Thi, is a "ate of torpor,
typified
sometimeo by somnambulism.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Waiting thus in weariness
She marked the nightingale 180
Telling, if any one would heed,
Its old
complaining
tale.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that
achieving
the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O fatal maid, thy marriage is endow'd
With Phrygaan, Latian, and
Rutulian
blood | Bellona leads thee to thy lover's hand;
Another queen brings forth another brand, To burn with foreign fires another land l A second Paris, diff'ring but in name, Shall fire his country with a second flame.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Faith in your God-known
destiny!
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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do
anything
rather than
marry without affection.
| Guess: |
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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]--This Neoptolemus was also a great tragic
Kiet, though 'he orator only
mentions
the less honourable distinction,
ot that the profession of a player was held in disesteem in Greece.
| Guess: |
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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The mischiefs of
unbounded
raillery.
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Samuel Johnson |
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Now, what
do you advise in my particular case, after the loss of my time and
the
disappointment
of my hopes?
| Guess: |
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Satires |
|
" they all did cry;
And the
Champion
of Chinu he was there,
And the Champion of Unahi.
| Guess: |
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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During the next two hundred and fifty years it was the mission
of the Legend of the Holy Grail to be the spiritualizing
tributary
of
a broader stream of literature, the bright full current of Arthurian
romance.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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The ideal
consists
in the happy
balance of the generic with the individual.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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—The best friend |
will
probably
get the best wife, because a good
marriage is based on talent for friendship.
| Guess: |
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
|
LXXXV
Her Michael calls to him, and give command
That she among the strongest paynims go;
And find occasion whence amid the band
Warfare and
memorable
scathe may grow.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The ideas of
naturalism
attracted men of great
talent, such as Adolf Dygasinski, in whose novels
and stories the lead is taken by Nature, and who
proves to possess the brain of a scientist and the
heart of a poet.
| Guess: |
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
Our monarch's
hindmost
year but ane
Was five-and-twenty days begun,
Twas then a blast o' Janwar win'
Blew hansel in on Robin.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns- |
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The circle, which is self-enclosed and at rest, and, qua substance, holds its own moments, is an
immediate
relation, the im- mediate, continuous relation of elements with their unity, and hence arouses no sense of wonderment.
| Guess: |
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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At the time of the Persian wars, when the whole of Greece was in a state of fear, the
festival
of Artemis Caryatis was due to be celebrated.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a
curiosity
not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" The
Labourer
let him loose, and he flew up to a branch of
a tree and said: "Never believe a captive's promise; that's one
thing.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
Whether it would have done any good can never be
settled now, but I am excessively vexed that Sir
Reginald
should know
anything of a matter which we foresaw would make him so uneasy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
|
Milarepa said, "Now you do the same thing back," but Naro
Bonchung
couldn't.
| Guess: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
|
These are
produced
within one who is endowed with the
58 two separations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
|
When this
transaction
is concluded, I shall take
out another loan of 60,843,025 livres, at 3 per
cent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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If he cannot hear you, or cannot
understand
you, or cannot control himself, the threat cannot work and you very likely will not even make it.
| Guess: |
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
"]
The house of the charioteer Mena resembled the neighbor ing estate of Paaker, though the
buildings
were less new, the gay paint on the pillars and walls was faded, and the large garden lacked careful attention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Not round _these_ splendors
Midnight
wraps her pall;
_These_ leaves the flush of Autumn's vintage hold
In Winter's spite, nor can the Northwind bold
Deface my chapel's western window small:
On one, ah me!
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
|
]
See, also, ante,
bibliographies
to chaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
But it was my lovers,
And not my
sleeping
sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful
And iridescent fires;
As the driftwood burning
Learned its jewelled blaze
From the sea's blue splendor
Of colored nights and days.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
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Either plying her spindle in fear of her mother, or at the loom, she stood
occupied
in the service of the Muses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Greek Anthology |
|
In
addition
to that, at
night man allows his dreams to lie to him a whole
life-time long, without his moral sense ever trying
to prevent them ; whereas men are said to exist who
by the exercise of a strong will have overcome the
habit of snoring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
The number of Callimachus's works, which are
reported
to have
reached eight hundred, testifies to his popularity in the Alexandrian
period of Greek literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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mystical
meaning of his wrestling with the angel, vi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
|
'
Confucius said, 'Why speak only of the
mourning
for five months?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Confucius - Book of Rites |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
|
There was a concert of
something
going on inside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
Song--A Bottle And Friend
There's nane that's blest of human kind,
But the
cheerful
and the gay, man,
Fal, la, la, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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WILLIAM COLLINS
In 1746 he
published
the 'Odes, Descrip-
tive and Allegorical,' his most character-
istic work.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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H$
dream-vision is the only sign of
doubtfulness
as
to the limits of logical nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
The
marchaunt
oweth thee right nought, 5905
Ne thou him, whan thou [hast] it bought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
"
Thereupon
it again
sought out its Primer, which had long been thrown into a corner, in
order to throw off a blame upon the Primer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
Y
porque los pecados obstaban , que nos reconcilias-
semos con Dios y se hiciessen estas paces , dixo:
que en estos dias saldria la
justicia
y la abundan-
cia de la paz.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Instinctively
anarchic
BUT controlled, by an organization.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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likes; provided one is
possessed
of an overflow
of creative power, and can cause one's will to pre-
vail over long periods of time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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End of my road, however long it be,
Waiting with hospitable hand
stretched
out,
And full of gifts for me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
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"
The
gentleman
paused, for now for
the first time he observed Frank's coun-
tenance, and he saw that he was strug-
gling hard to prevent himself from cry-
ing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Frank |
|
I
am sorry to have
incurred
his displeasure, but can expect nothing better
while he is so very eager in Lady Susan's justification.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
I cannotsee thatanyofthedifferencecsitedbyAllardyceis so graveand so unnoticedin the discussionup to thispointas to
requireor
evenmake advisablethe abandonmentofthisconceptwhenused withscholarlycaution forscholarlypurposes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - 1979 - [What Fascism Is Not- Thoughts on the Deflation of a Concept]- Comment |
|
Didst fight beneath the walls
Of
Seversk?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
For Plotinus and the
other
Platonists
held that qualities and habits themselves were
susceptible of more or less, for the reason that they were material and
so had a certain want of definiteness, on account of the infinity of
matter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
You can understand that this
register
and diary may implicate
some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many
who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
|
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: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| 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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
|
The Weekly Newes from Italy,
Germanie
&c.
| 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 - v1 |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
They
contrast
the linearity or one-dimen-
sionality of printed books with the irreducible two-dimensionality of images.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
|
AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY
OF POLISH LITERATURE
The outward signs of the life of nations do not
consist alone in the national institutions pertain-
ing to political independence, therefore the nation
which has ceased to be politically must not entertain
a doubt of its existence: verily, if a nation has
developed its
spiritual
powers and its national genius
to the highest measure, and if its spiritual achieve-
ments contain the elements of and contribute to the
universal culture and civilization, that nation can
always say with hope and pride: "I create, so
I am.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Finally, the occasional hells may be above or below ground, in
indefinite
places.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
|
Tis not enough, when swarming Faults are writ,
That here and there are
scattered
Sparks of Wit;
Each Object must be fix'd in the due place,
And diff'ring parts have Corresponding Grace:
Till, by a curious Art dispos'd, we find
One perfect whole, of all the pieces join'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Boileau - Art of Poetry |
|
About the hills and rivers, the oozy ground and the meres, he
determined
the periods of the four seasons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Confucius - Book of Rites |
|
Since he doesn't have the
feelings
of a man, right and wrong cannot get at him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chuang Tzu |
|
The ambitious
transcendence
of language beyond its meaning results in a meaninglessness that can easily be seized upon by a positivism to which one thinks oneself superior; and yet, one falls victim to pos- itivism precisely through that meaninglessness that positivism criti- cizes and which one shares with it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-The Essay As Form |
|
_ for animals to
reproduce
"their
kind"; if the reproduction is imperfect or distorted, as in monstrous
births, this is an exception due to the occasional presence in "matter"
of imperfections which hinder the course of development, and must be
regarded as "contrary to the normal course of Nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
|
FAILURE to understand that the roots of economic behavior lie in the realm of consciousness and culture leads to the common mistake of attributing
material
causes to phenomena that are essentially ideal in nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fukuyama - End of History |
|
Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Having some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the
British Museum, and made search among the books and maps of the library
regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of
the country could hardly fail to have some
importance
in dealing with
a noble of that country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
|
But the _Nocturnall_ is a sincerer and profounder poem than _Twicknam
Garden_, and it is more difficult to imagine it the
expression
of a
conventional sentiment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 2 |
|
LÊ NGHĨA 黎義38
người
huyện Bình Hà phủ Nam Sách.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-03 |
|
Crawley
certainly
did not
mean to discuss with the bishop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
|
ai ne
suffreden
neuer de?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
He spoke several harangues in a very sensible style, and three spirited invectives, which originated from our political disputes: and his defensive speeches, though not equal to the former, were yet
tolerably
good, and had a degree of merit which was far from being contemptible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
|
'When it was noon they opened the gate, and as we entered in the people
came
crowding
out of the houses to look at us, and a crier went round the
city crying through a shell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
'
[260] The king said that this man, too, had
answered
well and asked the tenth, What is the fruit of wisdom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
|
Et bien entendu si nous disons êtres de
fuite, c'est
également
vrai des êtres en prison, des femmes captives,
qu'on croit qu'on ne pourra jamais avoir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
The dissolution of the
Carolingian
Empire ends its first stage with
4
age
we
## p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
|
5 Jason, with one of his brothers, went to his mother, who was entertaining herself with her servants in the room, where the
needlework
and embroidery were done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Polyaenus - Strategems |
|
For with varying hue from time to time the evening paints her and of
different
shape are her horns at different times as the Moon is waxing – one form on the third day and other on the fourth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
|
With joy he calls his sons, each one apart,
And gives to each his
blessing
and his ring -
And dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
|
On one occasion, while
playing with the Duke of Orleans, she lost an
enormous
sum.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
vilains Allemands, qui tombent sur nous, en poussant
des cris qui vous
feraient
bien peur si vous pouviez
les entendre.
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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" In November, 1506,
Erasmus was at Bologna, and saw the
triumphal
entry of Pope Julius into
the city at the head of a great mercenary army.
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He cannot admit in his arraignment
of civilization the plea of a divided responsibility: he will not suffer
the prince, or the judge, or the soldier,
personally
to shirk the con-
sequences of what he officially does; and he refuses to allow in him-
self the division of the artist from the man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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They
brought their types with them, and Life with her keen
imitative
faculty
set herself to supply the master with models.
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The quest, therefore, that Sloter- dijk’s entire work follows takes place in the “hole-gap” located between necessity and
contingency—between
the “Real” and the “Symbolic” orders—between the unknown that we already know (but are too afraid to know that we know) and the unknown that we will never obtain but forever desire.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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Phrastor with certain aim the javelin threw ;
While from Eniceus ' hand the discus flew ,
And as the
circling
orb ascended high 100
Above the rest, what clamors rent the sky !
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Pindar |
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Suddenly, a hundred feet or so away, she saw a patch of violently
disturbed snow--snow stained a
dreadful
color, a snow of scarlet
crystals!
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Oh, those sweet strolls in the garden,- those
boatings
on
the blue sea,- that blessed trip to Lampedusa!
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Creon — And thou, who, lurking like a viper in my house, was secretly draining my life blood, while I knew not that I was nurtur ing two pests, to rise against my throne — come, tell me now, wilt thou also confess thy part in this burial, or wilt thou
forswear
all knowledge of it ?
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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Is there any reason why we should lend our ears to
revilers?
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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Hence it
was, that they held in contempt the teachers of the lower
schools, from whose level they had raised
themselves
by
their own ability; and for that reason they would neither
practise, nor allow themselves to be distinguished by, those
things which characterized the former.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Little didst thou need, in thy native land, the isle of
the three capes, little didst thou need but
sunlight
on land and sea.
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Well, so long, folks See you all
at Wilkins’s tomorrow morning
mrs bendigo
Thieving
little tart’ Swallers ’er tea and then jacks off without so
much as a thank you Can’t waste a bloody moment
mrs mcelligot Cold?
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Amongst the RATIONAL principles of morality, the ontological
conception of PERFECTION, notwithstanding its defects, is better
than the
theological
conception which derives morality from a Divine
absolutely perfect will.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Angels and devils are mytho logical figures which may be retained in sacred symbolism and art, though neither historical nor
metaphysical
truth may be looked for in them.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Poet Li Po, by Arthur Waley and Bai Li
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Po |
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The first of his
writings
which excited the .
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons |
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