It is true they lie
concealed
at present,
as our indolence deprives them of all resource.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Now if you
Have any word of
melancholy
comfort
To speak to your pale wife, 'twere best to pass
Out at the postern, and avoid them so.
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Shelley |
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Equally important for victory was the crooked
counting
of ballots (as curso- rily reported in one ABC late evening news story in July 1996).
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WOOD'S SCHEME AND THE MUTINY
119
prepare good
vernacular
class-books containing European informa-
tion.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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When Thestylis withdraws with the collected ashes in the libation-bowl, her
mistress
begins her soliloquy.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Here nod the savage waving plumes whose wearers rejoice- to shake the flashing colours of their shoulder armour ; for steel clothes them on and gives them their shape ; the limbs within
83
CLAUDIAN
flexilis
inductis
animatur lamina membris ;
horribiles visu : credas simulacra moveri
ferrea cognatoque viros spirare metallo.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The future of the university depends on its faculty to unite separated notation systems of
alphabets
and mathematical symbols into a superset.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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HE following letter from Henry, Peince of
Wales, then about twelve years old, to his
father, James the First, proves the regard
and
gratitude
he had for his master, Mr.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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affinities, and fortune developed from the evolutionary action of
previous
lives.
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punarjati |
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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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Robert Clive has been clear enough, ex-British
ambassador
in Tokyo.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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The
Sensitive
Plant, like one forbid,
Wept, and the tears within each lid
Of its folded leaves, which together grew, _80
Were changed to a blight of frozen glue.
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Shelley |
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This he little believes, who aye in win-
some life
Abides 'mid
burghers
some heavy busi-
ness,
Wealthy and wine-flushed, how I weary
oft
Must bide above brine.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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He stopped, and she stopped too, in a patch where the boughs let
through some
starlight
and he could see her face dimly.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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For there is no
necessary
antithesis between
chastity and sensuality : every j [ood rnarriagg,
every authentic^ hear t-felt love trans cgnda this
antithesis.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Then the other piteous, full of misericorde, Fashioned for pleasure in love's fashioning :
" His heart's
apparent
wound, I give my word,
Was got from eyes whose power's an o'er great thmg, Which eyes have left in his a glittering
That mine cannot endure.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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MAXIMUS, elder son
to see whether you would
remember
that you were of the preceding, was curule aedile in B.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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Whether your practice is elaborate or simple, it is
important
not to let it be erratic.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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ii:*
i: ;it
iiZ*iiliE?
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Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
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" And
goodness
is tainted when it takes thought
of itself.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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me tenet ignotis aegrum Phaeacia terris:
abstineas
auidas Mors modo nigra manus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" It is time for you, then," said Cyrus, " to prepare a scourge to whip me, as I am contriving how to run away, and take my
companions
with me, to hunt.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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org),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When Orestes took the image of Artemis away from Tauris in Scythia, he
received
an oracle, that he should wash himself in seven rivers flowing from one source.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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ngigkeit zu verlangen, wie sie nur sehr
wenigen
gnadenweise
zuteil wird.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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Youth's fortunate feeling doth seize easily
The
absolute
right,-yea, and a joy it is
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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But the nine plays of
Jonsonian
humour and plot have certain
merits.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Unlike a
military
cona?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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Thou wert not to share the search for Italian borders
and
destined
fields, nor the dim Ausonian Tiber.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
| Guess: |
made |
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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Like a
mortuary
chapel.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Even you, who are yourselves fully
sensible, and constantly reminded by your public
speakers that there are designs forming against you,
that the toils of your enemies are
surrounding
you,
will, I fear, be plunged by your supineness into all
those dangers that threaten you; so prevalent is the
pleasure and indulgence of a moment over all your
future interests.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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s
strategy
is a best response to Ai?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
Name of Person & Title of Book: Dante
Alighieri
(1265-1321) + The Divine Comedy (1308-1321)
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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made
provincial
and procurator of his order and became an in
timate friend of Pope Sixtus V, and Urban VII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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On Club and Spade was put the blame ;
But these
asserted
'twas a game
Of Diamonds and Hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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what
gladness
you gain from the white crest of
Soracte, beheld through the fluttering snowflakes while the logs are
being piled higher on the hearth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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THE YOUNG TURKS
us to inquire why they chose France -- of
all the European
countries
the most un-
like their own -- to be the school and the
model of their constitutional lore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
Leave out two parts of what you
formerly
said and say well the third, and we shall love you more for this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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of Scotland, — whose estate he
speedily
squandered.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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his pitiable and ostentatious
irreligion
has*
been the disgrace of the second.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
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O^ tARIATlON
Ut corpus redimas, ferrum
patieris
et ignes,
A rida nec sitiens ora levabis aqua^.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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He was
ignorant
of the manners
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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The
pleasures
of those times shall never again be met with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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They put off hearings wilfully,
To finger the refreshing fee;
And to defend a wicked cause
Examined and survey'd the laws,
As
burglars
shops and houses do,
To see where best they may break through.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
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It is only in recent times, since knowledge began to be
understood
as a form of power, that it became more clearly a form of work.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
|
Committing
many bad actions leads to birth as a hell-being; committing a moderate number, birth as a preta; and a few as an animal.
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| Question: |
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Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Cicero
probably
had prepared and rehearsed the speech in advance, rather than making it up as he went along, but he almost certainly did not read it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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It shows very impressively how Clausewitz enviously
emulated
Napoleon and, how the highly gifted Prussian officer wished to repeat the unprecedented successes of revolutionary French bellicism for the German side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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There was a desperate
engagement
on January 17th at
the wells of Abu Klea; the British square was broken; for a moment
victory hung in the balance; but the Arabs were repulsed.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Imitations
of
Horace, 1797 (partly quoted in J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
|
With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a
ladder)
Snowball
climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few
rungs below him holding the paint-pot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
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) Long live our mighty
sovereign!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair: 10
My tears were
swallowed
by the sea;
Her songs died on the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Pass and be silent, Rullus, for THIS
the day
Hath lacked a
something
since this
lady passed ;
Hath lacked a something.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
Clarke himself, in his visionary book Profiles of the Future (1982), tells similar cautionary tales and awful warnings of the dangers of
dogmatic
scepticism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
|
The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Juan's was good; and might have been still better,
But he had got Haidee into his head:
However strange, he could not yet forget her,
Which made him seem
exceedingly
ill-bred.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
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6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by
the words of my mouth: and thy
judgments
are as the light that goeth
forth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
bible-kjv |
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'' he would surely regard it as very
inauspicious
indeed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
|
Norris could not help thinking that some steady old
thing might be found among the numbers belonging to the Park that would
do vastly well; or that one might be
borrowed
of the steward; or that
perhaps Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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But here I would not be mistaken, and must therefore be so bold as to
borrow a
distinction
from the writers on the other side, when they make a
difference betwixt nominal and real Trinitarians.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
They have enough as 'tis: I see
In many an eye that
measures
me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
36
Seguitò
la vittoria, ed a sue spese,
senza dispendio alcun del padre mio,
ne rendé tutto il regno in men d'un mese.
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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The school of the
Cynics made this
perverse
mood, as Aristippus deemed it, the maxim of
their philosophy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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Payer
also named the
northernmost
island in the archipelago
Crown Prince Rudolf Land (simply Rudolf Island on
Soviet maps), after the Emperor's ill-fated only son;
while he.
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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"
Presently those who had taken
Theagenes
and Chariclea appeared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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‘It’s
nothing,’ he said, but neither of them felt at that moment that it was nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
|
Can she count
These oil-eaters with large live mobile mouths
Agape for macaroni, in the amount
Of
consecrated
heroes of her south's
Bright rosary?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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if his eyes have now
Been doomed so long to settle on the earth
That not without some effort they behold
The
countenance
of the horizontal sun, 1815.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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an is still
occupied
by rebels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Why dog my
footsteps?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
The French Revolution
symbolizes
and proves the possi- bility of this understanding by its practice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
|
Around 17,000
exhibitors
convened in it during the first World Exhibition, of which 7,200 alone came from Great Britain and its thirty-two colonies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
Rossetti
described
Medusa allegorically in his fine
lyric, Aspecta Medusae.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
|
This anxiety,
reflecting
the subject's own guilt feelings, is relieved by pro- jection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
The
struggle
between the two heroes, where Enkidu strives
to rescue his friend from the fatal charms of Ishara, is probably
depicted on seals also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Only the environment is quite different from the
bleak
surroundings
of most great Soviet plants in
Russia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
63 See "
Proceedings
of the Royal Irish
Academy," Irish MSS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
|
"There's
_plenty_
of room!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
|
He was always telling himself that he ought to go and see her oftener; but in
practice
he
never went near her except to ‘borrow’ money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
No higher or unexpected tribute to his vanity and power could
possibly
have been paid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
What's even
stranger
is that I might as easily say: they were not yet quite taken away from us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
|
THE POETRY AND
CHARACTER
OF OVID 20.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
You will never sacrifice yourself to a
mistaken
sense of duty,
Agnes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
The author has
confined
his imitation of Dosiadas to the shape of the poem and the use of out-of-the-way words and expressions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pattern Poems |
|
He told his story, and the
beautiful
woman, only slightly younger than himself, around thirty, perhaps, lamented what brutes people were and felt terribly sorry for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
The policy is much the same, and
it is still more
directed
by Rome.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
|
How could I know
anything
about such discriminations?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
His
mother, who lived at Honneur, in
mourning
for her husband, came to his
aid.
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7 And that no changes might be wanting at that period, Hannibal, at a very early age, was appointed general of the Carthaginians, not for want of older men, but because of his hatred to the Romans, with which they knew that he had been imbued from his boyhood; the mischief that he did, however, was not so
pernicious
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_ Thy
vestures
were not flowing:
Nor did the street
Accuse thy feet
Of mincing in their going.
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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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It is the
question
whether the genesis of con- cepts can indeed be separated from their truth content, as happens whenever genesis and validity, or the primary for us and the primary in itself, are kept apart, as is the case in Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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frankly he could not read, and desired to know the contents, -
which I
immediately
communicated.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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The third essay replies to the question
as to the origin of the formidable power of the
ascetic ideal, of the priest ideal, despite the fact
that this ideal is essentially detrimental, that it is
a will to
nonentity
and to decadence.
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