1849 · Skopia

Showing 21 works across all media from 1849

Fiction · Romanticism

The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

1849 · 628 pages

Poe invented the detective story and perfected the tale of terror. His narrators wall people up alive, hear a heart beating under the floorboards, and watch a house split apart.

★ 7.2

Poem · Newspaper

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

1849

★ 7.2

The more things change, the more they are the same.

1849

★ 6.9

Nonfiction · Existentialism

The Sickness Unto Death

Soren Kierkegaard

1849 · 179 pages

Despair, Kierkegaard argues, is not a passing mood but the standing condition of a self refusing to be itself. He catalogs its forms with clinical precision, and the diagnosis reaches everyone.

★ 6.8

Personal journal

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also-He above all-is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

1849

★ 6.0

Nonfiction · Autobiography and memoir

The Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman

1849 · 951 pages

Twenty-three and fresh from Harvard, Parkman rode onto the 1846 prairie and spent three weeks hunting buffalo with an Oglala Sioux band. He got the West down before the railroads reached it.

★ 5.4

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

Discourse on Woman · 1849

★ 5.3

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

1849

★ 5.2

Poem · Newspaper

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune · 1849

★ 3.8

Personal journal

He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.

1849

★ 3.7

Poem · Newspaper

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune · 1849

★ 3.7

Poem · Magazine

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw.

Edgar Allan Poe

Scribner's Monthly · 1849

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss-an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.-is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death · 1849

★ 3.7

Slave narrative · Autobiography and memoir

I entered the world a slave-in the midst of a country whose most honoured writings declare that all men have a right to liberty.

Henry Box Brown

1849

★ 3.6

It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold; 'Peace on the earth, good will to man From Heaven's all gracious King,' The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear · 1849

★ 3.5

A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau

1849

★ 2.0

The World in which we live and move Outlasts aversion, outlasts love. Outlasts each effort, interest, hope, Remorse, grief, joy.

1849

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

In all disputes between conflicting governments it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral, while our geographical position, the genius of our institutions and our people, the advancing spirit of civilization, and, above all, the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and friendly relations with all other powers.

Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor · 1849

★ 1.9

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Graziella · 1849

★ 1.9

Personal journal

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1849

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life... Then in the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Discourse on Woman · 1849

★ 1.0