N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I could
not but confess to myself that my conduct at the
Simbirsk
Inn had been
most foolish, and I felt guilty toward Saveliitch.
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o'er-defalking to thy crew
Against thyself, thyself far overfew
To front yon
multitudes
of rebel scheming?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Endymion follow'd--for it seem'd that one 930
Ever pursued, the other strove to shun--
Follow'd their languid mazes, till well nigh
He had left
thinking
of the mystery,--
And was now rapt in tender hoverings
Over the vanish'd bliss.
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at the table there be all the great,
Whose lives are bubbles that best joys
inflate!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
frequent
stone is hurled where eer they go;
When badgers fight, then every one's a foe.
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John Clare |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Nicolas
carefully
annotates "Dieu," "La Divinite,"
&c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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With bended knee and broken heart I pray
That thou my guide wouldst be,
And to such
prosperous
end direct my faltering way.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Man giebt bei diesem
Versuche entweder beiden Oblaten einen
schwarzen
Grund,
oder wenn man weissliche Farbenverbindungen hervorbringen
und mit reinem Weiss vergleichen will, der einen, am besten
der helleren von beiden, einen weissen, der anderen einen
schwarzen Grund.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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Pennifeather was, accordingly,
arrested
upon the spot, and the
crowd, after some further search, proceeded homeward, having him in
custody.
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Poe - 5 |
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And as the year doth decline,
The sun allows a scantier light;
Behind each needle of the pine
There lurks a small
auxiliar
to the night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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One chief with patience to the grave resign'd,
Our care
devolves
on others left behind.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Note the
Latinism
"threatened his heads," and the imperfect rhyme
"brands.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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associated
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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590
But now a secret regret
agitates
my mind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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gefeh
beado-weorces,
_rejoiced
at the battle_, 2300.
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Beowulf |
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Much of Emily Dickinson's prose was rhythmic,
--even rhymed, though
frequently
not set apart in lines.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old
honoured
dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But to me
My songs are less than sea-sand that the wind
Drives
stinging
over me and bears away.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Note: The Spanish title was the motto adopted by the
disinherited
Ivanhoe in Scott's novel.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yet 'mid the wreck of cities, and the pride
Of the green valleys and the isles laid low,
The crash of walls, the tumult waste and wide,
O'er sea and land; 'mid all this work of woe,
Vesuvius still, though close its crater-glow,
Forgetful
spares--Heaven wills that it should spare,
The lonely cell where kneels an aged priest in prayer.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The burn, adown its hazelly path,
Was rushing by the ruin'd wa',
Hasting to join the
sweeping
Nith,
Whase roarings seem'd to rise and fa'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Etendue a ses pieds, calme et pleine de joie,
Delphine
la couvait avec des yeux ardents,
Comme un animal fort qui surveille une proie,
Apres l'avoir d'abord marquee avec les dents.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Gracious
my Lord,
I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to doo't
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Take this from the
_Alexander_:
adest, adest fax obuoluta
sanguine
atque incendio:
multos annos latuit, ciues, ferte opem et restinguite.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic
Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Well maiest thou be astound, but view it well;
Go not from hence before thou see thy fill,
And learn the Builder's vertues and his name;
Of this tall spyre in every countye telle, 20
And with thy tale the lazing rych men shame;
Showe howe the
glorious
Canynge did excelle;
How hee good man a friend for kynges became,
And gloryous paved at once the way to heaven and fame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Superstition
has indeed
played its part among them; but it has never, as in Europe, been
perpetually dominant.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But
Pandarus
brak al this speche anoon, 1600
And seyde to Deiphebus, `Wole ye goon,
If youre wille be, as I yow preyde,
To speke here of the nedes of Criseyde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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Hope. |
| Question: |
Why does the act of watering the ground with tears lead to the growth of humility under one's foot? |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Quite an extensive catalogue;
Mostly, however, books of our own;
As Gariopontus' Passionarius,
And the writings of Matthew Platearius;
And a volume universally known
As the Regimen of the School of Salern,
For Robert of
Normandy
written in terse
And very elegant Latin verse.
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Devonshire |
| Question: |
what else is in the catalog? |
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Longfellow |
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The portraits,
of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full
of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out
all history and activity untouched with beauty and peace; and now when
I looked at my Crevelli and
pondered
on the rose in the hand of the
Virgin, wherein the form was so delicate and precise that it seemed
more like a thought than a flower, or at the grey dawn and rapturous
faces of my Francesca, I knew all a Christian's ecstasy without his
slavery to rule and custom; when I pondered over the antique bronze
gods and goddesses, which I had mortgaged my house to buy, I had all a
pagan's delight in various beauty and without his terror at sleepless
destiny and his labour with many sacrifices; and I had only to go to
my bookshelf, where every book was bound in leather, stamped with
intricate ornament, and of a carefully chosen colour: Shakespeare
in the orange of the glory of the world, Dante in the dull red of
his anger, Milton in the blue grey of his formal calm; and I could
experience what I would of human passions without their bitterness and
without satiety.
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Yeats |
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Note: The third verse suggests a summer sky in
northern
latitudes, say late July, when Arcturus sets in the north-west at dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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LFS}
A shadowy human form winged & in his depths
The dazzlings as of gems shone clear,
rapturous
in joy fury
Glorying in his own eyes Exalted in terrific Pride
[ Searching for glory wishing that the heavens had eyes to See
And courting that the Earth would ope her Eyelids & behold
Such wondrous beauty repining in the midst of all his glory
That nought but Enion could be found to praise adore & love
Three days in self admiring raptures on the rocks he flamd
And three dark nights repind the solitude.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If true, if faithful thou, her
grateful
mind
Of decent robes a present has design'd:
So finding favour in the royal eye,
Thy other wants her subjects shall supply.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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How horrible a monody there floats
From their throats--
From their deep-toned throats--
From their melancholy
throats!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou dost deem thy thoughts to me
From him transmitted, who is first of all,
E'en as all numbers ray from unity;
And therefore dost not ask me who I am,
Or why to thee more joyous I appear,
Than any other in this
gladsome
throng.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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at contra nusquam apparent
Acherusia
templa
nec tellus obstat quin omnia dispiciantur,
sub pedibus quaecumque infra per inane geruntur.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In prose I made Chia I my standard:
In verse I
imitated
Ss?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A curtain drawn, another scene appeared,
A tinkling bell, a
mumbling
priest I heard.
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Marvell - Poems |
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From the high point I mark'd, in distant view,
A stream of curling smoke
ascending
blue,
And spiry tops, the tufted trees above,
Of Circe's palace bosom'd in the grove.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Even I'll look on patiently
If you your jagged toys all throw
Upon my carved bench, till it show
The wood is torn; and freely too,
I'll leave in your own hands to view,
My
pictured
Bible--oft desired--
But which to touch your fear inspired--
With God in emperor's robes attired.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Morn in the white wake of the morning star
Came
furrowing
all the orient into gold,
and with both cf.
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Tennyson |
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"Leave me with mine own,
"And take you yours away;
"I can't buy of your
patterns
of God,
"The little Gods you may rightly prefer.
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Stephen Crane |
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Diegue
And yet to be denied seems
scarcely
best.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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To make a
reduction
(_of_); to deduct.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--But that which we
especially require in him is an exactness of study and multiplicity of
reading, which maketh a full man, not alone
enabling
him to know the
history or argument of a poem and to report it, but so to master the
matter and style, as to show he knows how to handle, place, or dispose of
either with elegancy when need shall be.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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When winds go round and round in bands,
And thrum upon the door,
And birds take places overhead,
To bear them orchestra,
I crave him grace, of summer boughs,
If such an outcast be,
He never heard that
fleshless
chant
Rise solemn in the tree,
As if some caravan of sound
On deserts, in the sky,
Had broken rank,
Then knit, and passed
In seamless company.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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That was in July, Sixty-three,
The very day that General Lee,
Flower of Southern chivalry,
Baffled and beaten,
backward
reeled
From a stubborn Meade and a barren field.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And when I passed by him again I saw two crows
building
a nest
under his hat.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Who are these gaily riding
along the river-bank,
Three by three and five by five,
glinting
through the willow-boughs?
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Li Po |
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"
Oh friend, oh comrade of the radiant days
Of love, of hope, of passionate surmise
When beauty
throbbed
like heat before the eyes And even sorrow wore a golden haze!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Nine to three or three to nine,
As each man pleases, makes
proportion
true.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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you are in the wrong
The world's good word is better than a song)
Who has not learned fresh
sturgeon
and ham-pie
Are no rewards for want, and infamy?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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We here have found
hosts to our heart: thou hast
harbored
us well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,
Why wert not thou born in my father's
dwelling?
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Golden Treasury |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Why doe we hold our tongues,
That most may clayme this
argument
for ours?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I know what's life, ye gents, confess it:
We've
lovesick
people sitting near,
And it is proper they should hear
A good-night strain as well as I can dress it.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A PAUSE OF THOUGHT
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is
resigned
utterly.
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Christina Rossetti |
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What can they give that you should look to them for compassion
Though you bare your heart and lift an
imploring
face?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And with tears of blood he
cleansed
the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal.
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Wilde - Poems |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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)
Note
Not meaningless flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans
Whistler
there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And sees the
darkness
coming as a cloud--
***Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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who is not
calumnious?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Better a serpent than a
stepmother!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He was born at Old
Aberdeen
on May 19, 1895.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
On which Violet, who was perfectly
acquainted
with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus
did our knight avoid all
appearance
of evil, though sorely pressed to
do what was wrong (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Down flow'd her robe, a tartan sheen,
Till half a leg was
scrimply
seen;
An' such a leg!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Still through the ivy flits the bee
Where Amaryllis lies in state;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Everything that European modernity has since celebrated as
progress
is based on this feedback loop between mathematics, book printing, and linear perspective.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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If that happened to you, please let us know so we can keep
adjusting
the software.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Weß
Verstand
weiß Zeit und Raum zu
zwingen,
Der braucht nicht für's Haus sich wund
zu ringen.
| Guess: |
Wer |
| Question: |
How does a person with a strong understanding of time and space avoid the struggle of maintaining their home? |
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There is no information in the passage about how a person with a strong understanding of time and space can avoid the struggle of maintaining their home. |
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Bildersaal der Weltliterature - 1850 |
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Lords and ladies take their seats at the table--Queen
Guenever, the grey-eyed, gaily dressed, sits at the dais, the high
table, or table of state, where too sat Gawayne and Ywain together with
other
worthies
of the Round Table (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Might it not come as an offence, as a scandal even, to
those unacquainted with the
niceties
of Catholic dogma?
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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^ can not be the state of nature; but
directly
contrary to it.
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Wer will, der habe darauf acht:
Wird einer in groß
Unglück
gebracht
Oder wessen Unfall groß,
Auf den will gleich ein jeder los.
| Guess: |
Not |
| Question: |
Why would someone be quick to blame and criticize someone who has experienced a great misfortune or accident? |
| Answer: |
Someone would be quick to blame and criticize someone who has experienced a great misfortune or accident because, according to the passage, people tend to turn on those who have been affected by an unfortunate event. The passage states, "Wer will, der habe darauf acht: Wird einer in groß Unglück gebracht oder wessen Unfall groß, Auf den will gleich ein jeder los." This roughly translates to, "Whoever wants, pay attention: If someone experiences a great misfortune or accident, everyone will immediately turn on them." |
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Bildersaal der Weltliterature - 1850 |
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"
Herr Arel Thordjon, der edle Mann,
Zieht an den Pelzrock fein
Und hin zum Saal geht er alsbald
Zum römischen Kaiser hinein:
„Heil euch, frommer Kaiser
Heinrich!
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Augustus!" |
| Question: |
What is the significance of Arel Thordjon calling the Roman Emperor Heinrich "frommer" (pious)? |
| Answer: |
There is no significance of Arel Thordjon calling the Roman Emperor Heinrich "frommer" (pious) mentioned in the passage. |
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Bildersaal der Weltliterature - 1850 |
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When they came in view of them, and called to them in their usual man ner, and sounded their pipes, the sheep got up, and began to feed, while the goats skipped about and bleated as if
exulting
at the safety of their herdsman.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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If a
man carries virtue with him into his private apartments, and takes no
advantage of unlimited power or
probable
secrecy; if we trace him through
the round of his time, and find that his character, with those allowances
which mortal frailty must always want, is uniform and regular, we have
all the evidence of his sincerity that one man can have with regard to
another: and, indeed, as hypocrisy cannot be its own reward, we may,
without hesitation, determine that his heart is pure.
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Samuel Johnson |
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mit vollen Segeln lenkt
Es
herwärts
seinen Lauf, mit vollem Winde;
Noch lebt ein Gott, der meines Elends denkt!
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LENKT |
| Question: |
Why does the speaker believe there is still a god who remembers their suffering? |
| Answer: |
The speaker believes there is still a god who remembers their suffering because they see a ship approaching and believe it to be a sign from a merciful god. |
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Bildersaal der Weltliterature - 1850 |
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Although the
democracy
was soon restored, the experience may have encouraged the harassment, and even prosecution, of free thinkers like Socrates.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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As oft as
any old ancyent doctor other of
deuynyte
or of the
lawe, resorted thyder, by and by he was broght to that
table, some sayd that thay were lettres of Arabia, some
sayd thay were faynyd lettres.
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Erasmus |
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LXXIII
And her to Holland promises to bear,
And vows till she is to her state restored,
And just and memorable vengeance there
Achieved
upon her perjured, traitor lord,
He never will unceasing war forbear,
Waged with all means that Ireland can afford;
And this with all his speed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Over his
shoulders
the fierce warrior
put the steel that saves men from doom, and across his breast he slung
behind him a hollow quiver.
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Hesiod |
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Solches darf ich billig fordern,
Weil ich
unverschuldet
sterbe.
| Guess: |
morgen |
| Question: |
How does the speaker justify their entitled request because they are dying without fault? |
| Answer: |
The speaker justifies their entitled request because they are dying without fault by stating, "Solches darf ich billig fordern, weil ich unverschuldet sterbe." (I may justly demand this, because I die without fault.) |
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Bildersaal der Weltliterature - 1850 |
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