1831 · Skopia

Showing 12 works across all media from 1831

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1831 · 483 pages

Medieval Paris rebuilt around the cathedral, where a deaf bell-ringer loves a dancer the archdeacon also wants. The novel made crumbling Notre-Dame a national cause and saved it from the wreckers.

★ 6.6

Essay · Newspaper

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public · 1831

★ 5.2

Novel

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Benjamin Disraeli

1831

★ 3.7

Essay

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1831

★ 3.7

Essay

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1831

★ 3.6

Speech

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unjust judge to-day.

Daniel Webster

1831

★ 3.5

Novel

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein · 1831

★ 2.1

Novel

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Honore de Balzac

La Comedie humaine · 1831

★ 2.0

Newspaper

I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator · 1831

★ 1.9

Essay · Newspaper

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public · 1831

★ 1.9

Lecture

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Richard Whately

Introductory Lectures on Political Economy · 1831

★ 1.9

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1831

★ 1.0