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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 4

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    Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove" Even if you somehow miss the first reference to death, you'd have to try very hard to miss the other 3.

  3. Talk:Spondee - Wikipedia

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    Whole misadventured piteous overthrows iamb, iamb, iamb, (pit-yis) iamb, iamb. I think the natural spacing in spoken English yields: iamb (or trochee), amphibrach (u-s-u) (or anapest + unstressed), trochee, trochee, stressed (or a cretic replacing the last two). You would say the "yis" of "pit-yis" together with the "pit", not with the ...

  4. Le Morte d'Arthur - Wikipedia

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    Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") [1] is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.

  5. The Book with Seven Seals - Wikipedia

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    The rider announces a small portion of wheat and barley for all, and the mother and daughter sing a piteous lament (Duoszene: Mutter und Tochter) to the father in heaven as they starve from famine. John then describes the pale horse and rider, and the kingdom of death and pestilence which follows him.

  6. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    This was the piteous tale they stopped to tell. [ 41 ] Francesca further reports that she and Paolo yielded to their love when reading the story of the adultery between Lancelot and Guinevere in the Old French romance Lancelot du Lac .

  7. The Ingoldsby Legends - Wikipedia

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    "Misadventures at Margate: a legend of Jarvis's Jetty" "The Smuggler's Leap: a legend of Thanet" "Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberrie: a legend of Shropshire" "The Babes in the Woody; or, the Norfolk Tragedy" "The Dead Drummer: a legend of Salisbury Plain" "A Row in an Omnibus Box: a legend of the Haymarket"

  8. List of demons in the Ars Goetia - Wikipedia

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    According to the grimoire: Focalor appears in the form of a man with a griffin's wings, kills men, drowns them, and overthrows warships; but if commanded by the conjurer he will not harm any man or thing. Focalor has power over wind and sea, and had hoped to return to heaven after one thousand years, but he was deceived in his hope.

  9. Mortal Engines Quartet - Wikipedia

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    She is killed at the end of Mortal Engines, but is resurrected as the Stalker Fang, who overthrows the rulers of the League and installs herself as a military dictator. Thaddeus Valentine – a dashing and handsome Historian often idolised by younger Historians, though his less public image involves murder and thievery as an agent of London.