103-4; Iamblichus and other Neo-Platonists; and for modern usages see Marett, Threshold of Religion , chap.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn round us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realized that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The world now began to perceive the principal advantage of an intercourse with the Muses, that of rendering mankind more sociable by inspiring them with the desire to please one another with performances worthy of their mutual approbation.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Look where she would, lay her hand on what she might, the object responded to her consciousness, as if a moist human heart were in it.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A prancing stallion may transfigure his movements more beautifully than man is capable of doing; for the springs and limits of effect are throughout mechanical, and man, in more than one respect, would have to become a centaur before he could rival the horse's prowess.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The moon tonight, O royal Sage, In Maghá's 252 House takes harbourage; On the third night his rays benign
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

For, to make the principles of possible experience conditions of the possibility of things in general is just as transcendent a procedure as to maintain the objective reality of ideas which can be applied to no objects except such as lie without the limits of possible experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

There is rarely more than one resolution in the same half-verse.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Mrs. Maylie and her son were often closeted together for a long time; and more than once Rose appeared with traces of tears upon her face.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In his fairyland of faith and magic the old river would have been simply annihilated, the dreamt-of water would have become a vanished ghost, and this ice for the moment the hard reality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

If Leonard Lewisohn, a millionaire many times over, rich in connections with the strongest financial houses of Europe, meekly submitted to the behest of "Standard Oil," what resistance could the average man oppose to such a power?
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

Finding that I was determined to proceed, the king told me that one route still remained, but that, he said, was by no means free from danger; which was to go from Kaarta into the Moorish kingdom of Ludamar, from whence I might pass, by a circuitous route, into Bambarra.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park

Albany, who found that the unfortunate recollection of the Pew-Opener had awakened in his young pupil a melancholy train of reflections, seemed now to compassionate the sadness which hitherto he had reproved, and walking silently by her side till she came to Soho-Square, said in accents of kindness, “Peace light upon thy head, and dissipate thy woes!”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

It is impossible for the eye to determine the angles of a chiliagon to be equal to 1996 right angles, or make any conjecture, that approaches this proportion; but when it determines, that right lines cannot concur; that we cannot draw more than one right line between two given points; it's mistakes can never be of any consequence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

When they yoke our citizens to the plow, and compel them to labour in that degraded manner, they only retaliate on us for similar barbarities.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Pleased as she was with the presence of the only man who had ever had power of inspiring her with one tender thought, yet a thousand times she had wished him gone before he went, that she might be at liberty to give vent to the struggling passions which were more than once ready to throw her into a swoon.
— from The Fortunate Foundlings Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes. by Eliza Fowler Haywood

You must try one, Ruth; I made them myself.”
— from Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

This variety of spoliation being the chief subject of this volume, I will say little of it here, and will restrict myself to one remark: When the monopoly is an isolated fact, it never fails to enrich the person to whom the law has granted it.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat