With nothing to support him
but the
resources
of his own mind, he created a pow-
erful kingdom among strangers, and defended it lor
more than ten years against the arms of Rome, al-
though wielded by the ablest generals of his time; and
he displayed public and private virtues which would
have rendered a people happy under his rule at a less
turbulent period.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Pray now tell me who can tell but that the Swiss, now so bold and warlike,
were formerly
Chitterlings?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Sprung from the head of Jove [Tritogeneia], of
splendid
mien, purger of evils, all-victorious queen.
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Orphic Hymns |
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Drysdale, and with
that remark most people will
cordially
disagree.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The French think
themselves
the only well-bred men.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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The
arrangement
thus concluded was not calculated to endure.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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And whether the soldiers did lift Paul up on high that they might bring him safe to the station or camp, or he was thus tossed with the
violence
of the crowd, this was no duty [office] of favor.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection
will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At bottom, it
is what we feel, not what we think, that makes us put certain poems
together and apart from others; and
feelings
cannot be defined, but only
related.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Powerful
ever the goddess, but nevertheless to her fellows
Overbearing and rude, quite unendurable.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That poem has just the tones of directness, simplicity
and unreserve that
characterise
Catullus in his poems of
tears, of laughter and of love.
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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e Whatcanyoufindoutaboutthehistory,culture,andsignificanceofsome of the
northern
Italian towns that Pliny mentions in the letter?
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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] Dem Ort des
Gedichtes
entquillt die Woge, die jeweils das Sagen als ein dichtendes bewegt" (vol.
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Trakl - Falling to the Stars- Georg Trakl’s “In Venedig” in Light of Venice Poems by Nietzsche and Rilke |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:10 GMT / http://hdl.
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Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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Lo, how dismay
Is fallen on the camp in a strange wind:
The ground, that seemed as spread with yellow embers,
Leaps into blazing, and like cinders whirled
And scattered up among the flames, are black
Bands of frantic men
flickering
about!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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One cannot invite
everybody
into the plantation and remain rich for long.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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O misery that the bow and arrows given him of the great Apollo should prove to be the dire shafts of a Death-Spirit (Ker) or a Fury, so that he should run stark mad in his own home and slay his own
children
withal, should reave them of dear life and fill the house with murder and blood.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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One cannot invite
everybody
into the plantation and remain rich for long.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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God knows how the
scattered
handful of Englishmen still in England can still speak one with another.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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O misery that the bow and arrows given him of the great Apollo should prove to be the dire shafts of a Death-Spirit (Ker) or a Fury, so that he should run stark mad in his own home and slay his own
children
withal, should reave them of dear life and fill the house with murder and blood.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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), has been illuminatingly developed in an
unpublished
monograph
by Mr.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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7Para esta
expresión
cfr.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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He was perpetually
obliged to visit the Viscontis, and to be present at every feast that
they gave to honour the arrival of any
illustrious
stranger.
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Petrarch |
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A costly reestablishment of the status quo might call for some sort of reprisal,
obliging
some counteraction in return.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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The attack upon
Stimmung
or attitude was remarkably successful, but this success did not have much meaning for the things that counted.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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] FRA PAOLO SARPI 117
is a sort of
proscription
by which the partizans of the court shut the
mouths of their adversaries, and deprive them of all resource.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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We see the things we do not yearn to see
Around us: and what see we
glancing
back?
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Christina Rossetti |
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We see the things we do not yearn to see
Around us: and what see we
glancing
back?
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Christina Rossetti |
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You will have
battles to fight because every
Englishman
is naturally anti-Roman.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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In the opinion of
Rabbi Meir's colleagues he
proposes
to read, “No judge who is mor-
ally qualified can be objected to, for he is just as good as one duly
licensed.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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For Hegel, all human behavior in the material world, and hence all human history, is rooted in a prior state of consciousness - an idea similar to the one
expressed
by John Maynard Keynes when he said that the views of men of affairs were usually derived from defunct economists and academic scribblers of earlier generations.
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Fukuyama - End of History |
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You will have
battles to fight because every
Englishman
is naturally anti-Roman.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Mais
dans un salon français les différences entre ces peuples ne sont pas si
perceptibles, et un Israélite faisant son entrée comme s'il sortait du
fond du désert, le corps penché comme une hyène, la nuque obliquement
inclinée et se répandant en grands «salams», contente
parfaitement
un
goût d'orientalisme.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came
near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way
he
approached
them he was met by the horns of one of them.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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^
/1\
/ \
Mesothesis, or
Indifference
of / \
Red and Yellow = Orange.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Prtterila assumunt primam
dissyllaba
longam.
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Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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Albeit musical tragedy likewise
avails itself of the word, it is at the same time able
to place
alongside
thereof its basis and source, and
can make the unfolding of the word, from within
outwards, obvious to us.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new
method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock
back and forth - it
occurred
to him how simple everything would be
if somebody came to help him.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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The small boy in the last act has
magically
become an
individual in Kalidasa's hands.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Albeit musical tragedy likewise
avails itself of the word, it is at the same time able
to place
alongside
thereof its basis and source, and
can make the unfolding of the word, from within
outwards, obvious to us.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Albeit musical tragedy likewise
avails itself of the word, it is at the same time able
to place
alongside
thereof its basis and source, and
can make the unfolding of the word, from within
outwards, obvious to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
Albeit musical tragedy likewise
avails itself of the word, it is at the same time able
to place
alongside
thereof its basis and source, and
can make the unfolding of the word, from within
outwards, obvious to us.
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| Answer: |
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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The passive form is
evidently
a correlative sentence, which turns about and makes the object into a subject.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-16 02:37 GMT / http://hdl.
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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213
Night's
darkness
is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Bakht Singh vainly urged the impor-
tance of establishing the imperial
authority
in Jodhpur, but Zu-'l-
Fiqar Jang persisted in his resolve.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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213
Night's
darkness
is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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Bakht Singh vainly urged the impor-
tance of establishing the imperial
authority
in Jodhpur, but Zu-'l-
Fiqar Jang persisted in his resolve.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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_The Stars_
There is a goddess who walks
shrouded
by day:
At night she throws her blue veil over the earth.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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2 He
observes
that he only wants to be close to her when she is moving away from him and concludes from this that he does not love her.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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By following that
course both in his life and in his poetry he preserved the in-
tegrity of a personality controlled and ordered by the unity of
a
positive
idea.
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Stefan George - Studies |
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True, it has been eagerly pointed out how much
the Greeks could find and learn abroad, in the Orient,
and how many
different
things they may easily have
brought from there.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Promenading
round the garden, in
old days, with her doll, W.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Promenading
round the garden, in
old days, with her doll, W.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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See the "Book of Obits, and Martyr- ology of the
Cathedral
Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin," Introduction, p.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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At this instant
the body of
Charicles
was borne into the house, a wretched and
pitiable sight, for he was one mass of wounds,[55] so that none of
the bystanders could restrain their tears.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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'
In fact, there is much
similarity
between the methods of the Span-
ish and the English drama.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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36 A fragment of a curious and
nondescript
Round Tower37 stands about 16 feet in
There is an
height.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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You may boast of favours shown,
Where your service is applied:
But my
pleasures
are mine own,
And to no man's humour tied.
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William Browne |
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659 The
traditions
of these masters, and their positions in the lineage of
Pacification are detailed in Blue Annals, pp.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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, is a model of liveliness and ease combined with
fulness of matter,
scarcely
ever surpassed: and of this earlier style
there were many striking specimens in the manuscripts on Evidence, all
of which I endeavoured to preserve.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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It was the erection
and
institution
of an Order or Society, which we call Salomon's House;
the noblest foundation (as we think) that ever was upon the earth; and
the lanthorn of this kingdom.
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Bacon |
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--These, oh Govinda, are some of the
thoughts
which
have come into my mind.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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He
built the first birch canoe, and, with the help of Kwasind, cleared
the river of its sunken logs and sand-bars; and when he and his canoe
were swallowed by the monstrous sturgeon Mishe-Nahma, he killed it by
smiting
fiercely
on its heart.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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7 All things are murderous
When you come to your Time
8 Long did your every gain
Come at hardship's price
9 Disaster deafens you
To questions that I cry
10 I must steel myself for you
Will never again reply
11 Would that my heart could face
Your death for a moment's time
12 Would that the Fates had spared
Your life instead of mine
The original:
طافَ يَبغي نَجْوَةً مَن هَلَاكٍ فهَلَك
لَيتَ شِعْري ضَلَّةً أيّ شيءٍ قَتَلَك
أَمريضٌ لم تُعَدْ أَم عدوٌّ خَتَلَك
أم تَوَلّى بِكَ ما غالَ في الدهْرِ السُّلَك
والمنايا رَصَدٌ للفَتىً حيثُ سَلَك
طالَ ما قد نِلتَ في غَيرِ كَدٍّ أمَلَك
كلُّ شَيءٍ قاتلٌ حينَ تلقَى أجَلَك
أيّ شيء حَسَنٍ لفتىً لم يَكُ لَك
إِنَّ أمراً فادِحاً عَنْ جوابي شَغَلَك
سأُعَزِّي النفْسَ إذ لم تُجِبْ مَن سأَلَك
ليتَ قلبي
ساعةً
صَبْرَهُ عَنكَ مَلَك
ليتَ نَفْسي قُدِّمَت للمَنايا بَدَلَك
Romanization:
Ṭāfa yabɣī najwatan
min halākin fahalak
Layta šiˁrī ḍallatan
ayyu šay'in qatalak
Amarīḍun lam tuˁad
am ˁaduwwun xatalak
Am tawallâ bika mā
ɣāla fī al-dahri al-sulak
Wal-manāyā raṣadun
lil-fatâ ḥayθu salak
Ṭāla mā qad nilta fī
ɣayri kaddin amalak
Kullu šay'in qātilun
ħīna talqâ ajalak
Ayyu šay'in ħasanin
lifatân lam yaku lak
Inna amran fādiħan
ˁan jawābī šaɣalak
Sa'uˁazzī al-nafsa ið
lam tujib man sa'alak
Layta qalbī sāˁatan
ṣabrahū ˁanka malak
Layta nafsī quddimat
lil-manāyā badalak
Die Mutter des Ta'abbata Scharran
Rettung suchend schweift' er um
vor dem Tod, dem nichts entflieht.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Any kind of popularity it enjoys stems from
sentimental
misunderstandings – the most famous example is Chateaubriand's rousing promotion of the ‘genius of Christianity’.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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11, under the heading: 'Mixed results for sports advertising in the Olympic year: Sponsors remembered much more, but sports
sponsorship
criticized as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
11, under the heading: 'Mixed results for sports advertising in the Olympic year: Sponsors remembered much more, but sports
sponsorship
criticized as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
|
25
Veronam veniat, Novi relinquens
Comi moenia, Lariumque litus:
Nam quasdam volo cogitationes 5
Amici
accipiat
sui, meique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
The truth is that joy in his own being, the
fulness of his own powers in connection with the
inevitable
decline of
his profound excitation with the lapse of time, bore off the palm of
victory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
| Guess: |
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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Naked above the waist,
He sat there creased and shining in the light,
Fumbling
the buttons in a well-starched shirt.
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Robert Forst - North of Boston |
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tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for
instance
the "".
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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From a critical point onwards, the reversal of consciousness was even supposed to take place for free, simply by remembering one's natural goodness: Rousseau even managed to proclaim Adam the true human being and denounce all
attempts
by civilization to educate him, better him and make him strive upwards as aberrations.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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The young writer who wants to learn at college what an art-work is, what linguistic form, aesthetic quality, even aes- thetic technique are, will only
haphazardly
learn anything at all about the matter; at best he will pick up information ready culled from whatever modish philosophy and more or less arbitrarily slapped on to the content of works currently under discussion.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Nevertheless, in what they yield these
examples
are not complete ei- ther.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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” So you wrote;
and what said Franck, that
recreant
angler?
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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Though all in one
Condensed their
scattered
rays, they would not form a sun.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And if there dwell hard by
One skilled to read from bird-notes augury,
That man, when through his ears shall thrill our
tearful wail,
Shall deem he hears the voice, the plaintive tale
Of her, the piteous spouse of Tereus, lord of guile--
Whom the hawk harries yet, the
mourning
nightingale.
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Aeschylus |
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It has been celebrated as a democratic value but it is one of those democratic values that nietzsche would have
associated
with a situation of slavery.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Thus, a radical
critique
of reason adapts itself to an object that has become uncanny.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Trusted, but the game is hollow, Not one won piece soundly clinketh; All the
cardinals
that Rome hath.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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There
were in fact but two years between the
youngest
and Fanny.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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So, when you had risen
from all the
lethargy
of love and its heat,
you would have summoned me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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and extending over twenty-nine volumes (1813-28), includes, together with
political pamphlets of which a few are mentioned below, speeches, letters
and other appeals to public opinion, and possesses considerable value for the
historical study of the period,
unfortunately
very limited, which it covers.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This bounded irrationality is
illustrated
by the thin line in Figure 10.
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Six weeks our guardsman walked the yard,
In a suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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There's no hope so firm life will not belie it,
no
happiness
life will not wrest away.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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But though the
individual
authors
of the Vedic Hymns, the earliest form of Indian literature, will never
be known, yet the date to which may be referred this first poetic
work of the Indo-Europeans can be established approximately, by
means of internal evidence, as from 1500 to 1000 B.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
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After meeting with him, Lý Thái Tông was greatly pleased, bestowed on him the rank of Monk in Palace Service,528 and
appointed
him abbot of Van* Tue* Temple.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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This is another way in which we
habitually
inflate the impressiveness of coincidence in order to make a good story.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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