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What work is this quote from? "In a nervous and slender-leaved mimosa grove at the back of their villa we found a perch on the ruins of a low stone wall. Through the darkness and the tender trees we could see arabesques of lighted windows which, touched up by the colored inks of sensitive memory, appear to me now like playing cards—presumably because a bridge game was keeping the enemy busy." |
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| What work is this quote from? "Unless it can be proven to me—to me as I am now, today, with my heart and my beard, and my putrefaction—that, in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl child named Dolores Haze had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless this can be proven (and if it can, life is a joke) I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art." |
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This is an excerpt from which work? "In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin, Before Polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multiply'd his kind, E'r one to one was, cursedly, confind: When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of Concubine and Bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To Wives and Slaves; And, wide as his Command, Scatter'd his Maker's Image through the Land." |
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| Dryden's Absalom and Architophel |
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"You see, I had a design in my mind. I had a design. To accomplish it I should require money, a house, a plantation, slaves, a family--incidentally, of course, a wife. I set out to acquire thes, asking no favor of any man." The "I" of the lines above is __________ from which work? |
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| Colonel Thomas Sutpen in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! |
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| "I say that a cultivated intellect, because it is good in itself, brings with it a power and a grace to every work and occupation which it understakes, and enables us to be more useful, and to a greater number. There is a duty we owe to human society as such, to the state to which we belong, to the sphere in which we move, to the individuals towards whom we are various rely reated, and whom we successively encounter in life; and that philosophical or liberal educaiton, as I have called it, which is the proper function of a University, if it refuses the formenost place to professional interests, does but postpone them to the formaiton of the citizen." Who wrote this? |
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| Cardinal John Newman (real name is John Henry) |
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Weele lead you to the stately tent of War, Where you shall heare the Scythian __________ Threatening the world with his astounding tearms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. |
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"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." Who wrote this? |
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| "I lived on the plantation of Col. Lloyd, on the eastern shore, of Maryland, and belonged to that gentleman's clerk...I mention the nam eof this man, and also of the persons who perpetuated the deeds, which I am about to relate, running the risk of being hurled back into interminable bondage--for I am year slave;--yet for the sake of the cause--for the sake of humanity, I will mention the names, and glory in running the risk." Who wrote this? |
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| Who wrote the following? "Our novelists...concern themselves wit hthe more smiling aspects of life, which are the more American...It is worthwhile even at the risk of being called common-place, to be true to our well-do-od actualities; the very passions themselves seem to be softened and modified by conditions which formerly at least could not be said to wrong any one, to cramp endavor, or to cross lawful desire." |
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| "There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by nature with the most agreeable manners. You could read his character in his face. He combined sound judgment with unaffected simplicity." What work is this from? |
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| "We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and everyone rose as if just surprised at his work." What work is this the opening line of? |
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| "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the first line of what novel. |
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Dame Caelia men did her call, as thought From Heaven to come, or thither to arise, The mother of three daughters, well upbrought In goodly thewes, and godly exercise: The eldest two most sober, chast, and wise, Fidelia and Speranza virgins were, Though spousd, yet wanting wedlocks solemnize; But faire Chariss to a lovely fere Was lincked, and by him had many pledges dere. This stanza appear in what work? |
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| Spenser's The Faerie Queene |
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| This is an excerpt from which work? "My Colour came and went at the sight of the Purse, and with the fire of his Proposal together, so that I could not say a Word, and he easily perceiv'd it; so putting the Purse in my Bosom, I made no more Resistance to him, but let him do just what he pleas'd, and as often as he pleas'd; and thus I finish'd my own destruction at once, for from this Day, being forsaked of my Virtue, and my Modesty, I had nothing of Value left to recommend me, either to God's Blessing, or Man's Assistance." |
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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords with plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not life up sword again nation, neither shall they learn war any more. These words of the King James version of the bible are from what book? |
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| Who wrote this, facetiously speaking of the British public, "And old women of course ought to be made of freehold villas and copyhold estates, not of imagination." |
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Who speaks the following? "They flattered
me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my
beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'
and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'
too was no good divinity. When the rain came to
wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when
the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I
found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are
not men o' their words: they told me I was every
thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof." |
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But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity. What work is this from? |
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| Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" |
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"Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run." What work is this from? |
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| Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" |
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| LET us go then, you and I, | | | When the evening is spread out against the sky | | | Like a patient etherised upon a table; | | | Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, | | | The muttering retreats |
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| Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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| There will be time, there will be time | | | To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; | | | There will be time to murder and create, | | | And time for all the works and days of hands | | | That lift and drop a question on your plate; |
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| Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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| Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter, | | | I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter; | | | I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, | | | And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, | 85 | | And in short, I was afraid. |
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| Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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I am grown peaceful as old age to-night. I regret little, I would change still less. Since there my past life lies, why alter it? The very wrong to Francis!--it is true I took his coin, was tempted and complied, And built this house and sinned, and all is said. |
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| Andrea del Sarto (Called the "Faultless Painter")" by Robert Browning |
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| "Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the "noblest work of God." This is the truth I am telling you. And this is not a new idea with him, he has talked it through all the ages, and believed it. Believed it, and found nobody among all his race to laugh at it." |
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| Twain, Letters from the Earth (Satan's Letter) |
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As an eagle, grasped
In folds of the green serpent, feels her breast
Burn with the poison, and precipitates
Through night and day, tempest, and calm, and cloud,
Frantic with dizzying anguish, her blind flight
O'er the wide aëry wilderness: thus driven
By the bright shadow of that lovely dream,
Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
Through tangled swamps and deep precipitous dells,
Startling with careless step the moon-light snake,
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| Shelley's Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude |
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| Who wrote this? "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." |
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