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

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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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!

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Don Juan

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Lord Byron
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Don Juan
Medium
Poem
Language
English
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

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Power of literature

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William Hazlitt
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English
Time
1817 1810s 19th century
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Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

Another quote about Ocean and sea

Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Arthur Rimbaud

The Drunken Boat

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Ocean and sea

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Arthur Rimbaud
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The Drunken Boat
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
French
Time
1871 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

Current Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.