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sun-star · 05-05-2002, 11:24 AM

Peter Pan!

I love it too.
Speaking of children's classics: "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely."

***azalea*** · 05-05-2002, 12:44 PM

Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll. I love that one, too.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote,
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages):
That longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.

Pretty easy, but another of my faves.

Imladris · 05-05-2002, 01:21 PM

Crime and Punishment was right!!!

***azalea*** · 05-06-2002, 09:04 AM

Do you need a hint?

***Khamûl*** · 05-06-2002, 10:27 PM

Sounds like Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Just a guess, but is it right?

***azalea*** · 05-07-2002, 09:59 AM

Yes! You're right!

***Khamûl*** · 05-07-2002, 10:11 PM

Ok. Here you go:

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

I say that this one is fairly easy.

***azalea*** · 05-08-2002, 08:52 AM

Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare.
"Once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep, and his name was Tom."

sun-star · 05-09-2002, 03:45 PM

Is it the Water Babies?

***azalea*** · 05-09-2002, 05:21 PM

Yes! Do you know the author?

sun-star · 05-10-2002, 01:15 PM

Um, no, sorry.

***azalea*** · 05-10-2002, 07:12 PM

Hmm, well I guess since no one is jumping in with an answer, I'll just tell you that it is Charles Kingsley, and that it's your turn!

Imladris · 05-12-2002, 05:44 AM

Since nobody's rteplied for 24hrs, I'll start it up again...

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again."

sun-star · 05-12-2002, 02:35 PM

This one I am (fairly) sure about: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.

"On an evening in the latter part of May, a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor".

GandalfTheWhite · 05-12-2002, 03:23 PM

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by hardy

GandalfTheWhite · 05-12-2002, 03:25 PM

here we go

"I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic."

***Khamûl*** · 05-12-2002, 10:26 PM

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Here's one:
3 May. Bistritz. --- Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

***azalea*** · 05-13-2002, 02:02 PM

Dracula, Bram Stoker.

"The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."

sun-star · 05-14-2002, 02:35 PM

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.

"When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into ful view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

GandalfTheWhite · 05-15-2002, 04:56 PM

is it Brideshead Revisited?

05-05-2002, 11:24 AM	#41
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Peter Pan! I love it too. Speaking of children's classics: "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely." __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-05-2002, 01:21 PM	#43
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	Crime and Punishment was right!!! __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

05-06-2002, 10:27 PM	#45
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Sounds like Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Just a guess, but is it right? __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

05-07-2002, 10:11 PM	#47
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Ok. Here you go: Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. I say that this one is fairly easy. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

05-09-2002, 03:45 PM	#49
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Is it the Water Babies? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-05-2002, 12:44 PM	#42
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll. I love that one, too. Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote, The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages): That longen folk to goon on pilgrimages And palmers for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke. Pretty easy, but another of my faves.

05-06-2002, 09:04 AM	#44
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Do you need a hint?

05-07-2002, 09:59 AM	#46
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Yes! You're right!

05-08-2002, 08:52 AM	#48
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare. "Once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep, and his name was Tom."

05-09-2002, 05:21 PM	#50
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Yes! Do you know the author?

05-10-2002, 01:15 PM	#51
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Um, no, sorry. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-10-2002, 07:12 PM	#52
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Hmm, well I guess since no one is jumping in with an answer, I'll just tell you that it is Charles Kingsley, and that it's your turn!

05-12-2002, 05:44 AM	#53
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	Since nobody's rteplied for 24hrs, I'll start it up again... "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

05-12-2002, 02:35 PM	#54
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	This one I am (fairly) sure about: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. "On an evening in the latter part of May, a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor". __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-12-2002, 03:23 PM	#55
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	Tess of the d'Urbervilles by hardy

05-12-2002, 03:25 PM	#56
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	here we go "I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic."

05-12-2002, 10:26 PM	#57
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Here's one: 3 May. Bistritz. --- Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

05-13-2002, 02:02 PM	#58
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Dracula, Bram Stoker. "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."

05-14-2002, 02:35 PM	#59
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. "When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into ful view below me through the grey mist of early morning." __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

05-15-2002, 04:56 PM	#60
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	is it Brideshead Revisited?

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