But now thy more attentive ears incline, Observe the warnings of a power divine; For thee their snares the suitor lords shall lay In Samos' sands, or straits of Ithaca; To seize thy life shall lurk the murderous band, Ere
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The present high rent of inclosed land in Scotland seems owing to the scarcity of inclosure, and will probably last no longer than that scarcity.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“But I happen to have noticed his address; he lives in some square or other.”
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

"But I happen to have noticed his address; he lives in some square or other."
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

When the whole group is used the number of horns should be doubled: [ Listen ] In seven, six, or five-part harmony certain instruments must be omitted: [ Listen ] Discords of the seventh or second are preferably entrusted to instruments of different tone colour: -85- [ Listen ] When such chords are written for an orchestra which only includes two trumpets, it is impossible for the horns to proceed in pairs.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

“Life is so short, one has so little freedom, and they must put chains on themselves!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Love itself shall slumber on.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness—to glory?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I asked him then how it came to pass that those people who had so shut themselves up in the ships had not laid in sufficient stores of all things necessary.
— from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe

Each of the brothers spent his life in sowing seeds of misery, and in each case the grain came to perfection: though most of the harvest of George and Richard was reaped by themselves, while Edward's was left for his innocent sons to gather.
— from Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Emily Sarah Holt

I know your coot companions would laugh, and say you had had a merchant's tailor; but this is a man who, if you like it, shall stuff out your breeches till you can't sit down, make all the seams by a plumb-line, tighten your girdle till you have no more waist than a wasp; and, moreover, he is tailor to the Duke of Suffolk."
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It may disappear for a time; but it lives in some shape or other, in some place or other, and will rise with renovated strength.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

Nothing in the history of life is so strange or exceptional as it seems to those who have not made a long study of its mysteries.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Monseigneur ,—I hope that, when these present shall reach you, they will find you, by the favour of our kind Lord, in such state of mind and bodily health as we desire, and likewise Madame your wife.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin

Among the colleges founded in the chief cities of the world are Loyola College, at Loyola in Spain; St. Omer's College, in Belgium, the link between Europe and America; Stonyhurst College, in England; Clongoes Wood, Ireland; Mangalore, in [Pg 165] India, the only first-grade college in the district; Melbourne, Australia; St. Ignatius College, California, the pioneer of Pacific coast missions and of the Rocky Mountains; at Kansas City the only boarding college in the far West; St. Ignatius, at Cleveland, Ohio, one of the latest Western colleges; Spring Hill College, at Mobile, Alabama; Georgetown College, at Washington, D.C.; Holy Cross College, at Worcester, Massachusetts; St. John's College, at Fordham, New York; St. Francis Xavier's College, in New York City.
— from The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint

Then we climbed the hill to see the full light in solemn sweetness over fields, and trees, and river.
— from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller