In the list of such writers, who give us literature at second hand, the names of Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb and Thomas De Quincey are written large.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

He darted the look; he also got up longings; and so he felt himself comfortably enough insured for such a successful love affair.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

IV T HE greed that took us prisoner First led our steps away from her; For lust of gold we gave up life, And sank heart-deep in worldly strife.
— from The House of the Trees & Other Poems by A. Ethelwyn Wetherald

But the grass of those old paddocks grows unkempt like a shock head of hair.
— from Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean