"
Over the field that there
Gave back the skies
A scattered upward stare
From sightless eyes,
The furrowed field that lay
Striving awhile, through many a bleeding dune
Of
throbbing
clay,--but dumb and quiet soon,
She looked; and went her way,
The Harvest Moon.
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" said Brutus; "and who was the Caius Rusius you are
speaking
of?
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Cicero - Brutus |
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To feel him-
self less responsible and at the same time to find
things more
interesting—that
seems to him a
double benefit for which he has to thank meta-
physics.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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She went riglit to work,
and Cubby jumped and capered around, listen-
ing to the snip, snap of her
scissors
as slie cut
and fitted her work.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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it is thought
fundamentally
as measure, to which human beings have to conform their actions (cf.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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”
But Henry was too much amused by the
interest
he had raised to be able
to carry it farther; he could no longer command solemnity either of
subject or voice, and was obliged to entreat her to use her own fancy
in the perusal of Matilda’s woes.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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e lere he discouere3,
[B] His longe
louelych
lokke3 he layd ouer his croun.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The Cretan javelin reach'd him from afar,
And pierced his
shoulder
as he mounts his car;
Back from the car he tumbles to the ground,
And everlasting shades his eyes surround.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Mons is, in fact, seated on a
hill completely
surrounded
by low meadows, traversed by the sinuous
courses of the Haine and the Trouille.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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However, while still alive he
abdicated
in favour of his son Ptolemy, called Philadelphus, and he lived for a further two years after his son had taken over as king; so we reckon the reign of this first Ptolemy, called Soter, to be 38 rather than 40 years long.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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Stern critic, say not so:
Patience!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
Prurit et abiectis
pervigilat
tunicis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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She becomes enamoured of him; and he,
inconstant
to his mortal
love, for a while returns her passion; but at length, recalling the
memory of her whom he left, and who laments his loss, he escapes from
the Enchanted Island, and returns to his lady.
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Shelley |
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He was a joglar at the court of the
Countess
of Burlatz, Azalais of Toulouse, daughter of Count Raimon V.
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Troubador Verse |
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Generated for
anonymous
on 2015-01-02 09:06 GMT / http://hdl.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain *
In weeping blindness stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains
Rehumanizing from the Spectre in pangs of maternal love
Ingrate they wanderd scorning her drawing her life
majesticSpectrous
Life
Repelling her away & away by a dread repulsive power
Into Non Entity revolving around in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Syntax implies an
established
semantics, just as questioning the truth of X requires the possibility of falsity.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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Then what you call
'culture' merely totters
meaninglessly
around me
or lies heavily on my breast: it is like a shirt of
mail that weighs me down, or a sword that I
cannot wield.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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- "No need to say that, sir, to
a man who has
renounced
the world; we hermits never covet
other folks' goods.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Such villainies roused Horace into wrath,
And 'tis more noble to pursue his path
Than an old tale of Trojan brave to treat,
Or Hercules, or
Labyrinth
of Crete.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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However little merit his four Instructions to a Painter, dour
travesties of Waller's
adulation
which bore the same name, might
possess, they started a fresh genre.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Congress reinforced
this policy in 1951 by passing the Battle Act, under which
any nation selling strategic goods, very broadly defined,
to customers in the
Communist
bloc loses all American
economic and military aid.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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Where is your
Husband?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Nhục thán, vỉ tại
lụvcông
sanh thành.
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Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
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Vishvamitra sought to achieve power
and was proud of it;
Vashishtha
was rudely smitten by that power.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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, Henri Testelin, Sentiments des plus Habiles Peintres sur le Pratique de la Peinture et la
Sculpture
(Paris, 1696), lectures, 16706?
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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133 (#169) ############################################
WE PHILOLOGISTS I33
*
speaking of the
“inner
history of ancient erudition,”
calls it, “the history of learned enlightenment.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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THE baggage ready, and the paper-book,
our smart gallants the road together took,
But 'twould be vain to number their amours;
With beauties, Cupid favoured them by scores;
Blessed, if only seen by either swain,
And doubly bless'd who could attention gain:
Nor wife of alderman, nor wife of mayor,
Of justice, nor of
governor
was there,
Who did not anxiously desire her name
Might straight be entered in the book of fame!
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La Fontaine |
|
+ Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical
character
recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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'
Her pure nails on high dedicating their onyx,
Anguish, at midnight, supports, a lamp-holder,
Many a twilight dream burnt by the Phoenix
That won't be
gathered
in some ashes' amphora
On a table, in the empty room: here is no ptyx,
Abolished bauble of sonorous uselessness,
(Since the Master's gone to draw tears from the Styx
With that sole object, vanity of Nothingness).
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
XLVII
"Think as I think," said a man,
"Or you are
abominably
wicked;
"You are a toad.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Many a family party,
consisting
of a man,
his wife, and sometimes one or two of his children, have I listened to,
as they stood consulting on their ways and means, or the strength of
their exchequer, or the price of household articles.
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De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
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They are ugly, each is designed for a very limited purpose, when required for a minutely
different
purpose they are useless, the variety of behaviour of any one of them is very small, etc.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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It is more than just chance that Japan had an
earthquake
on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1944.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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Those having friends in the United
States, and Canada, and the high
northern
latitudes, where the fur trade is
carried on, will see they are not forgotten.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
Most
recently
updated: March 2, 2018.
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| Question: |
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Selfhood
is redefined, the unconscious is destroyed, and the capacity to think creatively is abrogated.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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bonnie lass, will you lie in a
barrack?
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns- |
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Ask me besides
anything
that
you please.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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Ante
nosotros
se ex- tiende un nuevo umbral del que so?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
ing
be
232
ba
walking ten paces, he came face-up against a wall lying
angles to the
direction
in which he had been moving.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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I
therefore
propose to put my own ideas in order, and to communicate that order in the hope that it assists the hearer in finding out where he or she is.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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Los
derivados
son, en teori?
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Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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I stood
speechless
with shame when my name thou didst ask.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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The present city of
Cork—the
main part of it south of the river— stands over a concealed network of — veins from the
and
Article V.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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"To know is to have something as object before
consciousness
and be certain about it; and believing is exactly the same" (VG 47).
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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The gentlemen bent over the dishes
set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before
eating it, and the
gentleman
in the middle, who seemed to count as
an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat
while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether
it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the
kitchen.
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of
squeezing
it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Ice is heavier than water, because
it is
condensed
water.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
|
He sbouiCl be someone in whose
presence
everyone feels calm, peaceful and relaxed.
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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Ông làm quan
Thượng
thư, tước Quận công, Quốc tử giám Tế tửu kiêm Văn minh điện Đại học sĩ, Nhập thị Kinh diên và được cử làm Phó sứ sang nhà Minh (Trung Quốc).
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stella-02 |
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He {also} was an actor, and was a rival of Crates, but
withheld
from abusing him.
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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But I cannot
understand
them, and
I am not easy in my mind about them.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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The
governments
of Sweden and of
England invited him to reform their schools.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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At all events, he, being smitten with love for a girl of Chalcis, was very anxious to marry her at the very time that he was engaged in this war, being a man very fond of drinking and
delighting
in drunkenness.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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So our little menu has a little
something
from here and a little something from there.
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Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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"
THYRSIS
"Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
Than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
More
worthless
than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
Hath not a year out-lasted!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Julian Cesarini refused to
recognise
it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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Inclu
ye una lista
cronológica
de los globos imperiales conservados, págs.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
|
Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In
Sophistes
236 C, Plato distinguishes accordingly between eidolopoiike, eikastike, and phanstastike, while presupposing that art can never be beautiful if it trans- lates solely natural proportions.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Blessed be God for
Afflictions
have found such happy
Effects, that would not have been without them for all this World.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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And uninterrupted
experience
ofluminous appearances.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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[143] There; give me the goat and the tankard man; and the Muses shall have a
libation
of her milk.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Kẻ sĩ may mắn
được
ghi danh vào tấm đá này, phải làm cho danh đúng với thực, sửa nết giữ mình, bắt chước Văn Hiến giữ lòng, đừng theo Công Tôn học hành xiên vạy.
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| Question: |
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stella-03 |
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) de
originibus
rerum p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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INSIGHT
Power that by
obedience
grows,
Knowledge which its source not knows,
Wave which severs whom it bears
From the things which he compares,
Adding wings through things to range,
To his own blood harsh and strange.
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Emerson - Poems |
|
"
When Slyboots heard what the king said, he thought he must be dreaming, for he imagined that he had been only two nights in the old man's
subterranean
dwelling, and had then taken a few days to return home ; but now it appeared that each night had been as long as a year.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
'
`By god,' quod he, `I hoppe alwey
bihinde!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The
downfall
of Napoleon ended Wincenty Kra-
sinski's career in the Polish legions.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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We may, then, in a general survey, regard epic poetry as being in all
ages
essentially
the same kind of art, fulfilling always a similar,
though constantly developing, intention.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
|
Now, however, the grain market is so depressed
that it appears plausible to reckon the more cash
might be obtained from direct sale of agricultural
implements abroad than could be obtained by the
sale abroad of the grain
produced
by those agricul-
tural implements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
And these Rights are
incident
to all Soveraigns, whether Monarchs, or
Assemblies: for they that are the Representants of a Christian People,
are Representants of the Church: for a Church, and a Common-wealth of
Christian People, are the same thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
'
If Lucian had known more of a world with which he
had never, poor child, had much
opportunity
of making
he would have seen that Sprats was meditating mischief.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United
States without permission and without paying copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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to share our cordial love
Thou com'st; the banquet finish'd, thou shalt next
Inform me
wherefore
thou hast here arrived.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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n3^: Jplfety
1 jrtvin *a ^nyn; nny 6
*spp^ij#J^
PW
'Vi*>> ni^ata ienp wo tfiU!
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The Germans, how-
ever indulgent they may be to defects of
form in a work, are unmerciful with respect
to its real value; and, when they perceive
any thing superficial, in the mind, the feel-
ing, or the
knowledge
of a writer, they try
to borrow the very pleasantry of the French,
to turn what is frivolous into ridicule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
28 The world is indeed of itself
inclined
to this, but then came the sacrificing priests, who are like fans and bellows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
|
Beginning early in 2005, the group met regularly for a year,
operating
under the assumption that since the consequences of Augusta's decline were economic, the causes must be economic as well.
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I heard them twitter and watched them dart
Now
together
and now apart
Like dark petals blown from a tree;
The maples stamped against the west
Were black and stately and full of rest,
And the hazy orange moon grew up
And slowly changed to yellow gold
While the hills were darkened, fold on fold
To a deeper blue than a flower could hold.
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He defined old age to be a natural consumption which
dries us up and wastes us away: on this
principle
he deplored
the ignorance of those who call wine “old men's milk.
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The genre that the eighteenth century made peculiarly its own was the academic eulogy, which functioned as something of a successor to the older
oratorical
art of the funeral oration.
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—He who always
lives in the warmth and fulness of the heart, and,
as it were, in the summer air of the soul, cannot form
an idea of that fearful delight which seizes more
wintry natures, who for once in a way are kissed
by the rays of love and the milder breath of a
sunny
February
day.
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For his sermons, printed from a
Cambridge
MS,
32
E.
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So also the great Acarya Nagarjuna commented on this subject:
"When you have acquired the five Superknowledges- Powers that will follow you in all
rebirths
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Then strive constantly for the complete
Benefit and happiness of all creatures.
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So what do we really know about the long-term effects of
parenting?
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In the latter part of the
eleventh
century,
our poet came at last to his own.
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"We had to start quite early in the morn-
ing, and ride on the train all day -- then, just
about the time the sun
commenced
to creep down
back of the hill, the train stopped at Clearfield,
-- that's the name of the station -- and out we
popped, eyes wide open for the two big grays
that grandfather always drove.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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He
promised
that he would never carry another green watermelon if he
starved for it.
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The
obscurity
that involves all metaphysical subjects appears to me, in
the same manner, peculiarly calculated to add to that class of
excitements which arise from the thirst of knowledge.
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‘I believe I pointed out before,’ said Mr Warburton, holding her easily
against him, ‘that I don’t want to let you go ’
‘But we’re standing right m front of Mrs SemprilPs window' She’ll see us
absolutely for certain'’
‘Oh, good God' So she will 1 ’ said Mr Warburton ‘I was forgetting ’
Impressed by this argument, as he would not have been by any other, he let
Dorothy go She promptly put the gate between Mr Warburton and herself
He, meanwhile, was scrutinizing Mrs Sempnll’s windows
‘I can’t see a light anywhere,’ he said finally ‘With any luck the blasted hag
hasn’t seen us ’
‘Good-bye,’ said Dorothy briefly ‘This time I really must go Remember me
to the children ’
With this she made off as fast as she could go without actually running, to get
out of his reach before he should attempt to kiss her again
Even as she did so a sound checked her for an mstant-the unmistakable
bang of a window shutting, somewhere in Mrs Semprill’s house Could Mrs
Semprill have been watching them after alP But (reflected Dorothy) of course
she had been watching them' What else could you expect^ You could hardly
imagine Mrs Semprill missing such a scene as that And if she had been
watching them, undoubtedly the story would be all over the town
tomorrow
morning, and it would lose nothing in the telling But this thought, sinister
though it was, did no more than flight momentarily through Dorothy’s mind as
she hurried down the road
When she was well out of sight of Mr Warburton’s house she stopped, took
out her handkerchief and scrubbed the place on her cheek where he had kissed
her She scrubbed it vigorously enough to bring the blood into her cheek It
was not until she had quite rubbed out the imaginary stam which his bps had
left there that she walked on again
What he had done had upset her Even now her heart was knocking and
fluttering uncomfortably I can’t hear that kind of thing' she repeated to herself
several times over And unfortunately this was no more than the literal truth,
she really could not bear it To be kissed or fondled by a man- to feel heavy
male arms about her and thick male lips bearing down upon her own-was
terrifying and repulsive to her Even m memory or imagination it made her
wmce It was her especial secret, the especial, incurable disability that she
carried through life
go 2 A Clergyman 3 s Daughter
If only they would leave you alone ] she thought as she walked onwards a
little more slowly That was how she put it to herself habitually- ‘If only they
would leave you alone '’ For it was not that m other ways she disliked men On
the contrary, she liked them better than women Part of Mr Warburton’s hold
over her was m the fact that he was a man and had the careless good humour
and the intellectual largeness that women so seldom have But why couldn’t
they leave you alone > Why did they always have to kiss you and maul you
about’ They were dreadful when they kissed you-dreadful and a little
disgusting, like some large, furry beast that rubs itself against you, all too
friendly and yet liable to turn dangerous at any moment And beyond their
kissing and mauling there lay always the suggestion of those other, monstrous
things (‘all that 3 was her name for them) of which she could hardly even bear to
think
Of course, she had had her share, and rather more than her share, of casual
attention from men She was just pretty enough, and just plain enough, to be
the kind of girl that men habitually pester For when a man wants a little casual
amusement, he usually picks out a girl who is not too pretty Pretty girls (so he
reasons) are spoilt and therefore capricious, but plain girls are easy game And
even if you are a clergyman’s daughter, even if you live m a town like Knype
Hill and spend almost your entire life in parish work, you don’t altogether
escape pursuit Dorothy was all too used to it— all too used to the fattish
middle-aged men, with their fishily hopeful eyes, who slowed down their cars
when you passed them on the road, or who manoeuvred an introduction and
then began pinching your elbow about ten minutes afterwards Men of all
descriptions Even a clergyman, on one occasion-a bishop’s chaplain, he
was
But the trouble was that it was not better, but oh* infinitely worse when they
were the right kind of man and the advances they made you were honourable
Her mind slipped backwards five years, to Francis Moon, curate m those days
at St Wedekind’s in Millborough Dear Francis 1 How gladly would she have
married him if only it had not been for all that ' Over and over again he had
asked her to marry him, and of course she had had to say No, and, equally of
course, he had never known why Impossible to tell him why And then he had
gone away, and only a year later had died so irrelevantly of pneumonia She
whispered a prayer for his soul, momentarily forgetting that her father did not
really approve of prayers for the dead, and then, with an effort, pushed the
memory aside Ah, better not to think of it again' It hurt her in her breast to
think of it.
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" (Walden 26), do I answer some seductress or some future or myself, my will, my
fictions?
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