Pururavas is a
mere conventional hero, in no way different from fifty others, in
spite of his divine lineage and his
successful
wooing of a goddess.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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While not purporting to offer fresh archaeological evidence, he established a 'tourist route' through that
antiquity
which many other travellers would follow.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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y aware of
responses
of smell taste feeling move;nent than of SIght.
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re-joyce-a-burgess |
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The only way we know of for finding such laws is scientific observation, and we certainly know of no circumstances under which we could say, "We have
searched
enough.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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You shall not
contemplate
the flight
of the grey-gull over the bay, or the mettlesome action of the blood-horse,
or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk, or the appearance of the
sun journeying through heaven, or the appearance of the moon afterward,
with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him.
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Whitman |
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With speech less horror the
multitude
saw the corpses of these last victims of the reign of terror dragged through the streets, and thrown into the river.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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and must one still
believe?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That reads
like a note by
Goodyere
himself.
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Donne - 2 |
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Yet in such
thinking
the thinker as such slips into the ring of eternal recurrence, indeed in such a way as to help achieve the ring, help decide it.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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Let us go forth and taste the
fragrant
air
Of the garden.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Moreover, the man is bigger than the house; and if the whole picture is intended to
represent
a landscape, letters of the alphabet are out of place in it since such objects d o not occur in nature.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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At Volusi annates [Paduam morientur ad ipsam,]
Et laxas
scombris
saepe dabunt tunicas.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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His little
speaking
shows his love but small.
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Shakespeare |
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on October 17, 1969, when the
Montreal
police went on strike.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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,
eveques ou des pretres Irlandais pour y venerer le tombeau du saint qui —a laisse de si precieux
souvenirs
en Irlande.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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"Why," said Violet, "would you kindly inform us, do you reside in bottles;
and, if in bottles at all, why not, rather, in green or purple, or, indeed,
in yellow
bottles?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Her
beautiful
serene eyes met mine as she came towards me.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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all the clustering suns and planets;
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Or, a cette epoque, comme aujourd'hui, l'Irlande etait pauvre, car le
soleil avait ete rare, et des
recoltes
presque nulles.
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Yeats |
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For, if night fall upon his eyes in death,
Yon
vaunting
blazon will its own truth prove,
And he is prophet of his folly's fall.
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Aeschylus |
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But ah, remember well
That rapt
devotion
is an easier thing
Than one good action.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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From _Whence_
therefore
proceed all my _Errors_?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Instead they declare it the effect of an inevitable epochal fluctuation based on an objec tively irresolvable antinomy, or an
inescapable
and irreducible double truth.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady whose chin
Resembled
the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp, and purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Rather, it was to help us (and himself) understand our particular historical
constraints
and, moreover, understand that those constraints are nothing more than historical.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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This league upheld the freedom of the cities against monarchical interests; and while wars raged around their walls, public spirit and civic prosperity were sheltered in comparative peace within, and art and science flourished without the risk of being crushed by a dissolute soldiery or corrupted by the
atmosphere
of a court.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"
He had nothing to urge against it, but still resisted the idea of a
letter of proper submission; and therefore, to make it easier to him,
as he declared a much greater willingness to make mean concessions by
word of mouth than on paper, it was
resolved
that, instead of writing
to Fanny, he should go to London, and personally intreat her good
offices in his favour.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Another,
completely
unrelated, list follows in the papyrus at this point.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Soul's Birth
When you were born, beloved, was your soul
New made by God to match your body's flower,
And were they both at one same
precious
hour
Sent forth from heaven as a perfect whole?
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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Turtle-doves in summer live in cold places, (and in warm places during
the winter);
chaffinches
affect warm habitations in summer and cold
ones in winter.
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| Question: |
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Aristotle |
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REMBRANDT, sad hospital that a
murmuring
fills,
Where one tall crucifix hangs on the walls,
Where every tear-drowned prayer some woe distils,
And one cold, wintry ray obliquely falls.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_away from something_: þǣr fram sylle
ābēag
medubenc
monig, 776, 1716; þanon eft gewiton ealdgesīðas .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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Settlements some centuries old, and still no bigger than
pin-heads on the
untouched
expanse of their background.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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To the first part it was his intention, he says, "to give the majestick
turn of heroick poesy;" and, perhaps, he might have executed his design
not unsuccessfully, had not an opportunity of satire, which he cannot
forbear, fallen
sometimes
in his way.
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| Question: |
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Oh bitter wind with icy
invisible
wings
Why do you beat us?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Alexander
drew the lot to speak second, [320] G but the lots of those who came next coincided with the order in which they had lived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Roman Translations |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
No puedo hacer al tiempo volver atrás: no puedo quitarme de encima ni
uno solo de mis sesenta y cuatro años: no puedo hacer volver á mis
manos el capital pagado por las deudas de mi herencia paterna, ni lo
por mí gastado en vivir bien ó mal: no puedo rescindir los contratos de
venta de mi _Don Juan_ ni de mi _Zapatero y el Rey_, escritos cuando
la ley de propiedad no existia: esta ley no tiene efecto retroactivo
ni protege mi propiedad por lesion enorme: y no puedo pedir limosna en
España, sinó poniéndome al pecho un cartel que diga: «este es el autor
de _Don Juan Tenorio_, que mantiene en la primera quincena de Noviembre
todos los teatros de verso de España y América;»--pero para esto seria
preciso que yo
esplicase
cómo el autor de tal obra podia pedir limosna;
cosa muy fácil de esplicar, pero muy difícil de comprender.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
All other attempts to establish a his-
torical basis for the
characters
and events of the poem have little
plausibility.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
|
"
"Felon be I," said Guenes, "aught to
conceal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Then, again, let us admit that modern Science is Europe's great gift
to
humanity
for all time to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tagore - Creative Unity |
|
The nightingale paints a couple of dainty word-
pictures when she
describes
her coming and going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
|
Generations passed, and finally, in the reign of lHa-tho-tho-ri, last of the elder kings, the
Buddhadharma
appeared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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He travelled to Greece and Constantinople on his way to Jerusalem,
returning
through Egypt, Tunisia and Spain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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schenstein, 'Celan und Trakl', in
Antworten
auf Georg Trakl, ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
|
]
s now necessary to rethink the usefulness of the unuseful, the productivity of
le
te and to
recognize
our responsibility also for what is unintended.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Rhythmical
sentences and
periods are both to seek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
When he thinks that he is struggling against fate
in this way, fate is
accomplishing
its ends even in
that struggle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
|
While the boy made these complaints with a
faltering voice, he stood with his bandages of distinction taken from
him, a tender frame, such as might soften the impious breasts of the
cruel Thracians; Canidia, having interwoven her hair and uncombed head
with little vipers, orders wild fig-trees torn up from graves, orders
funeral cypresses and eggs besmeared with the gore of a loathsome toad,
and feathers of the nocturnal screech-owl, and those herbs, which
lolchos, and Spain,
fruitful
in poisons, transmits, and bones snatched
from the mouth of a hungry bitch, to be burned in Colchian flames.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
)
[746] “He sprang from the noble family of the _Julii_, and, according to
an opinion long
believed
in, he derived his origin from Venus and
Anchises.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
And what would the discovery of my own instability mean, my discovery of
myselfas
these dialogues?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
_The Mother_
The only fault my husband found with me--
I went to sleep before I went to bed,
Especially
in winter when the bed
Might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Vernon, and that we had
never met before, I should have
imagined
her an attached friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
It is an
interesting
and significant fact, by the way, that a large propor- tion of the morphin and opium cure quacks are themselves "fiends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
|
Of these I will make no further mention; but I bid
farewell
to the island itself and the indwelling deities, to whom belong those mysteries, which it is not lawful for me to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced
eternally
to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
" said she to him, "you love
desperately
Miss Cunegonde of
Thunder-ten-Tronckh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
|
When I a ship see on the seas,
Cuff'd with those wat'ry savages,
And
therewithal
behold it hath
In all that way no beaten path,
Then, with a wonder, I confess
Thou art our way i' th' wilderness;
And while we blunder in the dark,
Thou art our candle there, or spark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of
pneumatic
bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Arriving, I hid quite two thirds of the men
In the holds of the vessels there, and then
The rest, whose numbers now increased hourly,
Devoured by impatience,
gathering
round me,
Lay down on the ground, where in silence
The best part of a fine night was spent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
How a light from Heaven stood all night over his relics, and
how those
possessed
with devils were healed by them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
Hence the numbers
proposed
above are too few.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
To the honour he shows me, add another,
Let's join our houses, one to the other:
You have one daughter, I a single son;
Their
marriage
will make us more than one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
And if Spain should, either
" upon his
marriage
or such supply, declare a war
" against him, he would defend himself as well as he
"could, and do as much damage as he could to
VOL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Today he informed me that he
had
finished
his plan before he read Milton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
|
+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is
essential
for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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| Question: |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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And I am mean, indeed,
respecting
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Don't be snapping and
quarrelling
now, and you so well
treated in this house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Daretaque
Thersilo-
chumque
( Chloreaque-- ccesura.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
|
Nobody'd be so open about
anything
he wanted to hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
|
However, one does not understand that this
dichotomy
arises exclusively on the basis of habitual patterns stored in one's mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
Harte
A Musical
Instrument
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
|
He was an Oxford man, who
emigrated to
Australia
and became a noted
lover of the turf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
|
Thus oft are seen, with ever-changeful glance,
Straight or athwart, now rapid and now slow,
The atomies of bodies, long or short,
To move along the sunbeam, whose slant line
Checkers the shadow, interpos'd by art
Against the
noontide
heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
|
That many
" with the same diseases and infirmities had long
" executed that office, which
required
more the
" strength of the mind than of the body : all were
" obliged to attend him, and he only to wait upon
" his majesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
|
WHILE Septimius in his arms his Acme
Fondled closely, * My own,' said he, ' my Acme,
If I love not as unto death, nor hold me
Ever
faithfully
well-prepar'd to largest
Strain of fiery wooer yet to love thee,
Then in Libya, then may I alone in
Burning India face a sulky lion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
To be sure, an ominous new superstition, a
peculiar narrowness of interpretation,
attained
supremacy precisely
thereby: the origin of an action was interpreted in the most definite
sense possible, as origin out of an INTENTION; people were agreed in the
belief that the value of an action lay in the value of its intention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
You
24 T H E G O D D E L U S 1 O N
can't get away with saying, 'If you try to stop me from insulting
homosexuals
it violates my freedom of prejudice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
|
But first
of all the cause of this innate impotence
of the " new 99 r6gime is to be found in
the organic
construction
of the Turkish
Empire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
|
He was proved right in relying on its
obedience
even when, against its advice, he reoccupied the Rhineland, and again when in 1938 he annexed Austria and the Sudetenland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
Every effort
was made by its citizens to sustain the credit of the paper;
but such were their impoverishment and discord, that it
was thought
necessary
to pass laws tantamount to closing
the courts of justice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
Mathias, who very readily
undertook
its convey-
ance, I did the best I could, and perhaps before now he has it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
The Undivine Comedy: the
domestic
drama .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
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disclaim
all
liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In favour
of the
temperate
men?
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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To keep my wits I must
endeavor!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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How could there be
encounter
of the three without there being contact?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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18 While his army was encamped in Boeotia, Agesilaus noticed that the allies were
unwilling
to fight, and were continually slipping away.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now Ranulf of
Aversa and Drogo de Hauteville of Apulia, as they went plundering and
conquering from the Greeks, were recognised as holding
directly
from
Henry himself".
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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For a short time these greatly
mitigated the feelings under which I laboured, but about the forty-second
day of the experiment the symptoms already noticed began to retire, and
new ones to arise of a different and far more tormenting class; under
these, but with a few
intervals
of remission, I have since continued to
suffer.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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12601 (#15) ###########################################
vii
SALLUST (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
Catiline and his Plot (History of Catiline's Conspiracy')
Catiline's Address to his Soldiers before the Battle of
Pistoria (same)
A
Numidian
Defeat (History of the War against Ju-
gurtha')
Speech of Marius (same)
GEORGE SAND (Baronne Dudevant: Born Amantine Lu-
cile Aurore Dupin)
1804-1876
Lélia
A Traveler's Letters
BY TH.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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A letter from his friend, Captain Harville, having found him out at
last, had brought
intelligence
of Captain Harville's being settled with
his family at Lyme for the winter; of their being therefore, quite
unknowingly, within twenty miles of each other.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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The alarm caused by his arrival was
so great, the numbers of his army
probably
so exaggerated, that Man-
jūtakin burned his tents and equipment and made off in panic, without
risking a battle (end of April 995).
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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The most
striking
feature of Massinger's individual art, undoubt-
edly, is to be found in his great constructive power.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Greeks, for instance, were a nation of this kind, and
so are the French; and others which have to
fructify and become the cause of new modes of
life-like the Jews, the Romans, and, in all modesty
be it asked : like the Germans --nations tortured
and enraptured by unknown fevers and irresistibly
forced out of themselves, amorous and longing for
foreign races (for such as “let themselves be
fructified”), and withal imperious, like everything
conscious of being full of
generative
force, and con-
sequently empowered “by the grace of God.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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"
But while Govinda with astonishment, and yet drawn by great love and
expectation, obeyed his words, bent down closely to him and touched his
forehead with his lips,
something
miraculous happened to him.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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'TWAS with
reluctance
he agreed to go,
And be at Rome their mighty Plenipo';
The business would be long, and he must dwell
Six months or more abroad, he could not tell.
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La Fontaine |
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