And the rippling brook where the clear waters flow,
Where the
watercress
and the tiger lilies grow.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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His neighbors he did not abuse,
Was
sociable
and gay:
He wore large buckles on his shoes,
And changed them every day.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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A Rhodian, who commanded a vessel in the
of Nicias in the
expedition
in which Cythera was naval battle with Philip off Chios, B.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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te vel Hyperboreo damnatam sidere Thylen, 240
te vel ad incensas Libyae
comitabor
harenas.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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He makes fewer _blots_ in addressing an
audience
than any one we
remember to have heard.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Hence, it is
difficult
to give reliable particulars regarding them.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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] Cicero was forced into exile for a year, but was
received
with honour by Plancius.
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Roman Translations |
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Whether or not arts and treasures of bygone
cultures
can be saved from private digital rights does not seem of primary concern.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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But one need not be a
millionaire
to be able to
get a few crumbs for that robin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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In due
time the fifty vessels coming down the channel closed in upon
the
fugitive
pirates, and crushed them utterly: not one escaped.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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If any
gentleman
thinks that an
inquiry into the causes of the public distress would be useful, let him
move for such an inquiry.
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Macaulay |
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Priest Cor_n,'eus, arm'd his better hand, From his o_n altar, with a blazing brand;
And, as Ebusus wath a thund'rmg pace Advanc'd to battle, dash'd it on Ins face:
His bristly beard shines out with sudden fires; The
crackhng
crop a noisome scent expires.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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As long as one does not
recognize
the nature of mind, one experiences a separation between mind and thoughts.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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Jam- goo Kongtriil Rinpoche took gelong vows along with Cham- goo Situ Rinpoche and Khyabje Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and was assisted by a master of
procedure
and other monks to complete the necessary number.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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)
người
xã Sơn Đông huyện Lập Thạch (nay thuộc xã Sơn Đông huyện Lập Thạch tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc).
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stella-04 |
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It is impossible to avoid contrasting this beautiful account of
elegant
dissipation
with the noted freak of Sir Charles Sedley, to
whom it is addressed.
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Dryden - Complete |
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O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
I see that I am to wait for what will be
exhibited
by death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Knowledge in general, whether of reason or merely of
perception
.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Worthy Macduffe, and wee
Shall take vpon's what else
remaines
to do,
According to our order
Sey.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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This, of course, is my opinion; but since I have probably
reflected more upon the subject than all the persons
concerned
in my
imprisonment put together, until it can be shown that I have not as
clear a head and as pure a heart as any of them, I think it entitled to
some weight.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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What
wondrous
life in this I lead!
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Golden Treasury |
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Dante,
so versatile a master-spirit, possessed a tragic genius, which
would have
produced
a grand effect, if he could have
adapted it to the stage: he k new how to set before the
eye whatever passed in the soul; he made us not only feel
but look upon despair.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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For He saith to Moses, Now
therefore
let Me alone, that My wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them, and I will make of thee a great nation.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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On one of them
he read: 'MY DEAR ELIZA,--What an
incurable
gossip my mother is.
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Yeats |
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A famous teacher cf
Science, at the close of a long life devoted to experi-
mental research,
declared
his work to be, after all, a
failure, because on his laboratory tables he had never been
able to create life.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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155
which proved a
considerable
benefit to those that were to dis charge great debts, and no loss to the creditors.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Then the Lion
took
Androcles
to his cave, and every day used to bring him meat
from which to live.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Such is the intrinsic value of some
territories
that have to he defended!
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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470
Next thro the ayre he sent his javlyn feerce,
That on De
Clearmoundes
buckler did alyghte,
Throwe the vaste orbe the sharpe pheone did peerce,
Rang on his coate of mayle and spente its mighte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yon tuft
conceals
your home, your cottage bow'r.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"And in the eye of noon my love
Shall lead me from my mother's door,
Sweet boys and girls all clothed in white
Strewing flowers before:
"But first the nodding minstrels go
With music meet for lordly bowers,
The
children
next in snow-white vests,
Strewing buds and flowers!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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- When Dependent Origination and Emptiness are correctly understood, there is no more opposition between the two as perceived by the
opponents
here.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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"I wish they'd get the
trial done," Alice thought, "and hand 'round the
refreshments!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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I have remembered beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to see
A shower of
sunlight
over Italy
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,
The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
And running water singing on the rocks
When once in English woods I heard a lark.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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One must return to it often, in order to discover in it, day by day, some nourishment which suits the
momentary
states of our soul.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Contents
Translator's note:
Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
Les Amours de Cassandre: XXXVI
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCIII
Les Amours de Marie: VI
Les Amours de Marie: IX
Les Amours de Marie: XLIV
Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: IX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
Les Odes: A Sa Maistresse
Les Odes: O Fontaine Bellerie
Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Index of First Lines
Translator's note:
Most of the Classical references
mentioned
in the notes are well known, and easily found in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Ronsard |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Being uncreated, the Buddha doesn't belong to
conditioned
phenomena which changes.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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"
XVIII
Before his words the tyrant ended had,
The lesser devils arose with ghastly roar,
And thronged forth about the world to gad,
Each land they filled, river, stream and shore,
The goblins, fairies, fiends and furies mad,
Ranged in flowery dales, and
mountains
hoar,
And under every trembling leaf they sit,
Between the solid earth and welkin flit.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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The
conqueror
received her kindly, as well as the notables who
made their submission.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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He was everywhere at once,
pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jolly-
ing
everyone
along with comradely exhortations and giving
FreeeBooksatPlaneteBook.
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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1
Quod caret
alterna^
requie, durabile non est.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Jeanne Féline alone, whose fervent prayer was somewhat
disturbed, and whose honest and incorruptible good-sense was no
less shocked, by what was going on, lowered her prayer-book,
raised her hood, and fixed on
Mademoiselle
de Fougères a look
in which the pride of virtue and the fire of youth shone amidst
all the ravages of age and sorrow.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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There's one with
ringlets
of sunny gold,
And eyes the reflection of heaven's own blue;
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold,
And the pale mist hid him from mortal view.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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'
"When the Malik Shah determined to reform the calendar, Omar was one
of the eight learned men employed to do it; the result was the Jalali
era (so called from Jalal-ud-din, one of the king's names)--'a
computation of time,' says Gibbon, 'which
surpasses
the Julian, and
approaches the accuracy of the Gregorian style.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The status of savages was decided once and for all by papal bull in 1537: the Americans
discovered
by Colum- bus were declared human.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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"
Vertua smiled
indulgently
at her husband's golden dreams.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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As far as
Heidegger
is concerned, he was light years away from such complications because he .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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12 Such was the genre's
importance
during the last thirty years of the regime that few philosophes and future revolutionaries failed to try their hand at it.
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| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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Eryx, a
celebrated
home of
Venus.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me
as of a dream,)
I have
somewhere
surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate,
chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours
only nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you
take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Her
garments
all tattered and torn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
|
These mistaken assumptions have long had, and continue to have, a most adverse effect on our ability to
understand
the distressing anxieties and fears from which our patients suffer.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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r ;
; i;ij; j ;;+ ; iii+si e
lriEfitia
;it
i+ i ;Eriri
E: *Eti{Esr?
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Hence, Universal Vehicle persons' developing such infinite stores over long times is for the sake of turning that realization which understands voidness into the means for terminating the
cognitive
obscu- rations.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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LESBIUS,
handsome
is he.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Volontiers
j'irais avec toi,
Si cette vitesse effroyable
Ne me causait pas quelque émoi.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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And I thought I had the folk within:
I had the sound of a violin;
I had a glimpse through curtain laces
Of
youthful
forms and youthful faces.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Knowledge of mankind, indeed,
less
extensive
than that of Addison, will show, that to write, and to
live, are very different.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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President Johnson,remember,referredtoanineteen-yeartraditionofnon- use; the breaking of that
tradition
(which grows longer with each passing year) will probably be, especially if it is designed to be, a most stunning event.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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Bolingbroke
sat
weeping by his chair, and on Spence's remarking how Pope with every
rally was always saying something kindly of his friends, replied: "I
never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his
particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
They
speak of fashioning” them as a carpenter
fashions
a
“
car,) of
«toiling » over them; or say simply, « This song I have made like a
workman working artistically.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
"
"In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, "I move that
the meeting adjourn, for the
immediate
adoption of more energetic
remedies--"
"Speak English!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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And the waltz from the
ballroom
I heard,
When I called him a low, sneaking cur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Unless you
genuinely
receive the blessings, the seedlings of experience and realization will not sprout.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Whence and when came to him the mystic
bent into the One and the eternally Resting, nobody
will be able to compute; perhaps it is only the con-
ception of the finally settled old man, to whom, after
the agitation of his erratic wanderings, and after
the
restless
learning and searching for truth, the
vision of a divine rest, the permanence of all things
within a pantheistic primal peace appears as the
highest and greatest ideal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with
permission
of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
There is no purer, simpler, nor more beautiful French than that
which adapts itself so
perfectly
to the humble subjects of 'La Mare
au Diable' and 'François le Champi.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
|
]
[Footnote 48:
"Tal ne la
sembianza
sua divenne,
Qual diverebbe Giove, s' egli e Marte
Fossero augelli e cambiassersi penne.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Tilak
was not in a mood to
precipitate
matters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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In the ancient worldöindeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-statesöthe power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite;
linguistic
knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
|
As supplies
reached this city by sea, it held out for three years ; finally the Norman
fleet overcame the
Byzantine
ships which were bringing reinforcements,
and the inhabitants entered into negotiations with Guiscard and sur-
rendered the town (April 1071).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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That which is harmful lures
the
exhausted
: cabbage lures the vegetarian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
VROBERTV5 CARD
BELLARMXNVS
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
|
I seized my hat and, trying not to look at
Apollon, who had been all day expecting his month's wages, but in his
foolishness was
unwilling
to be the first to speak about it, I slipped
between him and the door and, jumping into a high-class sledge, on
which I spent my last half rouble, I drove up in grand style to the
Hotel de Paris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
|
Student and Genius 53
tic feeling as a means to penetrate into the
objective
world,
but instead he employed even these for discovering the depths
of his mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
|
One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
|
Immediately
male doctors come in, and female doctors depart, and her feet are hoisted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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John Brende, who
Englished Quintus Curtius, in
presenting
his book to the duke
of Northumberland, thus explained his purpose:
* There is required in all Magistrates,' says he, 'both a faith and feare in
God, and also an outward pollicie in worldly thinges 1: whereof, as the one is
to be learned by the Scriptures, so the other must chiefly be gathered by
reading of histories.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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Peter
Sloterdijk
uses the term 'metanoia' to describe this process.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Even Quintus
Hortensius
(640-704), the 114-60.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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cho kyong) A Buddha,
bodhisattva or powerful but ordinary being whose job is to remove all interferences and bestow all necessary
conditions
for the practice of pure dharma.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Before my monumental attitudes,
That breathe a soul into the plastic arts,
My poets pray in austere
studious
moods,
For I, to fold enchantment round their hearts,
Have pools of light where beauty flames and dies,
The placid mirrors of my luminous eyes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I
remember
Fanny used to say that she would marry
sooner and better than you did; not but what she is exceedingly fond of
YOU, but so it happened to strike her.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Oozed from the bracken's desolate track,
By dark rains
havocked
and drenched black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For even evil-livers are
enticed to one another by the fellowship of an evil con
science, and are said to love one another, to be unwilling
to leave one another, to be won by
intercourse
among themselves, to long for one another when apart, to rejoice
when they meet.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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Raised to the peerage at the Restoration, he entered into a complex relationship with the
monarchy
which led to him supporting the future Charles X.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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He was killed by a wild boar when hunting, and Venus then had
him borne to Elysium, where he sleeps
pillowed
on flowers.
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Keats |
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Those men of old, Moses and Aaron and Samuel,
servants
of God, were great among the men of old.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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No tongue, no pen
can ever describe what my
feelings
were at that time.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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My Native Land Sae Far Awa
O sad and heavy, should I part,
But for her sake, sae far awa;
Unknowing
what my way may thwart,
My native land sae far awa.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Wild Rose
In the fence corners of the meadow way
I
gathered
the wild rose one June day.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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" Hayfoot and
Strawfoot
are antagonistic brothers.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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You have as much
reverence
for justice and equity, Caesar, as Numa had; but Numa was poor.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Wanted: Noh Film
Secondly: The whole of the Noh could be filmed, or at any rate the best Noh music could be
registered
on sound-track.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Has Sanche's blade such art
It works on your
indomitable
heart?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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In the mean time, this prince pursued his
ambitious
designs.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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