But since you have made the days and nights as one, To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, Be bold you do so grow in my requital As nothing can unroot you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He has considerable genius; a situation in Salzburg might be very useful in promoting his further success, for all he requires is a good leader in music; and I could not find him a better conductor than you, dear father, and it would really be a pity if he were to leave the right path.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As general logic, it makes abstraction of all content of the cognition of the understanding, and of the difference of objects, and has to do with nothing but the mere form of thought.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

now if vigour of youth, greatness, liberty I mean, and that impunity of sin which grandees take unto themselves in this kind shall meet, what a gap must it needs open to all manner of vice, with what fury will it rage?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Perseus, of old, fought with a sea monster for Andromeda's sake; and our St. George freed the king's daughter of Sabea (the golden legend is mine author) that was exposed to a dragon, by a terrible combat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They have their good glebe lands in manu , and care not much to rake into the title-deeds.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

By great luck I met a pal of mine here; he had come over in a boat previous to mine, and after we had had a bit of a refresher and a smoke we decided to go off down to Havre and see the sights.
— from Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

Before the end of the year the Government lost its majority, and December 24 a new coalition cabinet was made up by Campos Henriques, a former minister of justice.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

Great art is generally large in masses and in scale.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Lady Grey lent it me, and I read it with great pleasure.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

But I was in the country this summer where a great number of mushrooms grew, and one day when I was walking in a grassy lane I met a little, old queen, who was fanning herself with the leaf of the poor-man's-weather-glass; she had taken off her crown, and it was lying on the top of a lovely red mushroom.
— from The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various

At Glen Loch it makes a wide detour around Philadelphia and its suburbs and reaches with a long straight “short cut” over to the main line at Morrisville near Trenton.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

My heart gave one great leap in me, and broke into vehement throbbings, which made it impossible for me to say a word more.
— from Little Novels by Wilkie Collins

It is believed, however, that his impetuous counsel, due to his good luck in many a brush with assailing parties, which he had several times pursued almost alone, largely precipitated the final disaster.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Since his hurried departure from Tver a winter had come and gone, leaving its mark as winters do.
— from The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman