Thus the terrible secret, which Beauchamp had so generously destroyed, appeared again like an armed phantom; and another paper, deriving its information from some malicious source, had published two days after Albert’s departure for Normandy the few lines which had rendered the unfortunate young man almost crazy.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Guava’s , a Fruit as large as a Pipin, with Seeds and Stones in it, of an uncouth astringing Tast, tho’ never so much be said in Commendation of it, at the West-Indies , it is common for Cræolians , (who has tasted both,) to give it a Preference to Peach or Nectarine, no amazing Thing when Men whose Tasts are so degenerated, as to prefer a Toad in a Shell, (as Ward calls Turtle,) to Venison, and Negroes to fine English Ladies.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

If anybody looks at a picture by Claude Monet from the point of view of a Raphael, he will see nothing but a meaningless jargon of wild paint-strokes.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Would any but a poet—at least could any one without being conscious that he had expressed himself with noticeable vivacity—have described a bird singing loud by, "The thrush is busy in the wood?"—or have spoken of boys with a string of club-moss round their rusty hats, as the boys "with their green coronal?"—or have translated a beautiful May-day into "Both earth and sky keep jubilee!"—or have brought all the different marks and circumstances of a sealoch before the mind, as the actions of a living and acting power?
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

] Note 74 ( return ) [ Machiavel has explained, at least as a philosopher, the origin of Florence, which insensibly descended, for the benefit of trade, from the rock of Faesulae to the banks of the Arno, (Istoria Fiorentina, tom. i. p. 36.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He saw plainly enough that the old man wanted to exercise his power by tormenting him a little, and also probably to get some satisfaction out of seeing him on unpleasant terms with Bulstrode.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Among such truths are included those which merely state what is given in sense, and also certain abstract logical and arithmetical principles, and (though with less certainty) some ethical propositions.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

At last, after a prolonged interval of agony, he felt happy and at peace again.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" "Ho, ho! Doctor," said old Mr. Powderell, a retired iron-monger of some standing—his interjection being something between a laugh and a Parliamentary disapproval; "we must let you have your say.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

— The like also, if you are in danger on shipboard, you will entrust your life to the pilot rather than to the philosopher: and so as to all other matters, as long as a professional man is to be found, the philosopher is of no use?
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

When he ran away they put forth a long arm and plucked him back and beat him.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

As long as a portion are rich and a portion are poor, there is a line of demarcation easy to be drawn, even in a democracy; but in Philadelphia, where there are so many in affluent circumstances, that line has been effaced, and they now seek an imaginary one, like the equinoctial, which none can be permitted to pass without going through the ceremonies of perfect ablution.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

“I could forgive you being sick,” he said at last, as a portion of the wall fell out, “but I cannot bear your being such a fool.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson

To give you an idea of my dilemma, I must tell you what sort of people we are living amongst, and present you with a survey of our vicinage, before you can be of use in directing my steps.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

"I have had a letter and a paper.
— from By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

They bewail and bury their friend, if not as one of the common herd who had died, at least as a person whose loss was irreparable; [1.2] they were sorrowful and cast down; the expectation which they had indulged of seeing him realize the salvation of Israel, is proved to have been vanity; we should speak of them as of men who have lost a grand and beloved illusion.
— from The Apostles by Ernest Renan

But Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca now made his appearance, a writer as prolific and diligent as Lope, and a poet of a very different kind,—a poet if ever any man deserved that name.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Peter Augustus led an active professional and social life in New York City, holding office as judge, as recorder, and as a member of the State Assembly.
— from William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery by Bayard Tuckerman

Thus the floods came at length to a wide land covered with great trees, a land deep and rich, filled with all manner of growing and brooding things; a land of fat soil carried thither no one knows whence; a land apart and prepared.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough