Leave off, leave off - this
teaching
men virtue!
| Guess: |
mocks |
| Question: |
Why does the speaker want to stop teaching men virtue? |
| Answer: |
The passage does not provide a clear, direct answer to this question. The speaker does not explicitly state why they want to stop teaching men virtue. |
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Chuang Tzu |
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But years must elapse before his cause could
be heard; his witnesses must be conveyed over fifteen
thousand
miles
of sea; and in the meantime he was a ruined man.
| Guess: |
thousand |
| Question: |
What is the cause to be fought? |
| Answer: |
What is the cause to be fought?
The passage does not provide information about a cause to be fought. |
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Macaulay |
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has lodgings in, 91
Geschichte der
Philosophic
(Tchweg-
ler), 60
"Geschlechtseigentiimlichkeiten"
(Berthold), 430
Geschlecht und Character (W.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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498, 499, and bly not
different
from the Clan Eachach,
ritory, originally known as Hy-Caisin.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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And when he bends above her mouth,
Rejoicing
for his sake,
My soul will sing a little song,
But oh, my heart will break.
| Guess: |
Bending |
| Question: |
Why will your heart break? |
| Answer: |
There is no clear answer to why your heart will break in the given passage. |
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
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The opinion of General Lee, who was particularly stre-
nuous in opposing an attack, and whose reputation for mili-
tary
experience
gave it a preponderating weight, caused
enemy's design to evacuate the city being ascertained, no pains should be
spared to discover, if possible, the precise moment when the event is to take
place, and the route which their army will pursue ; whether they mean to
cross the Delaware and march through Jersey, or cross the Schuylkill and
march down to Chester, to embark there, on account of the tedious navigation
through the chevaux-de-frize, and because they may cover their real march by
a pretended attempt on this army.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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The Dutch
translation
runs:
Het Hemel-rond zijn sy,
Wy haren _Hemel-geest_.
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John Donne |
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The
official
army and the rebel army have grown old in their opposite
trenches;
The soldier's rations have grown so small, they'll be glad of even
you.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
"By these pearls whose spotless chain,
Oh, my gentle sovereign,
Clasps thy neck of ivory,
Aught thou askest I will be,
If that
necklace
pure of stain
Thou wilt give for rosary.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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53
In short, by the late 1780s the words had come to possess awesome sym- bolic power and taken their place as central
organizing
concepts of French political culture.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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He ate and drank the
precious
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As fades the iris after rain
In April's tearful weather,
The vision
vanished
as the strain
And daylight died together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Scribendi
cacoethes, et agro in enrde senescit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Elements of Latin Prosody and Metre Compiled with Selections |
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What I described here was done and
embraced
by a certain number of people, but there was a whole group of individuals who did not follow this movement.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
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Objects arise out of the recursive functioning of communication without
prohibiting
the opposing side.
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| Question: |
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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540]
Of lively bloud, within hir veynes corrupted there was spred
Thinne water: so that nothing now remained whereupon
Ye might take holde, to water all
consumed
was anon.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - Book 5 |
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Others may be persecuted, but I am haunted; I have good reason to believe
that eleven
painters
are now dogging me, for they know that he who can get
my face first will make his fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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My Lady, you might trust
Your
daughter
with your fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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and so are sympathies; and so are
signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which
humanity
has not
yet found the key.
| Guess: |
no one |
| Question: |
Why has humanity not yet found the key to the mystery formed by the combination of sympathies, signs, and an unknown factor? |
| Answer: |
Humanity has not yet found the key to the mystery formed by the combination of sympathies, signs, and an unknown factor. |
| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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PUBLIC SQUARE IN MOSCOW
PUSHKIN enters,
surrounded
by the people
THE PEOPLE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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See heavenly powers ascending and descending,
The golden buckets, one long line,
extending!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
What's in the buckets? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
I speak not of men's creeds--they rest between
Man and his Maker--but of things allowed,
Averred, and known,--and daily, hourly seen--
The yoke that is upon us doubly bowed,
And the intent of tyranny avowed,
The edict of Earth's rulers, who are grown
The apes of him who humbled once the proud,
And shook them from their
slumbers
on the throne;
Too glorious, were this all his mighty arm had done.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The murmur of a bee
A witchcraft
yieldeth
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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3 Yan Wu was the Supervising
Secretary
( jishi zhong) in the Chancellery; Du Fu?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The poet
displayed
in this affair a fierce hostility quite
characteristic of his African origin but which drove him to his
destruction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" remarked one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the
Engineering
Corps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
As on a Alpine watch-tower
From heaven comes down the flame,
Full on the neck of Titus
The blade of Aulus came:
And out the red blood spouted,
In a wide arch and tall,
As spouts a
fountain
in the court
Of some rich Capuan's hall.
| 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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The cedar feeleth not the rose's head,
Nor he the woman's
presence
at his feet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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I regret that I am unable to
remember
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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They stand in order, an
impatient
train:
Pelides points the barrier on the plain,
And sends before old Phoenix to the place,
To mark the racers, and to judge the race.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Quivering
grass
Daintily poised
For her foot's tripping.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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There, two
gleaming
rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so uniformly on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"
His head he raised--there was in sight,
It caught his eye, he saw it plain--
Upon the house-top,
glittering
bright,
A broad and gilded vane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The tenor of this
production, especially its
audacious
allusion to the murder of
the emperor Paul, father of the then reigning Tsar, assuredly
deserved, according to aristocratic ideas, the deportation to
Siberia which was said to have been prepared for the author.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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and Tailbush and
Eitherside
with Pug.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
'If ther be wolves of sich hewe
Amonges these
apostlis
newe, 6270
Thou, holy chirche, thou mayst be wayled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Whatever of true life there was in thee 50
Leaps in our age's veins;
Wield still thy bent and
wrinkled
empery,
And shake thine idle chains;--
To thee thy dross is clinging,
For us thy martyrs die, thy prophets see,
Thy poets still are singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Whether this is
sufficient
to justify the adoption of such a style, in any
metrical composition not professedly ludicrous, the Author is himself in
some doubt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The soul of the largest and
wealthiest and
proudest
nation may well go half-way to meet that of its
poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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the very murmur of the streams 135
Breathes o'er the failing soul voluptuous dreams,
While Slavery, forcing the sunk mind to dwell
On joys that might
disgrace
the captive's cell,
Her shameless timbrel shakes on Como's marge,
And lures [39] from bay to bay the vocal barge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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answer for fear]
[XXX for vindication of Urizens word] [Thy name is
familiar
XXX] {These 2 partially recovered erased pencil lines are discerned by Erdman beneath line 3.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Nor is there any place, where, when they've come,
Bodies can be at standstill in the void,
Deprived
of force of weight; nor yet may void
Furnish support to any,--nay, it must,
True to its bent of nature, still give way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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[157] Or Agoranomi, who
numbered
ten at Athens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I would compare her to a black sun if one could
conceive
of a dark star
overthrowing light and happiness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
]
Sire, your
highness
does me grace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Tout a coup, un vieillard dont les
guenilles
jaunes
Imitaient la couleur de ce ciel pluvieux,
Et dont l'aspect aurait fait pleuvoir les aumones,
Sans la mechancete qui luisait dans ses yeux,
M'apparut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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c1207)
Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll, travelling the sea,
Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the wall,
Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Guillem de Cabestan (1162-1212)
Aissi cum selh que baissa?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Dim grow its fancies;
Forgotten
they lie;
Like coals in the ashes,
They darken and die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
"
XVIII
"My lords barons, say whom now can we send
To th'
Sarrazin
that Sarraguce defends?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But thou, our Hero, baffled, foiled,
The
Glorious
Chief who vainly bled and toiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Swift, bring the axe that slew my lord of old;
I'll know anon or death or
victory?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Will you always stand there
shivering?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
No more shall he complain of wasted strength,
Of thoughts that fail, and a
decaying
heart;
His good works will be balm and life to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
CLXXXVI
And, after that, another vision came:
Himseemed
in France, at Aix, on a terrace,
And that he held a bruin by two chains;
Out of Ardenne saw thirty bears that came,
And each of them words, as a man might, spake
Said to him: "Sire, give him to us again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ab la dolchor del temps novel
Out of the sweetness of the spring,
The branches leaf, the small birds sing,
Each one
chanting
in its own speech,
Forming the verse of its new song,
Then is it good a man should reach
For that for which he most does long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 294 ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man
Less than a span:
In his
conception
wretched, from the womb
So to the tomb;
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years
With cares and fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Yet he is more than huge and strong--
Twelve brilliant colors play along
His sides until,
compared
to him,
The naked, burning sun seems dim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Angel, a sacque
maker in Brook Street, Holborn; the dead season of August was coming
on and probably he wanted to conceal his growing
embarrassment
from
his aunt, who might have sent word of it to his mother at Bristol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
And many dream withal the hour is nigh
That gives them back their fathers' heritage:
For foreign arms and aid they fondly sigh,
Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage,
Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's
mournful
page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
"
Pugatchef was
apparently
in a fit of high-mindedness.
| 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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With a tear of gratitude, I thank you, Sir, for the warmth with
which you
interposed
in behalf of my conduct.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Andrew's night,
My future
sweetheart
in the body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
A gently-breathing air, that no mutation
Had in itself, smote me upon the forehead,
No heavier blow, than of a pleasant breeze,
Whereat the tremulous branches readily
Did all of them bow downward towards that side
Where its first shadow casts the Holy Mountain;
Yet not from their upright direction bent
So that the little birds upon their tops
Should cease the practice of their tuneful art;
But with full-throated joy, the hours of prime
Singing
received
they in the midst of foliage
That made monotonous burden to their rhymes,
Even as from branch to branch it gathering swells,
Through the pine forests on the shore of Chiassi,
When Aeolus unlooses the Sirocco.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Mallarme
left a series of fragments for a four-part poetic memorial, a 'tomb'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Heeres 12
hore ben schad
ouertymelyche
vpon myne heued.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
1460
Quant ele s'oi escondire,
Si en ot tel duel et tel ire,
Et le tint en si grant despit,
Que morte en fu sans lonc respit;
Mes aincois qu'ele se morist,
Ele pria Diex et requist
Que Narcisus au cuer ferasche,
Qu'ele ot trove d'amors si flasche,
Fust
asproies
encore ung jor,
Et eschaufes d'autel amor 1470
Dont il ne peust joie atendre;
Si porroit savoir et entendre
Quel duel ont li loial amant
Que l'en refuse si vilment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Holding an
election
on the last day of the year, he was told
that the consul was dead: there was no one to preside.
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Or if a Work so
infinite
he spann'd,
Jealous I was that some less skilful hand
(Such as disquiet always what is well,
And by ill imitating would excell)
Might hence presume the whole Creations day
To change in Scenes, and show it in a Play.
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But of this thing right to the effect to go, 1580
Whan tyme was, hom til hir hous she wente,
And
Pandarus
hath fully his entente.
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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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" 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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Admit your law to spare the knight requires,
As beasts of nature may we hunt the
squires?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
assembled
priests are seized
with consternation, but their fears are removed by the arrival of
successive messengers.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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frenzied Lear
Should at thy bidding wander on the heath
With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo
For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear
Pluck Richard's
recreant
dagger from its sheath--
Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
The two last sentences of this extract give
admirable
expression to one
feature of Wordsworth's interpretation of Nature.
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You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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"I see no reason, then, why our metaphysical poets should plume
themselves so much on the utility of their works, unless indeed they
refer to instruction with
eternity
in view; in which case, sincere
respect for their piety would not allow me to express my contempt for
their judgment; contempt which it would be difficult to conceal, since
their writings are professedly to be understood by the few, and it is
the many who stand in need of salvation.
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And there was
sitting on the step below her chair four grey old women, and the one of
them was holding a great
cauldron
in her lap; and another a great stone
on her knees, and heavy as it was it seemed light to her; and another
of them had a very long spear that was made of pointed wood; and the
last of them had a sword that was without a scabbard.
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In his third consulship he gave a check to
eloquence, and, as it were, bridled its spirit, but still left all
causes to be tried
according
to law in the forum, and before the
prætors.
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Tacitus |
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Can nothing
disabuse
you of your error?
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