History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritual physiognomy, its ultimate and lasting expression.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Absence a cure of love-melancholy Absence over long, cause of jealousy Abstinence commended Academicorum Errata Adversity, why better than prosperity Aerial devils Affections whence they arise; how they transform us; of sleeping and waking Affection in melancholy, what Against abuses, repulse, injuries, contumely, disgraces, scoffs Against envy, livor, hatred, malice Against sorrow, vain fears, death of friends Air, how it causeth melancholy; how rectified it cureth melancholy; air in love Alkermes good against melancholy All are melancholy All beautiful parts attractive in love Aloes, his virtues Alteratives in physic, to what use; against melancholy Ambition defined, described, cause of melancholy; of heresy; hinders and spoils many matches Amiableness loves object Amorous objects causes of love-melancholy Amulets controverted, approved Amusements Anger's description, effects, how it causeth melancholy Antimony a purger of melancholy Anthony inveigled by Cleopatra Apology of love-melancholy Appetite Apples, good or bad, how Apparel and clothes, a cause of love-melancholy Aqueducts of old Arminian's tenets Arteries, what Artificial air against melancholy Artificial allurements of love Art of memory Astrological aphorisms, how available, signs or causes of melancholy Astrological signs of love Atheists described Averters of melancholy Aurum potabile censured, approved B. Baits of lovers Bald lascivious Balm good against melancholy Banishment's effects; its cure and antidote Barrenness, what grievances it causeth; a cause of jealousy Barren grounds have best air Bashfulness a symptom of melancholy; of love-melancholy; cured Baseness of birth no disparagement Baths rectified Bawds a cause of love-melancholy Beasts and birds in love Beauty's definition; described; in parts; commendation; attractive power, prerogatives, excellency, how it causeth melancholy; makes grievous wounds, irresistible; more beholding to art than nature; brittle and uncertain; censured; a cause of jealousy; beauty of God Beef a melancholy meat Beer censured Best site of a house Bezoar's stone good against melancholy Black eyes best Black spots in the nails signs of melancholy Black man a pearl in a woman's eye Blasphemy, how pardonable Blindness of lovers Bloodletting, when and how cure of melancholy; time and quantity Bloodletting and purging, how causes of melancholy Blow on the head cause of melancholy Body, how it works on the mind Body melancholy, its causes Bodily symptoms of melancholy; of love-melancholy Bodily exercises Books of all sorts Borage and bugloss, sovereign herbs against melancholy; their wines and juice most excellent Boring of the head, a cure for melancholy Brain distempered, how cause of melancholy; his parts anatomised Bread and beer, how causes of melancholy Brow and forehead, which are most pleasing Brute beasts jealous Business the best cure of love-melancholy C. Cardan's father conjured up seven devils at once; had a spirit bound to him Cards and dice censured, approved Care's effects Carp fish's nature Cataplasms and cerates for melancholy Cause of diseases Causes immediate of melancholy symptoms Causes of honest love; of heroical love; of jealousy Cautions against jealousy Centaury good against melancholy Charles the Great enforced to love basely by a philter Change of countenance, sign of love-melancholy Charity described; defects of it Character of a covetous man Charles the Sixth, king of France, mad for anger Chemical physic censured Chess-play censured Chiromantical signs of melancholy Chirurgical remedies of melancholy Choleric melancholy signs Chorus sancti Viti, a disease Circumstances increasing jealousy Cities' recreations Civil lawyers' miseries Climes and particular places, how causes of love-melancholy Clothes a mere cause of good respect Clothes causes of love-melancholy Clysters good for melancholy Coffee, a Turkey cordial drink Cold air cause of melancholy Comets above the moon Compound alteratives censured, approved; compound purgers of melancholy; compound wines for melancholy Community of wives a cure of jealousy Compliment and good carriage causes of love-melancholy Confections and conserves against melancholy Confession of his grief to a friend, a principal cure of melancholy Confidence in his physician half a cure Conjugal love best Conscience what it is Conscience troubled, a cause of despair Continual cogitation of his mistress a symptom of love-melancholy Contention, brawling, lawsuits, effects Continent or inward causes of melancholy Content above all, whence to be had Contention's cure Cookery taxed Copernicus, his hypothesis of the earth's motion Correctors of accidents in melancholy Correctors to expel windiness, and costiveness helped Cordials against melancholy Costiveness to some a cause of melancholy Costiveness helped Covetousness defined, described, how it causeth melancholy Counsel against melancholy; cure of jealousy; of despair Country recreations Crocodiles jealous Cuckolds common in all ages Cupping-glasses, cauteries how and when used to melancholy Cure of melancholy, unlawful, rejected; from God; of head-melancholy; over all the body; of hypochondriacal melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy; of despair Cure of melancholy in himself; or friends Curiosity described, his effects Custom of diet, delight of appetite, how to be kept and yielded to D. Dancing, masking, mumming, censured, approved; their effects, how they cause love-melancholy; how symptoms of lovers Death foretold by spirits Death of friends cause of melancholy; other effects; how cured; death advantageous Deformity of body no misery Delirium Despair, equivocations; causes; symptoms; prognostics; cure Devils, how they cause melancholy; their, beginning, nature, conditions; feel pain, swift in motion, mortal; their orders; power; how they cause religious melancholy; how despair; devils are often in love; shall be saved, as some hold Diet
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Upon which the aunt cried, “Mr Blifil—ay, Mr Blifil, of whom else have we been talking?” “Good heavens,” answered Sophia, ready to sink, “of Mr Jones, I thought; I am sure I know no other who deserves—” “I protest,” cries the aunt, “you frighten me in your turn.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The door is opened; Snow comes in, a detective in plain clothes and bowler hat, with clipped moustaches.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

Webmaster de la Biblioteca del Instituto Pasteur Catherine Domain * (Paris) / Creadora de la Librería Ulysse, la más antigua librería de viaje en el mundo Michael Hart * (Illinois) /
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Well, I mean you shall have it again" inclusive, the dialogue is prose: compare act iv.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

Raoul saw Christine stretch out her arms to the voice as she had done, in Perros churchyard, to the invisible violin playing The Resurrection of Lazarus.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

DEDICATION INTRODUCTION PREFACE CHRIST'S PRAYER CHAPTER I. A Word in the Prayer CHAPTER II.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

And yet the conviction is the outcome merely of the country in which each is born: the truth of the Catholic dogma is perfectly clear to the clergy of South Germany, the Protestant to the clergy of North Germany.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

The pasteboard sign of "Mr. Theophilus Shaw, Boot & Shoe Maker," is no longer seen swinging from the bed-room window, but a new sign stretches its sublime length over the doors of Mr. Salsify's old grocery, announcing, in staring black and yellow, to the inhabitants of Wimbledon, that "Mumbles, Shaw & Co., wholesale dealers in pork, cheese, onions, dried apples, sausages, and verdigris, continue at the old stand, No. 9 Temple street, where they will entertain the trading public in a genteel and finished manner.
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

"Would that God might raise up a defender in Pan Charnyetski!" said Princess Griselda.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Debates in Parliament concerning the Civil- list.....
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

We divide profits, and the rate of insurance decreases in proportion,” &c. &c.; and thus you will have Life valued, by the man who sees nothing in it but a privilege to get money, as the merest article of commercial stock.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various

The greater regularity of this form of escapement is due to a smaller oscillation of the pendulum being required than with the form first described; for it is 197 found that the motion of a pendulum when vibrating through not more than six degrees is practically cycloidal, and it is only with larger arcs that the circle materially differs from the theoretical curve required.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Age classes in spring and summer, long after the skull is completely ossified, can be segregated only if differences in plumage can be found.
— from Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration by Robert Morrow Mengel

The king complied with his desire, and the man died in peace, consoled by the presence and words of his kind master.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Ranged along the walls, the dead, in painted coffins, awaited each their turn; and the soul, free from migrations, continued its sleep till it awakened in another life.
— from The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert