"He is,
in my judgment, the fourth
smartest
man in London, and for daring
I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third.
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Bakht Singh vainly urged the impor-
tance of establishing the imperial
authority
in Jodhpur, but Zu-'l-
Fiqar Jang persisted in his resolve.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Was there a distant king of Armenia, an unknown monarch by Maeotis' shore but sent aid to mine
enterprises
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Stephen Crane |
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The SO-CALLED
weiksa, who is no other than a circus
conjurer
and the MINION of U Po Kyin, have
vanished for parts unknown, but six rebels have been Caught.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Reinach,
followed by several
publications
of a like kind, agreed to the law
of 1885 on the treatment of recidivism.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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During this time she wrote her E ssay on the Pas-
sions, divided into two parts: -- 1st, their I
nfluence
on the
H appiness of I
tions.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Thus farr his bold discourse without controule 800
Had audience, when among the Seraphim
Abdiel, then whom none with more zeale ador'd
The Deitie, and divine
commands
obei'd,
Stood up, and in a flame of zeale severe
The current of his fury thus oppos'd.
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Milton |
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For what thou art shall perish utterly,
But what is thine may never cease to be;
Death is no foe to virtue: earth has seen
Love's
brightest
roses on the scaffold bloom, _565
Mingling with freedom's fadeless laurels there,
And presaging the truth of visioned bliss.
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Shelley |
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"Sir," I
addressed
him,
"Let me read.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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He
was self-indulgent, petulant, aggressive and ungrateful; there was
excuse for the
indifference
or resentment of those who had once
been benefactors.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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Then again, the
protests
prove that the French adoles- cents are at home in an illusory bubble in which they protect privileges as if they were basic rights.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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From the mirror arises the op-
BOEHME |
MYSTERIUMPANSOPHICUM
| 89
position, 7.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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* Mr Pound has grossly
exaggerated
my age.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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In Sunni Pakistan there are 15 million Shi'ites who
endanger
the existence of that state.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Liberal old-age
pensions
had been agreed upon.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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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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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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He later suggested to me that I too should thank Derrida by
commemorating
him.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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if I
For once could have thee close to me,
With happy heart I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
would happy be,
I feel my body die away,
I shall not see another day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I could spend
a year, two, three years among them, but I must have a
prospect
of
seeing Fleet Street at the end of that time, or I should mope and pine
away, I know.
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Selection of English Letters |
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The vocabulary is almost
entirely
the
work of my wife Emily Cox Northup, whose collaboration is by no means
restricted to this portion of the book.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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It was but now that I never more
for woes that weighed on me waited help
long as I lived, when, laved in blood,
stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, --
widespread woe for wise men all,
who had no hope to hinder ever
foes
infernal
and fiendish sprites
from havoc in hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Andrew's night,
My future
sweetheart
in the body.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She sinks at the feet of Victor with his
blessing
in
her ear.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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"
It is
satisfactory
to' learn that this speech was success-
ful, and that Diopeithes, who certainly deserved well of
his country, was continued in his command, and the
Chersonese saved for Athens.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Then up she springs as if on wings;
She thinks no more of deadly sin;
If Betty fifty ponds should see,
The last of all her
thoughts
would be 310
To drown herself therein.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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This may serve up to a certain point; but
not when the modern state
appoints
an “anti-
philosophy” to legitimise it; for it has true
philosophy against it just as much as before, or
even more so.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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She sat quite still; she was so quiet I
wondered
if she would faint.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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3
Sloterdijk
is referring to the case of Josef Fritzl, a man from Amstetten in Austria who imprisoned one of his daughters for twenty-four years and repeatedly raped her.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Project Gutenberg
volunteers
and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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All other
meditations
based on intentionality and fabrication are conceptual meditations created by the rational mind.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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[A LESSON TO LOVERS]
Pan loved his
neighbour
Echo; Echo loved a frisking Satyr; and Satyr, he was head over ears for Lydè.
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Moschus |
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"
They are caked with ice from the driving sleet,
And they sling their arms, and they stamp their feet And glory in the pain and the
freezing
sleet,
For they are the soldiers of the Lord!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Did the god
Hermaphroditos
teach him?
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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'
"He with a smile did then his words repeat;
And said, that
gathering
Leeches far and wide
He travell'd; stirring thus about his feet
The waters of the Ponds where they abide.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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He who preaches
morality
to us debases himself in our eyes and becomes almost comical.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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85
'worship and ceremonial^ The mythology of old Eome
and the legends of her heroes are worked, and worked
with
wonderful
success, into the texture of the
poem.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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To the
critical
certainties we can add con-
siderably, and to the critical probabilities immensely.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Quand le salon devenait trop plein, la dame d'honneur chargée du service
d'ordre donnait de l'espace en guidant les habitués dans un immense hall
sur lequel donnait le salon et qui était rempli de portraits, de
curiosités
relatives
à la maison de Bourbon.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So
deliciously
you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And it shall be for all time an ordinance for the women of the land to mourn the nine-cubit hero, third in descent from Aeacus and Doris, the
hurricane
of battle strife, and not to deck their radiant limbs with gold, nor array them in fine-spun robes stained with purple – because a goddess to a goddess presents that great spur of land to be her dwelling-place.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Hanrieder
Review by: Ernst Nolte
The American Political Science Review, Vol.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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I have
forgotten
everything
I used to know so long ago;
Summer has followed after Spring;
Now Autumn is so shrunk and sere,
I scarcely think a sadder thing
Can be the Winter of my year.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Furthermore, culture and intelligence provide more pleasure than the
corporeal
and are a condition sine qua non of true joy.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new
method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock
back and forth - it
occurred
to him how simple everything would be
if somebody came to help him.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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] As though he had
expressed
it plainly, ‘ye shall perish like transgressors.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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The king established laws based on the ten Buddhist virtues, and Thon-mi Sambhota, his minister,
translated
from Sanskrit many of the Avalokitdvara Tantras-long, medium, and short.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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Otherwise reason
inevitably
contradicts itself.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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"
"I wish you
strength
to bring you pride,
And a love to keep you clean,
And I wish you luck, come Lammastide,
At racing on the green.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The seven lights from seven arms make glow
Almost with life the staring eyes that show
On the dim frescoes--and along the walls
Is here and there a stool, or the light falls
O'er some long chest, with
likeness
to a tomb.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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When they before me had beheld the light
From my right side fall broken on the ground,
So that the shadow reach'd the cave, they stopp'd
And somewhat back retir'd: the same did all,
Who follow'd, though
unweeting
of the cause.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It is because of this
redoubled
gap that every new form arises as a cre- ation ex nihilo: the Nothingness out of which the New arises is the very gap between the Old-in-itself and the Old-for-the-New, the gap that makes impossible the account of the rise of the New in the terms of a continuous narrative.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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' For a discussion of the importance of Kurt Wolff as the
publisher
of Expressionism, see Wolfram Go ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Ye that have sung of the pain of the earth-horde's
age-long crusading,
Ye know
somewhat
the strain,
the sad-sweet wonder-pain of such singing.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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And oh, would bounteous Heaven my prayer regard,
And fair success my
perilous
toils reward,
May that dear land my latest breath receive,
And give my weary bones a peaceful grave.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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17-
was
afterwards
to bear first blade and then harvest in the
Fourth Eclogue and the Fourth ^Eneid.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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48
Of old , as at their sacred feast ,
Whole hecatombs appeased the god , The steps of an
illustrious
guest,
Perseus, their habitation trod ;
Whose festivals and songs of praise Apollo with delight surveys ;
And smiles to see the bestial train In wanton pride erect and vain .
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| Source: |
Pindar |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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His contemporaries
pronounced
Châteaubriand the foremost man
of letters of France, if not of all Europe.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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" 535
And as on glorious ground he draws his breath,
Where Freedom oft, with Victory and Death,
Hath seen in grim array amid their Storms
Mix'd with auxiliar Rocks, three [X] hundred Forms;
While twice ten thousand
corselets
at the view 540
Dropp'd loud at once, Oppression shriek'd, and flew.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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John: The four church
festivals
during which it was to be read.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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It is said that
chronic throat trouble had so
weakened
his voice as to make his remarks
in the Cortés scarcely audible.
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| Question: |
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Jose de Espronceda |
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You must
not question me, however, my dear sister, too minutely on this point,"
continued she, taking me
affectionately
by the hand; "I honestly own
that there is something to conceal.
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| Question: |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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There is NO
question
of race in Streit's proposition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
|
)
người
huyện Vĩnh Ninh (nay thuộc huyện Vĩnh Lộc tỉnh Thanh Hóa).
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stella-02 |
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Who thinks his great
achievements
poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
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such I ween
But they have
vanished
long, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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How far removed from true reason is this,
Perceive thou straight; for now I'll try to say
Somewhat
about the very fact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Of all the ills unhappy mortals know,
A life of
wanderings
is the greatest woe;
On all their weary ways wait care and pain,
And pine and penury, a meagre train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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[448] As was done to unruly children; he allows every kind of torture
with the
exception
of the mildest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Some tech- niques are dangerous if they are practiced unsupervised or if the
practitioner
does not have the sufficient spiritual foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
|
"9 Other
versions
of this legend, however,
only make the sleep of St.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
' Yet the German inclination to intense reflection seems to survive him, as it does the even more complex
alterations
in our relationship to classic texts that the new chronotope has set in motion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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I am referring above all to Heidegger's astonishment about the fact that humans could ever have assumed (about the fact indeed that humans had consistently
believed*and
we may add: continue to believe today, due, probably, to some non-secularized religious presupposition)*I am referring to Heidegger's astonishment about humans assuming that their mental and intellectual capacities would match the challenges lying in the task of grasping the conditions of their individual and collective survival, and that thereby the possibility of maintaining their lives would be secured.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Which may a due
encomium
raise Ænesidamus ' son to praise .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pindar |
|
56
Stephan Hermlin was a Marxist exiled all over Europe and the Middle East from 1936, who returned to Germany in 1945 and
eventually
settled in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Berlin in 1947.
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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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"Shut, shut those
juggling
eyes, thou ruthless man!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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My considerations shall, on this occasion, be turned on such as
are burthensome to themselves merely because they want
subjects
for
reflection, and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open without
affording them pleasure or instruction, because they never learned to
read the characters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
ois Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), OEuvres
compl`etes
de Rabelais, ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
Only
the master of the craft should pronounce a verdict
on the work, and the public should be dependent on
the belief in the
personality
of the judge and his
honesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
In faith, my name is
Primitive
Con
-
Perverse Doctrine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
|
When a school library opened its Poetic
Treasureto
ten-year- old Hans Carossa in 1888, he "did not understand a tenth of what [he] read," but was "gripped and formed by the sound and rhythm of the poems.
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For those who wish to form an estimate of the intellectual powers of a people, the
missionary
schools offer undoubtedly the greatest facilities.
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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We had ra- ther
compound
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Cummings (eds)
Attachment
in the preschool years, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Ed: in 1669_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_,
_H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_, _W_
Appeared
in 1669 edition after the Elegies, unnumbered but
with the heading_ To his Mistris going to Bed.
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Donne - 1 |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For
by my _Understanding alone_ I only perceive _Ideas_, whereon I make
_Judgments_, wherein (_precisely_ so taken) there can be no _Error,
properly_ so called; for tho perhaps there may be
numberless
things,
whose _Ideas_ I have _not_ in Me, yet I am not _properly_ to be said
_Deprived_ of them, but only _negatively wanting_ them; and I cannot
prove that _God ought_ to have given me a _greater faculty_ of _Knowing_.
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For daring tempt the Queene of heaven to sin;
And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reele
Against an hill, ne might from labour lin; 310
There thirsty Tantalus hong by the chin;
And Tityus fed a vulture on his maw;
Typhoeus
joynts were stretched on a gin,
Theseus condemnd to endlesse slouth by law,
And fifty sisters water in leake vessels draw.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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(4)
Of this day's glorious feast and revel
The
pleasure
and delight are difficult to describe.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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482), encamped to the east of Pharsalus on the left bank of the Enipeus, they could never have got to the
northward
through this stream, which at this very point has a deeply cut bed (Leake, iv.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Drysdale, and with
that remark most people will
cordially
disagree.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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calamities than any one could
possibly
imprecate upon
them.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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What
I mean here by the word philology is, in a general
sense to be understood as the art of reading well, of
being able to take account of facts without falsify-
ing them by interpretation, without losing either
caution,
patience
or subtlety owing to one's desire
to understand.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Give me
interminable
eyes!
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