Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.

Robert Browning

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Topic

Aging

Author

Robert Browning

Source

Rabbi ben Ezra

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Playwright Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864, I. 1.

Current Citation

Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Another quote from 1864

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

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Author

George Perkins Marsh
Source
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Language
English
Time
1864 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864, ch. 1.

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