Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover?
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
The forlorne mayd did with loves longing burne And could not lacke her lovers company, But to the wood she goes, to serve her turne, And seeke her spouse that from her still does fly, And followes other game and venery: 195 A Satyre chaunst her wandring for to finde, * * * *
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
[Pg 22] of No. 5 (with, notes of Oddey), and one of No. 7 (with notes of an unknown individual of much learning, cited by Reimar and in this edition as N ).
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus
2. The barks of fruits are to be taken when the fruit is full ripe, as Oranges, Lemons, &c. but because I have nothing to do with exotics here, I pass them without any more words.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper
The old houses that from private dwellings were made into tenements, or were run up to house the biggest crowds in defiance of every moral and physical law, can be improved by no device short of demolition.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
[5933] Some make a doubt, an uxor literato sit ducenda , whether a scholar should marry, if she be fair she will bring him back from his grammar to his horn book, or else with kissing and dalliance she will hinder his study; if foul with scolding, he cannot well intend to do both, as Philippus Beroaldus, that great Bononian doctor, once writ, impediri enim studia literarum , &c., but he recanted at last, and in a solemn sort with true conceived words he did ask the world and all women forgiveness.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
To answer the question, "Why do I like children?" by saying, "Because you have a large organ of philoprogenitiveness," but renames the phenomenon to be explained.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
Then it grew dark; and when the light came back it was this light by which I walk seeing nothing.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw
We rapidly left Cairo behind us, and with it the joys and comforts of civilisation.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett
[that] prechen, That ther nis lawe covenable But thilke Gospel Perdurable, That fro the Holy Gost was sent To turne folk that been miswent.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
Lest, however, any of the provinces should fear for the financial results of conveying letters over the greater distances for this sum, they confined their recommendation to letters carried less than three hundred miles, leaving it optional to charge a double rate for letters carried beyond that distance.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith
Firstly, in its most strict sense, when from a thing is taken something which belongs to it by virtue either of its nature, or of its proper inclination: as when water loses coolness by heating, and as when a man becomes ill or sad.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The publication in 1787 of the first volume of Johnson's Museum was one of the fruitful results to the national poetry and music of the visit of Robert Burns to Edinburgh; but the impulse that brought it to the light can be traced back by sure lines to Percy.
— from The Balladists by John Geddie
"The fact is that in the hollow, just in the rear, was a line of men, a thousand or twelve hundred, probably, and they had thrown up a little barricade and were lying close behind it.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
Brakeman Joe was placed on the station agent’s little cot bed, and the doctor was sent for.
— from Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy by Kirk Munroe
The love of nature, like all love, cannot be forced.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde
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