Suppose, for one moment, that the profoundest spirit of all ages were to appear among Germans, then one of the saviours of the Capitol would be sure to arise and declare that his own ugly soul was just as great.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thence with Sir H. Cholmly to find out Creed from one lodging to another, which he hath changed so often that there is no finding him, but at last do come to his lodging that he is entering into this day, and do find his goods unlading at the door, by Scotland Yard, and there I set down Sir H. Cholmly, and I away to the ‘Change, where spoke about several things, and then going home did meet Mr. Andrews our neighbour, and did speak with him to enquire about the ground behind our house, of which I have a mind to buy enough to make a stable and coach-house; for I do see that my condition do require it, as well as that it is more charge to my purse to live as I do than to keep one, and therefore I am resolved before winter to have one, unless some extraordinary thing happens to hinder me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Not if he had to take his youth from the hands of Ursula Simms!
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER SILENCE—A FABLE THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

H2 anchor THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il rèsonne..
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

H2 anchor THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sit�t qu’on le touche
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

We don't want to have offered us so intimate a likeness of a nude figure that we ask, “Who is she, or he?”
— from Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

The true horror of Uncle Simon appeared to [Pg 131] him now for the first time.
— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

One evening, in a circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

It was just as you say; my head was turned by good treatment.” If Ladarelle had been a physiognomist, he would not have liked the expression of the other’s face, the hue of utter sickness in the cheek, while the eyes flashed with a fiery energy; but he noted none of these, and merely said, as he resumed his place: “Don’t let it happen again, that’s all.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

I now proceed to remark, that the ambiguity spoken of, and the consequent perplexity in regard to the use and authority of reason, have arisen from the habit of using, since the time of Locke, the terms understanding and reason indiscriminately, and thus confounding a distinction clearly marked in the philosophy and in the language of the older writers.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A course of reading will satisfy one that the best writers and speakers in England are not in the habit of using such expressions as It is me , and that these are almost, if not quite unknown in American literature.
— from Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

The young man spoke modestly enough—more so than these overtaught young gentlemen of the present day are in the habit of doing—but there was a laugh in his eye all the time, and I have since led him to confess that he did not believe he should ever get me to submit to his orders unless some medical Colossus had first laid down the law in the same direction.
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.