"
"A new house does not suit, you know--
It's such a job to trim it:
But, after twenty years or so,
The
wainscotings
begin to go,
So twenty is the limit.
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Lewis Carroll |
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'Mavrone,
mavrone!
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Yeats |
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For, as the sun doth to the
feeblest
sight,
E'en so remembrance of that witching smile
Hath dispossess my spirit of itself.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
VI
She waited, till with
quickened
breath
She spoke, as one who banisheth
Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well,
To ease some mighty wish to tell:
"'Twas I," said she,
"Who wrote thus clinchingly.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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When false things are brought low,
And swift things have grown slow,
Feigning
like froth shall go,
Faith be for aye.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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er-hede a
bauderyk
schulde haue,
A bende, a belef hym aboute, of a bry3t grene,
[F] & ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In savage grasp thy beauteous limbs
constrain!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But to win
A
princess!
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Euripides - Electra |
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LE CREPUSCULE DU SOIR
Voici le soir charmant, ami du criminel;
Il vient comme un complice, a pas de loup; le ciel
Se ferme lentement comme une grande alcove,
Et l'homme
impatient
se change en bete fauve.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Dew sat on Julia's hair
And spangled too,
Like leaves that laden are
With trembling dew:
Or glitter'd to my sight,
As when the beams
Have their
reflected
light
Danc'd by the streams.
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Robert Herrick |
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55
Tu fero iuueni in manus
floridam ipse puellulam
dedis a gremio suae
Matris, O
Hymenaee
Hymen,
Hymen O Hymenaee.
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Latin - Catullus |
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FAUST:
Auch was Geschriebnes
forderst
du Pedant?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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]--says that the sources of the Alexius legend are the 'Vita metrica, auctore Marbodo, primum archidiacono Andegavensi, deinde Redonensi
episcopo
(?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What do you suppose
creation
is?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Nor in such bold experiments the sage
Wisely would trust to
prudence
or to age.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thou seest not all; but
piecemeal
thou must break
To separate contemplation, the great whole;
And as the ocean many bays will make,
That ask the eye--so here condense thy soul
To more immediate objects, and control
Thy thoughts until thy mind hath got by heart
Its eloquent proportions, and unroll
In mighty graduations, part by part,
The glory which at once upon thee did not dart.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And one, from whom the cold both ears had reft,
Exclaim'd, still looking downward: "Why on us
Dost
speculate
so long?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What know we of the world immense,
What man would live coffined with brick and stone,
What mean these banners spread,
'What means this glory round our feet,'
What Nature makes in any mood,
What
visionary
tints the year puts on,
What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee,
What were the whole void world, if thou wert dead,
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast,
When I was a beggarly boy,
When oaken woods with buds are pink,
When Persia's sceptre trembled in a hand,
When the down is on the chin,
When wise Minerva still was young,
Where is the true man's fatherland?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thence I went the next day on
horseback
to Pisa, Siena, and
Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The Lamp
If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
When I go down the long steep Road of Darkness,
I shall not fear the
everlasting
shadows,
Nor cry in terror.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Ed elli a me: <
gia
scorgere
puoi quello che s'aspetta,
se 'l fummo del pantan nol ti nasconde>>.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But I oppose the
discussion
of paying a
wage to the Thracians; I announce an omen; I have just felt a drop of
rain.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The title is 'A Poem written during a Shooting
Excursion
on the Moors'.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Let my
mistress
be
Lazy to others, but be long to me.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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"
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?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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--
But, lying on thy breast one notable day,
Sudden
exceeding
agony of love
Made my mind a trance of infinite knowledge.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
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it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Your queen is killed,"
remarked
Tchekalinsky quietly.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Matzner
suggests
brayn-wod.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sir Galahad was at last
successful
in finding it,
as may be read in the seventeenth book of the Romance of King Arthur.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Speak but so loud as doth a wasted moon
To
Tyrrhene
waters.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Di lungi n'eravamo ancora un poco,
ma non si ch'io non discernessi in parte
ch'orrevol gente
possedea
quel loco.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the
lovelorn
piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no recognition in those orbs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The brilliancy of its picture of
contemporary
society could
not be heightened by a single stroke.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Naimes the Duke right haughtily regards him,
And goes to strike him, like a man of valour,
And of his shield breaks all the upper margin,
Tears both the sides of his
embroidered
ha'berk,
Through the carcass thrusts all his yellow banner;
So dead among sev'n hundred else he casts him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of
Nothingness
than the dead.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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)[34] Going
round
mountains
and skirting lakes was as nothing to them.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I wish they were a whole
Atlantic
broad.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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)
He who with talking can devour so much,
How would he eat, were not his
hindrance
such?
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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231
In
pilerynage
now wil I go,
And half ?
| 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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Alone Thou
wanderest
through space,
Profound One with the hidden face;
Thou art Poverty's great rose,
The eternal metamorphose
Of gold into the light of sun.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Aye, she would not give
My soul to a sad old age,
mourning
for thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Not love of you is most that I can bring,
Since what I am to love you is the test,
And should I love you more than any thing
You would but be of idle love possessed,
A mere love wandering in appetite,
Counting your glories and yet
bringing
none,
Finding in you occasions of delight,
A thief of payment for no service done.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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Du Fu - 5 |
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'
So
clamouring
he pursues, and brandishes his drawn sword, and sees not
that his rejoicing is drifting with the winds.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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All ye friends,
Farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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is "Lord Byron," from a
portrait
by Hopwood.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Stroke the cool forehead, hot so often,
Lift, if you can, the listless hair;
Handle the
adamantine
fingers
Never a thimble more shall wear.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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There read of Cain the curse and crime,
In
characters
unworn by Time:
Still, ere thou dost condemn me, pause; 1060
Not mine the act, though I the cause.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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The doctor's wormwood style, the hash of tongues
A pedant makes, the storm of Gonson's lungs,
The whole artillery of the terms of war,
And (all those plagues in one) the bawling bar:
These I could bear; but not a rogue so civil,
Whose tongue will
compliment
you to the devil.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Once, in her arrogance even
maintained
that she had subjected
To her own will, as her slave, Jove's most illustrious son.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Not Ammon[609] thus Apelles' love repaid,
Great Ammon's bed resign'd the lovely maid;
Nor Cyrus thus reprov'd Araspas' fire;
Nor
haughtier
Carlo thus assum'd the sire,
Though iron Baldwin to his daughter's bower,
An ill-match'd lover, stole in secret hour:
With nobler rage the lofty monarch glow'd,
And Flandria's earldom on the knight bestow'd.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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I
respected
him for that.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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_Nova
angeletta
sovra l' ale accorta.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Page 29
60
he
prechede
hire wi?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It is
finished!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Of the two
manuscripts
Mrs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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) This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew
Prophets
to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The boat is lowered with all the haste of hate,
With its slight plank between thee and thy fate;
Her only cargo such a scant supply
As promises the death their hands deny;
And just enough of water and of bread
To keep, some days, the dying from the dead: 90
Some cordage, canvass, sails, and lines, and twine,
But
treasures
all to hermits of the brine,
Were added after, to the earnest prayer
Of those who saw no hope, save sea and air;
And last, that trembling vassal of the Pole--
The feeling compass--Navigation's soul.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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--We who have
laboured
long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
Twenty
thousand
beside him Charles leads,
Who with one voice have sworn him fealty;
In straits of death they never will him leave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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MARMADUKE The old blind Man,
When you had told him the mischance, was troubled
Even to the shedding of some natural tears
Into the torrent over which he hung,
Listening
in vain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching
and with tears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal
ceilings
afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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"
X
THEN
Hrothgar
went with his hero-train,
defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;
fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek,
couch of his queen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ulysses,
ruthless
Chief!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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In this crisis of affairs, James
Colonna had been summoned to Rome to support the
interests
of his
family, and, by his courage and influence, to procure them the succour
which they so much required.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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[From Of
Reformation
in England, 1641.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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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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MIRTH
True mirth resides not in the smiling skin;
The
sweetest
solace is to act no sin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The more harm is,
Unhappily at Thebes al to rathe,
Polymites
and many a man to scathe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Po
expounded
his theory of poetry in a
letter to Yuan Ch?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He wound his way 'mid corpses, where the wave,
Winding from side to side, a passage gave:
L
And in the middle of the mead surveyed
Doralice (such the gentle lady's name),
Who, at the root of an old ash tree laid,
Bemoaned
her: fast her lamentations came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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& nine dark sleepless nights
But on the tenth bright trembling morn the Circle of Destiny Completet
Round rolld the Sea Englobing in a watry Globe self balancd*
{a light line appears through this line LFS} A Frowning Continent appeard Where Enion in the Desart
Terrified in her own
Creation
viewing her woven shadow
Sat in a sweet dread intoxication of false woven bliss self woven sorrow Repentance & Contrition*
{sequence of revisions, appearent in order presented here LFS} There is from Great Eternity a mild & pleasant rest
Namd Beulah a Soft Moony Universe feminine lovely
Pure mild & Gentle given in Mercy to those who sleep
Eternally.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Swich arguments ne been not worth a bene;
Wol ye the
childish
Ialous contrefete?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This yerd was large, and rayled alle the aleyes, 820
And shadwed wel with blosmy bowes grene,
And benched newe, and sonded alle the weyes,
In which she walketh arm in arm bi-twene;
Til at the laste
Antigone
the shene
Gan on a Troian song to singe clere, 825
That it an heven was hir voys to here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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Poe - 5 |
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Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn
silentness!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then Gilbert, laden with fagots for his fire,
Forth issued from the wood, and stood aghast
To see the ponderous body of the friar
Standing
where he had left his donkey last.
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Longfellow |
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The most
important
passage comes after line 92: "Virtue had,
and mov'd her sphere".
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Robert Herrick |
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_ Nevertheless, it is the unavoidable destiny of
Jonahs to be cast
overboard
sooner or later.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Chimene
To let you live then is the best for me;
I would that the
blackest
voice of envy
Might praise me to the skies and pity too,
Knowing I love and must denounce you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Li Bu Collection, by Li Bu
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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Blake - Zoas |
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