Richard Saumarez, a gentleman equally
well known as a medical man and as a philanthropist, but who demands
notice on the present occasion as the author of "A new System of
Physiology" in two volumes octavo, published 1797; and in 1812 of "An
Examination of the natural and artificial Systems of Philosophy
which now prevail" in one volume octavo, entitled, "The Principles of
physiological and
physical
Science.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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For though the
hypocrite
exhibits good actions on the surface, yet a certain ‘darkness’ of evil deeds appears in him; yet it less comes forth in act, than lies buried in his secret thought.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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39 the transition, however, is to spirit itself, which exists as absolute
subjectivity
and as absolute personality.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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She said that
Garrison
had taken her to a
private house where he kept female slaves for the basest purposes.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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There were plenty of black-tail deer in the woods,
and we encountered a number of bands of cow and calf elk, or of young
bulls; but after several days' hunting, we were still without any game
worth taking home, and we had seen no sign of grizzly, which was the
game we were
especially
anxious to kill, for neither Merrifield nor I
had ever seen a bear alive.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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William Parsons, the son of a respectable ba ronet,
wasbornin
London, in the year 1717,and receiv ed the rudiments of his education at Pepper-Harrow, near Godalmin, in the county of Surry, under the care of the Reverend Mr.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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This wise people was far from
imagining
that those
connections had no tie, and obliged to no duty; but that men might quit them without shame, upon every call of interest.
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Edmund Burke |
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her father, her consumptive
stepmother
and three young step-siblings.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Burgher knows
not
He the prosperous man what some per- form
Where
wandering
them widest draweth.
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Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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If now we compare our formal supreme principle of pure practi- cal reason (that of autonomy of the will) with all previous material
principles
of morality, we can exhibit them all in a table in which all possible cases are exhausted, except the one formal principle; and thus we can show visibly that it is vain to look for any other prin- ciple than that now proposed.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Although early examples of sculpture appear
always to have shown the goddess fully clothed, Philostephanus imag-
ined the likeness according to
Alexandrian
fashion and spoke of it as
representing a naked figure.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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Therefore the sage sees
difficulty
even in what seems easy, and so
never has any difficulties.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Reduce the hostile chiefs by
inflicting
damage on them; make trouble for them, and keep them constantly engaged; hold out specious allurements, and make them rush to any given point.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The Busy Housewife
How busy, how busy we be,
Washing, ironing and
cleaning
to see ;
Not much time for pleasure or song,
But must think as we go along.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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ne trete nat heer{e} now of weleful
moeuynges
of the
sowle ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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135
the
linkages
between social action and the systemic demands of capi- talism, avoiding any view of power in its class dimensions, and any view of class as a power relationship.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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#"X
)
*
^#$% !
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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yet assert thy claim,
Anci
vindicate
thy injur'd name.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Sir Walter with some diffi-
culty
recognized
the Doctor, but on hearing Mrs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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' He
positively
danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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The other
condition
is the accumulation of insight which is done through meditation.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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The back of the P'eng
measures
I don't know how many thousand li across and, when he rises up and flies off, his wings are like clouds all over the sky.
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Chuang Tzu |
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The
barbarians
of remote or newly discovered regions often
display their skill in European learning.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Obviously they
have been caused by someone who has very
carelessly
scraped round
the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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After the truce the Sultan sent out a proclamation that the Muslims were to leave
Jerusalem
and hand it over to the Franks.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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At any rate, Sloterdijk's
intention
is to move be- yond the propositions of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, and to evade the post- Nietzschean compulsion to collapse knowledge and power.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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On one occasion, they demanded that Moody
should beg their pardon on his knees for some
imagined
disrespect,
and such was their tyranny that, when Sheridan put Macbeth on
the stage, he feared a riot because Mrs Siddons omitted the candle
which their favourite Mrs Pritchard always carried in the sleep-
walking scene.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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Taking the latter as, in effect, an autonomous "totality," so as simply to situate it in a range of other institutions, it fails to show that the asylum is a
response
to an evolving historical problematic.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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"
"But of what are we
accused?
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
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Besides this, the career he desired, that of a barrister
or professor, had a preliminary obligation to
maintain
a certain outward
decorum.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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Nibor took up the conversation, and explained in a few
words that the reigning
sovereign
of France was not Napoleon I.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The two new Volga dams and installations are timed to
go into
operation
within five years from the start of work;
205
?
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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When he thinks that he is struggling against fate
in this way, fate is
accomplishing
its ends even in
that struggle.
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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_
Beethoven, from
Beethoven
to Wagner.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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"
And she softly descended her
stairway
of clouds and passed through the
window-pane without noise.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
XXV
But to the bold, "Go, hardy knight," he says,
"His prey out of this lion's paws go tear:"
To some before his thoughts the shape he lays,
And makes therein the image true appear,
How his sad country him entreats and prays,
His house, his loving wife, and
children
dear:
"Suppose," quoth he, "thy country doth beseech
And pray thee thus, suppose this is her speech.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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Each one was nicely shown in this new Glass,
And smil'd to think He was not meant the Ass:
A Miser oft would laugh the first, to find
A faithful Draught of his own sordid mind;
And Fops were with such care and cunning writ,
They lik'd the Piece for which
themselves
did sit.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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But they all ap-
proximate
more or less to the same type.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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After the play was ended, she called the author to her, commended
his work,
promised
what she would do for him, and
talked to him in the most familiar way.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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Daughter of great Protogonus, divine, illustrious Rhea, to my pray'r incline,
Who driv'st thy holy car with speed along, drawn by fierce lions,
terrible
and strong.
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Orphic Hymns |
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ltimos
burgueses
marchan juntos.
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| Source: |
Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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his people along with him, were slain, in pursuit were his friends and allies, compelled the people
of their property
plundered
by the Brefnians.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Tragic drama in Sophocles,
Aeschylus
and Shakespeare.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Here after
foloweth
the boke of Phyllyp Sparowe compyled by mayster
Skelton Poete Laureate.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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The castle of Killaloe was erected by
Geoffrey
Marisco, and the English bishop (of Norwich.
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| Question: |
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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But it
wasn’t
that I wanted to watch my navel.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thus, certain stories are re-thought and
intellectualized
to the second degree.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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Now laverocks wake the merry morn
Aloft on dewy wing;
The merle, in his
noontide
bow'r,
Makes woodland echoes ring;
The mavis wild wi' mony a note,
Sings drowsy day to rest:
In love and freedom they rejoice,
Wi' care nor thrall opprest.
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burns |
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"
CHAPTER XX
The former subject continued--The neutral style, or that common to Prose
and Poetry, exemplified by
specimens
from Chaucer, Herbert, and others.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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Gerty was dressed simply but with the
instinctive
taste of a votary of
Dame Fashion for she felt that there was just a might that he might be
out.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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These
martyrologies
are considered to be oldest compilations of the kind.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But the
particulars
of the amours of Camoens rest
unknown.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The thought
was too curious and subtle, the expression charged with too many
minor intentions, for that; the peculiar blending, in the Platonic dic-
tion, of colloquialism,
dialectic
precision, vivid imagination, and the
tone of mystic unction, unfitted it for the conventional effects of
political oratory.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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But state Marxism, like free Marxism, has always - in principle at least - clung to the universal
perspective
that makes Marxism of any stamp superior to a bourgeois scholar- ship that isolates itself in its own national state or limited methodology.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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It usually produces adaptations in males for outcompeting other males: either for
fighting
males or for attracting females.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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" Or who would endure a converse
or friendship with that old man who to so large an experience of things
had joined an equal strength of mind and sharpness of
judgment?
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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"
That protest is also a first-rate example of the
anarchical
state of the
modern mind.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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--both long established
and rich; and each
possessing
an extensive,
wealthy clientele of eager investors in bonds and
stocks.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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"62 Nor is the theory of
postmodernism
especially progressive.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
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And then, as though the fire fainter grows,
She gathers up the flame--again it glows,
As with proud gesture and imperious air
She flings it to the earth; and it lies there
Furiously
flickering and crackling still--
Then haughtily victorious, but with sweet
Swift smile of greeting, she puts forth her will
And stamps the flames out with her small firm feet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Mais à son nom Mme
de
Villeparisis
avait refusé, car c'était l'amie de Saint-Loup.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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He was a
relation
of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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Depending on the nature of
subsequent
use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
| Guess: |
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Baudelaire divined the work of the artist and set it
down scrupulously in a prose of
exceeding
rectitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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It may safely, however, be averred that
no
considerations
would have tempted him to visit the Arctic regions.
| Guess: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It may safely, however, be averred that
no
considerations
would have tempted him to visit the Arctic regions.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Suddenly a torrent of rain descended”, and legionaries
saw in the “miracle” a proof of the favour of the gods, and were inspired
to fight with
splendid
valour, and gained a complete victory.
| Guess: |
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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You can’t have the image of the great Chain of Being without the
rhetoric
of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
200
Cynicism
ly, and do not come voluntarily to the
negotiating
table with their
whom
would
behind bars.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Consider
again our example of tanker vessels.
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Source: |
Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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The sign of extraordinary merit is to see that those who envy
it most are
constrained
to praise it.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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From this new perspective, Marcus continues, we cannot prevent sensations om
penetrating
within the guiding principle, since they are natural phenomena; nevertheless, the guiding principle must not add its own value-judgments concerning them.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
|
The
publication
of Tristram
Shandy was begun in 1760 (vols.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10 |
|
[Footnote 1: Compare the
description
of the Grotto of the Nymphs in
Ithaca.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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Lapse of time cannot make it
commonplace
or cheap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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The play was
performed
at the Abbey Theatre for the first time on
December 14, 1911, Miss Maire O'Neill taking the part of the Countess,
and the last scene from the going out of the Merchants was as follows:--
(MERCHANTS _rush out_.
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| Source: |
Yeats - Poems |
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'
He
respectfully
pressed iny hand as he
returned the lines, but he imt ri iied no
kiss upon it; yet he continued to gaze
upon me with an expression of astonish-
ment and admiration that perplexed,
while it delighted me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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For all of his erudition, Boodberg managed to produce a ''translation'' that
amounted
to almost total gibberish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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Everything
is now tested by a severe
logic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
A canoe with flashing paddle,
A girl with soft
searching
eyes,
A call: "John!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
|
11, 1735,
and as an appendix to the
Inconstant
Lady, ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
Sleep, sleep my
dreaming
One!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
XXV "This Child with piteous lamentation then 170
Was taken up, singing his song alway;
And with
procession
great and pomp of men
To the next Abbey him they bare away;
His Mother swooning by the body [2] lay:
And scarcely could the people that were near 175
Remove this second Rachel from the bier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The poet's delight is in the prosperity of the fields, as if they
were his friends, and in the dumb loving
motherhood
with which all
nature seems, to his eyes, to surround him.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Since that time, the broken modes of
consciousness
visibly reign: irony, cynicism, stoicism, melancholy, sarcasm, nostalgia, voluntarism, resignation to the lesser evil, depression and anesthesia as a conscious choice of uncon- sciousness.
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Amid
confused
combat and incidents of sensational
horror, Perseus became merely the warrior who appeared most fre-
quently.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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As sensations are a
higher degree of consciousness than mere thought, it follows that
agreeable sensations constitute a more
exquisite
happiness than
agreeable thoughts.
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Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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Lock against tie
right cf the
primogeniture
drawn from the case of Esau and Jacob.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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One million
feathers
make one large
pillow for our gallows.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2014-06-11 22:50 GMT / http://hdl.
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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If art is capable of realizing its humane universality at all, then it is exclusively by means of the rigorous division of labor:
Anything
else is false consciousness.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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" The local name for the present
Protestant
Cathedral of Tuam is St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
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"Literary" epic is as close to its subject as "authentic"; but, as a
general rule, "authentic" epic, in response to its surrounding needs,
has a simple and concrete subject, and the closeness of the poet to this
is therefore more obvious than in "literary" epic, which (again in
response to surrounding needs) has been driven to take for subject some
great
abstract
idea and display this in a concrete but only ostensible
subject.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sure, why shouldn't medical students bowl in the
corridor
of the anatomical institute with skulls?
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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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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" On one occasion he was asked in what respect a wise man is
superior
to one who is not wise; and his answer was, "Send them both naked among strangers, and you will find out.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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