Welby,
and of Miss Susan Archer Talley,
reflect
credit upon
Mr.
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Poe - v08 |
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Et il le fit, lorsqu'elle vint, une heure après qu'il
fut
rentré
chez lui.
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Huysmans - La-Bas |
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Talibus l\\o-\-neus cti,nc-\-tl simtil org fr&nebant
(
Ilioneus
-- diphthong.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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I do adjure thee by the living God,
Tell us, art thou indeed the
Christ?
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Longfellow |
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Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and
hence also the allusions to a possibility of
something
happening
on the very morning of the wedding.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Columbae^s"
of
uncertain
date the festival of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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The
example
thus given Central was followed by the Samnite communities, and generally Siv— by the mass of the communities from the Liris and the Italy.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Escapó a catorce atentados, a setenta y tres emboscadas y a un
pelotón
de fusilamiento.
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Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Anos de Soledad |
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At the close of the book he represents the
Goddess
as
dismissing her worshipers with a speech which she concludes with "a yawn
of extraordinary virtue.
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Alexander Pope |
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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.
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Sallust - Catiline |
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And in
the next place, you see that those first
founders
of it were plain,
simple persons and most bitter enemies of learning.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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And they made the top of the table in three parts like a triptychon, and they were so fitted and dovetailed together with spigots along the whole breadth of the work, that the
meeting
of the joints could not be seen or even discovered.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So Panurge spent the
night with
tippling
amongst the pages, and played away all the points of
his breeches at primus secundus and at peck point, in French called La
Vergette.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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The Library of Con-
gress, for example, has only the German, Polish, and English
editions of Sex and Character, the second and sixth editions
of Vber die
letzten
Dinge, and Lucka's book about Otto
Weininger.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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8; censured by Pope in
translating
the Iliad, let of Elizabethan poets, v.
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Alexander Pope - v05 |
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),
Keywords
in evolutionary biology (Cambridge, Mass.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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58 AN OUTLINE OF THE
skiego" (" Podfilipski's Memoirs "), are genuinely
fine, but the flower of his talent blossoms fully
in one of his latest achievements, "Sob61 i Panna"
'("A Sable and a Maid"), in which, together with
the poetic side of sport, he displays his deep ad-
miration of the landscape and his wise compre-
hension of
youthful
feelings and the noble impulses
in human nature.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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There were either no villages, or the people were
hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with
an
occasional
old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for
some more or less recondite reason.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In reply, Milarepa sang:
I pay homage to my Guru, the
gracious
one.
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Milarepa |
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274
Germany*s
Protestant Freedom
of world-historical importance are in question, we
note the half -hidden working of genius, the secret
conviction of fateful consequences and of divine
inspiration.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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The ideal of Hegel's youth, claims Beiser, "was Hegel's organic vision of the world, his
concept
of the infinite life, which would reconcile the individual to the universe" (2005: 89).
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Hegel_nodrm |
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" Combining these may
eventually
lead to the imperative, "Do your homework now," being included amongst the well-established facts, and this, by the construction of the machine, will mean that the homework actually gets started, but the effect is very satisfactory.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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By the
exercise
of his profession he became wealthy; and if
he speaks of his means as not great,(2) he must be comparing his wealth
with the grandees of Rome, not with the ordinary citizen.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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O
passionate
and pure!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thus is the
intelligent
soul obliged sometimes to sympathise with the
affections of the body.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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[70] These were the
opening
lines of poems by Cratinus, often sung at
festivities.
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Aristophanes |
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Only
a few old gentlemen decided in my favour, and for
very diverse and sometimes
unaccountable
reasons.
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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All now is silent; groans are fled;
Your child lies still, yet is not dead,
But rather like a flower hid here,
To spring again
another
year.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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ThethirdwasayoungPRINCE,whose strong democratic views and thirst for reform had led him to publish a large number of more or less
valuable
pamphlets on moral and social progress.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Thus on the one hand the
explanation
by means of the unconscious, due to the fact that it breaks the psychic unity, can not account for the facts which at fii"st sight it appeared to explain.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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The
ancient
pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Days and months pass like a
departing
stream, Time is just a ash from a int stone.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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"
So saying, I was drunk all the day,
Lying
helpless
at the porch in front of my door.
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Li Po |
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Something of Hellenism, something, too,
of Oriental resignation, must be combined with its
hurrying
Western
self-assertion before it can emerge from the ardour of youth into the
mature wisdom of manhood.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Theinvisibilityofthe ordinary would become visible and force
philosophical
problems into relative invisibility.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Money and
dainties
are the devil's envoys; Association with them is pernicious.
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Milarepa |
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_
The Charm
Son of Erebus and Night,
Hie away; and aim thy flight
Where
consort
none other fowl
Than the bat and sullen owl;
Where upon the limber grass
Poppy and mandragoras
With like simples not a few
Hang for ever drops of dew.
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hide |
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Where does he go? |
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Source: |
William Browne |
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Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be
painted
in a picture?
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Whitman |
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What is still lacking in the
account
will have to be made good as we go on.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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The little
hostess
had spared no
pains in securing all sorts of good things, and
when all were come, and had taken their places,
and were ready to enjoy the feast, the Madame's
fun began.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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He had three brothers, Lyres,
Calliondas
and Athenodorus.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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--and all of a sudden
to inform
against
me--to think of that now!
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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For example, on
television
we can watch the news from India or Russia or anything.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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Similar means of
secret
intercommunication
must have existed almost
contemporaneously with the invention of letters.
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Poe - v09 |
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It's no use telling Tavy that Ann puts things
into people's heads by telling them that I want them when the
thought
of
them never crossed my mind.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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By accident I met a
college
acquaintance, who
recommended opium.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Man
founders
in deceit, all the age of his life.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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Huc
propiùs
me,
Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite.
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Alexander Pope - v10 |
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TO CHRESTILLUS, AN ABSURD
ADMIRER
OF
THE OLD POETS.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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The aspect of the country, as well as
the
manners
and distinctions of race, is daily changing.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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They haul
him like a potato sack--one
million
eyes bound.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Qtdcynv
, η°ά ΔΗρ5Λκ5ν,.
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Ailianou Poikilēs historias - 1545 |
|
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted
digital
archive.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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In the
meantime
Castor and Polydeuces, while stealing the cattle of Idas
and Lynceus, were caught in the act, and Castor was killed by Idas, and
Lynceus and Idas by Polydeuces.
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Hesiod |
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The outline of the gestalt turns back here repeat- edly to a
certain
trait of the soul that manifests itself in it; and, in the end, it is to be rendered understandable only from the whole of this soul, from its totality that is enclosed in each true, artistic, individual thing.
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Cassirer - 1930 - Form and Technology |
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Ovid,
unwilling
to associate it with any heav-
enly power, left the agency indefinite.
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Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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If you remove the heads from off the larvae before the coming of the wings, the bees will eat them up; and if you nip off the wings from a drone and let it go, the bees will spontaneously bite off the wings from off all the
remaining
drones.
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Source: |
Aristotle copy |
|
You can search
through
the full text of this book on the web at http://books.
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Tully - Offices |
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The
patriotic
enthusiasm gave
birth to a spontaneous "Poetry of Legions," for
the most part anonymous but full of fire.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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Our own
personal
future is always not here, not yet.
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Source: |
Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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" they heard her not coming,
Not a step on the grass, not a voice through the gloaming;
But her mother looked up, and she stood on the floor
Fair and still as the
moonlight
that came there before,
And a smile just beginning:
XVI.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Rich, he would plant Izzy 'on the electnc
ottoman
m the lap of
2# 245
?
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
Herbert Kynaston,
formerly
Snow (1835-1910)
Theocritus, 1869.
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Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1915 - v12 - Nineteeth Century |
|
who, sunk in beds of down,
Feel not a want but what yourselves create,
Think, for a moment, on his wretched fate,
Whom friends and fortune quite
disown!
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
"Oh,
indeed!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
There were only a few people in the corridor,
probably
because it
was Sunday.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
Fra
er
impatientiani
teſtis eſt, quia ab omni ter fuidra
mo.
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Source: |
Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
|
72
Io dico forse, non ch'io ve l'accerti,
ma potrebbe esser stato di leggiero:
tal la bellezza e tali erano i merti,
i
costumi
e i sembianti di Ruggiero.
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Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oh, to see or hear her
singing!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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For some it may radiate from the
Shropshire
life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid artistic simplicity and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and landscapes are presented.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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193
And having sailed past the Thermodon and the Caucasus they came to the river Phasis, which is in the
Colchian
land.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
|
He was a master encyclopaedist, who collated huge quantities of information and observations
solicited
from naturalists all around the world, each gentleman meticulously acknowledged for having 'attended to' the subject and sometimes complimented as a 'reliable observer'.
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Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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The Royal Asiatic Society, Great Britain and Ireland: Excerpt from
“Louis
Massignon
(1882-1962),” in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1962)
University of California Press: Excerpts from Modern Islam: The Search for Cultural
Identity by Gustave von Grunebaum.
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Source: |
Said - Orientalism - Chapter 01 |
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Αυλαρ εμοι γλυκυς υπνος υπο πλαίανω βαθυφυλλα"
Και παγάς φιλεoιμι τον
εγδυθεν
ηχω ακέειν, ,
“A Τερπει ψοφεοισα Τον αγρικoν, έχι Παρασσει.
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Wreath - 1830 - Sappho Theocritus Bion Moschus in Prose |
|
The retraining of a person, or the
restoration
of industry, the economy, etc.
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OED - 21 - a |
|
140
But how this toun com to destruccioun
Ne
falleth
nought to purpos me to telle;
For it were a long digressioun
Fro my matere, and yow to longe dwelle.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
118 These grew every year a cubit in breadth and a fathom in height; and when they were nine years old,119 being nine cubits broad and nine
fathoms
high, they resolved to fight against the gods, and they set Ossa on Olympus, and having set Pelion on Ossa they threatened by means of these mountains to ascend up to heaven, and they said that by filling up the sea with the mountains they would make it dry land, and the land they would make sea.
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cubits |
Question: |
How tall were they once the battle began? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Apollodorus - The Library |
|
A
Midsummer
Night's Dream 3.
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Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
And though thou go, yet must thee nede
Thenke al-day on hir fairhede,
Whom thou
bihelde
with so good wille; 2485
And holde thysilf bigyled ille,
That thou ne haddest non hardement
To shewe hir ought of thyn entent.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Away with the compulsion toward physical contact among the people and other
unappetizing
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
As that old and careful writer
relates
many of St.
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
What was the use of not
leaving
it there where it would hang what was
the use if there was no chance of ever seeing it come there and show
that it was handsome and right in the way it showed it.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
|
In the majority of cases, true,
assurances
of peace are merely
stupefying draughts.
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
, is a model of liveliness and ease combined with
fulness of matter, scarcely ever surpassed: and of this earlier style
there were many striking specimens in the manuscripts on Evidence, all
of which I
endeavoured
to preserve.
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Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
MEANING
OF THE TITLE LÎ KÎ.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
|
Composed around the mid- dle of the 4th century, this work represents the culmination of earlier Buddhist
practices
into a sophisticated philosophical system.
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Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
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pibus , porros
cæpáfque
quæfierunt.
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Source: |
Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
|
Soldiers
when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
|
11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter;
and I knew not that they had
devised
devices against me, saying, Let
us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off
from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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Source: |
bible-kjv |
|
But as soon as night arrived, Agesilaus seized twelve of the ringleaders in different places, and thus
quashed
the mutiny.
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Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
Publisher:
Chicago
: Stone & Kimball, 1894-95.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v03 |
|
"The
interest
of Mr.
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Answer: |
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Poe - v03 |
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derigit in Syriam celeris longaeua uolatus,
Phoenicen nomen cui dedit ipsa uetus,
secretosque petit
deserta
per auia lucos,
sicubi per saltus silua remota latet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But in order to test, and thus verify the reputation of the Jet- sun and his son, she and her friends challenged
Milarepa
by singing this
song:
We take refuge in the Three Precious Ones; Pray, bless us with your great compassion.
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Milarepa |
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100, 101
Et'ablativum primae 100
Numeralia
mfiinta
104
In B, D, T, desinentia brevia sunt 122
In C desinentia producuntur.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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—Take care not to laugh
at the mythology of the Greeks merely because it
so little resembles your own profound
metaphysics!
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Nietzsche - v09 |
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Canities
eadem est, eadem violentia vultu.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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