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HBL final quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Thy perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by studies...” | · Bacon · “Of Studies” |
| “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”” | · Bacon · “Of Studies” |
| “Come live with me, and be my love, /And we will all the pleasures prove” | · Marlowe · “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” |
| “If these delights thy mind may move, / Then live with me and be thy love” | · Marlowe · “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” |
| “If all the world and love were young / And truth in every shepherd’s tongue” | · Sir Walter Raleigh · “The Nymph’s Reply” |
| “A honey tongue, a heart of gall, / Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall” | · Sir Walter Raleigh · “The Nymph’s Reply” |
| “Then these delights my mind might move, / To live with thee and be thy love” | · Sir Walter Raleigh · “The Nymph’s Reply” |
| “Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art’s hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound” | · Jonson · “Still to be Neat” |
| “Such sweet neglect more taketh me/ than all th’adulteries of art./ They strike mine eyes, but not my heart” | · Jonson · “Still to Be Neat” |
| “Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine:” | · Jonson · “Song: To Celia” |
| “Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;” | · Jonson · “On My First Son” |
| “O, could I lose all father, now. For why” | · Jonson · “On My First Son” |
| “Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie /Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry.” | · Jonson · “On My First Son” |
| “As what he loves may never like too much.” | · Jonson · “On My First Son” |
| “Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage;” | · Lovelace · “To Althea, from Prison” |
| . “True, a new mistress now I chase” | · Lovelace · “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” |
| . “I could not love thee, Dear, so much, /Loved I not honor more.” | · Lovelace · “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” |
| “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, /Old time is still a-flying;” | · Herrick · “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” |
| “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, /The higher he’s a-getting” | · Herrick |
| “Come live with me, and be my love, /And we will some new pleasures prove /Of golden sands, and crystal brooks...” | · Donne · “The Bait” |
| . “For thee, thou need’st no such deceit,/ For thou thyself art thine own bait; / That fish, that is not catched thereby,/ Alas, is wiser far than I” | · Donne · “The Bait” |
| . “Our two souls therefore, which are one,/ Though I must go, endure not yet /A breach, but an expansion,/ Like gold to airy thinness beat.” | · Donne · “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” |
| . “If they be two, they are two so /As stiff twin compasses are two;/ Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show /To move, but doth, if th’other do” | · Donne · “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” |
| . “And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.” | · Donne · “Holy Sonnet 10” |
| . “... all mankind is one author and one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.” | · Donne · “Meditation 17” |
| “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of a continent, a part of the main...” | · Donne · “Meditation 17” |
| . Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never sent to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” | · Donne · “Meditation 17” |
| “My vegetable love should grow /Vaster than empires, and more slow” | · Marvell · “To His Coy Mistress” |
| . “But at my back I always hear/ Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” | · Marvell · “To His Coy Mistress” |
| “Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run” | · Marvell · “To His Coy Mistress |
| . “Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, all our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat” | · Milton · Paradise Lost |
| . “And justify the ways of God to men” | · Milton · Paradise Lost |
| . “And sing this day thy victories: then shall the fall further the flight in me.” | · Herbert · “Easter-Wings” |
| For, if I imp my wing on thine, affliction shall advance the flight in me.” | · Herbert · “Easter-Wings” |
| Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like season’d timber, never gives” | · Herbert · “Vertue” |
| 1. "...hunting was his sport..." - | Monk |
| 2. "She'd had five husbands, all at the church door,/ Apart from other company in youth..." - | Wife of Bath |
| 3. "...and straining to counterfeit a courtly kind of grace,/ Stately bearing fitting to her place..." - | Prioress |
| 4. "No where was there so busy a man as he,/ But less busy than he seemed to be..." - | Sergeant at Law |
| 5. "In fifteen mortal battles he had been..." - | Knight |
| 6. "In company she liked to laugh and chat/ And knew the remedies for love's mischances..." - | Wife of Bath |
| 7. "Christ and the twelve apostles and their lore/ He taught, but followed it himself before.” - | Parson |
| 8. "He lived for pleasure and had always done,/ For he was Epicurus' very son...." - | Franklin |
| 9. "... For he was qualified to hear confessions.... He had a special license from the Pope..." - | Friar |
| 10. "His head was like a nut , his face was brown;/ He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down..." - | Yeoman |
| 11. "The thought of moral virtue filled his speech,/ And he would gladly learn and gladly teach..." - | Oxford Cleric |
| 12. "He loved so hotly till the dawn grew pale./ He slept as little as a nightingale." - | Squire |
| 13. "A thumb of gold by God to gauge an oat..." - | Miller |
| 14. "What a pity-- or so it seemed to me,/ That he should have an ulcer on his knee." - | The Cook |
| 15. "Garlic he loved, and onions too, and leeks..." - | Summoner |
| 16. "Just home from service, he had joined our ranks/ To do his pilgrimage and render thanks." - | Knight |
| 17. "Whatever money from his friends he took/ He spent on learning or another book." - | Oxford Cleric |
| 18. "He sent his prisoners home-- they walked the plank..." - | Skipper |
| 19. "...he paid his tithes in full when they were due..." - | Plowman |
| 20. "When young he'd learned a useful trade and still/ He was a carpenter of first rate skill." - | Reeve |
| 21. "At meat her manners were well taught withal;/ No morsel from her lips did she let fall, Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep." - | Prioress |
| 22. Now isn't it a marvel of God's grace/ That an illiterate fellow can outpace/ The wisdom of a heap of learned men..." - | Manciple |
| 23. "Their wisdom would have justified a plan/ To make each one an alderman..." - | Guildsmen |
| 24. "He served the finest victuals you could think..." - | Harry Bailey |
| 25. "Amor vincit omnia" - | Prioress |
| 26. "Gold stimulated the heart, or so we're told,/ He therefore had a special love of gold." - | Doctor |
| 27. "This little proverb he would add there to,/ That if gold rust, what then would iron do?" - | Parson |
| 28. "For though a widow mightn't have a shoe,/ So pleasant was his holy how-d'ye-do/ He got a farthing from her just the same..." - | Friar |
| 29. "His face on fire, like a cherubim,/ For he had carbuncles..." - | Summoner |
| 30. "Then Questio quid juris was his tag..." - | Summoner |
| 31. "He was an expert at currency exchange." - | The Merchant |
| 32. "And, as the gospel bade him, so did he,/ Loving God best with all his heart and mind./ And then his neighbor as himself." - | Plowman |
| 33. "I'll go along with you myself and rise/ All at my own expense and serve as guide." - | Harry Bailly |
| 34. "The Rule of good St. Benet and St. Maur/ As old and strict he tended to ignore." - | Monk |
| 35. "… his nose displayed/ A wart on which there stood a tuft of hair/ Red as the bristles in an old sows ear.." - | Miller :) |
| 36. "Yet he was rather close as to expenses/ And kept the gold he won in pestilences..." - | Doctor |
| 37. "No bailiff, serf or herdsman dared to kick,/ He knew their dodges, knew their every trick;…." - | The Reeve |
| 38. "He’d sewed a holy relic on his cap;/ His wallet lay before him on his lap,/ Brimful of --- come from Rome, all hot...." - | Pardoner |
| 39. "...had gap-teeth, set widely truth to say...." - | Wife of Bath |
| 40. "Hardy he was, prudent in undertaking;/ His beard in many a tempest had its shaking,/ And he knew all the havens as they were…" - | Skipper |
| 41. "He was an honest worker, good and true,/ Living in peace and perfect charity..." - | The Plowman |
| 42. "His was a master-hand at stealing grain./ He felt it with his thumb and thus he knew/ Its quality and took three times his due." - | Miller |
| 43. "This estimable --- so had set/ His wits to work, none knew he was in debt,/ He was so stately in administration,/ In loans and bargains, and negotiations." - | Merchant |
| 44. "He knew of every judgment, case and crime/ Ever recorded since King William's time." - | Sgt. at Law |
| 45. "A medal of St. Christopher he wore/ Of shining silver on his breast, and bore/ A hunting horn, well slung and burnished clean,/ That dangled from a baldric of bright green ,/ He was a proper forester I guess." - | Yeoman |
| 46. “As noted as Julian was for bounty,/He made his household free to all the county.” - | Franklin |
| 47. “A lover and cadet, a lad of fire,/ With locks as curly as if they had been pressed.” - | Squire |
| "His chinn no beard had harbored, nor would harbor/ Smoother than ever chin was left by barber" | Pardoner |
| the idlest and most uncompromising of men | Carton |
| bound herself a willing slave to youth, beauty and accpmplishment | Miss Pross |
| haughty in manner, with a face like a mask | Marquis St. Evremonde |
| Imbued from her youth with a brooding sense of wrong and an inveterate hatred of the upper class | Madame DeFarge |
| Happy in the return he had made her, recompensed for his sufferings, proud of his strength (who is he) | Dr. Manette |
| an honest tradesman | Cruncher |
| the golden thread that bound them together | Lucie |
| your weakness is you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity to sustain you (who is you) | Ernest DeFarge |
| man of business | Mr Lorry |
| sheep of the prisons | Barsad |
| tell the wind and fire to stop, not me | Teresa DeFarge |
| repression is the only lasting philosophy | Marquis St. Evremonde |
| "Let me carry the rest of my misdirected life the remembrance that I opened my heart to you..." | Carton |
| thir property and frace are lost to me. I renounce them | Darnay |
| vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule | Teresa DeFarge |
| this is a desperate time when desperate games are played for desperate stakes | carton |
| I have a business charge to acquit myself. in your reception of it, don't heed me any more than if I were a speaking machine-- truly I am not much else" | Mr. lorry |
| of little worth is life when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. it would cost nothing to lay it down if it were not | carton |
| and if ti does come, while we live to see it triumph-- I hope, for her sake, Destiny will keep her husband out of France | Ernest DeFarge |
| it is a far better thing I do that I have ever done... | Carton |
| "Listen to my tale; when you have heard the that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. The guilty are allowed, by human law, bloody as they are, to speak their own defense before they are condemned." | MONSTER |
| 2. " These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased the regret which I felt as a child, on learning that my father's injunction forbid my uncle to allow me to embark on a seafaring life.” | WALTON |
| 3. “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abomination, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” | MONSTER |
| I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. | MONSTER |
| 5. "God knows how entirely I am innocent. But do not pretend that my presentations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on the plain and simple explanation of the facts which I have been adduced against me...." | JUSTINE |
| 6. “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.” | MONSTER |
| 7. "Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was different than mine in every other respect." | MONSTER |
| 8. “Many times I consider Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.” | MONSTER |
| 9. “I confess, my son, that I always looked forward to your marriage with our own dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years." | ALPHONSE FRANKENSTEIN |
| 10. "You will know, Victor, that our union has been the favorite plan of your parents ever since our infancy. We were told when we were young and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place. " | ELIZABETH |
| 11. "Yes, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live-- swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes." | VICTOR |
| 12. "The murderer discovered! Good God! How can it be? Who could attempt to pursue him? It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds or combine a mountain stream with straw. I saw him too; he was free last night." | VICTOR |
| 13. “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. | VICTOR |
| 14. "Enter and I will try in what manner I can to relieve your wants; but unfortunately, my children are from home, and as I am blind, I am afraid I shall find it difficult to procure food for food." | DELACEY |
| Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, that he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow | VICTOR |
| Woeful is his fate whose doom is to wait/ with longing heat for an absent love | The Wife's Lament |
| Then each warrior tried/ to escape him, searching for the rest in different/Beds, as far from -- as they could find./ distance was safety; the only survivors/ were those who fled him. Hate had triumphed | Beowulf |
| though my master was driven from here... only/ alive because he fled, and glad/ to escape, yet now he is served and followed/ loved and obeyed by many | the husband's message |
| ... it seems to me like the swift flight of a lone sparrow though the banqueting hall... while he is inside, he is safe from winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the darkness from when he came | Bede's history |
| for you and he together to bless/ his soldiers and friends with treasure, with hammered/ bracelets and rings. for though his home/ is with strangers, he lives in a lovely land/ and is rich | the husband's message |
| ...for I frankly admith that, in my experience, the religion that we have hiterto professed seems valueless and powerless... now if the gods had any power, they would surely have favored myself, who have been most zealous in their service | Bede's History |
| the brilliant light shone, suddenly/ as though burning in that hall, and a bright as heaven's/own candle, lit the sky. he looked at her home | Beowulf |
| "That shepherd of evil, that guardian of crime..." | Beowulf |
| then he saw/ the mighty water witch and swung his sword | Beowulf |
| “And the conch doesn’t work on this end of the island.” | Jack |
| “He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but an awesome stranger.” | Jack |
| “We tried to keep the fire going, but we couldn’t.” | Ralph |
| “Fancy thinking the beast was something you can kill.” | beast to Simon |
| “Fun and games… What have you been doing? Having a war or something?” | naval officer |
| “Things are breaking up” | Ralph |
| “This is a rotten place.” | Ralph about Castle Rock |
| “I thought they wanted the conch.” | Piggy |
| “If only they could send us something grown-up… a sign or something.” | Ralph |
| “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?... The rules are the only thing we got!” | Piggy |
| “I am part of you.” | Beast to Simon |
| “Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?” | Piggy |
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