19th century

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I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare

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Topic

Solitude Wilderness Spending time in nature

Author

John Clare

Source

I Am

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Clare, John. "I Am." The Bedford Times, 1 Jan. 1848, I. 13.

Current Citation

Clare, John. "I Am." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 13.

There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps?

Henry Drummond

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Topic

God of the gaps Science and religion Science Religion God

Author

Henry Drummond

Source

The Ascent of Man

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Drummond, Henry. The Ascent of Man. New York City: James Pott & Co., 1894, ch. 10.

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

Charles Kingsley

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Topic

Enjoying one's youth Youth

Author

Charles Kingsley

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kingsley, Charles. "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby." Macmillan's Magazine, 1862-1863.

Current Citation

Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, edited by Richard D. Beards. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Sir Walter Scott

The Talismam

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Topic

Dogs Man's best friend Man and animals

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

The Talismam

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir. The Talisman. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1825, ch. 24.

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
'Peace on the earth, good will to man
From Heaven's all gracious King,'
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Edmund Sears

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

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Topic

Jesus's birth

Author

Edmund Sears

Source

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sears, Edmund. "That Glorious Song of Old." The Christian Register, 1849, I. 1.

The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

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Topic

Puritanism

Author

Charles Farrar Browne

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Browne, Charles Farrar. "Introduction to the Club." London Punch Letters. c. 1866, no. 5.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Confidence Believing in oneself

Speaker

The Earl

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

The Small House at Allington

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "The Small House at Allington." Cornhill Magazine, 1862-1863. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. The Small House at Allington. Penguin Classics, 1991, ch. 32.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Wilkie Collins

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Topic

Game Men and women

Author

Wilkie Collins

Source

The Woman in White

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Collins, Wilkie. "The Woman in White." All the Year Round, 26 Nov. 1859 – 25 Aug. 1860.

Current Citation

Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White, edited by Matthew Sweet. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Topic

How to live Simple living

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Source

Three Men in a Boat

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 3.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation... Surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

William E.H. Lecky

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Topic

Calvinism Christian theology

Author

William E.H. Lecky

Source

History of European Morals

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagn. Vol. 1, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 1.

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

The forest

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847, prologue.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, prologue.

Poetry is the expression, in human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysterious meaning of the aspects of existence: in this way it confers authenticity on our time on earth and constitutes the only spiritual task there is.

Stepháne Mallarmé

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Topic

Poetry

Author

Stepháne Mallarmé

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Mallarme, Stephane. Letter to Leo d'Orfer. 27 June 1884.

Current Citation

Mallarme, Stephane. Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Jesus Christianity

Speaker

Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Quoted in Carlyle at his Zenith, by David Alec Wilson. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book.

Coventry Patmore

The Angel in the House

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

Coventry Patmore

Source

The Angel in the House

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. Self-published, 1854, bk. 1, canto 8, prelude 2.

I say that there is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same. Therefore justice, whose only possible mode of proceeding is to punish in present time for what is done in past time, must always punish a person more or less similar to, but never identical with, the one who committed the offence, and therein must be no justice.

Edward Bellamy

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Topic

Moral theory Theory of punishment

Speaker

Dr. Heidenhoff

Author

Edward Bellamy

Source

Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bellamy, Edward. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process. D. Appleton & Company, 1880, ch. 11.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Henry George

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Topic

Economic inequality Rich vs. poor

Author

Henry George

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1879, introductory.

Current Citation

George, Henry. The Essence of Progress and Poverty. Dover Publications, 2020, ch. 1.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.

Edwin Markham

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Topic

Farming

Author

Edwin Markham

Source

The Man with the Hoe

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Markham, Edwin. "The Man with the Hoe." San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 1899.

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines

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Topic

Nature of life Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life Life Death

Speaker

Ignosi (Umbopa)

Author

H. Rider Haggard

Source

King Solomon's Mines

Medium

Novel

Genre

Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

O Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering upon aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott

Redgauntlet

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Topic

Nature of women Women

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

Redgauntlet

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 6, st. 30.

I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

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Topic

Christmas

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

A Christmas Carol

Medium

Novella

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 4.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 4.