1874

Explore 7 quotes from the year 1874

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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Topic

Dreamers Dreams

Author

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source

Ode (O'Shaughnessy)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur. "Ode." Music and Moonlight: Poems and Songs. London Chatto and Windus, 1874.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Topic

God and man Nature of God Existence of God God

Author

Robert G. Ingersoll

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Gods." c. 1872. Lecture.

For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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Topic

Changing of generations

Author

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source

Ode (O'Shaughnessy)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur. "Ode." Music and Moonlight: Poems and Songs. London: Chatto and Windus, 1874.

It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd

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Topic

Women Gender relations Patriarchy Men and women

Speaker

Bathsheba Troy

Author

Thomas Hardy

Source

Far From the Madding Crowd

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hardy, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Far From the Madding Crowd." Cornhill Magazine, 1874.

Current Citation

Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd, edited by Rosemarie Morgan. Penguin Classics, 2015.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

John Morley

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Topic

Suppression of speech Persuasion Freedom of speech and expression

Author

John Morley

Source

On Compromise

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Morley, John. On Compromise. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874, ch. 5.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Topic

Photography Beauty Art

Author

Julia Margaret Cameron

Source

Annals of My Glass House

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Cameron, Julia Margaret and Violet Hamilton. Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. University of Washington Press, 1997.

I find no hint throughout the Universe
Of good or ill, of blessing or of curse;
I find alone Necessity Supreme.

James Thomson

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Topic

Nature of the universe The universe

Author

James Thomson

Source

The City of Dreadful Night

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Thomson, James. "The City of Dreadful Night." The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880, st. 14. Originally published in the National Reformer, 1874.