Our honours and our
commendations
be
Due to the merits, not authority.
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"I found him when my years were few;
A shadow on the graves I knew,
And
darkness
in the village yew.
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Tennyson |
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'
`Now blisful Venus, thou me grace sende,' 705
Quod Troilus, `for never yet no nede
Hadde I er now, ne
halvendel
the drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To fancy with a motive, to
contemplate
with consideration, to be
happy sweetly, to suffer nobly--and then to empty the cup so that
tomorrow may fill it again.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Phaedra
Each moment's
precious
to me, Theseus, listen.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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610 _Notandum sane etiam de Iride
arcum genere masculino dicere Vergilium:
Catullus
et alii genere
feminino ponunt, referentes ad originem, sicut haec Attis et
haec Gallus legimus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the 'Gardener's Daughter' we have the first of that delightful series
of poems dealing with scenes and characters from ordinary English life,
and named
appropriately
'English Idylls'.
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Tennyson |
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Helas, Lui, comme
Mille anges blancs qui se separent sur la route,
S'eloigne par dela la
montagne!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Strengthened
by þe: þēah þe, 683,
1369, 1832, 1928, 1942, 2345, 2620; þēah .
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Beowulf |
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And they wish it had not fallen from so great a master
and censor in the art, whose bondmen knew better how to judge of Plautus
than any that dare patronise the family of learning in this age; who
could not be ignorant of the judgment of the times in which he lived,
when poetry and the Latin language were at the height; especially being a
man so conversant and inwardly
familiar
with the censures of great men
that did discourse of these things daily amongst themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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John Clare |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And lest some hideous
listener
tells,
I'll ring my bells.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Ah, who will stay these hungry tears,
Or still the want of
famished
years,
And crown with love my marriage-bed?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In elucidation of Herrick's Dirge
(219) over the last of these three brothers, I have already quoted
Clarendon's remark, that he was "the third brother of that illustrious
family that sacrificed his life in this quarrel," and it cannot be
doubted that Herrick is here
alluding
to the same fact.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Is not the slaying of the monster Time the most
ordinary and legitimate
occupation
of man?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Amazement
of an anger
Against created shape and narrowness?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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--Societe, tout est retabli:--les orgies
Pleurent leur ancien rale aux anciens lupanars:
Et les gaz en delire aux murailles rougies
Flambent
sinistrement
vers les azurs blafards!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If
consequence
do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
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Shakespeare |
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_ Tell, teach; for to the sick 't is sweet
To know the remaining pain
beforehand
clearly.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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THU mother fondly to her daughter flew;
The father followed, keeping her in view;
The dame went in, but he remained without:
To listen he designed beyond a doubt;
The door was on the jar; the sage drew near;
In short, to all they said, he lent an ear;
The lady thus he heard reproach her child:
You're clearly wrong; most silly may be styled;
I've many
simpletons
and ninnies seen;
But such as you before there ne'er has been:
Who'd have believed you indiscreet like this?
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La Fontaine |
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18)
"Then the
bowsprit
got mixed with the rudder sometimes.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Baldazzar, it doth grieve me
To give thee cause for grief, my
honoured
friend.
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Poe - 5 |
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--
O, horrible,
appalling
woe!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXV
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor
boundless
sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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460
Yet thus the God
requites
thee, cutting off
All hope of thy return--oh ancient sir!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_--A distant fleet
compared
to swans on a lake
is certainly a happy thought.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_ O) _secum ut
meditare
querunt_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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She turned, she toss'd herself in bed,
On all sides doubts and terrors met her;
Point after point did she discuss;
And while her mind was
fighting
thus,
Her body still grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Mine eye
Has scared the gull that sailed
To blacker depths with
shrillest
scream,
Still fainter, till like voices in a dream.
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Hugo - Poems |
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At the height of his fame, happiness, and prosperity, Spenser
returned
for
the last time to Ireland in 1597, and was recommended by the queen for the
office of Sheriff of Cork.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The Macmillan Company 1914
Turns and Movies
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The scholar's knife cuts best at its first use
And my dreams hurried on to the
completion
of my plan.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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<>,
rispuose
lui, <
virtu del ciel mi mosse, e con lei vegno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She op'nd, but to shut
Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n stood,
That with
extended
wings a Bannerd Host
Under spread Ensigns marching might pass through
With Horse and Chariots rankt in loose array;
So wide they stood, and like a Furnace mouth
Cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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5 It is quoted as the work of Cleobulus, by
Diogenes
Laert.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And come to
deliver!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Morehead, Lady Dacre, Lord
Charlemont, Capel Lofft, John Penn,
Charlotte
Smith, Mrs.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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All ye who honour love in poet strain,
To the good
minstrel
of the amorous lay
Return due praise, though once he went astray;
For greater glory is, in Heaven's blest reign,
Over one sinner saved, and higher praise,
Than e'en for ninety-nine of perfect ways.
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Petrarch |
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or engaged in
business?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Golden Treasury |
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And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord
chamberlain
had regained their reason.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
"I'll try him," answered Gareth with a smile that
maddened
Lynette.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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XC
Away Rogero posted with the dame,
And did not date his
crimsoned
visage raise;
Since every one, it seemed to him, might blame
With right that victory, worthy little praise.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We have stooped down to their level
By
infecting
them with evil,
And their scorn that meets our blow Scathes aright.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Baldazzar, it
oppresses
me like a spell!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Yet be this so, 'tis needful to confess
The soul but mortal, since, so altered now
Throughout
the frame, it loses the life and sense
It had before.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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TO HIS
HONOURED
KINSMAN, SIR RICHARD STONE.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Be not you knowne to him,
That I am come to Towne: I haue
effected
146
A bu?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" I then
forthwith
began
"Yet in my mortal swathing, I ascend
To higher regions, and am hither come
Through the fearful agony of hell.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your
inexperience
on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thirlwall, had made a very
remarkable speech, and had been kept till past
daybreak
in the House
of Lords, before the division was over, and he was able to walk home.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The
Marineres
all 'gan pull the ropes,
But look at me they n'old:
Thought I, I am as thin as air--
They cannot me behold.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For in his brain, as in a burning-glass
Wide glow of sun drawn to a pin of fire,
Are gathered into incredible
fierceness
all
The rays of the dark heat of heathen strength.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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{and}
anoienge
folk treden {and} ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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>>
1606
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
Dramatis Personae
DUNCAN, King of Scotland
MACBETH, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, a general in the King's army
LADY MACBETH, his wife
MACDUFF, Thane of Fife, a nobleman of Scotland
LADY MACDUFF, his wife
MALCOLM, elder son of Duncan
DONALBAIN, younger son of Duncan
BANQUO, Thane of Lochaber, a general in the King's army
FLEANCE, his son
LENNOX, nobleman of Scotland
ROSS, nobleman of Scotland
MENTEITH nobleman of Scotland
ANGUS, nobleman of Scotland
CAITHNESS, nobleman of Scotland
SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces
YOUNG SIWARD, his son
SEYTON, attendant to Macbeth
HECATE, Queen of the Witches
The Three Witches
Boy, Son of Macduff
Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth
An English Doctor
A
Scottish
Doctor
A Sergeant
A Porter
An Old Man
The Ghost of Banquo and other Apparitions
Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murtherers, Attendants,
and Messengers
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Shakespeare |
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Nun
uberlass
es meinem Witze!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The outline which would bound my walks would be, not a
circle, but a parabola, or rather like one of those cometary orbits
which have been thought to be non-returning curves, in this case
opening westward, in which my house
occupies
the place of the sun.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with
inconstant
mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I will not yeeld
To kisse the ground before young
Malcolmes
feet,
And to be baited with the Rabbles curse.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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But Thou, my young
creation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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He quarreled with General
Aupick, and
disdained
his mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
I have not told thee
How the stars, with their perilous overlooking,
Have raught away from all his manhood Gwat,
Our
fiercest
strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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tanto opere officerent quid aues Stymphala colentes,
et Diomedis equi
spirantes
naribus ignem
Thracis Bistoniasque plagas atque Ismara propter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Stephane Mallarme (1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This image is very natural; for a man in his condition awakes no
farther than to see confusedly what
environs
him, and to think it
not a reality but a dream.
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Iliad - Pope |
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At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I
survived
to mourn her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Unlike what here thou seest,
The judgment of Timaeus, who affirms
Each soul restor'd to its particular star,
Believing it to have been taken thence,
When nature gave it to inform her mold:
Since to
appearance
his intention is
E'en what his words declare: or else to shun
Derision, haply thus he hath disguis'd
His true opinion.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Go and
importune
her.
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Shakespeare |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible workmanship the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its
formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
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Aeschylus |
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as the "Messiah of Royalty," but
metaphorically
to the poem,
which would descend in the "Capacity of Preserver" (see Sir W.
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Byron |
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Collector
Syme will
be at Glens about that time, and will meet us about dish-of-tea hour.
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Robert Burns |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In
steeples
far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Such excess of horror renders my spirit numb:
So many
unforeseen
blows together rain on me
They stifle my words, and rob me of my speech.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Io stava sovra 'l ponte a veder surto,
si che s'io non avessi un
ronchion
preso,
caduto sarei giu sanz' esser urto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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William Wordsworth |
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1 Moved to tears in the gray-green mist, 32
mountain
gates, closed in ten thousand layers.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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