Time to guess that Lit. quote...with thanks to Lady Nightshade :)

[Melusine]

I am not very good at guessing movie quotes but I loved LN's thread about guessing them, so I thought I'd start a topic in which I could hope to be slightly more successful (though I have to confess I have been lazy lately and not been reading much):

Guess the Literature Quote

Anyway I'll start with a couple of -I hope- easy ones

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Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world and all our woe........

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I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft windbreathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our House
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

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'I'll tell you one thing', he said, straightening up, wiping his brow. 'That was a bloody good carpenter put this job together and I don't care what the parson says.'

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Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'. Got any food?

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Good luck guessing!

BTW could anyone who wants to include quotes from D&D novels and the like start a different thread... I am sure I would absolutely suck at that

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Melusine, Archbabe of the Order of the Holy Flame and the Laughing Hyenas, &
Official Entertainer Elf of the BG2 Bar

Your voice is ambrosia



[This message has been edited by Melusine (edited 06-08-2001).]

[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by Melusine: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York And all the clouds that lour'd upon our House In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

William Shakespeare: King Richard the Third, Act 1


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[Fljotsdale]

Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world and all our woe........

Milton. Paradise Lost. I think...

And apart from the Shakespeare which RudeDawg already did, I don't know the rest.

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[Cloudbringer]

Originally posted by RudeDawg: William Shakespeare: King Richard the Third, Act 1

Darn! You beat me to it, RudeDawggie!

Cloudy

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[Melusine]

You are both correct, Fljotsdale and Rudedawg!!!

Kisses from Fluffy for both of you!!!!

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Melusine, Archbabe of the Order of the Holy Flame and the Laughing Hyenas, &
Official Entertainer Elf of the BG2 Bar

Your voice is ambrosia

[Fljotsdale]

How about this one, then?

And yet she stood full low and still aloon
Behinden other folk, in little brede
And nigh the door, ay under shames drede,
Simple of attire and debonnaire of chere,
With full assured looking and manere.

or this:

Halfway through our trek in life
I found myself in this dark wood,
miles away from the right road.
It's no easy thing to talk about,
this place, so dire and dismal
I'm terrified just remembering it!
(not the greatest translation..)

or this:

Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time.
"We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.


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[This message has been edited by Fljotsdale (edited 06-08-2001).]

"And the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
and the road a river of moonlight winding between the trees."

The next line gives it away so no more

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Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger

[Melusine]

You cannot post a quote of your own until you guess another one first
(j/k)

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Melusine, Archbabe of the Order of the Holy Flame and the Laughing Hyenas, &
Official Entertainer Elf of the BG2 Bar

Your voice is ambrosia

[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by Sir_Tainly: "And the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, and the road a river of moonlight winding between the trees." The next line gives it away so no more

The Highwayman. Alfred Noyes


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Originally posted by Fljotsdale: The Highwayman. Alfred Noyes

Dammit that was my best shot, hmm have to "Brush up my Shakespeare", start quoting him now as the song goes

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Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger