Just as life was breaking, full of hope— Clothed in the gorgeous beauty of its morn; Free in Ambition's ever-widening scope, A pictured prospect exquisitely drawn.
— from The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by J. C. Manning

{341} For snails to slime and spotted toads to sprawl, And, plodding past each day, Coarse feet to tread in clay.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 5 (of 5) Poems of meditation and of forest and field by Madison Julius Cawein

For some time he continued this vagabond life, travelling about the North of Ireland, acting every Tuesday and Saturday, and picking pockets every day in the week, a business which he found more lucrative and entertaining than that of the theatre, where his fame was by no means equal to the expectation he had raised.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

Here, as in the Sophist and Politicus, Plato expressly draws attention to the want of agreement in words and things.
— from Cratylus by Plato