So may in death Lycurgus ne'er be blest, Nor Pentheus' wand'ring ghost find any rest!
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

“Mother, I dreamed last night that all my presents told me stories.
— from Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking by Susan Warner

We went to hear Beethoven's "Mass in D" last night, and on Wednesday to hear Mendelssohn's " Walpurgis Nacht " and Beethoven's "Symphony in B," so that we have had two musical treats this week; but the enjoyment of such things is much diminished by the gas and bad air.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

I hate and despise myself , I dare look neither God nor man in the face ,
— from True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries by Charles Kingsley

On the twenty-fourth of September he said to his mother, "I dreamed last night that Mr. Roche took me into a church, and left me there, promising to bring me every day bread and water.
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

Next, he turns to the highest honour and the most imperative duty laid, not only upon mighty men and officials, but upon all on whose happy eyeballs this Light has shone, and into whose darkened hearts the joy and peace and purity of it have flowed, and he says, 'He was sent'—and they are sent—'to bear witness of that Light.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

He stumbled on like a man in delirium, looking neither to the right nor left, but following instinctively the path across the fields which led to the river.
— from The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford