cil de concertar el juego , por la no-
ticia que del tenian todos: y assi fueron eligien-
do las colores con grande regocijo , los que co-
mo mas diestros se
ofrecieron
y mas amor y de-
vocion mostraron.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Las casas de madera, las frescas terrazas donde transcurrían las serenas tardes de naipes, parecían arrasadas por una anticipación del viento profético que años
después
había de borrar a Macondo de la faz de la tierra.
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futuros |
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How does the sentence foreshadow the fate of Macondo in the book? |
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The sentence suggests that the destruction of Macondo was foreshadowed by a prophetic wind that seemed to have already ravaged the town, leaving it in ruins. The description of the houses and terraces as if they had already been destroyed suggests that their fate was already determined and that Macondo was destined to be wiped off the face of the earth. |
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Gabriel García Márquez - Cien Anos de Soledad |
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I should really think that the absence of colour and sound is the most
striking
feature of the Land of the Morning Calm.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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We carry singing girls, drift with the
drifting
water,
Yet Sennin needs
A yellow stork for a charger, and all our seamen Would follow the white gulls or ride them.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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13
She kept an account of all the family expenses, from her arrival in Ireland to some months before her death; and she would often repine, when looking back upon the annals of her household bills, that every thing
necessary
for life was double the price, while interest of money was sunk almost to one half; so that the addition made to her fortune was indeed grown absolutely necessary.
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Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
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Pales,
bring gifts,
bring your Phoenician stuffs,
and do you, fleet-footed nymphs,
bring offerings,
Illyrian
iris,
and a branch of shrub,
and frail-headed poppies.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In
succession
I occupied four official posts;
For doing nothing,--ten years' salary!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Could not be a better time, Sir Walter, for having a choice of tenants,
very
responsible
tenants.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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Beneath our
consecrated
elm
A century ago he stood,
Famed vaguely for that old fight in the wood
Whose red surge sought, but could not overwhelm
The life foredoomed to wield our rough-hewn helm:--
From colleges, where now the gown
To arms had yielded, from the town,
Our rude self-summoned levies flocked to see
The new-come chiefs and wonder which was he.
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James Russell Lowell |
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]
[Sidenote G: "Cursed," he says, "be
cowardice
and covetousness both!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I could see him distinctly by the light of the moon —
his face was paler than any marble, and his hand
shook so
excessively
that he could scarcely retain
hold of the tiller.
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Poe - v05 |
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Yet he that shall diligently examine it with himself, would he
not, think you, approve the example of the
Milesian
virgins and kill
himself?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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So all
surrounded
him with loud murmur and cries, good
Aeneas the foremost.
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cheered |
Question: |
Why were the people in the book surrounding Aeneas with loud murmur and cries? |
Answer: |
The people in the book surrounded Aeneas with loud murmur and cries to mourn the death of Misenus, a trumpeter who had recently died. Aeneas, along with his companion Achates, had been running in equal perplexity discussing which lifeless comrade to bury, when they encountered Misenus' body on the beach. The people were mourning Misenus' death and likely consoling Aeneas for the loss of his comrade. The description of Aeneas as "foremost" may indicate his leadership role in the group and the respect he commands. |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I am not
conscious
of the sunset behind the jade-grey hill,
Nor how many and dark are the Autumn clouds.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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The name Fir-Bolg has been latinised Firbolgi, and
anglicised Firbolgians and Belgians, as it is supposed by several
antiquaries that they were originally
Belgians
from ancient Gaul,
from the country called by Caesar and other Roman writers Gal
lia Belgica or Belgic Gaul, which comprised the present kingdom
of Belgium, and some of the northern parts of France.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Whether the individual shall
carry on this struggle in such a way that he be called good or in such a
way that he be called bad is
something
that the standard and the
capacity of his own intellect must determine for him.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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John
proposed
directly that they should
carry the old woman home to her cottage; but the stranger opened his
knapsack and took out a box, in which he said he had a salve that
would quickly make her leg well and strong again, so that she would be
able to walk home herself, as if her leg had never been broken.
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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Inductioncannot
lead to certainty.
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Knowledge |
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What is the implication of the statement "Induction cannot lead to certainty" in the larger context of the book or subject matter being discussed? |
Answer: |
The implication of the statement "Induction cannot lead to certainty" in the larger context of the book or subject matter being discussed is that science, which relies heavily on induction, cannot provide a complete understanding of the world. Heidegger's claim is that science collapses why-questions and what-questions into how-questions, which provides only a partial view of the world, and that science does not pay attention to the container that does the containing. Heidegger's question 'how does the containing itself go on?' asks for a transcendental deduction determined within phenomenological limits, exploring the semantics of 'containing' and describing a set of ontological possibilities. In essence, the statement implies that induction-based reasoning, which science relies on, cannot provide a complete and certain understanding of the world. |
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Never in the world has so great a wrong
befallen
the lot of man,--
A Han heart and a Han tongue set in the body of a Turk.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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How individual and comical he is with the
four words allowed to his
dramatic
life!
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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); not
reactive but
deliberate
and progressive spirit, saying Yea in all circumstances, even in its hate.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Wherefore
that great soldier of our Lord’s host,
groaned and said, “I see another law in my members warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in
my members.
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bede |
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Itwaswrittenupon old parchment, and it was more
characterized
by its antiquity of style, than by itseleganceofcomposition.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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This decision of Fothadh
obtained
the name of a Canon ; and after its issue, the clergy were exempted from attending military expeditions.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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Soon then saw that shepherd-of-evils
that never he met in this middle-world,
in the ways of earth, another wight
with heavier hand-gripe; at heart he feared,
sorrowed in soul, -- none the sooner
escaped!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" I am
interested
in Schleiermacher's "night thoughts.
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Hegel_nodrm |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Bird, Robert Montgomery, his
“Hawks of Hawk-Hollow ’’
and
“Sheppard
Lee’’ re-
viewed, 7, 85 ; in “Autog-
raphy,” 9, 210.
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Poe - v10 |
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' Don't get
sentimental
about them.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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O Father Jove [Zeus], who shak'st with fiery light the world deep-sounding from thy lofty height:
From thee, proceeds th' ætherial lightning's blaze,
flashing
around intolerable rays.
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Orphic Hymns |
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eji called "the Machiavelli of
the^ Nineteenth Century," but his words were
directed not only to
monarchs
and to other leaders
of the State, but to the people as a whole.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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They were unwilling that
Heraclides
should lose his
?
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Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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Their
tongues had a more
generous
accent than ours, as if breath was cheaper
where they wagged.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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, the attack on
Olynthus
in
850 5.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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He calleth them
faithful
who were as yet possessed with a wicked error.
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ignorant |
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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3 In the previous letter Pope as-
sumes that his own
popularity
will
assist Broome's reputation, and now
he says the public is his foe and will
be glad of any opportunity to blame
him.
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Alexander Pope - v08 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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The extent of the mischief
which is caused by this prejudice (once it is free of
all trammels except those of its own malice), parti-
cularly to Ethics and History, is shown by the
notorious
case of Buckle : it was in Buckle that
that plebeianism of the modern spirit, which is of
English origin, broke out once again from its
malignant soil with all the violence of a slimy
volcano, and with that salted, rampant, and vulgar
eloquence with which up to the present time all
volcanoes have spoken.
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Nietzsche - v13 |
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He had two
horses killed under him; and whilst
mounting
a
third, was wounded by a musket-shot out of the trenches,
which broke the bone of his thigh.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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Some of the latest important
writings on him are still written by those who
actually
knew
him.
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personally |
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Who are the authors of the latest important writings on "him" mentioned in the sentence, and what is their relationship with "him"? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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Eleven years of it, not
counting
the War, and
never killed a man.
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Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
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The
philosopher, on the other hand, did not immediately
publish his perfidy, but
dissembled
his resentment.
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Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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--It must, however, be
admitted
that the vain man does not desire to
please others so much as himself and he will often go so far, on this
account, as to overlook his own interests: for he often inspires his
fellow creatures with malicious envy and renders them ill disposed in
order that he may thus increase his own delight in himself.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Thou, O my Grief, be wise and
tranquil
still,
The eve is thine which even now drops down,
To carry peace or care to human will,
And in a misty veil enfolds the town.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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143 (#199) ############################################
WHY I AM A FATALITY 143
which is detrimental, the inability to
discover
one's
own advantage and self-destruction, are made into
absolute qualities, into the " duty," the " holiness,"
and the " divinity " of man.
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Nietzsche - v17 |
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After similarly examining other pairs, the
factors
are combined in an equation in which they appear as variables in the statement of a causal law.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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χτΑκτανν/, κΌ^
Λ a^-tAia τγ^; r>v MaJtotftoc, Κ9α άτ3ίλΐ7Γ7ΰν τίώ
πλίτίω
ως
<π)ν 0ffx5 K9U.
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Ailianou Poikilēs historias - 1545 |
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Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire,
In
lightnings
own'd his secret stings;
In one rude clash he struck the lyre
And swept with hurried hand the strings.
Guess: |
fury |
Question: |
What is the author trying to convey about the personification of Anger in this sentence? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The territorial
union of Lithuania with Poland, symbolized in the
matrimonial junction of their
reigning
families, crowned
with the successful repulse of the nation's enemies,
had trebled the size of the country, lent greater and
more dignified proportions to the whole organization
of the State, and facilitated a more rapid and consistent
development of material and intellectual resources.
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Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet
foremost
through the floor
Into an empty space.
Guess: |
down |
Question: |
What is the author trying to convey through the use of these specific examples of ways the subject does not die? |
Answer: |
The author is trying to convey that the subject of the passage, who is facing the possibility of execution, will not die in the ways typically associated with shame and disgrace. The specific examples given illustrate the various ways in which a person might die in such a situation, such as hanging, suffocation, falling through the floor, or being buried alive, but the subject will not face any of these fates. The author may be suggesting that the subject's death, while still a tragedy, will be less shameful and more dignified than these other possibilities. |
Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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"I shall now explain to you the
emotional
ques- tions.
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Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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mes",
A T he Waking State
U Sle<:p,
dinurbed
by Dreams
M lkep Sle<:p
sn,ENCE, Called 'Tnriya' ('the Founh'); a higher plane
o.
Guess: |
Turiya |
Question: |
What is the meaning of the term "Turiya" in the context of this sentence? |
Answer: |
The term "Turiya" in the context of the given sentence refers to a higher plane of consciousness called "the Fourth" or the state of the Echo of Consciousness, which allows the adept to comprehend the other three states (Waking State, Dream State, and Deep Sleep State) and apprehend the Real Self and the true nature of Being. |
Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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+ Refrain from 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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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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A gulf
repeatedly
emerges that separates thinking from doing and knowledge from action.
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Source: |
Cassirer - 1930 - Form and Technology |
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70
Be beneath the stately caverns
colonnaded
of Asia ?
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mute |
Question: |
What does the phrase "stately caverns colonnaded of Asia" refer to and what is the speaker's tone in asking this question? |
Answer: |
The phrase "stately caverns colonnaded of Asia" refers to grand, impressive caves in Asia that are supported by columns. The speaker's tone in asking the question "Be beneath the stately caverns colonnaded of Asia?" is uncertain, but it may convey a sense of longing or contemplation. The question seems to be part of a larger set of questions about where the speaker should go or what they should do with their life. |
Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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In Heliard 4715 is in plaats van
neriendo
Crist endi gitaet im nahtes* te lezen: neriendo
Crist endi im nahtes giwet, niet — zooals Sievers wil — neriendo Crist endi giwet im nahtes
thanan.
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neriendo |
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Hadewijch - Liederen |
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58
Finally, the years around 1700 marked three
milestones
in the rise of what Ju?
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Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
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"It is truly
astonishing!
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Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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"
The lady fell, and clasped his knees,
Her face upraised, her eyes o'erflowing;
And Bracy replied, with
faltering
voice,
His gracious hail on all bestowing;
"Thy words, thou sire of Christabel,
Are sweeter than my harp can tell;
Yet might I gain a boon of thee,
This day my journey should not be,
So strange a dream hath come to me;
That I had vowed with music loud
To clear yon wood from thing unblest,
Warn'd by a vision in my rest!
Guess: |
gracious |
Question: |
What is the significance of the dream that Bracy had, and how does it relate to his journey? |
Answer: |
The dream that Bracy had was about seeing a dove, which was a gentle bird that Christabel's father loved and called by his daughter's name. In his dream, the dove was fluttering and uttering fearful moans in the forest alone. Bracy had vowed to clear the wood of a thing unblest, warned by this vision in his rest. The significance of the dream is that it caused Bracy to reconsider his journey and to ask for a boon before embarking on it. |
Source: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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The epithet Merops, as applied to Echo, is
explained
as sentence-curtailing, because she gives only the last syllables (?
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Source: |
Pattern Poems |
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iuirt assuage this
sickuess
of soul:
Come, Sleep !
Guess: |
turmoil |
Question: |
What is the meaning of the word "sickness" in the context of this sentence and how does the speaker suggest to alleviate it? |
Answer: |
In the context of this sentence, the word "sickness" refers to the speaker's spiritual or emotional malaise. The speaker suggests that sleep can alleviate this sickness of the soul by embracing them and granting them the repose of a long slumber. |
Source: |
Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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The origin of the term
muˁallaqa
has been much debated.
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Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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A PILGRIM from the
northern
seas—
What joy for me to seek alone
The wondrous temple and the throne
Of him who holds the awful keys!
Guess: |
Atlantic |
Question: |
Who is "him who holds the awful keys" and why is the speaker seeking the temple and the throne? |
Answer: |
The speaker is seeking the wondrous temple and the throne of the God-anointed king who holds the awful keys. The passage does not provide any further information on who this God-anointed king is or why the speaker is seeking the temple and throne. |
Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
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It is
possible
that heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations, assert copyrights over these portions.
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Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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In this sense it may be said that Heine has
claims to be
considered
a master if only an intermittent one, for
he is able to take even the clich6 and endow it with a significance
which it does not possess in the mouth of the general public.
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Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
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What
everybody
is saying however, I suppose because they wish it, is that you are in Syria, and in command of forces.
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Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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'729 Walsh:'
a commonplace poet (1663-1708), but
apparently
a good critic.
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Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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ofthechan-
this private negotiation, that may not be
unfitly
in- ceiior's un-
serted here, and is a sufficient manifestation of the tegrity.
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Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Name the
Executive
Departments.
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Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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The supposed brass with
which it was filled was all in small, smooth pieces,
varying from the size of a pea to that of a dollar;
but the pieces were
irregular
in shape, although all
more or less flat — looking, upon the whole, "very
much as lead looks when thrown upon the ground in
a molten state, and there suffered to grow cool.
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irregular |
Question: |
What is the significance of the small, smooth, and irregularly shaped brass pieces found in the container, and how do they contribute to the larger themes of the novel? |
Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - v04 |
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My aunt
Phillips
wants you so to
get husbands, you can’t think.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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, and her _caro_ _sposo_, and her
resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and
underbred
finery.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Austen - Emma |
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Il empoigna
résolument
les flacons de par-
fums, débarbouilla les goulots et les bouchons à
l'émeri, frotta les étiquettes avec de la gomme
élastique et de la mie de pain, puis il savonna la
cuvette, trempa les peignes et les brosses dans de
l'eau saturée d'ammoniaque, fit manæuvrer son
vaporisateur et injecta la pièce de poudre de lilas de
Perse, lava les toiles cirées du parquet et du mur,
étrilla le petit cheval, essuya le dossier et les barreaux
de la chaise basse.
Guess: |
soigneusement |
Question: |
What is the significance of the protagonist's meticulous cleaning routine and attention to detail, and how does it reflect broader themes of control and order in the novel? |
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The protagonist's meticulous cleaning routine and attention to detail reveal his desire for control and order in his surroundings. This reflects the broader themes of control and order in the novel, as the protagonist seeks to exert control over his environment to counteract the chaos and disorder in his personal life. Through his cleaning and organizing, the protagonist is attempting to create a sense of stability and predictability, which he believes will help him regain a sense of control over his life. Additionally, his frustration with the previous state of his surroundings suggests a desire for perfection and a dissatisfaction with anything less. This theme of perfectionism is also reflected in the protagonist's personal life, as he seeks to achieve perfection in his artistic pursuits and in his relationships with others. |
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THE
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Not the intelligent one.
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The
addition he has made of a calendar to his Eclogues, is very
beautiful; since by this, besides the general moral of inno-
cence and simplicity, which is common to other authors of
pastoral, he has one peculiar to himself; he
compares
human
life to the several seasons, and at once exposes to his readers
a view of the great and little worlds, in their various changes
hundred lines, and others considera-
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Alexander Pope - v01 |
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The
flossies
all and mossies all they drooped upon her draped brimfall.
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'It was a remarkable trio,' says David Murray in his monograph on Laing :
“they were the three men of the day most
conversant
with the literature of
Scotland; each an accomplished antiquary .
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1915 - v12 - Nineteeth Century |
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For since according to the definition of the Stoics,
wisdom is nothing else than to be governed by reason, and on the contrary
Folly, to be given up to the will of our passions, that the life of man
might not be altogether
disconsolate
and hard to away with, of how much
more passion than reason has Jupiter composed us?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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In one of the very few poetological statements he made he described poetry as an - albeit
inadequate
- form of expiation: 'eine unvollkommene Su ?
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Unsatisfactory |
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As the author describes poetry as an imperfect form of expiation, how does this theme manifest in the rest of the book, and what insights does it offer into the nature of redemption and atonement in relation to the creative process of writing poetry? |
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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My purse
benefits
nothing by my reputation.
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exceeds |
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What is the role of reputation in the protagonist's life, and how do they reconcile their lack of financial resources with their reputation throughout the rest of the book? |
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Do you
remember
if I've ever told you that you're the Devil?
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Here in a world without a sky,
Without the ground, without the sea,
The one
unchanging
thing is I,
Myself remains to comfort me.
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solitary |
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How does the protagonist navigate and come to terms with the existential crisis presented in the poem, and what actions or coping mechanisms do they employ to find comfort in a world that lacks any familiar structures or sense of stability? |
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I'm sorry, there seems to be a mistake in your question as the passage you provided does not contain any information about a protagonist experiencing an existential crisis. Could you please provide the correct passage? |
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Some of the advocates of
birth control who have never thought the matter out, either
passionately
or
dispassionately, claim to speak on behalf of women.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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About fifteen years ago, a former student of mine took me to a small town in Louisiana called new Iberia, with the purpose of
visiting
a former plantation that boasted that it was "the home of the first pair of blue jeans.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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After
pondering
for a moment he replied, 'You could best establish its security if you were to imitate the unceasing benignity of God.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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LXXVI
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from
variation
or quick change?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It has been pointed out by the
profoundest
poetical critic of our time that
the perfection of Coleridge's style in poetry comes from an equal balance
of the clear, somewhat matter-of-fact qualities of the eighteenth century
with the remote, imaginative qualities of the nineteenth century.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy—this
is a recluse's verdict:
“There
is something arbitrary
in the fact that the philosopher came to a stand
here, took a retrospect and looked around; that he
here laid his spade aside and did not dig any
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Nietzsche - v12 |
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Ruolinis
& mutabilis eft in ytrūg
Homo
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Thomas of Ireland - 1558 - Flowers of Learned Men |
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The sacrament of the Eucharist forever transformed the
hitherto
eccentric, i.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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" The aristocratic design of this device, the tone conveyed by the four words quoted, and the knowledge that his Blackberry is the one accoutrement of President Barack Obama that gives him credibility as one who belongs to the present and even to the future - these and other factors may come together to produce an effect of hierarchy in the
communication
with Blackberry users.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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As the
argument
advanced (in Aeschines) by the wise Aspasia to Xenophon and his wife plainly convinces us.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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WolfgangSchiederhas
accentuatedthisproblem;see the introductoryremarksand summaryto Schieder,ed.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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It is obvious that
up to the present
morality
has not been a problem
at all; it has rather been the very ground on
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Nietzsche - v10 |
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'
'Because in Hell have I always lived,'
answered
the Man.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be
obtained
independently of anything we can address.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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As a weak, dislocated, and
dependent
child, he was aware early of his refugee status; he needed more nurturing than was available, and developed a psychological escape into illness.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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witless how mighty a deity sinks into her breast; but he,
mindful of his mother the Acidalian, begins touch by touch to efface
Sychaeus, and sows the
surprise
of a living love in the
long-since-unstirred spirit and disaccustomed heart.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And likewise, but in reverse, with privately
employed
workers: if we concede that they are not entirely controlled by capitalists, perhaps we should no longer treat them as strictly productive.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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