Alone she cuts and binds the grain 5
And sings a
melancholy
strain.
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wholesomde |
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Scarcely
had the
House risen when a courier arrived with news that the boom on the Foyle
had been broken.
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Macaulay |
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Ah, lover and
perfect
equal!
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Whitman |
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most
paradoxical
exaggeration of individual
egoism.
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Nietzsche - v14 |
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This is Bowlby's way of describing the internal world of the psychoanalysts, but couched in characteristically
practical
terms.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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The people of this
country
had a right to discuss freely the conduct of their representatives.
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Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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The gradual exhaustion of the true Roman blood had been already marked and deplored under Claudius, and there can be no doubt, though materials are
wanting
for tracing it, that the flux continued to gather force through succeeding generations.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Samatha is a state
accompanied
by an absorbed mind.
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Imprisoned |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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For neither did the stars show their fires, nor was the vault of
constellated sky clear; but vapours
blotted
heaven, and the moon was
held in a storm-cloud through dead of night.
Guess: |
Rose |
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Answer: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"No arm to
protect
me from tyrants aggression;
No parents to cheer me when laden with grief.
Guess: |
Shield |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
|
3S1
se conoce y
determina
>>
Mari?
Guess: |
Tu |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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' No, it is not believ- able; but the repetition of
example
after example gets us nowhere.
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Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Psychologists
working
today, by contrast, have shown us that there is such a thing as a perception of life and they have tried to describe the various forms this takes.
Guess: |
Of |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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The fountain beyond the Moss
islands
I discovered for myself, and thought it for some
time an accidental beauty which it would not do to leave,
lest I might never see it again.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v08 |
|
DIPHTHONGAL SYNALEPHA
Synalepha takes place
between
two contiguous unaccented vowels
belonging to separate words.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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History is so very much there, an
incubus
on living man, as
97
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Answer: |
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Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
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I cannot say I admire her
taste; and for my part, I was
determined
from the first not to go, if
they pressed me ever so much.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
My thoughts are willow branches
Already
broken
Motionless at twilight.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
|
Or if you finding do it call to have a
knowledge
where
?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
|
TheLife& SpiritualSongsofMilarepa
the instructions ofthe profound
SixYogas
ofNaropa.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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31|Pridie | |III |
|Pridie
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| JULIAN YEAR 46 BEFORE CHRIST.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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I’ll do for you
everything
heaven can do.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
|
Watching the
glorious
sunset and the old mills.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
|
June Nights
In summer, when day has fled, when
covered
with flowers
The distant plain sheds sweet intoxication;
Eyes closed, and ears half-open to muted hours,
We lie only half-asleep in transparent slumber.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
, son to
Kenneth
III.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
|
,
"The deed which both our
tongues
held vile to name!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Satires |
|
Still o'er the features, which perforce they cheer,
To feign the pleasure or conceal the pique;
Smiles form the
channel
of a future tear,
Or raise the writhing lip with ill-dissembled sneer.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
At length I
became the property of an Aga of the Janissaries, who was soon ordered
away to the defence of Azof, then
besieged
by the Russians.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
|
He was of the opinion that no office ought to be open to a
member, which might be
created
or the emolument aug-
?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
33 The subtle honor that the officer corps cultivated allows some latitude for sexual behavior, which is not
compatible
with the honor of men in some other groups.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
|
He agreed to their terms, and in
confirmation
of it, he gave them his hand, as is the Persian custom.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
In this time of trial none
stood up in his
defence
hut one' man, who, indeed,
amongst so many millions, was the only one that did
honor to the Roman empire.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
"
His light, agreeable, polished style pierces through the body of the
court--hits off the faded graces of "an Adonis of fifty", weighs the
vanity of fashion in tremulous scales, mimics the grimace of affectation
and folly, shews up the littleness of the great, and spears a
phalanx
of
statesmen with its glittering point as with a diamond broach.
Guess: |
Coterie |
Question: |
Who, Poe? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
|
One acquires
undiscipline
by acting with the intention of always acting badly; one does not acquire undiscipline by the intention of acting badly for a time.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
<
hai contra te>>, mi comando quel saggio;
<>, e drizzo 'l dito:
<
dinanzi
al dolce raggio
di quella il cui bell' occhio tutto vede,
da lei saprai di tua vita il viaggio>>.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
1978); Make-Believe Media: The Politics of
Entertainment
(New York: St.
Guess: |
News |
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
I
crawled
to touch
His blood's mark in the dust .
Guess: |
Reached |
Question: |
What made him bleed? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
She was racing like the wind, but
the
staggering
gentleman was overtaking--overtook her.
Guess: |
Learned |
Question: |
Why did he chase her |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
The hour's
advancing!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The singing was a
queer, ragged noise — an earnest booming from Mr Macgregor, a kind of shamefaced
muttering from the other Europeans, and from the back a loud,
wordless
lowing, for the
Karen Christians knew the tunes of the hymns but not the words.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
|
MARMADUKE and ELDRED enter from
opposite
sides.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Spring will not wait the loiterer's time
Who keeps so long away;
So others wear the broom and climb
The
hedgerows
heaped with may.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
|
"
A few days later, the tradesmen of the city signed an
agreement to withhold patronage from all merchants, -who
refused to sign or to obey the merchants' agreement, and
1Franklin,
Writings
(Smyth), vol.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
Will you leave him here, your poor old
Villon?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Villon |
|
^^
pany and the International Telephone Company under the terms of a
special
law.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
Wincenty Krasinski went to her in person and brought
back her
written
farewell to the man to whose memory
1 Letters to Soltan.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
A, Thomas Allom Esq, William Henry Bartlett, David
Roberts
R.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
|
82 (#102) #############################################
82 FUTURE OF
EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIOI
suiting books.
Guess: |
Learning |
Question: |
What will the university look like? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 |
|
be: deren Anblick sei es erst, was die Seele des Philosophen in einen erotischen Taumel
versetze
und ihr keine Ruhe lasse, bis sie den Samen aller hohen Dinge in ein so scho ?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
i86 Alsace an
Imperial
Province
cannot come to an understanding with the Alsa-
tians until they give up such vague expectations,
and learn to regard their present condition as one
which will last for ever.
Guess: |
Barbarian |
Question: |
No revolution ever? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
|
Allen hath since that time was faulty, for setting forth in his Chronicle,
practised
divers nonstrous Treasons, and con
that his grandfather was attainted by act of
parliament, but shewed no cause wherefore.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
|
Scarcely less savage was the "Lollipop," which
thus discoursed : —
"Some individual, who rejoices in the appellation
'Oppodeldoc' (to what low uses are the names of the
illustrious dead too often
applied
!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v04 |
|
The name "Herodotus" is
modified
in the text to the "herodotary" ("doting on heroes").
Guess: |
Glossed |
Question: |
Does the Historian himself? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
|
" 450
LIV
Back darted Spurius Lartius,
Herminius
darted back:
And, as they passed, beneath their feet
They felt the timbers crack.
Guess: |
Quickly |
Question: |
Did they fall? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
|
To whom the winged Warriour thus returnd:
Uriel, no wonder if thy perfet sight,
Amid the Suns bright circle where thou sitst,
See farr and wide: in at this Gate none pass
The vigilance here plac't, but such as come 580
Well known from Heav'n; and since
Meridian
hour
No Creature thence: if Spirit of other sort,
So minded, have oreleapt these earthie bounds
On purpose, hard thou knowst it to exclude
Spiritual substance with corporeal barr.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Milton |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
|
President Johnson,remember,referredtoanineteen-yeartraditionofnon- use; the breaking of that
tradition
(which grows longer with each passing year) will probably be, especially if it is designed to be, a most stunning event.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
For
wherein
does the
realism of mankind properly consist?
Guess: |
Whom |
Question: |
“ “ |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
|
The poet could be spared, and so, largely for his own good and partly
for mine, I kept the thing in his mind, which was necessary, as would-be
suicides are very
changeable
and hard to hold to their purpose.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
"
She turned and sank upon her skirts at that,
And her face
changed
from terrified to dull.
Guess: |
Transformed |
Question: |
What chastened her? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
Then they swore that their state would remain faithful to the terms of the treaty, as long as they trod the earth that they walked on, or
carried
their heads on their shoulders.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
Ich werde jetzt dich keinem
Nachbar
reichen,
Ich werde meinen Witz an deiner Kunst nicht zeigen.
Guess: |
Nicht |
Question: |
Wast du? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
You stirred up the
American
savages against your own kin IN America.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
|
You
write me these words: 'whom perhaps I shall never see again':
without a fault in spelling, and
without
so far as I can see your
pen having trembled in your hand.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
--Past one a clock, and almost two,--
My
masters
all, 'Good day to you.
Guess: |
Comrades |
Question: |
Who is my master? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
You were the wind and I the sea--
There is no
splendor
any more,
I have grown listless as the pool
Beside the shore.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Not murder wilt thou,
But torture,
torture
?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:38 GMT / http://hdl.
Guess: |
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Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand expectant in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he
received
you as the eternal One.
Guess: |
Greeted |
Question: |
What song is he playing? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
"
"Nay, I have another rose sprung in another garden,
Another
rose which sweetens all the world for me.
Guess: |
Purple |
Question: |
What fragrance is the rose? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
- Khenchen
Thrangu
Rinpoche
39.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
Actually, they should have a
separate
state.
Guess: |
Erotic |
Question: |
What are the laws? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
HS 286 for another defense of
metrical
violation.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
"154 You are more capacious than the world, because He whom the whole world cannot contain, "being made man, was
enclosed
in you.
Guess: |
created |
Question: |
How can I, a mere poet, be more than the world? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
|
Aristobulus
was the first to wear the royal diadem, acting as king and high priest of the Jewish race; this was 484 years after the Babylonian captivity.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
And didst thou not, thy breast to his replying,
Blend a celestial with a human heart;
And Love, which dies as it was born, in sighing,
Share with
immortal
transports?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The
important
point is to decide which of all
the forms of goodness of intellect is that which must be combined with
goodness of character to make a man fit to be a citizen of the state.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
|
THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophesy
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
For her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
"
Forthisreasonmostoftheauthorssee
theworldofWeimarclearlydividedinto "progressives"and"reactionaries,"butinsomecontributionwseafterall come acrossa fewobservationswhichdo notquitefitintothissimplisticviewofthe world.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
|
For mighty stroke
he swung his blade, and the blow
withheld
not.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
His form he in the lucid mirror eyes,
And by the
knowledge
of himself grows wise.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once embodied has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more
perfect
and more fair.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Amheim had
withdrawn
his arm.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
Pythagoras
and
Empedocles probably did the same; Anaximander
founded a city.
Guess: |
Heraclitus |
Question: |
What was Anaximander's city? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 |
|
Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
|
In many
respects
Woronicz is allied to the two
greatest bards of the Holy Scriptures.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
Ah, these were days her
conscience
viewed with pain,
Which all are loth to lose, as well as Jane.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
John Clare |
|
Consider the reasons for the
immense
popular- ity of spectator sports, both ancient and modern.
Guess: |
persistent |
Question: |
Why are crowd sports perennial popular? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
|
He continued to work on his Memoirs, and viewed as a member of the political opposition, a great
literary
figure, and a champion of freedom, was celebrated at the Revolution of 1848, during which period of turmoil he died.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
|
Poetry in
Translation
HOME NEWS ABOUT LINKS CONTACT SEARCH
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem et de Jerusalem a Paris
(Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem and Back)
With a
selection
of engravings and lithographs from nineteenth-century travelogues by celebrated artists such as
Edward Dodwell Esq, F.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
Let then the Church say unto her Lord Jesus Christ, let the body say to its Head,
302 No evil can approach manhood
indwelt
by God.
Guess: |
tumesced |
Question: |
Does God raise my member? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v4 |
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6 Noam Chomsky, Powers and
Prospects
(Boston: South End Press, 1996), 83.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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who with fire divine
Kindlest those limbs, awhile which pilgrim hold
On earth a Chieftain, gracious, wise, and bold;
Since, rightly, now the rod of state is thine
Rome and her wandering children to confine,
And yet
reclaim
her to the old good way:
To thee I speak, for elsewhere not a ray
Of virtue can I find, extinct below,
Nor one who feels of evil deeds the shame.
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constrain |
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How was shame lost? |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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No brother sister
ever the absent one
shall not be less than
those
present
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22.
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heroes |
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If he comes back in the end, that a'ight? |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She was crying in her
wretched
bed.
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bubbled crack |
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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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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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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Granted, Engelberg allows for a "dialectical tension between politics and scholarship,"'10and Lozek does not deny that there are "certain practical and methodological skills of
historical
scholarship on which class has no bear- ing.
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humanistic |
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Can peasants parse? |
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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