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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high. And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun arises in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar tops and hills seem burnished gold." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, can this cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O, the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pay and employment, good master mine," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hath he wit?--can he speak?--are his legs strong?--arms pliant?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is young, strong, and of good ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a good thing, Mr. Doubletongue said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, if such is the case, said Sir Hugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, said Grasp," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gad-be-here! exclaimed the old knight, as he looked with astonishment upon the vast quantity of documents and deeds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here be matter enough to undo half the families in Warwickshire. 'Fore Heaven, I ne'er looked upon such a mass of parch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, in the fiend's name, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In fact and in right, said Grasp," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How so? said Arderne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know nought about the lands you have named, unless it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were apparently employed, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had that honour, said Grasp." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was the instrument by which, under direction of her major-domo, or house steward, she gathered in her various rents. Ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buried alive! iterated Grasp, as he watched his auditors with the utmost satisfaction and curiosity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I conceive it is no libel to say so much, _inasmuch_ as it is well known, and has indeed made some talk at the time." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a strange matter!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is indeed! said Arderne." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me like something unreal. I can scarce believe that Clara de Mowbray hath perished in such a venture." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can even yet hardly reconcile to myself the right of proprietorship here, he said to Sir Hugh, as they looked forth one day from the towers at Hill Morton upon a vast chase below." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems to me that I am an interloper--an usurper her...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come forth, my old friend, said the letter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A mighty power, said the great Raleigh at the juncture," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--an endeavour perhaps without parallel in the history of our country, and which we have thus minutely brought to the recollection of our readers, because it was witnessed and keenly observed by one whose mighty mind seized upon whatever came within his piercing ken, and who, wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With silken streamers the young Phebus fanning, And in them beheld, Upon the hempen tackle, ship-boys climbing; Heard the shrill whistle, which did order give, To sounds confus'd. Beheld the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms throug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "this" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "this" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For who was he, whose chin was but enriched With one appearing hair, that would not follow Those culled and choice-drawn cavaliers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He beh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And let me the canakin, clink, clink, clink, And let me the canakin clink, A soldier's a man, and life's but a span, Why then let a soldier drink." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cup her till the world go round." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That England hedged in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure And confident from foreign purposes. England, that never did, nor ever shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, Unless she first doth help to wound herself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hostess, my breakfast, come, O, I could wish this tavern were my drum." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it may please your Majesty, your army being about London, as at Stratford, East Ham, Hackney, and the villages thereabout, shall be not only a defence, but a read...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A largess universal, like the sun, Her liberal eye did give to every one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and, as he looked upon the expression of those bearded men, he felt that no power which the invader could bring would be likely to subdue such a host. The English...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Will Shakespeare, said the noble," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "continued the noble, as Shakespeare endeavoured to excuse himself on the plea of wishing to make on toward Dover that night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No denial. Come, thou shalt ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Play it out, my masters all, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now sits expectant in the air," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and thus, whilst" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On! on! you noblest English, Whose blood is set from fathers of war proof! Fathers, that, like so many Alexanders, Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought, And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Dishonour not your mothers. Now attest, That those that you call'd...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Raleigh." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, by a roaring tempest as the flood, A whole Armada of collected sail Is scatter'd and disjoined from fellowship." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And such, said the youth, as he listened to the words of his companion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At Clopton? he said, as he looked curiously at the expressive countenance of his companion. In both there was a sort of dreamy recollection of having met before." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now he breathes again, and can give audience to any tongue, Speak il of what it may." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the brawls, And seals and maces danced before him. His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crowned hat and satin doublet, Moved the stout heart of England's Queen, Though P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The walls are hung with rich tapestry, and on either hand are the nobles of the Court," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Master Spenser, she said, as she stopped near the author of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faery Queen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The radiant Gloriana, said Spenser," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How! Raleigh, said the Queen," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend is as unlucky as myself, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! said the Queen, (who spite of her partiality for the wit, genius, and valour of the adventurous and daring knight, little relished his rapacity)." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Pace, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is the use of speaking of that which all the town is talking of?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Bacon, said the Queen to her ample-browed Lord Keeper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My Lord Bacon's soul lodgeth well, she observed to one of her ladies," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certies, I am woman enough to be of your Majesty's opinion, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I pray you, Mignonne, she said, turning to one of her ladies," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know not his name, Madam," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pshaw, said the Queen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have ever those about me who are ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! she said (turning sharply upon him)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, said Southampton, who stood near," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of whom speak ye?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of one well beloved by thee, said Southampton." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! Master Shakespeare, said the Queen, as her eagle-eye caught sight of the poet standing amongst a crowd of officials," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A parliament member, he muttered to himself, as the lampoon kept recurring to his mind, and as he watched the courtiers, so interested and so joyous, whilst in the influence of Shakespeare's wit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It must be him--I am sure it's him--I kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His name? said Hatton, who was himself hastening to the feast of wit," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it's our Shakespeare, man--The gentle Will--Knowest thou not Will Shakespeare, the very element of wit and pleasantry?" }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Diccon, he said to one of the attendants who walked behind him (for Sir Thomas always promenaded the town with half-a-dozen serving men at his back,)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is this play we heard my Lord Keeper speaking of?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How now, thou mandrake, thou thin-faced gull! said a tall man, dressed with great bravery, and who, accompanied by several others, was advancing from the water side;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cry ye mercy, fair sir, said Sir Thomas, who was always the gentlema...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The actor has thrown himself into the author's conception. The poet's world is also the world of him who enacts the part the poet has written. He lives in his author's period, not only whilst acting, but whilst studying the part. The loves, the hates, the fears, the joys, the do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and become captivated with the society of the actors, oven rude as the pieces were which he found them performing. To one of his own natural parts and brilliant wit, there was to be found an endless fund of amusement amongst such men. Their way of life also had its charm. How he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "named William Shakespeare. It was to be enacted within the walls of an old monastery called the Blackfriars. The performance was entitled" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and were, as the play quaintly says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "NOT ASHAMED." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--his own words! How" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "wherein there was not" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, it was extremely fashionable at this period for a gallant to salute his friend in the boxes, in the midst of the performance, or carry on a loud conversation so as utterly to discontinue and distract the business of the hour, and being thus in the very midst of the actors, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, what, Sir Thomas Lucy, art thou, too, come to see the play to-night? said Lord Burleigh to our old Warwickshire acquaintance, who was elbowing his way into the gallery amongst the _élite_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By cock and pie, but 'tis long since thou a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Majesty will understand, said Lord Revel (who was something of a fop)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have not, he replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go to, said the Queen, in answer to some remark of Sir Philip Sydney's." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, art thou drawn amongst these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed the serving-man who had announced to Lady Capulet, in the preceding scene, that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, then, I see Queen Mab has been with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By 'ur Lady, said Walter Arderne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No man else could have written even what we have already heard," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am amazed, said Walter;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hist, said Sir Hugh," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain deny What I have spoke--but farewell compliment; Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say, ay, And I will ta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shone too bright. But died, alas! too soon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "she continued, turning to her female attendants," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will keep you beside us, Master Shakespeare, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I attend your Highness, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Between that smile, he would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears, than wars or women have." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pshaw, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been an ass. I am an ass--_ergo_, we are all asses in comparison to this _one_ man, this Shakespeare." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, time, he thought to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he felt that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soft stillness and the night, Became the touches of sweet harmony." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, he said to the Temple lawyer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will prove our right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stay, said the Temple lawyer," }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I perfectly agree with you, said a person who sat opposite to the tall Alsatian," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How? cried the other fiercely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pshaw, said the other," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I quarrel not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imagination bodied forth the form of things unknown." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The chimney-piece, south of the chamber, is elaborately carved, with gigantic figures," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and tapestry, (albeit it is somewhat faded), displaying pictorial scenes from scriptural and mythological history, hangs to the wall. One side has Ki...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! thou mad compound, said Froth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then would we might see it approved in the acting, said Froth;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And therefore, said Shakespeare," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art a wondrous fellow, Will, he said, as he looked upon his friend;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! said Shakespeare, smiling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, said Froth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare be sworn he will not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am proud to welcome my Lord of Southampton to my poor lodging," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, by my fay, not altogether so poor either, said the noble, looking around him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad to find thee removed from thy old...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And yet upon the stage he may not be able to execute the same degree of perfection, said Southampton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some of your companions of the theatre, I have found prime fellows and witty knaves over their cups, and yet but heavy upon the boards...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past: which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright; To have don...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is never merry when he hears sweet music." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My kind preserver, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard the sweet tones, lady, said the poet," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! she replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beauty, lady, said Shakespeare," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That I had in my ignorance of your sex somewhat overtaxed your strength during our journey, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember nothing, said the lady," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Unluckily, said the poet," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "his frown had contracted into an habitual scowl; his dark complexion, and from which he had obtained the _sobriquet_ of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Gipsey," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Thomas Lucy, he said, rudely and abruptly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I advise you yourself, Master Shakespeare, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, my Lord, said Shakespeare," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I tell thee t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall find the pestilent fellow, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which way went he, in God's name, said Deville." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quick, or I lose a chance--he's worth the having, I can assure you." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How wretched, he thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fling away ambition, By that sin fell the angels, how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to rise by it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have come to bid you farewell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is somewhat sudden, he returned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hoped to have been of your party into Warwickshire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certain spies, good Ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he had" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I always said there was something in him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was ever a clever dog though a mischievous one," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dost think he will come back amongst us? inquired Teazle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You do not speak, my masters, said the head-bailiff," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perfectly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And do you approve?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ahem, said the mercer," }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said John Peto, the tanner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember me, said Master Richard Coomb, (who was known amongst his co-mates by the sobriquet of Thin Beard, from the circumstance of his wearing a starved cane-coloured beard)," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flocks, The nine men's morris is filled up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable; Whilst on old Hyem's chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goods news, an Heaven will," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God grant, he said, an he strained his eyes to observe if he could recognize the features of the rider," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast news, Captain, said Sir Hugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _have_ news, good Sir Hugh, said the Captain;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! an Heaven will, said Sir Hugh;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is well, returned the C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many events of import have transpired, said he, as he at length pushed his plate from him, in token that the inner man was satisfied;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of that I have long been aware," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most probably, said the C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Love like a shadow flies, when substation love pursues, Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "how many dark and melancholy weeks had they to tell of, whilst sorrow and whispered horror, and surmise that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "had reigned there! How had the very domestics feared the descending shadows in those vast rooms, and where the night-shriek" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What we have not, still we strive to get, And what we have, _forget_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And after enduring so much, said the Countess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I forsake none, said Clara." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who knows or cares for one so solitary in the world! I bequeath to him I most love, all my worldly goods--myself I d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your story, Clara, said Lady Leicester, at length breaking silence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "News, she said, as she took the several sealed packets and examined them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "News, Clara, and from my truant son." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The messenger, an it so please ye, said the steward," }, { "from": "gpt"...