Never did the purity, truth and force of my attachment to her appear more evident; never did I feel the sincerity and honesty of my soul more forcibly, than at that moment.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is neither good eating nor drinking in fresco.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

"Possibly, but I am neither skilled enough, nor do I feel inclined to act that part, and were I suddenly to drop the mask my embarrassment could hardly exceed yours."
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

This sermon does not appear, as far as I have been able to discover, in any collection of Taylor's Works, nor amongst his Sermons in the new edition; nor do I find the volume itself noticed by any of his biographers.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

This eccentric nobleman died in February, 1829, and by his will, dated February 25th, 1825, bequeathed 8,000 l. for the writing, printing, and publishing of the well-known Bridgewater Treatises .
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

There is no need to give detailed instructions as to how to form the individual letters, as, after having practised the formation of letters in the preceding chapter, he should experience no difficulty in feeling his way with regard to the forming of the individual strokes that go to make up each letter.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth

When John Thomas Freigius—grown up into the classical scholar—looks back, in his Preface to his edition of Vives’ School Dialogues , he says: “As a boy, I so loved Luis Vives that not even now do I feel my old love for him has faded away from my mind.”
— from Tudor school-boy life: the dialogues of Juan Luis Vives by Juan Luis Vives

Oft on the sea's wide purplish-blue expanse, With ever new delight I fixed my eyes, Alma Tadema's picture, at each glance Recalled to mind, a thousand times would rise.
— from The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

"It has caused us trouble enough; and not even now do I fully understand it.
— from Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read

I looked up and saw it was from the belfry of one of those new chapels which the monks are building everywhere, nor did I forget to curse the monks in my heart for building them.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc