Perhaps his astonishment
explains
his silence, 785
And our complaints perhaps show too much violence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Consider
it not so deepely
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And, furthermore, her brethren wonder'd much
Why she sat drooping by the Basil green,
And why it flourish'd, as by magic touch;
Greatly they wonder'd what the thing might mean: 460
They could not surely give belief, that such
A very nothing would have power to wean
Her from her own fair youth, and pleasures gay,
And even
remembrance
of her love's delay.
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Keats |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Count
Your sword is mine, and you no longer worthy
That my hand should bear this
shameful
trophy.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The most horrible curse on thee
for
thousands
of years!
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| Question: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ T, prima littera per k,
non per
usitatiorem
h, notata
26 in marg.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Whom thus the Angel
interrupted
milde.
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Milton |
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Two Truths are told,
As happy Prologues to the swelling Act
Of the
Imperiall
Theame.
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| Question: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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e clere werke3,
Ennurned vpon veluet vertuuus[1] stone3,
2028 Aboute beten, & bounden,
enbrauded
seme3,
& fayre furred with-inne wyth fayre pelures.
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| Question: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"Strangers ye come, and haply in this place,
That cradled human nature in its birth,
Wond'ring, ye not without
suspicion
view
My smiles: but that sweet strain of psalmody,
'Thou, Lord!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I know that Parny's tender pen(42)
Is no more
cherished
amongst men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It was always
springtime
once in my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"The
Southern
Cross isn't worth looking at unless
someone helps you to see.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Marching
with equal step.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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FAUST:
Fletsche deine
gefrassigen
Zahne mir nicht so entgegen!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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>>,
diss' io, <
andianci
soli,
se tu sa' ir; ch'i' per me non la cheggio.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Here's one outlived his peers,
And told forth
fourscore
years;
He vexed time, and busied the whole state;
Troubled both foes and friends;
But ever to no ends:
What did this stirrer but die late?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
]
This
Quatrain
Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There, my retreat the best companions grace,
Chiefs out of war, and
statesmen
out of place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Now fleeth Venus un-to
Cylenius
tour,
With voide cours, for fere of Phebus light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The fame, that honours your illustrious house,
Proclaims the nobles and
proclaims
the land;
So that he knows it who was never there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE SINGING WIRE
Ethereal, faint that music rang,
As, with the bosom of the breeze,
It rose and fell and
murmuring
sang
Aeolian harmonies!
| 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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Jupiter sends
Thetis to Achilles, to dispose him for the restoring it, and Iris to
Priam, to
encourage
him to go in person and treat for it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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So ween I for thee a worse adventure
-- though in buffet of battle thou brave hast been,
in
struggle
grim, -- if Grendel's approach
thou darst await through the watch of night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The leaves, like women, interchange
Sagacious confidence;
Somewhat of nods, and
somewhat
of
Portentous inference,
The parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy, --
Inviolable compact
To notoriety.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ACTIUM, a promontory of Epirus, now called the _Cape of Tigolo_,
famous for the victory of
Augustus
over M.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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--
I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Chvabrine had some French books; I
took to reading, and I
acquired
a taste for literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The delicacy of your courtly train
To wash a wretched
wanderer
would disdain;
But if, in tract of long experience tried,
And sad similitude of woes allied,
Some wretch reluctant views aerial light,
To her mean hand assign the friendly rite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The hills untied their bonnets,
The
bobolinks
begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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May men finde religioun 6225
In worldly
habitacioun?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_ Froehlich
75
_adauris_
O: _ad aures_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Sur le
requisitoire
de M.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
suggests
bār-helm, = _boar-helm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Death has taken your
invincible
husband,
You only were unaware that it has happened.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"Grant merci;" quod Gawayn, &
gruchyng
he sayde,
"Wel worth ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Dubious,
facing three ways,
welcoming wayfarers,
he whom the sea-orchard
shelters
from the west,
from the east
weathers sea-wind;
fronts the great dunes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I wrote at such speed that I might
save from a plagiarist a subject that seemed worth the keeping till
greater knowledge of the stage made an adequate
treatment
possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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But since thou hast voutsaf't 80
Gently for our
instruction
to impart
Things above Earthly thought, which yet concernd
Our knowing, as to highest wisdom seemd,
Deign to descend now lower, and relate
What may no less perhaps availe us known,
How first began this Heav'n which we behold
Distant so high, with moving Fires adornd
Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills
All space, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd
Imbracing round this florid Earth, what cause 90
Mov'd the Creator in his holy Rest
Through all Eternitie so late to build
In Chaos, and the work begun, how soon
Absolv'd, if unforbid thou maist unfould
What wee, not to explore the secrets aske
Of his Eternal Empire, but the more
To magnifie his works, the more we know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Is not the slaying of the monster Time the most
ordinary and legitimate
occupation
of man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Woe-full
Catullus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"
Alde
answered
him: "That word to me is strange.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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ou art welcome vs vntille,
Her-Inne
schaltou
wone;
Page 44
216
I was out after ?
| 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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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some
infinitely
gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
What welcome should Ulysses at your hands
Receive, arriving suddenly at home,
Some God his guide; would ye the suitors aid,
Or would ye aid
Ulysses?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
You've
listened
too long, cruel one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Meanwhile the rushing armies hide the ground;
The
trampled
centre yields a hollow sound:
Steeds cased in mail, and chiefs in armour bright,
The gleaming champaign glows with brazen light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Do but try
The
question
with a steady moral eye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Thycke as the ante-flyes ynne a sommer's none, 560
Seemynge
as tho' theie stynge as persante too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
No sweeter a
daughter
anywhere,
By as much as the weather's stormy,
Through Adam's lineage went straying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Painting
is truly a luminous language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future
generations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
VI
_Hearkening still, I hear this strain
From the ninth opal's varied vein:_
NINTH OPAL
In the
mountains
of Mexico,
Where the barren volcanoes throw
Their fierce peaks high to the sky,
With the strength of a tawny brute
That sees heaven but to defy,
And the soft, white hand of the snow
Touches and makes them mute,--
Firm in the clasp of the ground
The opal is found.
| 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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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Is he not the man who
without the least excuse
butchered
thousands of utterly innocent
soldiers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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hame and tremble
To lay thine owne dull damn'd defects vpon
An
innocent
ca?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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To France I'll go, and war with Charles again;
Save at my feet he kneel, and mercy beg,
Save all the laws of
Christians
he forget,
I'll take away the crown from off his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
1792
I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
Alteration
of an Old Poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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perche non sali il
dilettoso
monte
ch'e principio e cagion di tutta gioia?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
With that, me thoghte, that this king
Gan [quikly]
hoomward
for to ryde 1315
Unto a place ther besyde,
Which was from us but a lyte,
A long castel with walles whyte,
By seynt Iohan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
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: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For whom, as olde bokes tellen us,
Was mad swich wo, that tonge it may not telle;
And namely, the sorwe of Troilus,
That next him was of
worthinesse
welle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
-- That was
proudest
of feasts;
flowed wine for the warriors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
A quietness distilled,
As
twilight
long begun,
Or Nature, spending with herself
Sequestered afternoon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
--
"Yes, the
Christians
smile at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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At last, after sighting "all kind of living creatures new to sight and
strange," he
descries
Man.
| 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 |
|
Mechanics' Fair, reflections
suggested
at.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Swallows
were flying about us, and the
chewink and cuckoo were heard near at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights
to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And what, if
cheerful
shouts at noon,
Come, from the village sent,
Or songs of maids, beneath the moon,
With fairy laughter blent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder
crawling
coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help--for It
As impotently moves as you or I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
How fond women are of doing
dangerous
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
A' pleasure exile me,
Dishonour
defile me,
If e'er I beguile thee,
My Eppie Adair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Men may,
Even aged men, be, or appear to be,
Sires of a hundred sons, but cannot kindle
An atom of their
ancestors
from earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Ainsi l'amant sur un corps adore
Du
souvenir
cueille la fleur exquise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The illustrious
head of the
aristocratical
party, Marcus Furius Camillus, might
perhaps be, in some measure, protected by his venerable age and
by the memory of his great services to the state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
_
[229]
_Tu quoque littoribus nostris, AEneia nutrix,
AEternam
moriens famam,
Caieta, dedisti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
[3] Pay a
trademark
license fee to the Project of 20% of the
net profits you derive calculated using the method you
already use to calculate your applicable taxes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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yestreen
thou kens, wi' Meg--
Thy pardon I sincerely beg,
O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
In the cause of Right engaged,
Wrongs injurious to redress,
Honour's war we
strongly
waged,
But the heavens denied success.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
In the tent palace black
headgear
lines up,1 at headquarters gate white gowns shine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"-- rose with a louder swell:
And the chair tossed as tosses a bark with
tattered
sail
When raves the Adriatic beneath an eastern gale,
When Calabrian sea-marks are lost in clouds of spume,
And the great Thunder-Cape has donned his veil of inky gloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
[67] A
celebrated
actor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My lord
requires
me here.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
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T.S. Eliot |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
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Li Po |
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They drew their
scimitars
against us swiftly;
Mingling our blood with theirs most horribly.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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the grand recoil
Of life
resurgent
from the soil
Wherein was dropped the mortal spoil.
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Emerson - Poems |
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