And
there goeth an old knight at arms, and one that connes Latyn, and hath
been beyond the sea, and hath seen Prester
John’s
country.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Think of the misery of the poor
creatures
who are torn from their
homes.
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Macaulay |
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And the
laughter
and love
And the glad life above,
Down there all alone in the nightf
Ah, God, is there never an answer?
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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they combine
Their plumy shades to throw,
Through whose clear fruit and blossom fine
Whene'er the sun may go,
The ground beneath he deeply stains,
As passing through
cathedral
panes.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Weston agreed to it; but added, that she should be very glad to be
secure of
undergoing
the anxiety of a first meeting at the time talked
of: “for I cannot depend upon his coming.
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Austen - Emma |
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Aunt Alexandra said she just had to get to bed early, she’d been decorating the stage all afternoon and was worn
out—she
stopped short in the middle of her sentence.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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If Phrygian marbles soothe not pain,
Nor star-bright purple's costliest wear,
Nor vines of true Falernian strain,
Nor Achaemenian spices rare,
Why with rich gate and pillar'd range
Upbuild new mansions, twice as high,
Or why my Sabine vale exchange
For more
laborious
luxury?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But like the attitude of Socrates, the
attitude of George to his
disciples
was in essence a paedagogic
one, and as time went on and the difference in age between
the Master and his followers became necessarily greater, the
paedagogic element emerged more clearly.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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His mind
contained
several millions of facts, packed too closely together for the light breeze of the imagination to draw through the mass.
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on parchment or vellum
which I am confident was "Elenoure and Juga"[1] a kind of pastoral
eclogue afterwards
published
in the _Town and Country Magazine_ for
May 1769.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Therefore
aesthetic objectivation is always also fetishism and provokes permanent rebellion.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Chernyshevsky's culture palace was
conceived
as a luxury edifice with an artificial climate, in which an eternal spring of consensus would prevail.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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'70 Superior by the head':
so in Homer ('Iliad', III, 225-227) Ajax is
described
as towering over
the other Greeks by head and shoulders.
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Alexander Pope |
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Poets, and musicians, too, upon
extremes
will touch,
Often one will play too long, the other say too much.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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If Rodrigue is essential to the State,
Must I pay for the
workings
of fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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After these preliminary observations, he presents the reader with an account of what occurred, in reference to the relics and special intercession of our illustrious saint, at Gheel; and the following
statements
will include the sub- stance ofhis interesting narrative.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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_
This lake lies about seven miles
Southwest
of Nanking.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Lights, lights,
She
entertains
Sir Ferdinand
Klein.
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T.S. Eliot |
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310 311; French translation, "'Omnes et singulatim': vers une
critique
de la raison politique" trans.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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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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Pattern Poems |
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"We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
If you never were met with again--
But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
You might have
suggested
it then?
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Lewis Carroll |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Ententif
weren for to singe 685
These briddes, that nought unkunninge
Were of hir craft, and apprentys,
But of [hir] song sotyl and wys.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Elizabethan and
Jacobean
Pamphlets.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 332 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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This day thou hast to think;
At night, if thou wilt curse, thou shalt curse kindly;
Then I'll provoke thy lips, lay siege so close,
That all thy
sallying
breath shall turn to blessings.
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Dryden - Complete |
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In the First as well as in the Second World, an enormous
proportion
of social labor flows into these structures.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Romance and
Asceticism, Amorism and
Puritanism
are equally unreal in the great
Philistine world.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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Lean on this arm,
That I can tell you is a
christened
arm,
And not like some, if we are to judge by speech.
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Yeats - Poems |
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The sick and 'understanding' anthro- pology that makes pleas for him treats him as an animal, an
irresponsible
baby or a mentally disabled individual.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Heinrich
Heine was one
of the last authors of the classical enlightenment to defend literarily,in
open satire, the right of ideology critique to commit 'just atrocities.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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1
To the same degree as we modern
subjects
understand freedom a priori as freedom of movement, progress is only thinkable for us as the kind of movement that leads to a higher degree of mobility.
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Sloterdijk |
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But, as I see, there is a spirit in man, and the
inspiration
of the Almighty giveth understanding.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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William Browne |
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How
deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the
Honoured
Ancestor of
all things!
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Tao Te Ching |
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]
[Footnote 142: _Vestigia retro
improperata
refert.
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Dryden - Complete |
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You
descended
through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on nocturnal waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Come, blessed Goddess, fam'd almighty queen, with aspect kind,
rejoicing
and serene.
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Orphic Hymns |
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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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For to this we owe our eminent
felicity
in posies of rings, mottoes of snuff-boxes, the humours of sign-posts with their elegant inscriptions, &c.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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When thou
ascendest
in the eastern horizon thou fillest every
land with thy beauties;
Thou art fair and great, radiant, high above the earth;
Thy beams encompass the lands to the sum of all that thou
hast created.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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What is the sadness, however, if not the intentional unity which comes to reassemble and animate the
totality
of my conduct?
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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It
narrates
how the son and
daughter of the murdered king, Agamemnon, slew, in due course of revenge,
and by Apollo's express command, their guilty mother and her paramour.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I think of my friend, and my thoughts are like the Wên River,
Mightily moving,
directed
toward the South.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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The
most
disgusting
despotism Europe ever saw.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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Then came a mer-host,
And after them legion of Romans, The usual, dull,
theatrical
!
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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(It being
premised
that the origin of such writers is not in
Horneo and Borneo.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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How should not the poet doat
On its mystic tongue,
With its primeval memory,
Reporting what old
minstrels
told
Of Merlin locked the harp within,--
Merlin paying the pain of sin,
Pent in a dungeon made of air,--
And some attain his voice to hear,
Words of pain and cries of fear,
But pillowed all on melody,
As fits the griefs of bards to be.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Therein for the second piece was the Son of Cronus gently touching the same heifer of Inachus beside the seven-streamèd Nile, and so
transfiguring
the hornèd creature to a woman again; and the flowing Nile was of silver wrought, and the heifer of brass, and the great Zeus of gold.
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Moschus |
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To be completed in Twelve Royal Octavo
Volumes^
and in 120 Farts, of dOt pages each Fart.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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This lust
of party power is the liberty they hunger and thirst
for; and this Siren song of ambition has charmed
ears tliat one would have thought were never
organized
to that sort of music.
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Edmund Burke |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
Peaceful and
parliamentary
government since 1851.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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A church was then built in Martha's honour,
possibly
the one to which Weinheber refers here.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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The Christian redescription of God
naturally
had very little to do with the Yahweh of Jewish scripture.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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A group of_
PEASANTS
_pass_.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Yes, yes--I know very well your
thoughts
are with me all the
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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The result in question refers to a type of machine which is essentially a digital computer with an
infinite
capacity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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At best more
watchful
this, but that more strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Already he is a 'diminussed aster', a diminished star, for who should be arriving now but 'the
Chrystanthemlander
with his porters ofbonzos, pompommy plonkyplonk, the ghariwallahs, moveyovering the cabrattlefield of slaine'-the ruler of an empire, but of what sort we cannot yet see.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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If our dream is realized, a new chapter
will
speedily
be added to the History of Polish
Literature.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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He has it
straight
from Tacitus simply that a barrow of rubbish was dumped here.
| Guess: |
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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" It is
phenomena
as it really is or as seen by a completely enlightened being without any distortion or obscuration, so one can say it is "reality.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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Csrởỉ sao gíốựg
Jígựâ
cưởi trời,
Nhíin rồng nhảm một tliỏrị vinh lcti.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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When he rises with the Sun, no longer do the trees deceive him by the feeble
freshness
of their leaves.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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decline,
for the needle
trembles
in my
Here have we had our vantage, the good hour.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
Shutters for shop windows were going out,
most of the shops in the High Street
didn’t
have them, but Mother felt safe behind them.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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In the course of one of the wars Sõmēsvara seems to have entrusted
the southern division of his kingdom, the most vulnerable at the
time, to his second and most talented son, who
afterwards
ascended
the throne as Vikramāditya.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Had he tivro 10 hear him,Joyce wvuld limon certainly have ebimM thai biJ hatro expatriate
namesake
.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Thou Love
taughtst
mee, by making mee 25
Love her that holds my love disparity,
Onely to give to those that count my gifts indignity.
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Donne - 1 |
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On 31 December
1819, Jean Pierre Falret (1794-1870) defended his thesis: Observations et
propositions
medico-chirurgicales, Medical Thesis, Paris, no.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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So far as to mine eyes its light heaven show'd,
So far as love and study train'd my wings,
Novel and beautiful but mortal things
From every star I found on her bestow'd:
So many forms in rare and varied mode
Of heavenly beauty from immortal springs
My panting
intellect
before me brings,
Sunk my weak sight before their dazzling load.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
He does not "invoke gods
and men to see him dining upon a ha'porth of radishes;" but rather tries
to persuade himself and others that a
vegetable
diet suits him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oliver Goldsmith |
|
It never
occurred
to me before,
That perhaps we shall never go down any more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Under the Vagrancy Act tramps can be prosecuted
for smoking in the spike — in fact, they can be prosecuted for almost anything; but the
authorities generally save the trouble of a prosecution by turning
disobedient
men out of
doors.
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| Question: |
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
Of what is she
dreaming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
|
By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to
and accept all the terms of this license and
intellectual
property
(trademark/copyright) agreement.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
|
ber
trauervolle
Wasser nieder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
|
One heard queer
conversations
in the BISTRO.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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In India itself the prestige of the
Company had lately
suffered
irretrievable damage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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The
potential
within us of bearing witness to the values by which we live holds promise for a dynamic manifestation to the rest of the world of the vitality of our system.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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NSC-68 |
|
If we don’t show how
resentment
could become the primary historical power in it, the whole epoch remains obscure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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when I forget you, may I fail
To--say my prayers--but never was there plann'd
A dress through which the eyes give such a volley,
Excepting the
Venetian
Fazzioli.
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| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
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Gould,
Benjamin
Apthorp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
They say that Arramulius was
arrogant
throughout his life, and became so proud that he claimed to rival the power of Jupiter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
" Rather than merely
8 Introduction
expositing upon or simply rehearsing the thought of his precursors, Hegel reads or interprets them "plastically" with an eye turned toward a
speculative
"Aufhebung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hegel_nodrm |
|
Esos signos son los confines y cimas (en alto alemán
antiguo: orte,
lugares)
que los dioses y muertos señalan a los vivos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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To even an idiot of
an
Ivanushka
such happiness is sometimes granted.
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will explain it, with a
footnote
or two by Mr.
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"I didn't say
anything
about not liking you, little one.
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1871 The Descent of Man and Selection in
Relation
to Sex.
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Here is a
celebrated
one recor~d in actual conversation by Pamela Downing:
Please sit in the apple-juice seat.
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It is not to my
interest
that the matter should ever get noised
abroad.
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I name no names;
instinctively
I feel
Each at some well-remembered grave will kneel,
And from the inscription wipe the weeds and moss,
For every heart best knoweth its own loss.
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Then she set to work
nibbling
at the mushroom (she
had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high;
then she walked down the little passage; and _then_--she found herself
at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the
cool fountains.
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