1804

Explore 5 quotes from the year 1804

And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.

William Blake

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Topic

Forgiveness

Author

William Blake

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1804.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "My Spectre around me night & day." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

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Topic

Thinking vs. doing

Speaker

Wilhelm Tell

Author

Friedrich Schiller

Source

Wilhelm Tell

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama

Language

German

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Wilhelm Tell [William Tell]. 17 Mar. 1804, Weimarer Hoftheatre (now Deutsche Nationaltheatre Weimar), Weimar, Germany, act 3, sc. 1.

I wandered lonely as a cloud.

William Wordsworth

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Topic

Loneliness

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.

Ann Taylor

My Mother

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Topic

Mothers and children

Author

Ann Taylor

Source

My Mother

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Taylor, Ann. "My Mother." Original Poems, for Infant Minds. London: Darton and Harvey, 1804, I. 21.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

Horatio Nelson

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Topic

Seasickness Sailing Vocation

Author

Horatio Nelson

Source

Letters of Horatio Nelson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Letter to the Earl of Camden, the Secretary of War. c. 1804.