8vo, 63 s. LIFE OF GENERAL SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, BART., G.C.B., &c. FROM HIS NOTES, CONVERSATIONS, AND CORRESPONDENCE.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Let a mortification of body and mind, a strick fasting, continual solitude, profound and holy meditations, and a sincere love of God, succeed our former irregularities.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

I mark’d her step, with peace elate, Her brow more beautiful than morn, Her sometime look of girlish state Which sweetly waived its right to scorn; The giddy crowd, she grave the while, Although, as ’twere beyond her will, Around her mouth the baby smile That she was born with linger’d still.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

(Smiles: Life of George Stephenson .)
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

In mighty current; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails; And in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting:—nor have Nature's laws Left them ungifted with a power to yield Music of finer frame; a harmony, So do I call it, though it be the hand Of silence, though there be no voice;—the clouds, The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns, Motions of moonlight, all come thither—touch, And have an answer—thither come, and shape A language not unwelcome to sick hearts And idle spirits:—there the sun himself At the calm close of summer's longest day
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb