1798 · Skopia

Showing 24 works across all media from 1798

Fiction · Narrative poem

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1798 · 76 pages

Stopped outside a wedding, a guest must hear an old sailor out: he shot an albatross for no reason, and the ship fell becalmed with water everywhere and none to drink.

★ 6.8

Nonfiction · Sociology

An Essay on the Principle of Population

1798 · 172 pages

Population multiplies faster than food supply, Malthus argued, so misery and restraint are permanent conditions of human life, not problems reform can fix. Darwin read him and found natural selection.

★ 6.2

The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 5.5

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

What's not forbidden to do make bold.

Friedrich Schiller

The Camp of Wallenstein · 1798

★ 5.4

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

William Wordsworth

Lines Written in Early Spring · 1798

★ 5.4

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

The Table Turned · 1798

★ 5.4

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

1798

★ 5.3

The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of Love.

William Wordsworth

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey · 1798

★ 5.3

Poem · Narrative poem

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Poem · Narrative poem

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Poem · Narrative poem

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Poem · Narrative poem

Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed The lighthouse top I see? Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine one countree?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem

Till clombe above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside-

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Economic literature

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

1798

★ 3.6

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Friedrich Schiller

The Death of Wallenstein · 1798

★ 2.8

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

1798

★ 2.1

Poem · Narrative poem

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

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