my guess is oliver twist
my guess is oliver twist
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
Yesss!
Who's next?
O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1843) (see avatar) Der Knabe im Moor/The Lad in the Moor
a curveball.
reveal the man behind the name:
george eliot
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
It's a woman, Mary Ann Evans. She lived in the 19th century (1819 - 1880) and wrote novels like Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss.
O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1843) (see avatar) Der Knabe im Moor/The Lad in the Moor
Brightly lit from above I am sitting
in my circular room, this is I
looking up at a sky made of stucco
at a sixty watt sun in that sky.
this is the start of a poem by which russian poet:
a) alexander pushkin
b) mihail lermentov
c) alexander blok
d) vladislav hodasevich
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
Pushkin is the only one I know so I'll go with him!
no, sorry. the answer's d.
here's another:
Men say they know many things.
But lo, they have taken wings.
The arts and sciences
And a thousand appliances.
The wind that blows
Is all that anybody knows.
this is by:
a) henry david thoreau
b) henry wadsworth longfellow
c) ralph waldo emerson
d) george chapman
e) bob dylan
Last edited by chasestalling; 01-08-2008 at 06:39 PM.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
no, sorry. the answer's d.
here's another:
Men say they know many things.
But lo, they have taken wings.
The arts and sciences
And a thousand appliances.
The wind that blows
Is all that anybody knows.
this is by:
a) henry david thoreau
b) henry wadsworth longfellow
c) ralph waldo emerson
d) george chapman
e) bob dylan
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
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