In the beautiful episode of the Elysian fields, in the Aeneid, where he dexterously introduced a glorious display of their country, he had touched the most elastic springs of Roman enthusiasm.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Every act of kindness you have shown me, every smile of regard, every token of confidence, crowds upon my memory now, and increases the store of obligations which it is my pride and my happiness to owe you.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

If, however, the cuts in Croxall’s Æsop were really engraved on metal in the manner of wood, they are, as a series, the most extraordinary specimens of relief engraving for the purpose of printing, that have ever been executed.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn