aegis a glorious son, Hephaestus, who
excelled
all the sons of
Heaven in crafts.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
|
4\
jurious when followed by a spondee, than when suc-
ceeded by an Iambus; because, in the former case,
the third
syllable
of the verse has an accent; whereas,
in the latter, there are three un-accented syllables
together--a portion, too great to be wholly destitute
of accent at the beginning of the line ; although, in
the body of the verse, an equal portion may very
well dispense with accent.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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To
this were
prefixed
the groups of bymns by other families which form the
second part (51-191) of book 1 ; and still later were added the first part of
book i and book vill attributed to the family of Kanva.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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Were the word “genial” not so much profaned, were it not misused in easy
good-nature, to extenuate
lettered
and sensual indolence, that worn old
term might be applied, above all men, to “the Shirra.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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‘S-s-s Brother Hutson,’ I said, ‘looks like we’re
fighting
a losing battle, a losing battle.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
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| Source: |
Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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rmed; and ac- the deity and
oneself]
as regarded [the relatIonship between
Tantra ofthe Great Natural Aa ?
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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You stated that
you would wish to know
something
about Walton H.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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And indeed, Fichte's
strategy
in " ber der Grund unsers Glaubens an eine Go?
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Hegel_nodrm |
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The authority which we have chiefly followed,--a manuscript of old
date, drawn up from the verbal
testimony
of individuals, some of whom
had known Hester Prynne, while others had heard the tale from
contemporary witnesses,--fully confirms the view taken in the
foregoing pages.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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She was a
contributor
to the Atlantic
Monthly before 1880.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
I have other
questions
or need to report an error
Please email the diagnostic information to help2018 @ pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
You will need to preview the film
and also find some material on this topic in
reference
books.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
In the last decades of the old regime, some authors had taken the dis-
tinction
even further, finding a person's true greatness less in public acts than in private, intimate behavior.
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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For allow the latest period: let us
anticipate
the age of the
kings of the Tartessii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sallust - Catiline |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no
recognition
in those orbs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
‘Enjoy
yourself!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
5
Wherever
a young man roams
The Fates in ambush lie
6 What good that young men have
Did you lack in your life?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Law of falling bodies," which ran through Bloom's
thoughts
of the entire day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But all your
entertainment
still is fed
By villains in your own dull island bred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
|
About this time we may place Ovid's visit to Athens, i
A single line
contains
all the mention that he makes ofi
it, but this informs us that he went there for purposes
of study.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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King
Sad news, and an
obsessive
sense of duty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
That was their
secret, only theirs, alone in the hiding
twilight
and there was none to
know or tell save the little bat that flew so softly through the evening
to and fro and little bats don't tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Above, below, around, the desert, the deep,
the silence, the fearful
compelling
spaces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
Precisely
this must be shown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
|
Nguyễn
Tông Lỗi (1414-?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-02 |
|
Streams with
warm flood flow there;
sometimes
mead, sometimes wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And
throughly
to the very ground it was so crispe and cleare,
That every little stone therein did plaine aloft appeare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
|
And the
reasoning faculty itself is generally conceived, by those who urge its
cultivation, as merely a means for the avoidance of pitfalls and a
help in the
discovery
of rules for the guidance of practical life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
|
II
Dryads
haunting the groves,
nereids
who dwell in wet caves,
for all the white leaves of olive-branch,
and early roses,
and ivy wreaths, woven gold berries,
which she once brought to your altars,
bear now ripe fruits from Arcadia,
and
Assyrian
wine
to shatter her fever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
627 (#659) ############################################
Character of Charles 627
friends even while dressing, how he discharges the business of government,
hears the reports of the Palsgraves, and decides
difficult
points of law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
|
D'abord c'était elle qui
soignait
(Mlle A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
|
A
tranquillising
spirit presses now
On my corporeal frame, so wide appears
The vacancy between me and those days
Which yet have such self-presence in my mind, 30
That, musing on them, often do I seem
Two consciousnesses, conscious of myself
And of some other Being.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Does fear come on and master thee, fear, that confounds
cowards?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
Get off of it 1 ’Oo asked you to walk about on my
belly,
stoopid?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
precisely
the mining of the new subject by the forces inherent in the old drama?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
Apatronwasannuallyheld
here, on the i8th of April.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
|
Good rule it is to look for sign
confirming
sign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
In the psychoanalytical interpretation, for example, they use the hypothesis of a censor,
conceived
as a line of demarcation with customs, passport division, currency control, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
|
And seyde, `Leve brother Pandarus,
Intendestow that we shal here bleve
Til
Sarpedoun
wol forth congeyen us?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But the gods and
all nature helped her, and in process of time she was
re-united to Love, forgiven by Venus, and made
immortal
by the
Father of gods and men.
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We
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The
Uddyisutra
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This human
sympathy gave a
peculiar
dramatic quality to his imagination.
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It
responds
to the necessity that modern individuals find themselves under, namely, to transcend the horizon of their prior education.
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The
translation
of Nietzsche's poetry has proved
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When he speaks in public, the city listens like one man, open-
mouthed; 'tis Athens listening to Alcibiades; yet the Athenians presently
repented of their infatuation for the son of Clinias, but here love grows
to reverence; the welfare of this city, the
happiness
of her citizens,
are all bound up in one man.
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Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation, operative
also in the mental phenomena; and the terrible tabulation of the French
statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be
reducible
also to
exact numerical rations.
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Love, he thinks, would doubtless be best pleased with an exposition
of the
doctrines
of true love: hence his elaborate analysis of the
passion, in which he follows, step by step, the Symposium of Plato,
or, rather, Ficino's commentary on that dialogue.
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