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Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: The business intrusted to this fellow was the making of bricks—so I hadbeen informed; but there wasn’t a fragment of a brick anywhere in the station, andhe had been there more than a year—waiting. It seems he could not make brickswithout something, I don’t know what—straw maybe. Anyway, it could not be foundthere and as it was not likely to be sent from Europe, it did not appear clear to mewhat he was waiting for. An act of special creation perhaps. However, they were allwaiting—all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them—for something; and upon myword it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, thoughthe only thing that ever came to them was disease—as far as I could see.
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Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: “And I had done a hellish thing,And it would work ’em woe:For all averred, I had killed the birdThat made the breeze to blow.Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,That made the breeze to blow!”
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Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste:“Good folk, I have no coin;To take were to purloin:I have no copper in my purse,I have no silver either,And all my gold is on the furzeThat shakes in windy weatherAbove the rusty heather.”“You have much gold upon your head,”They answer’d all together:“Buy from us with a golden curl.”
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Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: “No time hath she to sport and play:A charmed web she weaves alway.A curse is on her, if she stayHer weaving, either night or day,To look down to Camelot.She knows not what the curse may be;Therefore she weaveth steadily”
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Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: “Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in thegreatest danger. During her illness many arguments had been urged to persuade mymother to refrain from attending upon her. She had at first yielded to our entreaties,but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longercontrol her anxiety. She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphedover the malignity of the distemper—Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences ofthis imprudence were fatal to her preserver. On the third day my mother sickened;her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of hermedical attendants prognosticated the worst event. On her deathbed the fortitudeand benignity of this best of women did not desert her.”
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