The jocular vein which I incontinently struck and perseveringly followed up, led me very wide of your mark, and I was obliged to leave you quite unsatisfied on another point, about which, for one who is not an author, you seem to be singularly excited.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

165 nonne vides, ut nostra soror Clementia tristes obtundat gladios fratresque amplexa serenos adsurgat Pietas, fractis ut lugeat armis Perfidia et laceris morientes crinibus hydri lambant invalido Furiarum vincla veneno?
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

You’ve got to prepare circulars; write boosting letters to stockholders and prospects; follow up leads; and––oh, you’ll be busy!
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

Not to speak of conscience with its stinging sense of violated conviction; not to speak of wasted time, ruined power, and a wreck of hopes; to say nothing of alienation from God, and the fear of a future world, I can conceive of memory dwelling on spots, which once were spots of light, becoming the tormentor of a fallen soul, the vindicator of duty and of God; I can conceive of one looking back from the bare desolateness of sin to a youth that once had been pure, full of joy and full of virtue, to homes that had been glad with every affection that sweetens life, to sabbaths that had repose for the stainless spirit, and prayer for unpolluted lips; gazing with breaking hearts and weeping eyes over a part marked with vice and misery, that had been a future glorious with promise; all this I can conceive in connection with even the felon in his cell, or with some wretch whose cough, like a knell of despair, awakens the midnight silence of the street, whose latest pang is spent in some hidden retreat of filth and sorrow, of sin and loathsomeness.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom