The cruel Anglo-Saxons have given it all to the discontented, untaxed Gael in the Emerald isle.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

In warm weather it may be thought pleasant to cool one’s heels in a mighty torrent of wind and dust, usually generated in that elegant ladies’ waiting room (?); but pray, Mr. Editor, are our shivering limbs to be subjected to the piercing winds of a severe winter’s night,— sans fire, sans doors, sans seats —yea, sans everything that ought to be afforded to an important town like Dudley?
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

“Grief is right and does us good in the end, depend on’t, or it wouldn’t be sent; but it mustn’t make us forget duty.
— from The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston