1834

Showing 16 works across all media from 1834

Portrait · Romanticism

The Women of Algiers

Eugene Delacroix

1834 · Louvre, Paris

Delacroix saw a room like this once, on a trip to North Africa, and painted it from memory. Picasso later made fifteen variations on it.

★ 7.2

Flower painting

Bullfinch on Weeping Cherry

Hokusai

1834 · Location unknown

One plump bullfinch on a cherry sprig, a poem written beside it. The other Hokusai, quiet and exact, nothing like the wave.

★ 6.5

Novel

No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand

Jacques · 1834

★ 6.2

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 3.8

Novel

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

La Comedie humaine · 1834

★ 3.7

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 3.7

Hymn · Song

Just as I am - without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidst me come to Thee, -O Lamb of God, I come!

Charlotte Elliott

Just as I Am · 1834

★ 3.6

Shakespeare...is of no age-nor, I may add, of any religion, or party, or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 3.6

Novel

Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

1834

★ 3.6

Sermon

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Jonathan Edwards

1834

★ 3.6

Prose = words in their best order;-poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 2.0

Bygone images, and scenes of early life, have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown from the spice-islands of Youth and Hope-those twin realities of this phantom world!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

Henry Clay

1834

★ 1.9

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

Heinrich Heine

1834

★ 1.0