Clemens said:
I feel
exceedingly
surreptitious in coming down here without an
announcement of any kind.
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Twain - Speeches |
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If we turn now to Marx's view of its content, we may often have the impression that he ascribes "faithfulness to fact," and
therefore
true scholarly rigor, only to the natural sciences and that he sees his own research as having scientific character in that it reveals the workings of social and economic laws.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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I can truly say that, all the exterior of life apart, I
never saw two, whose esteem flattered the nobler
feelings
of my
soul--I will not say more, but so much as Lady Mackenzie and Miss
Chalmers.
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Robert Forst |
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Then
Suddhodana
Raja began to think with himself thus :
" If I do not go to the Prince Royal and consult with him about taking a wife, then I shall but provoke him to disobey and thwart my design ; and again, if I do go to him and consult, then I fear he will take the subject deeply to heart, and in the end not fall in with my views.
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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When my play was with thee I never
questioned
who thou wert.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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'°^ Itispretended,'"'thathe had arranged with the foreigners, on the
preceding
day, to have a ditch between himself and thera,"° both parties engaging mutual forbearance dur- ing the fight, provided the foreigners should not attack Maelseachlainn.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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Nay, even the Fates weep and wail for Adonis, calling upon his name; and
moreover
they sing a spell upon him to bring him back again, but he payeth no heed to it; yet ‘tis not from lack of the will, but rather that the Maiden will not let him go.
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Bion |
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What after all is the chief concern of the budget, to save
dollars or guarantee the highest standards of public
service?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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To this Marat answered, in his harsh voice:
"All these men you mention shall be
guillotined
in the next few days!
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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We then turn our
backs on them and seek a
diametrically
opposite
course; but the better way would be to seek out
their strong good sides, or to develop them in
ourselves.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Forgive me
Not
answering
your knock.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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The first temple to Athena, a modest apsidal structure,
appeared
shortly thereafter (c.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Lady, I shall have much honour
If ever the privilege is granted
Of clasping you beneath the cover,
Holding you naked as I've wanted;
For you are worth the hundred best,
And I'm not
exaggerating
either.
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Troubador Verse |
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Their
artistic
methods of expression were totally
dissimilar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Only in one case does he lose his impartiality: he
so objects to treating Emerson with
fairness
that he even goes out of
his way to berate his idol Matthew Arnold for setting Emerson aloft.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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35
For she forbad him Ielosye at alle,
And cruelte, and bost, and tirannye;
She made him at hir lust so humble and talle,
That when hir deyned caste on him her ye,
He took in
pacience
to live or dye; 40
And thus she brydeleth him in hir manere,
With no-thing but with scourging of hir chere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Vamos á tener además un
poderoso
auxiliar en Mr.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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As a Confucian trained official he felt a duty to
exercise
his great talents on behalf of the State, and always returned to State service, though he never occupied the very highest offices.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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No
throbbing
hearts awaited his return!
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Spectators
usually became fans of a particular faction; their attitude toward individual drivers depended upon the drivers' faction affiliation.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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136
L'isola sacra all'amorosa dea
diede lor sotto un'aria il primo porto,
che non ch'a
offender
gli uomini sia rea,
ma stempra il ferro, e quivi è 'l viver corto.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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Now, this was not something that she would be
able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her
father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the
cook had left but she
certainly
would not have helped in this, she
had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times
and never to have to open the door unless it was especially
important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when
Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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, we have the fol—lowing
"
Reeves' Ecclesiastical
Antiquities
of Down,
Connor and Dromore," p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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And now it is a dark warm night,
The
balmiest
of the month of June!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Doña Juana at first assumed the habit
of the barefooted Carmelites in the convent of San José, of the City
of Mexico; but shortly realizing that the rigor of their rule was
too great for her, and acting upon the advice of her physician, she
removed to the house of the Jeromite nuns, where she made her sol-
emn profession before the end of her
eighteenth
year.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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According to it, the hysterical woman is one who has
passively
accepted in entirety the masculine and conventional valuations instead ofallowingherownmentalcharacteritsproperplay.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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This suspicion creates the "medicinal" body, that is, the body as bat- tlefield of preventive and
operative
medicine.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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No corruption could
ever possesse men so universally but that some one must of necessity
escape the contagion; which makes me to feare he hath had some
distaste or blame in his passion, and it hath haply
fortuned
that he
hath judged or esteemed of others according to himselfe.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Mulock,
afterwards
Craik, Dinah Maria.
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| Question: |
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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My Lord Chancellor,
You have an old trick of
offending
us;
And but that you are art and part with us
In purging heresy, well we might, for this
Your violence and much roughness to the Legate,
Have shut you from our counsels.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Rustin pursued a psychoanalytic form of understanding through the
principal
attributes of the Nazi and Stalinist states.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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"
NOW would I weave her
portrait
out of all dim
splendour.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Furthermore, the monarchs who conducted wars often did not want to
discredit
the social institutions they shared with their enemies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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Therefore the propaganda spirit of Communism had to destroy the
peasants
first of all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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And Love, which lent a blazon to their shields,
With emblems well devised by amorous pride,
Through all the mail of iron hearts would glide;
But still their flame was fierceness, and drew on
Keen contest and destruction near allied,
And many a tower for some fair
mischief
won,
Saw the discoloured Rhine beneath its ruin run.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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His will grow a
towering
stalk,
Hers, a cowering flower under it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Tanner's insistence on the value of monastic records in the study
of local history and genealogy, and his defence of monks and
their learning against the wholesale blackening to which they had
been
subjected
since the dissolution of monasteries, indicates
the advance made in the general attitude towards this subject
since the days when Camden and Weever had felt it necessary
to apologise for making mention of monasteries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
|
But to give our chimera the crowning perfection, that
nothing may be lacking to her, you, Madonna Lampiada, will give
her that witchery that sparkles in your eyes and that fine air
which pervades the perfect proportion of your person; you, Ma-
donna Amororrisca, will give her the queenly majesty of your
person and the cheerfulness of your honest and modest gaze, that
serious gait, that
dignified
countenance, and that gentle gracious-
ness which delight all who behold them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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Both dead and living relatives,
especially
mothers, were thought to have the power to awake the Erinyes through curses.
| Guess: |
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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She could never marry, she had decided long ago upon that Even when she
was a child she had known it Nothing would ever overcome her horror of all
that-st the very thought of it
something
within her seemed to shrink and
freeze.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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1kyamuni's
knowledge
is of the same kind as ordinary knowledge, but simply heightened to the nth degtee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
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You have just come at a
fortunate
moment, Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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He enjoyed thinking that human life had a solid rational basis and that it paid off intellectually; he imagined this on the pattern ofthe harmonious hierarchy ofa great bank and noted with satisfaction the daily signs of
progress
he read about in the papers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Lost and lone in the night --
Dear God, can such
loveliness
die?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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” he said,
pretending
to be angry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
|
The Spirit of God that dictates them in
the speaker or writer, and is present in his tongue or hand, meets
him again (as we meet
ourselves
in a glass) in the eyes and ears and
hearts of the hearers and readers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Surely free markets and stable political systems are a necessary precondition to
capitalist
economic growth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fukuyama - End of History |
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Yet, though now of Muse bereft,
I have still the manners left
For to thank you, noble sir,
For those gifts you do confer
Upon him, who only can
Be in prose a
grateful
man.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
Presently
they came out of the wooded area.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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There is a second, probably complementary, and
certainly
more precise way of explaining the renewed appeal of incarnation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:23 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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By 1875,
however,the German Empire
undoubtedlybelonged
to the "advanced
countries".
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Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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There were no women there; only the barmaid with her lewd smile which seemed
to promise everything and
promised
nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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The body--when the soul had ceased its sway--
Was placed where earth upon it heavy lay,
While seek the
mouldering
bones rare oils anoint
Claw of tree's root and tooth of rocky point.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Notice well that this is not only about
absolute
time and space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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Wae worth the man wha first did shape
That vile,
wanchancie
thing--a raip!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Then,
contracting
"both lips and brow,"
he made ready to strike, and let fall his axe on the bare neck of Sir
Gawayne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Cease, then, nor order
imperfection
name:
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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But when
he passed away, he left a
generation
without a
will, accustomed as Napoleon III boasts of his
Frenchmen to expect from the State all incite-
ment to action, disposed to that vanity which is
the opposite of real national pride, capable on
occasion of breaking out in fleeting enthusiasm for
the idea of State-unity, but incapable of command-
ing itself incapable of the greatest task which is
laid upon modern nations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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The Athenians marched out against the
Corcyraean
exiles, who had established themselves on mount Istone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
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'' Of course it has always been
possible
(and it seems to have become almost intellectually fashionable as of recent) to apply the opposite scale of evaluation.
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| Question: |
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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“Apologize
to your aunt,” he said.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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This shows active
nihilist
ethics at the most extreme end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
* The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the
Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of
Project Gutenberg(TM) electronic works.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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The greatness of his
talents
literally
forced it on him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
I have never
accentuated
my opinions in order to gain the
ear of my readers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
I vote for
restoring
them the sceptre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Prager maintained that Y's psychological diffi- culties were the direct
expressions
of the country's totalitarianism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
--«Comme il
ressemble
à sa mère,» dit-elle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
|
"
[Illustration]
There was an old person in black,
A
Grasshopper
jumped on his back;
When it chirped in his ear, he was smitten with fear,
That helpless old person in black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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For specula tive cognition cannot find an objective basis any other where than in experience and, when we overstep its limits, our synthesis, which requires ever new cognitions independent of experience, has no substratum of
intuition
upon which to
--
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
It is in fact the
solipsist
point of view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
|
6 3353
Cattle,
Characteristics
of, Almquist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
|
The various nationalist currents do not recog- nize him as their ideologist; thus, while he makes numerous Aryanist statements and adopts an
ambiguous
anti-Semitism, he is seldom quoted by Aryanist leaders, as he does not refer to the main neo-pagan reference book, the Book of Vles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
|
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Conditions
of Use, available at .
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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 |
|
'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"
The maiden was almost too
innocent
to blush; but her father
took her part as usual.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
|
So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Amongst others, thirty slaves of two rich
brothers
in the country of the Halicyae were the first to assert their liberty; their leader was one Varius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
[44] The nightingales and all the swallows, which once he delighted, which one he taught to speak, sat upon the branches and cried aloud in antiphons, and they that
answered
said “Lament, ye mourners, and so will we.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Moschus |
|
I do not want to
criticize
these two ways of reading (indeed, Iwant
to protect them).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
|
Gar mancher steht
lebendig
hier
Den Euer Vater noch zuletzt
Der heissen Fieberwut entriss,
Als er der Seuche Ziel gesetzt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
II
If the words 'obsession with power' be used, however, the idea
(so frequently imputed to George) must be guarded against
that this is in any way connected with political ideas, and that
it implies any belief in the ideas of German
aggrandizement
or
in the achievements of the second Empire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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And since von Bernhardi constantly admits his
indebtedness to Treitschke, the historian of the
Prussification of Germany, it seemed to me that
I could offer no more interesting
commentary
on
Frederick's Confessions than a translation of
what Treitschke wrote about the great Frederick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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First, then, let me explain to you the
formation
of the atmosphere,
or the air, with which we are surrounded.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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The
shutters
were green, and in summer a rose
climbed up the sides of the house, almost cover-
ing this little dwelling place with its leaves and
dark red roses.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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[All the following poems are copyrighted, and they are
republished
here by
permission of the family of Mr.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Illustrations of the Fairy
Mythology
of a Midsummer Night's
Dream.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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The 'Baden Memorial' (Denkschrift), drawn up by
Bismarck for King William in July 1861, repeated the
familiar analysis of the reasons why the existing federal
system was ruinous to Prussia--the continuous deadlock,
Austrian jealousy, the subordination of
Prussian
initiative
and independence to the votes of petty States, organised by
a non-German Empire at Vienna.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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For so great is the obscurity and variety of human affairs that
nothing can be clearly known, as it is truly said by our academics, the
least insolent of all the philosophers; or if it could, it would but
obstruct the
pleasure
of life.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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From the point of view of the economy as a whole, the program might not result in a real decrease in the standard of living, for the
economic
effects of the program might be to increase the gross national product by more than the amount being absorbed for additional military and foreign assistance purposes.
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All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a
straight
face.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It resides, in the summer, in the
upper branches of trees; but in the autumn
descends
to the muddy
banks of rivers, and becomes torpid until the spring.
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Childrens - The Creation |
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Because Theocritus
received
nothing from Hieron, he composed this idyll, which has as its title "The Graces" [or "The Favours"].
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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A condemned or
banished
man, desperate, hides in the
barrow, discovers the treasure, and while the dragon sleeps, makes
off with a golden beaker or the like, and carries it for
propitiation to his master.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Ils surgissent, grondant comme des chats giffles,
Ouvrant
lentement
leurs omoplates, o rage!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Su rostro cegado por el esfuerzo escucha las
ovaciones como si le
invadiera
una visión reconfortante: ¡Aplaudid,
ciudadanos de Roma, pues el Titán, el hijo de Jápeto, lucha con el
elemento!
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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