Hey, fellow literature lovers

imasinger

Sun, Mar 08 2015, 2:32 pm

OK, here's the answer key, for those intrepid souls who need to know. Smile

With pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry -- Milton, L’Allegro

Have we not grovel’d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? – Whitman, Passage to India

It is too rash [sic], too unadvised, too sudden. – Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Oh, gracious, why wasn’t I born old and ugly? --Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once. – Shakespeare, Macbeth

Chapter 2:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Austen, Pride and Prejudice

This Child I to myself will take
She shall be mine, and I will make
A Lady of my own. – Wordsworth, “Lucy”

You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. – Shakespeare, Hamlet

Remain sitting at your table and listen… The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked… - Franz Kafka, “The Great Wall of China”

The best laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft agley. – Robert Burns, “To A Mouse”

Chapter 3
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes
Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses – W.S. Gilbert, Iolanthe

Never, never, never, never, never! -- Shakespeare, King Lear

It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age
Someone had better be prepared for rage -- Frost, Tree At My Window

Chapter 4:
Did you say all? … All?
What! …. At one fell swoop? – Shakespeare, “Macbeth”

I have full cause of weeping – Shakespeare, “King Lear”

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. – Thoreau, Walden

All pray in their distress – Blake, Songs of Innocence

Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die – Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade

Chapter 5:
But mercy is above the scepter’d sway
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings – Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

Come! The game is afoot! -- Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

And yes I said yes I will Yes. – Joyce, Ulysses

The guests are met, the feast is set:
May’st hear the merry din. – Coleridge, “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate! – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

Chapter 6:

In the long, sleepless watches of the night. – Longfellow, The Cross of Snow

What might’st thou do, that honor would thee do -- Shakespeare, Henry V

Sing, riding’s a joy! For me I ride – Browning, The Last Ride Together

Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. – Pope, Essay on Criticism

The Rest of the Story:
That would hang us, every mother’s son – Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream

In a word, the world turned upside down – Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies – Emily Dickinson, No. 1176

Unearned suffering is redemptive. – Martin Luther King, Jr

Happy Purim! – The Imasingers

Thanks for playing!