Here lay his
stubborn
bow, and quiver fill'd
With num'rous shafts, a fatal store.
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The hoot of the
steamers
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analogous
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French _se mettre a la voie_, and the Italian _mettersi in via_.
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Ah,
masquerader!
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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Honest traveling is about as dirty work as you can do, and a
man needs a pair of
overalls
for it.
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God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in
blissful
sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear.
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[358] In the
evocation
of the dead, Book XI of the Odyssey.
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"What ship
transported
thee, O father, say;
And what bless'd hands have oar'd thee on the way?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"This in the wisdom of the world,
In Homer's page, in all, we find:
As the sea is not filled, so yearns
Man's
universal
mind.
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12
The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or
sharpens
his knife
at the stall in the market,
I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And oft in
ramblings
on the wold,
When April nights begin to blow,
And April's crescent glimmer'd cold,
I saw the village lights below;
I knew your taper far away,
And full at heart of trembling hope,
From off the wold I came, and lay
Upon the freshly-flower'd slope.
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Tennyson |
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_ii_
Te, sale nata, precor, Venus, et
genitrix
patris nostri,
ut me de caelo uisas cognata parumper.
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Li Po |
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The night draws on-such ways are hard to hit--
And fit it is I should restore this sketch,
Dropt
unawares
no doubt.
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Coleridge - 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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Who taught them the trick of
tyranny?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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33) of _1635-69_, which
Chambers
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source also.
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Much about the same time, but little
after,
Coleridge
was employed in writing his tragedy of 'Remorse'; and
it happened that soon after, through one of the Mr.
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My happy love will
overwing
all bounds!
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Keats |
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--La
jouissance
ajoute au desir de la force.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[630] Aristophanes invents this in order to give
coherence
to what
follows.
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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.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O North, your
Arctic
freezings!
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Whitman |
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Sara Teasdale
Sara
Teasdale
was born in St.
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How
pleasant
the banks of the clear winding Devon,
With green spreading bushes and flow'rs blooming fair!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot obliquely run;
Thy
firmness
makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then, 'twixt a vice and folly, turned aside
To do good deeds and
straight
to cloak them, lied.
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Kipling - Poems |
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No trouble she to carry here nor there;
No balls she visits, and
requires
no care;
The conquest easy, we may talk or not;
The only difficulty we have got,
Is how to find one, we may faithful view;
So let us choose a girl, to love quite new.
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La Fontaine |
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1285
And, for the love of god, for-yeve it me
If I speke ought ayein your hertes reste;
For trewely, I speke it for the beste;
`Makinge
alwey a protestacioun,
That now these wordes, whiche that I shal seye, 1290
Nis but to shewe yow my mocioun,
To finde un-to our helpe the beste weye;
And taketh it non other wyse, I preye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Pope's enemies made as free with his person as with
his poetry, and there is little doubt that he felt the former attacks
the more
bitterly
of the two.
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Alexander Pope |
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That is what happens in _The
Anniversarie_, not
altogether
in _The Extasie_.
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John Donne |
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Les morts, les pauvres morts ont de grandes douleurs,
Et quand Octobre souffle, emondeur des vieux arbres,
Son vent melancolique a, l'entour de leurs marbres,
Certe, ils doivent trouver les vivants bien ingrats,
De dormir, comme ils font, chaudement dans leurs draps,
Tandis que, devores de noires songeries,
Sans compagnon de lit, sans bonnes causeries,
Vieux squelettes geles
travailles
par le ver,
Ils sentent s'egoutter les neiges de l'hiver
Et le siecle couler, sans qu'amis ni famille
Remplacent les lambeaux qui pendent a leur grille.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_, the
entrance
of day follows
hard on the entrance of night.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Canzon : Nor doth God's light match light shed over me The rltfflftwjgga thy caught
sunlight
is about me thrown,
Oh, for the very ruth thine eyes have told, Answer the rune this love of thee hath taught me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Scarce his left arm can good Rogero rear;
Can scarce the shield and
blazoned
bird upbear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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LXXXVII
Farewell!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The sunbeam that plays on the
porchstone
wide;
And the shadow that fleets o'er the stream that flows,
And the soft blue sky with the hill's green side.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" said my soul:
"I heard me bidden to this deed,
And
straight
obeyed the call.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade,
Apt emblem of a virtuous maid--
Silent and chaste she steals along,
Far from the world's gay busy throng:
With gentle yet prevailing force,
Intent upon her destined course;
Graceful and useful all she does,
Blessing
and blest where'er she goes;
Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass,
And Heaven reflected in her face.
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Golden Treasury |
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haec, fora
perpetuis
signis clarisque frequentans,
ipse deum genitor caelo terrisque canebat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Well, look this way in the
direction
of Parnes;[502] I already
see those who are slowly descending.
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Aristophanes |
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The Baron rose, and while he prest
His gentle daughter to his breast,
With
cheerful
wonder in his eyes
The lady Geraldine espies,
And gave such welcome to the same,
As might beseem so bright a dame!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It was thou, it was thou didst release
Mine
ancestress
Io from sorrow: thine healing it
was that restored,
The touch of thine hand gave her peace.
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Aeschylus |
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But not in the world as voices storm-shatter'd,
Not borne down by the wind's weight;
The rushing time rings with our splendid word
Like
darkness
filled with fires.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,
And what enchantment held the king in thrall
When lonely
Brynhild
wrestled with the powers
That war against all passion, ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What will your people, what will envy say,
If your
protection
cloaks him every way,
Preventing him from seeking to appear,
Where a noble death is sought by honour?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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`Thenk here-ayeins, whan that the sturdy ook, 1380
On which men hakketh ofte, for the nones,
Receyved
hath the happy falling strook,
The grete sweigh doth it come al at ones,
As doon these rokkes or these milne-stones.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Heav'n, as thou knowest, I have power to shut
And open: and the keys are therefore twain,
The which my
predecessor
meanly priz'd.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The actual objects which one man will
see from a particular hilltop are just as
different
from those which
another will see as the beholders are different.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" There is a place beneath,
From Belzebub as distant, as extends
The vaulted tomb, discover'd not by sight,
But by the sound of brooklet, that descends
This way along the hollow of a rock,
Which, as it winds with no
precipitous
course,
The wave hath eaten.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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My early youth was bred to martial pains,
My soul impels me to the
embattled
plains!
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Iliad - Pope |
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The stars, the heaven, the elements, I ween,
Put forth their every art and utmost care
In that bright light, as fairest Nature fair,
Whose like on earth the sun has nowhere seen;
So noble, elegant, unique her mien,
Scarce mortal glance to rest on it may dare,
Love so much softness and such graces rare
Showers from those
dazzling
and resistless een.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Unskill'd and uninspired he seems to stand,
Nor lifts the eye, nor
graceful
moves the hand:
Then, while the chiefs in still attention hung,
Pours the full tide of eloquence along;
While from his lips the melting torrent flows,
Soft as the fleeces of descending snows.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Inmemor at iuvenis fugiens pellit vada remis,
Inrita ventosae
linquens
promissa procellae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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FOOTNOTES:
[C] "Stanzas" were
published
_Poetical Works_, 1899, iii.
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Byron |
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As one who stands in dewless asphodel,
Looks
backward
on the tedious time he had
In the upper life,--so I, with bosom-swell,
Make witness, here, between the good and bad,
That Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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With bandage firm Ulysses' knee they bound;
Then,
chanting
mystic lays, the closing wound
Of sacred melody confess'd the force;
The tides of life regain'd their azure course.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the implacable radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint,
thirsting
blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The eagerness of the Moors now
contributed
to the safety of Gama.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
He could not answer yea or nay:
He
faltered
"Gifts may pass away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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From deep
secluded
recesses,
From the fragrant cedars, and the ghostly pines so still,
Came the singing of the bird.
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Whitman |
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It is a
question
whether we have ever seen the full expression of a
personality, except on the imaginative plane of art.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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the beating heart,
When one among the prime of these rose up,--
One, of whose name from childhood we had heard 495
Familiarly, a
household
term, like those,
The Bedfords, Glosters, Salsburys, of old
Whom the fifth Harry talks of.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
The Greeks gave ear, but none the silence broke;
At length Tydides rose, and rising spoke:
"Oh, take not,
friends!
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Iliad - Pope |
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* * * * *
Private Conklin sat on a turned-down bucket, and
listened
to a not unfamiliar
tune.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light, & rose into the Chariot of Day
Sweet
laughter
siezd me in my sleep!
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Blake - Zoas |
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' He spoke, and snatching his sword like
lightning
from the
sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
overlord
of them is named Oedon,
Who doth command the county Nevelon,
Tedbald of Reims and the marquis Oton:
"Lead ye my men, by my commission.
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Chanson de Roland |
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89
Rogers, Samuel, Byron's withdrawal of
_English
Bards, and Scotch
Reviewers_, i.
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Byron |
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Oh, no, I am
perfectly
well,
Only a little tired.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For this cause did my father send me from Tus to Naishapur
with Abd-us-samad, the doctor of law, that I might employ myself in
study and
learning
under the guidance of that illustrious teacher.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ None which can
Interest
a mere stranger.
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Byron |
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None but the brave
None but the brave
None but the brave
deserves
the fair.
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Golden Treasury |
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385
`For in this world ther is no creature,
As to my doom, that ever saw ruyne
Straungere
than this, thorugh cas or aventure.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The birds sit
chittering
in the thorn,
A' day they fare but sparely;
And lang's the night frae e'en to morn--
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
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Robert Burns |
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The camp was plundered and burnt, and all
who had survived the battle were
devoured
by the flames.
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Tacitus |
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So pays the wretch whom fate
constrains
to roam,
The dues of nature to his natal home!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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goddess divine, Ilithyia, patroness of women in labour,
stay, stay the birth, till I have reached a spot less
hallowed
than
Athene's Mount!
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Aristophanes |
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" A tremor pervaded his frame; his tongue
grew parched, and he was at times delirious: on the fourth day after
his return, when his attendant, James Maclure, held his
medicine
to
his lips, he swallowed it eagerly, rose almost wholly up, spread out
his hands, sprang forward nigh the whole length of the bed, fell on
his face, and expired.
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Robert Burns |
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Di lui si fecer poi diversi rivi
onde l'orto catolico si riga,
si che i suoi
arbuscelli
stan piu vivi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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`What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte,
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen,
May nought endure on it to see for
brighte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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frōde
feorhlege
(_the laying down of my old
life_), 2801; dat.
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Beowulf |
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`Now set a cas, the hardest is, y-wis,
Men mighten deme that he loveth me; 730
What
dishonour
were it un-to me, this?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Even those farthest regions feel anger,2 by a
marriage
pact we wish to form good ties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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Sara Teasdale |
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He even
thought of resigning his
commission
and going to Paris to force a
fortune from conquered fate.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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