And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From
trampled
thickets of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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weariness!
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"
Good sooth--yet fire is not ingraft in wood,
But many are the seeds of heat, and when
Rubbing
together
they together flow,
They start the conflagrations in the forests.
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Lucretius |
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Freaware
and the Dane.
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Beowulf |
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Praise be to such, and to their
slumbers
peace!
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Li Po |
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I'd begun to be so afraid--so
terribly
afraid of the younger generation.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Heracles indeed, half-way on his road from
the roaring
reveller
of the Satyr-play to the suffering and erring
deliverer of tragedy, is a little foreign to our notions, but quite
intelligible and strangely attractive.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But life as courage--the turning of the dark, hard condition of
life into something which can be exulted in--this, which is the deep
significance of the art of the first epics, is the absolutely necessary
foundation for any subsequent
valuation
of life; Man can achieve nothing
until he has first achieved courage.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"Fast by the manger stands the inactive steed,
And, sunk in sorrow, hangs his languid head;
He stands, and careless of his golden grain,
Weeps his
associates
and his master slain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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d'
533 As
explamed
by Du Jom f successive classes of non-human or
the gnod-sbyin nag-po, re-ti bdud, splntua emgs, na '.
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Dudjom Rinpoche |
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The intellectual indigence and
lack of
inventive
power of this resourceful and
inventive animal is simply terrible.
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Nietzsche - Will to Power |
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Isaiah in a
later chapter tells of the king's humaneness, and discloses
the regeneration which his rule shall bring in the minds
of men: “ Behold,
righteously
the king shall reign; and
the princes, justly shall they rule; and a man shall be as
an hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tem-
pest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land.
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Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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One of the rare places where Heidegger discusses dialectical thought is "Grundsiitze des Denkens," in the fahrbuch fiir
Psychologic
und Psychother- apie, VI (1958), 33-41.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche |
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milrdhana, 236
definitive, of skilful means thabs-kyi nges-pa'i lam: according to Anuyoga, 34, 286, 368-9
finaVof
conclusion
mthar-Iam, Skt.
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Dudjom Rinpoche |
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This is how decadence manifests itself: the
instinct of solidarity is so degenerate that solidarity
itself gets to be
regarded
as tyranny: no authority
or solidarity is brooked, nobody any longer
## p.
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tyrannical |
| Question: |
Why does the instinct of solidarity become degenerate in decadence, and how does this lead to regarding solidarity as tyranny? |
| Answer: |
The instinct of solidarity becomes degenerate in decadence because it leads to regarding solidarity itself as tyranny, as no authority or solidarity is brooked. This happens because the instinct of solidarity is so weak in decadence that people desire to fall in with the rank and file and adopt its ignobly slow pace. In such a situation, the slow movement which is the tempo of science is generally hated, and the scientific man's long breath and impersonal attitude are also resented. Morality is hostile to science because science considers certain things important which have no relation to "good" and "evil," and which therefore reduce the gravity of our feelings concerning "good" and "evil." Socrates was also hostile to science for similar reasons. |
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Nietzsche - Will to Power |
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":
At death the breath, or spirit, the puxń, left the man
and became his shade, while he himself was dissolved by
corruption, or burned by fire; the knowing, loving, hat-
ing, acting man perished, nought surviving but the shad-
owy,
strengthless
image.
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spectral |
| Question: |
How the puxń transform into the shade after death? |
| Answer: |
How does the puxń transform into the shade after death?
At death, the breath or spirit, the puxń, leaves the person and becomes their shade, while their physical body is either dissolved by corruption or burned by fire. The knowing, loving, hating, acting person perishes, with nothing surviving but the shadowy, strengthless image. |
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Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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' Again, Soma is the visible expression of the
sacrificer's wish to move the god to whom it is offered ;
and the sacrifice has the desired effect: then it becomes
not only the symbol of the wish but the symbol of the
wish realized, the symbol of the
efficiency
which brings
that wish to realization: and then the symbolism passes
away-if indeed there had ever been a clear conscious-
ness that it was symbolism,-and there is left, Soma the
wish, Soma the wish realized, Soma the efficiency which
realized the wish, Soma the god.
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efficiency |
| Question: |
Why does the symbolism of the sacrifice represented by Soma pass away once the wish is realized? |
| Answer: |
The symbolism of the sacrifice represented by Soma passes away once the wish is realized because Soma becomes the efficiency which brings the wish to realization, and the symbolism of the wish realized passes away. |
| Source: |
Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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4] Rincen Phtintsok taught the cycles of the Magical Net to Rangdrol Nyinda Sangye, who
expounded
it to Tshewang Norgye, a master of the Khon family.
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Dudjom Rinpoche |
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But it was nothing to the main
Greek alphabetic
invention
of a full set of vowel signs,
whereby they completed the alphabet, and rendered it
more definitely expressive, and fit to visualize the sonor-
ousness of speech.
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Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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tion, should usher in the
Messianic
time.
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Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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The likeness to the
deceased
sought in the portrait
statues precluded idealizing of form or feature.
| Guess: |
subject |
| Question: |
How does seeking the likeness of the deceased in portrait statues prevent idealizing of form or feature? |
| Answer: |
Seeking the likeness of the deceased in portrait statues prevents idealizing of form or feature because the purpose is to convey an accurate representation of the individual, rather than creating an idealized or exaggerated version. |
| Source: |
Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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Aristotle says the pictures of
Polygnotus
had ethos, those of Zeuxis had not.
| Guess: |
Phaedo |
| Question: |
How did Aristotle define ethos in relation to the pictures of Polygnotus and Zeuxis? |
| Answer: |
How did Aristotle define ethos in relation to the pictures of Polygnotus and Zeuxis?
According to the passage, Aristotle stated that the pictures of Polygnotus had ethos, while those of Zeuxis did not. |
| Source: |
Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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This is not the first
appearance
of
such peoples on Egyptian monuments: long-sworded
Shardanes, who formed the foreign body-guard of Ram-
ses II, would seem to have come from over the sea, and
to have been an Aryan people.
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Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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Because of its ever clearer rec-
ognition of its sources, its modes and means, its evidence
and bounds, it was to show the same unique and definite
progress through reasoning
selection
and discrimination,
which Greek art discloses alone among the arts of ancient
peoples.
| Guess: |
ability |
| Question: |
How did Greek art differ from the arts of ancient peoples in terms of its progress through reasoning selection and discrimination? |
| Answer: |
How did Greek art differ from the arts of ancient peoples in terms of its progress through reasoning, selection, and discrimination?
Greek art differed from the arts of ancient peoples in terms of its progress through reasoning, selection, and discrimination because Greek knowledge was destined to know itself. Due to its ever clearer recognition of its sources, modes and means, evidence and bounds, it was able to show the same unique and definite progress through reasoning selection and discrimination, which Greek art discloses alone among the arts of ancient peoples. Greek art was able to progress in a way that other ancient art forms did not due to the Greek race's desire for knowledge and their ability to distinguish between what they knew and what they did not. Other ancient peoples did not perceive and know with sufficient clarity to distinguish what they saw from what they did not see, and thus, their art did not progress in the same way as Greek art did. |
| Source: |
Taylor - 1900 - Ancient Ideals |
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Then, over the ale, on this heirloom gazing,
some ash-wielder old who has all in mind
that spear-death of men, {28c} -- he is stern of mood,
heavy at heart, -- in the hero young
tests the temper and tries the soul
and war-hate wakens, with words like these: --
Canst thou not, comrade, ken that sword
which to the fray thy father carried
in his final feud, 'neath the fighting-mask,
dearest of blades, when the Danish slew him
and wielded the war-place on Withergild's fall,
after havoc of heroes, those hardy
Scyldings?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Physical basis for personal well-being: Happiness, health, life, and control-the things that
principally
characterize what is good for a person-are all UP.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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After these also, Eliu, a younger person, is joined to them in their
reproaches
of blessed Job.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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All that is left are all perfect
qualities
wh' 'h are not just of value for oneself, but automatically have great value for all other beings trapped in conditioned existence.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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Those which are rational are thoughts; those which are
irrational
have no name; but are again subdivided into artificial and not artificial.
| Guess: |
irrational |
| Question: |
Why are irrational thoughts subdivided into artificial and not artificial? |
| Answer: |
The irrational thoughts are subdivided into artificial and not artificial based on their nature, as explained in the passage. |
| Source: |
Diogenes Laertius |
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capitula singulis periochis cum numero adnotare
librorumque
initia diligenter distinguere sqq
In der vita Alchuini heißt von ihm Kap Erat .
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Schmid - 1885 - Geschichte der Erziehung - v1-2 |
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]
MY LADY,
I would, as usual, have availed myself of the privilege your goodness
has allowed me, of sending you anything I compose in my
poetical
way;
but as I had resolved, so soon as the shock of my irreparable loss
would allow me, to pay a tribute to my late benefactor, I determined
to make that the first piece I should do myself the honour of sending
you.
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Robert Burns |
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Arous'd from this sad mood
By one, who at a
distance
loud halloo'd,
Uplifting his strong bow into the air,
Many might after brighter visions stare:
After the Argonauts, in blind amaze
Tossing about on Neptune's restless ways,
Until, from the horizon's vaulted side,
There shot a golden splendour far and wide, 350
Spangling those million poutings of the brine
With quivering ore: 'twas even an awful shine
From the exaltation of Apollo's bow;
A heavenly beacon in their dreary woe.
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Keats |
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This is close to nonsensical22 One might call these literal interpreta
tions in order to capture the obviousness and general
intelligibility
of
their objects.
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banality |
| Question: |
How does using literal interpretations capture the obviousness and general intelligibility of the objects being interpreted? |
| Answer: |
Using literal interpretations captures the obviousness and general intelligibility of the objects being interpreted by providing straightforward and direct interpretations that do not rely on abstract or convoluted interpretations. |
| Source: |
Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Yet am I changed; though still enough the same
In
strength
to bear what time cannot abate,
And feed on bitter fruits without accusing fate.
| Guess: |
heart |
| Question: |
How has the speaker changed while still maintaining their strength to endure hardship and not blame destiny? |
| Answer: |
The speaker has changed but still maintains their strength to endure hardship and not blame destiny. They have thought less wildly and have learned to bear what time cannot abate, and feed on bitter fruits without accusing fate. Harold, who reappears in the passage, has also been altered in soul and aspect as in age, but still has the strength to endure despite the wounds that never heal. |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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Ronsard |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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An
somebody
were come again,
Then somebody maun cross the main,
And every man shall hae his ain,
Carle, an the King come.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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There's stir among the serving folk;
They bustle, bustle, boy and girl;
The
flickering
flames send up the smoke
In many a curl.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Soon was God Bacchus at
meridian
height;
Flush'd were their cheeks, and bright eyes double bright:
Garlands of every green, and every scent
From vales deflower'd, or forest-trees branch rent,
In baskets of bright osier'd gold were brought
High as the handles heap'd, to suit the thought
Of every guest; that each, as he did please,
Might fancy-fit his brows, silk-pillow'd at his ease.
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Keats - Lamia |
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But thou thyself, it seems, hast
business
with me,
And I would listen first to thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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he quits, for ever quits
A scene of peace, though
soothing
to his soul:
Again he rouses from his moping fits,
But seeks not now the harlot and the bowl.
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Greedy and grim, no golden rings
he gives for his pride; the
promised
future
forgets he and spurns, with all God has sent him,
Wonder-Wielder, of wealth and fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To her were addressed those
marvellous
evocations of the
Orient, of perfume, tresses, delicious dawns on strange far-away seas
and "superb Byzant," domes that devils built.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The nymph
exulting
fills with shouts the sky;
The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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is going to construct the
framework
of a drama.
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Aristophanes |
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A print of recent footsteps to explore
The
cavalier
of Scotland was not slow;
Who took the adventure, in the hope to read
Who was the doer of the murderous deed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now,
dwellers
afar,
ocean-travellers, take from me
simple advice: the sooner the better
I hear of the country whence ye came.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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THE DEAD DRUMMER
I
THEY throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined--just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
And foreign
constellations
west
Each night above his mound.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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SOLEIL ET CHAIR
Le Soleil, le foyer de tendresse et de vie,
Verse l'amour brulant a la terre ravie,
Et, quand on est couche sur la vallee, on sent
Que la terre est nubile et deborde de sang;
Que son immense sein, souleve par une ame,
Est d'amour comme dieu, de chair comme la femme,
Et qu'il renferme, gros de seve et de rayons,
Le grand fourmillement de tous les
embryons!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But how should women perform so wise and
glorious
an
achievement, we women who dwell in the retirement of the household, clad
in diaphanous garments of yellow silk and long flowing gowns, decked out
with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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And in thy consulate,
This
glorious
age, O Pollio, shall begin,
And the months enter on their mighty march.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And when from far away we do behold
The squared towers of a city, oft
Rounded they seem,--on this account because
Each distant angle is perceived obtuse,
Or rather it is not perceived at all;
And perishes its blow nor to our gaze
Arrives its stroke, since through such length of air
Are borne along the idols that the air
Makes blunt the idol of the angle's point
By
numerous
collidings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Tes vers, tes vers livides
Ne
generont
pas plus ton souffle de Progres
Que les Stryx n'eteignaient l'oeil des Cariatides
Ou des pleurs d'or astral tombaient des bleus degres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The mist of eve was rising,
The sun was hastening down,
When he was aware of a
princely
pair
Fast pricking towards the town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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at is
Maidenes
spouse.
| 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 |
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Mais tu te mettras a ce
travail: toutes les
possibilites
harmoniques et architecturales
s'emouvront autour de ton siege.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Chimene
My
troubled
mind dares hope for nothing there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'Happy at conquering these treacherous fears
My crime's to have parted the dishevelled tangle
Of kisses that the gods kept so well mingled:
For I'd scarcely begun to hide an ardent laugh
In one girl's happy depths (holding back
With only a finger, so that her
feathery
candour
Might be tinted by the passion of her burning sister,
The little one, naive and not even blushing)
Than from my arms, undone by vague dying,
This prey, forever ungrateful, frees itself and is gone,
Not pitying the sob with which I was still drunk.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Wie
Himmelskrafte
auf und nieder steigen
Und sich die goldnen Eimer reichen!
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Wilde - Poems |
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No poet will ever take the written word as a
substitute
for
the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken
word only, that his art is founded.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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After six years spent in
further victories, he called an
assembly
of the prelates, nobility, and
commons, to meet at Lamego.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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merciful
dedes:
Who ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When speaks the signal-trumpet tone,
And the long line comes gleaming on,
(Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Has dimmed the glist'ning bayonet),
Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn
To where thy meteor-glories burn,
And, as his
springing
steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance from the glance!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Your fathers (be those fathers who they may) 120
These things have doubtless told you; for immense
Have been my suff'rings, and I have destroy'd
A palace well inhabited and stored
With precious
furniture
in ev'ry kind;
Such, that I would to heav'n!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"'Mong swelling floods of reeking gore,
They, ardent,
kindling
spirits pour;
[Footnote 10: Colonel Fullarton.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Faun, illusion escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs,
contrasts
you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Avenge O lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones
Lie scatter'd on the Alpine
mountains
cold,
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old
When all our Fathers worship't Stocks and Stones,
Forget not: in thy book record their groanes
Who were thy Sheep and in their antient Fold
Slayn by the bloody Piemontese that roll'd
Mother with Infant down the Rocks.
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Milton |
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His
lordship
is unwell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Poor Betty now has lost all hope,
Her
thoughts
are bent on deadly sin;
A green-grown pond she just has pass'd,
And from the brink she hurries fast,
Lest she should drown herself therein.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What are our woes and
sufferance?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright,
The heav'ns
bespangling
with dishevell'd light.
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Alexander Pope |
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I'll sing no more,
resigned
I'll be,
And banish joy and love of her.
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Troubador Verse |
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Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse: I say
the form complete is
worthier
far.
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Whitman |
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It is only by extravagance,
by an emphasis far greater than that of life as we observe it, that
we can crowd into a few minutes the
knowledge
of years.
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Yeats |
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Treacherous now he is keeping his word: giving me themes for my poems
While he is
stealing
my time, potency, presence of mind.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In "Youth and Age," think how much is
actually said, and with a brevity impossible in prose; things, too, far
from easy for poetry to say gracefully, such as the image of the steamer,
or the frank
reference
to "this altered size"; and then see with what an
art, as of the very breathing of syllables, it passes into the most flowing
of lyric forms.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I cannot
conceive
a
better reason for his being sent there.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thus, with a jest and a laugh, the skein on his hands she adjusted,
He sitting awkwardly there, with his arms
extended
before him,
She standing graceful, erect, and winding the thread from his fingers,
Sometimes chiding a little his clumsy manner of holding,
Sometimes touching his hands, as she disentangled expertly
Twist or knot in the yarn, unawares--for how could she help it?
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Longfellow |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"Why, no," said he; "perhaps I should
Have stayed another minute--
But still no Ghost, that's any good,
Without an introduction would
Have
ventured
to begin it.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Her lamp has fallen; her eyes are wet;
Frozen she stands, she lingers yet;
But through the garden's
gladness
steals
A whisper that each heart congeals--
A moan of grieving
Beyond relieving,
Which makes the proudest of them shiver.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A patriot of the world, how could I glide
Into
communion
with her sylvan shades,
Erewhile my tuneful haunt?
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William Wordsworth |
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a
thoughtful
Swain, upon whose head 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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said Enion
accursed
wretch!
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Blake - Zoas |
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That night destroyed me like an avalanche;
One night turned all my summer back to snow:
Next morning not a bird upon my branch,
Not a lamb woke below,-- 80
No bird, no lamb, no living breathing thing;
No squirrel
scampered
on my breezy lawn,
No mouse lodged by his hoard: all joys took wing
And fled before that dawn.
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Christina Rossetti |
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His
magnanimity, self-control, and good temper, re-
strained him from avenging any insult offered to
himself; — his
chivalrous
love of justice instantly
roused all the lion within him on behalf of the
injured and oppressed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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