What headaches have I felt and what heart-beating,
When
critical
desire was strong.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Misery and poverty are so
absolutely
degrading, and exercise such
a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really
conscious of its own suffering.
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The intervening period
was devoted almost
entirely
to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and
criticism.
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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The heel
That
scratched
thy neck in passing--whose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Through a small chink I spied a
spacious
hall ;
Tapers, as thick as stai*s, did shed their light
Around the place, and made a day of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
| 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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No
fragments
merely
shall burn with the warrior.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
One must love
something
in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the Scythians did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the sweetest joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The
shortest
version, in couplets, from the Cotton MS.
| 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 |
|
Eufeniens
ansuered sone,
As he au?
| 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 |
|
He added I know not what, to the effect that the
sweet-water would only be the more
disfigured
by having its leaves
starched and ironed out, and that Pegasus (so he called him) hardly
looked right with his mane and tail in curl-papers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Where are these
Gentlemen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
[A] There wat3 blawyng of prys in mony breme home,
He3e
halowing
on hi3e, with ha?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do
copyright
research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Small trees and shrubs are seen in the
midst
overwhelmed
as by an inundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
[253] The second day of the
Dionysia
or feasts of Bacchus, kept in the
month Anthesterion (February), and called the Anthesteria.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The inhabitants will
disappear
abruptly behind their
barns and houses, like desert Arabs amid their rocks, and I shall look
to see spears in their hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live
regions
previously
unattained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
chattering
teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
"
CORYDON
"The
junipers
and prickly chestnuts stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
_20
Did thine own mind afford no scope
Of love, or moving
thoughts
to thee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Toi qui fais au
proscrit
ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un echafaud,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Sanche
It would be
happiness
if you'd consent;
Granting me hope, I take my leave, content.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Thus the Barrister dreamed, while the
bellowing
seemed
To grow every moment more clear:
Till he woke to the knell of a furious bell,
Which the Bellman rang close at his ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
They think--
I don't know what they think we see in what
They leave us to: that pasture slope that seems
The back some farm
presents
us; and your woods
To northward from your window at the sink,
Waiting to steal a step on us whenever
We drop our eyes or turn to other things,
As in the game 'Ten-step' the children play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
My vicinity to Ayr was of some
advantage
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
As when Heavens Fire
Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks, or
Mountain
Pines,
With singed top their stately growth though bare
Stands on the blasted Heath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
]
143 (return)
[ Dio absolutely affirms it; but from the manner in which Tacitus, who had better means of information, speaks of it, the story was
probably
false.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
--
She hath an eye that sinks into all hearts,
And if I have in aught
offended
you,
Soon would her gentle voice make peace between us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
the
Nightingale
begins its song,
"Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Then,
glancing
narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not exorcised before,
Peruse how infinite I am
To -- no one that you know!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
' Hutchinson says that
Harrison
was twelve years old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
'Mid the green
mountains
many and many a song
We two had sung, like little birds in May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Thou wert to tell me
wherefore
for five days
We may pretend to be God's people still;
Why thou didst not make us over to death
Soon as the folk began to wail despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 356 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Ellen was a
faithful
friend,
More dear than any sister!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Bring forth Men-Children onely:
For thy
vndaunted
Mettle should compose
Nothing but Males.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
[_The Attendant leads_
HERACLES
_into the house_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Then - you would only
have been me
- since I am
here - lonely, sad -
- no, I remember
a
childhood
-
- yours
twin voices
but without you
I'd not have - known
18.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Allume le desir dans les regards des
rustres!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
o,
So
chaunged
was his chere; 780
(66)
?
| 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 |
|
were not his looks of power to have kept the night 15
alive in
contention
with day, and made the morning never wished
for?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
He spent two periods of years in
Sicily, where he died in 456, killed, it is said, by a
tortoise
which
an eagle dropped on his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
A precious,
mouldering
pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His venerable hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
[Note 31: The heroes of two
romances
much in vogue in Pushkin's
time: the former by Madame Cottin, the latter by the famous
Madame Krudener.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Meanwhile
what are our heroes doing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Pole-star of light in Europe's night,
That never
faltered
from the right.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Tarts and custards, creams and cakes,
Are the junkets still at wakes:
Unto which the tribes resort,
Where the
business
is the sport.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
REMARKS OF
INCREASE
D.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
house; 375
ffor ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
How many bullets
bearest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
it has not scared the buck
Who stands
astonished
at the meteor light,
Then turns to bound away,--is it too late?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
" The hairs are spoken of here as the least
important
part of
the body; the heart, on the other hand, has always been thought of as
the most important organ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
A number of
personal
references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was
trickling
through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
" KAU}
For many a window ornamented with sweet ornaments
Lookd out into the World of Tharmas, where in ceaseless
torrents
{Lowercase "world" mended to "World.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
O Death, (for Life has served its turn,)
Opener and usher to the
heavenly
mansion,
Be thou my God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
l fuelh
Like to him who bends the leaves
And picks the
loveliest
flower of all
I from the highest branch have seized,
Of them, the one most beautiful,
One God has made, without a stain,
Made her out of His own beauty,
And He commanded that humility
Should her great worth grace again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
VII
My eyes are weary
Following
you everywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The second and third of these couplets were
cancelled
in the edition of
1815, and the whole passage was withdrawn in 1827.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Glory to the tsar
Dimitry!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
" This draft, now the
editor's property, consists of only
seventeen
lines, and read thus:
I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"
As in memorial of the buried, drawn
Upon earth-level tombs, the sculptur'd form
Of what was once, appears (at sight whereof
Tears often stream forth by remembrance wak'd,
Whose sacred stings the piteous only feel),
So saw I there, but with more curious skill
Of portraiture o'erwrought, whate'er of space
From forth the
mountain
stretches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
]
[Sidenote C: Gawayne returns thanks for the honour and
kindness
shown to
him by all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Power, a first-class,
elements
of.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Condensed
mythological
references abound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
ai schullen do;
miracles
grete & ryue;
Bot we ne fynde nou?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Has it
feathers
like a bird?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
si Bacchus amator
dotali potuit caelum signare corona,
cur nullis uirgo
redimitur
pulcrior astris?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Or from their deed I
rightlier
may divine,
Unseemly flown with insolence and wine?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Abel came next, but
petitioned
in vain,
Because he might meet with his brother Cain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
"Whom do you wish to
present?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Fortune, at length, where caged with Roland are
Ferrau and Sacripant, directs her chase;
Rogero, with Gradasso fierce, and more,
Noosed with strange witcheries by
Atlantes
hoar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Though bitter sneers and
stinging
scorns
Did throng the muse's dangerous way,
Thy powers were past such little thorns,
They gave thee no dismay;
The scoffer's insult passed thee by,
Thou smild'st and mad'st him no reply.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
_, sung
at the Royal Amphitheatre,
Westminster
Bridge, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
You see, Madam, the truth of the French maxim, _le vrai n'est pas
toujours le vraisemblable_; your last was so full of expostulation,
and was something so like the language of an
offended
friend, that I
began to tremble for a correspondence, which I had with grateful
pleasure set down as one of the greatest enjoyments of my future life.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
"I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast
withereth
too.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
But if she found us like our sea,
Of aspect
colourless
and chill,
Rock-girt; like it she found us still
Deep at our deepest, strong and free.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
You define me God with these
trinkets?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Chimene
You think if he's the victor I'll
surrender?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
It plays at ball in old, blue Chinese gardens,
And shakes wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples,
Amid the broken
flutings
of white pillars.
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But the
complete
type was refined away during the fifth century; and one
stage in the process produced a play with a normal chorus but with one
figure of the Satyric or "revelling" type.
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may
backward
turn:
Begetting you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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Bleed, bleed poore Country,
Great Tyrrany, lay thou thy basis sure,
For
goodnesse
dare not check thee: wear y thy wrongs,
The Title, is affear'd.
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Thus Adam to himself lamented loud
Through the still Night, not now, as ere man fell,
Wholsom and cool, and mild, but with black Air
Accompanied, with damps and
dreadful
gloom,
Which to his evil Conscience represented
All things with double terror: On the ground 850
Outstretcht he lay, on the cold ground, and oft
Curs'd his Creation, Death as oft accus'd
Of tardie execution, since denounc't
The day of his offence.
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The
splendours
of the past day?
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