Should I shed light on the
dishonour
to his bed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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After all,
There 's Ugo says the ring is only paste,
For he 's sure the Count
Castiglione
never
Would have given a real diamond to such as you;
And at the best I'm certain, Madam, you cannot
Have use for jewels now.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile
upstairs
in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui prennent nos requetes
Pour se les
renvoyer
comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"
Let the night be; it has neither
knowledge
nor pity.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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That lends
corruption
lighter wings to fly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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achievement
in
battle: dat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
In his subsequent poetic work Rilke did not again reach the sustained
high quality of this book, the mood and idea of which he incorporated
into a prose work of
exquisite
lyrical beauty: _The Sketch of Malte
Laurids Brigge_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
I am highly
delighted
with it; and if you should think it worthy
of your attention, I have a fair dame in my eye to whom I would
consecrate it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Neither
did Drusus who made the attempt, want
boldness
to pursue it: but the
roughness of the ocean withstood him, nor would suffer discoveries to
be made about itself, no more than about Hercules.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
That
Emperour
goes into France apace;
Under his cloke he fain would hide his face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
More I know not; he had there
A
wreathed
ox, as for some weighty prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
* * * * *
He glanced and saw the stately galleries,
Dame, damsel, each thro' worship of their Queen
White-robed in honor of the
stainless
child,
And some with scatter'd jewels, like a bank
Of maiden snow mingled with sparks of fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
I, next, the
daughter
of Asopus saw,
Antiope; she gloried to have known 310
Th' embrace of Jove himself, to whom she brought
A double progeny, Amphion named
And Zethus; they the seven-gated Thebes
Founded and girded with strong tow'rs, because,
Though puissant Heroes both, in spacious Thebes
Unfenced by tow'rs, they could not dwell secure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Dissolved
to senseless ashes now remain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of
the
Mississippi!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The beast was seen to smile ere joined they fight,
The man and monster, in most
desperate
duel,
Like warring giants, angry, huge, and cruel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Me, lured by hope her sorrows to remove,
A heart that could not much itself approve,
O'er Gallia's wastes of corn dejected led,
Her road elms rustling high above my head,
Or through her truant pathways' native charms,
By secret
villages
and lonely farms,
To where the Alps .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Oh the
trembling
fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Smashed to bits,
Rescued by flight alone, he is as careless
As a simple child; 'tis clear that Providence
Protects
him, and we, my friends, will not lose heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
It is, in fact, an absolutely
aristocratic
age--an age
in which he who rules is thereby proven the "best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
For they say that a thing is not
necessarily
to happen because God
hath foreseen it, but rather because it is to happen it cannot be
hid from the divine Providence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
In the long leap Amphialus prevail'd;
Elatreus most
successful
hurled the quoit,
And at the cestus,[29] last, the noble son
Of Scheria's King, Laodamas excell'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Or to more deeply blest
Anchises?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
-
Was stehst du so und blickst
erstaunt
hinaus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the
thinking
self, the fanciful self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
116),
describes
one as about
twenty-four yards in circumference.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
All seem
rejoiced
my task is smoothly done,
And I so long a course have safely run.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
How Fox and
Sheridan
rejoice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The aire of the place so attempre was,
That ner was there
grevaunce
of hot ne cold--
* * *
Under a tre beside a well I seye
Cupid our lorde his arrowes forge and file,
And at his fete his bowe all redie laye,
And well his doughtir temprid all the while
The heddis in the well, and with her wile
She couchid 'hem aftir as thei should serve,
Some for to flea, and some to wound and carve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
_ Perhaps jotted down with reference to
the
Governorship
of Exeter by Sir John Berkeley: see Note to 745.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"
This criticism is not very trenchant, but its weakness is due, I think,
more to timidity of
statement
than to lack of perception.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
yonder, something shines with quite
peculiar
glare,
And draws me to those bushes mazy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The rush of their charge is
resounding
still
That saved the army at Chancellorsville.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
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: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
That breathed a death-like silence wide around,
Broke only by the
unvaried
torrent's sound,
Or prayer-bell by the dull cicada drown'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
I
wondered
at you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Email
contact links and up to date contact
information
can be found at the
Foundation's web site and official page at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
He is said to have
discovered
the elixir of
life, the philosopher's stone, and many other equally marvelous things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy raiments and thy ebony cross
affright
me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
His
directions
settled all the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
t
arctur{us}
saw ben
waxen hey[e] cornes whan ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
On the Central Plain they are
fighting
now, 40 what means will we have to meet again?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
What will your people, what will envy say,
If your
protection
cloaks him every way,
Preventing him from seeking to appear,
Where a noble death is sought by honour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
XLVIII
She on Rogero looks with
stedfast
eyes
As long as feeble sight can serve her use;
And in her mind next tracks him through the skies,
When sight in vain the cherished youth pursues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Every part is flower (or fruit), such is its
superfluity
of
color,--stem, branch, peduncle, pedicel, petiole, and even the at
length yellowish, purple-veined leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Out of this came,
nearly at the same time, two works wholly
different
in method and in
tone--so different, that at first sight it may seem absurd to speak of
them together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Do
monarchs
rise by virtue, or by sword ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
While thus the Spirits of strongest wing enlighten the dark deep
The threads are spun & the cords twisted & drawn out; then the weak
Begin their work; & many a net is netted; many a net
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Spread & many a Spirit caught, innumerable the nets
Innumerable the gins & traps; & many a soothing flute
Is form'd & many a corded lyre, outspread over the immense
In cruel delight they trap the listeners, & in cruel delight
Bind them, [together] condensing the strong energies into little compass
Some became seed of every plant that shall be planted; some
The bulbous roots, thrown up together into barns & garners
Then rose the Builders: First the Architect divine his plan
Unfolds, The wondrous scaffold reard all round the infinite
Quadrangular the
building
rose the heavens squared by a line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Campania,
prescient
of her Pompey's fate,
Sent a kind fever to arrest his date:
When lo!
| 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 |
|
D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
)
Vielleicht
ist er gar tot!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Mountainous
land, a field for fierce tigers, 24 my heart knots within, I turn my head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
"Do you know
I have some very
beautiful
poems floating in the air," she wrote
to me in 1904; "and if the gods are kind I shall cast my soul
like a net and capture them, this year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Lo, I have found no cause of death in him;
I will
chastise
him, and then let him go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Nicolas' own Edition Suf and Sufi are both
disparagingly
named.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
It is no
small trust that is reposed in him to whom the Bishop
sliall commit omne et omni modo suimi ingeniumy tarn
temporale quam,
spirUuale
; and, however it goes with
excommunication, they should take good heed to what
manner of person they delegate the keys of laughter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Page [80]
636
Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL
PRECEPTS
AND PRACTICAL ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud 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 |
|
Though at
present I am below the veriest prose, yet from you
everything
pleases.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
But if we hold him off, will he not grant
The meed of a brave fight,
captivity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
VII
Once more the sun deploys his rays:
Third in the trilogy of battle-days
The awful Friday comes:
A day of dread,
That should have moved with slow, averted head
And muffled feet,
Knowing what streams of pure blood shed,
What broken hearts and wounded lives must meet
Its
pitiless
tread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
" say pagans, each to each;
"These
Frankish
men, their horns we plainly hear
Charle is at hand, that King in Majesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Passions, because most living, are most holy--and this was a
scandalous paradox in his time--and man shall enter
eternity
borne upon
their wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"Say who are ye, that
stemming
the blind stream,
Forth from th' eternal prison-house have fled?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Royalty
payments
must be paid
within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'545 Socinus':
the name of two famous heretics, uncle and nephew, of the sixteenth
century, who denied the
divinity
of Christ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
The other, next to me that beats the sand,
Is Aldobrandi, name
deserving
well,
In the' upper world, of honour; and myself
Who in this torment do partake with them,
Am Rusticucci, whom, past doubt, my wife
Of savage temper, more than aught beside
Hath to this evil brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
True Virtue never knows defeat:
HER robes she keeps
unsullied
still,
Nor takes, nor quits, HER curule seat
To please a people's veering will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
CONTEMPORARY
EVENTS
Birth of Edmund Spenser (about) 1552 Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh
1553 Death of Edward VI; Mary crowned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
In
Langdale
Pike and Witch's Lair,
And Dungeon-ghyll so foully rent,
With ropes of rock and bells of air
Three sinful sextons' ghosts are pent,
Who all give back, one after t'other,
The death-note to their living brother;
And oft too, by the knell offended,
Just as their one!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
For in a season
troublous
to the state
Neither may I attend this task of mine
With thought untroubled, nor mid such events
The illustrious scion of the Memmian house
Neglect the civic cause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
'
Right as the fresshe, rede rose newe
Ayen the somer-sonne coloured is,
Right so for shame al wexen gan the hewe
Of this formel, whan she herde al this; 445
She neyther
answerde
'wel,' ne seyde amis,
So sore abasshed was she, til that Nature
Seyde, 'doghter, drede yow noght, I yow assure.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Camoens describes that place, as Tasso some years after
depicted
his
island of Armida.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ye mind me
marching
through these vales
When golden spur was ringing at my heel?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly
hammering
a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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T.S. Eliot |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Dans l'ombre des
couloirs
aux tentures moisies,
En passant il tirait la langue, les deux poings
A l'aine, et dans ses yeux fermes voyait des points.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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BEFORE THE SNOW
Autumn is gone: through the blue woodlands bare
Shatters
the rainy wind.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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