Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Silas Marner

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Anticipation Disappointment

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Author

George Eliot

Source

Silas Marner

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, ch. 18.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Signet, 2007, ch. 18.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Effects of travel Travel Creativity Imagination Inspiration

Author

Mark Twain
Source
The Innocents Abroad
Genre
Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003.

Another quote from 1861

Inebriate of Air - am I -
And debauchee of dew -
Reeling - thro endless summer days -
From inns of Molten Blue.

Emily Dickinson

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Topic
Summer

Author

Emily Dickinson
Source
The May-Wine Springfield Daily Republican
Medium
Poem Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "The May-Wine." Springfield Daily Republican, 4 May 1861, I. 5.

Current Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "I taste a liquor never brewed." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 5.