E seja o nosso desprezo para os que
trabalham
e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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Though time shall be no more, yet space shall give
A nobler theatre to love and live
The winged courier then no more shall claim
The power to sink or raise the notes of Fame,
Or give its glories to the
noontide
ray:
True merit then, in everlasting day,
Shall shine for ever, as at first it shone
At once to God and man and angels known.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Men eat the flesh of grass-fed and grain-fed animals, deer eat grass,
centipedes
find snakes tasty, and hawks and falcons relish mice.
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Chuang Tzu |
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'
IN DEFENCE OF CHILDREN
My colleague the
psychologist
Nicholas Humphrey used the 'sticks and stones' proverb in introducing his Amnesty Lecture in Oxford
326
THE GOD DELUSION
141
in 1997.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The Ass and the Lapdog
A Farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts of
burden: among them was his
favourite
Ass, that was always well fed
and often carried his master.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Et malgré leur amabilité on se disait:
n'ont-ils pas vraiment le droit, quoiqu'ils le dissimulent, quand ils
nous voient marcher, saluer, sortir, toutes ces choses qui, accomplies
par eux,
devenaient
aussi gracieuses que le vol de l'hirondelle ou
l'inclinaison de la rose, de penser: ils sont d'une autre race que nous
et nous sommes, nous, les princes de la terre?
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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The King of Sweden,
after having
exhausted
all means of con-
ciliation, camped his army before Berlin,
declaring that the elector was no longer
any thing but an enemy to him.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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_ You mean the
beauteous
orphan, fair Monimia.
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Thomas Otway |
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"
"I did confess, but I
confessed
a lie.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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Copperfield objected to my threes and fives being too much like each
other, or to my putting curly tails to my sevens and nines,' resumed my
mother in another burst, and
breaking
down again.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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His career
in Italy was as wild and
dissipated
as ever.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Farewell the busy town,
The wealthy and the wise,
Kind smile and honest frown
From bright,
familiar
eyes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Give them but
one or two round and harmonious periods in a speech, which they will
retain and repeat, and they will go home as well
satisfied
as people
do from an opera, humming all the way one or two favourite tunes that
have struck their ears, and were easily caught.
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Selection of English Letters |
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If not,
We give
ourselves
away from God to death.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Pretending to side with the assassins of Julius Cæsar,
he presently threw himself into Antony's arms; perhaps because he
saw that Antony could more easily be first
utilized
and then dis-
patched.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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For
references
see Allinson, Lucian, op.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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tracted Irom the " Leabhar Breac"- and
translated
by Professor O'Looney
C tin.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Le sue
magnificenze
conosciute
saranno ancora, si che ' suoi nemici
non ne potran tener le lingue mute.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Is this
historically
true?
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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They had got into the habit of putting things into this room
that they had no room for
anywhere
else, and there were now many
such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to
three gentlemen.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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"121 4 This was added ostensibly because he had been beaten by the Alani in a
disorderly
battle on the plains of Philippi and forced to retreat; but at the same time it seemed to mean that he had been slain by the two Philips.
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Historia Augusta |
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ima
uidebatur
talis inludere palla:
namque haec in nitido corpore uestis erat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And I think shows fairest where
These
rummaging
small rogues have been at work.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This makes it quite unnecessary to look anxiously to see that the leeway allowed by the
conditions
is not exceeded.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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A kind and bountiful
Providence has never deserted us;
punished
us he perhaps has,
for our neglect of his blessings and our misdeeds.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Inasmuch as he had coins struck bearing the effigy of Justin I,
Hilderic
formally
gave the impression of recognising a kind of suzerainty
of the Byzantine Empire.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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The earlier half of the poem
contains
a description of Europa’s flower-basket.
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Moschus |
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Now what I think is important is that throughout the Middle Ages, up to and including the sixteenth century, the
disciplinary
apparatuses we see in religious communities basically played a double role.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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)
Gómara,
Francisco
Lopez de.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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The author died in 1654 and was
buried where my
forefathers
ashes sleepe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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It shows in even the
leisurely
charm of "Lettres aI'Amazone.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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Of what
quantity
is the pronoun Te?
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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Go as a great wave of cool water,
Bear my
contempt
of oppressors.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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This is still
depicted
in the postcommunist literature, e.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Any one who thinks I do Kant wrong in
saying this does not know what a
philosopher
is—
not only a great thinker, but also a real man; and
how could a real man have sprung from a savant?
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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According to Dugin, however, the alter- natives to globalization remain limited: either left-wing ideologies worked out in the West, or a right-wing
liberalism
and the stagnation typi- cal of Asian countries.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Y also
experienced
painful stomach symptoms, which subsided when he could name them as an evil inner Red Guard.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Each of these numbers in our fingerprint is the number of times a particular piece of
nonsense
is repeated in our genome.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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But if you don’t have faith in it,
8
You’ll
meet it and not notice it.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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Unless you
generate
a devotion toward your kind guru exceeding even that of meeting the Buddha in person, you will not feel the warmth of blessings.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Title of Work:
George ('Erionach')
Sigerson
(1836-1925): Bards of the Gael and Gall (1897)
?
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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300
inquinat egregios adiuncta
superbia
mores.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Campania, which the Samnites had overrun during the
Etruscan
war, was after its close re-occupied with little difliculty by the Romans.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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_ I graunt, he could not haue had
an accyon ayenst me in ye law, but he myght from
hensforthe be deafe to my vowes, orels pryuyly send
some calamytye or wretchednes
amongste
my housholde,
yow know well enuffe the maneres of great men.
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Erasmus |
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612), sound film
virtually
appeared to form nations, just like the radio of that time.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Officials
with whom her work brought her into touch and who
sympathised
with her
objects, were pressed into her service; and old friends of the Crimean
days gathered around her when they returned to England.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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And with whatever good manners they ex- pieis themselves, and not in the
language
of the beast
as thou, my dirty master uses to do, to the scandal «ven of thy own scandalous party
0.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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And o'er him bent his sire, and never raised
His eyes from off his face, but wiped the foam
From his pale lips, and ever on him gazed,
And when the wish'd-for shower at length was come,
And the boy's eyes, which the dull film half glazed,
Brighten'd, and for a moment seem'd to roam,
He
squeezed
from out a rag some drops of rain
Into his dying child's mouth--but in vain.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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But I refuse to make the effort of laboriously adapt- ing myself to an
environment
that I do not feel comfortable with and that makes me look inept.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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At those times I can see that my life is
composed
of projects and tasks.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Ogg and Ray's Introduction to
American
Government, Fourth Edition,
pp.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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2 In this poem, the confessing speaker feels that he has seen through people's everyday behaviour and grasped that it is a badly written but painful play: 'Der Menschheit heldenloses Trauerspiel | Ein
schlechtes
Stu ?
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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As we see, the religious
question
has survived the end of religions.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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"
Therewith
he lashed his steeds of the flowing manes, and came to ^Egae, where is his lordly home.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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only in the union of ideas by means of mutual
The two deepest thinkers of Germany, Kant and reference in a proposition (td kard ouut horriv
Hegel,
acknowledge
that from the time of Aris.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Excessive and protracted large-scale bloodshed which endangers delicate social
institutions
and threatens access to shared resources is rare.
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Translated Poetry |
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και τώρα τούτο λέγε μου μ' αλήθεια, να το μάθω•
εάν τότ' ερημώθηκε πλατύδρομη ανδρών πόλις,
οπού ο πατέρας και η σεπτή
μητέρα
σου εκατοίκαν• 385
ή σ' ηύραν άνθρωποι κακοί με τα κοπάδια μόνον,
σ' επήραν 'ς τα καράβια τους, κ' εκείθε σ' επεράσαν
'ς του ανδρός τούτου τα δώματα, και αυτός σ' έχει αγοράσει».
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Safe from the nibbling flock or
grinding
shear.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Enough my grief
When a
superfluous
pride
In a fair lady many virtues hides.
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Petrarch |
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There was a whole
collection
made.
| Guess: |
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Ful foul in
peynting
was that vice; 210
Ful sad and caytif was she eek,
And al-so grene as any leek.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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High was her heart, and yet was well inclined,
Her manners made of bounty well refined;
Far
capitals
and marble courts, her eye still seemed to see,
Minstrels and kings and high-born dames, and of the best that be.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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We admire
him in very much the same way as young French-
men admire Victor
Hugo—that
is to say, for his
“royal liberality.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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u;AEgEi;i*iasgfifi
EEigiisii!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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Il avait des remords
d’avoir
été dur pour elle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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Are those the
indigenous
people?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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A crone
standing
by with a smoky
oillamp rams her last bottle in the maw of his sack.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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I
LADY SUSAN VERNON TO MR.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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He was
emotionally
and artistically unable to forge a finished work from them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The City of God) is No earlier writer has so sympathetically
the death-warrant of ancient society; and described scenes that have a classical sug-
in spite of its occasional mystic extrava- gestiveness: the grotto of Diana on the
gance and excessive subtlety of argument, opal waters of Lake Nemi; the villa of
the ardent
conviction
that animates it Virgil; the palace of Adrian near Tivoli,
throughout will make it one of the last- “where serpents have made their lair in
ing possessions of humanity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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Now Pallas soothes happy fair With everlasting love
The ivy circled stripling
And fond delight Jove
Blest ancient tales agree Ino alter destiny
Their forms where sister Nereids lave
aftertimes decreed the blow That plunged their hapless race
Impell the parricidal hand
Which struck the Theban monarch Perfecting the decree Pythian gloom
sharpen eye avenging speed Erinnys view themurderousdeed
With
large stray
care
With them
And sport amid the ocean wave
Her happy hours away
Then let not vain presumptuous man
Seek with unhallow eye
irrevocable doom clouds invest final day
Or Heaven shall gild with cheerful ray The darkness of the tomb
For bliss and sorrow with
alternate
flow Sway the uncertain tide life below
Twas thus the Fates supreme command
Which bless old Laius regal line With power and happiness divine
scan
woe
breast exprest
' d
''
,
' s
64 , .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pindar |
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What is song's
eternity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The same tradition
was followed at Durham, Lincoln, and many other
important
churches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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Here the twiformed Minotaur, two bodies combined, Record of lawless love ; there, marvelous labor, were shaped Palace and winding mazes, from whence no feet had escaped, Had not Daedalus pitied the lorn
princess
and her love,
And of himself unentangled the woven trick of the grove,
Guiding her savior's steps with a thread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
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"
No things of air these antics were
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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In this fiction, again, perhaps the scholar and trained worker
are more obvious than the
literary
creator.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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became possessed of a number of her letters, upon the
arrest of her friend Fouquet the Superintendent of Finance, he pro-
claimed that their style was matchless in grace of thought and
expression; and the little court world which took from the King its
opinions, on matters of taste as in so much else,
henceforth
placed
Madame de Sévigné at the head of that group of charming women
who wrote charming letters in seventeenth-century France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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in whom I fix my every hope,
Who canst and will'st assist me in great need,
Forsake me not in this my worst extreme,
Regard not me but Him who made me thus;
Let his high image stamp'd on my poor worth
Towards one so low and lost thy pity move:
Medusa spells have made me as a rock
Distilling
a vain flood;
Virgin!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Long springs, mild winters glad that spot
By Jove's good grace, and Aulon, dear
To
fruitful
Bacchus, envies not
Falernian cheer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Etherege and his place in the history of
restoration
drama.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
|
First, then, Athenians, if there be a man who feels
no apprehensions at the view of Philip's power, and
the extent of his conquests, who
imagines
that these
portend no danger to the state, or that his designs are
not all aimed against you, I am amazed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
9
Sometimes there are three lines together before each cauda, as
in Sir
Perceval
and Sir Degrevant and others:
Lof, lythes to me
Two wordes or thre
Off one that was fair and fre,
And felle in his fighte;
His righte name was Percyvelle,
He was fosterde in the felle,
He dranke water of the welle,
And gitte was he wyghte!
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But I say the less of this, because the renowned Sir Philip Sidney has exhausted the subject before me, in his "Defence of Poesie," 1 on which I shall make no other remark but this, that he argues there as if he really
believed
himself.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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"
He spake--but a
universal
silence followed: at
length he resumed: "It had been base in me, my
fellow-citizens, to promote a sacrifice in others, which
I was not willing to make in my own person; and
indeed the station I occupy gives me a right to be the
first in giving my life for your sakes.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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The court had
neglected
no means
of gaining so active and able a divine.
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Macaulay |
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This was
probably
the origin of
the classical story of Narcissus.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The
Classics live today not because the ancient
authors became famous, --
magnorum
no mi-
lium umbrae -- but because they were modern.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In 1695
competition
was threatened from an unexpected quarter.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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This poem is headed in
two
different
ways in the MSS.
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Donne - 2 |
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I am
approaching
Burns's cottage very fast.
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Selection of English Letters |
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They were
contemners
of the Christian religion
and rites.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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104
Although even now the precise reason for the banishment of
Ovid is unknown, Elizabethan writers often ascribe the punish-
ment to the
displeasure
of Augustus at the character of the Ars
Amandi.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Ben Jonson's
Tragödie
Catiline his Conspiracy und ihre Quellen.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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at
cortaysly
hade hym kydde, & his cry herkened.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Low at his knee, she begg'd with
streaming
eyes
Her brother's car, to mount the distant skies,
And show'd the wound by fierce Tydides given,
A mortal man, who dares encounter heaven.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I wish I were
anywhere
else.
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Austen - Emma |
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” will be
understood
only too well.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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The Pacific Railroad is joined by several
branches
in Iowa, Kansas,
Colorado, and Oregon.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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