We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasureable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot of our life's bark, and ruthlessly carries us on to the shoals.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ah! beauty Syren, fair inchanting good, Sweet silent rhetoric of persuading eyes; Dumb eloquence whose power doth move the blood, More than the words or wisdom of the wife; Still harmony whose diapason lies, Within a brow; the key which passions move, To ravish sense, and play a world in love.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

BUT MORE REASONABLE "RIGHT OF PARLIAMENT" ENDED DISASTROUSLY FOR KING CHARLES II CAESAR, the earliest explorer of north-western Europe, had crossed the Channel in the year 55 B.C. and had conquered England.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

About 10 per cent—the very severe cases—go on to insanity; either temporary attacks of mania, calling for restraint, or permanent epileptic dementia with progressive loss of mind.
— from Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs

Its windows are covered with wooden blinds hinged at the top, and from these and the doors peer upon the passer-by a constant double row of people, except during the midday siesta.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

sotto la Costellazione che necessariamente fosse rico o povere e d’esser decapitato o appiccato, se Iddio non mutasse l’ordine della natura, nè altrimenti potesse essere parlando della potenza di Dio ordinata, overo ordinario, benchè per potenza assoluta di Dio potesse essere altrimenti.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Harrum rerum, id est, Natunae bonorum, optimum esse quoddam rerum optimarum principium, et Deum vocari….
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The return of prisoners enclosed does not include the stragglers that came in after the action.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat