Augustans: Identifying Quotes Quiz
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Q. From which poem do the lines "Horace still charms with graceful Negligence, /
And without Method talks us into Sense" come from?
And without Method talks us into Sense" come from?
The Rape of the Lock
Hymn to the Pillory
An Essay on Criticism
"The True-Born Englishman"
Q. In which work do we find these lines: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food"?
Gulliver's Travels
Moll Flanders
A Modest Proposal
The Shortest Way with Dissenters
Q. Which poem includes these lines "Sometimes the Air of Scandal to maintain, / Villains look from thy Lofty Loops in Vain"?
The Shortest Way with Dissenters
An Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock
Hymn to the Pillory
Q. The narrator of which novel states, "I began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done, and how justly I was overtaken by the judgment of Heaven for my wicked leaving my father's house, and abandoning my duty"?
Gulliver's Travels
Moll Flanders
Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
Robinson Crusoe
Q. Which poem begins, "What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, / What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things"?
Battle of the Books
The Drapier's Letters
"The True-Born Englishman"
The Rape of the Lock