Semyon Ivanovitch lay for two or three days closely
barricaded
by the
screen, and so cut off from all the world and all its vain anxieties.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Baudelaire
and Swinburne after him have been trying to surpass him
by increasing the dose; but his muse is the natural Pythia inheriting
her convulsions, while they eat all sorts of insane roots to produce
theirs.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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First to the dew of Hermon, a beautiful mountain,
a landmark for miles round, in the country where
our
forefathers
lived.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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TheironyofthisgoalrestsonthehumansubsumptionofGod's right tojudge: the human ascension to the
possession
or the creation ofthe criteria of
judgment.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Yet for because he saw her come
Alone out of the wood,
He thought he would not stand as dumb,
When speech might do him good;
And
therefore
falling on his knees,
To ask but for his sheep,
He did awake, and so did leese
The honour of his sleep.
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William Browne |
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Conventionally, a tulku would have been taken to be raised in a monastery at the earliest
possible
age, but Karma Lekshe Drayang refused to follow this course.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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Although their
methods in controversy against the Church must be condemned by everyone who
values intellectual honesty, the reader, of his charity, should remember
that
Malthusians
are unable to defend their policy, either on logical or on
moral grounds.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Apart from that, the turn to a higher form of
psychological
realism has to be carried out using the theo- retical means of our time.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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) It has
happened
before, and it will again.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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]
AN ENIGMA
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the
profoundest
sonnet.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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For which me thinketh every maner wight 1555
That
haunteth
armes oughte to biwayle
The deeth of him that was so noble a knight;
For as he drough a king by thaventayle,
Unwar of this, Achilles through the mayle
And through the body gan him for to ryve; 1560
And thus this worthy knight was brought of lyve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things
besides:
gratitude
and purity.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are
everywhere
you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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At a very
early age, he
accompanied
an embassy to Rome, and a
report having been spread, during his stay there, of his
father Ethelwolf's death, Pope Leo the Third gave
him the royal unction as future king.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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'213-214'
The lion was
supposed
by Pope to hunt by sight alone as the dog by
scent.
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Alexander Pope |
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The words of Newton shortly before his death, that he seemed to
himself "like a boy playing on the sea-shore, diverting himself in
now and then finding a
smoother
pebble or a prettier shell than ordi-
nary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him,"
are significant of his habitual humility and reverence.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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And now I pray thee make good havoc of me; pray take and cut off these tusks, pray take and punish them – for why should I possess teeth so
passionate?
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The result of these loving studies
is now before the world in two stately volumes
entitled
'Homer's
Iliad.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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Y todos estos supuestos me los hice yo como autor acostumbrado á
preparar la escena de mis dramas, y como maniático tirador que no
veia por donde quiera más que escenarios ó tiros de pistola; miéntras
el
corpulento
signor Ménico venia á presentarme su mano de Titán,
abandonando un saco de lana sobre el cual dormitaba ó echaba cuentas
á mi llegada.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and
link'd
together
let us go.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Reality doesn't matter; what matters is the
situation
of capi- tal.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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It was more read than
any
ecclesiastical
History that is known.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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I scanned them all
insolently
with my drowsy eyes.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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But, on the other side, he declareth that the apostles, (with a stout stomach,) with a lively courage and
invincible
violentness [force] of mind, did, notwithstanding, execute the office which they knew was enjoined them by God; and also, what innumerable troubles they suffered with great per- severance, what wearisomeness they passed over, how patiently they sustained most cruel persecution; and, lastly, how meekly they suffered reproach, sorrow, and calamity of all sorts.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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361), we
find Baudelaire
defending
his friend from the accusation that his
pictures were pastiches of Goya.
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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"
They who considered the honour and dignity only
of the house, and the ill consequence of such viola-
tions as these, which way soever their affections
were inclined with reference to their persons, were
all of opinion, " that their offences were so near
" equal that their
punishment
ought to be equal :
" for that besides the lord Ossory's denial that he
" had made K any reflection upon any words spoken
" in parliament, which was.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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”
“Ten
o’clock!
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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s (Temple) and a
hekatompedon
(Hundred-Footer) as separate sacred areas, but there is no consensus on which labels fit which places.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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XVII
Lenski that eve in thought immersed,
Now gloomy seemed and
cheerful
now,
But he who by the Muse was nursed
Is ever thus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In this
charitable
and
catholic mood I reached the vast ramparts of the city.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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On the other hand, the morally good is
something
whose object is supersensible; for which, therefore, nothing corresponding can be found in any sensible intu- ition.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Listen here, you
fortunate
yogis.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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" And Burnet
tells us, that he "
withdrew
from the town, and
ceased writii>g for some years.
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Marvell - Poems |
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O King, know that each
considers
himself the other's debtor.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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This means that certaincounter-
tendenciesmustbe
strengthenedby,forexample,theformationofsmaller
the of serious the universities, encouragement participationespeciallyby
older and more distinguishedprofessorsin the teachingof courses for
beginners,the arrangementof fairlysmall seminarsforadvanced students
and doctoral candidates, the cultivation of closer relations among
teachers- andnotleasttheopportunityforperiodicleavefromtheheavy
obligationsof teachingin the mass universitythroughsabbaticalyearsand special leaves for research which would foster the renewal of their
intellectuarlesources.
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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But whether I succeed in discovering his identity or not, it neither adds to nor
detracts
from his Truth.
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Chuang Tzu |
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) [ARATUS, A VIENUS, GERMANI-
in its most
graceful
form, at another sparkling with cus.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Unconquerable faith in Christ, His Church,
The
inspiration
of your deeds on earth, i
Your hopes in Heaven !
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The_satires_of_Persius |
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See they
encounter
thee with their harts thanks
Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st,
Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure
The Table round.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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MARTIN'S LANE,
TRAFALGAR
SQUARE, LONDON, W.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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He was well versed
in the old luxury of the imperial court, and Nero's nights,[202] and a
second
appetite
when the stomach was fired with the Falernian.
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Satires |
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165 (#181) ############################################
Jeremy Taylor
165
the tone in which he dealt with
different
topics.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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compared
with me,
Suffering not doing ill--fate far more mild.
| Guess: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Awareness
arises nakedly as self-occurring primal knowing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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How shall I appear again before my master and
mistress?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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ipse triumphali redimitus arundine Thybris
Romuleis
famulas usibus aptet aquas;
atque opulenta tibi placidis commercia ripis
deuehat hinc ruris, subuehat inde maris.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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While the child laughs, beyond the bastion thick
Of that vast palace, Roman Catholic,
Whose every turret like a mitre shows,
Behind the lattice
something
dreadful goes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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The old man
reddened
a little.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
|
Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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But the very mention of his name
threatened
to put a
period to the whole negociation.
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| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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At the risk of over- simplificationo,ne could say thatthe twentiethcenturyis no longerclearly orientedin a nationaldirection,but
notyetin
an internationadlirection.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
|
Titles of this kind may be attractive for
superficial
reflection and useful for public rela- tions, but they can hardly accompany any serious interest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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Useless
remedies
abandoned
if nature
wished it not
I would
take myself
for one dead
balms mere
consolations for us
- doubt
then not, their
reality!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Have forth and call the yeomen out,
For somewhere,
somewhere
close about
Full soon a Thing must come to be
Thine honest eyes shall stare to see --
Full soon before thy patriot eyes
Freedom from out of a Wound shall rise.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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[Note on text:
Italicized
stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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towards the head of
Windermere
and Ambleside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Wiseman's installation did mean, in
fact, a new move in the Papal game; it meant an advance, if not an
aggression--a
quickening
in England of the long-dormant energies of the
Roman Church.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
From the pale
primrose
or gold-colored furze-broom,
I discover thy blue gems, spread so lowly
Beneath some solitary thorn adown the valley,
Hardly rearing thy head from the ground.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
|
' If, as they saw nothing but
‘false
wit,' 'awkward
numbers' and so forth, in the one case, he sees nothing but senti-
mentality and 'jingle,' in the other, then we can class him and
find him wanting.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
|
For Example, do you think the love of
Exercises
is as good, as it is fine, or are you of Opinion that it is neither fine nor good ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
|
Any steady servant of a friend of his was soon
considered
as a sort of friend
too, and was sure to have a kind little colloquy to himself at coming and
going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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^^ Inconjunction,pro- bably, with his
disciple
St.
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Thirdly, the type of
investigation
that appears in this speech, as Sinnius Capito suggests, which is part of the duty and practice of a senator.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Roman Translations |
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The fertile ground for cynicism in
modernity
is to be found not only
in urban culture but also in the courtly sphere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
|
The volume
referred
to here is prob- ably Finanzia nuova, which Pound trans-
103.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Finally, in order to remove all disturbing recollection of the Apostolic struggles out of the way of the union of
parties desired by both sides, the Acts of the Apostles gave an ideal picture of the Apostolic age, in which the two party
Jewish
Epistle of James, so far made
concession
to the followers of Paul that spite of its rejection of Paul's doctrine of justi
?
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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I would fain
Reply in hope--but I am worn away,
And Death and Love are yet
contending
for their prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley copy |
|
The discussion of the first six
occupied
two days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
A serene and
passive calm with the absolute clearness and distinctness of
successive impressions, in each of which he was for the time wholly
absorbed, are the
peculiar
characteristics of Goethe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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But in my
experience
it's the other
way round.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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As the teacher of thinking self-perception, he removed himself and his
students
into a theoretical sanatorium where no other measures were on the agenda other than exercises of clarification in the purest air of detailed descriptions.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
" "But what was this
mistake to which your ladyship so often
alludes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
χλαίναν δεν έχω• και ο θεός μ' εγέλασε να μείνω
με τον χιτώνα•
τώρα
πλειά πώς θα σωθώ δεν βλέπω».
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
|
When the
creation
was new and all the stars shone in their first
splendour, the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang 'Oh,
the picture of perfection!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
The idea of killing off the
incorrigibles
and the born criminals
is easily conceived, and Diderot, in his Letter to Landois,
maintained that it was a natural consequence of the denial of
free-will, saying: ``What is the grand distinction between man
and man?
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Men, women, in crowds
Hurry on--the fire shrouds
And blinds all their eyes
As,
besieging
each gate
Of these cities of fate
To the conscience-struck crowd,
In each fiery cloud,
Hell appears in the skies!
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which was
concealed
behind
' Mr.
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Especially does he
admire this passage, wherein the author, after a long discussion, ends in
these terms: "If, as pretend the
philosophers
of old time, who are also
the greatest and most illustrious, we have a soul immortal and divine, it
behoves us to think, that the more it has persevered in its way, that is to
say, in reason, love, and the pursuit of truth, and the less it has been
intermingled and stained in human error and passion, the easier will it be
for it to raise itself and soar again to the skies.
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"
"Yea, Lord, I hear his carol's
wordless
voice;
And well may he rejoice
Who hath not heard of death's discordant noise.
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, Schillers Macbeth
mit dem
Original
verglichen, Trautenan, 1889.
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"My finger, pointed
at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a
dungeon,--thence, peradventure, to the
gallows!
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To what extent is this
practice
followed
in the United States?
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of conscience
associated
with all that
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My heart was filled with a deep
Melancholy
to see several drop-
ping unexpectedly in the midst of Mirth and Jollity, and catching
at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
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The things were
magnified
by the water in the tumbler, and they
were grinning at me like the teeth in a skull.
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By historical I
understand
ad hoc the unity resulting from the tragedy enacted and written, as well as the unity resulting from the epic both enacted and written.
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The curved brow of
Apollo was like the sun's disc
crescent
over a hill at dawn, and his feet
were as the wings of the morning, but he himself had been cruel to
Marsyas and had made Niobe childless.
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I see thee gracefu',
straight
and tall,
I see thee sweet and bonie;
But oh, what will my torment be,
If thou refuse thy Johnie!
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