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
- Letters of Saint Paul (3.4)
- Book of Genesis (4.71)
- Book of Psalms (5.33)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (5.59)
- Sophocles and Theocritus (5.64)
- Gospel Tale of Martha and Mary (6.8)
- Moses and Exodus (8.22)
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (12.3)
- John Moore, Zeluco (12.25, 12.50)
- Andrew Foulis (publisher), Aeschylus (16.28)
- Horace, Odes (quoted in 16.33)
- Aeschylus, Prometheus (16.39)
- French literature generally (17.14)
- Book of Genesis (18.9)
- Poor Richard's Almanac (19.8)
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress and other works (19.8)
- Bailey's Dictionary (19.8)
- Valentine and Orson, possibly the Henry Watson version (19.8)
- History of Babylon (19.8)
- Genesis story of Adam and Eve (21.26)
- Aeschylus (22.28)
- Aesop's Fables (33.4)
- The Life of Madame Guyon (50.24)
- The Bible and Apocrypha (51.26)
- John Henry Newman, Tracts for the Times (52.56)
- Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (52.56)
Historical References
- John Wesley, Methodism, and Methodist Preaching (2.39-40, 3.12, 8.9-19)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (3.12)
- Saint Catherine (5.48)
- Antinomianism and Evangelicism (5.59)
- Epicureanism (5.63)
- Prince of Wales (6.42)
- Socrates (9.13)
- Arthur Young (16.33)
- William Pitt (16.50)
- Dutch painting generally (17.6)
- The Reformation and the Dissenters (17.9)
- Arminians, Calvinists, and Wesleyans (17.13)
- Lord Nelson and the French (18.81-82)
- Houses of York and Lancaster (20.22)
- Queen Elizabeth, General Monk, and Julius Caesar (22.22)
- King George (32.32)
- Stratford-on-Avon/Shakespeare (36.20, 37.26)
- Charles Wesley (50.31-34)
- Napoleon versus the British (53.24-32)
- Methodist Conference, Wesleyans, and Women Preaching (Epilogue.26-28)