Euryalus stood list’ning while he spoke, With love of praise and noble envy struck; Then to his ardent friend expos’d his mind: “All this, alone, and leaving me behind!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

He must be used to living on mountain-tops,—and to feeling the wretched gabble of politics and national egotism beneath him.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They elected Marcus for their bishop, a prelate of the race of the Gentiles, and most probably a native either of Italy or of some of the Latin provinces.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Hard by the Lake Regillus Our camp was pitched at night: Eastward a mile the Latines lay, Under the Porcian height.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

In 1840 Dr. Giles published a new edition of Stevens's translation with certain alterations; and a second edition of the same volume was published in 1842, and incorporated in the collected works of Bede, edited by Dr. Giles.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Both of these powers thus entered the war against France, but only as auxiliaries to the empress, not as principals; as nations, except the troops actually in the field, they were considered to be still at peace.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

419 Christianity was introduced among the Kituhwa Cherokee shortly before the Removal through Worcester and Boudinot’s translation of Matthew, first published at New Echota in 1829.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

As to what remains, in a great battle where ten thousand men are maimed or killed, there are not fifteen who are taken notice of; it must be some very eminent greatness, or some consequence of great importance that fortune has added to it, that signalises a private action, not of a harquebuser only, but of a great captain; for to kill a man, or two, or ten: to expose a man’s self bravely to the utmost peril of death, is indeed something in every one of us, because we there hazard all; but for the world’s concern, they are things so ordinary, and so many of them are every day seen, and there must of necessity be so many of the same kind to produce any notable effect, that we cannot expect any particular renown from it: “Casus multis hic cognitus, ac jam Tritus, et a medio fortunae ductus acervo.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In 1595 Mademoiselle de Gournay published a new edition of Montaigne’s Essays, and the first with the latest emendations of the author, from a copy presented to her by his widow, and which has not been recovered, although it is known to have been in existence some years after the date of the impression, made on its authority.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[646] or performs any noble exploit, at home or abroad, [647] shall be accordingly enriched, [648] honoured, and preferred.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Several manufacturers of pharmaceuticals are now extracting caffein from roaster-flue dust, probably by an adaptation of the Faunce
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It was all part of the superficial smallness of that world where arbitrary form ruled, where to send a wedding invitation printed and not engraved, or to mispronounce the name of a visiting Italian tenor or Russian dancer, would mark the noblest woman in the world as hopelessly "not belonging."
— from The Beloved Woman by Kathleen Thompson Norris

"But people are not expected to be large in proportion to the houses they live in, like snails," said Maggie, laughing.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The formula is always mental apathy, physical and nervous excitement.
— from Contemporary Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason

Prince Ahmed never expected that the sultan his father would have asked a thing which, at first sight, appeared to him so difficult, not to say impossible.
— from Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon

A copper medal was put on the neck of every Indian for each payment, and new exactions were levied upon those who failed to show the medals.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

Common air, I find, is diminished, and rendered noxious, by liver of sulphur , which the chemists say exhales phlogiston, and nothing else.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley

If I remain here I shall die.' "'Where does he tell you to go to?' "'To some village in the south of France, near the sea, where there is perfect quiet, where there are few people and no excitement.'
— from The Shield of Love by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Muddy Pond at N. E. section, well stocked with horn pouts, eels, and shiners.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The ideas of the party are not easy to ascertain exactly from the pages of their journal.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae