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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Marquis de Lafayette. 26 Dec. 1820.

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Lord Byron. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821, act 1, sc. 2.

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Lord Byron. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994, act 1, sc. 2.

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Lord Byron. "To the Countess of Blessington." Letters and Journals. London: J. Johnson, c. 1830.

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Lord Byron. "To the Countess of Blessington." Byron: Poems. Everyman's Library, 1994.

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Monroe, James. Message to Congress about The Monroe Doctrine. Seventh annual message to Congress. 2 Dec. 1823, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Heine, Heinrich. Almansor. 1821.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, meditation 9.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, meditation 9.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Sentinel, 23 Dec. 1823.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. Applesauce Press, 2011.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "History." Edinburgh Review, May 1828.

There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.

Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant

A Forest Hymn

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Bryant, William Cullen. "A Forest Hymn." United States Literary Gazette, 1824, I. 1.

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Speckled Snake. Speech delivered at a council of Indian chiefs. 20 June 1829, USA.

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Speckled Snake. Quoted in A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, written by Howard Zinn. Routledge, 2015, ch. 7.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

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Landor, Walter Savage. "Chesterfield and Chatham." Imaginary Conversations. c. 1825.

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Channing, William Ellery. "The Union." May 1829, Boston, MA, USA. Speech.

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Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

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Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to David Harding. 20 Apr. 1824.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Mr. David Harding, President of the Jefferson Debating Society of Hingham, April 20, 1824." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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De Balzac, Honoré. "Une passion dans le desert [A Passion in the Desert]." Revue de Paris, 26 Dec. 1830.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honoré de Balzac

Physiologie du Mariage

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De Balzac, Honoré. Physiologie du mariage [Physiology of Marriage]. Paris, 1829, pt. 1, meditation 5, no. 47.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.