Famous Writers, Famous Works, Famous Words

Author

Dates

Famous Work

Quotation

 

1340-1400

 

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

 

1564-1616

 

Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

 

1572-1631

 

Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew they face or name.
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.

 

1608-1674

 

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n.

 

1628-1688

 

As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world.

 

1757-1827

 

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

 

1759-1796

 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?

 

1770-1850

 

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.

 

1772-1834

 

Water, water, every where.
Not any a drop to drink.

 

1775-1817

 

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

 

1792-1822

 

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert

 

1795-1821

 

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.

 

1812-1870

 

"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim.

 

1816-1855

 

Reader, I married him.

 

1832-1889

 

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."

 

1850-1894

 

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

 

1865-1936

 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And – which is more – you'll be a Man, my son!

 

1854-1900

 

I can resist everything, except temptation.

 

1882-1956

 

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

 

1888-1965

 

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table.

 
Complete the table with these names and titles:

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.

Famous Works

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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