We leave this royal couple to repose: A bed is not a throne, and they may sleep, Whate'er their dreams be, if of joys or woes: Yet disappointed joys are woes as deep
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But how they acted and reacted below decks, one fire-stratum playing into the other, by its nature and the art of man, now when all hands ran raging, and the flames lashed high over shrouds and topmast: this let not History attempt.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But internal natural perfection , as it belongs to those things which are only possible as natural purposes , and are therefore called organised beings, is not analogous to any physical, i.e. natural, faculty known to us; nay even, 280 regarding ourselves as, in the widest sense, belonging to nature, it is not even thinkable or explicable by means of any exactly fitting analogy to human art.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But it is now found by abundant experience, that an aristocracy , and a despotism , differ but in name; and that a people who are in general excluded from any share of the legislative, are, to all intents and purposes, as much slaves, when twenty, independent of them, govern, as when but one domineers.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Therefore do not strike your breasts if now and then a smile involuntarily appears upon their lips.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

Filippo Tancredi was of Messina, but is not assigned to any of the before mentioned masters, as he studied in Naples and in Rome under Maratta.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

Mr. Dallas answered that he knew nothing on those topics, and therefore (The President's corrections, both in notes and text, are in caps.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

But is not all this a pitiful satire on the theory of hybrid training? Observe that the conditions were strictly normal.
— from War and the Arme Blanche by Erskine Childers

The ghosts of the subtle emotions which we say make up modernity have come into his brain, and they are so many that he has become, if not a theatre, at least a mortuary, of modernity.
— from Beautiful Wales by Edward Thomas

I mean the worm-fence—called worm because it wriggled over the landscape like a long brown caterpillar, the stakes being the bristles along its back, and because it now and then ate up a noble walnut-tree close by, or a kingly oak, or frightened, trembling ash—a worm that decided the destiny of forests.
— from The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles by James Lane Allen

The beautiful in nature acts through appreciation and sympathy.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Otherwise our days went by in a summer succession the whole winter through, but if now and then a day was unseasonably wintry, we justly blamed our native North for it.
— from A Confession of St. Augustine by William Dean Howells

The theme of the book is not always teacher and pupil.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley