1836 · Skopia

Showing 8 works across all media from 1836

The Oxbow

Landscape · Hudson River School

The Oxbow

1836 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Wilderness under storm on the left, farmland in sunshine on the right, and Cole himself down in the middle, tiny, looking up from his easel.

★ 7.2

Remember the Alamo!

1836

★ 6.9

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1836

★ 6.1

Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature · 1836

★ 5.2

Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Essay on American Scenery · 1836

★ 5.2

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

1836

★ 3.6

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land.

Washington Irving

1836

★ 3.6

When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and storm, towering and unscathed.

1836

★ 3.5