|| _aureis_ GOVen: _aureis_ RBC
4 _liquantur_ OD || _catule_ OLa1
5 _ager_ (_acer_ BLa) _ruber
estuore_
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Latin - Catullus |
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VIRGINES
Hesperus
e nobis, aequales, abstulit unam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He was
nearly thirty years in
finishing
the whole poem, but of these thirty
years not more than two were employed in the composition.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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4435
ALPHONSE DAUDET
(1840-)
BY
AUGUSTIN
FILON
ORTY years have now elapsed since a lad of seventeen, shiv-
ering under his light summer dress in a cold misty morn-
ing, was waiting, with an empty stomach, for the opening
of a « dairy
» in the Quartier Latin.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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God is still
the
merciful
Lord who wishes not the eternal death of the sinner but
rather that he be converted and live.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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There can be little doubt that the Indian and Burmese tribes who
speak Austric
languages
are descended from the neolithic peoples who made
these celts.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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There was the fear of the wrath of
Alexander; and the fear, too, that
Harpalus
might
possibly intend to assume the position of a tyrant or
despot.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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You objects that call from diffusion my
meanings
and give them shape!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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nger, decorated with Merit), our attempt will only remain promising as long as
we are aware of the
discomfort
from the concept and use it for a critical perspective.
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Sloterdijk |
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Vì hình tượng nhấc gốc tranh lên cao trên mặt đất cũng như người dân thường do thi cử
được
cất nhắc (đề bạt) lên địa vị cao trong xã hội, nên thơ văn xưa khi nói việc thi cử thường dẫn câu này.
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stella-03 |
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That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show
reverence
not less for her personality than for
her genius is sufficient answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
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Sappho |
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to gedir hys
rycchesse
i{n} to hys toure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mayne 237
less when
compared
with stronger dramatic work; but without the
two diseases of the time, the convention of coarseness, and the
convention of fantastic sentiment
Two writers who were among the sons' of Ben and of great
repute in their day need not detain us long.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v06 |
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213
Now, however, that they
unavoidably
inter-marry
more and more year after year with the noblest
blood of Europe, they will soon have a considerable
heritage of good intellectual and physical manners,
so that in another hundred years they will have a
sufficiently noble aspect not to render themselves,
as masters, ridiculous to those whom they will have
subdued.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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And thou alone shalt groan for long, bewailing and
lamenting
unceasingly the unhappy overthrow of her towers.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Even yr/ prize package
Karlgren
hit a bullseye in a foot note re/ relative lights of Wre and water/shine outward, shine inward.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Who for the stranger damsel prowl about,
Of her to make an impious holocaust;
In that the more they
slaughter
from without,
They less the number of their own exhaust.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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With grief the sewer, with grief the cook takes heed,
How on the table cools the
untasted
fare.
| Guess: |
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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In a later chapter on what might be called
"Applied Politics, " the King tells the nephew that
he "will not trouble him with" a demonstration of
the
validity
of the pretensions under which Silesia
had been seized, but that he had "taken care to
have these duly estabHshed by his orators.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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to the
gallowsj
and then pray we : God damn his hell out speedily
And bring their souls to his " Haulte Citee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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'
Quarles was as little
affected
as was Habington by the school of
Donne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
|
"
" Crickets,
chirping
all the night
On the hearth of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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A none he yaffe Frome hym awaye
to powre men all hys monaye; 120
And bought hym pore man ys wede,
Page 35
That none of theyme
shoullde
thak hede,
And axed his met eorly and late,
With poremen att the mynster yate.
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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with
transports
of your own.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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AN OLD MAN,
_formerly
servant to Agamemnon_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Does the possible
incommunicability
and experiential nature of their task make for infertile grounds for writing, especially for academic explorations?
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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 |
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Now its destruction had the purpose of dissolving the Jewish priestly state that was a
contradiction
and danger for the political unity of the Roman Empire, compared to a number of Jews not many of whom had invested much in this centralization.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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Then I
said to them these words: -"My ladies, the end of my love was
formerly the salutation of this lady of whom you
perchance
are
thinking, and in that dwelt the beatitude which was the end of
all my desires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It had been the inspi-
ration of the moment, and the details had
appeared
clear at once
to his mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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(Maxims for the
Government
of Venice).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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tliches Blatt mein Schwesterlein Annelies' [where the mallow has long since wilted, a reddish leaf
floating
in the air brushes against my little sister Annelies].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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Not a word of
satisfaction
to me.
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| Source: |
Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
|
)
Of not a hoarded
farthing
be possesst,
And when all's done, be shoved to hell at last!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Lý Cao Tông had him legally ordained as a monk and
straightened
out his family's tax records.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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He said: In hearing
litigations
I am like another, the thing is to have no litigation, n'est-ce pas?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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However, we cannot help formulating this paradox in a manner that
statisticians
will not accept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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It is contrasted with the empowerment of great light rays, 142
of the Sutra which Gathers All Intentions mdo-dbang, 911-13
symbolic brda'i dbang-bskur, 855
third dbang gsum-pa: also known as the
empowerment of discriminating
pristine
cognition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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For instance, the first craft at the first station
acted the
creation
of the world; then it passed to the place
where it stopped for the second time, and repeated the perform-
ance; at the same time, the second craft acted at the first station
the sin of our first parents, and afterwards repeated the same at
the second station.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
|
In the shift from 1941 to 1942 the firm Tesch & Stabenow edited for its
clientso?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Air-Quakes |
|
So lat me never out of this hous departe,
If that I mente harm or
vilanye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'
rance; the prin-
may regret
breathe the
" H ow was I moved by this touching
assurance
of true
friendship!
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
The essay's
capitulation
is already evident in Sainte-Beuve,from whom the genre of the modern essay really stems.
| 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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7 However
Mithridates
went to Tigranes and restored his spirits, reclothing him in royal apparel, no less splendid than before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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the impudence of the
creatures!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
He crossed the stream where a ford was plain,
He clomb the
opposite
bank though steep,
And swore to himself to strain and attain
Ere he tasted sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Quand nous parlons de la
«gentillesse» d'une femme nous ne faisons peut-être que
projeter
hors
de nous le plaisir que nous éprouvons à la voir, comme les enfants
quand ils disent «Mon cher petit lit, mon cher petit oreiller, mes
chères petites aubépines».
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - b |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Memoires d'Outre-Tombe: BkXVIII:Chap8:Sec1
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
(Letter from Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais)
Home Download Printed Book
Contents
Part I: Greece
Part II:The Archipelago, Anatolia and Constantinople
Part III: Rhodes, Jaffa, Bethlehem and the Dead Sea
Part IV:Jerusalem
Part V: Jerusalem - Continued
Part VI: Egypt
Part VII: Tunis and Return to France
About This Work
Map of the Itinerary
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807, Translated by Frederic Shoberl - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (p8, 1812)
The British Library
Chateaubriand set out on his travels to the Middle East in the summer of 1806,
returning
via Spain in 1807.
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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When I think of other men,
Dreaming
alone by day,
The thought of you like a strong wind
Blows the dreams away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Lucian with dif
ficulty escapes lynching and persuades his cap tors that they must, by virtue of their own love of justice, grant him a
judicial
trial.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Where is thy place of
blissful
rest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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sic dissociata profundo
Bruttia
Sicanium
circumspicit ora Pelorum?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Gib dem Laster rothe Wangen,
dass ich ihm
angstlos
frohnen kann!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 11:49 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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But this should not prevent us from considering how closely this idea matches actual
conditions
today.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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"
But Colin slept a
careless
sleep
Beneath an apple tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
|
(1037)
In the year 698, Berctred, an
ealdorman
of the king of the Northumbrians,
was slain by the Picts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
bede |
|
The
queen, who is said to have directed and governed her husband, probably
recommended and made some
progress
in the execution of a design which,
was crowned with complete success in her own reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Denn es ist der einzige Beweis, dass man
fremde
Gedanken
verstanden hat, wenn man sie
weiterbildet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
2 On the 7th of
February
C.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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_
forsitan
imposuit pecori lupus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
It is a good example of the well-
written,
readable
novel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v30 - Guide to Systematic Readings |
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But how to give all men high hearts that
they may all
understand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
SECOND OPAL
If, from a careless hold,
One gem of these should fall,
No power of art or gold
Its
wholeness
could recall:
The lustrous wonder dies
In gleams of irised rain,
As light fades out from the eyes
When a soul is crushed by pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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GOETZ: A pleasant
journey!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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H is
principles
were strict.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
You know that some, not able to find this peace in the church, have been used to seek it from the
imprisoned
martyrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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A tax of this kind would
have the effect that Adam Smith
supposes
taxes on raw produce would have
on the rent of land--it would fall entirely on the rent of the mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
|
Between the
Christian
States of Leon and Castile great
jealousy ruled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
|
Whoever examines, with due circumspection, into the annual records of
time, will find it
remarked
that War is the child of Pride, and Pride the
daughter of Riches:--the former of which assertions may be soon granted,
but one cannot so easily subscribe to the latter; for Pride is nearly
related to Beggary and Want, either by father or mother, and sometimes by
both: and, to speak naturally, it very seldom happens among men to fall
out when all have enough; invasions usually travelling from north to
south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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"127
Although
the
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Revolution and War_nodrm |
|
~ of
Cycljc Furor
TH~
CfL\RAGrERISTICS
OF 11iE VIOOl\IAS AGE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Moore's
Magdalen
Muse is
sent to Bridewell without mercy, to beat hemp in silk-stockings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
|
This content
downloaded
from 128.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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Each side felt that the other had an undue influence over
Training
Candidates and was trying to denigrate and dismiss each other's theories.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Attachment |
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My false
eloquence
has only set off false good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
It is exactly the
reverse with the
Anonymous
Poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Krasinski - The Undivine Comedy |
|
A
question
was raised whether the Princes
of the House of Bourbon were entitled to be indulged with chairs in
the presence of the Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay |
|
Memoires d'Outre-Tombe: BkXVIII:Chap8:Sec1
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
(Letter from Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais)
Home Download Printed Book
Contents
Part I: Greece
Part II:The Archipelago, Anatolia and Constantinople
Part III: Rhodes, Jaffa, Bethlehem and the Dead Sea
Part IV:Jerusalem
Part V: Jerusalem - Continued
Part VI: Egypt
Part VII: Tunis and Return to France
About This Work
Map of the Itinerary
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807, Translated by Frederic Shoberl - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (p8, 1812)
The British Library
Chateaubriand set out on his travels to the Middle East in the summer of 1806,
returning
via Spain in 1807.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
Memoires d'Outre-Tombe: BkXVIII:Chap8:Sec1
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
(Letter from Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais)
Home Download Printed Book
Contents
Part I: Greece
Part II:The Archipelago, Anatolia and Constantinople
Part III: Rhodes, Jaffa, Bethlehem and the Dead Sea
Part IV:Jerusalem
Part V: Jerusalem - Continued
Part VI: Egypt
Part VII: Tunis and Return to France
About This Work
Map of the Itinerary
Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807, Translated by Frederic Shoberl - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (p8, 1812)
The British Library
Chateaubriand set out on his travels to the Middle East in the summer of 1806,
returning
via Spain in 1807.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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The Practice of Pietie,
directing
a
Christian how to walke that he may please God.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Gerald of Mayo long
survived
Adamnan.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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I send this by
your brother His
Highness
Ali Moorad; listen to his advice; trust yourself to
his care; you are too old for war; and if war begins how can I protect you?
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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[Adnotatio 1: Extat
epigramma
siue _uersus domini Beneuenuti de
Campexanis de Vicencia de resurrectione Catulli poetae Veronensis_
Ad patriam uenio longis de finibus exul,
causa mei reditus compatriota fuit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Such a subsidy, it was thought,
might be disguised under the name of a compensation for the little
principality of Orange, which Lewis had long been
desirous
to purchase
even at a fancy price.
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Macaulay |
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But if our minds, when
dreaming
near the dawn,
Are of the truth presageful, thou ere long
Shalt feel what Prato, (not to say the rest)
Would fain might come upon thee; and that chance
Were in good time, if it befell thee now.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Like infamous desire
A wise heart puts aside, which yet remains
A secret hated memory, man was
In God, and is vainly
discarded
here.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Glory to God in the
Highest!
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Tennyson |
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"
In addition to these backgrounds of reality, that of the Fertile Empire
and that of the Barren Waste, there was another--that of the "Western
Paradise" inhabited by the _Hsi Wang Mu_ (Western Empress Mother) and
those countless beings who, after a life in this world, had attained
Immortality and dwelt among the _Hsien_, supernatural creatures living
in this region of perfect happiness
supposed
to lie among the K'un Lun
Mountains in Central Asia.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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As
the prophet who would bring to the world a great
possession
must go
forth into the desert to be alone until the kingdom comes to him from
within, so the poet must leave the world in order to gain the deeper
understanding, to be face to face with God.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Rushworth
still think she wished to come, till Mrs.
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Austen - Mansfield Park |
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" It introduces into my subjectivity the deepest intersubjective
structure
of the Mit-sein.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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It is certain that there was dissatisfaction with the proposals of peace at Rome, and the assembly of the people, doubtless under the influence of the
patriots
who had accomplished the equipment of the last fleet, at first refused to ratify it We do not know with what view this was done, and there fore we are unable to decide whether the opponents of the proposed peace in reality rejected it merely for the
of exacting some further concessions from the enemy, or whether, remembering that Regulus had sum moned Carthage to surrender her political independence, they were resolved to continue the war till they had gained that end — so that it was no longer a question of peace, but a question of conquest.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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When she wouldn't do it, he kept on
worrying
her until
she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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There was a good old custom in use, which our ancestors had, of
invoking
the Muses at the entrance of their poems; I suppose, by way of craving a blessing.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Now farewell light, thou
sunshine
bright,
And all beneath the sky!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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