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I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love,
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune

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Topic

Young love True love Love

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

Annabel Lee New-York Daily Tribune

Medium

Poem Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 Oct. 1849, st. 2.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Annabel Lee." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 2.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!

William Wordsworth

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Topic

Being young Youth

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

The French Revolution, as it Appeared to Enthusiasts

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1809 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1805, bk. 11, I. 108.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Prelude (1805)." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 11, l. 108.

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

Note sent to a Confederate general during the Civil War.

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Topic

American Civil War

Author

Ulysses S. Grant

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Grant, Ulysses Simpson. Note to General S. B. Buckner. 16 Feb. 1862.

Current Citation

Grant, Ulysses Simpson. Quoted in The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, written by Stephen Cushman. UNC Press Books, 2021.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Topic

Marriage

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

The Subjection of Women

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound

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Topic

Infatuation Being in love

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Prometheus Unbound

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, act 2, sc. 5.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 2, sc. 5.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

Thinking big Goals

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

Elegiac Verse In the Harbor

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Elegiac Verse." In the Harbor. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882, st. 11.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
To its idolatries a patient knee.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Topic

Being true to oneself Personal integrity

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 3, st. 113.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 113.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Custom and convention Self-righteousness Hypocrisy Moral theory Morality

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, 2nd ed. London: Service and Patton, 1848, preface.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, preface to the 2nd ed.

The atoms of Democritus
And Newton’s particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.

William Blake

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Topic

Athens and Jerusalem

Author

William Blake

Source

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1807 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Worldview

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Worship The Conduct of Life

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Worship." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Worship.” The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Workers' rights

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Speech in Hartford, Connecticut

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in Hartford, Connecticut." 5 Mar. 1860, Hartford City Hall, Hartford, CT, USA.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Industrial revolution Europe

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Address on the abolition of corn laws. House of Commons. 15 March 1838, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

For without risk, no faith; the more risk, the more faith; the more objective dependability, the less inwardness (since inwardness is precisely subjectivity); the less objective dependability, the deeper the possible inwardness.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Topic

Faith

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler [Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments]. Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1846, pt. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Concluding Unscientific Postscript, translated by Alastair Hannay. Cambridge University Press, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

Abraham Lincoln

Annual Message to Congress

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Topic

Labor Capital Capitalism Economic theory

Author

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Annual Message to Congress

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. First Annual Message to Congress. 3 Dec. 1861, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic

Women Power War Horses

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

The Ballad of the King's Jest

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ballad of the King's Jest." Macmillan’s Magazine, Feb. 1890, I. 38.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ballad of the King's Jest." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Topic

Fortune Randomness

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 71.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 71.

Yet in all our rejoicing let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Political polarization Political reconciliation Elections Politics

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Remarks in Illinois. 20 Nov. 1860, Springfield, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Abraham Lincoln. "Remarks at Springfield, Illinois, November 20, 1860." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler. Vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1955.

Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

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Topic

New love Infatuation Fading love Love

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Madame Bovary

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 12.

Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.

Stonewall Jackson

Last words.

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Stonewall Jackson

Statement Type

Last words

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, Stonewall. Last words. 10 May 1863, Guinea, Virginia, USA.

It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people-women as well as men.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic

Women's rights Women's equality

Speaker

Susan B. Anthony

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Anthony, Susan B. “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage." 17 June 1873, Rochester, NY, USA.