The king, having several daughters,
promised to give Apama to Pharnabazus, Rhodogune
to Orontes, and
Amestris
to Tiribazus.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
Black thought joined to white action would be like erecting a
monastery
or stupa for the sake offame, etc.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
|
), in which the Indians are described as carrying
off on camels gold dust hoarded by
enormous
ants.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Want of time was often his excuse, or,
perhaps,
shortness
of time was his private boast, in the form of an
apology.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
Two beautiful youths
appeared
beside me: each was winged;
but the wings were hanging down, and seemed ill adapted to
flight.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
|
Selected
Polish tales, p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
|
487 (#503) ############################################
IV]
Matthew Arnold
487
On
Translating
Homer: Last words.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
|
Even
premature
obituaries do not change the fact that new days are dawning until further notice, as fragile and temporary as all previous ones.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
There was much local
variation
in sacrifices for the heroes, but the same was true for the gods.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
|
Then Death stretch'd forth his hand, in that dread hour,
From her bright head a golden hair to rend,
Thus culling of this earth the fairest flower;
Nor hate impell'd the deed, but pride, to dare
Assert o'er highest
excellence
his power.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
6 She also charged her with bringing a foreign army to decide the disputes between the brothers; and with having married out of Egypt, when she was divorced from her brother,
contrary
to the will of her mother.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
|
And so are
Plutarkes
little workes and
Senecas Epistles, which are the best and most profitable parts of
their writings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
Upon a certain occasion I voted against him
in favor of some one who had been very ill-natured towards me;
and he said to me afterwards, "Renan, I shall play some mean
trick upon you: out of
impartiality
you will vote for me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
cause all your
liberties
back before 'Maggie Carter' as they used to call her in the law schools in America-I mean the fight be- tween him and William Rufus, the dirty bandit-all your liberties come out of that"
[ND 17, 173] .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
|
Appelbaum
(New
York: Dover, 1971), p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
~Over the
Appalachian
Barricade~
[Sidenote: _To be read like old leaves on the elm tree of Time.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Shall thy
righteousness
first wake my wonder,
or thy toils in war?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Now, a system of
nature, in the most general sense, is the
existence
of things under
laws.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
|
In guise like this, lulus, when of yore
His dear jEneas died, he
sorrowing
went;
Now Venus wails as when the raging boar
The tender thigh of her Adonis rent.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
|
And it describes a simple circle around the sun, isn't that
marvelous?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
|
What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is
the current that presents a long line and a
necessary
waist.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
|
Closely allied to the child's tenderness to-
wards its own kind is its
affection
for
other living things, though it would not
always be easy to say where the line should
be drawn between "living things" and
things not alive.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
|
Think of the lives
of those who lived long ago, of those who shall follow thee, of
those who now live in uncivilized lands who have not even heard
of thy name, and, of those who have heard it, how many will
soon forget it; of how many there are who now praise thee who
will soon malign thee,- and thence
conclude
the vanity of
fame, glory, reputation.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
|
When the Spaniard learns at last that he is no
better than the Saracen, and his prophet no better than Mahomet, he will
arise, more Catholic than ever, and die on a
barricade
across the filthy
slum he starves in, for universal liberty and equality.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
All his writings were
primarily
intended for his son, and he wrote his historical work for that son's use with large distinct letters in his own hand.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
|
31 It is true indeed that the Roman praetors did what they could to
suppress
the violence of the slaves, but because they did not dare to punish them, on account of the power and influence of their masters, they were forced to suffer the country to be infested with robberies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
The "whole truth" is that left- and right-winged
Hegelians
are both mistaken; as a philosophical theologian, Hegel believed that flight required both wings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hegel_nodrm |
|
Another paradox of
deterrence
is that it does not always help to be, or to be believed to be, fully rational, cool-headed, and in control of oneself or of one's country.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
The Beautiful Toilet
BLUE, blue is the grass about the river
And the willows have
overfilled
the close garden.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
Seventy-one items, with
presence
in each pe-
riod noted.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childens - Folklore |
|
Tavy: I believe we were changed in our cradles, and that you are
the real
descendant
of Don Juan.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
That, on the basis of our latter-day
German music, I began to fable about the
"spirit of Teutonism," as if it were on the point
of discovering and returning to itself,—ay, at the
very time that the German spirit which not so
very long before had had the will to the lordship
over Europe, the strength to lead and govern
Europe,
testamentarily
and conclusively resigned
and, under the pompous pretence of empire-found-
ing, effected its transition to mediocritisation,
democracy, and "modern ideas.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
This vacant place is now
filled by pure
practical
reason with a definite law of causality in an
intelligible world (causality with freedom), namely, the moral law.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
|
Recent research furthermore suggests that the form of the Daode jing, as well as some of its ideas, were modeled on those of the
germinal
fourth- century b.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
|
XXVIII
"The women, when they see the
changing
heaven
Turbid with tempest, hurry to the strand,
With savage Orontea, by whom given
Was the fell law, the ruler of the land;
And of all barks into their haven driven
Make havoc dread with fire and murderous brand,
Leaving no man alive, who may diffuse
Upon this side or that the dismal news.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
No one can stand or walk or softly glide along
Or hide in dark recess, or lurk in secret cell,
But Varuna detects him and his
movements
spies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
His self-formation had been powerfully shaped by the history of post-Revolutionary China,
especially
when compared to the limited role that external political events typically play in self-development in liberal democratic societies.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
The great age does not care for cost, it usually manifests at a minimum of
material
expense and a maximum of cerebral outlay.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
Theirs is the
totalist
vision of change, what J.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
Not a softness
anywhere
about me,
Only whalebone and brocade.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
O Ever untam'd Fire [Aither], who reign'st on high in Jove's [Zeus'] dominions ruler of the sky;
The glorious sun with
dazzling
lustre bright, and moon and stars from thee derive their light;
All taming pow'r, ætherial shining fire, whose vivid blasts the heat of life inspire:
The world's best element, light-bearing pow'r, with starry radiance shining, splendid flow'r,
O hear my suppliant pray'r, and may thy frame be ever innocent, serene, and tame.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
|
)
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: January 3, 2005 [EBook #14568]
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIR GAWAYNE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT ***
Produced by Ted Garvin, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team
Sir Gawayne
and
The Green Knight:
AN
ALLITERATIVE
ROMANCE-POEM,
(AB.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Now the conduct of Sextus at Regillus, as
described by Livy, so exactly resembles that of Paris, as
described at the beginning of the third book of the Iliad, that
it is
difficult
to believe the resemblance accidental.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Anna
devoured
him
with her eyes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
|
The witness of the Holy Spirit, and being led by the Holy Spirit, are
connected
as cause and effect.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
|
As a still
preliminary
exercise, somewhat like musicians who listen to their instruments and tune them before beginning to play, we could try out another version of the same aporia.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Paul-de-Man-Material-Events |
|
' These are concerned chiefly
the ethical and spirit-
ual import of the masterpieces, and less with the usual subject of
criticism,
literary
form.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
|
Our problem is that none of these conceptions appears to be
convincing
any more.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:33 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
|
In the fourth year of the Thiên Chu'o'ng Bao* Tu'*, Lý Than* Tông
suddenly
contracted a strange disease and was seriously ill.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thiyen Uyen Tap |
|
"
Every one knows how
irresistible
are a pretty woman's tears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
|
This is why the
measuring
of the immeasurable ends with fear and trembling.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
|
'Oh,
Edgar
darling!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
|
In
accordance
with the terms of the original agreement the
demand was rejected, although the Nana was allowed to retain rent
free the Peshwa's landed estate.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
|
What love that shall kiss my brow
Nor blench at the brand
thereof?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
If you are unconscious of it, then you have ignorance or
unawareness
and the cyclic existence of sams~ra.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
For when someone is
sentenced
to punishment under the law and must be executed quickly and humanely, they put a snake on his chest and make him walk around a little, thus swiftly removing the man from their midst.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Roman Translations |
|
We always hold consultations on every case, as
there isn't
business
enough for four.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
|
ON JAMESON'S THE HEGEL
VARIATIONS
299
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
|
Votre beaute m'a
terriblement
trouble, et je vous ai
trop regardee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
I do not indeed as yet dis- cern on what this respect is based (this the philosopher may in- quire), but at least I understand this, that it is an estimation of the worth which far outweighs all worth of what is recommended by inclination, and that the necessity of acting from pure respect for the practical law is what
constitutes
duty, to which every other mo- tive must give place, because it is the condition of a will being good in itself, and the worth of such a will is above everything.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
|
Hence the love, the loving and tender love of banks for
munition
works.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pound-Jefferson-and-or-Mussolini |
|
I was
pondering
these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected
one, broke the thread of my musings.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
|
Who are these gaily riding
along the river-bank,
Three by three and five by five,
glinting
through the willow-boughs?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Then the Lion
took
Androcles
to his cave, and every day used to bring him meat
from which to live.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
quod cum ita sit, nolim statuas nos mente maligna
id facere aut animo non satis ingenuo,
quod tibi non
utriusque
petenti copia praesto est:
ultro ego deferrem, copia siqua foret.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Three-roomed dwellings are very uncommon, and without exception are most
scantily
furnished.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
|
5th verse, the Lord says, "I will be as the dew unto
Israel: he shall grow (or
blossom)
as the lily, and cast forth his roots
as Lebanon.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
She was grasping,
dimly, that his views were not the views an
Englishman
should hold.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Orwell - Burmese Days |
|
107
Piace a Rinaldo, e piace a quel d'Anglante
tal cosa udir, ch'esser potrà cagione
che 'l
parentado
non andrà più inante,
che già conchiuso aver credea Leone;
e pur Ruggier la bella Bradamante
mal grado avrà de l'ostinato Amone;
e potran senza lite, e senza trarla
di man per forza al padre, a Ruggier darla.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Some have come forth to rescue the deluded and saved those
drowning
in error.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thiyen Uyen Tap |
|
The nearest
approach to
quantitative
hexameters with which I am
acquainted in modern English writers is the Andro-
meda of Mr.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
|
When at last Yakov
uncovered
his face, it was pale
as a dead man's; his eyes gleamed faintly under their drooping
(
## p.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
|
_Verse_ that drawes
_Natures_
workes, from _Natures_ law,
Thee, her best worke, to her worke cannot draw.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Donne - 1 |
|
lo ofrecerlo,
y ofrecerlo
en
homenaje
a lo recibido pero no su enigma,
asi?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
|
His hailestones and his thunderbolts, and his
showres of blood (emblemes and instruments of his Judgements) fall
downe in a direct line, and affect or strike some one person, or
place: His Sun, and Moone, and Starres (Emblemes and
Instruments
of
his Blessings) move circularly, and communicate themselves to all.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
|
CYCLOPS:
Oh, misfortune on
misfortune!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
For his
remembered
sake, the Slain on rood,
Who rolled his earthly garment red in blood
(Treading the wine-press) that the weak, like me,
Before his heavenly throne should walk in white.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
|
Yea, and
eastward
thou art free
To the portals of the sea,
And Pelion, the unharboured, is but minister to thee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
And regardless of the realities on the ground, it mat- tered deeply to republican nationalists in France that the nation was ex- panding in this way, and that it might someday welcome millions of fully
civilized
Africans and Asians into the great circle of the patrie.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Cult of the Nation in France |
|
Thou seemest to me transformed, thine eyes
glow, the mantle of the sublime
covereth
thine
ugliness: what didst thou do?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
ei ne
vndirstoden
ne moeueden it nau?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
As has been
elsewhere
remarked, the original plan of the bank of North-America, contemplated a capital of ten millions of dollars, which is certainly not-too'broad a foundation for the extensive operations to which a na- tional bank is destined.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
|
He was a man of about sixty,
handsomely
dressed, haughty
in manner, and with a face like a fine mask.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
|
"
It is no wonder that the
conservative
Wall Street
335
?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:09 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
Dion likewise visited other cities, and conversed
with the
principal
statesmen, by whom he was publicly
entertained.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
|
But can
apparitional
beings be bisexual?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
In the second series of poems published, a facsimile of her
handwritten poem which her editors titled "Renunciation" is given,
and I here
transcribe
that manuscript as faithfully as I can,
showing _underlined_ words thus.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Kline (C)
Copyright
2009 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
All Nature carefully the law reveres,
That
gratitude
and fealty endears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sappho |
|
The
propaganda
State is doomed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
Nationes no longer
designated
only French, English, German, and Ro- manic students living in their own vernacular fraternities near the Rive Gauche; whole European peoples followed the pattern of their universities and spoke one out of many printed languages.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
I also desired to know of him
whether he wrote his
Odysseys
before his Iliads, as many men do hold:
but he said it was not so.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
|
March 2 2018: There are some problems with the automated software used to prevent abuse of the Web site (mainly to prevent mass downloads from hurting site
performance
for everyone else).
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
It is odd that you should be covered with long robes
and trailing tendrils and flowers ;
It is odd that you should be changing your face
and resembling some other woman to
plague me ;
It is odd that you should be hiding yourself
In the cloud of
beautiful
women who do not concern me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
It is odd that you should be covered with long robes
and trailing tendrils and flowers ;
It is odd that you should be changing your face
and resembling some other woman to
plague me ;
It is odd that you should be hiding yourself
In the cloud of
beautiful
women who do not concern me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
And I would not wish you to be
anything
but just what you are,
my sweet little skylark.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|