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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Conversations of Goethe with Eickermann and Soret, translated by John Oxenford. Da Capo Press, 1998.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words 1862." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993, I. 21.

Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 119.

Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.

Maimonides. "Commentary on Mishnah 1." The Essential Maimonides: Translations of the Rambam, translated by Avraham Yaakov Finkel. Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996.

Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 3.

Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 13.

Pope, Alexander. "To Cromwell, 19 October 1709." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

Lope de Vega, Jose. La Dorotea, translated by Alan S. Trueblood and Edwin Honig. Harvard University Press, 1985.