—"Here we find a model of what a commentary on a great work should be, every page instinct with thoughtfulness; complete sympathy and appreciation; the most reverent care shown in the attempted interpretation of passages whose meaning to a large degree evades, and will always evade, readers of 'In Memoriam.'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

ANT: Lovely, desirable, enjoyable, attractive, beautiful, fair, pleasant, amiable.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But an experience—(and I should not need documents in abundance to prove my words, if I added)—a tried experience of twenty years, has taught me, that the original sin of my character consists in a careless indifference to public opinion, and to the attacks of those who influence it; that praise and admiration have become yearly less and less desirable, except as marks of sympathy; nay that it is difficult and distressing to me to think with any interest even about the sale and profit of my works, important as, in my present circumstances, such considerations must needs be.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

After this training I went back to Victor Hugo's poem, and found that 158 additional lines (divided exactly as on the former occasion) took me 151 1/2 minutes.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But there are laws directing events, and some of these laws are known to us while we are conscious of others we cannot comprehend.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Croyez-moi, ajouta-t-il, allez dans le caravanserai chercher votre cheval, et amenez-le moi ici; car il y a là des esclaves Albaniens qui acheveroient de vous prendre ce qu'il porte encore.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

The Angel Ascendant[1] But what are life, death, earth, and time to thee, Eternal Truth?
— from Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

'Elle s'est laissée transporter à l'assemblée [160] nocturne de Lembeke, où, après la danse, elle a, comme tous les assistans, baisé un bouc à l'endroit de sa queue, lequel bouc fut ensuite brûlé et ses cendres distribuées et emportées par les convives.'
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

When the Hepburn bill came up for discussion in the Senate, the situation had thus been radically changed, and a long debate ensued as to the relative merits of the two routes.
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

"Ye mouldering relics of a race departed, Your names have perished; not a trace remains, Save where the grassgrown mound its summit rears From the green bosom of your native plains." Ages since—long ere the first son of the Old World had pressed the fresh soil of the New; long before the bright region beyond the blue wave had been the object of the philosopher's revery by day and the enthusiast's vision by night—in the deep stillness and solitude of an unpeopled land, these vast mausoleums rose as now they rise, in lonely grandeur from the plain, and looked down, even as now [Pg 158] they look, upon the giant flood rolling its dark waters at their base, hurrying past them to the deep.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

One sees all sorts, of course, but the type which might be selected as predominant is that of a slightly built, fairly tall man, with straight marked features, abundant hair showing strong tendency to curl, on head and lips; dark eyed and dark complexioned, good-looking, merry genial fellows, they are a sun-loving race.
— from Normandy by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Pastora dos anjos, luz das estrelas, aa feyra da Virgem donas et donzelas, porque este mercados sabey que aqui traz as cousas mais belas.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Lincoln was at last duly elected a Representative by a very flattering majority, and began to look about for the pecuniary means necessary to maintain his new dignity.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

This led to a long dispute, eager and incoherent on Ramon's part, cool and sarcastic on Cobo's; he delighted in putting his rival out of patience.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés