[603] doth with him converse, [Pg 165] From Logodoro, and with endless din They gossip
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

"Although," says a Catholic who witnessed his death, "his former life and wretched end deserved a greater misery, if any greater might have chanced to him; yet, setting aside his offence to God and his country, beholding the man without his faults, I think there was none that pitied not his case and bewailed not his fortune, and feared not his own chance, to see so noble a prelate, so grave a councillor, of so long-continued honours, after so many dignities, in his old years to be deprived of his estate, adjudged to die, and in so painful a death to end his life."
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

A new, fresh, lively administration was eagerly desired by the younger spirits of the nation.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

He had in the interim been invariably defeated on the West Coast, and had retired with overwhelming forces before a despicable foe, leaving a wealthy, extensive district to be ravaged by Titokowaru.
— from A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History by James Hawthorne

The characteristics of Beaumont’s style and versification may be summed up as follows: He often uses prose and verse, rhymed and unrhymed verses in the same speech; feminine endings occur rarely, but there are many run-on lines; occasionally we find ‘light’ and ‘weak’ endings; double theses at the beginning and in the interior of the line are met with only very seldom.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

little unduly sensitive about being greeted as a returned jail-bird,—but most miraculously purged of all morbid craving for liquor, and with every digital muscle as coolly steady as yours, and every conscious mental process clamoring cleanly for its own work again."
— from The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

A quaint, pathetic figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions; and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze about the Lost Tribes which seemed to the worthy man the key of all perplexities; and his quiet conscience, looking back on a life not altogether vain, for he was a good son to his father while his father lived, and when evil days approached, he had proved himself a cheerful Stoic.
— from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson

is not marked in authentic history as combined with the important dispensations of Providence, and many other pieces of a visionary and fanciful nature, are speculations of as exalted a stretch in the contemplation of such a mind, as the finest lessons as were ever drawn from religion, or morals, or useful history; and yet the painter who should employ his time on such subjects, would certainly amuse the intelligent no more than the man who should make those subjects the topics of a serious discourse.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

Surely it had been fated long ago— What else, dear, could we think?
— from A Jongleur Strayed Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane by Richard Le Gallienne