No living man,
or lief or loath, from your labor dire
could you dissuade, from
swimming
the main.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
XXXIII
So said Sir Odoric; and after showed
(Though 'twere too tedious to recount his suit)
Him no light cause had stirred, but
puissant
goad.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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After it was known that the
seven young Parrots,
and the seven young Storks,
and the seven young Geese,
and the seven young Owls,
and the seven young Guinea Pigs,
and the seven young Cats,
and the seven young Fishes,
were all dead, then the Frog, and the Plum-pudding Flea, and the Mouse, and
the Clangle-Wangle, and the Blue Boss-Woss, all met
together
to rejoice
over their good fortune.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Y said, "Some Yeast mixed up with salt would make a perfect
plaster!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
XLV
Tradition, thou art for
suckling
children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;
But no meat for men is in thee.
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Stephen Crane |
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'
'You denied Purgatory also; you must go
straight
to Hell,' said the
angel.
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Yeats |
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"
[Sidenote A: "I would learn," she says, "why you, who are so young and
active,]
[Sidenote B: so skilled in the true sport of love,]
[Sidenote C: and so
renowned
a knight,]
[Sidenote D: have never talked to me of love.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They raised her up, they bore the trembling girl
On to the altar--hither led not now
With solemn rites and hymeneal choir,
But sinless woman, sinfully foredone,
A parent felled her on her bridal day,
Making his child a sacrificial beast
To give the ships
auspicious
winds for Troy:
Such are the crimes to which Religion leads.
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Lucretius |
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THE
PASSIONATE
SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Verrall's
famous essay in _Euripides the Rationalist_,
explaining
it as a
psychological criticism of a supposed Delphic miracle, and arguing that
Alcestis in the play does not rise from the dead at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The marital bed of the goddess
Soon grew
pregnant
with grain, heavy her bounteous fields.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Handkerchief
1716 handkerchief W, G
[643] 90 This is W, G
[644] 94 dozen 1692, f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I am happy in being
conscious
I shall have one reader who will approach
the conclusion of these few pages with regret.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Donne,
seemed a proof with what indignation and contempt a
Christian
may treat
vice or folly, in ever so low, or ever so high a station.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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In the
presence
of my friends I sobbed and cried.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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would that thou hadst a pain
Like this of mine, then would I
fearless
turn
And be a criminal.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Of
the
efficacy
of this act no means of judging has come down to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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A twist of gold was round her hair; a robe
Of samite without price, that more exprest
Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs,
In colour like the satin-shining palm
On sallows in the windy gleams of March:
And while she kissed them, crying, 'Trample me,
Dear feet, that I have followed through the world,
And I will pay you worship; tread me down
And I will kiss you for it;' he was mute:
So dark a
forethought
rolled about his brain,
As on a dull day in an Ocean cave
The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall
In silence: wherefore, when she lifted up
A face of sad appeal, and spake and said,
'O Merlin, do ye love me?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"
WHENfirst I saw thee 'neath the silver mist,
Ruling thy bark of painted sandal-wood,
Didanyknowthee?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"
LXXXI
His ceaseless strokes scarce one the other wait:
Speedily
all his foemen are in flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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methinks it is a place
Which should be trodden by Persephone
When wearied of the
flowerless
fields of Dis!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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220
Shrill sang the rising gale, and with swift prows
Cleaving the fishy flood, we reach'd by night
Geraestus, where arrived, we burn'd the thighs
Of num'rous bulls to Neptune, who had safe
Conducted
us through all our perilous course.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
We were sitting together on the edge of his bedstead, for he owned
no chairs, watching the horses being watered for the night, while the
native woman was
preparing
dinner.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Perhaps in vain my
admonitions
fall,
Yet still the Muse repeats the solemn call;
Nor can she see unmoved your senses drown'd
By Circe's deadly spells in sleep profound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The sun, as common, went abroad,
The flowers, accustomed, blew,
As if no soul the
solstice
passed
That maketh all things new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Ahi
giustizia
di Dio!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Whose
fountain
who shall tell?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
`That Grekes been of heigh condicioun,
I woot eek wel; but certein, men shal finde
As worthy folk with-inne Troye toun,
As conning, and as parfit and as kinde, 970
As been
bitwixen
Orcades and Inde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Look how the rainbow doth appear
But in one only hemisphere;
So
likewise
after our decease
No more is seen the arch of peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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s ruler, 8 divine troops are
stirring
in Shuofang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The waters
themselves are as though
drifting
into sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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But lately seen in
gladsome
green,
The woods rejoiced the day;
Thro' gentle showers and laughing flowers,
In double pride were gay:
But now our joys are fled
On winter blasts awa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The
persuader
Lu Zhonglian shot an arrow into the city with a letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Elaine flushed at this and Lancelot said, "If
beautiful
things are for
beautiful people this maiden may wear as fine jewels as there are in the
world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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_In coelum, jusseris, ibit_,--or the
other way either,--it is all one, so
anything
is to be got by it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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In the dark night of strife
Men
perished
for their dream of Liberty
Whose lives were given for this larger life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
1380
I know I could free myself from your father,
Without harming even the strictest honour:
I would not be
escaping
from a parent,
Flight is allowed to those who flee a tyrant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Or whether like some dream
delusive
came
The welcome blaze but to befool our soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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A mark,
resembling in shape a horse's hoof, was
discernible
in the
volcanic rock; and this mark was believed to have been made by
one of the celestial chargers.
| 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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Sleepless nights,
I
remember
the initiates,
their gesture, their calm glance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
Here, while Gama
refitted
his ships, the crews were attacked with a
violent scurvy, which carried off several of his men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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'But, my dear little bardlings, don't prick up your ears
Nor suppose I would rank you and Bryant as peers;
If I call him an iceberg, I don't mean to say
There is nothing in that which is grand in its way;
He is almost the one of your poets that knows
How much grace, strength, and dignity lie in Repose;
If he sometimes fall short, he is too wise to mar
His thought's modest fulness by going too far; 870
'T would be well if your authors should all make a trial
Of what virtue there is in severe self-denial,
And measure their
writings
by Hesiod's staff,
Which teaches that all has less value than half.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The
clarions
then sounded sharpe and shrille;
Deathdoeynge blades were out intent to kille.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And, if for things of earth its care Heaven show,
The souls who dwell above in joy and peace,
And their mere mortal frames have left below,
Implore thee this long civil strife may cease,
Which kills all confidence, nips every good,
Which bars the way to many a roof, where men
Once holy,
hospitable
lived, the den
Of fearless rapine now and frequent blood,
Whose doors to virtue only are denied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - 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: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Beautiful
lily!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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May Saint
Ignatius
aid thee
When other times shall come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Spotless
the oilcloth on the floor,
Limpid as water each glass case,
Each thing precisely in its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Childe Harold basked him in the
noontide
sun,
Disporting there like any other fly,
Nor deemed before his little day was done
One blast might chill him into misery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[The present alluded to was a gold snuff-box, with a
portrait
of Queen
Mary on the lid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
| Guess: |
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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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Bartholomew
Diaz, in
1486, reached the river which he named _dell'Infante_ on the eastern
side of Africa, but deterred by the storms of that coast from proceeding
farther, on his return he had the happiness to be the discoverer of the
promontory, unknown for many ages, which bounds the south of Africa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now in my palace
I see foot-passengers
Crossing the river:
Pilgrims
of Autumn
In the afternoons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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--Not from seeing
What is doing, suffering, being,
Not from noting Life's conditions,
Nor from heeding Time's monitions;
But in
cleaving
to the Dream,
And in gazing at the gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
XCVIII
"Thou to the fierce Marphisa may'st apply
To leave his trial (he
pursued)
to thee,
With promise, her in this to satisfy
And to suspend him from the gallows-tree:
And even should the maid thy prayer deny,
Let her in every wish contented be:
And rather than that she desert thy side,
Let her hang him and every thief beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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] The Prince of
Cumberland!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
]
at the laste amyable fortune w{i}t{h} hir flaterynges draweth
mys wandrynge men fro the souereyne good // the contraryos
fortune ledith ofte folk ayein to sothfast goodes / 1664
{and} haleth hem ayein as w{i}t{h} an hooke /
[Sidenote: It renders us no
inconsiderable
service in enabling us
to recognize our true friends.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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gov'ment arter a while;
Tho' they do say gov'ment may be vile,
Mean an'
treacherous
an' deceivin'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Is your sole virtue
committing
outrage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| 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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What womman coude love swich a
wrecche?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He had never looked upon his
acquaintance
with Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Thy
boundless
will, for me, remains in force,
And all thy counsels take the destined course.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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All things that pass
Are wisdom's looking-glass;
Being full of hope and fear, and still
Brimful of good or ill,
According
to our work and will;
For there is nothing new beneath the sun;
Our doings have been done,
And that which shall be was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Eufeniens
seide in his mende,
'?
| 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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Ye Gods, ye
brethren
of the dead,
Why held ye not the deathly herd
Of Keres back from off this home?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Yet in the city of my love
High noon burns all the heavens bare--
For him the happiness of light,
For me a
delicate
despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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LAUGHING
SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
660
Alfwoulde began to dyghte hymselfe for fyghte,
Meanewhyle
hys menne on everie syde dyd slee,
Whan on hys lyfted sheelde withe alle hys myghte
Campynon's swerde in burlie-brande dyd dree;
Bewopen Alfwoulde fellen on his knee; 665
Hys Brystowe menne came in hym for to save;
Eftsoons upgotten from the grounde was hee,
And dyd agayne the touring Norman brave;
Hee graspd hys bylle in syke a drear arraie,
Hee seem'd a lyon catchynge at hys preie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Not greater was the dread when Phaeton
The reins let drop at random, whence high heaven,
Whereof signs yet appear, was wrapt in flames;
Nor when ill-fated Icarus perceiv'd,
By
liquefaction
of the scalded wax,
The trusted pennons loosen'd from his loins,
His sire exclaiming loud, "Ill way thou keep'st!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I wake, and fall asleep again,
The same
delights
in visions rise;
There's nothing can appear more plain
Than those rose cheeks and those bright eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
The two are
different
things in most men's eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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like a
steersman
skilled,
Enshield the city's bulwarks, ere the blast
Of war comes darting on them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and stranger than
the
strangeness
of my madness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
XXXIV
As when a crowd of pale men gather round,
Watching an eddy in the leaden deep,
From which they deem the body of one drowned
Will be cast forth, from face to face doth creep
An eager dread that holds all tongues fast bound
Until the horror, with a ghastly leap, 550
Starts up, its dead blue arms stretched aimlessly,
Heaved with the swinging of the careless sea,--
XXXV
So in the faces of all these there grew,
As by one impulse, a dark, freezing awe,
Which with a fearful
fascination
drew
All eyes toward the altar; damp and raw
The air grew suddenly, and no man knew
Whether perchance his silent neighbor saw
The dreadful thing which all were sure would rise
To scare the strained lids wider from their eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Nor did Israel scape
Th' infection when their borrow'd Gold compos'd
The Calf in Oreb: and the Rebel King
Doubl'd that sin in Bethel and in Dan,
Lik'ning his Maker to the Grazed Ox,
Jehovah, who in one Night when he pass'd
From Egypt marching, equal'd with one stroke
Both her first born and all her
bleating
Gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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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Silently
we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of dreadful things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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[51] Note _BUL(tu-ku)_
eratatu_
(falsely entered in Meissner,
SAI.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They were
afterwards
incorporated in full in the edition of
1857, issued by Mr.
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But what was she, the black-robed, with the eyes
So
fearfully
alight, the last who spoke?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Death cannot make that
beauteous
face less fair,
But that sweet face may lend to death a grace;
My spirit's guide!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He
acknowledges himself
overreached
by Bartervile, and confesses:
I came to teach, but now (me thinkes) must learne.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Then the buck leapt up, and his head as a king's to a crown did go
Full high in the breeze, and he stood as if Death had the form of a deer;
And the two slim does long lazily stretching arose,
For their day-dream
slowlier
came to a close,
Till they woke and were still, breath-bound with waiting and wonder and fear.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Burroughs
(to whom I have recourse for most biographical
facts concerning Whitman) is careful to note, in order that no
misapprehension may arise on the subject, that, up to the time of his
publishing the _Leaves of Grass_, the author had not read either the essays
or the poems of Emerson.
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Whitman |
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And no doubt on some of these
occasions
Chatterton
was copying the legal precedents of which 370 folio pages, neatly
written in a well-formed handwriting, remain to this day as evidence
of legitimate industry.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Gold crushed from the quartz of a crystal life,
Gold
hammered
with blows of human strife,
Gold burnt in the love of man and wife,
Till it is pure as the very flame:
Gold that the miser will not have,
Gold that is good beyond the grave,
Gold that the patient and the brave
Amass, neglecting praise and blame.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Some strong bad
eagerness
kept tightly rigged
The cordage of his body, till his nerves
Loosed on a sudden.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Discobbolos
said,--
"Oh!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Propaganda
would be for him a dissipation, but he may compare his art, if he has a
mind to, with the arts that belonged to a whole people, and discover,
not how to imitate the
external
form of an epic or a folk-song, but
how to express in some equivalent form whatever in the thoughts of his
own age seem, as it were, to press into the future.
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Yeats |
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Your unconquerable hand
From
countless
monsters, has freed the land:
But not all are destroyed, and you have spared 1445
One.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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