One would rather, however, dwell on the brighter hues of the picture than on its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.”
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

an' I couldn't rightly make things go; an' she says she won't be lavin' us now that she can turn a penny wid her posies an' help along."
— from Daisy's Work: The Third Commandment by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

If indeed he had never seen Vreni again it might be that his memory would have pieced her personality together, little by little, until not the slightest bit had been wanting.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller

Like the birdies let us be; Let us not the singers chide;
— from The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

One would rather, however, dwell on the brighter hues of the picture than on its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to "draw his frailties from their dread abode."
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then he drew it up by an extremely gentle and even motion, so that the fish rose with it, scarcely sensible (it is supposed) that they were being lifted, until near the surface of the water, when they were brought out in the net by a sudden pull!
— from The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

[Pg 35] but little understood, namely, the structure of our old English verse, and the proper mode of reading it.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley