1820 · Skopia

Showing 29 works across all media from 1820

1820

★ 7.3

The Forge

1820 · The Frick Collection, New York City

Three smiths at a forge, one hammer at the top of its swing. Goya gave laboring men the scale usually kept for gods and kings.

★ 5.7

Letter

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.8

Letter

We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.8

Letter

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.8

Poem

And still they were the same bright, patient stars.

John Keats

1820

★ 3.7

Poem

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.

John Keats

Lamia · 1820

★ 3.7

Play

My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound · 1820

★ 3.7

Letter · Political writing

Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimated by usage. Society is the work-shop in which new ones are elaborated. When an individual uses a new word, if illformed it is rejected in society, if well-informed, adopted, and, after due time, laid up in the depository of dictionaries.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Not many sounds in life... Exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Charles Lamb

1820

★ 3.6

O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The Lake · 1820

★ 3.5

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

1820

★ 3.5

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection.

Henry Peter Brougham

1820

★ 3.5

Poem

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.

John Keats

To Autumn · 1820

★ 2.8

Poem

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

John Keats

Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 · 1820

★ 2.0

Play

A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound · 1820

★ 2.0

Poem

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud · 1820

★ 2.0

Poem

That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the Moon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud · 1820

★ 2.0

Letter

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

1820

★ 2.0

Poem

Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Les Meditations Poetiques · 1820

★ 1.9

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