The oaks will yield us their sweet fruit with bountiful hand, the trunks of the hard cork trees a seat, the willows shade, the roses perfume, the widespread meadows carpets tinted with a thousand dyes; the clear pure air will give us breath, the moon and stars lighten the darkness of the night for us, song shall be our delight, lamenting our joy, Apollo will supply us with verses, and love with conceits whereby we shall make ourselves famed for ever, not only in this but in ages to come."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

We to ourselves prove false, By being once false for ever to be true To those that make us both- fair ladies, you; And even that falsehood, in itself a sin, Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He lookd and saw wide Territorie spred Before him, Towns, and rural works between, Cities of Men with lofty Gates and Towrs, Concours in Arms, fierce Faces threatning Warr, Giants of mightie Bone, and bould emprise; Part wield thir Arms, part courb the foaming Steed, Single or in Array of Battel rang'd 640 Both Horse and Foot, nor idely mustring stood; One way a Band select from forage drives A herd of Beeves, faire Oxen and faire Kine From a fat Meddow ground; or fleecy Flock, Ewes and thir bleating Lambs over the Plaine, Thir Bootie; scarce with Life the Shepherds flye, But call in aide, which tacks a bloody Fray; With cruel Tournament the Squadrons joine; Where Cattel pastur'd late, now scatterd lies With Carcasses and Arms th' ensanguind Field 650 Deserted: Others to a Citie strong Lay Siege, encampt; by Batterie, Scale, and Mine, Assaulting; others from the Wall defend With Dart and Jav'lin, Stones and sulfurous Fire; On each hand slaughter and gigantic deeds.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

“I am now teaching him the Master Words of the Jungle that shall protect him with the birds and the Snake People, and all that hunt on four feet, except his own pack.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

[326] FRIED EGGS OVA FRIXA FRIED EGGS ARE FINISHED IN WINE SAUCE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Hence, old fool, For ever thrusting that white stick of yours Between me and my pleasure!
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Hor. {pg 284} Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias —Be our enmities for time, our friendships for eternity.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He fell upon them like flames of fire from every quarter.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“And so,” he went on good-naturedly, “there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl.”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

But because there is in our Imagination a striving towards infinite progress, and in our Reason a claim for absolute totality, regarded as a real Idea, therefore this very inadequateness for that Idea in our faculty for estimating the magnitude of things of sense, excites in us the feeling of a supersensible faculty.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In addition to these were enormous quantities of fugitives from every town and village west of Smolensk, who had hitherto accompanied the army, moving through the fields and lanes, so as to leave the roads unencumbered for the passage of the guns and trains.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Another demonstration of filial fondness ensued, and they all sat down in a good humor; albeit Lance suffered a feeling of unenviable exclusion.
— from True, and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

On her second trial, between Southwark and Waterloo Bridges, she took in tow four laden barges with upright sides and square ends, having a beam of fifteen feet each, and drawing four feet six inches of water.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

What matters to me if great folks run a gadding, For politics, fashions, or such botheration; Let them drink as they brew, while I merrily bake; For though I sell muffins, I’m not such a cake— To let other fools’ fancies e’er set me a gadding, Or burthen my thoughts with the cares of the nation.
— from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

She wrote on: "—One finger for every day's delay.
— from The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Now we're going to develop a permanently manned space station and new opportunities for free enterprise, because in the next decade Americans and our friends around the world will be living and working together in space.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza " Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes. "
— from The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair (Shafto Justin Adair) Fitz-Gerald

304 (1) A man writes a monograph when he proposes to elucidate a special point, a single fact, or a limited body of facts, for example the whole or a portion of the life of an individual, a single event or a series of events between two dates lying near together.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

No true lover of his country would bring himself to tear in pieces his own nurse and mother: There might be reason in the conqueror depriving the conquered of their harvest, but still they would have the idea of peace in their hearts and would not mean to go on fighting for ever.
— from The Republic by Plato