All the morning I thought how proud I should be
To stand there
straight
as a queen,
Wrapped in the wind and the sun with the world under me--
But the air was dull, there was little I could have seen.
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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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The ploughman laughed and would have ploughed him in
But the old
shepherd
took him for the skin.
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John Clare |
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: Yale
University
Press, ?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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1881 in Vienna), painter and
handicraft
artist well known for his animal woodcuts.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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[Also
published in
Directions
in Sociolinguistics of Communication, edited by John
357
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Childens - Folklore |
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So
Lucian, unambitious of writing history,
sheltered
himself from "the
waves and the smoke," and was content to provide others with the best
of good counsel.
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Lucian - True History |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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As
Veronique
Foti writes, such poetry would be "displaced into a pastness incapable of ever being brought to immediacy and presence [.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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In both sexes the horse is the
most
salacious
of animals next after the human species.
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Aristotle |
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ndez, and Aleixandre, but some of its deep- est and
earliest
roots were in Trakl.
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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What
construction
should be placed on the equals sign?
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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19] There they left
Hercules
and Polyphemus.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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"
Well then, so call they, the
swirlers
out of the mist of my soul,
They that come mewards, bearing old magic.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Anyhow, Frank
Kohlhaas
was with
them now - and enjoyed it.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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While
Agesipolis
was besieging Mantineia, the Lacedaemonians were joined by their allies, who were sympathetic towards the Mantineians, but were obliged to help the Lacedaemonians because they were at that time the leading power in Greece.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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The new school; an attempt to
illustrate
its principles, details and
advantages.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Whatever
occurs and whatever you experience, strengthen your conviction that they are all insubstantial and magical illusions, so that you can experience this in the bardo as well.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Geschichte der deutschen Stämme bis zum
Ausgange
der Völkerwanderung.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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A general account of the
necessary
materials for a History of England, etc.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
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At that moment I went up and bowed to
Princess
Mary.
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Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Thus, in 1992, the first issue of Elementy carried texts by three generals who were then heads of
department
at the Academy of the General Staff.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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"Constitutionalism,"liberal- ism," and "parliamentarianisma"re
conceptsthathave
had verydifferent meaningsin variousEuropeancountriesat differenttimes.
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Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
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From your heart you should
cultivate
a loving attitude toward them.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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I go home, more
incredulous
than ever, to a lodging that I have hard by;
and get up very early in the morning, to ride to the Highgate road and
fetch my aunt.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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Also, until mid-1942 the German war economy
contained
a large amount of slack.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Thus, the life of a man of virtue and talent, who should die in
his thirtieth year, is, with regard to his own feelings, longer than
that of a
miserable
priest-ridden slave, who dreams out a century of
dulness.
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Shelley |
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2 SOME
ELIZABETHAN
OPINIONS OF
^L Rose,3 and he supplied a code of laws for the Courts of Love.
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Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
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He set the world in the dry light
of truth, and since the vanity of mankind is a
constant
factor
throughout the ages, there is scarce a page of Lucian's writing that
wears the faded air of antiquity.
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Lucian - True History |
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The Life &
Spiritual
Songs ofMilarepa
Paldarbum then asked, "One needs to receive an empowerment from a good guru.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Tibetan sources characterise the dispute as centred on the question of whether or not "enlightenment" is attained through a gradual and
prolonged
process of reflection and praxis or in the form of an instantaneous experience.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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Afterward Bôn Tinh accepted the invitation of a
gentleman
named Du'o'ng in the capital to become the abbot of Kien* An Temple.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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The United States
Strategic
Bombing Survey (U.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Here, the form of the Teacher has a permanent quality; it has no origin and no end, and
therefore
differs from all phenomena that are subject to change-differs even from the form in this world of the Buddha Shakyamuni, who took birth, grew old and died.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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[339]
Nam'd from her woods,[340] with
fragrant
bowers adorn'd,
From fair Madeira's purple coast we turn'd:[340]
Cyprus and Paphos' vales the smiling loves
Might leave with joy for fair Madeira's groves;
A shore so flow'ry, and so sweet an air,
Venus might build her dearest temple there.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Burglars such as Pschorr are
superior
to lightning because they are not diverted by rods.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Millions
of Kulaks had to perish or live as slave laborers.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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Purgatorio
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
I am trying to translate in English a collection of my brief poems
"Cactus Irland," the
Japanese
one of which is to be published soon.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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Ngày 22, Vua ngự điện Kính Thiên, cho gọi loa xướng tên
người
thi đỗ.
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stella-03 |
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Prussian
whined, and kept close to Captain Spang, who
had not moved one step on the deck.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Consult your reason betimes:
I do not say, that it will always prove an
unerring
guide; for human
reason is not infallible; but it will prove the least erring guide
that you can follow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
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It far transcends any trick of
words; as often as not, it depends on a
heartless
sense of comedy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
12 For soldiers and
generals
have an evil habit of crushing others if they are not crushed themselves.
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| Question: |
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Historia Augusta |
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That fame
Saturday
morning faw your worship's piclure cry'd about the streets in another post, one of your
city posts, call'd pillory.
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| Question: |
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the
copyright
holder's express written permission.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Heliogabalus
{attonpting
to rise).
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Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
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Puis je considérai le pain
spirituel qu'est un journal encore chaud et humide de la presse récente
dans le brouillard du matin où on le distribue, dès l'aurore, aux
bonnes qui l'apportent à leurs maîtres avec le café au lait, pain
miraculeux, multipliable, qui est à la fois un et dix mille, qui reste
le même pour chacun tout en pénétrant
innombrable
à la fois dans
toutes les maisons.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"According to Frederic Cuvier, who has so clearly
distinguished
between
instinct and intelligence in animals, 'instinct is a natural and
inherent faculty, like feeling, irritability, or intelligence.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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"
"Were all my wish fulfill'd," I straight replied,
"Thou from the
confines
of man's nature yet
Hadst not been driven forth; for in my mind
Is fix'd, and now strikes full upon my heart
The dear, benign, paternal image, such
As thine was, when so lately thou didst teach me
The way for man to win eternity;
And how I priz'd the lesson, it behooves,
That, long as life endures, my tongue should speak,
What of my fate thou tell'st, that write I down:
And with another text to comment on
For her I keep it, the celestial dame,
Who will know all, if I to her arrive.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And within this bordure
there’s
a woman, fashioned as a god might fashion her, lapped in a robe and snood about her head.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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In Memory of the Great War 219
and evil
qualities
as distinctly impressed upon our
brows as formerly did the Greeks, our kindred in
temperament and destiny.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Here, about sunset, the pirate-chief and his followers arrived; they
made their prisoners dismount, and
disposed
of the booty in their
boats.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Among the possible effects of practical
adherence
to a theory, that aims
to identify the style of prose and verse,--(if it does not indeed claim
for the latter a yet nearer resemblance to the average style of men
in the viva voce intercourse of real life)--we might anticipate the
following as not the least likely to occur.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Blackmouth took the other side:
Honestly
for years an' years he tried
Getting justice for the Indians.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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So they set to work, their
appetite
increased as they
ate, till by the end of the century the three empires had
met, and the Polish Commonwealth was no more.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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And then across the white silken, Bellied up, as a sail bellies to the wind,
Over the fluid tenuous, diaphanous, Over this curled a wave, greenish,
Mounted and
overwhelmed
it.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
$46 DRYDEN'S
TRANSLATION
OF VIRGIL
Two chiefs of Turnus, and who led his van.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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noticed, through
the keyhole, that there was an unusual level of
activity
in the hallway
which soon abated.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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This[colossal conspiracy^which
was
supported
by the local national governments, in so far as they could evade the control of the
?
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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την έβδομη ανεβήκαμε, και απ' την πλατεία Κρήτη
επλέαμεν, ως ο Βορηάς σφοδρός, λαμπρός εφύσα,
ως με το ρεύμα κυλητά• καράβι δεν μου εβλάφθη
κανέν', αλλ'
εκαθόμασθεν
γεροί φαιδροί 'ς τα πλοία, 255
και τα ωδηγούσ' ο άνεμος ομού και οι κυβερνήταις.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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" The second statement does not follow from the first one if the
Reductionist and Systemic Theories 61
attributes of actors do not uniquely
determine
outcomes.
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
The problem directly concerns the role of discursive thought in the
soteriological
process of the Buddhist path to enlightenment.
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| Question: |
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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' And the master of the slave
departed
to a foreign country.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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But in your eyes I am no older; you are my bailiff's dread; my steward and all the
household
fear you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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--Father Aldo tells me, sir, you are a
traveller: What adventures have you had in foreign
countries?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dryden - Complete |
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Then an innumerable train of captives, showing plainly, in their
downcast
eyes, in their fixed and melancholy gaze, that hope had taken its departure from their breasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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, I question
whether any Turk, of all that ever entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters,
can have had half the
pleasure
I had.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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Now all life's loveliness and power we have
Dissolved in this one moment, and our burning
Carries all shining upward, till in us
Life is not life, but the desire of God,
Himself
desiring
and himself accepting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Distinguish
between revision and amendment of consti-
tutions.
| 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 |
|
Had you but seen what I despair to sing,
How fast his courser plied the flaming wing
With
unremitted
speed, the soaring mind
Had left his low terrestrial cares behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
We read
together
the
speech of Antony, of the 10th of the Calends of January, which is, from
beginning to end, an accusation against Pompey, whom he takes up from
his infantile toga.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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It cou'd not be a
catalogue
of all their children ; for there are no daughters nam'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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I valzet mit Madilda Yane
Und vent
shpinnen
round und round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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One to two singers sang as they jumped without
doing any
particular
steps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childens - Folklore |
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But all this is not yet
enough ; he must have a
vengeance
more refined, and
above all he must secure himself against the Fatum of the
Eternal City.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
|
Moreover, the dreaded
Skydragons
were lurking
in the sky, and they were always able to smash the masses
like a hammer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
|
There was nothing
exceptional
about this differential quest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
Beowulf spake, the bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Through store of
struggles
I strove in youth,
mighty feuds; I mind them all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nee spes
libertatis
erat nee curS p&-\-culi
( peculii, peculii-- crasis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Heart not so heavy as mine,
Wending late home,
As it passed my window
Whistled itself a tune, --
A careless snatch, a ballad,
A ditty of the street;
Yet to my
irritated
ear
An anodyne so sweet,
It was as if a bobolink,
Sauntering this way,
Carolled and mused and carolled,
Then bubbled slow away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In any case, since, as we know, the
institutions of
education
were open all day, it seems more than probable
that one class of boys took their gymnastic lesson at one hour, another
at another, and so with other branches of study.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
|
j- :r-+ =1
^ji==Ii!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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The letter enclosing it
was delivered with other letters of business to the attorney, but though
his look and manner
informed
me that he suspected its contents, he gave
it up to me honourably and without demur.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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The wisdom
ofdharmadhatu
extends throughout space.
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Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
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XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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Sappho |
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"The
Incestuous
Sister: The Trouble with Grete.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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We stand among the many
millions
who
Do hourly wait to pass your pathway down.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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These things always happened when
[the
practitioner]
had not got rid of the will to fame and gain.
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Shobogenzo |
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Al-
though public opinion against this offense was strong, there was a ten-
dency to believe that unusual
circumstances
could make brother and
sister eligible to marry.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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Megasthenes, who visited the court of
Chandragupta
the Maurya towards
the end of the 4th century B.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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dove fu Elena rapta da ParlS" Dmners In orange groves, prows
attended
of dolphms, VestIge of Rome at Pola, faIr w10d as far as Naxos
Ora vela.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The evolution of a separate, art-specific domain within society is occa-
sioned by the fact that the artwork demands decisions concerning what
fits (is
beautiful)
or does not fit (is ugly), for which there is no external ori-
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entation.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Phaeacian Chiefs and
Senators!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It still frequently
happens that, when the labourer has finished his toil and
has promised himself in return a lasting endurance both for
himself and for his work, a hostile element will destroy in a
moment that which it has cost him years of patient indus-
try and deliberation to accomplish, and the assiduous and
careful man is undeservedly made the prey of hunger and
misery;--often do floods, storms, volcanoes,
desolate
whole
countries, and works which bear the impress of a rational
soul are mingled with their authors in the wild chaos of
death and destruction.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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The
sudden revolution in the Prior's manners we have before noticed, and
it is indeed so outre, that a number of the
audience
imagined a great
secret was to come out, viz.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side, Larina, Tulla, fierce Tarpeia, ride:
Italians all; in peace, their queen's delight;
In war, the bold
companions
of the fight.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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