Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed, Not burdened nature, sudden mind arose In Adam, not to let the occasion pass Given him by this great conference to know Of things above his world, and of their being Who dwell in Heaven, whose excellence he saw Transcend his own so far; whose radiant forms, Divine effulgence, whose high power, so far Exceeded human; and his wary speech Thus to the empyreal minister he framed.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

God therefore was angry with them, and they lost that their happy state which they had obtained by innumerable labors, by their luxury; for when Chushan, king of the Assyrians, had made war against them, they lost many of their soldiers in the battle, and when they were besieged, they were taken by force; nay, there were some who, out of fear, voluntarily submitted to him, and though the tribute laid upon them was more than they could bear, yet did they pay it, and underwent all sort of oppression for eight years; after which time they were freed from them in the following manner:— 3.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The return of Zingis was signalized by the overthrow of the rebellious or independent kingdoms of Tartary; and he died in the fulness of years and glory, with his last breath exhorting and instructing his sons to achieve the conquest of the Chinese empire.
— 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

The King of the Apes, hearing of their arrival, ordered them to be brought before him; and by way of impressing them with his magnificence, he received them sitting on a throne, while the Apes, his subjects, were ranged in long rows on either side of him.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Yes, she certainly is an odd child, but there is something kind of taking about her after all.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

From my brother Severus, to be kind and loving to all them of my house and family; by whom also I came to the knowledge of Thrasea and Helvidius, and Cato, and Dio, and Brutus.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Priam consented, and a fleet worthy to convey the son of the king of Troy and his retinue to Greece was built by Pherʹe-clus, a skillful Trojan craftsman, whom the goddess Minerva (Pallas) had instructed in all kinds of workmanship.
— from The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke

He was here on his own ground, for he is familiar with all that is page 256 p. 256 known of the authentic history of Melrose and the popular tales connected with it.
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

After the youth had imagined that he had acquired some knowledge of the art, he returned to pay Socrates a visit, who, jesting him, addressed the company that were present in this manner:—“Do not you think, page 99 p. 99 gentlemen, that as Homer, when speaking of Agamemnon, gives him the surname of venerable, we ought also to bestow the same epithet on this young man, who justly deserveth to be called by that name, since, like him, he has learned how to command?
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon

But God the King of the ages has been asserting and re-asserting the fact in the course of history ever since.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

'I took,' says Shalmaneser, 'what the men of the land of the Hittites had called the city of Pethor ( Pitru ), which is upon the river Sajur ( Sagura ), on the further side of the Euphrates, and the city of Mudkînu, on the [Pg 50] eastern side of the Euphrates, which Tiglath-pileser (I.), the royal forefather who went before me, had united to my country, and Assur-rab-buri king of Assyria and the king of the Arameans had taken (from it) by a treaty.'
— from The Hittites: The story of a Forgotten Empire by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

And a man hates nothing so much as being made a jest of; so he said: "Our gracious lord and sovereign King himself shall know of this, and how his laws are perverted and despised by this band of rebel outlaws.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The greatest kings of this age have loved and courted me.
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

The events leading to these institutions, and the antecedent civil wars between the king and the barons, in the reign of Henry III. and Edward I., are given by the Khan, on the whole, with great accuracy—probably from the information of his English friends since the knowledge of the ancient history and institutions of the country, which he displays both here and in other parts of his narrative, can scarcely have been acquired through the medium of a native education in Hindustan.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various