I desire you to represent to his Lordship, what, as soon as it is suggested, he will perceive to be reasonable,—That, if I grow much worse, I shall be afraid to leave my physicians, to suffer the inconveniences of travel, and pine in the solitude of a foreign country; That, if I grow much better, of which indeed there is now little appearance, I shall not wish to leave my friends and my domestick comforts; for I do not travel, for pleasure or curiosity; yet if I should recover, curiosity would revive.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

In the latter aspect, the lowest mental fact as well as the highest may grasp some bit of truth as its content, even though that truth were as relationless a matter as a bare unlocalized and undated quality of pain.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Left many frightful and ridiculous daubs, one of which found its way into Topinard's humble home.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

As for myself, I was taken, despite my resistance, by two young men, and haled along by the hair, weeping sore the while; but, as they crossed over a road, to enter a great wood, there passed by four men on horseback, whom when my ravishers saw, they loosed me forthwith and took to flight.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The third part discusses the qualities which a true critic should possess, good taste, learning, modesty, frankness, and tact, and concludes with a brief sketch of the history of criticism from Aristotle to Walsh.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

We spent the day on board in the usual avocations; but as this was the first time we had been without the captain, we felt a little more freedom, and looked about us to see what sort of a country we had got into, and were to spend a year or two of our lives in.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Fain would mine aged eyes behold That pair of whom my lips have told, Yet wearied here I must not stay, But leave my frame and pass away.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

but, if you favour me, And let my fortunes and my valour sway To some 85 direction in your martial deeds, The world will 86 strive with hosts of men-at-arms To swarm unto the ensign I support.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

" "You just let my foot alone," said Hans, his face glowing with indignation.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

A moment later my feet and knees were similarly bound and I was as fast in the toils as Gulliver, when the Liliputians fell upon him in his sleep and bound him to the earth.
— from Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman by John Kendrick Bangs

What you really object to, when you come down to it, is that men like my father and me, and the bankers,—we're all in the same boat, most of 'us own banks, too,—control the conditions of life for you and men like you.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The neighboring farmers now called Leonard " Mr. Fairfield," and invited him on equal terms, to their houses.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

He cut the line made fast astern, the log and canoes vanished, and he and the Indian strained their muscles.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

Now, as God is to judge you, did you ever love my father as a wife ought?”
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

"The Cry of the Children," &c., ASHBY STERRY of "Lazy Minstrel" fame, and "ROBERT," the genial garrulous "City Waiter," whilst the names of J.P. ("Dumb-Crambo") ATKINSON, and E.J. WHEELER, were omitted by the purest accident.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 by Various

Hank Leeson meditated for a moment.
— from Boys of The Fort; Or, A Young Captain's Pluck by Edward Stratemeyer

You lack confidence in life, my friend, and it is wrong at your age.
— from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée