Remembering one's youth

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Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Topic

Remembering one's youth Looking back Youth

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source

Julie, or the New Heloise

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

French

Time

1761 1760s 18th century

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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.

Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place,
The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face.

James Whitcomb Riley

Read The Old Swimmin' Hole at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Remembering one's youth Aging

Author

James Whitcomb Riley

Source

The Old Swimmin' Hole

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Riley, James Whitcomb [published as Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone County]. "The Old Swimmin' Hole." The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883, st. 5.

Current Citation

Riley, James Whitcomb. "The Old Swimmin' Hole." Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2011, st. 5.