Earlier or later born, he must have lived in the midst of literary activity, curious, eager, occupied with petty questions and petty quarrels, concerned, as men in the best times are not very greatly concerned, with questions of technique and detail.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

With the reasons which kept Bulstrode in dread of Raffles there flashed the thought that the dread might have something to do with his munificence towards his medical man; and though he resisted the suggestion that it had been consciously accepted in any way as a bribe, he had a foreboding that this complication of things might be of malignant effect on Lydgate's reputation.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

His mother abandoned herself to him with a greater excess of lust than she had ever yet done, and fucked with an excellence, vigour, and energy that drew from him eight discharges in a wonderfully short time.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

With his boundless energy and full enjoyment of life, Tintoretto's work naturally shows a strong leaning towards variety, and his amazing compositions are a liberal education in the innumerable and unexpected ways in which a panel can be filled, and should be carefully studied by students.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Note 50 ( return ) [ See the strong expressions of Libanius, which were probably those of Julian himself, (Orat. Parent.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In the allegory the Earl of Leicester is probably meant, though by one tradition Sir Philip Sidney is identified with Prince Arthur.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

But I must acknowledge that I cannot readily discern the inseparable connection between the existence of liberty, and the trial by jury in civil cases.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

And that love is in cause of swich folye, Thus to him spak she of his Ialousye: `Lo, herte myn, as wolde the excellence Of love, ayeins the which that no man may, Ne oughte eek goodly maken resistence 990 And eek bycause I felte wel and say Youre grete trouthe, and servyse every day; And that your herte al myn was, sooth to seyne, This droof me for to rewe up-on your peyne.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

It is a game of skill, but at the same time the uneasy motion of the ship is constantly interfering with skill; this makes it a chancy game, and the element of luck comes largely in.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Shaft and cube are cut out of a single block of liaz, a kind of limestone or coarse marble common in the environs of Lisbon.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

That is, the final sound of each line is almost identical with the final sound of every other line; and of this I made:— For given relief, Forgiven and lief The giver believe; And all men that live May gain the palm leaf For given relief.
— from Far Off Things by Arthur Machen

It is a curious fact, and strongly confirmative of the preceding arrangements, that one of these parts, the extremities, consists almost entirely of locomotive organs, namely, of bones, ligaments, and muscles; that another, the trunk, consists of all the greater nutritive organs, namely, absorbents, bloodvessels, and glands; and that the third, the head, contains all the thinking organs, namely, the organs of sense, cerebrum, and cerebel.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

Belgra`via , a fashionable quarter in the southern part of the West End of London.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Yet in this chaotic exuberance of life, certain important facts stand out clearly, among these none is of greater interest and importance than the genealogy of the true Ruminants, or Pecora, which may be traced from the upper Eocene onward.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

People of this stamp often take a pride in the expense of learning, instead of taking pleasure in the advantage of it.
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

I saw the stiff, cowed German soldiers on sentry duty at the eastern end of Legation Street, and, farther along, the solid masonry building of the Hongkong Bank; and, down a side street, the great, showy, extremely modern Wagon-lits Hotel.
— from Anthony the Absolute by Samuel Merwin

Again, the action of this cause must have been such, and I insist strongly upon this point, as a fundamental one, the momentum with which it acted must have been such, that after being set in motion in the north, with a power sufficient to carry the large boulders which are found everywhere over this vast extent of land, it vanished, or was stopped, after reaching the thirty-fifth degree of northern latitude .
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various