The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain.

Le temps a laissé son manteau
De vent, de froidure et de pluie.

Charles d'Orléans

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Seasons

Author

Charles d'Orléans

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1440 1440s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

Authentication Score 1

Citation

D'Orleans, Charles. Le temps a laissie son manteaux [Winter has cast his cloak away]. c. 1440.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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Topic
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.

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Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Author

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Source
History of Europe
Language
French
Time
1805 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, written by Archibald Alison. Vol. 5, Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841.