Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Home

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.

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Source
The Silverado Squatters
Genre
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Language
English
Time
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 3.

Another quote from the 1890s

My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

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Author

Joseph Conrad
Source
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

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E.T. Phone home.

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Actor
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Source
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, 1982.