The Victorian Age Quote Identification

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1. "When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Christina Rossetti George Eliot Anna Leticia Barbauld

2. "Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup, And sold my Reputation for a Song." Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Alfred, Lord Tennyson Edward Fitzgerald

3. "It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." John Stuart Mill Robert Browning Thomas Carlyle Edward Fitzgerald

4. "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands." Dante Gabriel Rossetti George Meredith Robert Browning George Eliot

5. "No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment--with the answer, No effects." Alfred, Lord Tennyson Thomas Carlyle Robert Browning Walter Pater

6. "It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race." Edward Fitzgerald Matthew Arnold Alfred, Lord Tennyson Emily Bronte

7. "Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light." George Meredith Edward Fitzgerald Christina Rossetti Matthew Arnold

8. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." George Meredith Alfred, Lord Tennyson Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9. Which of these authors is not from the Victorian period? Thomas Henry Huxley Alfred, Lord Tennyson Percy Bysshe Shelley Dante Gabriel Rossetti

10. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid!' Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Thomas Carlyle Edward Fitzgerald

11. "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck black-berries." Matthew Arnold Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Ruskin

12. "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." George Meredith Thomas Carlyle John Stuart Mill John Ruskin

13. "She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot." Alfred, Lord Tennyson Edward Fitzgerald John Henry Cardinal Newman Robert Browning

14. "Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Alfred, Lord Tennyson George Meredith

15. "Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Matthew Arnold George Eliot Emily Bronte