[911] Another shall the streams of Aesarus and the little city of Crimisa in the
Oenotrian
land receive: even the snake-bitten slayer of the fire-brand; for the Trumpet herself shall with her hand guide his arrow point, releasing the twanging Maeotian bowstring.
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Not only is free time highly mechanized, but even the
pleasure
and joy offered in free time by the culture industry have become ideological; the less they satisfy, the more they reproduce the appe- tite for them.
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Education in Hegel |
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O ajudante de guarda-livros pode sonhar-se
imperador
romano; o Rei de Inglaterra não o pode fazer, porque o Rei de Inglaterra está privado de ser, em sonhos, outro rei que não o rei que é.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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[Footnote 46:
alluding
to the portcullis, which guarded the gate, on
which often depended the castle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Generated for Christian Pecaut (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 15:01 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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As a 1787 commentator on things patriotic explained quite clearly: "It has long been
complained
of that this generous sentiment has died out in France, and this complaint .
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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Yesterday you looked into my eyes as though you could
read in them all that I was feeling--as though you were
rejoicing
at my
happiness.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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It seemed as though the ter-
rible monster would never get enough, and all
were kept busy
satisfying
his demands.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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The later constitution of the tragic chorus is the
artistic imitation of this natural phenomenon, which
of course required a separation of the Dionysian
spectators from the
enchanted
Dionysians.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Both kept silence
as to the cause, and the only
authentic
particulars are to be
1 Cf.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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One cannot forget that, even for Plato, God is the only possible
protector
and breeder of men.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The more
abstract
the truth you wish to teach, the more must you
allure the senses to it.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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I'm sorry Mopsa breaks so fast;
I said her face would never last,
Corinna with that
youthful
air,
Is thirty, and a bit to spare.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In each of our individuals, the whole is present more explicitly than in the
individuals
of other species.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Sulpicius
Peticus, when he besought the
written at length by Drumann (Geschichte Roms, dictator on behalf of his comrades to let them fight
vol.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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All of them are persons
who have been vanquished and brought back again
under the dominion of science, who at one time or
another claimed more from themselves, without
having a right to the "more" and its responsibility
-and who now, creditably, rancorously and vindic-
tively, represent in word and deed,
disbelief
in the
master-task and supremacy of philosophy.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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It seems to begin in the monasteries of the high Middle Ages, where the true factories of primitive
accumulation
of subjectivity are to be found.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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At last I saw the
shadowed
bars,
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that somewhere in the world
God's dreadful dawn was red.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What
immediately
strikes us is the similarity of the French position after 1945 with the Italian position of 1918.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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) The sermons and papers thus
consigned
to King
were taken from him later at the instance apparently of Donne's son.
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Donne - 2 |
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The old round with its four stages will
certainly
pass again.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Leprobleme de la pyramide juive (Der- rida, an Egyptian: the problem of the Jewish pyramid) (Paris:
Editions
Maren Sell, 2006).
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Mks, Ruby Bdsh was really a very handsome
young fox -- the handsomest in the whole neigh-
borhood, so it was said, and they said, too, how
good and gentle she was, which was lots better
than being called beautiful, for
kindness
goes a
great deal farther than good loolis.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Buck
Mulligan
kicked Stephen's foot under the table and said with warmth
of tone:
--Wait till you hear him on Hamlet, Haines.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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A Samuel Butler went up from Westminster to
Christ Church, Oxford, 1623, too for the
Worcester
lad of
soon
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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It shows a number of similarities with humour under dictatorships, as all totalizing systems,
religious
and political alike, provoke a popular backlash against the supposedly sublime that is forced on them.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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[124]
Nicarchus →
[131]
Lucillius →
[132]
Lucillius →
[133]
Lucillius →
[134]
Lucillius →
[135]
Lucillius →
[136]
Lucillius →
[137]
Lucillius →
[138]
Lucillius →
[139]
Lucillius →
[140]
Lucillius →
[141]
Lucillius →
[142]
Lucillius →
[143]
Lucillius →
[148]
Lucillius →
[153]
Lucillius →
[154]
Lucillius →
[155]
Lucillius →
[158]
Antipater of
Thessalonica
→
On Prophets (159-164)
[159]
Lucillius →
[160]
Lucillius →
[161]
Lucillius →
[162]
Nicarchus →
[163]
Lucillius →
[164]
Lucillius →
[165]
Lucillius →
[168] ANTIPHANES { Ph 8 } G
You reckon up your money, poor wretch ; but Time, just as it breeds interest, so, as it overtakes you, gives birth to grey old age.
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Greek Anthology |
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I have loved much and been loved deeply--
Oh when my spirit's fire burns low,
Leave me the
darkness
and the stillness,
I shall be tired and glad to go.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The mali
staggered
along the path, his
breast-muscles slippery with sweat, carrying two kerosene-tins of water on a yoke.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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what an
unexpected
honor!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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Meanwhile
several English ships of war came up the
Shannon and anchored about a mile below the city.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay |
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And it was then that the white dove
Direct from heaven to her drew near,
Caressed her with its snowy wing,
Coo'd
tenderly
within her ear.
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Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Li Po |
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Qouid Dempster state more regarding him, » Sec O'Sullevan Beare's "Historije
^ See O'Sullevan Beare's
Historice
Catholicce
Iberniae Compendium," tomus i.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Of long nights lit with orange lanterns,
Of wine cups and
compliments
and kisses of the two-sword men.
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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Where the
cowslips
do unfold, shaking tassels all of gold,
Which make the milk so sweet, bonny Mary O!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And Sophocles a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And
Beatrice
wore
The gown that Dante deified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Men do sacrifice themselves for the greater good in wartime, of course, but they are either
conscripted
against their will or promised public adulation when their exploits are made public.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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Ye see our danger on the utmost edge
Of hazard, which admits no long debate,
But must with
something
sudden be oppos'd,
Not force, but well couch't fraud, well woven snares,
E're in the head of Nations he appear
Their King, their Leader, and Supream on Earth.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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But in their homes, in the dance, in the
assembly
and the banquet all their thought was only for their captive maidens; until some god put desperate courage in our hearts no more to receive our lords on their return from Thrace within our towers so that they might either heed the right or might depart and begone elsewhither, they and their captives.
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Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
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'
[266] The king praised him and
inquired
of another, What is the goal of speech?
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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--
Emptiness
of Dependent Origination: There is a flow but no chunks in it; no real cause, effect, causality.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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ergo
corpoream
ad naturam pauca uidemus
esse opus omnino, quae demant cumque dolorem.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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220) to the final
crushing
of Greece and Carthage (b.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
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THE
PHILOLOGY
OF EXISTENCE, THE DRAMATURGY OF FORCE ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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"
Fiercely
the orderly rode down the slope of the
corn-field--scarred and forlorn,
Rutted by violent wheels, and scathed by the
shot that had plowed it in scorn;
Fiercely, and burning with wrath for the sight
of his comrades crushed at a blow,
Flung in broken shapes on the ground like
ruined memorials of woe:
These were the men whom at daybreak he knew,
but never again could know.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then spake the elder Consul,
An ancient man and wise:
"Now hearken,
Conscript
Fathers,[25]
To that which I advise.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his
vulnerable
spots.
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| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
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e
emperour
him say ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Les Amours de Marie: VI
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Picked just now from all this blossoming,
That, if they'd not been gathered this evening,
Tomorrow would be
scattered
on the ground.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Boxer, "One
casualty
of the women's movement: Feminism," New York Times, December 14, 1997.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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They had their
mutthering
ivies and their murdhcring idies and their mouldher_ ing iries in that musht grove but there'll be bright pHnny_ flowe.
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| Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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29
military men and civil employes, of
merchants
and
landed proprietors; .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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The Royal Book and The Book of Good Manners were the
next two of Caxton's
translations
to be printed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
Arguments are at best ad hominen or reductio ad absurdum, or what the
Buddhists
would call prasaftga.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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The altar vessels too are nowa- Book of
Archbishop
Butler, in Extracts days superb, and the vestments, &c, are rich
printed from it in the " Limerick Reporter," of February 18th, 1873, under the heading
in the extreme.
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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Goat-footed, horned,
Bacchanalian
Pan, fanatic pow'r, from whom the world began,
Whose various parts by thee inspir'd, combine in endless dance and melody divine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
In my place, another would have offered
Princess Mary son coeur et sa fortune; but over me the word
“marry”
has
a kind of magical power.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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"
Another day, the two met again and Yen Hui said, "I'm
improving!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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27 2 But being a rather
sagacious
man, when he saw that Verus was in such utterly wretched health that he could not brandish a shield of any considerable weight, he remarked, it is said:28 3 "We have lost the three hundred million sesterces which we paid out to the army and to the people, for we have indeed leaned against a tottering wall, and one which can hardly bear even our weight, much less that of the Empire".
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Historia Augusta |
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How are you to have so
big a purpose on so small a part of the
hemisphere?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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JWe cannot much wonder at the hardy sons bf Wales ;' Hying more; than a century, upon their;
mountains
;
but Mr; Henry Evans, transplanted from Cambria^
seven years old when Charles I.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
|
_ 431:
Malus est
minister
regii imperii pudor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
But only after Nietzsche’s inversion of
Platonism
and Heidegger’s reorientation of philosophical reflection on the basis of “a different beginning” was it possible to recognize with greater certainty what a thinking whose generative pole had effectively stepped outside of the zone of metaphysical theories of essences would be all about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
How
extensive
is the power of the courts in the use of the
injunction, and the settlement of strikes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
Having said as much, the Weber
brothers
had already brought forth Du Bois-Reymond's argu- ments, even in a more polite fashion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
|
1 The term “hundred
years”
here informs the reader that the house is an allegory for human life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
Pistoia was a den of beasts, and
ought to be reduced to ashes; and the river Arno should
overflow
and
drown every soul in Pisa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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I see a
gleaming
light,
O say, what may it be?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
|
In these and all similar cases the king could not act with legal effect without the co operation of the community; the man whom the king alone
declared
a patrician remained as before a non-burgess, and the invalid act-could only carry consequences possibly de
facto, not de jure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
Catullus designed it to be a veiled
declaration
of his love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
” The Altar is composed of three
Anacreontean
lines, three trochaic tetrameters, three phalaecians, eleven iambic dimeters, three anapaestic dimeters, and three choriambic tetrameters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pattern Poems |
|
n" (11); Muriel Slade Pascoe also takes a chronological
approach
in La
poesi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
|
Or with his
towering
grandeur swell their state--
The pride of kings--or else his strength pervert,
And bid him rage amid the mortal fray,
Astonished at the madness of mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
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It was
preserved
somehow, however; and after other kinds of
literature had arisen as inevitably and naturally as epic, and had
become, in their turn, things of less instant necessity than they were,
it was found that, in the manner and purpose of epic poetry, something
was given which was not given elsewhere; something of extraordinary
value.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
|
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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La ecología
pneumática
se conforma con devolver las almas (in cluidos los cuerpos resucitados, si es preciso) a la casa paterna su- pranatural; el resto lo externaliza sin pesar alguno.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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For them, just conditions were a prerequisite for the
unfolding
of the intellectual powers of human beings, and this idea underlies the whole of western
humanism.
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To be sure, intellectual asceticism is not without is own pleasures; when Aristotle, in his Metaphysics, put forth the proposition that all humans by nature strive for knowledge, he was generalizing into an anthropological thesis what was for him a permanent, personal experience: in its unceasing movement, the active
intellect
takes pleasure in itself.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Sit suo similis patri
Manlio et facile inscieis
noscitetur ab omnibus:
Sic
pudicitiam
suo
matris indicet ore.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Steel barons, molten the next generation
To silken rows of gay and garter'd earls,
Glanced from the walls in goodly preservation;
And Lady Marys
blooming
into girls,
With fair long locks, had also kept their station;
And countesses mature in robes and pearls:
Also some beauties of Sir Peter Lely,
Whose drapery hints we may admire them freely.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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The two men share an interest in econom- ic
policies
leaning toward socialism, and Dugin acknowledged his sympathy for Glaz'ev's eco- nomic ideas (which he calls "healthy") even after the latter left Rodina in March 2004.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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Etendue à ses pieds, calme et pleine de joie,
Delphine la couvait avec des yeux ardents,
Comme un animal fort qui
surveille
une proie,
Après l'avoir d'abord marquée avec les dents.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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He's no
sparer of flesh: he will give them good swords and no quarter;
the
spectators
will have a solid heap of dead in their midst: and
he can afford it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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The time at which his first play was exhibited is not certainly known,
because it was not printed till it was, some years afterwards, altered
and revived; but since the plays are said to be printed in the order in
which they were written, from the dates of some, those of others may
be inferred; and thus it may be collected, that in 1663, in the
thirty-second year of his life, he
commenced
a writer for the stage;
compelled, undoubtedly, by necessity, for he appears never to have loved
that exercise of his genius, or to have much pleased himself with his own
dramas.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying
to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Beeton would take Dick out with him when
he went marketing in the morning to haggle with
tradesmen
over fish,
lamp-wicks, mustard, tapioca, and so forth, while Dick rested his weight
first on one foot and then on the other and played aimlessly with the
tins and string-ball on the counter.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A political understanding of the character of
the Prussian State had not, it is true, come to
the nation even yet; this learned people lived in
a wonderful ignorance of the deciding factors of
its modern history as well as of the
institutions
of
its mightiest State-organization.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Already, in the face of settled custom, had
Valerius
granted
Augustin the right to preach in his presence.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Thus
Socrates
was not in prison, since he was there with his
own consent.
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Epictetus |
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Anything
will serve his
purpose.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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