True
mourning
in
rooms
- not the cemetery -
to find only
absence -
- in presence
of things
60.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The Tatars of Kazan, skilled leather workers, Moslem in
belief and custom, are considered the most advanced of the
descendants of the Asiatic hordes which swept into Russia from
the East, under
Tamerlane
and Genghis Khan.
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Tamerlane |
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Why are the Tatars the most advanced? |
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The Tatars are considered the most advanced because they are skilled leather workers, adhere to Moslem beliefs and customs, and are descendants of the Asiatic hordes which swept into Russia under Tamerlane and Genghis Khan. |
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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It had
destroyed
the large estate.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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' I/ 27 June, and passed the night close to the Frankish army, which was
building
a fort to dominate the Tall 'Afri?
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building |
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Why was the Frankish army building a fort near Tall 'Afri? |
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The Frankish army was building a fort near Tall 'Afri to dominate the area and protect their position, as they imagined the Muslims were besieging nearby locations like al-Atharib or Zardana. |
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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Esta culmina en el miser, en el mendigo que secretamente dispone de
millones
y que, en cierto modo, es la ma?
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fortuna |
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Why does the sentence mention a beggar who secretly has millions? |
Answer: |
The sentence mentions a beggar who secretly has millions to illustrate the extreme example of a miser, which is central to the theme of the passage. The beggar with hidden wealth represents a puritanical mask, highlighting the related characteristics of a collector, a maniac, and obsessive lover, in line with characters like Gobseck and Esther. |
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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s
significativas
del siglo XIX.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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o de la
socializacio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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There is no way to measure the strength of popular support for the insurgents, but in light of the fact that they espouse programs well oriented to the interests of the general population and have been able to maintain an insurgency without significant external aid, and that the army response has been a war against
virtually
the entire rural popula-
tion, the rebel claim to be a "main opposition" would appear to be stronger than that of Arturo Cruz and his upper-class Nicaraguan associates.
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against |
Question: |
Why does the ability to maintain an insurgency without significant external aid contribute to the insurgents' claim to be the "main opposition"? |
Answer: |
The ability to maintain an insurgency without significant external aid contributes to the insurgents' claim to be the "main opposition" because it suggests they have a strong base of popular support. The fact that they can maintain their insurgency without external aid implies that they are well-organized and capable of effectively representing the large, impoverished population of Guatemala. Additionally, the insurgents' programs are oriented towards the interests of the general population, which further supports their claim to be a "main opposition" force. |
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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--Did you inquire for _The Delicate
Distress_?
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Airing |
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What is so delicately distressful? |
Answer: |
The Delicate Distress is so delicately distressful. |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Enough, enough that Eros laughed upon that
flowerless
mead.
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enchanted |
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Why did Eros laugh upon the flowerless mead? |
Answer: |
Eros laughed upon the flowerless mead because Charmides and his lover were able to have a passionate experience together, experiencing rapturous bliss and fulfilling their desires in the loveless land of Hades. |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But perhaps this is nothing other than the 'unity of awareness,' according to which we proceed, to be sure, in consciousness
processes
assigning a concrete content to the other, without however having a separate consciousness of the unity itself as something other than rare and after-the-fact abstractions.
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before |
Question: |
Does consciousness have a unity of awareness? |
Answer: |
The passage suggests that consciousness might have a 'unity of awareness,' which allows individuals to understand others as social actors and be aware of their society as a whole. However, this unity is not always present as a separate consciousness and may only manifest through specific concrete situations. The passage concludes by posing the question of whether there is a universal and a priori ground for this unity, which would underpin individual consciousness and socialization processes. |
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:34 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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[4] G This is a copy of the inscription that Pompeius set up, recording his
achievements
in Asia.
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victories |
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Why did Pompeius set up an inscription recording his achievements in Asia? |
Answer: |
Pompeius set up an inscription recording his achievements in Asia to showcase his accomplishments as a leader, including his protection and subjugation of various territories, provinces, and kingdoms. The inscription highlights his success in expanding the empire's borders and freeing regions from pirate attacks. |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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38 Speculation, therefore, strives to
establish
an absolute identity over the dualisms of fundamental powers of nature which absolute identity takes as its basis - namely, nature itself.
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establish |
Question: |
Why does speculation aim to establish an absolute identity over the dualisms of fundamental powers of nature, and how is this related to nature being the basis of absolute identity? |
Answer: |
Speculation aims to establish an absolute identity over the dualisms of fundamental powers of nature because it seeks to find a complete and unifying understanding of nature, beyond the differences and oppositions that exist between its various elements. This is related to nature being the basis of absolute identity because nature itself is the foundation from which this search for absolute unity emerges. In other words, speculation views nature as the ultimate source of identity and unity, and thus strives to reconcile any differences within it to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the world. This can be seen in the early essay "Von Ich," where speculation is described as demanding the unconditioned, or absolute unity, in its search for meaning within nature. The idea of speculation striving towards the absolute identity of nature is essentially a quest for a deeper grasp of the inherent connections and underlying unity within the natural world. |
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Hegel_nodrm |
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--how
charming
will poverty be
with him!
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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This stanza had been used by
Chaucer and the Elizabethans, and
recently
by Hookham Frere in _The
Monks and the Giants_ and by Byron in _Don Juan_.
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adapted |
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Why was this stanza used by Chaucer, the Elizabethans, Hookham Frere, and Byron in their respective works? |
Answer: |
This stanza, called ottava rima, was used by Chaucer, the Elizabethans, Hookham Frere, and Byron in their respective works because it was a popular Italian stanza form that naturally resulted from their turn to Italy for inspiration in their storytelling. The form was particularly suitable for satire, mock-heroic, and romantic poetry. |
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Keats |
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This
mischief
you may thank yourself for.
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mistake |
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Why is the speaker blaming the person for the mischief that has occurred? |
Answer: |
The speaker is blaming the person for the mischief that has occurred because the person's love or romantic interest seems to have led to the unfortunate situation. The person acknowledges this by agreeing and saying "love's the devil indeed, Ned." |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Do not worry about your meditation not
happening
or have expectations and hopes that it will be good.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-19 10:33 GMT / http://hdl.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Only a very few dress after
their leader, whose broad sombrero with a cock's feather in the band,
and voluminous cloak
descending
to his high boots, are as un-English as
possible.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Unless you prepare yourself with the
attitude
that your death could happen at any time, you cannot achieve the great aim that is surely needed at the time of death.
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realization |
Question: |
What is to be accomplished in death? |
Answer: |
The passage does not give a clear answer to the question of what is to be accomplished in death. It does emphasize the importance of preparing oneself for the possibility of death at any time and cultivating qualities such as impartial pure perception, compassion, and devotion toward one's guru in order to achieve enlightenment. |
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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_Gia
fiammeggiava
l' amorosa stella.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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what?" |
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Does he dare to eat a peach? |
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The passage does not provide any information related to someone daring to eat a peach. |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The country was ruled by Prince
Sihanouk
until March 1970, when he was overthrown in a coup sup-
268 MANUFACTURING CONSENT
ported by the United States.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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The
persuader
Lu Zhonglian shot an arrow into the city with a letter.
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What did the letter say? |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide,
Then lies him meekly down fast by his
Brethrens
side.
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Father's. |
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Do the dead lie down? |
Answer: |
The passage does not provide a clear answer to the question "Do the dead lie down?" |
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milton-passion-538 |
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Now there are many identical
principles which are true of everything, though they are not such as
to
constitute
a particular nature, i.
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discern |
Question: |
Why are there principles that are true of everything but do not constitute a particular nature? |
Answer: |
There are principles that are true of everything but do not constitute a particular nature, because there are many identical principles which are not specific to any particular subject, but are like negative terms. Using these general principles, it is possible to hold an examination on everything and there is a definite art of doing so, which is not of the same kind as those which demonstrate. |
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sophistr |
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'Tis the man who with a man
Is an equal, be he King
Or poorest of the beggar-clan,
Or any other
wondrous
thing
A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;
'Tis the man who with a bird,
Wren or eagle, finds his way to
All its instincts; he hath heard
The lion's roaring, and can tell
What his horny throat expresseth,
And to him the tiger's yell
Comes articulate and presseth
On his ear like mother-tongue.
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living |
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keats-poet-506 |
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But
then- by a kind of necessity that always impelled this child to
alloy
whatever
comfort she might chance to give with a throb of
anguish- Pearl put up her mouth, and kissed the scarlet letter too!
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hawthorne-scarlet-63 |
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely- flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
of ours.
Guess: |
reflection |
Question: |
How does the speaker suggest that earthly pleasures can still bring happiness even in comparison to the bliss of Heaven? |
Answer: |
The speaker suggests that earthly pleasures can still bring happiness even in comparison to the bliss of Heaven by stating that "this is a world of sweets and sours" and that "the shadow of thy perfect bliss is the sunshine of ours." The speaker also implies that their mortal melody may be bolder than that of Israfel in Heaven. |
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poe-israfel-448 |
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From Bruno's forest screams the affrighted jay,
And slow the
insulted
eagle wheels away.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
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Li Po |
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But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my
greatest
grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It is the lark, that louder, louder sings,
As though but this one thought
possessed
his mind:
'You silent robin, blackbird, thrush, and finch,
I'll sing enough for all you lazy kind!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And many
struggled
in the ink.
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Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Elan insense et infini aux
splendeurs
et invisibles aux delices
insensibles, et ses secrets affolants pour chaque vice, et sa gaite
effroyante pour la foule.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves And the great garths and stacks and quiet farms, And all the tawny and the crimson leaves,
Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms Under the star of dusk through
stealing
mist
_ And blest the earth and gone while no man wist.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A light
sentence
will suffice to cool his anger.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Threatened with excommunication several times for his
dissolute
life and challenges to Church authority, he was later reconciled.
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Troubador Verse |
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[656] In whirling roars
How fierce the tide boils down these
clasping
shores!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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CXLII
The man who knows, for him there's no prison,
In such a fight with keen defence lays on;
Wherefore
the Franks are fiercer than lions.
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Chanson de Roland |
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No more can I be severed from your side
Than can
yourself
yourself yourself in twain divide.
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Shakespeare |
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It is just that this
youngster
should
die away: a sad thought for me, if I had not some hope that while it
is dwindling I may be plotting, and fitting myself for verses fit to
live.
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Keats |
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Come 'n peschiera ch'e
tranquilla
e pura
traggonsi i pesci a cio che vien di fori
per modo che lo stimin lor pastura,
si vid' io ben piu di mille splendori
trarsi ver' noi, e in ciascun s'udia:
<>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[Sidenote: Why then, O mortals, do ye seek abroad for that
felicity
which is to be found within yourselves?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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precious
relic of that time--
For my old age, it doth remain with thee
To make it what thou wilt.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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e
purueaunce
of god.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and
character
my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And so more dear to me has grown
Than rarest tones swept from the lyre,
The minor
movement
of that moan
In yonder singing wire.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I think I have risen with you, and moved away to distant
continents, and fallen down there, for reasons;
I think I have blown with you, O winds;
O waters, I have
fingered
every shore with you.
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Whitman |
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L'HOMME ET LA MER
Homme libre,
toujours
tu cheriras la mer!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lending money upon interest, and increasing it by usury, 142 is unknown amongst them: and this
ignorance
more effectually prevents the practice than a prohibition would do.
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Tacitus |
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I seemed to
wish to keep him to the point of his madness- a thing which I avoid
with the
patients
as I would the mouth of hell.
Guess: |
devil |
Question: |
Why does the speaker avoid "keeping patients to the point of their madness" like they would "the mouth of hell"? |
Answer: |
The speaker avoids "keeping patients to the point of their madness" like they would "the mouth of hell" because they find it cruel and something to be avoided. |
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stoker-dracula-168 |
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"
'Scarcely had I spoken thus; suddenly all seemed to shake, all the
courts and laurels of the god, the whole hill to be stirred round about,
and the
cauldron
to moan in the opening sanctuary.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Mercifull
Heauen:
What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes:
Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do's not speake,
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it breake
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Milk-trees we are assured of in South
America, and stout Sir John Hawkins
testifies
to water-trees in the
Canaries.
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Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I see what is coming,
I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners clearing the way,
I hear
victorious
drums.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The cold black fear is
clutching
me to-night
As long ago when they would take the light
And leave the little child who would have prayed,
Frozen and sleepless at the thought of death.
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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in vain, familiar with the gloom,
And sadly toiling through the tedious night,
I seek sweet slumber while that virgin bloom
For ever
hovering
haunts my unhappy sight.
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Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yet impious feats of
fraudful
men ne'er force the Gods' applause:
When heed'st thou not deserting me (Sad me!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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LXXVI
Ye have heard how Marsyas,
In the folly of his pride,
Boasted of a matchless skill,--
When the great god's back was turned;
How his fond imagining 5
Fell to ashes cold and grey,
When the
flawless
player came
In serenity and light.
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Source: |
Sappho |
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receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an
explanatory
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time to the person you received it from.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Were it not sinful then,
striving
to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Source: |
Villon |
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I find my own complexion everywhere;
No rose, I doubt, was ever, like the first,
A marvel to the bush it dawned upon,
The rapture of its life made visible,
The mystery of its yearning realized,
As the first babe to the first woman born; 120
No falcon ever felt delight of wings
As when, an eyas, from the stolid cliff
Loosing himself, he followed his high heart
To swim on sunshine, masterless as wind;
And I believe the brown earth takes delight
In the new snowdrop looking back at her,
To think that by some vernal alchemy
It could transmute her darkness into pearl;
What is the buxom peony after that,
With its coarse
constancy
of hoyden blush?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Cradle and grave--
A
limitless
deep---
An endless weaving
To and fro,
A restless heaving
Of life and glow,--
So shape I, on Destiny's thundering loom,
The Godhead's live garment, eternal in bloom.
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Your
formidable
voice echoed in my ear.
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Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass
* The
Albatross
is said to sleep on the wing.
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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[34] The Hebrew cognate of _masu_, to forget, is _nasa_, Arabic
_nasijia_, and occurs here in
Babylonian
for the first time.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The page image should be consulted LFS}
PAGE 7 Examining the sins of Tharmas I have soon found my own
O slay me not thou art his Wrath embodied in Deceit
I thought Tharmas a Sinner & I murderd his Emanations *
His secret loves & Graces Ah me wretched What have I done *
For now I find that all those Emanations were my Childrens Souls *
And I have murderd them with Cruelty above
atonement
*
Those that remain have fled from my cruelty into the desarts
Singing with both to ownAnd thou the delusive tempter to these deeds sittest before me *
(illegible)But where is (illegible) Tharmas all thy soft delusive beauty cannot
Tempt me to murder honest lovemy own soul & wipe my tears & smile
In this thy world for ah!
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Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Mannahatta
a-march--and it's O to sing it well!
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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65
So hit befel,
therafter
sone,
This king wolde wenden over see.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's
dreadful
pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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RUTH: OR THE
INFLUENCES
OF NATURE.
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Let it touch Woman and flesh becomes
Finer and more thrilled
Than air
contrived
in tune,
Lighter round the soul
Than flame is round burning.
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At any rate, it has been a great
gratification to me to be
concerned
in the experiment; and this is enhanced
by my being enabled to associate with it your name, as that of an early and
well-qualified appreciator of Whitman, and no less as that of a dear
friend.
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She returned to Hyderabad in
September
1898, and in
the December of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas,
miserable
heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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Appoloinaire |
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ECLOGUE VIII
TO POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS
Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now,
Those shepherd-singers at whose rival strains
The heifer
wondering
forgot to graze,
The lynx stood awe-struck, and the flowing streams,
Unwonted loiterers, stayed their course to hear-
How Damon and Alphesiboeus sang
Their pastoral ditties, will I tell the tale.
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Retorned to his real palais, sone
He softe in-to his bed gan for to slinke, 1535
To slepe longe, as he was wont to done,
But al for nought; he may wel ligge and winke,
But sleep ne may ther in his herte sinke;
Thenkinge
how she, for whom desyr him brende,
A thousand-fold was worth more than he wende.
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At times he would make
journeys
into distant parts, and once the
mountain bulls gathered together, proud of their overwhelming numbers
and their white horns, and followed him with great bellowing westward,
he being laden with their tallest, well-nigh to his cave, and would
have gored him, but, pacing into a pool of the sea to his shoulders, he
saw them thunder away, losing him in the darkness.
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Sweet lays of
sportive
vein,
Which help'd me to sustain
Love's first assault, the only arms I bore;
This flinty breast say who
Shall once again subdue,
That I with song may soothe me as before?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Count
Your sword is mine, and you no longer worthy
That my hand should bear this
shameful
trophy.
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521; _Funeral Song for the
Princess
Charlotte of Wales_, _ii.
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Byron |
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And evermore the
nightingales!
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THE ENCHANTER
In the deep heart of man a poet dwells
Who all the day of life his summer story tells;
Scatters on every eye dust of his spells,
Scent, form and color; to the flowers and shells
Wins the believing child with wondrous tales;
Touches a cheek with colors of romance,
And crowds a history into a glance;
Gives beauty to the lake and fountain,
Spies oversea the fires of the mountain;
When
thrushes
ope their throat, 't is he that sings,
And he that paints the oriole's fiery wings.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious
minds to quench it with their own,
And over which the kindliest will but stay
A moment, musing, "He, too, had his day!
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"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Wilamowitz
in _Hermes_, xviii.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Soon as the noise
of banquet ceased and the board was cleared, they set down great bowls
and
enwreathe
the wine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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In Camoens, all the three
requisites
are
admirably attained and blended together.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I am the spirit of the
harmless
earth.
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