Finally, to make things
quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon
home-truth, tears away all his
protective
screens, and leaves him with his
self-respect in tatters.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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How could a plain rustic
possibly
invent such a tale?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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The
Reformation
certainly seemed at one moment to be
carrying all before it, but several causes contributed to
a decay of the new faith which was as unexpected as
had been its success.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Two hundred pages analyze Polish life,
character, customs and the restrictions of life under Prussia and Russia;
the last third is a study of the literature of Poland's
romantic
period.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Crackling with fever, they essay;
I turn my
brimming
eyes away,
And come next hour to look.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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By doing so, you will fulfill your guru's wishes and be of service to the Buddhadharma; you will repay your parents' kindness and spontaneously
accomplish
the benefit of yourself and others.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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But now they feed them with good cheer,
And what they want they take in beer,
For
Christmas
comes but once a year,
And then they shall be merry.
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William Browne |
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At their feet were
inscribed
the events of their several
reigns, their power, their pride, and their crimes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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Ainsi, le plaisir
d'interrompre, qui rend la
discussion
si anime?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Thou
wanderer
through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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misma, que, como conse- cuencia, no se
reconoce
en el objeto.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Because of his not finding any substantial
existence
of things on examination with 'prajfia' he becomes a 'beyond wisdom' Cprajfiottara ') practitioner.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Ae dreary, windy, winter night,
The stars shot down wi'
sklentin
light,
Wi' you, mysel' I gat a fright,
Ayont the lough;
Ye, like a rash-buss, stood in sight,
Wi' wavin' sough.
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burns |
|
You will do better to be
searching
out
All sharpen'd steel that may take weapon-use.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Also, he has too frequently
declared
that nothing short of the return of all the former German colonies would be satisfactory.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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" SAS}
Rattling the adamantine chains & hooks heave up the ore
In mountainous masses, plung'd in furnaces, & they shut & seald
The furnaces a time & times; all the while blew the North
His cloudy bellows & the South & East & dismal West
And all the while the plow of iron cut the dreadful furrows
In Ulro beneath Beulah where the Dead wail Night & Day {Again, Blake's rendering of this line is
distinctly
different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years;
Anticipation forward points the view;
The mother, wi' her needle and her shears,
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new;
The father mixes a' wi'
admonition
due.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
"Why
serious?
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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3 Some of Murena's advisers said that he should attack Sinope and start a war for control of the king's capital, because if he
captured
that city, he would easily win over the other places.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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16644
SONGS HYMNS AND LYRICS
TWO ROBBERS
WEN
'HEN Death from some fair face
Is
stealing
life away,
All weep, save her, the grace
That earth shall lose to-day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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@E':
: i ,; iiiis ; i,
uiitiii=
,A+i;i;
:.
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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COLLECTION OF PASSAGES
TRANSLATED
IN THE PROSE WRITINGS.
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Milton |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The thing is not, of course,
of his own invention: it is an inspiration from drama and, especially,
from the
soliloquies
of Shakespeare.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Let Venus go and chuck her dainty page,
And kiss his mouth, and toss his curly hair,
With net and spear and hunting equipage
Let young Adonis to his tryst repair,
But me her fond and subtle-fashioned spell
Delights
no more, though I could win her dearest citadel.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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par des detours dans une
maison dont la
fene^tre
donnait sur cette place; le vent agitait
?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Every
existence
has its idiom--everything has an idiom and tongue;
He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man
translates, and any man translates himself also;
One part does not counteract another part--he is the joiner--he sees how
they join.
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Whitman |
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Those who find beautiful
meanings
in beautiful things are the
cultivated.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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But the same
youth, with that same natural instinct of health,
has guessed how the
paradise
can be regained.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
25 net)
"A
volume—
irreverent but parodies".
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'
Those in the town could see and hear
A shaded river flowing near;
The broad deep bed could hardly hold
Its
plenteous
waters calm and cold.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Isn't the disappearance of man
contained
in the disappearance of god?
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Foucault-Live |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
receiving
it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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WOMAN AND HER
SIGNIFICANCE
279
the scanty remains of inherited maleness in her, which, by
contrast, gives her even this shght comprehension.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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" "They are also bound to grind their corn
at the _moulin banal_, or the lord's mill, where one
fourteenth
part
of it is taken for his use" as toll.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And there led I the Bushby clan,
My gamesome billie, Will,
And my son Maitland, wise as brave,
My
footsteps
follow'd still.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Better to be a live
tortoise
dragging your tail in the mudi?
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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The mysteries
of Eleusis; the religion of the Egyptians;
the system of
emanations
among the Indians;
the Persian adoration of the elements and the
sun; the harmony of numbers, which was
the basis of the Pythagorean doctrine--.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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did I ask if any clear work on chinese
pronouns
in any occidental lang?
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Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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—In looking at a water-
fall we imagine that there is freedom of will and
fancy in the countless turnings, twistings, and
breakings of the waves; but
everything
is com-
y pulsory, every movement can be mathematically
N°- calculated.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
” cried Mary; “settle in
Northamptonshire!
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Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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Among the masses of the people this
coalition
is now, in the moral field, a tangible reality.
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Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
11,
1
"See "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs
See
Collectanea
Sacra," in 30 para- graphs, pp.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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We might be tempted, at times, to say the same of the Platonized-Soc- rates, but the Republic of Plato is
construc
tive; it rears a lofty dwelling-place not made with hands, whereas Lucian uproots the very foundations.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
'
Such accents uttered the
daughter
of Saturn; and the [561-594]other
raises her rustling snaky wings and darts away from the high upper air
to Cocytus her home.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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n cristiana --dc la que tan funda
mentalmen
te des- confiaba- , es lo que acabo?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
|
_ One who is born of thee:
It is
ordained
so.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
continued to support 242 in the
Security
Council on the basis of its earlier understanding that Israel is prepared to return territories.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
|
It is not
considered
to be a ninth.
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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The holy father, after he had given them his benediction, retired and
withdrew himself to the
pontifical
lodgings of his own palace.
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Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
|
What wonder if, the tavern as he past,
He looked and longed, and stayed his beasts at last,
Who patient stood and veiled themselves in steam
While he
explored
the bar-room's ruddy gleam?
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Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Yet, to be
effective
in its application, even such a form of negation must
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Then, possibly, some of
these people have happened to take up their abode in places where the
mosquitoes are rare; others may have
recovered
quickly; others may not have
chanced to possess parasites in suitable stages when they have been bitten.
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Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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You may realise it when I say that had I been released last May, as I
tried to be, I would have left this place loathing it and every official
in it with a
bitterness
of hatred that would have poisoned my life.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
(1851); The New Squire (1862), exquisite in irony, humor, and scath-
ing travesty; For What we are Growing old' (1865); Love's Fools'
(1867); Black
Diamonds
(1870); “Rab Ráby) (1880); “The Poor Rich'
(1881); 'Eyes Like the Sea' (1890); “There is No Devil' (1891); “The
Son of Rákóczy' (1892); (Twice Two are Four' (1893); etc.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
Mais je n'avais pas songé que ma guérison, en me donnant à l'égard
de Mme de Guermantes une attitude normale, accomplirait
parallèlement
la
même oeuvre en ce qui la concernait et rendrait possible une amabilité,
une amitié qui ne m'importaient plus.
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Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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At length my guide
again spoke, still
doubting
the grand point of my Christianity.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
|
He denounced the Frenchman for
his reprehensible taste, though he did not mention his
beautiful
verse
nor his originality in the matter of criticism.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
The
Northern
Diver is the largest of this family.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
The present saint can hardly be identical
with that Diarmaid, Abbot of Gleann-Uissean, whose death is'recorded, at
the year 874 ;•» unless, indeed, we could imagine some
interpolations
in the
MartyrologyofTallagh,orintheFeilireofSt.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
Only the small
part so held will be
represented
in the holding
company's balance sheet.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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12373
PIERRE RONSARD
(1524-1585)
BY
KATHARINE
HILLARD
HERE is no more picturesque moment in the whole history of
France than that at which Pierre Ronsard was born.
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
At length, having
passed nearly across the bridge, we approached the termination of the
footway, when our progress was impeded by a
turnstile
of some height.
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
I am thy father's wedded wife;
And
underneath
the spreading tree
We two will live in honesty.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Just then, at speed on the Foe,
With her bow all
weathered
and brown,
The great Lackawanna came down,
Full tilt, for another blow;
We were forging ahead,
She reversed--but, for all our pains,
Rammed the old Hartford instead,
Just for'ard the mizzen-chains!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
I can be he only in the
neutralized
mode, as the actor is Hamlet, by mechanically making the typical gestures of my state and by aiming at myself as an imaginary cafe waiter through those gestures taken as an "analogue.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
|
No one at the first sight gave a bet-
ter idea of
adolescent
genius.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
|
’3 In our case the analogy should be: ‘Who would complain if he
couldn’t
fill in a form?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
But as the swain amazèd stood,
In this most solemn vein,
Came
Phyllida
forth of the wood,
And stood before the swain.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
William Browne |
|
I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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|
Question: |
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
|
But there the twain did stand
Unfaltering, each his iron in his hand,
Edge
fronting
edge.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
After the
departure
of Solon, the indignation of the gods fell heavy upon Croesus, probably because he thought himself the most happy of all men.
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|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
89
little consequence whether Frank learn
the Latin grammar this year or next;
but it is of the greatest consequence to
my boy, that he should early learn
habits of
attention
and application.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
|
Consolator most mild, the promised one advancing,
With gentle hand extended, the mightier God am I,
Foretold by
prophets
and poets, in their most wrapt prophecies and poems;
From this side, lo!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Whitman |
|
[_The stars shine on
brightly
while ADAM and EVE pursue their way into
the far wilderness.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
|
But such associations, rather than bodies politic, have generally been
the effect of necessity, not choice; and I believe the
present French power is the very first body of citizens who, having obtained full
authority
to do with
their country what they pleased, have chosen to dissever it in this barbarous manner.
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Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
52 Indeed, Ficker
suggests
that it is too early to offer an interpretation of Trakl's poetry.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
|
E mentre ch'e' tenendo 'l viso basso
essaminava del cammin la mente,
e io mirava suso intorno al sasso,
da man
sinistra
m'appari una gente
d'anime, che movieno i pie ver' noi,
e non pareva, si venian lente.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And because
founders
of colleges do plant, and founders of lectures
do water, it followeth well in order to speak of the defect which is in
public lectures; namely, in the smallness, and meanness of the salary or
reward which in most places is assigned unto them, whether they be
lectures of arts, or of professions.
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|
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Bacon |
|
They felt sure
that they might count on a
favourable
reception for
their envoys at Athens, and on the prospect of assist-
ance.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
|
Apologies
for this problem.
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
39), Hannibal was apprised
he at length turned suddenly, and, by a night of his brother's arrival at
Placentia
before he had
attack, very nearly destroyed his whole army.
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|
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|
Answer: |
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Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
|
To Vashti, to the Queen of the world, to her
In whom the
striving
beauty of the world
Hath made perfection, from the King I come.
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The
whole of popular
experience
on this subject went
to the devil!
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|
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|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
Truth and prudence might be imaged as
concentric
circles.
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
|
No hideous dream of
disgrace!
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
Pitys (Pine) = P + itys; itys = shield-rim; ine (old
spelling)
= eyes, i.
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Pattern Poems |
|
He takes his stand on what cannot be
fathomed
and wanders where there is nothing at all.
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
" Walter, who had more desire to weep than any-
thing else,
remained
with a hard face and said, "You may take
with you a shirt.
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|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Dear, if the good king should perhaps be
slow to recognise you, show him the ring with his own name
engraved
on
it.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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c; 6e:oit;
not partlcular about
theoretIcal
orgamzatlons
A
V 3S worth attentIon
E'7T?
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then
(if I can offer any thing worth
hearing)
a considerable portion of my
voice shall join [the general acclamation], and I will sing, happy at
the reception of Caesar, "O glorious day, O worthy thou to be
celebrated.
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Horace - Works |
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for poor
Castalian
drinkers,
When they fa' foul o' earthly jinkers,
The witching curs'd delicious blinkers
Hae put me hyte,
And gart me weet my waukrife winkers,
Wi' girnan spite.
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Robert Forst |
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The historicist chronotope, wherein no phenomenon was immune to
temporal
change, soon unfolded upon this foundation, and made the permanent value of the classics, hitherto casually asserted, seem a paradox.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Pasaban y Al-hamar las percibía
Pasar, sin concebir su rapidez,
En más vertiginosa fantasía,
En más confusa y tumultuosa orgía,
Más juntas, más veloces cada vez:
Y atronado su espíritu cedía
Á la
impresión
fatídica, y corría
Frío sudor por su morena tez.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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And if it had been in my power he should have gone to Oxford; but, my lord, there's been that
happened
within this last day or so that's brought me nigh to ruin.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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The market for this
impression
was, however, spoiled by a cheap
duodecimo edition, printed in Holland and imported surreptitiously;
and Lintot, in self defence, had to undersell the pirate by issuing a
similar cheap edition.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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'
So they
disputed
to an' fro
Till cunnin' Isrel sez to Joe,
'Don't le's stay here an' play the fool,
Le's wait till both on us git cool,
Jest for a day or two le's hide it,
An' then toss up an' so decide it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The opposition which the book aroused,
however, was not only due to its
definite
proposals, but, also, to Hi
the slashing attack on her own sex, as she conceived it to be, and
to the coarseness with which she described certain social evils.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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