2
_demostres_
D et cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Poems
including
'In Memoriam'.
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Tennyson |
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I wimbled, next,
The frame throughout, and from the olive-stump
Beginning, fashion'd the whole bed above
Till all was finish'd, plated o'er with gold,
With silver, and with ivory, and beneath
Close
interlaced
with purple cordage strong.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Yon city fortified
You dream of--why, its
ramparts
are as dust.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Keats - Lamia |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Aucun
jongleur
ne vous en dira une meilleure.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered
the folk who flew.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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His mode of
equipping
the party as ourang-outangs was very simple, but
effective enough for his purposes.
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Poe - 5 |
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As you set it down it broke,--
Broke, but I did not wince;
I smiled at the speech you spoke,
At your judgment that I heard:
But I have not often smiled
Since then, nor
questioned
since,
Nor cared for corn-flowers wild,
Nor sung with the singing bird.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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It first appeared in the
"Union Magazine," and with the omission,
contrary
to the knowledge or
desire of Poe, of the line, "Oh, God!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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For sure God's love hath
wandered
to strange nations;
His pleasure in the breasts of Jerusalem
Is a delight grown old.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I
As when a ship, that flyes faire under saile,
An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares,
That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile,
The Marriner yet halfe amazed stares
At perill past, and yet in doubt ne dares 5
To joy at his foole-happie oversight:
So doubly is distrest twixt joy and cares
The
dreadlesse
courage of this Elfin knight,
Having escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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It has not perceived that what in Homer
was the main
business
of the epic, has become in later epic a device.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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" Yes,
an alchemist who
suffocated
in the fumes he created.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It is not so marked in the
manuscript
text.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Here defiled and old
I perish through unnumbered hours, I swoon,
Hacked with harsh knives to staunch a child's torn hand;
And all my hopes must with my body soon
Be but as
crouching
dust and wind-blown sand.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Sonst blas ich ihm sein
Flackerleben
aus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And our
successors
soon shall drive
Us from the world wherein we live.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sollte wohl der Wein noch
fliessen?
| Guess: |
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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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Here shall you quaff beneath the shade
Sweet Lesbian draughts that injure none,
Nor fear lest Mars the realm invade
Of Semele's Thyonian son,
Lest Cyrus on a foe too weak
Lay the rude hand of wild excess,
His passion on your chaplet wreak,
Or spoil your
undeserving
dress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For, in these unobtrusive pages, there is nothing shunned
which makes the
spectacle
of life parade its dark and painful, its
ironic and cynical burdens, as well as those images with happy and
exquisite aspects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The heaven we chase
Like the June bee
Before the school-boy
Invites the race;
Stoops to an easy clover --
Dips -- evades -- teases -- deploys;
Then to the royal clouds
Lifts his light pinnace
Heedless
of the boy
Staring, bewildered, at the mocking sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Since she
disdains
me, I must suffer,
Whom I long for more than another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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in pieces lie
And
crumpled
shields, and sarks with mail untwined!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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ROBINSON
THINKS
NO.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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my soul forebodes how it will prove;
Neither Ulysses will return, nor thou 390
Receive safe conduct hence; for we have here
None, such as once Ulysses was, to rule
His
household
with authority, and to send
With honourable convoy to his home
The worthy guest, or to regale him here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
III
The October night comes down;
returning
as before
Except for a slight sensation of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"
III
When spring winds wakened the mountain floods,
And kindled the flame of the tulip buds,
When bees grew loud and the days grew long,
And the peach groves
thrilled
to the oriole's song,
Queen Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed,
Decking with jewels her exquisite head;
And still she gazed in her mirror and sighed:
"O King, my heart is unsatisfied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Of
the
efficacy
of this act no means of judging has come down to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
" "Those free-thinkers," Petrarch tells
us, "had a great
contempt
for Christ and his Apostles, as well as for
all those who did not bow the knee to the Stagirite.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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On every side, how
desolate
and bare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Note: Myrtho a shining mask of Venus Murcia to whom myrtle was sacred, is the
counterpart
to the dark prince of El Desdichado.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The waves in easy motion went rolling on their way,
English colours were a-flying where the British
squadron
lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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This only a poore flash, a
lightning
is 95
Before my Muses death, as after his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Of that heroic sire the youth is sprung,
But modest awe hath chain'd his
timorous
tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Fair scenes, erewhile, I taught, a happy child,
The echoes of your rocks my carols wild:
The spirit sought not then, in
cherished
sadness, 15
A cloudy substitute for failing gladness.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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This is thine only salvation, this is thy great
victory; this thou must do, whether it be
possible
or impossible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
And hear you paint with endless insolence
His woe, my crime, and your brave
defence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
He now prepar'd
To speak; whereat their doubl'd Ranks they bend
From Wing to Wing, and half enclose him round
With all his Peers:
attention
held them mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
]
SEVERAL VOICES
Despatch
him!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
I should perhaps
apologize
for wasting so much space on a mere legend of a so-calld saint's life.
| 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 |
|
Something starts the old feud anew; and
the visitors are
attacked
in their quarters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
)
But there comes Godunov
Bringing
reports to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
With
Charlemagne
I soon will have thee friends;
To Guenelun such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
See how naively, there, the throng
Among
themselves
are jesting,
You'll hear them, I've no doubt, ere long,
Their good kind hearts protesting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
]
KING:
Oh,
Henrietta!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Leagerie
of the Battles
Has put to the sword
The cat-headed men
And carried away
Their hidden gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Don't say that thing again, you
fretter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
The principal confederates of Pugatchef
surrounded
him.
| 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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Foundation
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permitted by U.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yea, will he not lift up
His lips from the bitter cup,
His brows from the dreary weight,
His hand from the
clenching
cross,
Crying, "My Father, give to me
Again the joy I had with thee
Or ere this earth was made for loss?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
There was a
Thracian
warrior
too, who was brandishing his lance like Tereus in the play;[429] he had
scared a good woman selling figs into a perfect panic, and was gobbling
up all her ripest fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Nor art thou so close-handed, but canst spend,
(Counsel concurring with the end),
As well as spare; still conning o'er this theme,
To shun the first and last extreme;
Ordaining
that thy small stock find no breach,
Or to exceed thy tether's reach;
But to live round, and close, and wisely true
To thine own self, and known to few.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
e
euesterre
esperus whiche ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
20
And you feathered flute-players,
Who instructed you to fill
All the blossomy orchards now
With
melodious
desire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
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payments
should be clearly marked as such and
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
To find a new unthought-of
nonchalance
with the best of Nature!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
On the
dedication
to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
He continued to hold the
office under
Vitellius
(ii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Bat the propitiatory priest had straight
Obliged OS, when below, to celebrate
Together oor atonement ; so
increased
Betwixt OS two, the dinner to a feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
See her whose darling child a long year past
Has dwelt beyond the wild Carpathian foam;
That long year o'er, the envious southern blast
Still bars him from his home:
Weeping and praying to the shore she clings,
Nor ever thence her
straining
eyesight turns:
So, smit by loyal passion's restless stings,
Rome for her Caesar yearns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
[_She opens the press, to put away her clothes,
and
discovers
the casket_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
G
[502] 201
Dividend
1716 dividend W, G
[503] 204 o' ret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Keats brings the very
atmosphere
of a dream about us
in these lines, and makes us hear the murmur of the city as something
remote from the chief actors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
"[8] However, he
was
interested
in politics and fond of fencing, becoming one of those
knight-errants who care nothing for wealth and much for almsgiving.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The bolt,
obedient
to the silken string,
Forsakes the staple as she pulls the ring;
The wards respondent to the key turn round;
The bars fall back; the flying valves resound;
Loud as a bull makes hill and valley ring,
So roar'd the lock when it released the spring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
_He has
evidently
bathed and changed his garments and
drunk his fill, and is now revelling, a garland of flowers on his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
A kingdom of the just then let it be:
But first
consider
how those just agree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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"O thou, who in the fortunate vale, that made
Great Scipio heir of glory, when his sword
Drove back the troop of
Hannibal
in flight,
Who thence of old didst carry for thy spoil
An hundred lions; and if thou hadst fought
In the high conflict on thy brethren's side,
Seems as men yet believ'd, that through thine arm
The sons of earth had conquer'd, now vouchsafe
To place us down beneath, where numbing cold
Locks up Cocytus.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My friend, again thou speakest a wise
thought!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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That you are cut, torn, mangled,
torn by the stress and beat,
no
stronger
than the strips of sand
along your ragged beach.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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What for the sage, old
Apollonius?
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Keats - Lamia |
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if beneath the night some happier swain,
Entwined
in loving arms, refuse thy boon
In wanton happiness,--come hither soon,
Come hither, Sleep.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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