The narrative voice laments his
inability
to return home where he can look after his parents.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
The
ofthethesis
society, "ecological fragility
of the "equidistance" between East and West was soon apparentwhen "peace" becamethedominanttopic.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
|
His best
approach
to a good example (still a bad one) was the bacterial flagellar motor.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
|
The sweet
solitude
without one sound,
Surely heaven's sweetest blessing I had found.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
|
Trakl's
presence
on the poetic scene shows no sign of abating.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
|
Britain, where he
introduced
many improvements Not long after his return to Rome the Jewish
in the administration, and constructed the famous war broke out, the only one that disturbed the
wall dividing the Roman province from and protect- peace of his long reign.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
|
your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Louis
34
seem to militate against this position* Without a precise knowledge of all the peculiarities (C)f their respective con- stitutions* it is difficult to
pronounce
how far this may be the case.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
V,
Thoughts
out
of Season, ii- VI, Human, all-too-Human, i.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
|
»
Have you forgot the
Desboroughs
of Dorset, too ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
Their grins--
an
orchestra
of plucked skin and a million strings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
|
The fourth case is where each of the two vowels bears the stress:
Así, ante nosotros pasa en ilusión (12)
What happens here is that one of the two
stresses
becomes subordinate to
the other, the stress being wholly assumed by the more dominant of the
two.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
|
51
[209] At present in the orders of
Buddhist
patriarchs, forms for the read-
ing of sutras are many and varied: for when a donor52 enters the mountain
and requests the whole sangha to read sutras; for when the monks have been
requested to read sutras regularly;53 for when the monks read the sutras of
their own volition, and so on.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
|
Plato mentions this in the Timaeus [ 22 ], as follows: "When he wished to introduce them to ancient history, so that they could discuss the
antiquity
of this city, he started his account with the old stories about Phoroneus and Niobe, and then what happened after the flood.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
To save her father's life a knight she sought,
Like Bayard,
fearless
and without reproach.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
To save her father's life a knight she sought,
Like Bayard,
fearless
and without reproach.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
He was always thus when a new course of action suggested itself to him, and on this occasion he felt impelled to
cheerfulness
because he was meditat-
LUCIAN THE DREAMER
191
ing a virtuous deed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
It is far better to turn off the water and the electricity, and let the tenant suffer the
cumulative
pressure of unflushed toilets and
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
The church was high and dark; its aisles were defined by two rows of
pillars made up of slender columns gathered into sheaves and resting on
broad octagonal bases, while from their rich crowning of
capitals
sprang
the vaulting of the strong ogee arches.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
|
Tze-Chang asked about Tsze-Wan made
minister
three times and his face showed no pleasure, retired three tim.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
|
Ferdinand shed a tear over the fate of his
general, and ordered three thousand masses to be said for his soul at
Vienna; but, at the same time, he did not forget to reward his assassins
with gold chains,
chamberlains’
keys, dignities, and estates.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
|
If he had tied the torn bits of petticoat
together
and
tried to make his escape from the window, I don't think I should
have been much surprised.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT
WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
|
copyright law in
creating
the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
|
And in the
quietest
space
They probe old scandals, say de Born is dead ;
And we've the gossip (skipped six hundred years).
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
Frequent
hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness; and, without being great, they cannot long remain safe.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
"What you said just now," Amheim calmly persisted, "also contra- dicts those adventurous remarks of yours, some time ago, about the means toward
attaining
the right way in life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
Where steadfast virtue dwells not in the breast,
Man is a
wavering
creature at the best!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
This was increased
by the stress laid on world
revolution
as the aim of the Bolshe-
viks, symbolized in the person of Trotsky.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
a secret
decision
communicated by word of mouth, which from the summer of 1941 became the order of the day in select SS units.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
|
There little lambtoe bunches springs
In red tinged and
begolden
dye
For ever, and like China kings
They come but never seem to die.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
They have so
little leafy _terra firma_ that they appear melting away in the light,
and
scarcely
obstruct our view.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
oughfare which
functioned
as the agora or marketplace.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
|
13; and the
piracies
of the subordinates
of Chares are noticed in Aeschin.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
|
Her these eyes have seen, and not another
Shall behold, till time takes all things goodly, 10
So
surpassing
fair and fond and wondrous,--
Such a slave as, worth a great king's ransom,
No man yet of all the sons of mortals
But would lose his soul for and regret not;
So hath Beauty compassed all her children 15
With the cords of longing and desire.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:20 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
|
Sensuality
often forces the growth of love too much, so that its
root remains weak, and is easily torn up.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
Fitz, Miss
Parthenia
Almira, a sheresiarch.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The Ambassador then stated the long established right of
Venetia to cite ecclesiastics before the civil authorities, that this was
founded on the Theodosian and Justinian Code, that the Pope could
not be ignorant that although from 1160' till 1220 there had been
many
constitutions
to establish ecclesiastical exemptions, the Republic
had exercised its full jurisdiction from 450.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
3 A Daoist abbey or
monastery
( guan) is meant here.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hanshan - 01 |
|
answered
Zarathustra, and smiled once more, how well do
ye know what had to be
fulfilled
in seven days :-
-And how that monster crept into my throat
and choked me!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
Their numbers are
vastly more ; and they have re-printed the most
spiteful
and hitter, wrote in former times.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
|
Meantime,
Mesaulius
bread dispensed to all,
Whom, in the absence of his Lord, himself 550
Eumaeus had from Taphian traders bought
With his own proper goods, at no expence
Either to old Laertes or the Queen.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The
comparison
is suggestive because in the one case as in the other an architectural form was proclaimed as the key for the capitalistic condition ofthe world.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
In Mein Kampf Hitler makes clear that you can destroy the parties clearly opposed to you root and branch, but the
neighboring
party remains to infect your ranks.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
keeping this work in the same format with its
attached
full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Aye, Frederick, by my
mountain
birthright Prince
O' th' Romans, chosen king, crowned emperor,
Heaven's sword-bearer, monarch of Burgundy
And Arles--the tomb of Karl I dared profane,
But have repented me on bended knees
In penance 'midst the desert twenty years;
My drink the rain, the rocky herbs my food,
Myself a ghost the shepherds fled before,
And the world named me as among the dead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Aye, Frederick, by my
mountain
birthright Prince
O' th' Romans, chosen king, crowned emperor,
Heaven's sword-bearer, monarch of Burgundy
And Arles--the tomb of Karl I dared profane,
But have repented me on bended knees
In penance 'midst the desert twenty years;
My drink the rain, the rocky herbs my food,
Myself a ghost the shepherds fled before,
And the world named me as among the dead.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
THE NATIONAL LITERATURE 37
was absent, will be present; and the vessel of
His
providence
to this end will be no other than
the Polish nation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
|
It can do thisforcibly, accommodating only to opposing strength, skill, and
ingenuity
and without trying to appeal to an enemy's wishes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
|
Hers is a line
for seeing human nature; and she has a fund of good sense and
observation, which, as a companion, make her infinitely superior to
thousands of those who having only received 'the best
education
in the
world,' know nothing worth attending to.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
|
The
physicians
thought him
dead, and the whole city was in grief.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Elle trouvait naturel de ne pas venir aux Champs-Élysées, si c’était
pour aller faire des
emplettes
avec Mademoiselle, agréable si c’était
pour sortir avec sa mère.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
|
At length, when the two lovers are about to be immolated,
Chariclea, by means of the ring and fillet which had been attached to
her at her birth, and had been carefully preserved, is discovered to be
the daughter of Hydaspes, which is further confirmed by the testimony
of Sisimithres, once her reputed father; and by the
opportune
arrival
of Charicles, priest of Delphi, who was wandering through the world in
search of Chariclea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
|
[194] In her
name
Leucippe
rebukes Thersander for insulting a virgin in the city of
the Virgin Goddess.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
|
» Il
ne fit de grandes
démonstrations
que pour Mme de Villeparisis, qui lui
dit bonjour d'un signe de tête en sortant une main de son petit tablier.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
|
"
Excavating
this "fimdementiaUy theosophagusted" (610.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
|
As behoved a
minister
of the
Supreme God, alike caring for men and subject unto God.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epictetus |
|
Although
‘darkness,’ or ‘the shadow of death,’ can be understood likewise in another sense.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
|
In this
judgment
I entirely concurred: and
had it been otherwise, it was so natural for me to shrink from public
notice, that any hope I might have had of success would not have
reconciled me altogether to such an exhibition.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
That
bucketful
of stuff to
be forced down into his bursting guts — horrible!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
" Another allegory is then declared, and
"also another Theological Allegorie", until like a
schoolman
of a
later day the triumphant apologist tells us: "the like infinite Al-
legories I could pike out of other Poeticall fictions saue that I
would auoid tediousnes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - Some Elizabethan Opinions of the Poetry and Character of OVid |
|
Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
work or any other work
associated
with Project Gutenberg-tm.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
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.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
|
See how he lies at random, carelessly diffused,
With
languished
head unpropt,
As one past hope, abandoned.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Bernard Shaw
recently
stated [71] that when people adopt methods
of birth control they are engaging, not in sexual intercourse, but in
reciprocal masturbation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
|
Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this
quatrain
from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
His form had not yet lost
All its original brightness, nor appeared
Less than an Archangel ruined, and the excess
Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen
Looks through the horizontal misty air
Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon,
In dim eclipse,
disastrous
twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
-- I --8 -- 2 1 'I
Political Crimes and
Offences
.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:13 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1881 - Poets and Poetry of Poland |
|
3 The immense personal value of such a research attitude in "extreme situa- tions" was movingly demonstrated by Bruno Bettelheim in a report of his observations made while he was in a Nazi
concentration
camp.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
But for her twin
brothers
she looks in vain ; and the thought of them touches her with the sorrow of her isolation and her shame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
Yet we must recognize that for thousands of years the Chinese maintained
a level of rationality and
tolerance
that the West might well envy.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Agathe was much too young to be able to part from life totally without pathos, and to understand her properly it cannot be passed over in silence that her resolve was not,
affectively
speaking, sufficiently fixed: her despair was not without remedy, it was not collapse after every attempt had been made, there was always for her, even if at the moment it seemed obscured, still a second way.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
|
His cotemporaries
accused him of forsaking the Protestant cause in the very midst of the
storm; of preferring the aggrandizement of his house to the emancipation
of his country; of exposing the whole
Evangelical
or Lutheran church of
Germany to ruin, rather than raise an arm in defence of the Reformed or
Calvinists; of injuring the common cause by his suspicious friendship
more seriously than the open enmity of its avowed opponents.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schiller - Thirty Years War |
|
He also says that there
were twenty-two
printing
houses in London, and expresses the
opinion that '8 or 10 at the most would suffise for all England,
yea and Scotland too.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
|
If then in this medium, which had not varied in
value, the wages of the
labourer
should be found to have fallen, it will
not the less be a real fall, because they might furnish him with a
greater quantity of cheap commodities, than his former wages.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
As
ChristineKing
rightlystates,muchhas been said so faraboutthe"Kirchen- kampf"duringtheThirdReich,littlehoweveraboutthesmallreligiouscom- munitiesuchas thesectsandtheFreeChurches.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
|
A different, but
analogous
story in given by Cicero (Brut.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
While much remains the same today, as the effort to re-establish
something
like the Holy Roman Empire in the guise of a United Europe, the content, the outlook and the methods of the European governments are all different, largely owing to the efforts of the now secularized intellectuals.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
|
"
For your poor friend, the Bard, afar
He only hears and sees the war,
A cool
spectator
purely!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
burns |
|
CV
"And if it be your usage, that the dame
Who yields in beauty, from your tower must wend,
Here to remain I my design to proclaim,
Should my resolve have good or evil game,
Hence I infer, unequal were the game,
If she and I in beauty should contend:
For if such strife 'twixt her and me ensues,
Nought can the damsel gain, and much may lose;
CVI
"And save the gain and loss well
balanced
be
In every match, the contest is unfair.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
8 G As this became a common subject of laughter, Antigenes was so taken with the jest and the ridiculous conceit of the man, that he took Eunus (for such was his name) with him to feasts and dinners, and several questions being put to him
concerning
his future kingdom, he was asked how he would treat each person who was there present at the table.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
art thou come forth out of
Phlegethon?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
Tuzzi
ofcourse
regarded this as completely out of the question, unless a world cataclysm were to pave the way.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
I
remember
pausing
once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite
despairing.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickens - David Copperfield |
|
IL
Yes, e'en thy faults,
bewitching
dear!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
|
But
what of manufactured
articles?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
A noble thought is come well winged with death, Saying that I shall ne'er see her again,
And this harsh torment, with no pity fraught,
Increaseth
bitterness and in its strain
I cry, and find none to attend my pain,
While for the flame I feel,
I thank that lord who turns grief's fortune wheel.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
|
They find delight in turning by force the
antagonism of
circumstances
into obedience.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
Let me clasp my dear boy,
embracing
what is left,
To expiate the madness of a prayer I now detest.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childrens - Book of Poetry |
|
The
generals made use of him for his talent of railing, which, kept within
government, proved frequently of great service to their cause, but, at
other times, did more
mischief
than good; for, at the least touch of
offence, and often without any at all, he would, like a wounded elephant,
convert it against his leaders.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
|
Seest thou those
diamonds
which she wears
In that rich carcanet;
Or those, on her dishevell'd hairs,
Fair pearls in order set?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help
preserve
free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The bill
is
straight
and long, and incurvated at the extremity; wings large;
legs short.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
I make it all facile, the rare and the earned;
Here’s
something
like gold (I create it from dirt)
And something like scent, sap, and spices –
And what the great prophet himself never dared:
The art without sowing to reap out of air
The powers still lying fallow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
|
* _It remains
therefore
for me to Confess that I cannot Imagine what this
Wax is, but that I conceive in my mind What it is.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
|