It is a glossy skating rink,
On which winged spirals clasp and bend each other:
And suddenly slide
backwards
towards the centre,
After a too-brief release.
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Imagists |
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This is nowhere more manifest than in his use of two connected terms, "white" and "black," that cover both the great cosmic division of day and night
and the human
conflict
between the native and the colonist.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And just then hearing the old man's tread
returning
along
the corridor, he stole back to his chair, and began humbly toast-
ing his wet legs before the charcoal pan.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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A song of woe, of woe,
Sicilian
Muses.
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Moschus |
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Loves Cure, or the
Martiall
Maide.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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Espíritu
indomable, alma violenta,
En ti, mezquina sociedad, lanzada [275]
A romper tus barreras turbulenta.
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Jose de Espronceda |
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Like
certain other
autobiographical
novelists, he had it in him to do just one thing perfectly,
and he did it.
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Orwell |
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Mr Small says that 'no copy of the
original
is to be found in the Benedictine edition of Jerome's Works'; and Mr Wright states that 'others say they are first found in the Prognosticon futuri seculi of Julianus Pomerius, a theologian, who died in the year 690'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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4 Maxim Litvinov, Against Aggression,
International
Publishers, 1939, pp.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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When they had proceeded a little from the shore, rowing round the side
rather than
launching
out into the deep, they lay upon their oars,
and drew up in a line, to receive the enemy; but at their approach, a
sudden panic seized the pirates, and not sustaining the first hostile
shout of their opponents, they fled in disorder: Cnemon and Theagenes
gradually retired, but not from fear: Thyamis alone disdained to fly;
and perhaps not wishing to survive Chariclea, rushed into the midst
of his foes.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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A liberal education will preserve our souls against the confusion, the negativism that harrass the
untrained
in the face of revolutionary changes.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Exult, you thron'd nations, that to your sight
She shall be lent, the pleasure of the king,
She whom to visit so inflames my soul,
That I can judge how God burns to enjoy
The beauty of the Wisdom that he made
And
separated
from himself to be
Wife to the divine act, mother of heavens.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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and all his
children
shout as loud as ever they could, Murder, O murder,
murder!
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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Antonis
Bourignon,
Travelling
towards Eternity, To which is added A Preface to
the English Reader.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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he must be unbalanced,"--
"There was
something
he said that I might have challenged.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He is, however, the first of
Greek poets in another sense; for splendid as is the pageant of Tro-
jan myth, the
personality
of the Homeric singer or singers evades us
completely.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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In the meantime let us recall an old
experience: two men so thoroughly different in
every respect as Plato and
Aristotle
were agreed
in regard to what constituted superior happiness
—not merely their own and that of men in general,
but happiness in itself, even the happiness of the
gods.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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"
"A new house does not suit, you know--
It's such a job to trim it:
But, after twenty years or so,
The
wainscotings
begin to go,
So twenty is the limit.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Yes, a
wonderful
thing!
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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And hath not entertained slander against his neighbour, that is, hath not readily or rashly given
credence
to an accuser.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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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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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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Let us now
consider
the reasons
favourable to the appeal.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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]
[Footnote Q: See a description of an appearance of this kind in Clark's
'Survey of the Lakes',
accompanied
with vouchers of its veracity, that
may amuse the reader.
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William Wordsworth |
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"I have followed the profession of a private tutor for
five years, and during this time have felt so keenly its disa-
greeable nature,--to be
compelled
to look upon imperfections
which must ultimately entail the worst consequences, and
yet be hindered in the endeavour to establish good habits
in their stead,--that I had given it up altogether for a year
and a half, and, as I thought, for ever.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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"
"
Being freed of the weight of a soul
damnation," a grievous striving thing that after much straining was mercifully taken from me ; as had one passed saying as one in the Book of the Dead,
"
I, lo I, am the assembler of souls," and had taken it with him, leaving me thus simplex naturae, even so at peace and trans-
sentient
as a wood pool I made it.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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) þæt fram hām gefrægn
Higelāces
þegn
Grendles dǣda, 194; nō ic gefrægn heardran feohtan, 575; (w.
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Beowulf |
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Watson holds a
foremost
place.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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O'Brien was of that strangely endowed race which
furnished
Lever
with the heroes of his military novels,- the Englished Irishmen.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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To love reason as Julien Benda does - to
classical world, modern world
crave the eternal when we are
beginning
to know ever more about the reality of our time, to want the clearest concept when the thing itself is ambiguous - this is to prefer the word 'reason' to the exercise of reason.
| Guess: |
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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The name of this game was Sansara, a game for
children, a game which was perhaps
enjoyable
to play once, twice, ten
times--but for ever and ever over again?
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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But in the end how many words
Winged on a flight she could not follow,
Farther than skyward lark or swallow,
His lips should free to lands she never knew;
Braver than white sea-faring birds
With a
fearless
melody,
Flying over a shining sea,
A star-white song between the blue and blue.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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It is possible that current
copyright
holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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COME
COME, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with arms
outstretched
to take me,
Come with lips pursed up to cling.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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In the nat- ural course of growth he reached that point in life w^here he desired to turn his
wizardry
to financial account.
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| Source: |
Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - De Profundis |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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| Question: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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At a time when Tory England was aghast over the French
Revolution and its results, Shelley talked of liberty and
equality
on
all occasions.
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Orr - Famous Affinities of History, Romacen of Devotion |
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Most of the empire parts were controlled by relatively small forces, which collected modest, but regular
tributes
from occupied lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
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Our
greatest living
phonetic
expert (wild horses shall not drag it from us!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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The wind howls, hisses, and but stops
To howl more loud, while the snow volley keeps
Incessant batter at the window pane,
Making our comfort feel as sweet again;
And in the morning, when the tempest drops,
At every cottage door mountainous heaps
Of snow lie drifted, that all
entrance
stops
Untill the beesom and the shovel gain
The path, and leave a wall on either side.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I think you
must be
deceived
so far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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As for Megallis, he
delivered
her up to the will of the women slaves, to take their revenge on her as they thought fit.
| Guess: |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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For every excessive state whether of folly, of cowardice, of self-indulgence, or of bad temper, is either brutish or morbid; the man who is by nature apt to fear everything, even the squeak of a mouse, is cowardly with a brutish cowardice, while the man who feared a weasel did so in consequence of disease; and of foolish people those who by nature are
thoughtless
and live by their senses alone are brutish, like some races of the distant barbarians, while those who are so as a result of disease (e.
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Aristotle copy |
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Can that
be called life where you take away
pleasure?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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The site relies on donated servers and bandwidth, so has automated mechanisms in place to detect when too many downloads are occurring from a single
location
(IP address).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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_Scene from a Drama_
The daimyo and the courtesan
Compliment
each other.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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John Brown in Kansas settled, like a
steadfast
Yankee farmer,
Brave and godly, with four sons, all stalwart men of might.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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n, puede des-
cribirse
como la conciliacio?
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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You'll find it
cheapest
in the
end.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Chaque ilot signale par l'homme de vigie
Est un
Eldorado
promis par le Destin;
L'Imagination qui dresse son orgie
Ne trouve qu'un recit aux clartes du matin.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They did not want it to be thought that they were
shaking off their allegiance to the empire, so in taking the oath they
invoked the long
obsolete
names of the Senate and People of Rome.
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Tacitus |
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Nevertheless, it is widely the case that the
absolute
in Hegel is received one-sidedly as merely abstract, positive assertion.
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
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Why are you
explaining?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground |
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Ravelston
looked gloomy and disapproving.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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What is the
retrograde
factor in a philosopher?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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They never appeared; or at all events, they
imperfectly
ful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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The de-
preciation
of the historically produced, as an object of theory, is therefore corrected by the essay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Then suddenly there was a great light--
"Let me into the
darkness
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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His falling temples you have reared,
The withered
garlands
ta'en away;
His altars kept from the decay
That envy wished, and nature feared;
And on them burns so chaste a flame,
With so much loyalty's expense,
As Love, t' acquit such excellence,
Is gone himself into your name.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The cold black fear is clutching me to-night
As long ago when they would take the light
And leave the little child who would have prayed,
Frozen and
sleepless
at the thought of death.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Seest not the sheen
Of links their
splendent
tresses fling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I
wandered
up, I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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A
doctrine
appeared, a faith ran beside it: 'All
is empty, all is alike, all hath been!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v11 - Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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But I think it is now high time, to put a stop to the effects they may have by coming to a resolution that may at least prevent anything being published, during the time of our sit ting as a House, which may be imposed upon the world as the language and words of
gentlemen
who perhaps never spoke them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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An
Augustin
had dreamed of equalling one day this obscure
pedagogue, of whom nobody, save for him, would ever have spoken again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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V
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With
dandelions
to tell the hours
That never are told again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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His fortune, indeed, good and bad, was wonderful for the
examples
which it gave of both.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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Never to his
Brother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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This challenge is best reflected in the growing lit- erature on
deliberative
democracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
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He commonly passed hours in silence at Toms' s in Devereux-court; the largeness of his peruke, and the sanction of doctor, rendering him unsuspected
the medical gentlemen that
resorted
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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And of this
methinks
thou thyself cannot be ignorant altogether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the
blackened
beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled into a scream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
|
His trip was ostensibly to provide
background
material for his work Les Martyrs, a Christian epic in prose, but may also have helped to resolve certain problems in his private life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Was ist schön an einem Mann,
welches Gott nicht dir
beschied!
| Guess: |
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Vaughan rightly complained of
these facile
imitators
that they cared more for verse than
perfection.
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the word
flwviorum
begins the
line, and many have supposed the first foot of the verse toi
be an anapaest.
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Thus, when once Hercules upheld the world, the universal frame hung more surely poised, the Standard-bearer did not reel with tottering stars, and old Atlas, relieved for a moment of the eternal load, was
confounded
as he gazed upon his own burden.
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"
The tear-drop
trickled
to his chin:
There was a meaning in her grin
That made him feel on fire within.
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He was a Second
Lieutenant
in the
Middlesex Regiment.
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144 ROSE AND EMILY; OR,
nese, whose hands, feet, and mouth, t
will each be
usefully
engaged at the same
moment.
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" And they say too that Bion, when he was asked whether there were any Gods,
answered
in the same spirit:
"Will you not first, O!
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Thou, who didst subdue
Thy country's foes ere thou wouldst pause to feel
The wrath of thy own wrongs, or reap the due
Of hoarded vengeance till thine eagles flew
O'er prostrate Asia;--thou, who with thy frown
Annihilated
senates--Roman, too,
With all thy vices, for thou didst lay down
With an atoning smile a more than earthly crown--
LXXXIV.
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17 This criterion in Christoph Menke-Eggers, Die
Souveranitat
der Kunst: Asthetische Erfahrung nach Adorno und Derrida (Frankfurt, 1988), p.
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The
notation which regulates the general form of the sound leaves it free
to add a complexity of dramatic
expression
from its own incommunicable
genius which compensates the lover of speech for the lack of complex
musical expression.
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Yeats |
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'It is more
precious
than all the purple and the pearls of the world,'
answered the Hermit.
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To such a height had the violence of outrage and the misery of the
government risen, that nothing was left to the sovereign, but the
desperate extremity of
sanctioning
private vengeance by a formal law.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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There is scarce any
of those old Writers, that contradicteth not sometimes both himself,
and others; which makes their
Testimonies
insufficient.
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op of
Canterbury
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The ideal of a democracy, where the people have their immediate say, is frequently misused under conditions of today's mass so- ciety, as an ideology which covers up the omnipotence of objective social
tendencies
and, more specifically, the control exercised by the party machines.
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XLVI
"Rinaldo is well known," and there a long
And true rehearsal made she of his deeds,
"This is the knight that since hath done me wrong,
Wrong yet untold, that sharp revengement needs:
Displeasure therefore, mixed with reason strong,
This thirst of war in me, this courage breeds;
Nor how he injured me time serves to tell,
Let this suffice, I seek revengement fell,
XLVII
"And will procure it, for all shafts that fly
Light not in vain; some work the shooter's will,
And Jove's right hand with thunders cast from sky
Takes open vengeance oft for secret ill:
But if some champion dare this knight defy
To mortal battle, and by fight him kill,
And with his hateful head will me present,
That gift my soul shall please, my heart content:
XLVIII
"So please, that for reward enjoy he shall,
The greatest gift I can or may afford,
Myself, my beauty, wealth, and kingdoms all,
To marry him, and take him for my lord,
This promise will I keep whate'er befall,
And thereto bind myself by oath and word:
Now he that deems this
purchase
worth his pain,
Let him step forth and speak, I none disdain.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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And
yet, despite the idea on which the whole action turns, The
Country Wife is not only skilfully planned and
exceedingly
well
written, but it is not devoid of the gravity of true satire.
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
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Consider
whom you punish, and for what;
Yourself unjustly; you have charged the fault
On heaven, that best may bear it.
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As James Burges,
undersecretary
of state for foreign affairs, wrote Auckland in December 1790: "We have felt too strongly the immense ad- vantages to be derived by this country from such a state of anarchy and weak- ness as France is at present plunged in to be so mad as to interfere in any measure that may .
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You have a
responsibility
because of that past, and at present you have thrown all sense of it away, and are behaving like the drunken brute who rises gorged with flesh and wine, and yells for blood.
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