It is due to a variety of influences which combine with those just noticed, so that, acting and reacting, they form a whole; and the desolation of the blasted heath, the design of the Witches, the guilt in the hero's soul, the darkness of the night, seem to emanate from one and the same source.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

When, therefore, we look for the city of God in these seventy-two nations, we cannot affirm that while they had but one lip, that is, one language, the human race had departed from the worship of the true God, and that genuine godliness had survived only in those generations which descend from Shem through Arphaxad and reach to Abraham;
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He muttered low the spell whose call Summons those arms and rules them all
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Silas now found himself and his cottage suddenly beset by mothers who wanted him to charm away the whooping-cough, or bring back the milk, and by men who wanted stuff against the rheumatics or the knots in the hands; and, to secure themselves against a refusal, the applicants brought silver in their palms.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

And ere the feet can reach her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the ascent, and rough the road.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

His manners were an immediate recommendation; and on conversing with him she found the solid so fully supporting the superficial, that she was at first, as she told Anne, almost ready to exclaim, "Can this be Mr Elliot?" and could not seriously picture to herself a more agreeable or estimable man.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

There is no such thing as a right to live, a right to work, or a right to be happy: in this respect man is not different from the meanest worm.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

From the creation of these works of the first, clear up to the eleventh century, art seems hardly to have existed at all—at least no remnants of it are left—and it was curious to see how far (in some things, at any rate,) these old time pagans excelled the remote generations of masters that came after them.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

And very quietly he smelled the air and read the message it bore of a strange god’s presence.
— from White Fang by Jack London

So, taking up his hat, and leaving poor Smike to arrange and rearrange the room with as much delight as if it had been the costliest palace, he betook himself to the streets, and mingled with the crowd which thronged them.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But such exactions had become almost a customary tax; and both generals showed themselves at any rate to be not altogether venal in questions of greater importance, and, if possible, got themselves paid by the party whose interests coincided with those of Rome.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

Then, on two afternoons in the week, the surgeons do small operations; and sometimes there are half-a-dozen children all recovering from anæsthetics at the same time, and all requiring to be carefully watched.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

The principal treatment is by means of baths, which gives the negative, within these walls, to the Italian saying that "an ancient Roman took as many baths in a week as a modern Roman in all his life."
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Her heart beat violently, she turned away and reëntered the room.
— from Asbeïn: From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin

He sat on Kitty's knee, and Ashe coming to the sofa, threw an arm round them both.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

A young lad and an old man were seated together at a roulette table, and around them a ring of excited and amused spectators stood.
— from The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

Luther received a summons to appear at Rome, to answer to the charge of heresy.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

When a fortnight had thus passed, Lady Florimel grew anxious concerning the justification of her boast, and the more so that her father seemed to avoid all reference to it.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

Of the Germans it may be said that, as a rule, they had, until recently, no special liking for the tempo rubato .
— from Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry T. Finck

Galileo was summoned to appear at Rome to defend his conduct.
— from A History of Science — Volume 2 by Edward Huntington Williams