What a good thing Adam had—when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Originality

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Humorist Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 6. Originally from Notebook, 2 July 1867.

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Topic
Summer

Author

Emily Dickinson
Source
The May-Wine Springfield Daily Republican
Medium
Poem Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "The May-Wine." Springfield Daily Republican, 4 May 1861, I. 5.

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Another quote from 1867

Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

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Topic
The beach Waves Melancholy

Author

Matthew Arnold
Source
Dover Beach
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, I. 9.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 9.