None chaunst hereon to looke, Save onely one
Ascalaphus
whome Orphne, erst a Dame
Among the other Elves of Hell not of the basest fame, .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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But he did
it for love of his works, of his law-giving; and
to be a law-giver is a
sublimated
form of tyranny.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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So, the student of war who is unversed in the art of varying his plans, even though he be
acquainted
with the Five Advantages, will fail to make the best use of his men.
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The-Art-of-War |
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But since this may not be, I will try to depict it as best I can, so
that the readers of these lines may form a remote conception if not of
its
infinite
details, at least of its effect as a whole.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer
cowslips
home.
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Robert Herrick |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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[162] For thee the nymphs of Amnisus rub down the hinds loosed from the yoke, and from the mead of Hera they gather and carry for them to feed on much swift-springing clover, which also the horses of Zeus eat; and golden troughs they fill with water to be for the deer a
pleasant
draught.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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ASO holy angels
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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—
Do the modern musical performers really believe
that the supreme law of their art is to give every
piece as much high-relief as is possible, and to make
it speak at all costs a dramatic
language?
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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Remember all the ne things you have seen; all the
pleasures
and su erings you have overcome; all the motives r glory which you have despised; all the ingrates to whom you have been benevolent.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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1280 Chapter Eight
All-Encompassing Ayatanas,--because these
absorptions
arise through the power of the Teaching.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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_That all, but especially the covetous, think their own
condition
the
hardest_.
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Horace - Works |
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_
E'en as a flow'ret born secluded in garden enclosed,
Unto the flock unknown and ne'er uptorn by the ploughshare, 40
Soothed by the zephyrs and
strengthened
by suns and nourish't by showers
* * * *
Loves her many a youth and longs for her many a maiden:
Yet from her lissome stalk when cropt that flower deflowered,
Loves her never a youth nor longs for her ever a maiden:
Thus while the virgin be whole, such while she's the dearling of
kinsfolk; 45
Yet no sooner is lost her bloom from body polluted,
Neither to youths she is joy, nor a dearling she to the maidens.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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According to we must rice from given beginning to one still higher every part conducts us to still smaller one every event pre ceded by another event which its cause and the conditions of
existence
rest always upon other and still higher conditions, and find neither end nor basis in some self-subsistent thing as the primal being.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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Metellus
Celer and the sister ot the
notorious
P.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Many a notable
correspondence was
actually
preserved and published, though now
lost.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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"Now
hearken!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Do they not understand that if the book is slightly obscure, it is so because it is a compression, and that to
compress
it further can only result in making it more obscure?
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Samuel Beckett |
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Bridget
contains
fifty-three stanzas.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Crousaz was a
professor
of Switzerland, eminent for his treatise of
logick, and his Examen de Pyrrhonisme; and, however little known or
regarded here, was no mean antagonist.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Examples of brinkmanship can be found situations ranging from international relations to Hollywood movies were
gangster
shoot under the feet to force a victim to cooperate.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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It is not very
probable
Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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36) This
remarkable
anonymous work written in the last century, bears no date.
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
|
Squire's famous verse on the First World War
spontaneously
comes to mind:
God heard the embattled nations sing and shout 'Gott strafe England' and 'God save the King!
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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But we have grown into a great and mighty nation, under which life is not only
tolerable
but sweet to the vast majority.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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What was it that, when the common
people of Rome were like to have destroyed all by their mutiny, reduced
them to
obedience?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Nor leans to her at all, the man's part ; but helpless as
alder
Lies, new-fell'd in a ditch, beneath axe
Ligurian
ham-
strung,
As alive to the world, as if world nor wife were at issue.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Nothing is to be
despaired
of
under Teucer's conduct, and the auspices of Teucer: for the infallible
Apollo has promised, that a Salamis in a new land shall render the name
equivocal.
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Horace - Works |
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Di dân bỉỉt luồn sớm trưa,
Áo dồi phai mặc, thô
dưứng
uểl na.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Gaunt ice-covered rocks and dark clouds
hung over a valley, where dwarf willows and
barberry
bushes stood
clothed in green.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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From
the
fortress
she could see the very same hills as she could from the
village--and these savages require nothing more.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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'"
[28] He evidently alludes to the
versions
of the second and eighth
Satires by Tate and Stepney, but principally to the latter, in which
Juvenal illustrates his argument by the practice of Smithfield and
Newmarket!
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Satires |
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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast
Where love has been received a welcome guest;
As wandering saints poor huts have sacred made,
He hallows every heart he once has sway'd,
And, when his presence we no longer share,
Still leaves
compassion
as a relic there.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Cordially [signed]
Achilles
Fang
?
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
|
citnces which are
explained
by the Abhisamayltla1pkflra.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
|
The ob- servatory at Dunsink
registered
in all eleven shocks, all of the fifth grade of Mercal1i's scale, and there is no record extant of a similar seismic dis- turbance in our island since the earthquake of 1534, the year of the rebellion of Silken Thomas.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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As always, Chateaubriand enriches his narrative with extensive quotations and vivid moral and philosophical perceptions, to create a colourful and resonant self-portrait of the intelligent wealthy European traveller, in touch with the ancient world through Christian and Classical writers, and
dismayed
by the present but stimulated and inspired by the past.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
And at the sight of him, she wept the more,
And often
clutched
her throat, and beat her breast;
For lamentation finds an open door
In the presence of the friends we love the best.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
She loves Rodrigue, I gave her him again,
Through me
Rodrigue
conquered his disdain;
Having thus forged these lovers' heavy chains,
I wish to see an end to all their pains.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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lt, die nur im Reich des Geistes
zu
befriedigen
sind.
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Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
And not of less authority for that ; but it
was
grounded
upon thefatherly authority ; and the curse and the blessing given with respect to that.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
, that which is ''sent to'' us and determines us), individually and collectively, and fate will not patiently pause until we have managed to
understand
what it ''means.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Judging by all
the figures at hand, the modern Anglo-Saxon American, with his high
standard of comfort, his intensely
individualistic
outlook on life, and
his intellectual and emancipated but child-refusing wife, is being
gradually thrust aside by the upgrowth of new masses of people of
simpler tastes and hardier and more natural habits.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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He
conveyed
him directly to the water-side, in order to carry him to Greenwich ; when, as soon as he had got him into the boat, he said he would discover all he knew
concerning the robbery of the breeches-maker.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
|
The duel ensues; wherein Paris being overcome,
he is snatched away in a cloud by Venus, and
transported
to his apartment.
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Iliad - Pope |
|
From square to square with tiger leaps panted the lustful fire,
The air to leeward
shuddered
with the gasps of its desire;
And church and palace, which even now stood whelmed but to the knee.
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James Russell Lowell |
|
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 |
|
Fourthly, I attack only those things from which
all personal differences are excluded, in which any such thing
as a
background
of disagreeable experiences is lacking.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words,
sayings, meanings,
The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women,
are sayings and
meanings
also.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
In the mean Time a
Prebendary
was
offered me, as they call it; it was a good fat Benefice, and I accepted
it.
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Source: |
Erasmus |
|
Teachers will be able to develop in
the classroom many other activities which may be more suitable
than those suggested, and it is not
expected
nor recommended
that any teacher use all of those included.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
ufig 120 Bogen-
seiten stark und
enthielt
das, was jetzt in ?
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Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the
inflamed area around it, which was
entirely
covered in white dust.
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Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
' said
he; 'your face is enough to
frighten
one.
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Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
The hero is
a knight who is reduced to poverty by
reckless
charity.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
MARION: You
frighten
me!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Healthily
developing toddlers do not show anxious clinging except when they are frightened or distressed; at other times they ex- plore with confidence.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
|
20, the date of his
own death, for he recited before the
imperial
family
the magnificent eulogy on the young prince which
adorns the sixth book of the iEneid.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
" If, as William Gass puts it in On Being Blue, color is consciousness, is feeling, and if blue is the color of
interior
life, of transcendence, "leading us away in pursuit of the infinite," if "nothing stands in the way of blue's being smelled or felt, eaten as well as heard," then Trakl's way with color was more than the neurological condition of synaesthesia; it was the mark of a masterful intelligence.
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Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
|
Frooi
those features of partial resemblance, he styled his pieces Ana-
creontic, as we give the name of Pindaric to odes
composed
in
the bold irregular manner of Pindar, though not written in
Pindar's metre.
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Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
|
of man, is but the scattered Sibyl's leaves,
out of which, even to this day, no human
being has
composed
a book.
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Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
_Bantry Bay_
On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry Bay,
All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:
A fortnight and nine days we in the harbour lay,
And no breeze ever reached us or
strained
a single sail.
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Source: |
John Clare |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
hicc', hocc', from
hicce, hocce, being
otherwise
properly short.
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Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
|
"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel
immeasurably
at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all.
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
At ego ensem acutum trahens a foemore,
Sedi, neque permisi mortuorum impotentia capita Sanguinem prope ire, antequam Tiresiam audirem: Prima autem anima
Elpenoris
venit socii:
Nondum enim sepultus erat sub terra lata.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
|
231
Luther: Brother,you are really
speaking
like an
angel to-day.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
Water dashed on the coals
suddenly
smothers their glow.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
The
treasure
is ours, make we fast land with it.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
mer--a
lifelong
friend and prote?
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|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
|
'The princess laboured at her loom,
Mistress and handmaiden alike;
Beneath their needles grew the field
With
warriors
armed to strike.
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Christina Rossetti |
|
had she not better stay
Deep in the
greenwood
far away?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Li Po |
|
They plant dead trees for living, and the dead
They string
together
with a living thread.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
If it
does I shall owe much to this new
personality
that has altered every
man's life in this place.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
They are the body to which a new
spirit is
constantly
being superadded.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
A short time after his return to Milan, Petrarch had the
pleasure
of
welcoming to his house John Boccaccio, who passed some days with him.
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Source: |
Petrarch |
|
12
Expressionism
itself, however, is treated (in line with Georg Luka?
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
|
In the fundamentalism of the years after 1945, under- standably, perhaps many people found themselves unable to go from the horrors of war into a society that
represented
itself once again as a peaceful collection of book-friendsöas though the Goethe-Jugend could eradicate the memory of the Hitler-Jugend.
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Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
|
The darkness
shudders
with lightning.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
12
Browning,
Elizabeth
Barrett.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
|
txt[3/29/23, 1:19:16 AM]
quality from the German
sicknesses
of modern times.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
-Croce's insight, which swept aside the residue of scholasticism and old-fashioned rationalism, preceded the artworks themselves, a
development
that neither Croce, who was at heart a classicist, nor his mentor Hegel would have approved.
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Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
You might as well affirm the
existence
of mules, and deny
that of horses and asses.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
And behind all logic and its
seeming sovereignty of movement, there are valua-
tions, or to speak more plainly, physiological de-
mands, for the
maintenance
of a definite mode of
life.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
, assured that no one would
question
the propriety of his course.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tacitus |
|
For what is the difference between a man who has advised an action, and one who has
approved
of it?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed
condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding
motionless
over the biggest,
and the greatest, town on earth.
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Naturally the migrations play a decisive part in Debray's account of the life of God, for the God of
monotheism
who is being discussed would not have any biography worth mentioning or describing if he had forever remained a God-in residence, condemned to stay in the place of his creation or self-invention.
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Still I
remember
how I strove to flee
The love-note of the birds, and bowed my head
To hurry faster, but upon the ground
I saw two wingèd shadows side by side,
And all the world's spring passion stifled me.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Harley, John Hunter
Poland past and present; a
historical
study.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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139 And she was the ark of the covenant in which "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden because in her she
contained
the esh of Christ" (cf.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Still Sarpi did not involve himself with
those who were called Protestants; although that might have
been the logical
conclusion
if he had failed to bring the Pope
down upon his knees.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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With what care I would have
cherished
your dear head!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the
thoughts
of me your humble swain
Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
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Golden Treasury |
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Sollte wohl der Wein noch
fliessen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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