Lentulus, whose poverty of invention and expression was secured from notice by the mere dignity of his presence, his correct and graceful gesture, and the strength and sweetness of his voice: and his merit depended so entirely upon his action, that he was more deficient in every other quality than his
namesake
[Cn.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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t Agreeably to the theory of many able writers on Philology, most verbs which
change the short vowel of the present ten^e into long e of the perfect, had origin-
ally a
reduplicating
perfect; thus panpo [pago\ in the present, makes pejngi in
the perfect; so also video made r'-rl'/i.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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To this appertains that throughout the Gospel you
find him ever accusing the Scribes and Pharisees and doctors of the law,
but diligently defending the ignorant
multitude
(for what other is that
"Woe to ye Scribes and Pharisees" than woe to you, you wise men?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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MLN 643
the
mathematical
theory of walking and running.
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Kittler-Drunken |
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"You, my lord, who are at the head of the council, and who govern your
republic, ought to recollect that the glory or the shame of these events
will fall
principally
on you.
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Petrarch |
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They have been
translated
into
French (ed.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Theprogressofmaterial
culture,
somewhat
interrupted by the Mongolian yoke and the war of liberation, now burst forth with a
greaterforce.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Truly the
knowledge
alone of all that
hurr/ran intellect can attain, however admirable it may be, does not impart
perfection; even devils are known to possess great knowledge, but goodness
utilizes knowledge; and piety, religion and virtue may be said to be the
life of the bo=ly, and this varied knowledge of science, united with 1pm-
44
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Their
occurrence is, moreover, a strong
argument
against the doctrine which
derives the dream from the isolated activity of certain cortical
elements.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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I can repeople with the past--and of
The present there is still for eye and thought,
And meditation
chastened
down, enough;
And more, it may be, than I hoped or sought;
And of the happiest moments which were wrought
Within the web of my existence, some
From thee, fair Venice!
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Byron |
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Good-
ness must be
regarded
as a luxury, as a refine-
ment, as a vice.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Günther Anders, Endzeit und Zeitende:
Gedankern
über die atomare
Situation (Munich: Beck, 1979).
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot
Of
Kaikobad
and Kaikhosru forgot:
Let Rustum lay about him as he will,
Or Hatim Tai cry Supper--heed them not.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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William Browne |
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His birthplace was
Entralgo,- a small village near Oviedo, the capital of the province
of Asturias, in the
northwest
of Spain.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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“Yes," he said
again, “stronger, more evil, and more profound;
also more beautiful”—and thereby the tempter-god
smiled with his halcyon smile, as though he had
just paid some
charming
compliment.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Caygan en los rayos
del sol luminoso,
y
ensarten
su aljofar
sus trenzas de oro.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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[183]
And whose more rife with merriment than thine,
Oh
Stamboul!
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Byron |
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That is, The Odes give
particular
instances.
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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Capital crimes were tried by a
criminal
court.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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On
military
as well as
on political grounds, it became more than ever necessary
to arrest the progress of Hannibal by a pitched battle.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"56 A certain cleric who drowned while drunk was buried in unconsecrated ground until, that is, his body was exhumed and a tag was found hanging from his mouth inscribed with the words with which he had been
accustomed
to salute the Vir- gin: "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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The ideal is the true
real; the only
absurdity
lies in the pomp and circumstance where-
with that simple truth is introduced.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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BÙI PHÚC 裴福14
người
huyện Chương Đức phủ Ứng Thiên.
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stella-02 |
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Es cierto que con la
disoluci
o?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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And 'quanta' that cannot be measured - no matter how important they might be
otherwise
- cannot form the basis for quantitative analysis.
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| Question: |
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Prynn spoke in the House of Commons in favour of Charles the First, when such a course was
eminently
dangerous.
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| Question: |
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard,
successful
face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances, --
First time together thrown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CXXXVII
Thus do the more
cautious
of travellers act.
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Epictetus |
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There had been three
pictures
in his
room.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Insofar as one cannot and does not know how to find any organic substratum of the illness in the patient, one looks for pathological events at the level of the patients family which are such that, whatever their nature, they will refer to the communication, and consequently existence, of a pathological
material
substratum.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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= Sir John
Suckling
(ed.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" "That is
certainly
conceivable," said
K.
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| Question: |
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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To draw tears by gloating over a
child’s
death-bed, was it
worthy of you?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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This escalation was triggered by the semantic
clinch between the God of the
Israelites
and the imperial Gods of
Babylon.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Once it had lifted its hand, and moved its lips, but was silent,
As if an iron will had
mastered
the fleeting intention.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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"Gentlemen,"
concluded
Mr.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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Dareius
besieged
Babylon for a long time, without being able to capture it.
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| Question: |
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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His body, cast into the sea, was brought to shore by dolphins and buried
at Oenoe (or,
according
to Plutarch, at Ascra): at a later time his
bones were removed to Orchomenus.
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Hesiod |
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Thus, the senses aren't actually lost, they just don't perform a
function
anymore.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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This was "nonhostile" pressure, not quite capable of provoking a militant response,
therefore
safe to use (and effec- tive).
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Es besteht
zwischen
seelischen
Zusta?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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In a
synoptic
retrospective, Sartre appears today for now as the last hero in a series of mighty European philosophers of free- dom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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I like a master
standing
firm on legs
of iron, well-born, rich, handsome, eloquent, loaded with advantages,
drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his
power.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Representative Men |
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Ces
fiançailles
excitèrent de vifs commentaires dans
les mondes les plus différents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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She made very
judicious
abstracts of the best books she had read.
| Guess: |
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Depuis un moment, au désir de
persuader
M.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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It was
amazingly
shocking, to be sure; but
the Tilneys were entirely to blame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
| Guess: |
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blake-poems |
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Wenn es Herbst
geworden
ist
Zeigt sich nu?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
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1086
Domesday
Survey ended.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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All political pre-occupation ceased at once, and
resort was had to the
exceptional
measures adopted under such
circumstances.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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) Death here, without repentance--hell
hereafter!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
|
We need not suppose that in this presentation the
Brāhmaṇas were
creating
a new-figure : rather they were adapting to their
system, as far as they could, a great god of the people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
Messengers
of inquiry came one after another to the mansion,
so numerous that it was almost impossible to return them all answers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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He opd and closd hys eyen in
everlastynge
nyghte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
A sudden wheel,
Then away, away, and the far hush rings
With hoof-beat, and chime of spurred heel;
And the blue air winds and sings
In the coils from each round
gathering
strength,
Ere I rise in my saddle for truer throw,
That the rope may spring its serpent length,
And drag from his seat my foe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
|
Through Caesar, his father's friend, he
could get to know everybody in Rome worth
knowing, both men of action and men of letters, such as
Calvus the
Sheridan
and Cinna the Lyly of Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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1 In Stationers' register, 12
November
1584; Arber, vol.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
For heaven is a
different
thing
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o'erwhelm me so!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Since countless poets came under Bly's sway, and since that first book has
remained
an Ur-text of Deep Image poetry, this connection is crucial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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Not love of you is most that I can bring,
Since what I am to love you is the test,
And should I love you more than any thing
You would but be of idle love possessed,
A mere love wandering in appetite,
Counting your glories and yet bringing none,
Finding in you
occasions
of delight,
A thief of payment for no service done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Still by the light and laughing sea
Poor
Polypheme
bemoans his fate;
O Singer of Persephone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
With movements so swift they seemed simultaneous,
Atticus’s
hand yanked a ball- tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
|
Passers-by are
interviewed
for their opinion of the celebrated wrong- doer (pp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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It will be
sufficient
only where systems-level effects are absent or are weak enough to be ignored.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
i
terest them—though
possibly
not to please them
— in aphorism 630, dealing with convictions and
their origin.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Lists of
seventeenth
century editions are given in Fleay's Chronicle of
Stage, and Greg's List of Plays and List of Masques.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
|
The so-called Theatra Machinarum, a book genre that not coinciden- tally had flourished since the Renaissance, normally contained exact perspective copperplate or wood engravings of existing or merely fictional
machines
- sketches, therefore, which supposedly enabled the observer to successfully recreate three-dimensional machines from two-dimensional images.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
|
a cultivated variety of the cardoon which was known to the Romans, yet the peculiar
character
superinduced by cultivation appears of more recent origin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Sprung from a nymph of heaven
Wanton and gay,
Who spurned the
blessing
given,
Going her way;
By the stern hermit taken
In her most need:
So fell the blossom shaken,
Flower on a weed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
|
Wine masters all
disputes
and binds us
to our friends, wine drowns our sorrows, dulls our cares,
and fills our hearts with joy -- (pause) -- there's naught like
wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
Instead, make sure that every aspect of your daily
activities
is embraced by an undistracted presence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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These four verses are here
repeated
from the parabasis of
'The Wasps,' produced 423 B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
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Mère des jeux latins et des voluptés grecques,
Lesbos, où les baisers, languissants ou joyeux,
Chauds comme les soleils, frais comme les pastèques,
Font l'ornement des nuits et des jours glorieux;
Mère des jeux latins et des voluptés grecques,
Lesbos, où les baisers sont comme les cascades
Qui se jettent sans peur dans les gouffres sans fonds,
Et courent,
sanglotant
et gloussant par saccades,
Orageux et secrets, fourmillants et profonds;
Lesbos, où les baisers sont comme les cascades!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
Universal
approbation
soon stamped "The Cenci" as the best tragedy of
modern times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
2 A frequent
collocation
of words; as for instance, following the mention
of a royal person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
|
In
discoursing
of fortune, they descend by the side of a torrent, black
as ink, into the fifth circle, or place of torment for the Angry, the
Sullen, and the Proud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
Lágrimas
mías, [145]
¡Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
In that case, the line would refer to the
futility
of participating in politics and governance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
Nothing but what I have long been
prepared
for.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
For it is here that the dynamics of
resentment
responsible for the entire domain becomes especially evident.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
|
Doing business like this
takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on
top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making
train connections, bad and
irregular
food, contact with different
people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or
become friendly with them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
Yoked to it by an
amphisbaenic
snake
The likeness of those winged steeds will mock _120
The flight from which they find repose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley copy |
|
In the Comus and other early poems of Milton there
is a
superfluity
of double epithets; while in the Paradise Lost we find
very few, in the Paradise Regained scarce any.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
|
The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
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In
compliance with this sentiment, he has omit-
ted
entirely
some poems, tainted in parts,
which as specimens of poetical skill it were
desirable to retain.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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2 He was charged with adultery, but pleaded his own case and was
acquitted
by the proconsul Julianus,7 the man who was his immediate predecessor in the proconsulship, his colleague in the consulship, and likewise his predecessor on the throne.
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Historia Augusta |
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The
composition
of the Assembly.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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In
literary
criticism
he was on surer ground, and here also he leaves the
past behind.
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Lucian - True History |
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John
Tweddell
(1769-1799)
Prolusiones Juveniles.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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This purpose called forth the indignant and deter-
mined
opposition
of Hamilton.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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"
In Poland, as elsewhere, literature and edu-
cation were
fostered
by the gospel.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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He was in a
pitiable
state of
reaction, with every nerve in a twitter.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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The play might well have ended with the frustration of his
plan to get
possession
of the estate.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
internet
is a point-to-point transmission system copying almost infallibly not from men to men but, quite to the contrary, from machine to machine.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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