The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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At last, one fine day,
Saveliitch
came into my room with a letter in his
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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)
[516] An image of the penis, drooping in this case, instead of standing,
carried as a phallic emblem in the
Dionysiac
processions.
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Aristophanes |
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Pardon, high words I cannot labor after,
Though the whole court should look on me with scorn;
My pathos
certainly
would stir thy laughter,
Hadst thou not laughter long since quite forsworn.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Therefore
thou must
Come with me to the kings of all the nations;
For the whole earth must know of thee.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is
the
president
of language, is called _deorum hominumque interpres_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But it is only in
very enlightened
communities
that books are readily accessible.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Whether in florid impotence he speaks, 315
And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks;
Or at the ear of _Eve_,
familiar
Toad,
Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad,
In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies,
Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
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Alexander Pope |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Therein the Patient
Must
minister
to himselfe
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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He had been
educated
at Trinity
College, Dublin.
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John Donne |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Therewithal the
Phrygian
train advances with joyous Iulus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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CARE-CHARMER Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,
Relieve my languish and restore the light;
With dark
forgetting
of my care, return:
And let the day be time enough to mourn
The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth:
Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn,
Without the torment of the night's untruth.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Perhaps you
are right; but it is a
universal
foible.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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Son, thou in whom my glory I behold
In full resplendence, Heir of all my might,
Neerly it now concernes us to be sure
Of our Omnipotence, and with what Arms
We mean to hold what anciently we claim 720
Of Deitie or Empire, such a foe
Is rising, who intends to erect his Throne
Equal to ours,
throughout
the spacious North;
Nor so content, hath in his thought to trie
In battel, what our Power is, or our right.
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Milton |
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Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Though storms around my vessel rave,
I will not fall to craven prayers,
Nor bargain by my vows to save
My Cyprian and
Sidonian
wares,
Else added to the insatiate main.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yet even they are but a making ready
For what I
perfectly
intend: in them
Joy of self-bound desire hath burnt itself
To extreme purity; I am free thereby
To work my meaning through them, my divinity.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Or even upon the
measured
pulpitings
Of the familiar false and true?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"
Then laughed they all, and sudden beams
Of
sunshine
quivered through the sky.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[k] Messala
Corvinus
has been often mentioned.
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Tacitus |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
Dante -
Purgatorio
XXVI:142-144
I see scarlet; green, blue, white, yellow
Garden, close, hill, valley and field,
And songs of birds echo and ring
In sweet accord, at evening and dawn:
They urge my heart to depict in song
Such a flower that its fruit will be amour,
And joy the seed, and the scent a foil to sadness.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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On
entering
the library of
another friend, the first thing that struck our poet's eyes was a copy
of the same verses, transcribed with a good many blunders.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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--O
spectres
saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur fenetre!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But the great hall of generations dead
Has something more sepulchral and more dread
Than lurid glare from seven-branched chandelier
Or table lone with stately dais near--
Two rows of arches o'er a colonnade
With knights on
horseback
all in mail arrayed,
Each one disposed with pillar at his back
And to another vis-a-vis.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It's
excessively
awkward to mention it now,
With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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But I, who now
imagined
myself brought
To my last trial, in a serious thought
Calmed the disorders of my youthful breast,
And to my martyrdom prepared rest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,
And paid his subjects with a royal wage;
And
Nobleness
walks in our ways again;
And we have come into our heritage.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It is only when one
has lost all things, that one knows that one
possesses
it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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)
To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which
friendship
lives.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Birds in Alarm_
The
firetail
tells the boys when nests are nigh
And tweets and flies from every passer-bye.
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John Clare |
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TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER
SUNNED in the South, and here to-day;
--If all organic things
Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say,
What are your
ponderings?
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Call 'em: let me see 'em
1 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten
Her nine Farrow: Greaze that's sweaten
From the
Murderers
Gibbet, throw
Into the Flame
All.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Moult est fos haus homs qui est
chiches!
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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: |
Stephen Crane |
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13
Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,
Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
Limitless
out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But he
preferred
to the Cinque Ports,
These ^vq imaginary forts, sm
And, in those half-dry trenches, spanned
Power which the ocean might command.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The
orthography of his glossary differs considerably from the
orthography
of
his text.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Over-seas if thou had'st died,
Heavily had stood thy tomb,
Heaped on high; but,
quenched
in pride,
Grief were light unto thy home.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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<
tu vuo' saper>>, mi disse quelli allotta,
<
imperadrice
di molte favelle.
| Guess: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'Tis said that bastard-daughters oft retain
A disposition to the parent-train;
And this, the saying, truly ne'er bellied,
Nor was her spouse so weak but he descried,
Things clearer than was
requisite
believed,
And doubted much if he were not deceived.
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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It is, perhaps, too exclusively pre-occupied with that
subject, and it is certain it has not shed any new light upon it for
a considerable time, but a subject that inspired Homer and about half
the great
literature
of the world will, one doubts not, be a necessity
to our National Theatre also.
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Yeats |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The Wasteland (with
reference
to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Among the _characters_, of which the
seventeenth
century writers were
so fond, the projector is a favorite figure.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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co{n}ioigned
2900
{and} ybounde.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
replaced
older file is renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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How lovely
conflagrations
look when night is utter dark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Arthur, in mood
as joyful as a child, his blood young and his brain wild,
declares
that
he will not eat nor sit long at the table until some adventurous thing,
some uncouth tale, some great marvel, or some encounter of arms has
occurred to mark the return of the New Year (ll.
| Guess: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Thou must indeed: words such as thine
Never were
impudent
in men's ears before.
| 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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This was a great shock to the b:inkcr> ;
for many of the
nobility
and gentry, who were in the sccrc,
took their money, before tlie design was publicly known, out
of the hands of their bankers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It was ever the self-same tale,
The first
experience
will not fail;
Only two in the garden walked,
And with snake and seraph talked.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
|
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volunteers
and employees expend considerable
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Give me the food that
satisfies
a guest, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And sometimes again we catch
glimpses
of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For the one ship that struts the shore
Many's the gallant,
overwhelmed
creature
Nodding in navies nevermore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Boker
BARBARA FRIETCHIE, John
Greenleaf
Whittier
FREDERICKSBURG, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
MUSIC IN CAMP, John R.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Yet discerning critics have
thought that they could still perceive in the early history of
Rome numerous
fragments
of this lost poetry, as the traveller on
classic ground sometimes finds, built into the heavy wall of a
fort or convent, a pillar rich with acanthus leaves, or a frieze
where the Amazons and Bacchanals seem to live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If epic poetry is a
definite
species, the
sagas do not fall within it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It was
a maddening jumble, and the worst of it was that Charlie Mears in his
normal
condition
was the last person in the world to clear it up.
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Kipling - Poems |
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or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Voila le souvenir
enivrant
qui voltige
Dans l'air trouble; les yeux se ferment; le Vertige
Saisit l'ame vaincue et la pousse a deux mains
Vers un gouffre obscurci de miasmes humains;
Il la terrasse au bord d'un gouffre seculaire,
Ou, Lazare odorant dechirant son suaire,
Se meut dans son reveil le cadavre spectral
D'un vieil amour ranci, charmant et sepulcral.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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But
popular
tradition
here seems the best guide, which assigned the site
of Camalot to the ruins of a castle on a hill, near the church of
South Cadbury, in Somersetshire (Sir F.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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an the word was that no one could get through rebel-held
territory
to Qiyang, near which was Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There saw they, besides, the
strangest
being,
loathsome, lying their leader near,
prone on the field.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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s snow 4 I
joyously
meet the heavens over Wugong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that
confiding
prodigal,
The blissful oriole.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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