So your
daughter
says.
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Shakespeare |
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Puis quand j'ai ravale mes reves avec soin,
Je me tourne, ayant bu trente ou
quarante
chopes,
Et me recueille pour lacher l'acre besoin.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"Will you not eat
something?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The happy winds their
timbrels
took;
The birds, in docile rows,
Arranged themselves around their prince
(The wind is prince of those).
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The standard
Assyrian
texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Admetus, seeing what way my
fortunes
lie,
I fain would speak with thee before I die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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GD}
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line
crossing
out this line has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Not without wound
(So I make out, at least, thy
hurrying
words)
Comest thou back to us from conquering.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then here
contented
will I lie;
Alone I cannot fear to die.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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' There is another song that ends, 'The Erne shall be
in strong flood, the hills shall be torn down, and the sea shall have
red waves, and blood shall be spilled, and every
mountain
valley and
every moor shall be on high, before you shall perish, my little black
rose.
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Yeats |
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O Sylvan,
drowning?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It was in the
Roman summers that Lear first began to exercise the taste for pictorial
wandering which grew into a habit and a passion, to fill vivid and copious
note-books as he went, and to illustrate them by spirited and accurate
drawings; and his first volume of "Illustrated Excursions in Italy,"
published in 1846, is gratefully
dedicated
to his Knowsley patron.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
overwhelming
all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Threatened with excommunication several times for his dissolute life and
challenges
to Church authority, he was later reconciled.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Know
of me then- for now I speak to some purpose- that I know you are
a
gentleman
of good conceit.
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Shakespeare |
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Eight Middle High German
versions
of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So they, whom hearing he replaced the bow
Where erst it stood, terrified at the sound
Of such loud menaces; on the other side 440
Telemachus
as loud assail'd his ear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Near and more near as life's last period draws,
Which oft is hurried on by human woe,
I see the passing hours more swiftly flow,
And all my hopes in
disappointment
close.
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Petrarch |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His course and thine to one conclusion lead,
Of flower so fair though
worthless
here the mead.
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Petrarch |
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2
Superb-faced
Manhattan!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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By Turkish Moslemite
Impure, why is Byzantium, with the best
And fairest portion of the world,
possest?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tel le vieux vagabond, pietinant dans la boue,
Reve, le nez en l'air, de
brillants
paradis;
Son oeil ensorcele decouvre une Capoue
Partout ou la chandelle illumine un taudis.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ye wands, ye wreaths that cling around my neck,
Ye showed me prophetess yet scorned of all--
I stamp you into death, or e'er I die--
Down, to
destruction!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Of Pryamus was yeve, at Greek requeste,
A tyme of trewe, and tho they gonnen trete,
Hir
prisoneres
to chaungen, moste and leste,
And for the surplus yeven sommes grete.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ah,
shuddering
dread doth make my spirit quiver,
And o'er thy fate sits Fear!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Was God so
economical?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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* The Duke of York was thought to have an
intrigue
with
Sir John Denham^s lady.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now while I watch the
dreaming
sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"Jacques,"
Quoth he, "My son, I would behold this priest
That is not fat, and loves not wine, and fasts,
And stills the folk with waving of his hand,
And threats the knights and
thunders
at the Pope.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"O
pleasant
light, my confidence and hope,
Conduct us thou," he cried, "on this new way,
Where now I venture, leading to the bourn
We seek.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How can you stay, nor vanish quite
From this bleak spot of thorn,
And birch, and fir, and frozen white
Expanse of the
forlorn?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Bring the rathe
Primrose
that forsaken dies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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XXXIV
"Returning from those isles, whose eastern side
The billows of the Indian ocean beat,
Where good Rinaldo and more knights beside
With me were pent in dark and hollow seat,
Thence, rescued by
illustrious
Brava's pride,
Whose prowess freed us from that dark retreat,
Westward I fared along the sandy shores,
On which the stormy north his fury pours.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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`But tel me how, thou that woost al this matere,
How I might best
avaylen?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In 1795,
Schiller
undertook
a new periodical, Die Horen.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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2) had so long been lost, when he stands forth as the first vindicator of
condemned
virtue, he seems to venture on something so new, so strange, so bold, that it may well require apology.
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Tacitus |
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These
fencers in
religion
I like not.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The tired flocks come in
Whose bleating ceases to repeat,
Whose
wandering
is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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HE made the paramour a grave harangue
Don't others give, said he, the
poignant
pang;
But ev'ry one allow to keep his own,
As God and reason oft to man have shown,
And recommended fully to observe;
You from it surely have not cause to swerve;
You cannot plead that you for beauty pine
You've one at home who far surpasses mine;
No longer give yourself such trouble, pray:
You, to my help-mate, too much honour pay;
Such marked attentions she can ne'er require
Let each of us, alone his own admire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
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or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And
consecrate
it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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)
Any one
charming
thee whom thou couldst fancy to love,
Save and except that host from deadliest site of Pisaurum,
Wight than a statue gilt wanner and yellower-hued,
Whom to thy heart thou takest and whom thou darest before us 5
Choose?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I find flame in the dust, a word once uttered that will stir again,
And a wine-cup
reflecting
Sirius in the water held in my hands.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There through the dews beside me
Behold a youth that trod,
With
feathered
cap on forehead,
And poised a golden rod.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Kings must not oft be seen by public eyes:
_State at a
distance
adds to dignities_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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He spake, nor she was loth, but bedward too
Like him inclined; so then, to bed they went,
And as they lay'd them down, down stream'd the net
Around them, labour
exquisite
of hands
By ingenuity divine inform'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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But in five days
Either our God will turn his mind to us,
Or, if he careth not for us nor his honour,
Ozias will let open the main gate
And let the Assyrians end our
dreadful
lives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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However, there is no cue from the
manuscript
about exactly where these lines should be inserted, so Erdman's placement of them is conjectural.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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For you served Heaven, you know,
Or sought to;
I could not,
Because you
saturated
sight,
And I had no more eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite,
Who never
mentions
hell to ears polite.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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at she
enforce?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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And think ye that
building
shall endure,
Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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violates
the
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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For
additional
contact information:
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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When the
Northern
Lights, as the same writer
informs us, vary their position in the air, they make a rustling and a
crackling noise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Her features no
grimaces
bleared;
Of affectation innocent,
Calm and without embarrassment,
A faithful model she appeared
Of "comme il faut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He was tall, powerfully built, and
appeared
to be about
forty-five.
| 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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A
sidelong
look doth Eugene dart:
Where, where, remorse, compassion, pain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Do you
remember
Pater's phrase about
Leonardo da Vinci, 'curiosity and the desire of beauty'?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'391'
An
allusion
to Addison's unhappy marriage with the Countess of Warwick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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But truth,
impartial
truth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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e
apparayl
of ?
| 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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Concede without a blush,
To grant the "civic guard" is not to grant
The civic spirit, living and awake:
Those lappets on your shoulders, citizens,
Your eyes strain after sideways till they ache
(While still, in
admirations
and amens,
The crowd comes up on festa-days to take
The great sight in)--are not intelligence,
Not courage even--alas, if not the sign
Of something very noble, they are nought;
For every day ye dress your sallow kine
With fringes down their cheeks, though unbesought
They loll their heavy heads and drag the wine
And bear the wooden yoke as they were taught
The first day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The
carriage
held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Henceforth
she hath all the part
Of mother, yea, and father in my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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_
THINKING ALWAYS OF LAURA, IT PAINS HIM TO
REMEMBER
WHERE SHE IS LEFT.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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_
Constable
& Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"
O that
languishing
yawn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
e worlde worchipe3, quere-so 3e ride;
1228 Your honour, your
hendelayk
is hendely praysed
[H] With lorde3, wyth ladyes, with alle ?
| 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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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: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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" If Blake hesitated to choose either reading, an editor
hesitates
to reject either.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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When they draw nigh the citadel above,
From the palace they hear a mighty sound;
About that place are seen pagans enough,
Who weep and cry, with grief are waxen wood,
And curse their gods,
Tervagan
and Mahum
And Apolin, from whom no help is come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Peradventure
I
Could wail among you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Whereupon the
Vitellians impatiently rose from their ambush and, while Celsus slowly
retired,
followed
him further and further until they plunged headlong
into an ambush themselves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
_ This is the text of the 1633
edition made
consistent
with itself, and it has the support of several
MSS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Was ever
idleness
like this?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when strewing her
glorious
presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The tree of life has been shaken,
And but few of us linger now,
Like the Prophet's two or three berries
In the top of the
uppermost
bough.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Has he money in a stocking,
Or cider in the cellar,
Or
flitches
in the chimney,
Or anything anywhere but his own idleness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
No more thou dreamest of a peace
reserved
alone for thee,
While friends are fighting for thy cause beyond the guardian sea:
The battle that they wage is thine; thou fallest if they fall;
The swollen flood of Prussian pride will sweep unchecked o'er all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And so for the sorrow his soul endured,
men's
gladness
he gave up and God's light chose.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When
he enters he sees someone, whose name is broken away, eating bread
and drinking milk, but the beautiful
barbarian
understands not.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Presently, while the whole party from the boat was gazing at him with
mingled affection and disgust, he suddenly arose, and, in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner, hurried off towards the setting sun,--his steps
supported by two superincumbent confidential Cucumbers, and a large number
of Waterwagtails
proceeding
in advance of him by three and three in a
row,--till he finally disappeared on the brink of the western sky in a
crystal cloud of sudorific sand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Whatever is
realised
is right.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lucretius indeed, with such material as Epicurus furnished, satisfied
himself with the theory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed,
and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator; and so composing
himself into a Stoical rather than Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat
down to contemplate the mechanical drama of the
Universe
which he was
part Actor in; himself and all about him (as in his own sublime
description of the Roman Theater) discolored with the lurid reflex of
the Curtain suspended between the Spectator and the Sun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Cortez set out to take gold by force, and not
by establishing any system of
commerce
with the natives, the only just
reason for effecting a settlement in a foreign country.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Dark Muchtar his son to the Danube is sped,
Let the yellow-haired Giaours view his horsetail with dread;
When his Delhis come dashing in blood o'er the banks,
How few shall escape from the
Muscovite
ranks!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ma io rimasi a riguardar lo stuolo,
e vidi cosa ch'io avrei paura,
sanza piu prova, di contarla solo;
se non che
coscienza
m'assicura,
la buona compagnia che l'uom francheggia
sotto l'asbergo del sentirsi pura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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