1791 · Skopia

Showing 16 works across all media from 1791

Requiem

1791

An anonymous stranger commissioned it and Mozart died before finishing. A pupil completed the rest, and arguments about which bars are his continue.

★ 9.5

Nonfiction · Biography

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

1791 · 1408 pages

Boswell met Samuel Johnson, who had written the English dictionary, in 1763 and wrote down his talk for twenty years. Johnson steps off the page as somebody you have actually met.

★ 7.3

Autobiography and memoir

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 6.0

Philosophical literature · Political literature

The American Constitutions were to Liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man · 1791

★ 5.4

Autobiography and memoir

Whatever St. Augustine may say, human creatures would not perform the work of generation if they did not find pleasure in it, and if there was not in that great work an irresistible attraction for them.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 5.2

Poem

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed, Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever.

Robert Burns

Tam o' Shanter · 1791

★ 5.2

Poem

Soon shall thy arm, unconquere'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Erasmus Darwin

The Botanic Garden · 1791

★ 5.1

Letter

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

1791

★ 4.6

Autobiography and memoir

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite to mine, I have always loved it and done all I could to make myself loved by it.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 4.4

Fiction · Erotic fiction

Twelve years old and orphaned, Justine chooses virtue and is punished for it by monks, surgeons, and noblemen who argue at length that nature rewards cruelty. Napoleon had Sade arrested for writing it.

★ 4.2

Poem

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

1791

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature · Political literature

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man · 1791

★ 3.7

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution- it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.