So that, perhaps, for a rough, practical definition that will at least point away from the mechanical performances that so often pass for art, " the Rhythmic expression of Feeling " will do: for by Rhythm is meant that ordering of the materials of art (form and colour, in the case of painting)
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

In a world of Becoming, reality is merely a simplification for the purpose of practical ends, or a deception resulting from the coarseness of certain organs, or a variation in the tempo of Becoming.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And your honour is too good, I hope, to mock a poor old man—This ugly story, sir, of the bishop, runs in my head—But you say I shall see my dear child—And I shall see her honest.—If not, poor as I am, I would not own her.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Rather than a story of events claiming to be real, it may be considered as an allegory such as the writers of the last century would have expressed in the shape of an Eastern tale, but to which I have endeavored to give a more lifelike warmth than could be infused into those fanciful productions.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The warmth, the cosy surroundings, the presence of a sympathetic being, rouses in me now not a feeling of pleasure as it used but a strong desire to complain and grumble.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

My hopes of being remembered in my line With my land's language: if too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline,— If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar. X.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

It will not contain itself within the union of marriage, or apply to one object, but is a wandering, extravagant, a domineering, a boundless, an irrefragable, a destructive passion: sometimes this burning lust rageth after marriage, and then it is properly called jealousy; sometimes before, and then it is called heroical melancholy; it extends sometimes to co-rivals, &c., begets rapes, incests, murders: Marcus Antonius compressit Faustinam sororem, Caracalla Juliam Novercam, Nero Matrem, Caligula sorores, Cyneras Myrrham filiam , &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As they were about to return to Boulogne the wind sprang up anew, and the little boat resumed its mad course, bounding and tumbling about, shaking up the poor wounded man.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute: I mean to take possession of my right.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I do not wish that he should be kept in the asylum a single day longer than is fully necessary, but before I allow him to be released I must be thoroughly satisfied that he has no murderous designs on me, and that he is truly and satisfactorily repentant for the attack he made when, ostensibly, he was mentally irresponsible.
— from Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James

There is no limit to the temperature to which water might be raised: it might even be made red hot, could a vessel be found strong enough to resist the pressure, for the intensity of the expansive force prevented from having effect by the extreme pressure of the boiler would be converted into sensible heat which might eventually render the water red hot.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

—Le Sueur quoted by Ramsey in Minn. Hist.
— from The Iowa by Foster, Thomas, of Washington, D.C.

"As the present Appearance of Things is not joyous, I have been much shut up from outward Cheerfulness, remembering that Promise, 'Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord:'—As this, from Day to Day, has been revived in my Memory, I have considered that his internal Presence on our Minds is a Delight, of all others, the most pure; and that the Honest-hearted not only delight in this, but in the Effect of it upon them.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

The adventure of Pyramus and Thisbe has been running in my head; I have mistaken every dog I met for a lioness.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

If this be so, it accounts for the absence of architectural remains, for they would have left behind them no buildings but the sepulchres of their departed great ones; and if their history is to be recovered, it must be sought for in the bowels of the earth, and not in anything existing above-ground.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

I shall be materially aided in such discussion by my experience with the practical workings of the system in the University of North Dakota, and shall take the opportunity of letting the educational world know how the system is working and how it is being regarded in the institution in which it has been receiving its most extensive and thoro trial.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd