Explore 262 quotes from the 1850s

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Song of Hiawatha." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, pt. 10.

Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

Flaubert, Gustave. Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited by Richard Rumbold, translated by J. M. Cohen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 96, st. 3.

Czar Alexander II of Russia. Quoted in A Concise History of Russia, written by Ronald Hingley. Thames & Hudson, 1991.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 18.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.

Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2002.

Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 11, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 4.

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.