—How degenerate in its taste, how servile to dignities, ranks, uniforms, pomp, and splendour must a nation have been, when it began to consider the simple as the bad, the simple man ( schlicht ) as the bad man ( schlecht )!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Excursion (1814) is the second book of The Recluse ; and the third was never completed, though Wordsworth intended to include most of his shorter poems in this third part, and so make an immense personal epic of a poet's life and work.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Painting and Sculpture; models and portraits representing Professors of getting up at eight, shaving close at a quarter past, breakfasting at nine, going to the City at ten, coming home at half-past five, and dining at seven.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

She had never possessed a strong mind and the various chances and changes of her life had enfeebled instead of strengthening it.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

She addressed me, but finding I did not understand a word she said, she gave me a few pence and showed me an inn where I could pass the night.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He said he would give the guards a little present, and she must always go in the evening after dark, and say nothing, “but just show this paper and pass in, and show it again when you come out”—and
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

The story of a rich and famous Jew Who liv'd in Malta: you shall find him still, In all his projects, a sound Machiavill; And that's his character.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Instantly Nikolai Petrovitch ceased quoting poetry, and Arkady (who had listened with considerable surprise, though also with a certain measure of sympathy, to his father) hastened to produce from his pocket a silver matchbox, and to dispatch the same by the hand of Peter.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Show some pity for Christ's sake, pity a sick man, an old man, &c., he cares not, ride on: pretend sickness, inevitable loss of limbs, goods, plead suretyship, or shipwreck, fires, common calamities, show thy wants and imperfections, Et si per sanctum juratus dicat Osyrim, Credite, non ludo, crudeles tollite claudum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As the classes of an aristocratic people are strongly marked and permanent, each of them is regarded by its own members as a sort of lesser country, more tangible and more cherished than the country at large.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"The people are so much attached to the said ladies that they will rise in rebellion, and join any prince who will undertake their quarrel.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

Another cry of horror arose amid the crowds around, notwithstanding the severe penalties that had been proclaimed against such manifestations, and all eyes turned, with pitying glances, towards Diego Lainez, who, with other cavaliers, occupied one of the platforms erected inside the palisade, in order that noble dames and cavaliers might be able to witness the combat.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

It is precisely at such moments as those when we wish every body but ourselves away, that the world is most likely to intrude upon us; and Pauline and De Blenau had not met more than five minutes, as it seemed to them, when the Queen and Madame de Beaumont entered the apartment.—How long they had been really together is another question, for lovers’ feelings are not always the truest watches.
— from Richelieu: A Tale of France, v. 3/3 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"You see," continued Goronwy, "that the people are so maddened at what has been done and so bitterly opposed to you that were I appointed in your room——"
— from Pabo, the Priest: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

In one part of this yard was also a machine shop, in which were fitted lathes, punching and shearing machines, and a bolt and nut machine, also a band [105] saw and a circular saw table.
— from Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair

High in royal favour by reason of this worthy work, he had no difficulty in obtaining for himself and his heirs a profitable monopoly for printing and selling missals and breviaries throughout Spain’s wide dominions.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

I looked at myself as I passed a shop mirror, and saw a face with a cold, cynical expression, the soul intrenched behind inscrutable, searching eyes.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

In comparison with painting and sculpture, music and the literature of the theatre are not self-sufficing arts.
— from Style in Singing by W. E. Haslam