1857 · Skopia

Showing 21 works across all media from 1857

Fiction · Romance

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1857 · 329 pages

Emma Bovary reads romances, takes lovers, and runs up debts trying to feel something in a provincial town. Flaubert weighed every sentence, and modern fiction's idea of style begins with him.

★ 9.4

The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics)

Charles Baudelaire

1857 · 399 pages

Modern poetry starts here, in gorgeous verse about boredom, rot, and the crowds of Paris. Baudelaire opens by calling the reader his hypocrite brother, then makes ugliness beautiful.

★ 8.5

The Gleaners

Genre painting · Realism

The Gleaners

Jean Francois Millet

1857 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Three women bend for the stalks left after harvest while a full farm sits small in the distance, which unsettled the people buying paintings.

★ 8.2

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake

Cityscape · Woodblock

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake

Utagawa Hiroshige

1857 · Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn), Brooklyn

Rain falls as fine diagonal scratches over the bridge, a trick Van Gogh admired enough to copy the whole print in oil.

★ 8.2

Speech · Political speech

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

1857

★ 7.3

Speech · Political speech

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass

1857

★ 7.0

See many skies and seas.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 7.0

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1857

★ 5.4

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

Dred Scott v. Sandford · 1857

★ 5.4

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1857

★ 4.7

Short story · Magazine

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

1857

★ 3.8

Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is It · 1857

★ 3.7

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Progress: Its Law and Cause · 1857

★ 3.6

Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1857

★ 2.9

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union ever devised by man will not suffer it to perish until it shall have been peacefully instrumental by its example in the extension of civil and religious liberty throughout the world.

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

All agree that under the Constitution slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power except that of the respective States themselves wherein it exists.

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

No more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expenses of a wise, economical, and efficient administration of the Government.

1857

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

The Federal Constitution is a grant from the States to Congress of certain specific powers, and the question whether this grant should be liberally or strictly construed has more or less divided political parties from the beginning.

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

We ought to cherish a sacred regard for the independence of all nations, and never attempt to interfere in the domestic concerns of any unless this shall be imperatively required by the great law of self-preservation.

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.1

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