“Oh, winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the seasons of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover, Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I had been to visit them myself, but as I gave them nothing I do not care to go there alone a second time.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Listen; this is not a command, but advice I give you.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Here it will be enough to say that whenever a canoe is built for a chief or headman by a builder, this has to be paid for by an initial gift of food.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

With the one we see dolphins, emblems of the womb, the name of the two being assonant in Greek; with the other, the saying, sine Baccho et
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselves melted into tears, we weep then, not as the Abbate Gravina supposes, through excess of pleasure, but through a certain petulant, impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and for ever, those divine and rapturous joys of which through’ the poem, or through the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Why, there are women a hundred times my superiors in beauty and in goodness who might love you dearly; but you ask too much of me!
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The thought came all of a sudden, as I was lying in the bed, and it got stronger and stronger...
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The surface of a sphere is the surface with the least character, like the curve of a circle, and the one most to be avoided in good modelling.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

These opinions are, however, closely bound up with his religious beliefs, and in great measure explained by them.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

It used to take one and a half hours to get there; it was a long drag, but as I got twelve shillings per week I thought it an important post.
— from Rambling Recollections of Chelsea and the Surrounding District as a Village in the Early Part of the Past Century By an Old Inhabitant by J. B. Ellenor

At the second shot it fell rolling over, but almost immediately got up again and began to climb.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

The zeal with which he carried this great plan into effect gained the confidence of the different governments, and he not only succeeded in combining the two older unions, but also in gradually embodying with them the rest of the German states.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

Then a few days later, after further consideration, the President decided to form a commission, which I think was very wise, because I feel that the report of any agency of Government investigating what might be some shortcomings on the part of other agencies of Government ought to be reviewed by an impartial group such as this Commission.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

On every corner men were collected in groups, noisy or quiet according to their class, but alike in grim earnestness.
— from The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

This alliance or friendship with the Sultan should be such, that in whatever war he may be engaged with his rebellious subjects, he shall be aided in good faith, unless his adversary should be of such strength as to insure his triumph, for then the useless defense of the vanquished would subject us to the contempt of the conqueror and we should lose the benefits already acquired.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

Remained the frightful facts that were going on out there in Belgium and in Gallipoli and in Russia.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

As far as I could see, there were no bones broken, and I guessed that in a week at furthest he would be able to resume his journey without risk.
— from The Forge in the Forest Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart; and How He Crossed the Black Abbé; and of His Adventures in a Strange Fellowship by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Immediately I left, Elzas Kazelia, the kosher Jew, went to the police, and informed them that I and my family were running away from Russia, and were going to London; and we were at once arrested, and thrown bag and baggage into a filthy cell, lighted only by an iron grating in the door.
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill