When such was the creed of the country, from the throne to the cottage; when even the men of learning, with few [486:B] exceptions, ranged themselves on the side of the Dæmonologie, it was highly judicious in Shakspeare, in his dramatic capacity, to adopt, as a powerful instrument of terror, the popular belief; popular both in his Page 487
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

I suspect if your nephew were in Paris, she would be easier reconciled to our threatened pilgrimage than I. Between ourselves, my dear cousin, as Maurice now holds all the mortgages for your Irish estates, it would be well to keep in with him, even if the price be a visit from your affectionate cousin,— “Alice Gorman.”
— from Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

“For no sooner was his mother’s gentle hand removed, than, even on the very day of her burial, Earl Richard threw off the mask.
— from The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Emily Sarah Holt

It must be ever regretted, that of the poet's later life, of which he knew so much, he wrote nothing; but the world was justified in expecting in the details of his earlier pilgrimage something which it did not get.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

end poetry block end rend The only thing wrong in this nice bit of description, as Dr. S. E. Dawson has pointed out in his study of “The Princess,” is in reference to the song of the nightingale.
— from Essays Literary, Critical and Historical by Thomas O'Hagan

The reader's attention is particularly drawn to the new views of the method of action of the vocal bands, etc., referred to on this page.
— from Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills

Mrs. Harewood could scarcely forbear an inward smile, but she answered her with seriousness, and did not lose the opportunity of imprinting upon her mind many salutary truths connected with her present situation, not forgetting to impress strongly the necessity which every Christian has of being ever ready to obey that awful summons, which may be expected at any hour, and from which there is no appeal; but she concluded by an assurance that in a few days the present disorder would be completely removed, in case she guarded her own temper from impetuosity, and observed the regimen prescribed to her.
— from The Barbadoes Girl: A Tale for Young People by Mrs. (Barbara) Hofland