[5367] Oblitusque greges, et rura domestica totus [5368] Uritur, et noctes in luctum expendit amaras, Forgetting flocks of sheep and country farms, The silly shepherd always mourns and burns.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
I son and sire made each ’gainst each rebel: David and Absalom were fooled not more By counsels of the false Ahithophel.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The story of the banishment of Renialdos is not told in this form in the splendid old French poem ( chanson de geste ) entitled Renaut de Montauban , but is an Italianized version containing elements not truly popular and traditional.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
He had been first awaked by the hurry which we have before seen; and while he was endeavouring to compose himself again on his pillow, a screech-owl had given him such a serenade at his window, that he leapt in a most horrible affright from his bed, and, huddling on his cloaths with great expedition, ran down to the protection of the company, whom he heard talking below in the kitchen.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Simplicity the great first principle; Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good E rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly? Very true, he replied.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
The successor of St. Peter administered his patrimony with the temper of a vigilant and moderate landlord; and the epistles of Gregory are filled with salutary instructions to abstain from doubtful or vexatious lawsuits; to preserve the integrity of weights and measures; to grant every reasonable delay; and to reduce the capitation of the slaves of the glebe, who purchased the right of marriage by the payment of an arbitrary fine.
— 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
“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as a general engagement,” repeated Dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with Napoleon.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
The successor of St. Peter administered his patrimony with the temper of a vigilant and moderate landlord; 73 and the epistles of Gregory are filled with salutary instructions to abstain from doubtful or vexatious lawsuits; to preserve the integrity of weights and measures; to grant every reasonable delay; and to reduce the capitation of the slaves of the glebe, who purchased the right of marriage by the payment of an arbitrary fine.
— 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
Gourgaud, et réfutation de quelques-unes des assertions et écrits relatifs à la bataille de Waterloo.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane
Her sensitive face grew a trifle more wistful as she listened to the sonorous voice intoning the sacred words, but her brooding gray eyes remained dry.
— from Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer by Josephine Chase
The Chippewa did, however, have a superlative form of the name: Miche-gah'-see-bee (great, endless river), descriptive of its (to them) illimitable length.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick
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— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
[890] Maître Guillaume Erard replied: "Do it now, or you will be burned this very day."
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France
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