Now if I am to be no mere copper wire amateur but a luminous author, I must also be a most intensely refractory person, liable to go out and to go wrong at inconvenient moments, and with incendiary possibilities.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

The knowledge gained from dream analysis and phantasies [7] , when applied to the productions of racial phantasies, like myths and fairy tales, seemed to indicate that the first impulse to form myths was due to the same emotional strivings which produced dreams, fancies and symptoms [8] .
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Quivi sospiri, pianti e alti guai risonavan per l'aere sanza stelle, per ch'io al cominciar ne lagrimai.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

"Tout pour Lucien divorcé, rien pour Lucien sans divorce."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Ne regarde pas la figure, Jeune fille, regarde le coeur.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

C'est la marge, l'ourlet de la toile qui m'intéresse, l'enchantement, la magie : "Achète-moi, je ne vaux rien puisque l'amour n'a pas de prix" (Léo Ferré).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Warton illustrated his critical positions by quoting freely not only from Spenser and Milton, but from recent poets, like Thomson, Gray, Collins, and Dyer.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Winding hither and thither along the hillside, in order to secure an even and easy gradient, the road presently left the tobacco fields and passed between broad spaces of lawn luxuriantly clad with guinea-grass, and having large parterres of flowers scattered about it here and there; while in other places it was picturesquely broken up by clumps of feathery bamboo, or gigantic wild cotton and other trees.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

" De Regimine Principum , liber iii. caput XI .
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

A really powerful little play.
— from None so Deaf As Those Who Won't Hear: A Comedietta in One Act by Herbert Pelham Curtis

Milton makes him overthrown by U'riel and Raphael ( Paradise Lost , vi. 365).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

And when the higher morning sun found her far beyond the rolling pasture land, miles in the heavy timber, she had dismounted, there where the highest loop in the road commanded its breath-taking sweep of country, and was sitting cross-legged upon the trunk of a fallen tree at the road edge.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

The original idea of thus storing the bread-fruit is said, according to tradition, to have been suggested to the natives by a violent hurricane having at a remote period levelled all the bread-fruit trees on the island, thus causing a 578.png 568 great famine.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

LECTURE I. Introduction—Spirit of True Criticism—Difference of Taste between the Ancients and Moderns—Classical and Romantic Poetry and Art—Division of Dramatic Literature; the Ancients, their Imitators, and the Romantic Poets. LECTURE II.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel