1772 · Skopia

Showing 7 works across all media from 1772

Poem · Philosophical literature

And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king.

1772

★ 9.6

The Meeting

Genre painting · Rococo

The Meeting

Jean Honore Fragonard

1772 · The Frick Collection, New York City

He is coming over the garden wall and she has just seen him, with a statue of Venus watching from above. Painted for Madame du Barry.

★ 6.1

The Shipwreck

Genre painting · Romanticism

The Shipwreck

Claude Joseph Vernet

1772 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia

Masts splintering, survivors in the surf, and the whole thing arranged for people who wanted to feel terror from a safe distance.

★ 5.7

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1772

★ 3.7

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

1772

★ 3.6

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1772

★ 2.1

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1772

★ 1.9