1838 · Skopia

Showing 27 works across all media from 1838

Fiction · Social criticism

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1838 · 416 pages

Born in a workhouse, Oliver asks for more, is sold off, and runs to London, where Fagin's gang of child pickpockets takes him in. Dickens made child poverty impossible to ignore.

★ 7.1

Speech · Political speech

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

1838

★ 7.0

Personal journal

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard

1838

★ 7.0

Personal journal

Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1838

★ 6.9

Kindred Spirits

Landscape · Hudson River School

Kindred Spirits

Asher Brown Durand

1838 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Thomas Cole and the poet Bryant stand on a ledge in the Catskills. Durand painted it as a memorial after Cole died young.

★ 6.8

Frederic Chopin

Portrait · Romanticism

Frederic Chopin

Eugene Delacroix

1838 · Louvre, Paris

It was half of a double portrait with George Sand listening at the piano, until somebody cut the canvas in two.

★ 6.8

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literary Ethics · 1838

★ 5.3

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 3.9

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Abraham Lincoln

1838

★ 3.9

Personal journal

Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals.

1838

★ 3.8

Poem · Magazine

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 3.8

Play · Tragedy (play) · Drama (play)

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

1838

★ 3.8

Poem · Magazine

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 3.7

Personal journal

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1838

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

1838

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

1838

★ 3.6

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Sir Walter Scott · 1838

★ 3.6

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

1838

★ 3.5

God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

William Ellery Channing

1838

★ 3.5

Poem · Magazine

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 2.1

Poem · Magazine

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 2.1

Poem · Magazine

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 2.1

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Truth in Things False · 1838

★ 1.9

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

1838

★ 1.9

Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father and to tear the character of his own and his children's liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

1838

★ 1.2