(4) Whatever may have been the original meaning of the word, it
must have been generally
understood
in the moralities in the sense
now usually attributed to it; for (5) The term was applied in the
moralities only to a character in some degree evil.
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For never shall ye be
From
henceforth
under the same roof with me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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(To Don Diegue)
See how her face
abruptly
changes hue.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But let the frame of things dis-ioynt,
Both the Worlds suffer,
Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe
In the
affliction
of these terrible Dreames,
That shake vs Nightly: Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace,
Then on the torture of the Minde to lye
In restlesse extasie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Going home--I shed a few tears,
Grieving
about things,--not sorry for you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But I grant that Kings
Of the
Achaians
may no few be found
In sea-girt Ithaca both young and old, 500
Of whom since great Ulysses is no more,
Reign whoso may; but King, myself, I am
In my own house, and over all my own
Domestics, by Ulysses gained for me.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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org),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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155
Quae Syrtis, quae Scylla rapax, quae vasta
Charybdis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses,
O thou, my pleasure, thou, all my desire,
Thou shalt recall the beauty of caresses,
The charm of
evenings
by the gentle fire,
Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But now you may stare as you like and there's nothing to scan;
And
brushing
your elbow unguessed-at and not to be told
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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By a lone wall a lonelier column rears
A grey and grief-worn aspect of old days
'Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years,
And looks as with the wild bewildered gaze
Of one to stone
converted
by amaze,
Yet still with consciousness; and there it stands,
Making a marvel that it not decays,
When the coeval pride of human hands,
Levelled Aventicum, hath strewed her subject lands.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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CLXVII
The count Rollant sees the Archbishop lie dead,
Sees the bowels out of his body shed,
And sees the brains that surge from his forehead;
Between his two arm-pits, upon his breast,
Crossways
he folds those hands so white and fair.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The _Electra_ has none of the imaginative
splendour, the vastness, the intense poetry, of that
wonderful
work.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
splendour
falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
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Tennyson |
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Coello's boat
immediately
set off for his
rescue.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Here's
righteous
metal!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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)[34] Going
round mountains and
skirting
lakes was as nothing to them.
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Li Po |
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Alone, a maid is nought, a
strengthless
arm.
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Aeschylus |
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I thinke withall,
There would be hands vplifted in my right:
And heere from
gracious
England haue I offer
Of goodly thousands.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It would be peculiarly
interesting to the great Posthumian House, which
numbered
among
its many images that of the Dictator Aulus, the hero of Regillus.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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* * * *
Yet in the
meanwhile
now what olden usage of forbears
Brings as the boons that befit mournfullest funeral rites,
Thine be these gifts which flow with tear-flood shed by thy brother,
And, for ever and aye (Brother!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thou, when the giants, threatening wrack,
Were
clambering
up Jove's citadel,
Didst hurl o'erweening Rhoetus back,
In tooth and claw a lion fell.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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' thought he, `Thus wole I seye and thus;
Thus wole I pleyne unto my lady dere;
That word is good, and this shal be my chere;
This nil I not
foryeten
in no wyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the
Scythians
did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the sweetest joy.
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Ronsard |
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"If thou, like me,
beheldst
the charity
That burns amongst us, what thy mind conceives,
Were utter'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ces yeux mysterieux ont d'invincibles charmes
Pour celui que l'austere Infortune
allaita!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What need hath Nature of
silver dishes, multitudes of waiters, delicate pages,
perfumed
napkins?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Within that forest world of
twilight
green
Ambushed with unknown perils, one endless day
I travel down the beetle-trail between
Huge glossy boles through green infinity .
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But such
discrepancies we are called upon to accept at every hour by the
conditions of our nature, implying the
interval
between aspiration
and performance, between faith and disillusion, between hope and
fact.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_Of the
Progresse
of the Soule_, p.
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John Donne |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Ronsard |
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But behooves, that far
As to the centre first I
downward
tend.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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" He won the
Military
Cross.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nor will such excess of light
O'erpower us, in corporeal organs made
Firm, and
susceptible
of all delight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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This same
Whitehall
may black its front with crape,
And this broad window be the portal twice
To lead upon a scaffold!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nicolas
carefully
annotates "Dieu," "La Divinite,"
&c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ These lines form a
crux in the textual
criticism
of Donne's poetry.
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John Donne |
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to none other I
My heart's allegiance can resign,
My doom has been
pronounced
on high,
'Tis Heaven's will and I am thine.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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God that made all that goes or stays
And formed this love from afar
Grant me the power to hope one day
I'll see this love of mine afar,
Truly, and in a
pleasant
hour,
So that her chamber and her bower,
Might seem a palace to my eyes.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad: vnnaturall deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes
To their deafe
pillowes
will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Novis te cantabo chordis,
O novelletum quod ludia
In
solitudine
cordis.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred
blossoms
wear.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But, O beloved Earthbloom soft a-shine
Upon the universal Jessamine,
Prithee, abuse me not,
Prithee, refuse me not,
Yield, yield the
heartsome
honey love to me
Hid in thy nectary!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Such was the
manly spirit of these ages, that the statutes of Lamego received
additional articles in favour of liberty, a
convincing
proof that the
general heroism of a people depends upon the principles of freedom.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" KAU}
Los joyd & Enitharmon laughd, saying Let us go down
And see this labour & sorrow; They went down to see the woes
Of Vala & the woes of Luvah, to draw in their
delights
And Vala like a shadow oft appeard to Urizen
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The King of Light beheld her mourning among the Brick kilns compelld
To labour night & day among the fires, her lamenting voice
Is heard when silent night returns & the labourers take their rest
O Lord wilt thou not look upon our sore afflictions
Among these flames incessant labouring, our hard masters laugh
At all our sorrow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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No victory for
gluttons
such as you.
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Chanson de Roland |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But never yet the man was found
Who could the mystery expound,
Though Adam, born when oaks were young,
Endured, the Bible says, as long;
But when at last the
patriarch
died
The Gordian noose was still untied.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Tout a coup, un
vieillard
dont les guenilles jaunes
Imitaient la couleur de ce ciel pluvieux,
Et dont l'aspect aurait fait pleuvoir les aumones,
Sans la mechancete qui luisait dans ses yeux,
M'apparut.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I
listened
till it almost climbed the stairs
From the hall to the only finished bedroom,
Before I got up to do anything;
Then ran and shouted, "Shut the bedroom door,
Toffile, for my sake!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ille pulueris Africei
siderumque micantium 200
subducat
numerum prius,
Qui uostri numerare uolt
multa milia ludei.
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Latin - Catullus |
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in lieu of a refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Alfred Lord
Tennyson
was the typically English poet, and none, perhaps
not even Shakespeare, has appealed so keenly to the human heart.
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Tennyson |
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Indeed, indeed,
Repentance
oft before
I swore--but was I sober when I swore?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's dazzling sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of Blasphemy
scattered
through the future.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to
perpetrate
a pun.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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What does
the Squire's horn
symbolize?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
The oldest title I ever heard to this air, was, "The
Highland
Watch's
Farewell to Ireland.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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This is _monte potiri_, to get
the hill; for no perfect
discovery
can be made upon a flat or a level.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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what wounds I mark'd upon their limbs,
Recent and old,
inflicted
by the flames!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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As when a general
darkness
veils the main,
(Soft Zephyr curling the wide wat'ry plain,)
The waves scarce heave, the face of ocean sleeps,
And a still horror saddens all the deeps;
Thus in thick orders settling wide around,
At length composed they sit, and shade the ground.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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In blood his arms were and his hauberk steeped,
And bloodied o'er,
shoulders
and neck, his steed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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[B] For aftter mete, with
mournyng
he mele3 to his eme,
544 & speke3 of his passage, & pertly he sayde,
[C] "Now, lege lorde of my lyf, leue I yow ask;
3e knowe ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Meredith - Poems |
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As to trees the vine
Is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
Bulls to the herd, to
fruitful
fields the corn,
So the one glory of thine own art thou.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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A
Sarrazin
him all the time espies,
Who feigning death among the others hides;
Blood hath his face and all his body dyed;
He gets afoot, running towards him hies;
Fair was he, strong and of a courage high;
A mortal hate he's kindled in his pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Illustrate
by _The Shepheards
Calender_ and the _The Faerie Queene_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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" {62a}
My conceit of his person was never
increased
toward him by his place or
honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only
proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the
greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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e_) G:
_serapim_
(_ini_ O) RVenO
27 _deferri_ ACD: _deserti al.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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all light is mute amid the gloom,
The
interlunar
cavern of the tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Weave, weave, for Manius Curius
The third
embroidered
gown:
Make ready the third lofty car,
And twine the third green crown;
And yoke the steeds of Rosea
With necks like a bended bow,
And deck the bull, Mevania's bull,
The bull as white as snow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Every traveller I've ever known has complained of poor treatment:
He whom I
recommend
treatment delicious receives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Little and less he says to them,
So dances his heart in his breast;
Their tranquil mien
bereaveth
him
Of wit, of words, of rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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neas sped;
This sprang from Phelus, and the
Athenians
led;
But hapless Medon from Oileus came;
Him Ajax honour'd with a brother's name,
Though born of lawless love: from home expell'd,
A banish'd man, in Phylace he dwell'd,
Press'd by the vengeance of an angry wife;
Troy ends at last his labours and his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Tom is the wreath, the
scattered
flowers lie low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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As when some heifer, seeking for her steer
Through
woodland
and deep grove, sinks wearied out
On the green sedge beside a stream, love-lorn,
Nor marks the gathering night that calls her home-
As pines that heifer, with such love as hers
May Daphnis pine, and I not care to heal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Here stand it still to dignify our Muse,
Your sober handmaid, who doth wisely choose
Your name to be a laureate wreath to her
Who doth both love and fear you,
honoured
sir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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He was invited to England by Cranmer in 1548, and held
the Professorship of Hebrew at
Cambridge
until 1553.
| Guess: |
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Of themselves,
Untended, will the she-goats then bring home
Their udders swollen with milk, while flocks afield
Shall of the
monstrous
lion have no fear.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Elle cherchait dans l'oeil de sa pale victime
Le cantique muet que chante le plaisir
Et cette gratitude infinie et sublime
Qui sort de la
paupiere
ainsi qu'un long soupir:
--<< Hippolyte, cher coeur, que dis-tu de ces choses?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am
forbidden
to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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If
Rodrigue
is essential to the State,
Must I pay for the workings of fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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John Donne |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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in what queer Guys
Thou'rt fond of
crystallizing!
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James Russell Lowell |
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poured in a thin gray cascade,
The powder in the pan is laid,
The sharp flint, screwed
securely
on,
Is cocked once more.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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Our interview was transient,--
Of me, himself was shy;
And God forbid I look behind
Since that
appalling
day!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nor be of many words to those ye meet,
The while this
suppliant
voyager ye lead.
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Aeschylus |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And therwithal he heng a-doun the heed,
And fil on knees, and
sorwfully
he sighte; 1080
What mighte he seyn?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And then the
festival
begins!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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