He
returned
home and threw himself down on his bed without
undressing.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" Conversely, free Marxism embodies the most radical and total form of critical distance and consequently represents the purest development of
bourgeois
scholarship imaginable.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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The Fox and the Mosquitoes
A Fox after
crossing
a river got its tail entangled in a bush,
and could not move.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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The propriety of the objections
suggested
against submitting
them to inspection, may very well be questioned; the vari-
ous reports circulated concerning their contents were, per-
haps, so many arguments for making them speak for them-
selves, to place the matter upon the footing of certainty.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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, that pity—the pity which he observed
so superficially and described so badly—was the
source of all and every past and future moral action,
—and all this
precisely
because of those faculties
which he had begun by attributing to it.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Perhaps I may be more
fortunate
than others.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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The
Catterpillers
of this Nation Anatomized.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Poe - 5 |
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Desde esta perspectiva puede decirse que la esencia del
tráfico
des cubridor es el des-alejamiento del mundo.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Showing the need to
understand
absence of true existence]
L4: [A.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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--Ah, well-a-day,
Why should our young
Endymion
pine away!
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Keats |
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Thus thou wilt never find fault with the
Gods, nor charge them with
neglecting
thee.
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Epictetus |
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She looks the part, and I am
persuaded
will do it ad-
mirably.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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The measure presupposes someone who enforces it, a role usually fulfilled by early forms of
government
as the guarantors of the law.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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In the Gates of Death
rejoice!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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sthetik der
anmutigen
Gewalt.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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as
favoritas
de sus favorecedores.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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He hath
travelled
long; no, but to me _1669_.
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John Donne |
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2 (1959); and "A Letter of Ezra Pound,"
FenoJJosa
Society of Japan NewsJet- ter, no.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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The
suggestion
is adopted.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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A hidden pity
afflicts
me, stuns my mind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Leo; he
explored
the vast
treatises of Tertullian and Justin Martyr.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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_ 177:--
Dum Fata sinunt,
Vivite laeti: properat cursu
Vita citato,
volucrique
die
Rota praecipitis vertitur anni.
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Robert Herrick |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Ovid - 1805 - Art of Live |
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The perpetual process of laying stress upon
mediocre
qualities
as being the most valuable
(modesty in rank and file, the creature who is an
instrument).
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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Nay, I know not whether I ought
to be quite tranquil now, for I have had more trouble in restoring
peace than I ever intended to submit to--a spirit, too,
resulting
from
a fancied sense of superior integrity, which is peculiarly insolent!
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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It was now a thing of ink and paper, and Dosiadas seems to have interpreted the Pipe in the light of the pipes of his own time, as
representing
the outward appearance of an actual pipe.
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Pattern Poems |
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When they
reported
this to the emperor, he was stunned and regretted he had given his permission.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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But the
sagacious
woman was a woman of the world, and
not like those who easily lose their temper or keep silence about
their grief.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Was he an animal if music could
captivate
him so?
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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We know of what it is made, - this fateful tower of
bronze; the cannon still show their mute mouths jutting forth
over the
periphery
in symmetric crowns; their souls are prisoners
in the melted
They have waited long, these servitors
of death, for William; they knew that death loved to change his
trophies: they watch him as he passes.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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I start on my journey
with empty hands and
expectant
heart.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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The unusual arrangement of lines is
probably
mystic.
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Pattern Poems |
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Is Wagner's “Parsifal "his secret laugh
of superiority at himself, the triumph of his last and
most exalted state of
artistic
freedom, of artistic
transcendence—is it Wagner able to laugh at him-
self?
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
|
Gaswar, or the atmoterrorist model
If one wanted to say with one phrase and with the minimum of
expressions
what the 20th century, together with its incommensurable accomplishment in the arts, contrib- uted as an unmistakable characteristic proper to the history of civilization, answering with three criteria could suffice.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
|
But it
suppresses
the sim-
ple facts emphasized long ago and, not coincidentally, by a nouveau romancier, Michel Butor: the books used most often-the Bible, once upon a time, and today
more likely the telephone book-are certainly not read in a linear manner.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
Thorpe
and her
daughters
had scarcely begun the history of their acquaintance
with Mr.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
|
A
masculine
vigour
is the main characteristic of all his work-of his Latin verse
compositions, not less than of his Criticisms of Catullus, and his
translation of Lucretius.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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" The noble type of man regards
himself as a determiner of values; he does not
require to be approved of; he passes the judgment:
“What is
injurious
to me is injurious in itself”; he
knows that it is he himself only who confers
honour on things; he is a creator of values.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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A truce to your skipping, ye kids yonder, or the
buckgoat
will be after you.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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This content
downloaded
from 128.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Lament for Arbad
By Labīd bin
Rabīˁa
(born c.
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Translated Poetry |
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One of our most learned Irish
antiquaries
seems inclined to think he was of the former race.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Smoulderings
Of
sacrificial
fires burst their rings
And blotted out in smoke his lost domain.
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Amy Lowell |
|
Li T'ai-po's
poems deal chiefly with wine and women, love and sensual things, but
Tu Fu's poems are full of men and women, elderly people and children,
their joy, their anguish, the
hardship
of the soldier, and things of
that sort.
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Li Po |
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, quod
defensum
ibat Nake ad Diras p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But his through other means a rein will be;
Since Fortune, who his wishes well appaid,
Made thitherward the false Gabrina flee,
After she young Zerbino had betrayed:
Who like a she-wolf fled, which, as she hies,
At
distance
hears the hounds and hunters' cries.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the
light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens,
the wind runs wild,
laughter
passes over the earth.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
|
THE WINGS
This poem seems to have been
inscribed
on the wings of a statue – perhaps a votive statue – representing Love as a bearded child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pattern Poems |
|
In the face of such works the effort to distinguish between what was wanted and what was still out of reach falls mute; in truth, this question is always
misleading
with regard to what is objectivated.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
"Poor fellow,"
said he to me, "he has
scarcely
been gone an hour, and she is
jealous already.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
|
There are several English, even more Japanese and Russian, all of which
undoubtedly
will be of some use; and there is even a German School, and, of course, a French Interpreters' School.
| Guess: |
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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32,
now
corrected
into cl 6% M; T6511 1' bwapxbvrwv.
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
|
Arrow et al (1995)
provides
a general economic background for cona?
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
The
typewriter
veils the essence of writing and of the script.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
|
I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
One must
renounce
the bad taste of wishing to
agree with many people.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
There was something
terrible
in the determination of her glance and
voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
|
We call ours a
utilitarian
age, and we do not know the uses of any single
thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
|
For guilt, for guilt, my terrors are in arms:
I tremble to
approach
an angry God,
And justly smart beneath His sin-avenging rod.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Of the several attempts at scriptural
exposition
Ormulum is
the most considerable.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
To cause inconvenience and unhappiness to the enemy is a
reasonable
military aim in war, but in view of the promises made by Douhet and his followers, and in view also of the great military resources invested in it, the urban-area bomb- ing of World War I1 must be set down unequivocally as a failure.
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| Question: |
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
|
$"#"
#=*+
%'""#!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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George lets his imagination wander
through
mediaeval
times and identifies aspects of his own inner
life with certain figures, certain characteristic situations.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
, with a topical and historical
introduction
by Douglas Sladen, with a foreword by Geo.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
|
It is perhaps worth noting that in the second volume of this
edition, and in the last hundred poems printed in the first,
wherever
a
date can be fixed it is always in the forties.
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Robert Herrick |
|
6
A piedi è l'un, l'altro a cavallo: or quale
credete ch'abbia il Saracin
vantaggio?
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
|
” So you wrote;
and what said Franck, that
recreant
angler?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
|
If it can be said that societies manifest their feelings toward life in their medicine, then our society reveals that life is too
dangerous
to live but still also too precious to throw away.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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Early in the fourth century the Chalcidic
cities had attempted to form themselves into an
independent
federation,
but the movement had been put down by Sparta, and the cities had fallen
under the control of the rising Macedonian monarchy, when Aristotle was
a baby.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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No more patriotism of barspongers and
dropsical
impostors.
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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The advocates of the con- solidation of power realize that consolidation may as well lead to Fascism and slavery as to the Promised Land, Nor are all of them too keen about the position of the
individual
man in the Soviet Union, although the Soviet's gallant resistance to the Hitlerite invasion has made it rather bad form, to discuss the status of power and freedom in the U.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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11 Then Hadrian
immediately
drew up his will, though he did not lay aside the administration of the empire.
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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This was the
daughter
of Erysichthon.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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And dost thou speak of love
To me,
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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15418 (#368) ##########################################
15418
VIRGIL
The shepherds' names are Greek; Sicily and Arcadia are often men-
tioned, but commingled with the scenery and life of Lombardy, or
again, with thinly veiled
allusions
to Roman politics!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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The individual who is weighed down by
everyday
misery therefore has available to him these two paths for lifting himself out of his
paths that can unite to form the royal path of a single tragic art, provided one has chosen one's birth date appropriately so that one can be incar- nated either as an ancient Greek or a modern Wagnerian.
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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35 Hence, it seems pro- bable, that the present
narrative
has been taken—from -the acts of another St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Now, for to see that in man's members dwells
Also the soul, and body ne'er is wont
To feel
sensation
by a "harmony"
Take this in chief: the fact that life remains
Oft in our limbs, when much of body's gone;
Yet that same life, when particles of heat,
Though few, have scattered been, and through the mouth
Air has been given forth abroad, forthwith
Forever deserts the veins, and leaves the bones.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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His constitutive fluctuation relates not to al ternative
philosophical
doctrines, but rather to the pre-philosophical choice of the antinomy of death; and this fluctuation incorporates the simultaneously necessary and impossible choice between meta physics and non-metaphysics.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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_
Le gouffre a toujours soif; la
clepsydre
se vide.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_
Le gouffre a toujours soif; la
clepsydre
se vide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XCI
To Spanish pass is Rollanz now going
On Veillantif, his good steed, galloping;
He is well armed, pride is in his bearing,
He goes, so brave, his spear in hand holding,
He goes, its point against the sky turning;
A gonfalon all white thereon he's pinned,
Down to his hand
flutters
the golden fringe:
Noble his limbs, his face clear and smiling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Then in thy conscience, Queen,
Thou feelest the King
requiring
thanks of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
She played the Beethoven Violin
Concerto
in D major, op.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
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22; Debussy's suite Children's Comer; and Liszt's Hungarian
Rhapsody
no.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Beckett |
|
org/access_use#pd-google
We have
determined
this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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Yet his regard
for the people of Thebes was
numbered
by ^Dschines among his crimes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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" "You're not
paying enough attention to what was written and you're
changing
the
story," said the priest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
One thing was certain : the face of truth was not always beautiful, nor her voice always
soothing
to the ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
So that, forever rudderless, it went upon the seas
Going
ridiculous
voyages,
Making quaint progress,
Turning as with serious purpose
Before stupid winds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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The heroes of the hour are
relatively
great: of a faster growth; or
they are such, in whom, at the moment of success, a quality is ripe
which is then in request.
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Emerson - Representative Men |
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Another major question is the
restoration
of international trade, for Burma is the world's leading rice exporter.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Etenim non
solum in magna luce foramen imminuitur, in modica dilitatur; sed etiam si quis QL
ob humorum impuritatem diminitute videat, impendio magis adhuc dilatari Z22
apparet ita ut
dilatae?
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Which wey be ye comen,
benedicite?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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She turned, she toss'd herself in bed,
On all sides doubts and terrors met her;
Point after point did she discuss;
And while her mind was
fighting
thus,
Her body still grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I will take
no trouble about it, and the people will of themselves become rich; I
will
manifest
no ambition, and the people will of themselves attain to
the primitive simplicity.
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Tao Te Ching |
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