Di la fosti cotanto quant' io scesi;
quand' io mi volsi, tu
passasti
'l punto
al qual si traggon d'ogne parte i pesi.
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volesti |
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Why does the speaker turn around and notice someone passing the point where all weights converge from every direction? |
Answer: |
The speaker turns around and notices someone passing the point where all weights converge from every direction because the person has arrived at the point where the speaker and their guide descended into the abyss. |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Go then, sad youth, and shine;
Go,
sacrifice
to Fame;
Put youth, joy, health upon the shrine,
And life to fan the flame;
Being for Seeming bravely barter
And die to Fame a happy martyr.
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Conquer |
Question: |
Why does the author suggest sacrificing youth, joy, and health to Fame as a means of becoming a happy martyr? |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Gia eran sovra noi tanto levati
li ultimi raggi che la notte segue,
che le stelle
apparivan
da piu lati.
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spariranno |
Question: |
How did the appearance of stars change as the night progressed? |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then with thy sultry locks all loose and rude,
And mantle laced with gems of garish light,
Come as of wont; for I would fain intrude,
And in the world's despite,
Share the rude mirth that thy own heart beguiles:
If haply so I might
Win
pleasure
from thy smiles,
Me not the noise of brawling pleasure cheers,
In nightly revels or in city streets;
But joys which soothe, and not distract the ears,
That one at leisure meets
In the green woods, and meadows summer-shorn,
Or fields, where bee-fly greets
The ears with mellow horn.
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sympathy |
Question: |
Why does the speaker prefer the quiet joys found in nature over the noisy pleasures of revelry in the city? |
Answer: |
The speaker prefers the quiet joys found in nature over the noisy pleasures of revelry in the city because they find happiness and solace in the peacefulness of the woods, meadows, and fields where they can hear the soothing sounds of nature such as the singing grasshopper, the courting bees, the speckled thrush, and the laughing river. They find pleasure in the solitude that nature provides and the ability to muse and be happy. |
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John Clare |
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A living symbol of power, you talked
Of the work to do in the world to make
Life beautiful: yes, and my heartstrings ache
To think how you, at the stroke of War,
Chose that your
steadfast
soul should fly
With the eagles of France as their proud ally.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Fai come quei che la cosa per nome
apprende
ben, ma la sua quiditate
veder non puo se altri non la prome.
Guess: |
conosce |
Question: |
Why is it important to understand the quiditate of something, rather than just knowing its name? |
Answer: |
It is important to understand the quiditate of something, rather than just knowing its name, because simply knowing the name does not allow one to truly understand what the thing is and its essential qualities. |
Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The water it soon came in, it did;
The water it soon came in:
So, to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat;
And they
fastened
it down with a pin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Solicit not renown
Throughout
the busy town,
But dwell within the shade that gave thee birth.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They chose, and the women and
children
that are greeting you here are
those
Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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T.S. Eliot |
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His treasures, next, by the
Phaeacian
Chiefs
At his departure given him as the meed
Due to his wisdom, at the olive's foot
They heap'd, without the road, lest, while he slept 140
Some passing traveller should rifle them.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
snellest
blast, at mirkest hours,
That round the pathless wand'rer pours,
Is nocht to what poor she endures,
That's trusted faithless man, jo.
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Robert Forst |
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Is it worth while, dear, since
As mates in Mellstock
churchyard
we can lie,
Till the last crash of all things low and high
Shall end the spheres?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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What han thise loveres thee agilt,
Dispitous
day?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--My dear Babe,
Who, capable of no articulate sound,
Mars all things with his
imitative
lisp,
How he would place his hand beside his ear,
His little hand, the small forefinger up,
And bid us listen!
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Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus',
That new grace
Glow plain and foreign
On my
homesick
eye,
Except that you, than he
Shone closer by.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[_A vision of CHRIST appears in the midst of the Zodiac, which pales
before the
heavenly
light.
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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]
TRANSLATION
OF A ROMAIC LOVE SONG.
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Byron |
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Dein
Liebchen
sitzt dadrinne,
Und alles wird ihr eng und trub.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Matrimonial
bed's insecure and so's fornication;
Husband, lover and wife pass to each other the hurt.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I had hardly, however, sent off my proofs before I felt that there
was more than one
objection
to this view.
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John Donne |
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SAINT
FRAUNCES
FIRE, St.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Had she but stay'd, as I grew changed and old
Her tone had changed, and no distrust had been
To parley with me on my cherish'd ill:
With what frank sighs and fond I then had told
My lifelong toils, which now from heaven, I ween,
She sees, and with me
sympathises
still.
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Source: |
Petrarch |
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Had I a load of gold, and should I come
Bribing their friendship, and to buy a home,
They would stare harder and would
slightly
frown:
I am a stranger from the distant town.
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There's naething here but Highland pride,
And Highland scab and hunger:
If
Providence
has sent me here,
'Twas surely in his anger.
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Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sweets with sweets war not, joy
delights
in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Theban mage, druid by the dark menhir,
Flamen by Tiber, Brahmin by the Ganges,
Fitting angelic arrow to godlike bow,
Viewing the haunts of Roland, Achilles,
Powerful mysterious smith, you'd know
How to twine sun-rays to a single flame;
In your soul the sunset met the day;
Yesterday tomorrow in your fertile brain;
You crowned the old art father of the new;
You understood that when an unknown soul
Speaks to a nation, lightning in the clouds,
We must open our hearts, accept, love aloud;
Calm you scorned the vile attempts of those
Who
dribbled
Shakespeare, drooled Aeschylus;
You knew this age had its own air to breathe,
That art progresses by self-transformation,
Beauty's adorned by melding with greatness.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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With great and lesser
heavenly
lights make free,
Spend starlight just as you desire;
No want of water, rocks or fire
Or birds or beasts to you shall be.
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The love of wine is the
complaint
of good men.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
Whereat one witling cries, "'tis monstrous fit,
In sooth, a shaven-pated priest should have
A shaven-eared audience;" and another,
"Give thanks, thou Jacques, to this most
gracious
Duke
That rids thee of the life-long dread of loss
Of thy two ears, by cropping them at once;
And now henceforth full safely thou may'st dare
The powerfullest Lord in France to touch
An ear of thine;" and now the knave o' the knife
Seizes the handle to commence again, and saws
And .
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Sidney Lanier |
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She visits
Serenely
down the busy stream
the Boot-maker.
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_4040
Have we not stabbed thine enemies, and made
The Earth an altar, and the Heavens a fane,
Where thou wert worshipped with their blood, and laid
Those hearts in dust which would thy
searchless
works have weighed?
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Source: |
Shelley |
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within these rocks," he thus began,
"Are three close circles in
gradation
plac'd,
As these which now thou leav'st.
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Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Of this heresy Emerson said:
"I deny
personality
to God because it is too little, not too much.
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Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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many a time and oft had Harold loved,
Or dreamed he loved, since rapture is a dream;
But now his wayward bosom was unmoved,
For not yet had he drunk of Lethe's stream:
And lately had he learned with truth to deem
Love has no gift so grateful as his wings:
How fair, how young, how soft soe'er he seem,
Full from the fount of joy's
delicious
springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Leonor
By keeping your noble rank in mind;
Heaven owes you a king, you love a
subject!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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So, if this unknown
vagabond
should cross
The Lithuanian border, Dimitry's name
Raised from the grave will gain him a whole crowd
Of fools.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The legions who have bled
Had
elsewise
died in vain for our release.
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Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Tell me, the charms that lovers seek
In the clear eye and
blushing
cheek,
The hues that play
O'er rosy lip and brow of snow,
When hoary age approaches slow,
Ah; where are they?
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Longfellow |
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Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver
iterance!
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Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I help myself to
material
and immaterial,
No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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be wary how ye judge:
For we, who see our Maker, know not yet
The number of the chosen: and esteem
Such
scantiness
of knowledge our delight:
For all our good is in that primal good
Concentrate, and God's will and ours are one.
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Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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That gallantry of
bravery and romantic cast of the military adventures, which
characterised the Spaniards and Portuguese during the Moorish wars, is
happily
supported
by Camoens in its most just and striking colours.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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At that moment I heard
something
like little
squeals, but kept silent, as when I saw the dead body.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Yeats |
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The Ridge was wreathed with angry fire
As flames rise round a martyr's stake;
For many a hero on that pyre
Was offered for our dear land's sake,
What time in heaven the gray clouds flew
To mingle with the deathless blue;
While here, below, the blue and gray
Melted
minglingly
away,
Mirroring heaven, to make another day.
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Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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if he pleases yet,
His moral pleases, not his pointed wit;
Forget his epic, nay Pindaric art;
But still I love the
language
of his heart.
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Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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35 Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been
Banished
to the Post of Revenue Manager in Taizhou.
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Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Hauksbee
during the next few days.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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XCVI
Elsewhere
in martial panoply he shone,
Hasting to help the church with lifted blade;
With scanty and tumultuous levy gone
Against well-ordered host in arms arraid:
And lo!
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Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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With what
triumphant
joy shalt thou be hailed!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and
labyrinth
you there
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
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Source: |
Keats |
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5
Blow again
trumpeter!
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Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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90
What but base coin the best event
To the untried
experiment!
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Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Lucius, all hail, Rome's royal
Emperor!
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Li Po |
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"Your queen is killed,"
remarked
Tchekalinsky quietly.
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Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For 'twere of no avail
Should some depart and go away, and some
Be added new, and some be changed in order,
If still all kept their nature of old heat:
For
whatsoever
they created then
Would still in any case be only fire.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lucretius |
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The words of this song were written to
commemorate the
unfortunate
expedition of General Burgoyne in America,
in 1777.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My mother taught me underneath a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And,
pointing
to the East, began to say:
'Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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While suffering from "hope deferred" as to its fate,
Poe presented a copy of "Annabel Lee" to the editor of the "Southern
Literary Messenger," who published it in the
November
number of his
periodical, a month after Poe's death.
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Like mighty footlights burned the red
At bases of the trees, --
The far
theatricals
of day
Exhibiting to these.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Into the study of the boy
There came a sudden flash of light,
The Muse
revealed
her first delight,
Sang childhood's pastimes and its joy,
Glory with which our history teems
And the heart's agitated dreams.
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Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The honey-seeking
paused not,
the air
thundered
their song,
and I alone was prostrate.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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MY
THOUGHTS
OF YE.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
_
Give us a name to stir the blood
With a warmer glow and a swifter flood,--
A name like the sound of a trumpet, clear,
And silver-sweet, and iron-strong,
That calls three million men to their feet,
Ready to march, and steady to meet
The foes who
threaten
that name with wrong,--
A name that rings like a battle-song.
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I shall produce his
moderns by name, to the end that, by placing the example before our
eyes, we may be able, more distinctly, to trace the steps by which the
vigour of ancient
eloquence
has fallen to decay.
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Source: |
Tacitus |
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Yet through my court the noise of revel rings,
And waste the wise
frugality
of kings.
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Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the
heavenly
bread,
Ye sang of celestial journeys,
Ye sang of the glorious dead.
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Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Apparently
the Countess
has returned to Twickenham in Autumn, perhaps arriving late in the
evening.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
John Donne |
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I have heard that th' ever-living warn mankind
By
changing
clouds, and casual accidents,
Or what seem so.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Yeats |
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I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some
perfumes
is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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burn out with fire
The shining eye of this thy neighbouring
monster!
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Source: |
Shelley |
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]
[Illustration:
Nasticreechia
Krorluppia.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Descends ici que je te fouette
En mon giron;
J'ai degueule ta bandoline
Noir laideron;
Tu
couperais
ma mandoline
Au fil du front.
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Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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THE PARK
The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of
conscience
masterful,
Which galls me everywhere.
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Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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free:) _represented by dashes in 1633_]
[134 venome _1635-54:_
venomous
_1669:_ venomd _many MSS.
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Source: |
John Donne |
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Low in your wintry beds, ye flowers,
Again ye'll
flourish
fresh and fair;
Ye birdies dumb, in with'ring bowers,
Again ye'll charm the vocal air.
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Oh, 'twas strange for a pupil of Paul to recline
On voluptuous couch, while
Falernian
wine
Fill'd his cup to the brim!
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LXVIII
You ask how love can keep the mortal soul
Strong to the pitch of joy
throughout
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For a long time far-sighted patriots have been
asking whether our present Reichstag might not be
replaced by a more
competent
and harmonious
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I would straightaway become a
dependent
of Liu Biao, but I suspect he would grow sick of Mi Heng.
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All of these essays first appeared in the 1980s, but where possible we have provided an English translation: "Wie man abschafft, wovon man spricht: Der Autor von Ecce Homo," in
Literaturmagazin
12: Nietzsche, ed.
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Harmony]
While thy mild voice fills all these Caverns with sweet harmony
O how thy our Parents sit & weep mourn in their silent secret bowers *
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But
Enitharmon
answerd with a dropping tear & smiling frowning*
[[Bright]]Dark as a dewy morning when the crimson light appears *
To make us happy how they let them weary their immortal powers *
While we draw in their sweet delights while we return them scorn *
On scorn to feed our discontent; for if we grateful prove
They will withhold sweet love, whose food is thorns & bitter roots.
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I lived upon the mercy of the fields,
And oft of cruelty the sky accused;
On hazard, or what general bounty yields,
Now coldly given, now utterly refused,
The fields I for my bed have often used:
But, what
afflicts
my peace with keenest ruth
Is, that I have my inner self abused,
Foregone the home delight of constant truth,
And clear and open soul, so prized in fearless youth.
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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ussere
ardentes
intus mea uiscera morbi,
uincere quos medicae non potuere manus.
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But I have a higher
authority
than either in
Selden, who, in one of his notes to the 'Polyolbion,' writes, 'The first
inventor of them (I _guess_ you dislike not the addition) was one
Berthold Swartz.
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'Tis Phoebus, Phoebus gifts my tongue
With minstrel art and minstrel fires:
Come, noble youths and maidens sprung
From noble sires,
Blest in your Dian's guardian smile,
Whose shafts the flying silvans stay,
Come, foot the Lesbian measure, while
The lyre I play:
Sing of Latona's glorious boy,
Sing of night's queen with
crescent
horn,
Who wings the fleeting months with joy,
And swells the corn.
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And 1,000,000 miles, that gets tougher, say 10,000 miles half way around the earth that’s about as far as we can
conceptualize
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I rule them as I ought, discreetly,
An' aften labour them completely;
An' ay on Sundays, duly, nightly,
I on the Questions targe them tightly;
Till, faith, wee Davock's turn'd sae gleg,
Tho' scarcely langer than your leg,
He'll screed you aff
Effectual
calling,
As fast as ony in the dwalling.
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