Nor here the sun's meridian rays had power, Nor wind sharp-piercing, nor the rushing shower; The verdant arch so close its texture kept: Beneath this covert great Ulysses crept.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sinking to the very depths, and to my friends I said, "Do we love any thing but the beautiful?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

A dumb generation; their voice only an inarticulate cry: spokesman, in the King's Council, in the world's forum, they have none that finds credence.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Secondly, taken in connection with the false explanation of Theoretical Reason , as given in the Kritik der Reinen Vernunft , it is presented as a certain faculty essentially concerned with the Unconditioned , as manifested in three alleged Ideas [17] (the impossibility of which the intellect at the same time recognises a priori ).
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Was it not this what he used to intend to kill in his ardent years as a penitent?
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Fire-festivals in general ALL over Europe the peasants have been accustomed from time immemorial to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or leap over them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Let the reader meditate for a moment upon the following point: to know reality is, in a way, an impossible pretension, because knowledge means significant representation, discourse about an existence not contained in the knowing thought, and different in duration or locus from the ideas which represent it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him [Pg 144] pleasure.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

There is wheeling and sweeping, to slow, to quick, and double quick-time: Sieur Motier, or Generalissimo Lafayette, for they are one and the same, and he is General of France, in the King's stead, for four-and-twenty hours; Sieur Motier must step forth, with that sublime chivalrous gait of his; solemnly ascend the steps of the Fatherland's Altar, in sight of Heaven and of the scarcely breathing Earth; and, under the creak of those swinging Cassolettes, 'pressing his sword's point firmly there,' pronounce the Oath, To King, to Law, and Nation ( not to mention 'grains' with their circulating ), in his own name and that of armed France.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And as Samuel Edward gained more of his experience in the knowledge of his fellow make-weighters, the more he began to believe less in his fellow-men—with the natural result that certain women who were not his fellows suffered.
— from Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps: Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

If only we rest ourselves on Him, and keep ourselves close in touch with Him; then we shall be delivered from the tyranny of the darkness, and translated into the Kingdom of the Son of His love.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

[Pg 62] in the kitchen with those in France.
— from The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. by Caroline French Benton

Lord Bristol had despatched a messenger immediately on the prince reaching his house, informing the king that his son and friend were safe in Madrid, after a journey of sixteen days.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

To this end it is far more important to know the general laws according to which facts occur than to experience the facts themselves in their fullness.
— from The Misuse of Mind by Karin Stephen

Netsach and Hōd, the Seventh and Eighth Sephiroth, are usually called in the Kabalah, Victory and Glory.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

I presume the cause of the cramp was the great change in the kind of muscular action, from that of hard riding to that of still harder climbing.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

If the king will not do me justice, the friends of my father will do so; but I have not courage to hunt down him who shed my father's blood....
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

But this sent no thrill of joy through Saxe, for he seemed instinctively to know that it would be useless, and he shook his head.
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn