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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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The hour's
advancing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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MARMADUKE and ELDRED enter from
opposite
sides.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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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.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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"
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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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Will you leave him here, your poor old
Villon?
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Villon |
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^^
pany and the International Telephone Company under the terms of a
special
law.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Wincenty Krasinski went to her in person and brought
back her
written
farewell to the man to whose memory
1 Letters to Soltan.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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A, Thomas Allom Esq, William Henry Bartlett, David
Roberts
R.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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82 (#102) #############################################
82 FUTURE OF
EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIOI
suiting books.
Guess: |
Learning |
Question: |
What will the university look like? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 |
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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 ?
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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.
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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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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: |
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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: |
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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.
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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.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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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.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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For
wherein
does the
realism of mankind properly consist?
Guess: |
Whom |
Question: |
“ “ |
Answer: |
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Ich werde jetzt dich keinem
Nachbar
reichen,
Ich werde meinen Witz an deiner Kunst nicht zeigen.
Guess: |
Nicht |
Question: |
Wast du? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
You stirred up the
American
savages against your own kin IN America.
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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: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 09:38 GMT / http://hdl.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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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: |
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Source: |
Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
|
HS 286 for another defense of
metrical
violation.
Guess: |
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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?
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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: |
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Question: |
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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: |
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Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
His form he in the lucid mirror eyes,
And by the
knowledge
of himself grows wise.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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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: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Amheim had
withdrawn
his arm.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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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: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
|
In many
respects
Woronicz is allied to the two
greatest bards of the Holy Scriptures.
Guess: |
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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: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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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: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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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 |
|
6 Noam Chomsky, Powers and
Prospects
(Boston: South End Press, 1996), 83.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
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.
Guess: |
constrain |
Question: |
How was shame lost? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
No brother sister
ever the absent one
shall not be less than
those
present
-
22.
Guess: |
heroes |
Question: |
If he comes back in the end, that a'ight? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
She was crying in her
wretched
bed.
Guess: |
bubbled crack |
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
|
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.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
|
"9
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.
Guess: |
humanistic |
Question: |
Can peasants parse? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
|
"
"The strain's been too much for her all these years:
I can't
explain
it any other way.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
_ _I sway_ them--
She but
subdued
them.
Guess: |
slays |
Question: |
How doth she slay? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Byron |
|
who not keep t e human
allegiance could not be given to the gods and nagas
successfully
third time.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
Trial and
Discipline—
XI.
Guess: |
Ecstasy |
Question: |
Must any effort? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
|
Suppose the price of cotton to be one day sixpence a pound, and the next day, in consequence of a
failure
of the cotton crop, a shilling a pound.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
|
They want to know
whether
Zarathustra still liveth.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late,
celestial
face,
Please God, shall ascertain!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
67
quoted in note on
Aristotle
Const.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
|
'
I could not
repress
a cry of joy.
Guess: |
Retain |
Question: |
Why even try? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
Move ment as a symbol for the eye; it
denotes
that something has been felt, willed, thought.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
|
It is true that the United States armed forces are now stronger than ever before in other times of apparent peace; it is also true that there exists a sharp disparity between our actual
military
strength and our commitments.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
NSC-68 |
|
58 ARMS AND INFLUENCE
space
violations
even if no dirt is disturbed on their territory).
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
Like
another
god below.
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
It is in this way that presumption is opposed
to
magnanimity
by excess.
Guess: |
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Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
"It is said that the souls of those who have found a watery grave
do not descend to Hades, but wander about the
surface
of the waves.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
|
belin, Le
patriote
franc?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
170 A LAMP FOR THE PATH AND COMMENTARY
PRESCRIBED", [Stanza 61], you may ask what is meant by the words "AS PRESCRIBED", and SO I say:
THEN, TO GAIN THE PRECEPTOR-INITIA TION,
ONE MUST FIRST WIN A HOLY GURU
BY GIVING HIM ATTENDANCE AND PRECIOUS THINGS AND BY
OBEDIENCE
TO HIS WORD.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
|
The route the Little St
Bernard
somewhat longer but after crossing the first Alpine wall that forms the eastern boundary of the Rhone valley, keeps by the valley of the upper Isere, which stretches from Grenoble way of
was not till the middle ages that the route by Mont Cenis became military road.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
[1104] Sheep warn the shepherd of coming storm when they rush to pasture in haste beyond their wont, but some behind the flock, now rams, now lambs, sport by the way with butting horns, when some here, some there, they bound aloft, the sillier young with four feet off the ground, the horned elders with two, or when the shepherd moves an unwilling flock, though it be evening when he drives them to their pens, while ever and anon they pluck the grass,
through
urged by many a stone.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
They agree with me in apprehending that
this false step in one
daughter
will be injurious to the fortunes of
all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says,
will connect themselves with such a family?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
|
"In the summer of this year, the
English
began to find their success
answerable to their cause.
Guess: |
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Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
'
[208] The king
praised
him and asked the next in order How he could be the friend of men?
Guess: |
|
Question: |
|
Answer: |
|
Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
_I_, like May-bloom on thorn-tree,
Thou, like merry summer-bee,--
Fit that I be
plucked
for thee!
Guess: |
Sweet |
Question: |
What color are you? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
These
symptoms
were more than I had expected and occasioned me
some alarm.
Guess: |
Epiphanies |
Question: |
Wass wrong? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
72]
more
admiration
than is given to the zeal of a saint.
Guess: |
Lust |
Question: |
Whose zeal’s more renown? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
Catherine
Edwards
(Oxford: Oxford University Press,2000), 28 (onJuliusCaesar),88 (onAugustus).
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
When with the virgin
morning
thou dost rise, I.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
|
Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
You see your glory; but you cannot see
That which your glory conquers; and the peoples
Know nought but that the glooming of their night
Maketh a shining scope for crowns, as he,
Even as he, your king, Ahasuerus,
Maketh your
splendour
a darkness for his light.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
At Hobart Town he started
a studio, and returned to
sketching
and portrait-painting, and his
conversation and manners seem not to have lost their charm.
Guess: |
Poetry |
Question: |
Whom did he paint in Hobart Town? |
Answer: |
|
Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Why should poor beauty
indirectly
seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Even if we
discredit
much
of what that great scandalmonger, Suetonius, tells us
about him, there remains enough to convict him of
shameful disregard of morality.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The processes depending on the foreconscious
system are destructible in a
different
way.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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It was the oldest dragon of the fens,
Whose forky flag-wings and horn-crested head
O'er crags and marshes regal sway had held ;
And now he rose up, like an
embodied
curse,
From all the doomed, fast sinking -some just sunk-
Looked landward o'er the sea, and flapped his vans,
Until Poseidon drew them swirling down.
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Ancient |
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Where does the dragon fly? |
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Poe - v06 |
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Why might I not for once be of that sect,
Which hold that souls, when Nature hath her right,
Some other bodies to
themselves
elect;
And sunlike make the day, and license night?
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William Browne |
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not being amenable to the secular law,
When this was refused, the Pope threatned an interdict on ac
count of the property laws and the imprisonment of ecclesiastics,
which threat was presented to the Senate on
Christmas
1605.
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Octob er |
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Why were priests threatened with imprisonment?? |
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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And now
reddening
Dawn had chased away the stars, when we
descry afar dim hills and the low line of Italy.
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Purple-Fingered |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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There was seen the same Tenour of Prudence and Piety
through
all the Actions of his Life, tho' most conspicuous in the last glorious Scene of it.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Jerusalem is fallen; and our banners
Float from her battlements, and o'er her gates
Nicanor's
severed
head, a sign of terror,
Blackens in wind and sun.
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Longfellow |
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