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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Hunt, 1823, canto 14, st. 101.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 14, st. 101.

Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Speech to the French army in Egypt on July 21st, 1798, before the Battle of the Pyramids.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, written by Gaspard Gourgaud. Vol. 2, London: Henry Colburn, 1823. Originally stated during a speech prior to the Battle of the Pyramids [Battle of Embabeh]. 21 July 1798, Embabeh, Egypt.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "23 Mar. 1829." Gespräche mit Goethe [Conversations with Goethe]. Vol. 2, Leipzig: F. M. Brodhaus, 1836.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "March 23, 1829." Conversations with Goethe, translated by Allen Blunden. Penguin Classics, 2022.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Holmes. 22 Apr. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Holmes, April 22, 1820." 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 Quincey, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." The London Magazine, Sept. - Oct., 1821.

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De Quincey, Thomas. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, edited by Robert Morrison. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Blake, William and Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats. "Vala, or The Four Zoas." The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893, night 2.

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Blake, William. "The Four Zoas: Vala Night the Second." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William Roscoe. 27 Dec. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "William Roscoe, Dec. 27, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Holmes. 22 Apr. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Holmes, April 22, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

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Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826, ch. 25.

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Cooper, James Fenimore. "The Last of the Mohicans." James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales. Vol. 1, Library of America, 1985, ch. 25.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Goethe's Helena." Foreign Review, 1828.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Goethe's Helena." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Adams. 15 Aug. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Adams, Aug. 15, 1820." 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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Ricardo, David. On Protection to Agriculture. London: John Murray, 1822.

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Madison, James. Letter to W.T. Barry. 4 Aug. 1822.

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Madison, James. "To William T. Barry, August 4, 1822." James Madison: Writings, edited by Jack Rakove. Library of America, 1999.

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Keats, John. "Hyperion: A Fragment." Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, bk. 1, I. 353.

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Keats, John. "Hyperion: A Fragment." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, I. 353.

Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, edited by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. London: Charles Ollier, 1821, st. 10, I. 9.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Adonais." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, st. 10, I. 9.

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1821, canto 3, st. 5.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 5.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Happiest Day." Tamerlane and Other Poems. Boston: Calvin F. S. Thomas, 1827, st. 1.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Happiest Day." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 1.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Youth and Age. c. 1828.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Youth and Age (1823)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Jane: The Invitation

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Pine Forest of the Cascine near Pisa." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 21.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To Jane. The Invitation." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 21.