For Dickens is romantic and emotional, and interprets the world largely through his imagination; Thackeray is the realist and moralist, who judges solely by observation and reflection.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I have deserved it richly, and even a more severe penalty.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

For Thou pourest into them much consolation against all sorts of tribulation, and out of the deep of their own misery Thou liftest them up to the hope of Thy protection, and with ever new grace, dost inwardly refresh and enlighten them; so that they who felt themselves to be anxious and without affection before Communion, afterwards being refreshed with heavenly food and drink, find themselves changed for the better.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Farinata e 'l Tegghiaio, che fuor si` degni, Iacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo e 'l Mosca e li altri ch'a ben far puoser li 'ngegni, dimmi ove sono e fa ch'io li conosca; che' gran disio mi stringe di savere se 'l ciel li addolcia, o lo 'nferno li attosca>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But in aesthetical judgements upon the Sublime this dominion is represented as exercised by the Imagination, regarded as an instrument of Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Hence the goat-god Dionysus is represented as eating raw goat’s blood; and the bull-god Dionysus is called “eater of bulls.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This air is confined by the cup leather when the door is released, and escapes slowly through a leak, allowing the spring to regain its shape slowly, and by the agency of the piston rod to close the door.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

And the indifference of Epicureanism and unbelief is in two ways the parent of superstition, partly because it permits, and also because it creates, a necessity for its development in religious and enthusiastic temperaments.
— from Laws by Plato

l. 3. de intellect , refers all ecstasies to this force of imagination, such as lie whole days together in a trance: as that priest whom [1603] Celsus speaks of, that could separate himself from his senses when he list, and lie like a dead man, void of life and sense.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A couple of Space Vikings—no, Royal Army of Tanith men—brought in the old woman, dirty, in rags, almost exhausted.
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

We never know how deeply its roots are entwined with our heart-strings, till bitter lessons of wasted affection have taught us to appreciate that love which remains the same through years of estrangement.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Various

Some time before that period, he sent a gold saddle very richly wrought, and adorned with precious stones, a present to the governor of Batavia, desiring in return an European habit for himself and another for his queen.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The question is, are we to consider it the work of a later writer, or does it represent an early Perceval romance, worked over for cyclic purposes?
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

From every sort and condition of Dutchmen I received an emphatic "never!"
— from A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack

In this scene, pretending to be on raver drugs is recommended, and easy, too.
— from The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook by R. U. Sirius

David, the boy David, is rather an exception; you can think of him and treat him as a young Greek.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

De Ortu et Authoritate Imperii Romani ); Zoannetus ( De Imperio Romano atque ejus Iurisdictione ); and the writers in Schardius's Sylloge , and in Goldast's Collection of Tracts, entitled Monarchia Imperii .
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount