Did the early State constitutions place many restraints
upon the financial powers of the
legislatures?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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To my
mistress
may he sing and whistle,
Clear, so her heart feels the sharp bristle,
Who can sing nobly, with joy and grace,
For it suits no singer vile and base.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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True, rain was not actually falling, but only a mist like rain, while
the sky was
streaked
with masses of trailing cloud.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Their
condition
is wholly one of cer- emony.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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On the twenty-fifth
he received the following reply:
DEAR SIR,
Yesterday I received your favour of the
sixteenth
in-
stant.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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mind is ccntuci primarily on the Father, who
dominates
this chapter.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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A quick examination of the idea of sincerity, the antithesis of bad faith, will be very
instructive
in this connection.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Abetted by the
prestige
of television and the newspapers, astrology, paranormalism and alien visitations have a privileged inside track into the popular consciousness.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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while he
Still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
Should fall on me, this
hireling
shepherd here
Wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
Filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The more thoroughly and impartially this spirit is observed
and extracted, the more will it be found to consist in the sub-
jection of all things to what may be called the romantic process of
presenting them in an
atmosphere
of poetical suggestion rather
than as sharply defined and logically stated.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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On virtually every important point, the
reporting
of the two Gulf of Tonkin incidents .
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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" He welcomed the
opportunity
to talk things over with me, and so clearly enjoyed our three half- day sessions together that each time he was reluctant to leave.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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They
are all serfs and Daphnis and Chloe were given
pastoral
names by their
foster-parents to make them seem truly theirs.
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Man as a Drunken Town-musician Friedrich Kittler
The
sciences
are on stage again.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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The clouds their backs
together
laid,
The north begun to push,
The forests galloped till they fell,
The lightning skipped like mice;
The thunder crumbled like a stuff --
How good to be safe in tombs,
Where nature's temper cannot reach,
Nor vengeance ever comes!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Manchester: Manchester
University
Press.
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Childens - Folklore |
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I passed it on my weary way in worry,
I and my brawny mount in the morning haze,
My mount: a camel, onager-swift, strong-spined
her withers smooth as a dune on a
windless
day,
A nine-year tush has replaced her seven-year tooth,
not too young or too old, in the prime of age
Like a wild ass gone rushing through the reeds,
dark-furred with fight-scars round the neck and face.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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We will not gain better knowledge today without participat- ing in the adventures that await us in the
revision
of our own history.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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See now, apart from me he has given birth to
bright-eyed Athena who is
foremost
among all the blessed gods.
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Hesiod |
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Enter the JAILER,
followed
by
RICHARD GARDNER.
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Longfellow |
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lbis call for
distance
is an ex- pression of esteem; for if one can also understand it as an antidote to the dangers of a cultic recep- tion, it is all the more necessary in order to develop an image of the mountain range from which la mon- tagne Derrida rises up as one of the highest peaks.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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we two are here--
We have survived a ruin wide and deep--
Strange
thoughts
are mine.
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Shelley |
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Schwere
Schatten
breiten
Sich u?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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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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William Browne |
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441
OUTLOOK
The
Absolute
Imperative
See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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LIX
Orlando (as I oft have certified)
In fury, his had
scattered
wide and far;
Rodomont took the others', which beside
The river, locked in that high turret are.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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, wisdom to the good:
Female and male, the arts of war are thine, fanatic, much-form'd dragoness [Drakaina], divine:
O'er the
Phlegrean
giants rous'd to ire, thy coursers driving, with destruction dire.
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Orphic Hymns |
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THE
AUTHORSHIP
OF THE
PLATONIC EPISTLES
Fellow and Classical Lecturer of Sidney Sussex
College, Cambridge; sometime Assistant Lecturer
in Classics in the University of Manchester.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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At some point our changed
experiences
must be translated into a new attitude.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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He was the son of Clytonaeus son of Naubolus;
Naubolus
was son of Lernus; Lernus we know was the son of Proetus son of Nauplius; and once Amymone daughter of Danaus, wedded to Poseidon, bare Nauplius, who surpassed all men in naval skill.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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Why do they travel
steerage?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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29) and, by following this command through his own faith, he reads a randomly chosen passage from scriptures that he understands as specifically
directed
towards his own condition.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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" we have a poet who walks, as surely as Blake walked, in a world whose gates are opened wide but which is yet all but incompre
hensible
save to the few.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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The only thing that happens is that the
electron
disappears from one orbit and reappears in another.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Now you're
eternally
bound.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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His death had so much the
appearance
of
self-destruction that £220 had to be paid to the High Almoner, Dr.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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you who did not shrink from a
Mussulman
husband!
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But
bourgeois
historiography is both able and obliged to make still another distinction within Marxism.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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Perfect-paired as eagle's wings,
Justice is the rhyme of things;
Trade and counting use
The self-same tuneful muse;
And Nemesis,
Who with even matches odd,
Who athwart space redresses
The partial wrong,
Fills the just period,
And
finishes
the song.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" said he, "my poor child, it is you who reduced Doctor Pangloss
to the beautiful
condition
in which I saw him?
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Candide by Voltaire |
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These two policies are closely interrelated and
interact
on one another.
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NSC-68 |
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we read of Cimmerians, not onlv in Lower Asia, hut
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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She was known as Melaina (the Black) because she dressed all in black to express her mood; scholars
generally
interpret her blackness, which is a feature shared by the Erinyes, as a sign of her underworld nature.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Our very mind too itself being banished from the secure delight of interior secresy, is now beguiled by hope, now
tormented
by fear; one while cast down by grief, at another time made light by a false mirth; it obstinately attaches itself to transitory objects, and is continually afflicted by the loss of them, in that it is also continually undergoing change by a course that carries it away; and being made subject to things changeable, it is also made to be at odds with its own self.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Amongst the swarms fixed like the rooted stars, my folk is a
streaming Comet,
Comet of the Asian tiger-darkness,
The
Wanderer
of Eternity, the eternal Wandering Jew.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Who has not looked on the Saint
John the Baptist, which
surmounts
the baptismal font, as a sculpture
which its artist Jacopo Sansovino rarely equalled and never surpassed?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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On fire, both, bot and Exeter and the savage York
with impatience, in vain the Friar warns and Warwick are
fighting
the French.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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My only object is to justify my views, and to show
that, in writing as I did, I not only exercised a right, but
performed
a
duty.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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When he shines on the town, a poet that sings,
he redeems the fate of the meanest things,
like a king he enters, no servants, alone,
all palaces, all
hospitals
where men moan.
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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For
such regulations must be established andstated, and well kperwn, before yo/Wf of the free-holders cou'd take upon them to vote, and the other free-holders not qualisy' the rich and trading part of the nation, who had not
free-holds; and the great and of the
fhou'd stand quietly and tamely submissive, to see their fats, their liberties, and all that they had, and their re
ligion too put under the arhitrary votes of few of their own number without their consent being much
or any remedy or appeal allow'd them in any o/e, tho' of the greatest oppressions and tyranny And then to call this liberty and property, and the freedom and
hirtb-right of the people, and of every single person in the nation
These notions are senseless and fottish, and
impossible
to be receiv'd aiyi but such Bayes as ^oa art, and the unthinking mob that follows thee.
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| Question: |
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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—Reputed
Anniversary
of the Death of St.
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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But the thing had an
unexpected
sequel.
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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And so in His Name to whom thou has offered thyself, before God I beseech thee that in
whatsoever
way thou canst thou restore to me thy presence, to wit by writing me some word of comfort.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Those
who had ingenuously turned to his poems for the mere charm
of verse were grateful to him
inasmuch
as they had received, in
addition, their first lessons in philosophy.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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First Principle: everything that characterises
modern men savours of decay: but side by side
with the prevailing sickness there are signs of a
strength and
powerfulness
of soul which are still
untried.
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Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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1-H
of issuing
publications
unpalatable to the Court.
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
To the Thawing Wind (audio)
COME with rain, O loud
Southwester!
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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Now as to the saying what is right, that is the saying what will be
advantageous
both to the speaker and to the hearer.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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What do you think of it, Miss
Morland?
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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The love of system, of
interconnection, which is perhaps the inmost essence of the
intellectual impulse, can find free play in
mathematics
as nowhere
else.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Where's now the Roman
constancy
I boasted?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
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King Cephys brother Phyney was the man that rashly gave
The first
occasion
of this fray.
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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και 'ς την Δωδώνην έλεγεν ότ'
είχε
αυτός περάσει,
απ' του θεού το υψηλό δρυ το θέλημα του Δία
ν' ακούση, αν ολοφάνερα ή απόκρυφα θα γύρη,
τόσους αφού 'λειψε καιρούς, εις την παχειάν Ιθάκη.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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tie efteem'd, and yet on many
Occasions
it pre
serves a Man from certain Death.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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[216] Long since I see the coil of trailing woes dragging in the brine and hissing against my
fatherland
dread threats and fiery ruin.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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•••
97
Sebentlj Bag of Sulg-
Article I.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
Valerius
struck at Titus,
And lopped off half his crest; 370
But Titus stabbed Valerius
A span deep in the breast.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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The next year produced his greatest work,
the poem upon Cider, in two books; which was received with loud praises,
and continued long to be read, as an
imitation
of Virgil's Georgicks,
which needed not shun the presence of the original.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
Lydia gaped as he opened the
volume, and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three
pages, she
interrupted
him with:
“Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Phillips talks of turning away
Richard; and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him.
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| Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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The Lord does not
wager; he knows:-
"Though now he serve me in a maze of doubt,
Yet I will lead him soon where all is clear;
The
gardener
knows, when first the bushes sprout,
That bloom and fruit will deck the riper year.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
|
org/3/0/2/3021/
Produced by David Reed
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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And why the hell
hadn’t
I thought of it before?
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
The
Journal ended upon a note of menace and disdain:
'Now MARK THIS, if the
Expeditionary
Force, and I ask for no more than
200 men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall; and I have done
my best for the honour of our country.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Ornitus —
We will voice in his honor the carols the god has himself brought
us here,
And out from the flute's polished throat shall the music sound
lofty and clear
Perchance
Meliboeus
may waft to reach the great Emperor's
ear.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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, the latter of which is
probably
to be assigned to this
epoch (Pl.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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And the
substance
of water or spirit or air, which is the same, never changes into the substance of atoms or dry earth, nor vice versa.
| Guess: |
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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The sons of
Dithorba made it, giants of the elder time,
laboring
there under
the shoutings of Macha and the roar of her sounding thongs.
| Guess: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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DON LUIS: Ni yo: que aunque nada más Nor I,
although
the game
fue el empeño entre los dos, was only between this pair,
no ha de decirse por Dios by God, don't imagine I care
que me avergonzó jamás.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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He wrote a treatise on the interdict which showed that it was
not legal nor obligatory ; and
enforced
the teaching of his con
flict with the Pope by other works upon the subject.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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"Not without you, dear Undine,” replied the knight, laugh-
ing: "think only, were I disposed to leave you, both the Church
and the spiritual powers, the emperor and the laws of the realm,
would require the fugitive to be seized and
restored
to you.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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"
"But you
renounced
his service just now.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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I saw them next on a
triumphal
car,
Where, known by her chaste cherub ways, aside
My Laura sate and to them sweetly sung.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Even his
burglars
are not coarse.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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Instead,
download
to your computer, and transfer to your reader device.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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We were neighbours for long, but I
received
more than I could
give.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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The
ingenious
Ward begins his preface with
an apology.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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"True
nobility
is exempt from fear.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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He was a pupil of Diogenes, of Smyrna; but, as some say, of Metrodorus, of Chios; who said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing; and
Metrodorus
was a pupil of Nessus, of Chios; though others assert that he was a disciple of Democritus.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Behind the door, Gregor nodded with
enthusiasm
in his pleasure at
this unexpected thrift and caution.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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For which
Criseyde
up-on a day, for routhe,
I take it so, touchinge al this matere,
Wrot him ayein, and seyde as ye may here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Something so
strange!
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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After some conversation where I could affirm these values and share sto- ries of addressing similar problems with students and community
organizers
in a poor, black neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, a place not unlike the east end of Richmond, they asked if I would be willing to help spread the word.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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