' 1190
What mighte or may the sely larke seye,
Whan that the
sperhauk
hath it in his foot?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And now in
flight he descries the peak and steep sides of toiling Atlas, whose
crest
sustains
the sky; Atlas, whose pine-clad head is girt alway with
black clouds and beaten by wind and rain; snow is shed over his
shoulders for covering; rivers tumble over his aged chin; and his rough
beard is stiff with ice.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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| Question: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They are all
drowned!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And many an Afghan chief, who lies
Beneath his cool pomegranate-trees,
Clutches his sword in fierce surmise
When on the mountain-side he sees
The fleet-foot Marri scout, who comes
To tell how he hath heard afar
The
measured
roll of English drums
Beat at the gates of Kandahar.
| Guess: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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For nothing visible, they say, had birth
In that blest ground but it was play'd about
With its
peculiar
glory.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was
Cassandra
Salviati, the daughter of an Italian banker.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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What if the immortals on the man bestow
Sufficient
strength
to draw the mighty bow?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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217,
apparently
remarks that ēode is
"probably used only in prose.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet it's too harsh, and my reason's stunned
By my scorn for such a lover:
Though birth
reserves
me for kings alone,
Rodrigue I'll bow to your law with honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O bliss of
blisses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The Wine
I cannot die, who drank delight
From the cup of the crescent moon,
And
hungrily
as men eat bread,
Loved the scented nights of June.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou art the first that I have known in deed
True and my friend, and
shelterer
of my need.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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As Daniel, when the haughty king he freed
From ire, that spurr'd him on to deeds unjust
And violent; so look'd
Beatrice
then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is one
disaster
not enough for you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A sudden music spins great webs of sound
Spanning the ground, the stars and their companions;
While from the cliffs and canons of blue air,
Prayers of all colors, cries of exultation
Rise into
choruses
of singing gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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And thy
dwelling
men shall call
Orestes Town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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His hair,
formerly
black as jet, had begun to turn
grey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There I see the young tsarevich
Lie slaughtered: the queen mother in a swoon
Bowed over him, his nurse in her despair
Wailing; and then the
maddened
people drag
The godless, treacherous nurse away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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7645
And sir, of o thing herkeneth me:--
Sith ye this man, that loveth yow,
Han seid such harm and shame now,
Witeth wel, if he gessed it,
Ye may wel demen in your wit, 7650
He nolde no-thing love you so,
Ne callen you his freend also,
But night and day he [wolde] wake,
The castel to
destroye
and take,
If it were sooth as ye devyse; 7655
Or som man in som maner wyse
Might it warne him everydel,
Or by him-self perceyven wel;
For sith he might not come and gon
As he was whylom wont to don, 7660
He might it sone wite and see;
But now al other-wyse [doth] he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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strike with
vengeful
stroke!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
'
And she answerde, `Of gilt
misericorde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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How can I but, as here, chanting, invite you for
yourself
to collect
bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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E senti' dir: <
tanto di grazia, che l'amor del gusto
nel petto lor troppo disir non fuma,
esuriendo
sempre quanto e giusto!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then instant rose, and as he moved along,
'Twas riot all amid the suitor throng,
They feast, they dance, and raise the
mirthful
song
Till now, declining towards the close of day,
The sun obliquely shot his dewy ray.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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1714 for the same bēod-genēatas,--"the
predecessor
title to
that of the Knights of the Table Round.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
]
[Sidenote F: Come again to my abode, and abide there for the
remainder
of
the festival.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
The thought of a coming
separation
made such an impression on my mother
that she dropped her spoon into her saucepan, and her eyes filled with
tears.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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pulcer et urbanae cupiens exercitus umbrae,
assiduus ludis, auidus splendere lauacris
nec soles imbrisue pati multumque priori
dispar, sub clipeo Thracum qui ferre pruinas,
dum Stilicho regeret, nudoque hiemare sub axe
sueuerat et duris haurire
bipennibus
Hebrum.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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e lyppe & browe,
No
meruayle
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He does not know that sickening thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three
leathern
thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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thou roamest now the hills,
While on soft
hyacinths
he, his snowy side
Reposing, under some dark ilex now
Chews the pale herbage, or some heifer tracks
Amid the crowding herd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then only might'st thou feel a just regret,
Hadst thou
withheld
thy love or hid thy light
In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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:
_separata_
BLa1
21 _nihil uidet_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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"Sara
Teasdale
has a genius for the song, for the perfect lyric, in
which the words seem to have fallen into place without art or
effort.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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There
is indeed little doubt that oblivion covers many English songs
equal to any that were
published
by Bishop Percy, and many
Spanish songs as good as the best of those which have been so
happily translated by Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A Cooking Egg
En l'an
trentiesme
de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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[4]
Throughout
the new text the name is written with
the abbreviation _d_Gi(s), [5] whereas the standard Assyrian text
has consistently the writing _d_GIS-TU [6]-BAR.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The only spoils which
Papirius
Cursor and Fabius
Maximus could exhibit were flocks and herds, wagons of rude
structure, and heaps of spears and helmets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--That friend so mild and good,
Who like its shadow near my youth had stood, _2465
Was
stabbed!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I
whispered
to him thrice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now let me crunch you
With full weight of
affrighted
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Les morts, les pauvres morts ont de grandes douleurs,
Et quand Octobre souffle, emondeur des vieux arbres,
Son vent melancolique a, l'entour de leurs marbres,
Certe, ils doivent trouver les vivants bien ingrats,
De dormir, comme ils font,
chaudement
dans leurs draps,
Tandis que, devores de noires songeries,
Sans compagnon de lit, sans bonnes causeries,
Vieux squelettes geles travailles par le ver,
Ils sentent s'egoutter les neiges de l'hiver
Et le siecle couler, sans qu'amis ni famille
Remplacent les lambeaux qui pendent a leur grille.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
]
In
youthful
spirits wild,
Smile, for all beams on thee;
Sport, sing, be still the child,
The flower, the honey-bee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Venulus too is sent to the town of mighty Diomede to seek
succour, to
instruct
him that Teucrians set foot in Latium; that Aeneas
in his fleet invades them with the vanquished gods of his home, and
proclaims himself the King summoned of fate; that many tribes join the
Dardanian, and his name swells high in Latium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The gilded youth flocked around him,
neglecting
society, preferring the
charms of faro to those of their sweethearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Yet more; the tyrant Genius, still at strife
With all the tender Charities of life,
When close and closer they begin to strain, 610
No fond hand left to staunch th' unclosing vein,
Tearing their
bleeding
ties leaves Age to groan
On his wet bed, abandon'd and alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,
Uttering
bare truth, even so as foes commend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Cruel
vexation
to a loving spirit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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E tutti li altri che tu vedi qui,
seminator
di scandalo e di scisma
fuor vivi, e pero son fessi cosi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sometimes
trooper of
The Royal Horse Guards
Obiit H.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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And many a wandering caravan of stately negroes silken-shawled,
Crossing the desert, halts
appalled
before the neck that none can
span.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XXVI
Meanwhile the courser by the myrtle's side,
Whom he left stabled in the cool retreat,
Started at
something
in the wood descried,
Scared by I know not what; and in his heat
So made the myrtle shake where he was tied,
He brought a shower of leaves about his feet;
He made the myrtle shake and foliage fall,
But, struggling, could not loose himself withal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The aim of all
Is how to shine: e'en they, whose office is
To preach the Gospel, let the gospel sleep,
And pass their own
inventions
off instead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
And the
daughter
of Cyprus said to me,
"Child of the earth, 10
Behold, all things are born and attain,
But only as they desire,---
"The sun that is strong, the gods that are wise,
The loving heart,
Deeds and knowledge and beauty and joy,-- 15
But before all else was desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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On as we drove, the
equinoctial
deep
Ran mountains--high before the howling blaft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
In the first place, if the _1669_ text be right
it is not clear why the poet did not
preserve
the regular order:
Is man now than he was before he was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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I am too proud
To endure the world's desire of my beauty;
I know myself too
marvellous
in love
To be the joy of aught that thou hast made:
I am to be bride of thee, of the world's maker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
LXII
But when, approaching near, he saw the band,
He sallied forth to meet them by the way;
And
wielding
still his sword in either hand,
Made cruel havoc in the close array.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ey knowe hym nought; 284
That voyce sayde on that ylke a daye,
And tolde hym redyly where he laye;
'In
eufamyans
hous,' he sayde, 'is he, 287
That hathe my Serwaunt long I-be.
| 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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And, above all things, they are not to
interfere
with other
people or judge them in any way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Apart from the real miseries of the moment, it
was plunged into a groundless panic on the rumour of a
rebellion
in
Africa, where Lucius Piso was supposed to be plotting a revolution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
For once I would have taken him up upon his
insulting
wager.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Turn O Libertad
Turn O Libertad, for the war is over,
From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute,
sweeping the world,
Turn from lands retrospective
recording
proofs of the past,
From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,
From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come--give up that
backward world,
Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
But what remains remains for singers for you--wars to come are for you,
(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars
of the present also inure;)
Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad--turn your undying face,
To where the future, greater than all the past,
Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Glance over the
foregoing
verses, and let me have your blots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
But all
this in vain without a natural wit and a
poetical
nature in chief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
--And yes, thank God, it still is possible
The healing days shall close the darkness up
Wherein I
breathed
you like a smoke or dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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A fortified town is like a
man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of
broadswords and small arms slung to him,
endeavoring
to go about his
business.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In
Chronicles
of Franks is written down,
What vassalage he had, our Emperour.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Was God so
economical?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My soul lies bare before you; ye have seen
With what
humility
and fear I took
This mighty power upon me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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If there shall be love and content between the father and the son,
and if the
greatness
of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the
father, there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable
science.
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Whitman |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous mendiants morts saouls de biere
Vous les
aveugles
comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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This brilliant and
versatile
author has
written many essays on phases of the war, including weekly contributions
to _The Illustrated London News_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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, _opposed, in need_, in the
compounds
līf-bysig, syn-bysig.
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Beowulf |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the
pastures
all
Be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
By no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
Through taint contagious of a neighbouring flock.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
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Troubador Verse |
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This it was I had to look for even from the time when
I madly assailed
celestial
limbs with steel, and sullied the hand of
Venus with a wound.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Storms came and shook thee many a weary hour,
Yet
stedfast
to thy home thy roots have been;
Summers of thirst parched round thy homely bower
Till earth grew iron--still thy leaves were green.
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John Clare |
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