And the yearning for _ME_
That thou
wistfully
weepest!
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Chicago)
on 2014-06-11 22:53 GMT / http://hdl.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2015-01-02 09:07 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Perhaps it will put us
straight
again.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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You know on what
I ground my hope, and it is
certainly
a good foundation, for school must
be very humiliating to a girl of Frederica's age.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Il est du reste à
remarquer
que la constance d'une habitude
est d'ordinaire en rapport avec son absurdité.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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s North City, Loved you for the way you did me honour, Sharing your wealth,
thinking
nothing of it.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,
Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool, --
Deals one
imperial
thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The truth of
this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost
all the
poetical
writings, even of Milton himself.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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"
Then Sir
Bedivere
went the second time and paced up and down beside the
pebbly water, counting the dewey pebbles, but when he saw the wonderful
sword he clapped his hands together and cried:
"If I threw that sword away, a precious thing will be lost forever.
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Tennyson |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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I might well answer that among great names,
Worth alone deserves to stir the flames;
Or, if my passion sought for some excuse,
A
thousand
precedents have lit the fuse:
But I'll not follow where my thoughts engage;
My depth of feeling will not quench my courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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44
ATHENA
Athena's festival year
Athena's great festival, the Panathenaia, fell in midsummer during the first month of the Athenian calendar, Hekatombaion (named for the customary hecatombs or sacrifices of
multiple
cattle to the goddess).
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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As it was plaid
by her
Majesties
servants.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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Poscia ne' due
penultimi
tripudi
Principati e Arcangeli si girano;
l'ultimo e tutto d'Angelici ludi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And, you must know, your lord's word's true,
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you;
And that this
pleasure
is like rain,
Not sent ye for to drown your pain,
But for to make it spring again.
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Robert Herrick |
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vlvaque | stilju-
r'
Idseasque
pices
.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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And bethink thee how thou wilt escape from my hands alive, if thou art caught making a
prophecy
vain as the idle wind.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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_Thursday_--Reach
Longtown
to dine, and part there with my good
friends Messrs.
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Robert Burns- |
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He dimly re- membered having thought of Clarisse as he used the three basic states of water to exemplify a new mathematical operation, and Cia-
Into the
Millennium
(The Criminals) · 747
risse having distracted him from it.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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It is the power to hurt, not military
strength
in the traditional sense, that inheres in our most impressive mili- tary capabilities at the present time.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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While we have no sure way of dating the pali
literature
or separating it into difef rent strata, based on the doctrinal development we have noted, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the composition
" ThepatiwordusediSllWljjunu,whkhmayalsobetranslatedas"oon?
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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Aricia
And how could you endure that
terrible
lies
Should darken the course of so fine a life?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The principal English
irrigation
works are the Upper and Lower
Anikats on the Kaveri and Coleroon, the delta systems of the
Godavari and Kistna, and the Periyar dam.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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With the aid of her nurse, the girl
contrived
to de-
ceive him and indulge in illicit relations during twelve nights.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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After having cleared up many
things which I do not willingly
acknowledge
as mine, I should have much
to reveal which had better remain my secret.
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Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud |
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--In the century before the Christian era, Ireland
first called Hibernia by Julius Caesar, his account Britain,
which thus
mentions
Ireland:—“Qua parte est Hibernia
dimidio minor existimatur quam Britannia,” “On which side
(the west), lies Ireland, less half, supposed, than Britain.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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The great
augmentation
of their disposable force
presents an additional temptation to prosecute the war.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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The waves have now a redder glow--
The hours are
breathing
faint and low--
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The process of his thought constitutes as it were one long and
connected nature process, working with the fatal necessity of the ebb
and flow of the tide, and is as independent of his personal caprices
as of the merely popular
tendencies
of the period in which he grew
up.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Pauvres bouflfons que couronne la saugel
Et mes
litieres
s'effeuillent aux ornieres, toutes mes
litieres a grand pans
De nonchaloir, Madeline-aux-serpents .
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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'Ever since we left
Crete,' says he, 'she has followed us; she steers the same course,
and without doubt it is by design, not accident; for I have often
changed my track, on purpose to see if she would do the same, and she
has always
invariably
done so.
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| Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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To think that you are going away
into the Steppes with
Monsieur
Bwikov--that you are going away never
to return!
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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If
foreign countries should prohibit the exportation of money, and could
successfully enforce obedience to such a law, they might indeed prevent
the rise in the prices of the corn and labour of the manufacturing
country; for such rise can only take place after the influx of the
precious metals, supposing paper money not to be used; but they could
not prevent the exchange from being very
unfavourable
to them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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I am not dazzled by this
splendid
roof,
Whate'er thy power, and great it seems to be;
Heads bow, knees bend, eyes watch around a throne,
And hands obey--our hearts are still our own.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
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he speech
against Meidias is assigned by
Dionysius
to 01.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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The
light cones of two
flashlights
danced forth out of the dark
hole.
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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21
one* letters, supposed to have been written by women
famous in legend, to absent
husbands
or lovers.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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That idea of the opera does not demand
perhaps an abuse from music
but—as
I said—
an impossibility.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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That shows that
compressing
the wind-energies in the heart center is the great vital key for ceasing all thought constructs and the wind- energies that move them, which shows that compressing them in other channel centers does not have that much power; since this [Vajra Rosary]
is the authoritative text that teaches the reason why compression in the heart center is the main practice.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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They are
plodding
stu-
dents, and though quite capable of narrating events and of producing
endless dissertations on the interpretation of the classics and the
true meaning of the philosophy on which they are based, are en-
tirely unprovided with that power of fancy which is able to bring
before the eye, as in a living picture, the phantoms of the brain.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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The question of the Being of Man will never be posed properly until we can distance
ourselves
from the oldest, most enduring, and traditional product of European metaphysics: the definition of man as rational animal.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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1940 Publication:
Personality
and Mental Illness (with F.
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Attachment |
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Every one can read the newspaper for himself, but come
with me to the
churchyard
while the sun shines and the trees are
green, and let us wander among the graves.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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The poet, remem-
bering the
unhappiness
that Paris brought into
the world, refuses to become famous for a
judicium Nasonis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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I sing the Equalities;
I sing the endless finales of things;
I say Nature continues--Glory continues;
I praise with
electric
voice:
For I do not see one imperfection in the universe;
And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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que n'ai-je mis bas tout un noeud de viperes,
Plutot que de nourrir cette
derision!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Copies are provided as a
preservation
service.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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n-
gung zu begreifen, tut man am besten, dem Wesen
der Askese, der
Sinnesfeindlichkeit
im allgemeinen,
nachzuforschen.
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
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3 But our God is in the
heavens: He hath done
whatsoever
He hath pleased.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
|
They had seen the rifle and were
all shouting
excitedly
that I was going to shoot the elephant.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
'
One so gentle towards a foe was sure to be a good friend; and indeed his
pages are full of generous
gratitude
to those who had served him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
380
These if from
servitude
thou shalt restore
To thir inheritance, then, nor till then,
Thou on the Throne of David in full glory,
From Egypt to Euphrates and beyond
Shalt raign, and Rome or Caesar not need fear.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Now these same people are coming once or fa ice
a month and making deposits of ten or twenty
dollars, so that the average of the individual
deposit has fallen very rapidly during September
and every indication is that the number of small
deposits will
continue
to increase and the rela-
tively large deposits become less frequent as
time goes on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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A burgess colony was sent out (about 471) to the seaport of Sena (Sinigaglia), the former capital of the Senonian territory; and at the same time Roman fleet sailed from the Tyrrhene sea into the eastern waters,
manifestly
for the purpose of being stationed in the Adriatic and of protecting the Roman possessions there.
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The Princes
Radziwill were instrumental in the conversion
of thousands of their
peasantry
in Samogitia,
whose descendants preserved their religion for
generations, and contrasted favorably in their
morals and prosperity with their Catholic
neighbors.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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' if the answer could be
sincerely
made, 'I have made men laugh,' it would be the surest
passport to a welcome entrance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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the holy Court of God, the
Catholic
Church, iv.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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The smallest traits are
wonderfully
harmonized, to enhance the general effect.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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"
"He posed as the horror of horrors--a
misunderstood
man.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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The rushes fall again to
stillness
along the floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
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He put two fingers to his lip,
He whispered wild, he stood a-tip,
And leaned the while with lifted hand,
And said, "A ship lies yonder, dead; »
And said,
“Doubloons
lie sown in sand
In yon far desert dead and brown,
## p.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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The
treasure
is ours, make we fast land with it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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In fact, there
can be no doubt that the
youth’s
greatest fault was his lack of filial
respect.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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There is
now such a large number of characters which at first behaved as units,
but which have since been broken up by crossing with
suitable
selected
material, that it seems not unreasonable to believe that the remaining
cases await only the discovery of the right strains with which to
hybridize them to bring about corresponding results.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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I know a means taken from Palamedes; like him, I will write
my
misfortune
on some oars, which I will cast into the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Could the identity of the filial son provide a
rewarding
sense of existence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
ANDREA But now
everything
has changed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
|
When one
practices
meditation, there is experience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
"Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the
innocent
babe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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He
worships
especially
one god, Apollo of Delphi, Helios of Emesa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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Thou that
destroyest
the Temple, and dost build it
In three days, save thyself; and if thou be
The Son of God, come down now from the cross.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Still right we step by step with the giant Chance,
and over all mankind hath
hitherto
ruled nonsense,
the lack-of-sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
"' Freedom' ye all roar most eagerly," he says to
the fire-dog, "but I have
unlearned
the belief in
'Great Events' when there is much roaring and
smoke about them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
In 1665 he went to sea with Sandwich, and
distinguished himself at Bergen by uncommon intrepidity; and the next
summer served again on board sir Edward Spragge, who, in the heat of the
engagement, having a message of reproof to send to one of his captains,
could find no man ready to carry it but Wilmot, who, in an open boat,
went and
returned
amidst the storm of shot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
;
192;
Lombards
accept, 195; 237; cha-
racter of, in Gaul, 256; 261; and the
Slavs, 297; among the Arabs, 303;
Mahomet's knowledge of, 306, 308 sq.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Stretching, arching his
muscular
loins, a breath
From his gaping muzzle heavy with thirst
Issues with a sudden shock, quick and harsh,
And great lizards warm from the noon heat stir,
Then vanish gleaming through the tawny grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
A fire was once within my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And
fiendish
faces one, two, three,
Hung at my breasts, and pulled at me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Lettuce will first be set before you, a plant useful as a laxative, and leeks cut into shreds; next tunny-fishy full grown, and larger than the slender eel, which will be
garnished
with egg and leaves of rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
Apparently, a question of conflict of
interest
was not raised.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
|
Obliging
Vulcan fell to work,
Threw by his coat and bonnet,
And did Sol's business in a crack;
Sol paid him with a sonnet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
He
inquired
for a lodging at an inn, where
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
|
His hopes were raised by the promises which
Seleucus
made to establish him back in Egypt as the rightful heir to the kingdom, when his father Ptolemy died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Strange as it may seem, we can yet
understand
why the
10M0B.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This, in turn, provides the justification to accept the textual variants of the Mawangdui
recension
of the first line, leading to a more precise translation: 21
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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As it
would be a contradiction, therefore, to say that God is a creator of
appearances, so also it is a contradiction to say that as creator He
is the cause of actions in the world of sense, and therefore as
appearances,
although
He is the cause of the existence of the acting
beings (which are noumena).
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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But if we did,
somebody
on most flights would go away muttering darkly about occult forces.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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" New K-lines are
attached
to the most recently active K-lines.
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Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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) My kingdom for a
nightman!
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He saw the vicissitudes of royalty, and of government, in the
coronation
and execution of Charles L; the rise and decline of the Protectorate,.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"_I_ don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it,"
ventured
Alice.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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His account of Jerusalem is fascinating, and he was one of the last travellers to visit the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre
before the damaging fire of 1808.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Fight-
ing in the Italian wars,- for from boyhood he was wedded to the
sword,— he had been taken
prisoner
by them near Siena, where
he had signalized himself by a fiery and determined bravery.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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BENVENUTO CELLINI
Mugello, my
apprentice
through several years.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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Sténio, while he recalls Alfred de Musset,
typifies the
struggles
of an inspired poet, whose weak and vacillating
will betrays him to seducing sensualism.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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