Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden: but let those things alone and go to man, for whom as the other things are, so it seemeth in him her uttermost cunning is employed, and know whether she have brought forth so true a lover as Theagenes, so constant a friend as Pylades, so valiant a man as Orlando, so right a prince as Xenophon's Cyrus: so excellent a man every way, as Virgil's Aneas.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

Oh, For a Horse XIX A Broker Prince XX The Seven O'Clock Express XXI Rich and Poor Alike XXII The Truth At Last XXIII Back to the Road XXIV
— from He Comes Up Smiling by Charles Sherman

Her world is brasen, the Poets only deliver a golden: but let those things alone and goe to man, for whom as the other things are, so it seemeth in him her uttermost cunning is imployed, and know whether shee have brought forth so true a lover as Theagines , so constant a friende as Pilades , so valiant a man as Orlando , so right a Prince as Xenophon's Cyrus ; so excellent a man every way as Virgil's Aeneas ...."
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

But let those things alone, and go to man; [14] for whom as the other things are, so it seemeth in him her uttermost cunning is employed; and know, whether she have brought forth so true a lover as Theagenes; so constant a friend as Pylades; so valiant a man as Orlando; so right a prince as Xenophon’s Cyrus; and so excellent a man every way as Virgil’s Æneas?
— from A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney

40; its treatment by the Christian Church, xi. 42; and sorcery, Midsummer herbs and flowers a protection against, xi. 45, 46, 49, 54, 55, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 72; St. John's wort a protection against, xi. 54; dwarf-elder used to detect, xi. 64; fern root a protection against, xi. 67; mistletoe a protection against, xi. 85 sq. , 282, 283, 294; fatal to milk and butter, xi. 86; oak log a protection against, xi. 92; children passed through a ring of yarn as a protection against, xi. 185; a “witch's nest” (tangle of birch-branches) a protection against, xi. 185. See also Witch , Witches , and Sorcery Witches sink ships, i. 135; raise the wind, i. 322, 326; in the wind, knives thrown at, i. 329; souls of dead, said to pass into trees, ii. 32; buried under trees, ii. 32; steal milk of cows on May Day or Walpurgis Night, ii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer