The song and oar of Adria's gondolier, By distance mellow'd, o'er the waters sweep; 'T is sweet to see the evening star appear; 'T is sweet to listen as the night-winds creep From leaf to leaf; 't is sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The bliss of Man (could Pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Is not to act or think beyond mankind; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

You never want to have anybody with any git to 'em at the house; you want a bunch of old stiffs that sit around and gas about the weather.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

But when Josephus's mother heard in prison that her son was dead, she said to those that watched about her, That she had always been of opinion, since the siege of Jotapata, [that he would be slain,] and she should never enjoy him alive any more.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

His district had been settled originally by people from the Southern States, and at the breaking out of secession they sympathized with the South.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The song and oar of Adria's gondolier, [60] By distance mellowed, o'er the waters sweep; 'T is sweet to see the evening star appear; 'T is sweet to listen as the night-winds creep From leaf to leaf; 't is sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Rise then, my son, first partner of my fame, With early toils to build thy sacred name; In high behest, for his own legate known, Proclaim the bounties of our sire the Sun.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

Yet it was characteristic of her, that even now her first feeling, when Virginia found her, should be one of shame that she had clouded for an instant the girl's happiness.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

When that which formed the nucleus of the school was started, the neighbourhood was open; there was a suburban look about the locality; but entire rows of new dwellings now surround the school; the part in which it stands is densely populated; all grades of men, women, and children inhabit it; “civilisation”—rags, impudence, dirt, and sharpness, for they mean civilisation—has long prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood; a fine new brewery almost shakes hands with the building on one side; the “Sailor's Home” beershop stands sentry two doors off on the other.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

We determined to do anything that would help him to put down the rebellion, and so believing offered our services to Sir Henry Clinton.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

Poor old Dove, let out upon the Deluge in serge gown: he did bring back a bit of olive, so to speak;—had the presage but held, as it did in Noah's case!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle

Many a local allusion in both Testaments, which had seemed vague or difficult to appreciate before, opened out, so to say, before one’s happy vision, and gave a substance, a vitality to the Scripture narrative which produced a satisfaction delightful to experience.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler

"Then from one chord of his amazing shell Would he fetch out the voice of quires, and weight Of the built organ; or some twofold strain Moving before him like some sweet-going yoke, Ride like an Eastern conqueror, round whose state Some light
— from Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee