[544] With what truth and naiveté is the complaint of the husbandman over his ineffectual labour and scanty returns echoed!— Iamque caput quassans grandis suspirat arator Crebrius incassum manuum cecidisse labores, Et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert Praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis Et crepat, anticum genus ut pietate repletum Perfacile angustis tolerarit finibus aevom, Cum minor esset agri multo modus ante viritim.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Irrelevant scenes, persons, episodes, conversations and general observations have already been discussed at length, and need no further treatment here.
— from Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett

Breaking with their sweet sound the willing Air, And in the listning ear the Soul ensnare; The ravisht Air such pleasure loth to lose, With thousand Echoes still prolongs each close; And gliding streams which in the Vallies trills, Assists its speed unto the neighbouring Hills; Where in the rocks & caves, with hollow gounds, The warbling lightsome Element rebounds.
— from Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes by Fabian Stedman

Et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert Praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis, Et crepat antiquum genus ut pietate repletum."
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11 by Michel de Montaigne