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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 4, sc. 1.

De Balzac, Honoré. The Wild Ass's Skin, translated by Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 73.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, letter 4.

Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860]." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 8: 1860. Cambridge University Press, 2022, no. 2814.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam, edited by Erik Gray. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, pt. 59, st. 1.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 27, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to 148th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C, August 31, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.