It comes late, indeed; but it is as we go onward in life, when objects begin to lose their freshness of hue and our souls their delicacy of perception, that the spirit of beauty is most needed.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He shows us the farm of the Hills just across the county line in Baker,—a widow and two strapping sons, who raised ten bales (one need not add "cotton" down here) last year.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

[450] in; and his infant cry, Lest it betrayed him, she with clamours drowned.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

“Not very,” said Mr Trafford; “‘tis an old name and the stock has spread; but all Gerards claim a common lineage I believe, and my inspector has gentle blood, they say, in his veins.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause, Lest I be laugh’d at when I tell them so.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

A somewhat similar case is the idea that deceives the mass of mankind, that if they could live in big houses, and get together a quantity of slaves and money, they would have a happy life.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

IAGO O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

But since this god produc'd a destinie, And that vice-nature, custome, lets it be; I must love her, that loves not mee.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Not the Mahometans, who, prepossessed with the principle of predestination, value nothing of contagion, let it be in what it will, could be more obstinate than the people of London; they that were perfectly sound, and came out of the wholesome air, as we call it, into the city, made nothing of going into the same houses and chambers, nay, even into the same beds, with those that had the distemper upon them, and were not recovered.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Since then I have always spoken extemporarily; this time, however, as it was my first appearance as an orator, I had written out my speech, and carefully learned it by heart.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I did not recollect what latitude Providential channel* lies in, but I considered it to be within a few miles of this, which is situate in 12 degrees 51 minutes south latitude.
— from A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies by William Bligh

If the stomach be either burning hot or cold and chilly, let it be cooled or warmed, as the case may be.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

It will be readily found from its position as indicated in the figure, or it may be identified by following the curved line indicated by β, δ, ε, and ζ in the Great Bear.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

Still further away appeared a scanty fringe of forest, above which could be seen the square, grey tower of a church, and over all glared an angry red sky barred with thin lines of heavy clouds, looming intensely black against the accentuating crimson light behind.
— from The Man with a Secret: A Novel by Fergus Hume

They are thin plates or sheets of cells lying in between the other wood cells.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

As a host he diverted the conversation lest it become too acrimonious, but he himself told Seward "... that it was really a matter so very serious that I was unwilling to discuss it; that his plan seemed to me to amount in fact to a paper blockade of the enormous extent of coast comprised in the seceding States; that the calling it an enforcement of the Revenue Laws appeared to me to increase the gravity of the measure, for it placed Foreign Powers in the dilemma of recognizing the Southern Confederation or of submitting to the interruption of their commerce [99] ."
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Elaborate border around letter sheet, 279 Symmetrical arrangement, 280 Squared effects, 281 Simple treatment of little copy, 282 Character in letterhead design, 283 Colonial rule border panel, 284 Advertising a meeting, 285 A well-treated panel heading, 286 Suggestion of the ecclesiastic, 287 Three lines of equal length, 288 For the general store, 289 Treatment suggesting the business, 290 Novel and dignified treatment, 291 A distinctive heading, 292 Decorative initials in heading, 293 Just a neat typographic arrangement, 294 Dignity in letterhead designing, 295 A heading in two groups, 296 Uncommon distribution of color, 297 Double-panel treatment, 298 Distinction in letterhead design, 299 An ornament with a touch of color, 300 A cross-lined panel, 301 A German idea, 302 Note-sheet typography, 303 Humor in a notehead, 304 Conventional treatment of an envelop corner, 305 Artistic envelop treatment, 306 Envelop corner in text letter, 307 Harmony of device and typography treatment, 308 Elaborate envelop corner, 309 BILLHEADS AND STATEMENTS Page 119 Features of the average invoice, 310 Converting letterhead into billhead, 311 The non-stock-ruled type of billhead, 312 (insert) Italic lower-case and Roman capitals, 313 (insert) Billhead suggesting early printing, 314 Good taste on billheads, 315 Interesting border treatment, 316 Large setting of a billhead, 317 Invoice with many columns, 318 Decorative type treatment that is suitable, 319 An uncommon arrangement, 320 Credit bill made from billhead, 321 Professional bills, 322 PACKAGE LABELS Page 123
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

Their moral and physical beauty is a spell, their fascination a chain, love is but their emanation.
— from Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Alphonse de Lamartine