And as
poetry is never the same, so its
significance
is never quite the same.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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'
is
'
a
84
LUCIAN THE DREAMER
' I beg your pardon,' he said; * I was
wrong—quite
wrong.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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The spirit of
propaganda
is in- transigeance.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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The summit of Little Ararat, which had for the last two hours
provokingly kept at the same
apparent
height above me, began
to sink, and before ten o'clock I could look down upon its small
flat top, studded with lumps of rock, but bearing no trace of a
crater.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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See above, note 12 to lecture of 5
December
1975.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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ne a strategy of player B, assume that if at some decision node the history of the game is
inconsistent
with the B-proO?
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Schwarz - Committments |
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or her father, all
included
in a word.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Tobacco and ale were his two grand animal gratifications ; and his highest mental enjoyment seemed to be that of witnessing the public execution of criminals, whom he constantly accom panied from the gaol to Tyburn, riding on the copse of the cart, and smoking his pipe with perfect decorum the whole way, unmoved at the passing scene, while
Clever Tom Clinch as the rabble was bawling, Was riding up Holborn to die in his calling ;
And the maids to the windows and
balconies
ran.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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"On
quitting
the village, some poor
presented themselves at the door of his
carriage, to make their humble obeisance
to their new rector, and solicit some
charitable donation, which they had
been accustomed to receive; but he
drew up the glass, and ordered the post-
boy to drive on.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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Dionysius
confined
Hermocrates, who had married his sister, in prison; but afterwards, to oblige her, he banished him to the Peloponnese.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Above all things, he was most anxious, that good morals and order should everywhere prevail,
6
while he desired that Christianity should
flourish
throughout his dominions.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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L'età
longobarda
a Pistoia.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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Before he closed the
he published two works which, in the Congregational
churches, settled the question at issue in
accordance
with his princi-
ples — viz.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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There's some peculiar in each leaf and grain,
Some
unmarked
fibre, or some varying vein:
Shall only man be taken in the gross?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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" then Helen's beauty must
be
accepted
by the faith of all the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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Henry IV promulgated the edict of Nantes at the
head of his victorious troops; the air had often resounded with the voice
of triumph, but what was that triumph compared with the
grateful
ac-
clamations of the Reformed who learned that the stake, the gibbet, the
rack, the noisome dungeon, the heavy chains, and the still heavier pangs
of separation from all they held dear would no longer be theirs.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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But there is another good to which man is not bound of
necessity, and this good we ought sometimes to set aside for the sake
of
obedience
to which we are bound of necessity, since we ought not to
do good by falling into sin.
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Summa Theologica |
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But whence
ever we true, noble whigs had our principles, as to the
STATS-point, of coercing kings, and the
rights and liberties of the people, I defy thee, and will cor rect thy bold and
insolent
huffing, as ifthou thought'st thou cou'd'st make it out as plain as 2 and 3 make 5 — But hark ye, a word in thy ear — Pr'ythee tell me (thou see'st there's company hears us) art thou so very sure, as thou vapour that thou'rt in the right?
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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nden in
schwarze
Verwesung' [All roads flow into black decay] (T i, 167).
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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The situations of imagi-
nary glory which he draws for himself are the detection of an
anapæst in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case
which
Cranzius
had passed over, and the never-dying Ernesti
failed to observe.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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To no other person than yourself could the writer more appropriately
dedicate
this little biographical tract.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Thy wife, and with a tainted memory-
MY seared and
blighted
name, how would it tally
With the ancestral honors of thy house,
And with thy glory?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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» Et ma mère
ouvrit la porte
treillagée
du vestibule qui donnait sur l’escalier.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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48 and
foUowing
on fddhf).
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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And hope
pleasures
will always by you stay ;
And when you get to your home above.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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zirziiij
i i;1,iJ.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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320
Years have not seen, Time shall not see,
The hour that tears my soul from thee:[ft]
Ev'n Azrael,[147] from his deadly quiver
When flies that shaft, and fly it must,[fu]
That parts all else, shall doom for ever
Our hearts to
undivided
dust!
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Byron |
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Would I were hers in body, and not in soul,
And she admitted me secretly to her
chamber!
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Troubador Verse |
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This was announced, ironically and threateningly, in the last geom- etry
produced
in Europe, the culmination of its two-thousand year history since Euclid.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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10 See Niklas Luhmann, Das Recht der
Gesellschaft
(Frankfurt, 1993).
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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'
As Sherman was on his way home he met a fellow-clerk, and stopped him
with: 'Are you an
agnostic?
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Yeats |
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”
“Yes,” replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, “but _that_
was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have
considered her as one of the
handsomest
women of my acquaintance.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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These
sentiments
rendered
Jugoslavia hospitable to Czarist
emigres and Wrangel's army was for a long time
quartered there.
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Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
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The freedom of Korea was, as we saw,
proclaimed
with great pomp just at the moment when she had the least chance of making use of that unexpected independence.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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And therefore from the
knowledge
I
have, that _I my self exist_, and because at the same time I understand
that nothing else appertains to my _Nature_ or _Essence_, but that I am a
_thinking Being_, I rightly conclude, that my _Essence_ consists in this
alone, that I am a _thinking Thing_.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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village [March 1st], with great solemnity, and in the presence of
a vast crowd, the three accused persons were arraigned before
John
Hathorne
and Jonathan Corwin, of Salem, members of the
Colonial Council.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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Another minor variation is that the section on Viên Chieu's* biography in the Phúc Ðiên edition is missing a page
compared
to the Lê edition.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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+ Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting
research
on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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@E':
: i ,; iiiis ; i,
uiitiii=
,A+i;i;
:.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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" -- " Y ou are the
master of that fate,"
concluded
L ady E dgarmond, in a
smothered voice; and O swald departed.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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See above, lecture of 6
February
1974, p.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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Here
Rosalgate
and Farthac stretch their arms,
And point to Ormuz, fam'd for war's alarms;
Ormuz, decreed full oft to quake with dread
Beneath the Lusian heroes' hostile tread,
Shall see the Turkish moons,[640] with slaughter gor'd,
Shrink from the lightning of De Branco's sword.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" There is an
interesting
possibility which opens here.
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
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The
fountain
sang and sang,
But the satyr never stirred--
Only the great white moon
In the empty heaven heard.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Ambassador
Bryce and Mr.
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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One town
Verulamium
(St Albans) was
a municipium, ranking with the four coloniae in privilege and standing
but different (as explained above) in origin.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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This complete
quantity
of the extent in relation to such a condition is called universality (universalitas).
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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n
Jerusalen
tus alegrias.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Greeks, the, the art
impulses
of, i.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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The coming of the
first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or birthday of
pope; the first red leaf
hurrying
through "the altered air," an
epoch.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And in this discourse it will be
necessary
to note those errors that are
obvious, as well as others which are seldomer observed, since there are
few so obvious or acknowledged into which most men, some time or other,
are not apt to run.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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There are two or three fine old Roman Forti
fications
near the Town, which Camden and Speed take Notice of.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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303 (#321) ############################################
Private Letters
303
king, but all the great reward he had was riding of eightscore
mile in and out, and all his friends full sorry for him; how Sir
Andrew Trollope cut a joke; how the mayor strove to collect
supplies for queen Margaret, but the mob, learning its destina-
tion,
pillaged
the convoy; it was Sir John Wenlock's cook who
, attacked the victuals, 'but as for the mony I wot not howe hit
was departyd, I trowe the pursse stale the mony.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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Perfect competition, complete collusion,
absolute
control: These different causes produce identical results.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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This proselyting policy
had its effect upon
ambitious
men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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"It is a sad fact that sixty-seven per cent of the expenses of
our government are being
expended
either because of past
wars or in preparation for possible future wars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
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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In Donne's poem one
feels the
quickening
of the brain, the vision extending its range, the
passion gathering sweep with the expanding rhythms, and from the mind
thus heated and inspired emerges, not a cry that time might stay its
course,
Lente, lente currite noctis equi,
but a clearer consciousness of the eternal significance of love, not
the love that aspires after the unattainable, but the love that
unites contented hearts.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
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The darts of the
Persians
prevented you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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"
[The story
proceeds
to say how the slaves fulfill their promise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
|
The Ball no
Question
makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all--HE knows--HE knows!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
All rights New
Literary
History 36.
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| Question: |
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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What succors him in this danger, which, in the
prospect of an eternal duration of punishment, transcends in hideousness
all the horrors that can be presented to the
imagination?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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" And with him his wife, bearing Peleus' son
Achilles
on her arm, showed the child to his dear father.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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3 The leader of this colony was one Moses, a very wise and valiant man, who, after he had
possessed
himself of the country, amongst other cities, built that now most famous city, Jerusalem, and the temple there, which is so greatly revered among them.
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| Question: |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
One can say in reply that many scientific
theories
seem to remain workable in practice, in spite of clashing with ESP; that in fact one can get along very nicely if one forgets about it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
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583 "Fallacibus spectris," with
fallacious
specters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Gently buzzing round her cheek,
Whispering
in her ear, you seek
Secrets to deliver.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
Some have suffered serious brain damage and become diagnosed as mentally
handicapped
(e.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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If Prance
retracted
—we are told by Sir Roger himself, That he was a white-liver1 d Man, and so might be frighted out of Truth as well as into it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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It looks magical, and yet the camera man has sim- ply to reverse his film and to run it from the end to the
beginning
of the action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
|
On cherche à voir ce qu'on aime,
on devrait
chercher
à ne pas le voir, l'oubli seul finit par amener
l'extinction du désir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
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ufelnd')
suggests
perhaps the grass is trickling with blood and not dew or mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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[viii]
When it is said, sent and sanctified them, it is openly shewn what
strictness
he practised with those when present, for whom when absent he was not wanting in concern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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De ella en pos el Católico Fernando
Al frente apareció de sus legiones,
En las
banderas
de Aragón mostrando
Las barras á la par de los leones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
397
Nor did he even think it beneath his dignity to issue a
detailed
law as to luxury —which, among other points, cut down extravagance in building at least in one of its most irrational forms, that of sepulchral monuments; restricted the use of purple robes and pearls to certain times, ages, and classes, and totally prohibited it in grown-up men; fixed a maximum for the expenditure of the table; and directly forbade a number of luxurious dishes.
| Guess: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
King
Yudhisthira
answers the Yaksha's Questions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
" asks
Bodenham, scanning the barren bush that
stretches
to the barren
sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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One strong proof of my
wretchedly
defective nature is, that
even her expostulations, so mild, so rational, have not influence to cure
me of my faults; and even her praise, though I value it most highly,
cannot stimulate me to continued care and foresight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
|
[_Enter Orestes, his sword
dropping
with blood,_
ORESTES
Thee too I seek: for him what's done will serve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
At a wedding the veil
inspires
in the bride a 'death-like paleness' (1987: 101).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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The Dutch carpenters had
taught him the practical part of ship-building, but the
English instructed him in the fundamental principles
of the art: his attention was also
directed
to arith-
metic, watchmaking, hydraulics, and astronomy.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Thus Priam fell, and shar'd one common fate
With Troy in ashes, and his ruin'd state: He, who the scepter of all Asia sway'd,
Whom
monarchs
like domestic slaves obey'd.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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, aetate twenty-two, Ovid composed the
five charming elegies giving in fuller form the story of the
same pair of happy lovers, Sulpicia and Cerinthus ; they
show more than forty
Ovidianisms
and 47.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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er-of may ben any
p{re}science
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Il devait la
revoir une fois encore, quelques
semaines
plus tard.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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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.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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I should be
ashamed of having one that was only
entailed
on me.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Aspects of nature or aspects of life, all with a
few strokes of the pen, are
conjured
into an imperishable
reality.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Mais je
pense que nous n'en sommes pas encore réduits à passer ainsi sous les
fourches
caudines
de MM.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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"Our age is the age of
consecration
and penance.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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How stored with
learning thy ready wit, how controlled thy speech ;
ambassadors
are awe-stricken at thine answers, and
thy grave manners make them forget thy years.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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He
gained great celebrity as a
lecturer
on physical
science, chiefly through the ingenious apparatus,
contrived by himself, with which he illustrated
his lectures.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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*CHAPTER II*
*THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES: SCIENTIFIC METHOD*
Philosophy, as understood by Aristotle, may be said to be the organised
whole of disinterested knowledge, that is,
knowledge
which we seek for
the satisfaction which it carries with itself, and not as a mere means
to utilitarian ends.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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[3] The name Gilgamish was originally written
_d_Gi-bil-aga-mis, and means "The fire god (_Gibil_) is a commander,"
abbreviated to _d_Gi-bil-ga-mis, and _d_Gi(s)-bil-ga-mis, a form
which by full
labialization
of _b_ to _u_ was finally contracted to
_d_Gi-il-ga-mis.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It was
touching
to
see how happy the young husband felt in his new, tiny
home, in which he was most hospitable.
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Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
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