On a fiend-like wind it curled along
Over the brave French ranks,
Like a monster tree its vapours spread,
In hideous, burning banks
Of
poisonous
fumes that scorched the night
With their sulphurous demon danks.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thus, one
significance
of this quotation
from Ragnar's death-song is that it helps to alter the historical
view of the world.
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I have written this without any
definite
aim in my mind, but solely to
assure you of my welfare.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Was there any idea at
all
connected
with it?
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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4 The
citizens
suffered almost as much from ill-treatment inside as they did from the enemy's attacks outside, because the garrison were not content with the same provisions as the populace survived on, and by assaulting the citizens they forced them to provide what they could not easily afford.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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downloaded
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Much can very
profitably
be done by play long before that.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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We know
the horned animal which was always most attractive to thee, from which
danger is ever again
threatening
thee!
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Attirez le gai venin
Des liserons;
Mangez les
cailloux
qu'un pauvre brise,
Les vieilles pierres d'eglises,
Les galets, fils des deluges,
Pains couches aux vallees grises!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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THE GIRL WHO TROD ON THE LOAF
There was once a girl who trod on a loaf to avoid soiling her
shoes, and the misfortunes that happened to her in
consequence
are
well known.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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It is true that the chronicle of
781 Quintus
Claudius
Quadrigarius (about 676?
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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He was the last of a school of philosophers,
but, as such, his intellectual influence was not
enduring
; he was the
first of a school of writers, but his literary influence was not
great.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
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182
I am like the road in the night
listening
to the footfalls of its
memories in silence.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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This according to the
statement
of Ctesias the surgeon, who further states that he himself healed the wound.
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So proud, I am no slave: }
So
impudent
I own myself no knave: }
So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Circling
bloom
Crowned the loose-lifted tresses there.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thus our judgment
is wholly reduced to constituents with which we are acquainted, but
Julius Caesar himself has ceased to be a
constituent
of our judgment.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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_The Young Daimyo_
When he first came out to meet me,
He had just been girt with the two swords;
And I found he was far more
interested
in the glitter of their hilts,
And did not even compare my kiss to a cherry-blossom.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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where she sits beneath yon shaggy rock,
A
cowering
shape half-seen through curling smoke.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And
of Phocis, so
considerable
a people exterminated, I say
nothing.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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"
* * * * *
There's not a port he doesn't know from
Melbourne
to New York;
He's as hard as a lump of harness beef, and as salt as pickled pork.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
introduction
to the History of Civilization in England' has
been aptly called the «fragment of a fragment.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Nor does
goodness
or badness with regard to such things depend on committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, but simply to do any of them is to go wrong.
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Aristotle copy |
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Had I been overhauled by any shrewd
or
suspicious
officer, the letter might well have excited doubt and
have led to inquiry.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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It follows from this that every attempt to understand creation that does not hold to the self-production of the spirit recourses inevitably to an imaginative
figuration
but not to a concept.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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The
of table of the legts aciiones, speeches committed to writing and Pythagorean sentences, and even innovations orthography, are
attributed
to him.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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I, Zarathustra, the
advocate
of living, the advocate
of suffering, the advocate of the circuit—thee do I
call, my most abysmal thought!
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Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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"
Encouraged
thus, the blameless man replies:
"Nor vows unpaid, nor slighted sacrifice,
But he, our chief, provoked the raging pest,
Apollo's vengeance for his injured priest.
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Iliad - Pope |
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This is certainly not what
happened
to China after it began its reform process.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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Turning to
Puritanism
as it existed in New England, we may
perhaps imagine it as solemnly declining the visits of the Muses
of poetry, sending out to them the blunt but honest message —
"Otherwise engaged.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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"
Hear ye his speaking: (low, slowly he speaketh it, as one drawn apart,
reflecting)
(egare").
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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]
The Perjur'd Free Mason Detected; And yet The Honour and
Antiquity
of
the Society of Free Masons Preserv'd and Defended.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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Not sows to
Aphrodite!
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Aristophanes |
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"61
A
prophecy
that Junger, the mythic war reporter, realizes or recog- nizes.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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This, this a
virtuous
man can do,
Sail against rocks, and split them too;
Ay, and a world of pikes pass through.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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As I came round the comer I could hear voices
murmuring
‘Oo-oo!
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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By the
indefinable
greatness
and power of such conquerors
the spectator feels, that they are only the means of
an intention manifesting itself through them and
yet hiding itself from them.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This we say does not
correspond
to the real mind: it is a sort of skin which we must strip off if we are to find the real mind.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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His deep study of
Scripture
is very
astonishing; the rest of the party were but as children in his hands, not
merely in general views of theology, but in nice verbal criticism.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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No man
believes
that his own life will be short.
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Samuel Johnson |
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We seek
punishment
in Moses; he hath almost none : except that at the last God saith unto him, Get thee up into this mountain, and die.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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I will not draw the envy to engrosse
All thy perfections, or weepe all our losse;
Those are too
numerous
for an Elegie,
And this too great, to be express'd by mee.
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John Donne |
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"
Apparently
the initial absurdity of his lending his name to the purposes of a preposterous quack like Isham had not occurred to him.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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VIII
Such is the
practise
of these striplings who,
What time you treat them with austerity,
Love and revere you, and such homage do,
As those who pay their service faithfully;
But vaunt no sooner victory, than you
From mistresses shall servants grieve to be;
And mourn to see the fickle love they owed,
From you diverted, and elsewhere bestowed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ois Lyotard; the
historians
Franc?
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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n was
beautiful
as any.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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Not a genius,
he had heart and imagination, and
infallible
taste; his
mind was broad, though not profound, and his artistic
sense was highly developed.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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We are a king and queen,
Our royal
carriage
is a motor bus,
We watch our subjects with a haughty joy.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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downloaded
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The very task of
reaching
Texas was a fearful one.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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THE
MANIPULATION
OF RISK
THE ART OF COMMITMENT 93
But uncertainty exists.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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XXVIII
When all were entered, and the roving eyes
Of all were stayed, some upon faces bright,
Some on the priests, some on the traceries
That decked the slumber of a marble knight, 500
And all the rustlings over that arise
From
recognizing
tokens of delight,
When friendly glances meet,--then silent ease
Spread o'er the multitude by slow degrees.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Instantly I
felt lighthearted, and I passed the barrier and walked between
cultivated fields and meadows,
unconscious
of fatigue, and feeling only
all over as though a burden were falling off my soul.
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Perdition
catch my soul, but I do love thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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To do this most
unrighteous
deed!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Either our pro position must be proved apodeictically ; or, if this is unsuc cessful, the sources of this inability must be sought for, and if these are
discovered
to exist in the natural and necessary limitation of our reason, our opponents must submit to the same law of renunciation, and refrain from advancing claims to dogmatic assertion.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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And hou in
pilerynage
he ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Let each
peculiar
species [of writing]
fill with decorum its proper place.
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| Question: |
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Horace - Works |
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O, Delian king, whose light-producing eye views all within, and all beneath the sky:
Whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, who, omens good reveal'st, and precepts pure:
Hear me entreating for the human kind, hear, and be present with
benignant
mind;
For thou survey'st this boundless æther all, and ev'ry part of this terrestrial ball
Abundant, blessed; and thy piercing sight, extends beneath the gloomy, silent night;
Beyond the darkness, starry-ey'd, profound, the stable roots, deep fix'd by thee are found.
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Orphic Hymns |
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We should regard this day as a very great
American
holiday.
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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--Asconius, _Commentary on the
Orations
of
Cicero, “In Toga Candida,”_ pp.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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These negations do not intend to posit
anything
against loving interaction, psychotherapy, or the spirit of enterprise.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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[Contain
information
relating
to Scottish printers.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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And then for a while
We picked, till I feared you had
wandered
a mile,
And I thought I had lost you.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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Or les problèmes relatifs à Albertine restèrent encore
dans mon esprit alors que ma
tendresse
pour elle, tant physique que
morale, avait déjà disparu.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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As he
excelled
in that noisy and licentious merriment which wine incites,
his companions eagerly encouraged him in excess, and he willingly
indulged it; till, as he confessed to Dr.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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The rich-haired Nymphs
received him in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and
nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his
father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being
reckoned
among the
immortals.
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| Source: |
Hesiod |
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The partnership, however, was
not eternal, for between 1648 and 1650 Oldisworth published at least
eight
virulent
satires against his former master.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Yet no
conclusion
could be less correct than the impression
that, either in his History, or in any other part of his extra-
ordinarily ample literary output, Burnet's glance was ever more
thap temporarily diverted from the distinct aims and lofty ideals
which he cherished.
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
|
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Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then there is a more recent
philosophical
school which began in India around the first century A.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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ZTGMUNT KRASINSKI 169
heaven on the two
thousand
years that have past,
amidst that judgment, grant us, oh, Lord, that
by our holy deeds we may rise from death.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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He broke a bit from a
fishing-rod, secured the line round the middle of it with a notch,
put the stick through the
bunghole
in the bilge, and corked up
the whole with a net-float.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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We'll give them an Oliver their
Rowland!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Let go into that stark
nakedness
alone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
A poem is an
arrangement
of
sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brushmarks.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
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"
starting up ;
The guests had all risen,
although
a part of them reeled.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
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How much of these rumours
was true, we cannot tell; but there was ground for appre
hension, because, agreeably to the constitution, neither troops
not even a respectable police force were at the command
of the
government
in the capital, and it was in reality left
Vol.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
14, 21, 1764;
report of
commissioners
of the customs, Brit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
(_He
embraces
the boy_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
The chief
landmarks
were the church tower and the chimney of the
brewery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
So
many
months’
acquaintance!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
But
heedless
of those cares, with anguish stung,
He felt their fleeces as they pass'd along
(Fool that he was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Here
Aristotle
says (433a 15 ff.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
29 All the poets discussed here developed their own individual models of tradition that validated the
intertextual
echoes in their work as something more dynamic and creative than mere imitation or restoration.
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| Question: |
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
|
The year of a release date is no longer part
of the
directory
path.
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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The result was the unfair
appearance
that the older Schelling represented merely a classical relic who had remained bound to positions that had been overtaken by the Zeitgeist.
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Cheerfully, he looked into the
rushing river, never before he had like a water so well as this one,
never before he had perceived the voice and the parable of the moving
water thus
strongly
and beautifully.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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an and Luoyang were retaken, those who had willingly or
unwillingly
accepted posts in An Lushan?
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The task which Alfred's descendants had undertaken of creating an
English nation was by no means
accomplished
in 954.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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The gifts of distinction, conferred by the sovereign on officers, ministers, and feudal princes, were nine in all; and the
enumerations
of them are not always the same.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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Dewey: Jack Belden holds that Republican presidential
candidate
Thomas Dewey (1902-71) and Time-Life-Fortune publisher Henry Luce (1898-1967) endorsed Chiang because of shared anti-
Communist sentiment.
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Pound
championed
The Law of Civilization and Decay, which emphasized the role played by money and usury in the rise and fall of civilizations.
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At last the fire became so violent, and the flames reflected from
the
polished
marble so dazzling, that the Caliph, unable to with-
stand the heat and the blaze, effected his escape, and clambered
up the imperial standard.
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