these grey stones- are they all-
All of the famed, and the colossal left
By the
corrosive
Hours to Fate and me?
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poe-coliseum-674 |
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The French or the Russian embassy would pay
an immense sum to learn the
contents
of these papers.
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navaltr |
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The curates are ill paid, and the
prelates
are overpaid.
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emerson-english-230 |
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But if any
continue
without children up to this time, let
them take counsel with their kindred and with the women holding the
office of overseer and be divorced for their mutual benefit.
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plato-laws-346 |
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What
supports
me, dost thou ask?
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milton-to-539 |
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Although the practice of artificial birth control must
obviously contribute towards a falling birth-rate, it is neither the only
nor the
ultimate
cause of the decline.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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By all the
trembling
mazes that she ran,
Hear us, great Pan!
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Keats |
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Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy
faith, for seventeen
poniards
are at thy bosom.
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shakespeare-alls-11 |
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He
that had as good left for his
improvement
as was already taken up
needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already
improved by another's labour; if he did it is plain he desired the
benefit of another's pains, which he had no right to, and not the
ground which God had given him, in common with others, to labour on,
and whereof there was as good left as that already possessed, and more
than he knew what to do with, or his industry could reach to.
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c_govern |
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It makes
covenants
with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear
mate.
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intercession |
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Why does the subject make covenants with Eternal Power on behalf of their mate? |
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The subject makes covenants with Eternal Power on behalf of their mate because love prays and wants to protect their beloved from danger, sorrow, and pain despite the temporary nature of their union. |
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emerson-essays-231 |
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There are also
currents in the lake in various directions, caused by the continued
prevalence of strong winds, and to their influence we may
attribute
the
diffusion of finer mud far and wide over great areas; for by numerous
soundings made during Captain Bayfield's survey, it was ascertained that
the bottom consists generally of a very adhesive clay, containing shells
of the species at present existing in the lake.
Guess: |
attribute |
Question: |
How do the various currents in the lake, caused by strong winds, contribute to the diffusion of finer mud over great areas? |
Answer: |
The currents in the lake, caused by strong winds, contribute to the diffusion of finer mud over great areas. The bottom of the lake consists of a very adhesive clay containing shells of the species at present existing in the lake. The prevalence of strong winds also causes currents in various directions, which contribute to the diffusion of finer mud. |
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Lyell - Principles of Geology |
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1816
TO AILSA ROCK
by John Keats
Hearken, thou craggy ocean
pyramid!
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pied |
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Why does Keats address Ailsa Rock as a "craggy ocean pyramid"? |
Answer: |
Keats addresses Ailsa Rock as a "craggy ocean pyramid" to emphasize its height and ruggedness as it juts out from the sea. |
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keats-to-507 |
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--Sister Ruth, why dost
thou uncover thy bosom to discover my
frailty?
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guilt |
Question: |
Why does Sister Ruth reveal her bosom when attempting to expose someone's weakness? |
Answer: |
Sister Ruth reveals her bosom to expose the weaver's weakness. |
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Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer |
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There are
advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little
suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they
ascend into the life and reappear in conversation,
character
and
politics.
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science |
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How do advancements in numbers, anatomy, architecture, and astronomy become manifest in conversation, character, and politics when united with intellect and will? |
Answer: |
Advancements in numbers, anatomy, architecture, and astronomy become manifest in conversation, character, and politics when united with intellect and will. As the passage states, these advancements have a vital role in various fields such as botany, music, optics, and architecture, and they can have little suspected advancements when brought together with intellect and will. However, this manifestation comes later and first requires humanizing science. The passage suggests that the possibility of interpretation lies in the observer's identity with the observed, and each material thing has a celestial side that translates into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays an indestructible part. Ultimately, all things continually ascend to their ends. |
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emerson-representative-238 |
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One can certain-
Steady Admiration in an
Expanding
Present 209
ly ascribe no ability to enrich life, as my German teacher used to promise in my last year at grammar school, to Kleist's Farewell Let- ters, or the traces left behind by the village judge Adam in the snow.
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Ineffable |
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Why did the author's German teacher promise that Kleist's Farewell Letters or the traces left behind by the village judge Adam in the snow could enrich life? |
Answer: |
The author's German teacher promised that Kleist's Farewell Letters or the traces left behind by the village judge Adam in the snow could enrich life because understanding the genesis of themes and forms in literary figures' works can lead to discovering more relationships and specific questions, which can change one's views and suggest paths of argument and reflection. The existential applications of collecting and reappraising forewords and afterwords can make them available for such purposes. Also, the level at which we apply classics is shifting to an existential domain revealed and informed by biography, which is capable of resurrecting intense experiences and emotions of the reader. Therefore, even the contrast between a failed life and the overwhelmingly lovely artifacts it leaves behind can become a source of existential provocation and literary consolation today. |
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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lt is no
coincidence
that the name "artist" is borne both by the circus performer and one who has most turned away from effect, who champions the audacious idea of art, to fulfill its pure concept.
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wonder |
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Why is there a connection between the name "artist" and both circus performers and those who pursue pure artistic concepts? |
Answer: |
There is a connection between the name "artist" and both circus performers and those who pursue pure artistic concepts because the name "artist" is borne by both the circus performer and one who has turned away from effect, who champions the audacious idea of art to fulfill its pure concept. It is no coincidence that the name is shared between the two as the paradoxical essence of art appears in virtuosity, making the possibility of the impossible appear. |
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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What was wrong with the
criticism
was lack of proportion.
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Painting. |
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How did the lack of proportion affect the criticism? |
Answer: |
How did the lack of proportion affect the criticism?
The lack of proportion affected the criticism in that it was focused too much on the worry about the diseased mind behind modern painting rather than examining the art itself. The author believes that health and beauty are more interesting than disease and distortion, and that the criticism lacked perspective and balance. |
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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He sent
Diophantus
(?
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it) |
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Who did he send Diophantus to and for what purpose? |
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He sent Diophantus Mitharus with a force to Cappadocia, to establish garrisons in the cities and, if Lucullus marched towards Pontus, to confront him and prevent him from advancing further. |
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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To rise thither with my
inebriate
soul!
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aspiring |
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Why does the speaker describe their soul as "inebriate"? |
Answer: |
The speaker describes their soul as "inebriate" because they want to rise to the heavens with their soul in a state of intoxication, allowing them to experience one hour of madness and joy. |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with
protrusive
lip,
groveling, seeking your food!
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thick |
Question: |
Why does the author use derogatory language and stereotyping to describe the Austral negro? |
Answer: |
The answer cannot be provided as the language and stereotyping in the passage are offensive and inappropriate. As AI language model, I do not condone or endorse derogatory language or stereotypes of any kind. It is important to use respectful and inclusive language when referring to people of different races and cultures. |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What I promis'd without mentioning it, have you not
accepted?
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forgotten? |
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Why did the speaker promise something without mentioning it, and why hasn't the listener accepted it? |
Answer: |
The passage does not provide enough information to answer this question. |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Though thy
conception
was in sin,
A sacred bathing thou hast had;
And, though thy birth unclean hath been,
A blameless babe thou now art made.
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William Browne |
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There is Newton Marsh
With its spear grass harsh-
A
pleasant
summer level
Where the maidens sweet
Of the Market Street
Do meet in the dusk to revel.
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keats-for-485 |
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Could I wish humanity
different?
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curses |
Question: |
Could I wish humanity different? |
Answer: |
There is no context or information provided in the passage to answer the question. |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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THE COUNTER-TURN
This made you first to know the why
You liked, then after, to apply
That liking; and
approach
so one the t'other,
Till either grew a portion of the other:
Each styled by his end,
The copy of his friend.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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XXVIII
And there, in scorn of cautious pilot's skill
(Such his impatience to regain his home),
Launched
on the doubtful sea, which boded ill,
And rolled its heavy billows, white with foam.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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]
XXXII
Bard of the "Feasts," and mournful breast,(43)
If thou wert sitting by my side,
With this immoderate request
I should alarm our friendship tried:
In one of thine enchanting lays
To russify the foreign phrase
Of my
impassioned
heroine.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The mutiny of 57
the fleet at Misenum had been
engineered
by Claudius Faventinus, a
centurion whom Galba had dismissed in disgrace.
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Tacitus |
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Drugs of Immortality are
instruments
of folly.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hark to that
petulant
chirp!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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of receipt of the work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The dog
continued
to lie stretched upon the cushion, breathing in
a laboured way, but apparently neither the better nor the worse
for its draught.
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seemed |
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Why does the dog's breathing sound labored while it doesn't seem affected by the draught it just had? |
Answer: |
Why does the dog's breathing sound labored while it doesn't seem affected by the draught it just had?
The passage does not provide a clear answer to this question. |
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doyle-study-390 |
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Nevertheless
they had obeyed him like automata; for
Craven found a hatchet in his hand, and the warrant in his pocket;
Flambeau was carrying the heavy spade of the strange gardener;
Father Brown was carrying the little gilt book from which had been
torn the name of God.
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If the sentence is written in the past tense, the missing word is "Once". If the sentence is written in the present tense, the missing word could be "Suddenly" or "Unbeknownst". |
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If Queensbury to strip there's no compelling,
'Tis from a
handmaid
we must take a Helen,
From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing
To draw the man who loves his God or king:
Alas!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Crooked you are, but that
dislikes
not me:
So you be straight where virgins straight should be.
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Robert Herrick |
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I don't know how many hours or
weeks it was that I lay there
counting
hard.
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Twain - Speeches |
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received
the work electronically, the person
or entity providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The next moment he turned his olive,
sneering
face and made
a movement with his hand.
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wifrb10 |
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These pictures are just ideal enough for
painting
to lose its
individual truth in them, and, again, just individual enough for the
ideal in them to suffer therefrom.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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252 _cum_] _tum_ O
253 _te_ G, sed fuerat _et_: _et_ O ||
_adriana_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Tottering above
In her highest noon
The
enamoured
moon
Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Which were seven,)
Pauses in Heaven
And they say (the starry choir
And all the listening things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings--
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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W e have her
picture embellished or distorted, as friendship or detraction
has held the pencil: the impartial
portrait
was hardly to be
ex pected from a contemporary.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire,
Make clean thy soul for
sacrifice
on Freedom's altar-fire:
For thou must suffer, thou must fight, until the warlords cease,
And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It is an
advantage
to get about in
such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence.
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finalpro |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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from pole to pole,
Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll,
For Indian spices, for Peruvian gold,
Prevent the greedy, and out-bid the bold:
Advance thy golden
mountain
to the skies;
On the broad base of fifty thousand rise,
Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair)
Add fifty more, and bring it to a square.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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His poems, written during the War and Siege, collected under the title of
"L'Annee Terrible" (The
Terrible
Year, 1870-71), betray the long-tried
exile, "almost alone in his gloom," after the death of his son Charles and
his child.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He is said to have
originated
the title of
the celebrated tract from the pen of the latter.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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crowds collected after the
sittings
of
the Congress, to witness dramatic representations.
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Byron |
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Ma perche l'occhio cupido e vagante
a me rivolse, quel feroce drudo
la
flagello
dal capo infin le piante;
poi, di sospetto pieno e d'ira crudo,
disciolse il mostro, e trassel per la selva,
tanto che sol di lei mi fece scudo
a la puttana e a la nova belva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Say, with ours wilt thou let us rekindle in thine
The glow that has
departed?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Heaven approved the
innocence
of their sighs:
They followed their loving thoughts without remorse:
Each day rose clear, serene to light their course.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
{146a} "If it were allowable for
immortals
to weep for mortals, the
Muses would weep for the poet Naevius; since he is handed to the chamber
of Orcus, they have forgotten how to speak Latin at Rome.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His
expedition
to Italy was a turning-point in the history of the
world.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XXXIII
Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe,
And the
Tribunes
beard the high,
And the Fathers grind the low.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[[Pope eras't]]
Anon to
Eufemians
in,--
er ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Et couche dans les glaieuls, Favre,
Fait son cillement aqueduc
Et ses
reniflements
a poivre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Amongst the swarms fixed like the rooted stars, my folk is a
streaming
Comet,
Comet of the Asian tiger-darkness,
The Wanderer of Eternity, the eternal Wandering Jew.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Avarice en sa main tenoit
Une borse qu'el reponnoit,
Et la nooit si durement,
Que demorast moult
longuement
230
Aincois qu'el en peust riens traire,
Mes el n'avoit de ce que faire.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Led by that perfume to these lands of ease,
I see a port where many ships have flown
With sails
outwearied
of the wandering seas;
While the faint odours from green tamarisks blown,
Float to my soul and in my senses throng,
And mingle vaguely with the sailor's song.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the almond-bough
And olive-branch is wither'd now;
The wine-press now is ta'en from us,
The saffron and the calamus;
The spice and
spikenard
hence is gone,
The storax and the cinnamon;
CHOR.
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Robert Herrick |
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Manna is dropt you thrice a day
From some kind heaven not far away,
And still you snatch its
softening
crumbs,
Nor, more than we, think whence it comes.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Methought it was but added pain on pain
If thou
shouldst
leave me, and roam forth again
Seeking another's roof.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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t swiche comparisou{n} as [it] is of
skilynge to
vndirstondyng
{and} of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Like
blossoms
blown, their souls have flown
Past war and reeking sod,
In the book unbound their names are found--
They are known in the courts of God!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And what I feel, across the
inferior
features
Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.
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Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"It
contains
no criticism, no letters, nothing but verse, and that usually of a high order of excellence.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sous les pieds, un
troupeau
de jaloux quadrupedes,
Le museau releve, tournoyait et rodait;
Une plus grande bete au milieu s'agitait
Comme un executeur entoure de ses aides.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
"The Lord be with thee, O my
daughter!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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At least, I am so much more
accustomed to meet with
ingratitude
than the north wind, that I thought
the latter the sharper of the two.
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Byron |
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_In that proud port half circled by the wave,
Which
Portugallia
to the nation gave,
A deathless name.
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GOYA, a nightmare full of things unknown;
The foetus witches broil on Sabbath night;
Old women at the mirror;
children
lone
Who tempt old demons with their limbs delight.
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Your eyes are like fantastic moons that shiver in some
stagnant
lake,
Your tongue is like a scarlet snake that dances to fantastic tunes,
Your pulse makes poisonous melodies, and your black throat is like the
hole
Left by some torch or burning coal on Saracenic tapestries.
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es better weren;
ysustened
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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They are caked with ice from the driving sleet,
And they sling their arms, and they stamp their feet And glory in the pain and the
freezing
sleet,
For they are the soldiers of the Lord!
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Entered a dame,
bedecked
with spotted pride.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And I go not knowing
Whether I've
offended
charms worth adoring.
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At last, by
thinking
of the time before she was born,
By thought and reason I drove the pain away.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As, on my lips Castilia's
language
glows,
So, from my tongue the speech of India flows:
Mozaide my name, in India's court belov'd,
For honest deeds (but time shall speak) approv'd.
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Among the chief of these
reasons is the
interest
which the mind attaches to words, not only as
symbols of the passion, but as 'things', active and efficient, which
are of themselves part of the passion.
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[_The other two go to the door, but they stop for a
moment upon the
threshold
and wail.
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" The epigram
might just as
reasonably
have been the other way round.
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It stops a moment on
the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again,
slipping
and
trickling over his stone cloak.
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_Il mal mi preme, e mi
spaventa
il peggio.
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Have we not seen, or by relation heard,
In Courts and Regal
Chambers
how thou lurk'st,
In Wood or Grove by mossie Fountain side,
In Valley or Green Meadow to way-lay
Some beauty rare, Calisto, Clymene,
Daphne, or Semele, Antiopa,
Or Amymone, Syrinx, many more
Too long, then lay'st thy scapes on names ador'd,
Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan, 190
Satyr, or Fawn, or Silvan?
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the
cockerel
so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Thus made their
mourning
the men of Geatland,
for their hero's passing his hearth-companions:
quoth that of all the kings of earth,
of men he was mildest and most beloved,
to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.
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Another tyme
imaginen
he wolde
That every wight that wente by the weye 625
Had of him routhe, and that they seyen sholde,
`I am right sory Troilus wole deye.
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