Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Meditations Divine and Moral

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Topic

Stages of life

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

Meditations Divine and Moral

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. Meditations Divine and Moral. c. 1664, st. 3.

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Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 3.

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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Albert G. Hodges. 4 Apr. 1864.

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Another quote from 1867

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

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Spending time in nature The night sky Experiencing things

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Walt Whitman
Source
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Leaves of Grass
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Whitman, Walt. "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, I. 1. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, I. 1.