When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1.1)
- Concise Oxford English Dictionary (2.118)
- Blaise Pascal (2.136)
- Seneca (2.145)
- James Boswell, Life of Johnson (3.63)
- Book of Genesis (3.113)
- Dante Alighieri (3.185)
- A. Perez (3.187)
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (4.23)
- Horace (4.27)
- Euripides (4.36)
- Book of Isaiah (4.94)
- Miguel de Cervantes (5.15)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (5.42, 6.164)
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (5.55, 6.87, 9.24-27, 9.35)
- Jacques Delille (5.88)
- Book of John (5.116)
- Jesus (5.117)
- Leonardo da Vinci (5.119)
- Michaelangelo (5.119)
- William Shakespeare (5.120)
- Buddha (5.121)
- Rembrandt (5.121)
- St. Francis de Sales (5.121)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (6.89)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (7.132)
- First Book of Corinthians (12.98)
Historical Figures
- Albert Einstein (3.52, 5.33, 5.120)
- Euclid (5.36, 5.123)
- Louis Pasteur (5.120)
- Marie Curie (5.120)
- Albert Schweitzer (5.121)
- Mohandas Gandhi (5.121)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (5.123)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (7.39)
- Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" (7.75, 9.136)
- Thomas Jefferson, "Declaration of Independence" (9.136-137)