In this way rhythm and rhyme are partly a means of holding our attention, because we willingly follow the poem read, and partly they produce in us a blind consent to what is read prior to any judgment, and this gives the poem a certain emphatic power of convincing independent of all reasons.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali, in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

SOCRATES: And most disgraceful either because most painful and causing excessive pain, or most hurtful, or both? POLUS: Certainly. SOCRATES:
— from Gorgias by Plato

prax. &c. Solid purges are confections, electuaries, pills by themselves, or compound with others, as de lapide lazulo, armeno, pil.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

That writ de professo against Christians, et palestinum deum (ut Socrates lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages &c. (remuneration) 973; value &c. 812a. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess[obs3], sess[obs3], tallage[obs3], levy; abkari[obs3]; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony &c. 819.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

So Siracides himself speaks as much as may be for and against women, so doth almost every philosopher plead pro and con, every poet thus argues the case (though what cares vulgus nominum what they say?): so can I conceive peradventure, and so canst thou: when all is said, yet since some be good, some bad, let's put it to the venture.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Amictum Chlamyde et coronis, quum primum aspexit Cnemonem, ex potestate mentis excidit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The speech had evidently produced a conciliating effect; perhaps memories of the past had come over him.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

Likewise the comical posture of astonishment (expressed by following the direction of one plain curve) as the dotted line in a French print of Sancho (where Don Quixote demolishes the puppet show); Number 75 is a good contrast to the effect of the serpentine lines, in the fine turn of the Samaritan woman; Number 74, taken from one of the best pictures Annibal Carrache ever painted.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

They are reasonable in price and cover every possible field.
— from Campward Ho! A Manual for Girl Scout Camps by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Padre Andreas could easily perceive how the followers of Rotil thought it enchantment, or any other thing of the devil.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

A House of Commons of which ministers were known to stand in awe, where everything was necessarily discussed on principles fit to be openly and publicly avowed, and which could not be retracted or varied without danger, furnished a ground of confidence in the public faith which the engagement of no state dependent on the fluctuation of personal favor and private advice can ever pretend to.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke