On one side
of a triumphal arch were the
figures
of Truth and Justice, with this
inscription: _Veritas et Justitia fulcimentum throni Patris et erunt
mei_: On the other side were Religion and Liberty embracing, with
this motto, _Religio et Libertas amplexatæ erant_.
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Dryden - Complete |
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Oneguine was--so many deemed
[Unerring critics self-esteemed],
Pedantic although scholar like,
In truth he had the happy trick
Without constraint in conversation
Of touching
lightly
every theme.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What did the Man do but fix it into
the axe head, and soon set to work
cutting
down tree after tree.
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Win |
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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When Veloso relates these, the sea is calm; but no
sooner does it begin to be troubled, than the soldier abridges his
recital: we see him follow by degrees the preludes of the storm, we
perceive the anxiety of his mind on the view of the approaching danger,
hastening his
narration
to an end.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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line 24, of the above mentioned epode j
for since these
syllables
stand respectively at the end .
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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This event
I happened, however, in latitude 35° 30' north, longitude
I fji° ao' V'^*'] ^" d
consequently
at no very great d is-
\unce fro m tlip Rpr miida Tslands^ Augustus therefore
endeavored to console himself with the idea that the
boat might either succeed in reaching the land, or
come suificiently near to be fallen in with by vessels
o£E the coast.
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Poe - v05 |
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Nor shall you wish for life, which you so much desire
Nec sibi enim quisquam tum se
vitamque
requirit,
[Footnote: ib.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Apollonius, too, in his
fumbling way, as though he did not quite know what he was doing, has yet
done
something
very important for the development of epic significance.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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The note
referred
to adds, "The 'Tales of the Folio
Club' are sixteen in all, and we believe it is the author's
intention to publish them in the autumn.
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Poe - v04 |
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"The
lapping
of water.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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The laurel and the palm are
coupled
in Euripides, Hecuba, 458 ff.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Hence the relationship that these individuals have to the historical group leading up to them gains a
completely
special accent.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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It is not bad, but good;
It is the
Transmission
of Dorje-Chang.
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Milarepa |
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Tours, Auxerre, and
becameeminent
for his accompanied St.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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' The Grecian women had not then attained the freedom of their Euro-
pean sisters ;
Oriental
manners still lingered among them, and they were
kept secluded in apartments called Gyneceum (from the word, ')v\-rt,
woman), which they never left before marriage.
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Of whom is the party caucus
composed?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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And now he was
ambitious
to mount
the little black horse.
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Childrens - Frank |
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I have be negligent, in good fey, 3900
To
chastise
him; therfore now I
Of herte crye you here mercy,
That I have been so recheles
To tamen him, withouten lees.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No sents, cor meu, quin plorar i quin
cantar?
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Sagarra |
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Not man alone, but all that roam the wood,
Or wing the sky, or roll along the flood,
Each loves itself, but not itself alone,
Each sex
desires
alike, till two are one.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pray that their
digging
be not excessive, for then is the winter exceedingly severe and a foe both to tree and tilth.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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End of the
Project
Gutenberg EBook of A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of
Robert Herrick, by Robert Herrick
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LYRICAL POEMS ***
***** This file should be named 1211.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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My little
sister has been ill (ah, the poor little one, how she
suffered!
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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of our own lives, and
therefore
for want an See the “Letter Don Bernardin Men swer would not guilty our own deaths.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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(2) The quantum of
bitterness
and gloominess,
from.
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Nietzsche - v14 |
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" He used also to say that the discourses of those men who were careful to avoid solecisms, and to adhere to the strictest rules of composition, were like Alexandrian money, they were pleasing to the eye and well-formed like the coins, but were nothing the better for that; but those who were not so particular he likened to the Attic tetradrachms, which were struck at random and without any great nicety, and so he said that their discourses often outweighed the more
polished
styles of the others.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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And word/ess, -- tho'
Himself
the Word
That made the blossom and the bird ?
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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He travelled widely from 1806, in Europe and the Middle East, and highly critical of Napoleon
followed
the King into exile in 1815 in Ghent during the Hundred Days.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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She has the truest,
kindest
heart!
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Robert Burns- |
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He had handed them both in,
and placed
himself
between them; and in this manner, under these
circumstances, full of astonishment and emotion to Anne, she quitted
Lyme.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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A can containing a
curtain
is a solid sentimental usage.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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The criticism of Aristophanes probably hit the truth exactly both in a moral and in a poetical point of view; but poetry influences the course of history not in
to its
absolute
value, but in proportion as it is able to forecast the spirit of the age, and in this respect Euripides was unsurpassed.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Professor
Michael
S.
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Tennyson |
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Like as the Tyger when he heares the lowing out of Neate
In sundrie Medes, enforced sore through abstinence from meate,
Would faine be doing with them both, and can not tell at which
Were best to give adventure first: so Persey who did itch
To be at host with both of them, and doubtfull
whether
side
To turne him on, the right or left, upon advantage spide .
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Ovid - Book 5 |
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policy which would have won for her the
respect
and
confidence of many of the Greeks, and might have had
the effect of excluding the intrusion of a most danger-
ous foreign infiuence into an important part of the
Greek world.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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According to the rules for the period of
mourning
(for a father), (a son) should not emaciate himself till the bones appear, nor let his seeing and hearing be affected (by his privations).
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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"For her, to
gladden
in God's view,--
For us, to hope and bear on.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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The first six lectures in this book have ap- peared in other publications and I am grateful to the
publishers
concerned for permission to repro- duce them here.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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Having spent several years in the
Ccenobium
at Bangor, the blessed Daigh, knowing that he had been consigned by Divine Providence to the care of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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I jumped up
to
examine
the clock, and found that it had ceased
running.
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Poe - v04 |
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The man
screamed
and struggled,
And bit madly at the feet of the god.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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_
[75] Bacon’s
definition
is obscure.
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Thinking |
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What’s the connotation? |
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Bacon |
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Then there is no longer
anything
to accept or reject.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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The strong
satire with which it abounds was concealed with such delicate art
and address, that many persons, and some of the highest rank in the
Court, as I have been well informed, read it as a panegyric on the king
and niinistry, and congratulated
themselves
that Pope had left the
Opposition, in which he had been engaged.
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further,ore |
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What trait was satirized? |
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Alexander Pope - v03 |
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08
eat
forbidden
fruit, 14l1.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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This all took place in courteous exchanges, as when a
businessman
who's got himself into a comer begs his solid neighbors for support.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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The
character
of Don Félix
de Montemar is vigorously drawn.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Did I not see you, rogue, in ambush lie
For Damon's goat, while loud Lycisca
barked?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Wind and waves are easily moved;
questions
of gain and loss easily lead to danger.
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Chuang Tzu |
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For oft there sits, between the heap
That's like an infant's grave in size,
And that same pond of which I spoke,
A woman in a
scarlet
cloak,
And to herself she cries,
"Oh misery!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Mais la Voix me console et dit:
«Garde
tes songes:
Les sages n'en ont pas d'aussi beaux que les fous!
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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]
seem to be in proportion to that energy, In such a case, how could they keep from considering
paucity
a mark of distinction?
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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“That the archbishop had been before him,
On the same day, the commons came again the
presence
certain lords, and confessed
the commission, and therefore put himself upon the king's grace and mercy.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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Bismarck and Germany
had grown accustomed to the rule of an emperor never
fitted by his gifts to be a great master either of adminis-
tration or of policy, who in 1871 was in his seventy-fourth
year, and with every year was obliged to surrender more
and more of power and control to the adviser whose
1 No less characteristic of Bismarckian methods and manners and of the
'anti-English'
campaign
was the revival in the controlled German press of the
charge that Sir R.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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It was a picture of the lovely ---, which
hung over the mantelpiece, the eyes and mouth of which were so beautiful,
and the whole countenance so radiant with benignity and divine
tranquillity, that I had a
thousand
times laid down my pen or my book to
gather consolation from it, as a devotee from his patron saint.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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And
in fact, I myself do not believe that
anybody
ever looked into the world
with a distrust as deep as mine, seeming, as I do, not simply the timely
advocate of the devil, but, to employ theological terms, an enemy and
challenger of God; and whosoever has experienced any of the consequences
of such deep distrust, anything of the chills and the agonies of
isolation to which such an unqualified difference of standpoint condemns
him endowed with it, will also understand how often I must have sought
relief and self-forgetfulness from any source--through any object of
veneration or enmity, of scientific seriousness or wanton lightness;
also why I, when I could not find what I was in need of, had to fashion
it for myself, counterfeiting it or imagining it (and what poet or
writer has ever done anything else, and what other purpose can all the
art in the world possibly have?
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Luke doth not only speak of
magical
jugglings, but of frivolous and vain studies, whereof the more part of men is for the most part too desirous.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Control
is for George a function of power.
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Perversion |
Question: |
How does George control? |
Answer: |
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Stefan George - Studies |
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_7
soft]pale
Fred.
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Shelley |
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585 (A), we have a very coherent and therefore valuable
exposition
of much that may still seem Obscure in Nietzsche's standpoint, and we might almost regard this aphorism as the key to the epistemology of the" Will to Power.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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It certainly showed no obligation and
perhaps
if borrowing is
not natural there is some use in giving.
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bob |
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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Defenfio
Pariſienlis
Curiæ.
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Pope Alexander VII - Index Librorum Prohibitorum |
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It is severe
and aristocratic in the
application
of its laws and impervious to appeal
to serve other than its own aims.
Guess: |
enforcement |
Question: |
What are the laws? |
Answer: |
The laws are a poet’s whim. |
Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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4%"*5 " " #6#""
#!
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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Ellen's family went through this process of
allotment
and enrolled on the Dawes roll, a kind of census for the Cherokee Nation and other tribes.
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The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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Many doctors have spoken to me on the subject,
and their opinions on the ethics of birth control differ widely; but I
can only remember one who did not attack this
particular
society.
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Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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It required anastonishing
* Mira in quibusdam rebus verborum proprietas est, et
consuetudo
sermonis
antiqui quaedam cfficacissimis notis
signat (Seneca, Epist.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 |
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He threw with
weighted
dice.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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automated
querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Meredith - Poems |
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India was next at 35%, ahead of ASEAN markets where
Thailand
led (+30%) and Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines finished in the 20-25% range.
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Kleiman International |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Li Po |
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He wore his embroidered Court cloak and sat as
proudly
in the
boat as though he were king of the universe.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Li Po |
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" 8 The aristocracy, alarmed at this denunciation, at first
attempted
to betray the city to the Lacedaemonians, but being unable to succeed, went into exile.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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But I refuse to make the effort of laboriously adapt- ing myself to an environment that I do not feel
comfortable
with and that makes me look inept.
Guess: |
Good |
Question: |
Who is looking at him? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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I never hear the word "escape"
Without a
quicker
blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude.
Guess: |
Pumping |
Question: |
How is the word “escape” spoken? |
Answer: |
Desperately |
Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yet more I learn while,
Friend!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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It is
reported
that Caesar will stop on the 27th at Sinuessa.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
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For the same will is born from its
treasure
as from its magia.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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For it is the two big publications of '922 -
Ulysses
and The Waste Land-which show how far the poetic and the non-poetic can interpenetrate, and how little significance terms like 'verse' and 'prose' really possess.
Guess: |
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Question: |
how do poetry pros in daily life interact? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
"It's such a beautiful evening that I have been
sitting up here ever so long watching the moon,
as she played hide and seek among the trees; the
stars seem to be enjoying the game as much as
I, for they twinkle as
brightly
as diamonds so
far above us all.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Childrens - Brownies |
|
I will now take the liberty of taking an excursion into the jubi- lee culture and will refer to a
commemorative
event which we on both sides of the Rhine are awaiting.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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Bring
hither, boy, larger bowls, and the Chian or
Lesbian
wine; or, what may
correct this rising qualm of mine, fill me out the Caecuban.
Guess: |
Etruscan |
Question: |
What’s your qualm? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
Otherwise
it will haunt thee in the night.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
The
“Dorian
nightingale” is the poet and the “new weft” the poem itself.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pattern Poems |
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le larron de gauche dans la bourrasque
Rira de toi comme hennissent les chevaux
FEMME
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le
dauphin
la vipere male ou le taureau
CHOEUR
Ah!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
It says that the First Dhyina contains
vitarka
and vicdra; and that, in the Second and the following Dhyanas, vitarka and vicdra have ceased.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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Down, down with the
handful
who doubt him!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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'
8:1 Bl, the sense
requiring
the gnomic aorist: rpoawohwhev e?
Guess: |
regarding |
Question: |
Is the gnomic aorist an omen? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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That
foreign nations should play the master on German
soil was to him like an offence to his personal
honour and the illustrious blood in his veins,
which the
philosophical
King, naive as genius is,
still prized highly.
Guess: |
Prussian |
Question: |
Is genius in blood? |
Answer: |
His whole life long he
was accused of faithless cunning because no treaty
or league could make him resign the right of decid-
ing for himself. |
Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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THE
APOSTATE
OF THE FREE SPIRIT.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v09 |
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Smearing its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself
through
the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
Guess: |
through |
Question: |
What is fire laughing at? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Imagists |
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Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame,
August her deed, and sacred be her fame;
Before true
passion
all those views remove, [p.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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2 And for that reason we beg of you to inform us of your attitude of mind towards us, whether you think we shall be safe amid so great a throng of veteran soldiers, who, we are told, are even thinking of replacing the altar, a thing we believe that hardly anybody can desire or approve, who
desires
our own safety and honour.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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The bird that once
appeared
on earth
As phenix, is your guest.
Guess: |
flew |
Question: |
Who did the Phoenix visit? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 |
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Who is
imprisoning
you?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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advancement
of your children, gentle
lady.
Guess: |
None |
Question: |
How did her children advance? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare |
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To this day the
Kingdom
of Italy ad
heres to this right.
Guess: |
court |
Question: |
What right adheres still? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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She
never
thought
of such a thing; she had not the courage to do it ;
she had not the strength.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets - 1846 |
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