I will tell you:—In the first place, I will deprive men of the foreknowledge of death, which they possess at present: this power which they have Prometheus has already received my orders to take from them: in the second place, they shall be entirely stripped before they are judged, for they shall be judged when they are dead; and the judge too shall be naked, that is to say, dead—he with his naked soul shall pierce into the other naked souls; and they shall die suddenly and be deprived of all their kindred, and leave their brave attire strewn upon the earth—conducted in this manner, the judgment will be just.
— from Gorgias by Plato

The rules of this game are extremely simple, but there is one precaution necessary in playing it, that of not striking too violently.
— from Healthful Sports for Young Ladies by Mademoiselle St. Sernin

Those, however, who may think it unimportant to enquire how many of these anonymous poems, which have for ages delighted the Spanish public, were produced in the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and who may merely wish to see a selection of the best Spanish poems in the old national style, have only to turn to the Romancero general .
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Voltaire took pleasure in the Opera, (not so Thomas Carlyle, as you may have seen), and there dictated some of his most brilliant letters.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 by Various

The doorway is very richly carved in the style of the north door of the cathedral, and at each angle of the edifice there is a statue of a saint under a stone canopy: San Nicolas in the angle facing Porto Pi, in the opposite niche San Juan Bautista, in the angle looking towards the Ataranza (arsenal) Santa Catalina, and Santa Clara looking towards the Almudaina.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Those creatures, so filthy, so animal-like, created in his mind such abhorrence that he forgot to make allowances for the fact that they were penned like swine, and that perchance in their own native state, free in their own villages, they might be cleaner and less revolting.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Spanish pastorals in the old national style are associated with translations from the German of Gessner.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek