1847

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Topic

Shit rolls downhill Human nature

Speaker

Heathcliff

Author

Emily Brontë

Source

Wuthering Heights

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 11.

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

Frederick Douglass

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Topic

Patriotism

Speaker

Frederick Douglass

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country." 24 Sept. 1847, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot." American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People, edited by Suzanne McIntire. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Topic

Soulmates The soul Love Connecting with others Relationships

Speaker

Catherine Earnshaw

Author

Emily Brontë

Source

Wuthering Heights

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 9.

Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 38.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 38.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Happiness Dignity

Speaker

Jane Eyre

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 34.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 34.

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Topic

Freedom of youth Girlhood Youth

Speaker

Catherine Earnshaw

Author

Emily Brontë

Source

Wuthering Heights

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 12.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Prejudice and bias Education

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 29.

Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Topic

Abandonment Love

Speaker

Heathcliff

Author

Emily Brontë

Source

Wuthering Heights

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 16.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Female independence Independence Freedom

Speaker

Jane Eyre

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 23.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 23.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Human nature

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 12.

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Being in love

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 24.

Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Topic

Patriarchy Gender roles Gender relations Men and women

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

The Princess

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 5, I. 437.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5, I. 437.

The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer

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Topic

Night and day Season Circle of life

Author

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source

A Dream of Summer

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wittier, John Greenleaf. A Dream of Summer. c. 1847, st. 4.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Topic

Looking back Changing of seasons Passage of time Melancholy

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

The Princess

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

The forest

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847, prologue.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, prologue.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Finding the one Falling in love Love

Speaker

Mr. Rochester

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 27.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 27.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Thoughts Inner life Nature of life Life

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. Aug. 1847.

Man is the hunter; woman is his game.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

The Princess

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 5, I. 147.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5, I. 147.

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

London

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Tancred: or, The New Crusade

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Tancred: or, The New Crusade. Vol. 3, London: Henry Colburn, 1847, bk. 5, ch. 5.

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year.

Edgar Allan Poe

American Whig Review

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Topic

October Autumn Seasons

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Source

Ulalume: A Ballad American Whig Review

Medium

Poem Journal

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan, [published anonymously]. "Ulalume: A Ballad." American Whig Review, Dec. 1847, st. 1.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Ulalume - A Ballad." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 1.