Who Said This? - game
This is the last stanza of a poem by a famous writer. First make a guess who you think might have written it. Then see if you can find out by googling key phrases from the offered text. Post both...
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It's William Shakespeare, though in a fit of idiocy I believed it to be W. B. Yeats. Try this: Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as ...Read More
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I thought it was Shakespeare, too, but after quite a bit of digging, found that verse is attributed to Thomas Gray! Here's a link to the poem in entirety: ...Read More
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Yes, Gray was the one I quoted. Is there something similar in Shakespeare? And Gram's is from Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse". I had never read ir before. Tho I do like Larkin. I was guessing...
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I feel a bit more silly now. That phrase is so embedded in my mind, when I did the search I searched using the popular mis-quote. Shakespeare mis-quoted Gray? Well Gray was born in 1716, Shakespeare...
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Who said this? "There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall. For all That struck the earth, No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, Went...
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And thus from Shakespeare to Gray to JRR Tolkien the phrase "All that glisters is not gold" has passed. Tolkien modernized it a tad, changing "glisters" to "glitter," but the idea is precisely the...
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