"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Aristophanes doubtless wishes to say that in
consequence
of
this descent Pluto established a toll across Acheron, in order to render
access to his kingdom less easy, and so that the poor and the greedy, who
could not or would not pay, might be kept out.
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Aristophanes |
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They affect us just as
vulgarity
affects us.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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T.S. Eliot |
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TO DIANEME
Dear, though to part it be a hell,
Yet, Dianeme, now
farewell!
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Robert Herrick |
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Parting track'd by arriving,
perpetual
payment of perpetual loan,
Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I well
remember
the circumstance you allude to, respecting
Creech's opinion of Mr.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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To these
imaginary poets must be ascribed some
blunders
which are so
obvious that is unnecessary to point them out.
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony
rubbish?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
And -- "What more could he say, sir cavalier,"
(Orlando cried to
Sacripant)
"if we
Were known for the two basest whores that pull
And reel from spindle-staff the matted wool?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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islanders
of Ithaca, we will return no more.
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Tennyson |
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With fire, with such indignant fire as pride
Yields, when it must destroy itself to feel
The power of the world touch it with
humbling
flame,--
With such a fire, whose heat you know not of,
Have I assayed this--notion, didst thou say?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Zeig mir die Frucht, die fault, eh man sie bricht,
Und Baume, die sich taglich neu
begrunen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah, in what philtre, wine, or spell,
May we drown this our ancient foe,
Destructive
glutton, gorging well,
Patient as the ants, and slow?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What's the boy
Malcolm?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shakespeare |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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There sleeps in
Shrewsbury
jail to-night,
Or wakes, as may betide,
A better lad, if things went right,
Than most that sleep outside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
thou shalt not flaunt thy cloak of red,
Or ride in state through Paris in the van
Of thy returning legions, but instead
Thy mother France, free and republican,
Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place
The better laurels of a soldier's crown,
That not
dishonoured
should thy soul go down
To tell the mighty Sire of thy race
That France hath kissed the mouth of Liberty,
And found it sweeter than his honied bees,
And that the giant wave Democracy
Breaks on the shores where Kings lay couched at ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
As it has been suggested that much of the misunderstanding of the former
volume was due to the fact that we did not explain ourselves in a preface,
we have thought it wise to tell the public what our aims are, and why we
are banded
together
between one set of covers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
There are as many
perfections
as there are imperfect men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its
beauteous
dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
A
youthful
lady 'neath a laurel green
Was seated, fairer, colder than the snow
On which no sun has shone for many years:
Her sweet speech, her bright face, and flowing hair
So pleased, she yet is present to my eyes,
And aye must be, whatever fate prevail.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
For Love hath so
avaunced
me, 4345
Whan I bigan my privitee
To Bialacoil al for to telle,
Whom I ne fond froward ne felle,
But took a-gree al hool my play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
If there be one whose riches cost him care,
Forth let him bring them for the troops to share;
'Tis better
generously
bestow'd on those,
Than left the plunder of our country's foes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Something
I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
They who are at work abroad are not cold,
but rather it is they who sit
shivering
in houses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
What music is this compared
with those soft and
harmonious
sounds which.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Maudite soit la nuit aux plaisirs ephemeres
Ou mon ventre a concu mon
expiation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
be
vnparygal
to the strokes of fortune / as 1708
who seyth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the
preferred
means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
I tell thee,
churlish
priest,
A minist'ring angel shall my sister be
When thou liest howling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License terms from this work, or any files
containing
a part of this
work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Under the
Sultanate of Malik Shah, he came to Merv, and
obtained
great praise
for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favors upon
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Then was created the
infernal
gulf!
| 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 |
|
_--From the songs current in his day
Confucius
(551-479 B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
There rode the
Volscian
succors:
There, in the dark stern ring,
The Roman exiles gathered close
Around the ancient king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
To her whom it adorns this sheath imparteth
The living motion from the light surrounding; And thus my nobler parts, to grief's confounding, Impart into my heart a peace which starteth
From one round whom a graciousness is cast Which
clingeth
in the air where she hath past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
)
The crushed head I dress (poor crazed hand, tear not the bandage away;)
The neck of the cavalry-man, with the bullet through and through, I
examine;
Hard the
breathing
rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life
struggles hard;
Come, sweet death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly outwards to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was
securely
bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
He held at this time the post of
assistant
secretary to the Princes'
tutor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Lately,
a flea bit
Chaerephon
on the brow and then from there sprang on to the
head of Socrates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
V
Long had he fancied each successive slope
Concealed
some cottage, whither he might turn
And rest; but now along heaven's darkening cope
The crows rushed by in eddies, homeward borne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Struggling
'mid opposites--so Love has will'd--
Now here, now there, my vain life must be led,
For in so many ways his snares are spread,
When most I hope him from my heart expell'd
Then most of her fair face its slave I'm held.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
3 Guo Ziyi, the
Minister
of Works, was second in command.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
servil mind
Rewarded
well with servil punishment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
The Don,
although
professing great respect for Aristotle,
insisted that the combat was the best part of the story and must be
acted, even if a special theater had to be built for the purpose, or the
play given in the open fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
We could get no further into the AEneid than
-- atque altae moenia Romae,
-- and the wall of high Rome,
before we were constrained to reflect by what myriad tests a work of
genius has to be tried; that Virgil, away in Rome, two
thousand
years
off, should have to unfold his meaning, the inspiration of Italian
vales, to the pilgrim on New England hills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
The clover-stems
Still cover all the space; but now they bear,
For clover-blooms, fair, stately heads of men
With poets' faces heartsome, dear and pale --
Sweet visages of all the souls of time
Whose loving service to the world has been
In the artist's way
expressed
and bodied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Here Homer, with the broad suspense
Of
thunderous
brows, and lips intense
Of garrulous god-innocence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The
broadest
land that grows
Is not so ample as the breast
These emerald seams enclose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And stole from death thy
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
A Villon- These that we loved shall God love less
fadoftfie Gibbet
^nc* sm*te alwav at their
feebleness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
"
So spake the varlet Marcus; and dread and silence came
On all the people at the sound of the great
Claudian
name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
una ratis fati nostros portabit amores
caerula ad
infernos
uelificata lacus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
"
Then an eight spoke--and a ninth--and a tenth--and then many--until
all were speaking, and I could
distinguish
nothing for the many
voices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
It may be worth while to remark, that, though the incidents of this
attempt do only in a small degree produce each other, and it deviates
accordingly from the general rule by which narrative pieces ought to
be governed, it is not, therefore, wanting in continuous hold upon the
mind, or in unity, which is effected by the identity of moral interest
that places the two
personages
upon the same footing in the reader's
sympathies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
'Tis ours, the dignity they give to grace;
The first in valour, as the first in place;
That when with wondering eyes our martial bands
Behold our deeds transcending our commands,
Such, they may cry, deserve the sovereign state,
Whom those that envy dare not
imitate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Thee of thy faith who hath bereft,
And torn the ensigns from thy brow,
And sunk the
immortal
eye so low?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Sum sāre angeald
ǣfen-ræste, swā him ful-oft gelamp,
siððan
gold-sele Grendel warode,
1255 unriht æfnde, oð þæt ende becwōm,
swylt æfter synnum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
And giv'st [1] to forms and images a breath
And
everlasting
motion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
I saw young Cupid, saw his laughing eyes
With such bewitching, am'rous
sweetness
roll,
That every human glance I since despise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout,
and
laughingly
dash with your hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
65
So hit befel,
therafter
sone,
This king wolde wenden over see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
You fly me, Chloe, as o'er trackless hills
A young fawn runs her timorous dam to find,
Whom empty terror thrills
Of woods and
whispering
wind.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Now is the place, meseems, in these affairs
To prove for thee this too: nothing corporeal
Of its own force can e'er be upward borne,
Or upward go--nor let the bodies of flames
Deceive thee here: for they
engendered
are
With urge to upwards, taking thus increase,
Whereby grow upwards shining grains and trees,
Though all the weight within them downward bears.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
--Not one moment
Of
dreamless
sleep!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
But it is time the witless head to aid
With that, which
treasured
in the phial lies,
Wherewith Astolpho, from the lowest star,
Descended in Elias' fiery car.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Out of the window
perilously
spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
A Dream about Cynthia_
VIDI te in somnis fracta, mea uita, carina
Ionio lassas ducere rore manus,
et
quaecumque
in me fueras mentita fateri,
nec iam umore grauis tollere posse comas,
qualem purpureis agitatam fluctibus Hellen,
aurea quam molli tergore uexit ouis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Creating the works from print editions not
protected
by U.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
these
proverbs
are all idle talk.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Have we not giv'n you
demonstration?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
And I, who ne'er
Coveted sight, more fondly, for myself,
Than now for him, my prayers to thee prefer,
(And pray they be not scant) that thou wouldst drive
Each cloud of his mortality away;
That on the sovran
pleasure
he may gaze.
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in paragraph 1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O sweeter than the Marriage-feast,
'Tis sweeter far to me
To walk
together
to the Kirk
With a goodly company.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The ancient chimney of thy
nursery!
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Longfellow |
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When our bullets cease singing
And long swords cease ringing
On
backplates
of fearsomest foes in full flight,
We'll dig up their dollars
To string for girls' collars--
They'll jingle around them before it is night!
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Hugo - Poems |
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This Idols day hath bin to thee no day of rest,
Labouring
thy mind
More then the working day thy hands,
And yet perhaps more trouble is behind.
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Milton |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And Theseus is to be
implored!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Zum
Liebsten
sei ein Kobold ihr beschert!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Hence, whoso will can readily remark
That soul
conjoined
is with mind, and, when
'Tis strook by influence of the mind, forthwith
In turn it hits and drives the body too.
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Lucretius |
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The old
stupendous
hall has but one door,
And in the dusk it seems that more and more
The walls recede in space unlimited.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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