Famous Writers, Famous Works, Famous Words
Author |
Dates |
Famous Work |
Quotation |
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1340-1400 |
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote |
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1564-1616 |
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Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy |
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1572-1631 |
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Twice or thrice had I loved thee, |
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1608-1674 |
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Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. |
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1628-1688 |
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As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world. |
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1757-1827 |
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright |
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1759-1796 |
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, |
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1770-1850 |
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I wandered lonely as a cloud |
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1772-1834 |
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Water, water, every where. |
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1775-1817 |
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. |
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1792-1822 |
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I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert |
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1795-1821 |
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Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, |
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1812-1870 |
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"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim. |
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1816-1855 |
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Reader, I married him. |
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1832-1889 |
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"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, |
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1850-1894 |
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Fifteen men on the dead man's chest |
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1865-1936 |
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If you can fill the unforgiving minute |
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1854-1900 |
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I can resist everything, except temptation. |
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1882-1956 |
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I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me. |
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1888-1965 |
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Let us go then, you and I, |
Famous Writers
Shakespeare, William – Carroll, Lewis – Blake, William – Wordsworth, William – Coleridge, Samuel Taylor – Austen, Jane – Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Brontë, Charlotte – Chaucer, Geoffrey – Stevenson, Robert – Louis – Burns, Robert – Kipling, Rudyard – Wilde, Oscar – Keats, John – Dickens, Charles – Donne, John – Milton, John – Bunyan, John – Milne, A.A. – Eliot, T.S.
If – Ozymandias – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Treasure Island – Lady Windermere's Fan – Ode on a Grecian Urn – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – The Canterbury Tales – Songs of Experience – Hamlet – Air and Angels – Paradise Lost – Auld Lang Syne – Poems of the Imagination – Winnie-the-Pooh – The Ancient Mariner – Pride and Prejudice – Pilgrim's Progress – A Christmas Carol – Jane Eyre
© Nigel J. Ross, 2002
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