Potei la lingua a pena aver sì forte,
e tanta voce a pena, ch'io gridassi:
— Me
tradiresti
dunque tu, consorte,
quando tu avessi chi 'l mio onor comprassi?
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Administrator immediately
collected
troops and commenced
hostilities, before Gustavus Adolphus was near enough to co-operate with
him.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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One section
consists
of British interests, another the Indians (who, as traders and money-lenders, hold about one-fourth of Burma's land) and the Chinese.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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She it was who was the "gateway of life, door of salvation, way of reconciliation, approach to recovery" and "the palace of
universal
propitiation, cause of general reconciliation, vase and temple of life and universal salvation.
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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`A wraith' (I
thought)
`that walks the shore
To solve some old perplexity.
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know') |
| Question: |
Why is the wraith walking the shore and what is the old perplexity it is trying to solve? |
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The wraith is walking the shore to solve an old perplexity, which is not specified in the passage. |
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Sidney Lanier |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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The
scurrilous
satire of Kenrick, however unmerited, may have checked
Goldsmith's taste for masquerades.
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harsh |
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Our responsibility is to choose the sources wisely and judiciously and to provide a
legitimate
context for exploration.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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He sat down with them, and improved their
conversation
very much.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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[21]
_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
Discovering
that he
was endowed with a special music fantasy, Otto later (on Au-
gust 12, 1902) arrived at the conviction that he was a born
musician.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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repeats, word for word, certain
emphatic
passages, messages, and so on.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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The manner of describing the
Olympian
family at the end of
the first book is quite continuous throughout, and simply reaches its
climax in the fourteenth book.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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With a high degree of consciousness it is shown how
experience
can be extinguished in people.
| Guess: |
prejudice |
| Question: |
How does a high degree of consciousness demonstrate the extinguishing of experience in people? |
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A high degree of consciousness demonstrates the extinguishing of experience in people by voiding reflective-ness, doubt, and the awareness of ambivalences in the interest of struggle, according to the excerpt from Mein Kampf. This creates a program for an artful primitivization of consciousness, which ultimately furthers the positive or negative differentiations presented by individuals. |
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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1416) it would be
reasonable
to choose at random between the values 3.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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You want me to undertake a great poem--I have not the
inclination
nor
the power.
| Guess: |
genius |
| Question: |
Why does the speaker refuse to undertake writing a great poem? |
| Answer: |
The speaker refuses to undertake writing a great poem because they lack the inclination and power to do so, and as they grow older, their indifference to the stimuli of life increases. |
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Selection of English Letters |
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Make way, from wave-bound verge to verge
Of all our land, that this great multitude
With lamentation proud albeit subdued,
Deep
murmuring
like the ocean's mighty surge,
May pass beneath the heavens' triumphal arch!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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which contain the hymn have
some
important
differences, and instead of noting these as variants
or making a patchwork text I have thought it best to print the poem
as given in _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_.
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John Donne |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Meet me at the sunset
Down in the green glen,
Where we've often met
By
hawthorn
tree and foxes' den,
Meet me in the green glen.
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John Clare |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If
predators
get better at their job, prey have to follow suit just to stay in the same place.
| Guess: |
workers |
| Question: |
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The improvement of predators' hunting skills impacts the adaptation and survival of prey through co-evolution and co-adaptation, which involves a progressive build-up of improvements in efficiency in order to keep up with predators. This leads to real progressive improvement in equipment for survival, even if it does not necessarily lead to an improvement in survival itself. |
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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I cannot easily
believe that the Gospel of Saint John, which Jacques Cartier ordered to
be read in the Latin tongue to the
Canadian
savages, upon his first
meeting with them, fell altogether upon stony ground.
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James Russell Lowell |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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2
There is a certain little instrument, the first of those in use with scholars, and the meanest, considering the
materials
of it, whether it be a joint of wheaten straw, (the old Arcadian pipe) or just three inches of slender wire, or a stripped feather, or a corking-pin.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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To the stile
She came o'er violet carpets soft, attired,
To meet the harvest bridegroom, as erewhile,
To be his
truelove
till the feast expired.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Mit Him
melblau giebt es ein schwach grünliches Weiss, mit In-
digoblau reines Weiss, mit Violett ein schwach fleisch-
farbenes Weiss, was bei überwiegenderem Violett in weiss-
liches Violett, bei überwiegenderem Gelb in
weissliches
Gelb
übergeht.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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What noble work is ours,
To have our bodies proper for your love,
The means of your
delight!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Have you reached such a pitch of madness that you believe
those bilious
fellows?
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Aristophanes |
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Experimentation also permits a random or systematic selection of subjects,
often permitting
statistical
analysis.
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statistical |
| Question: |
Why does experimentation often involve statistical analysis? |
| Answer: |
Why does experimentation often involve statistical analysis?
Experimentation often involves statistical analysis because it allows for a random or systematic selection of subjects, which can then be compared with other groups under controlled conditions. This comparison allows for the gathering and analysis of statistical evidence, which can be used for confidence in the results. |
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Childens - Folklore |
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The birds put up the bars to nests,
The cattle fled to barns;
There came one drop of giant rain,
And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,
The waters wrecked the sky,
But overlooked my father's house,
Just
quartering
a tree.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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Nightingales
are singing from the wood — —
And the moonlight through the lattice streaming Silence —and deep midnight —and one face
"Like a moonlit land, desire's kingdom, Luring from the breast the homesick self!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the
remotest knowledge of how to live nor the
smallest
instinct about when
to die.
| Guess: |
right |
| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Just then, as through one
cloudless
chink in a black stormy
sky
Shines out the dewy morning-star, a fair young girl came by.
| Guess: |
narrow |
| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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-- 100
'Tis Hugo's,--he, the child of one
He loved--his own all-evil son--
The
offspring
of his wayward youth,
When he betrayed Bianca's truth,[ra][416]
The maid whose folly could confide
In him who made her not his bride.
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Byron |
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FOREWORD
IN the opinions of some of the deepest literary
thinkers of Germany, Stefan George finds a place as
the
greatest
poet of the day.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The volume purported to have no editor, yet
a
collection
without an editor was pronounced preposterous.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The wave
Of the boat's motion marred their pensive task,
Which naught but vagrant bird, or wanton wind, _410
Or falling spear-grass, or their own decay
Had e'er
disturbed
before.
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Shelley |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Tels que les
excrements
chauds d'un vieux colombier
Mille reves en moi font de douces brulures;
Puis par instants mon coeur triste est comme un aubier
Qu'ensanglante l'or jaune et sombre des coulures.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Three weeks passed since I had seen her, --
Some disease had vexed;
'T was with text and village singing
I beheld her next,
And a company -- our pleasure
To discourse alone;
Gracious now to me as any,
Gracious
unto none.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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by Dykes
Campbell
in his edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg(TM) License.
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Stephen Crane |
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While Richard, pleased with his escape
From what he feared an awkward scrape,
Was dreaming of his happy choice,
Our Kitty, by her father's voice
Awakened, from her hand let go
The cause of all her joy and woe,
And round her naked beauties wound
The sheet picked up from off the ground:
Meanwhile
the notary appears
To put an end to all their fears.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Of debts, and taxes, wife and
children
clear,
This man possest--five hundred pounds a year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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25
The
Macmillan
Co.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Cinnabar Courtyard is near to royal concerns, moving swift as spirits, the
imperial
guard is firm.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Sothly, the faute mot nedis than
(As God
forbede!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Him wander-weary, warrior-guest
from far, a hall-thane
heralded
forth,
who by custom courtly cared for all
needs of a thane as in those old days
warrior-wanderers wont to have.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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At the
age of 13 he eminently
excelled
in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, philo
sophy, mathematics, theology in all its branches, and many of
the sciences.
| Guess: |
proficient |
| Question: |
How did he manage to excel in so many different subjects at such a young age? |
| Answer: |
At the age of 13, he managed to excel in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, philosophy, mathematics, theology in all its branches, and many of the sciences. |
| Source: |
Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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Waltham Plain,
Cornwallis
at.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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’
‘No bloody fear' But Norman t’inks I have I kidded’m I was
stayin’
in a
cottage near by Between you an’ me.
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
]
[Footnote 70: break, a herald term,
signifying
a spear broken in
tilting.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'99'
Pope's old enemy, Dennis, objected to the
impropriety
of Belinda's
filling the sky with exulting shouts, and some modern critics have been
foolish enough to echo his objection.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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No lots they cast for keeping the hoard
when once the
warriors
saw it in hall,
altogether without a guardian,
lying there lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till
judgment
break
Excellent and fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No
drearier
can prevail!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Or, if that seems
too much of an antinomy to some philosophies (and it is perhaps possible
to make it look more apparent than real), the dualism can be unavoidably
declared by putting it
entirely
in terms of consciousness: destiny
creating within itself an existence which stands against and apart from
destiny by being _conscious_ of it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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(3) Each is a somewhat
ambitious effort,
complete
in itself, and distinctly lyrical.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For when the conquering wolves
Into that village won, we in our huts
Lay hearkening to their
rejoicing
hunger;
But Gwat stayed out in the stars all night long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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how soft are thy
voluptuous
ways!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
]
When huge Vesuvius in its torment long,
Threatening
has growled its cavernous jaws among,
When its hot lava, like the bubbling wine,
Foaming doth all its monstrous edge incarnadine,
Then is alarm in Naples.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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KAU}
Casting their sparkies dire abroad into the dismal deep
{Alternate
reading of "sparkles" for "sparkies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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A King or courtier or a courtesan or a
Community
was going to
die or get a new Constitution, or do something that was important on
the other side of the world, and the paper was to be held open till the
latest possible minute in order to catch the telegram.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[Illustration]
There was a young lady of Firle,
Whose hair was addicted to curl;
It curled up a tree, and all over the sea,
That
expansive
young lady of Firle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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God's own mother was less dear to me,
And less dear the
Cytheraean
rising like an
argent lily from the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE
Six
thankful
weeks,--and let it be
A meter of prosperity,--
In my coat I bore this book,
And seldom therein could I look,
For I had too much to think,
Heaven and earth to eat and drink.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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It was a
family feud; no farther inquiry was made; and from age to age, the
parties, who never injured each other,
breathed
nothing but mutual
rancour and revenge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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where did you
discover
them, pray?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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With swordless belt, and
fettered
hand,
Oh, Christ!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Fiercest attack
Was as a
perfumed
breeze to them, which drew
Their souls still closer unto God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
595
Phaedra
If you hated me, I would not
complain
of it,
My Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Love, like a beggar, came to me
With hose and doublet torn:
His shirt
bedangling
from his knee,
With hat and shoes outworn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
He threw with
weighted
dice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
"O Hector, all my
brothers
more were not so loved of me
As thy most virtues.
| 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 |
|
6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
God Neptune's
palaces!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Doth he give
Thy tomb good
tendance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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You too be wise, my Plancus: life's worst cloud
Will melt in air, by mellow wine allay'd,
Dwell you in camps, with
glittering
banners proud,
Or 'neath your Tibur's canopy of shade.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O revered Mother, O Ether
Revolving
common light to all,
You see me, how unjust things I endure!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Elvire
Reject, Madame, so tragic a design;
Reject this law,
tyrannical
and blind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Cromek says, when a neighbour complained that his copy of the Morning
Chronicle was not regularly delivered to him from the post-office, the
poet wrote the following indignant letter to Perry on a leaf of his
excise-book, but before it went to the post he
reflected
and recalled
it.
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Robert Burns |
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Appear for him,
Avenger!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Meanwhile, tsarevich,
Hide in thy soul the seed of heavenly blessing;
Religious
duty bids us oft dissemble
Before the blabbing world; the people judge
Thy words, thy deeds; God only sees thy motives.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How can we give you your
offerings?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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She points the path on high: and I who know
Her chaste anxiety and earnest prayer,
In
whispers
sweet, affectionate, and low,
Train, at her will, my acts and wishes there:
And find such sweetness in her words alone
As with their power should melt the hardest stone.
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Petrarch |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants,
chantant
dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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