It will not live with ostentation; it flees from pretense; it loves the simple life; it insists upon a sweet, healthful, natural environment.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The Panopticon was, I assume, a forerunner of the famous Panopticon in Leicester Square.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith; I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints--I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

After spending a few days in that place, Mr. Fox set out for Basle, where he found a number of English refugees, who had quitted their country to avoid the cruelty of the persecutors, with these he associated, and began to write his "History of the Acts and Monuments of the Church," which was first published in Latin at Basle, and shortly after in English.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Proof.—He who clearly and distinctly understands himself and his emotions feels pleasure (III. liii.), and this pleasure is (by the last Prop.)
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

I was determined, however, to explore the low structure which was the only evidence of habitation in sight, and so I hit upon the unique plan of reverting to first principles in locomotion, creeping.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I shall be proud, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, whose voice had faltered a little hitherto, but now resumed its customary tone, ‘proud and happy to make your future prospects in life my grateful and peculiar care.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Those whom I had been taught to venerate as almost super-human in magnitude of intellect, I found perched in little fret-work niches, as grotesque dwarfs; while the grotesques, in my hitherto belief, stood guarding the high altar with all the characters of apotheosis.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[The Ball at Sceaux.] LONGUEVILLE (Maximilien), one of Longueville's three children, sacrificed himself for his brother and sister; entered business, lived on rue du Sentier—then no longer called rue du Groschenet; was employed in a large linen establishment, situated near rue de la Paix; fell passionately in love with Emilie de Fontaine, who became Madame Charles de Vandenesse.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

“You will easily believe, sir, that such a life as I am now describing must be incompatible with my further progress in learning; and that in proportion as I addicted myself more and more to loose pleasure, I must grow more and more remiss in application to my studies.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The tree is cut down when it is seven years old, split up from top to bottom, and the pith, of which there is always a large quantity, extracted; it is then freed from the fibres, pressed in large frames, and dried at the fire or in the sun.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

[27] The amusements, or what may be called the leisure-habits, of the factory population in Lancashire manufacturing towns are much alike.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

There is a famous passage in Lucretius, in which he speaks of the joy of the mariner who has escaped to dry land, when he sees his shipwrecked companions still struggling in the waves.
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

If we would know the distinct powers and provinces of each, a fine passage in Longinus will inform us.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

Conversation however languished, as every remark had to be translated through two languages before it could be understood by the person to whom it was addressed; and brilliant as it might have been in the first place, it lost its freshness in being passed around through Russian, German, and English to us.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

She was looking for payment in love.
— from The Web of Life by Robert Herrick

Pharnapates, ii. 23. Pharsalus, i. 298 n. Phasael, ii. 177 f. Philadelphia (in Lydia), i. 360 . Philadelphia (in Syria), ii. 146.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

Under the regimen of starvation (accompanied in the case of Byron, by far the stronger man, with a more free use of purgative medicine) they became weak and nervous sufferers from a peculiar kind of spasmodic dyspepsia, that in its sharper assaults disposed them to seek relief from pain in laudanum, and may perhaps have been the first and chief cause of their perilous familiarity with opium.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

But he that is under such bondage as hindereth the needful helps of his soul, should be gone to a freer place, if lawfully he can.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter