Still at the water's side she holds her place,
Her bodice bright is set with Genoa lace;
O'er her rich robe, through every satin fold,
Wanders an
arabesque
in threads of gold.
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
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Doctrines
of Pantheism, Materialism,
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It has often been objected that he did mistake himself for a sacred
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offensive as his secular verse at its worst; nor can it be denied that
no severer
sentence
of condemnation can be passed upon any poet's work.
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Now, out of doubt,
Antipholus
is mad,
Else would he never so demean himself.
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OPERIS SPECIMEN
(_Ad exemplum Johannis
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ma tu chi se' che 'n su lo scoglio muse,
forse per indugiar d'ire a la pena
ch'e
giudicata
in su le tue accuse?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Form and face
Of womanhood
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--
don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible
of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your blandishment?
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Eternity groand & was
troubled
at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant muttering low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He ceas'd; the whole assembly silent sat,
Charm'd into ecstacy with his discourse
Throughout the
twilight
hall.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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It affords me no delight 240
To intermingle tears with my repast,
And soon, Aurora,
daughter
of the dawn,
Will tinge the orient.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The sabbath comes, a day of blessed rest;
What hallows it upon this
Christian
shore?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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CHANGE
I am that
creature
and creator who
Loosens and reins the waters of the sea,
Forming the rocky marge anon anew.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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, in the
employment
of J.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Farewell, green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight,
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen, they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O lily flower, O gem of
priceless
worth,
O dove with patient voice and patient eyes,
O fruitful vine amid a land of dearth,
O maid replete with loving purities,
Thou bowedst down thy head with friends on earth
To raise it with the saints in Paradise.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Often we rudely break
restraining
bars,
And confidently reach out toward the stars.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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) de
originibus
rerum p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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slowe sonne, shew thyn
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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You respect no hoary wrong
More for having
triumphed
long;
Its past victims, haggard throng,
From the mould
You unbury: swords and spears
Weaker are than poor men's tears,
Weaker than your silent years,
Hunger and Cold!
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James Russell Lowell |
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of
_Historical
Illustrations_ (R.
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Byron |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Broken Field
My soul is a dark
ploughed
field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Cold fog-drawn Lily, pale mist-magic Rose
He conjured, and in a glassy
cauldron
set
With elvish unsubstantial Mignonette
And such vague bloom as wandering dreams enclose.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Other
proportions
of the
reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions.
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Whitman |
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[54] The tablet is reckoned at forty lines in each column,
[55]
Literally
"he attained my front.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Two
tregetours
art thou and he,
That in myn hous do me this shame,
And for my soth-sawe ye me blame.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And thou wilt come to the Hybristes river, not ill named,
Which pass not, for not easy is 't to pass,
Before you get to Caucasus itself, highest
Of mountains, where the stream spurts out its tide
From the very temples; and passing over
The star-neighbored summits, 't is
necessary
to go
The southern way, where thou wilt come to the man-hating
Army of the Amazons, who Themiscyra one day
Will inhabit, by the Thermedon, where's
Salmydessia, rough jaw of the sea,
Inhospitable to sailors, stepmother of ships;
They will conduct thee on thy way, and very cheerfully.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[Footnote 17: Tennyson tells us that when he travelled by the first train
from Liverpool to
Manchester
in 1830 it was night and he thought that
the wheels ran in a groove, hence this line.
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Lewis Carroll |
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When the King hath slept, we will
To-morrow crave his presence, and will stand
In humble troop before him,
thanking
him
For that his virtue hath this wicked woman
Purged from among us, saved us from infection.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It presents an ideal picture of Pope, the man and the
author, of his life, his friendships, his love of his parents, his
literary
relationships
and aims.
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Alexander Pope |
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Just or unjust was no
consideration
of theirs.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yet though in light he dwell, no light was this
He showed to thee, but
darkness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Another tyme he sholde mightily
Conforte him-self, and seyn it was folye,
So
causeles
swich drede for to drye,
And eft biginne his aspre sorwes newe, 265
That every man mighte on his sorwes rewe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Does he teach his
subjects
to roast and bake?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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* * * *
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
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T.S. Eliot |
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And she of hirs may him, certeyn,
Withoute
sclaundre, yeven ageyn,
And ioyne her hertes togidre so 5075
In love, and take and yeve also.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The listener
remained
perfectly mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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what a small part of his whole work it
represents!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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We minded my lord's word, that he be shewn
All the seized women which are
strangely
fair.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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vengeful
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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How life support,
unknowing
and unknown?
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La Fontaine |
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Who thus disturbs the tide near the
seraglio?
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Hugo - Poems |
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And
whatever
man praises her,
Speaks well of her, he tells no lie!
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Troubador Verse |
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3 I am ashamed I am not that Qi persuader,4 44 I only
resemble
those men of Lu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He in the midst, that on his breast looks down,
Is the great Chiron who
Achilles
nurs'd;
That other Pholus, prone to wrath.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The first
twelve lines of the Poem were
engraved
neatly on one of the
window-panes, by the diamond pencil of the Bard.
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Robert Burns |
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[222] All
Persians
wore the tiara, but always on one side; the Great King
alone wore it straight on his head.
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Aristophanes |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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but with an angel's air,
Astonished, eager, unaware,
Or elfin's, wandering with a grace
Foreign to any
fireside
race,
And with a gaiety unknown
In the light feet and hair backblown,
And with a sadness yet more strange,
In meagre cheeks which knew to change
Or faint or fired more swift than sight,
And forlorn hands and lips pressed white,
And fragile voice, and head downcast,
Hiding tears, lifted at the last
To speed with one pale smile the wise
Glance of the grey immortal eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It must be good speech, and one must
not listen to the musician if he promise to add meaning to the words
with his notes, for one does not add meaning to the word 'love' by
putting four o's in the middle, or by subordinating it even
slightly
to
a musical note.
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Yeats |
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But it is not
necessary to construe these
epithets
so literally, nor to draw any
such inference from his description of Atlas, who holds the lofty
pillars which keep earth and heaven asunder.
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Iliad - Pope |
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190
But when Egelred tumbled to the grounde,
He from Kynge Harolde
quicklie
dyd advaunce,
And strooke de Tracie thilk a crewel wounde,
Hys harte and lever came out on the launce.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In
fact, it is a sort of _monism_ of
consciousness
that inspires all
pre-Miltonic epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then over all spread out the
blackened
cloud,
"'Tis here!
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE TROLL'S NOSEGAY
A simple
nosegay!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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WOMAN'S SONG
No more upon my bosom rest thee,
Too often have my hands
caressed
thee,
My lips thou knowest well, too well;
Lean to my heart no more thine ear
My spirit's living truth to hear
--It has no more to tell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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With thy Bellona, Pallas, ful of grace, 5
Be present, and my song
continue
and gye;
At my beginning thus to thee I crye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Castles and cities by the sounding main
Resound with all the busy din of life;
The
fisherman
unfurls his sails again;
And the recruited warrior bides the strife.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our starboard bow,
Out of the
drifting
fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This layered palace lies against
whirling
gusts, 4 looming at the mouth of a hole in the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Golden Treasury |
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"I've given you the story," he said, shortly
replunging
into "Lara.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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at te nascentem gremio mea prima recepit
Parthenope,
dulcisque
solo tu gloria nostro
reptasti.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Happy art thou, Vashti, to have wedded
One who so dearly rates
possession
of thee.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But you'll be present, said the
courteous
knight.
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La Fontaine |
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Put golden
padlocks
on Truth's lips, be callous as ye will,
From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Methinks
I hear of leaders proud
With no uncomely dust distain'd,
And all the world by conquest bow'd,
And only Cato's soul unchain'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I do my part, for I meet him halfway and
proclaim
his adventures
Praising his name in advance, even before he's begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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closing on the gates,
He peals his vaunting and
appalling
cry!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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"
As
Wordsworth
alludes to Coleridge's education, along with his own, "in
the season of unperilous choice," the reference is probably to
Coleridge's early time at the vicarage of Ottery St.
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William Wordsworth |
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generally
with
some idea of volition involved; cf.
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Beowulf |
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--Ah, but I took his wit
Further than he e'er did; in women I found
The same
amazement
for my wakened eyes
As in the hills and waters.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Heav'n
descended
Chief!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XI
"So was for many days and months maintained
By us, in secrecy, the amorous game;
Still grew by love, and such new vigour gained,
I in my inmost bosom felt the flame;
And that he little loved, and deeply feigned
Weened not, so was I blinded to my shame:
Though, in a
thousand
certain signs betrayed,
The faithless knight his base deceit bewrayed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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when tongues
unbridled
drop disguise,
What direful ills, what discords oft arise!
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La Fontaine |
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Aspiring
to be Gods, if Angels fell,
Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel:
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of ORDER, sins against th' Eternal Cause.
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Alexander Pope |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" she said to me,
continuing
her
employment.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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