Dark-heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime—
The image of Eternity.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Ocean and sea

Author

Lord Byron

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Poet Writer

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Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 183.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 4, st. 183.

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How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be!

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Lord Byron
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Don Juan
Medium
Poem
Language
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Time
1824 1810s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Hunt, 1824, canto 15, st. 99.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 15, st. 99.

Another quote from the 1810s

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

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Arrogance Hubris

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source
Ozymandias
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1818 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." The Examiner. London: Leigh Hunt and John Hunt, 11 Jan. 1818, l. 11.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 11.

Another quote about Ocean and sea

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

Kate Chopin

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Sound of water Ocean and sea

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Kate Chopin
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The Awakening
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.