I never
flinched
nor fled when thou didst aim
at me in King Arthur's house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the
consequences
of one's folly.
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Robert Burns |
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"
"We will think of it, and talk of it again,"
rejoined
the General.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But Lenski hath
Seen all, beside himself with wrath,
And hot with jealous indignation,
Till the mazurka's close he stays,
Her hand for the
cotillon
prays.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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<
tu mi
contenti
si quando tu solvi,
che, non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on
Sicilian
hills a thousand lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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To stay here
threshing
straw why car'st thou?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And can ye thus
unfriended
leave me?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The dreamy
butterflies
bestir,
Lethargic pools resume the whir
Of last year's sundered tune.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The ploughman came up and cut short his old tune,
Hallooed "woi" to his horses and though it was June
Said he'd help them an hour ere he'd keep them adry;
Well done, said the
blacksmith
with hopes running high;
He moves, and, by jingo, success to the plough!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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So long, that
mountains
have arisen since
With cities on their flanks--thou read the book!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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IV
No larger wolf, I ween, Apulia roams;
More huge than bull, unguided by her hand;
Although
upon no bit the monster foams,
Docile, I know not why, to her command.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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GERONTE:
Certainly
not.
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Claudian
triumphs
all were won within the city towers;
The Claudian yoke was never pressed on any necks but ours.
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But all alone the hoary king he found;
His habit course, but warmly wrapp'd around;
His head, that bow'd with many a pensive care,
Fenced with a double cap of
goatskin
hair:
His buskins old, in former service torn,
But swell repair'd; and gloves against the thorn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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XXXVII
Agramant, hearing in what peril lies
His realm, through his attack on Pepin's reign,
Him in this pressing peril to advise,
Calls kings and princes of the paynim train;
And when he once or twice has turned his eyes
On sage Sobrino and the king of Spain,
-- Eldest and wisest they those lords among --
The monarch so bespeaks the
assembled
throng:
XXXVIII
"Albeit if fits not captain, as I know,
To say, `on this I thought not,' this I say;
Because when from a quarter comes the blow,
From every human forethought far away,
'Tis for such fault a fair excuse, I trow;
And here all hinges; I did ill to lay
Unfurnished Africk open to attack,
If there was ground to fear the Nubian sack.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The dogs were handsomely provided for,
But shortly
afterwards
the parrot died too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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XXII
Once I saw
Mountains
angry,
And ranged in battle-front.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_mainly,
and note all but very trifling
variations
from it_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What doth the poor man's son
inherit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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nihtes hwīlum,
_sometimes
at night_, 3045.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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That knowing no cause of quarrel or of feud
Between the Earl
Politian
and himself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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[Sidenote: In the narrow limits of this life, nothing, however
tardy it appears, can seem to an
immortal
soul to have a very long
duration.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Slowly, silently we wandered
From the open cottage door,
Underneath
the elm's long branches
To the pavement bending o'er;
Underneath the mossy willow
And the dying sycamore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's kingdoms fade to a remembered dream,
But thine
henceforth
shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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160) says that the Irish
merchants
were
forbidden to export their wool, in order that the peasants might
'be nourished by working it into cloth, namely, Rugs .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
But exactly what heroic poetry was
in its origin,
probably
we shall never know.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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>
measured
and yet majestic progressions of chords.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
" They shouted loud,
"Go,
Malacoda!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
conversation
was revived
By the coarse wit of worldly hate;
But round the hostess scintillate
Light sallies without coxcombry,
Awhile sound conversation seems
To banish far unworthy themes
And platitudes and pedantry,
And never was the ear affright
By liberties or loose or light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I never thought that Jason sought
For any golden fleece;
But then I am a rural man,
With
thoughts
that make for peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Is it thus you evince
your gratitude to our master Pompeius, who, in his condescension, has
thought fit to listen to your
idolatrous
importunities?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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We can hardly be mistaken in
supposing that, at the great crisis of the civil conflict, they
employed themselves in versifying all the most powerful and
virulent
speeches
of the Tribunes, and in heaping abuse on the
leaders of the aristocracy.
| 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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")
"As the Bellman would tell you," he added with pride,
"I have uttered that
sentiment
once.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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207
Tarquin's just judge, and Caesar's equal peers,
With them Til bring to dry my people's tears ;
Publicola with healing hands shall pour
Balm in their wounds, and shall their life restore ;
Greek arts, and Roman arms, in her conjoined,
Shall England raise, relieve
oppressed
mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Fair shines the sun, the day is bright and clear,
Light bums again from all their
polished
gear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber--
This misty mid region of Weir:--
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber--
This ghoul-haunted
woodland
of Weir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Such signs were mournful and alarming things,
And far more weighty than conjecture brings;
Though foes made double what they heard of all,
Swore lies as proofs, and
prophesied
her fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty add a hundred more:
A
thousand
to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad, --
Myself his noon could bring,
Yet interdict my blossom
And abrogate my bee,
Lest noon in
everlasting
night
Drop Gabriel and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Augur and lord of silver bow,
Apollo, darling of the Nine,
Who heal'st our frame when languors slow
Have made it pine;
Lov'st thou thine own Palatial hill,
Prolong the
glorious
life of Rome
To other cycles, brightening still
Through time to come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But come up
there with us to receive
Basileia
and the celestial bounty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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how venture to smooth the tale to the
frenzied
queen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"For of all the runes and rhymes
Of all times,
Best I like the ocean's dirges,
When the old harper heaves and rocks,
His hoary locks
Flowing and
flashing
in the surges!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
I awoke, and then I knew
What Love said was too-too true;
Henceforth
therefore
I will be,
As from love, from trouble free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
With scorn from off my clothing now I shake
The foreign dust, and
greedily
I drink
New air; it is my native air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Stephen Crane |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Erleuchtet
nicht zu diesem Feste
Herr Mammon prachtig den Palast?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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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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"
XVI
If he had only known the wound
Which rankled in Tattiana's breast,
And if
Tattiana
mine had found--
If the poor maiden could have guessed
That the two friends with morning's light
Above the yawning grave would fight,--
Ah!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'
Al innocent of
Pandarus
entente,
Quod tho Criseyde, `Go we, uncle dere';
And arm in arm inward with him she wente, 1725
Avysed wel hir wordes and hir chere;
And Pandarus, in ernestful manere,
Seyde, `Alle folk, for goddes love, I preye,
Stinteth right here, and softely yow pleye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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While the disjointed Abbess threads
The jingling chain-shot of her beads ;
But their loud'st cannon were their lungs, 255=
And
sharpest
weapons were their tongues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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I hear a tongue,
shriller
than all the music,
Cry "Caesar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
'Twould wake sad
thoughts
in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
294
He
grantede
him, as i ou telle,
an hous al-one ?
| 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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Then followed a torrent of
laughter
and cheers:
Then the ominous words "It's a Boo-"
Then, silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Lo corpo mio gelato in su la foce
trovo l'Archian rubesto; e quel sospinse
ne l'Arno, e sciolse al mio petto la croce
ch'i' fe' di me quando 'l dolor mi vinse;
voltommi
per le ripe e per lo fondo,
poi di sua preda mi coperse e cinse>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The close Cabal marked how the navy eats,
And thought all lost that goes not to the cheats :
So
therefore
secretly for peace decrees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
at in
godenesse
schulden be; li?
| 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 |
|
--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui
prennent
nos requetes
Pour se les renvoyer comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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