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A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

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Canning, George. "New Morality." Anti-Jacobin Magazine and Review, 1821.

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

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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De Chateaubriand, François-René. Les Natchez. c. 1826, preface.

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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.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." Monthly Magazine, July 1827.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2020.

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Brougham, Henry Peter. Argument at trial of Queen Caroline for adultery. House of Lords meeting. c. 1820, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Talisman. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1825, ch. 24.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.

John Keats

To Autumn

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Keats, John. "To Autumn." Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, I. 23.

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Keats, John. "To Autumn." John Keats: Selected Poems, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 23.

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Hunt, 1823, canto 13, st. 42.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 13, st. 42.

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Monroe, James. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1821, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lord Byron. Journal entry. 28 Jan. 1821.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Own and Assimilated Material." Über Kunst und Altertum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1823, vol. 4, issue 2.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "From Art and Antiquity: Vol IV, Issue 2: Own and Assimilated Material (1823)." Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [From Art and Antiquity]. 1821, vol. 3, issue 1.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005.

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Monroe, James. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1821, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Madison, James. Letter to George Thomson. 30 June 1825.

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Madison, James. "Political Observations, 20 Apr. 1795." Founders Online, National Archives. Founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423.

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1821, canto 3, st. 86.

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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. 86.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William Charles Jarvis. 28 Sept. 1820.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 4, sc. 1.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

John Keats

Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819

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Keats, John, [published anonymously]. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820.

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Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009.