You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ’
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
With my three trusty guides, touch, smell, and taste, I make many excursions into the borderland of experience which is in sight of the city of Light.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller
But in landscape-painting, in which the artist lets us look at nature with his eyes, the knowledge of the Ideas, and the condition of pure will-less knowing, which is demanded by these, is made much easier for us; and, in the same way, poetry is far superior both to [pg 321] history and biography, in the representation of the Ideas which may be looked for in all three.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
This is much more evident in the laws of 1830 than in those of 1814.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
You sometimes use such language that it makes my ears tingle!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I had never been used to London, and the noise, the hurry, the crowds of horses, carts, and carriages that I had to make my way through made me feel anxious and harassed; but I soon found that I could perfectly trust my driver, and then I made myself easy and got used to it.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
According to Augustine (Confess. x, 35) "it is called concupiscence of the eyes" because "the sight is the sense chiefly used for obtaining knowledge, so that all sensible things are said to be seen," and as he says further on: "By this it may more evidently be discerned wherein pleasure and wherein curiosity is the object of the senses; for pleasure seeketh objects beautiful, melodious, fragrant, savory, soft; but curiosity, for trial's sake, seeketh even the contraries of these, not for the sake of suffering annoyance, but out of the lust of experiment and knowledge."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
And 't is moreover most expressly mark'd In holy scripture, where the twins are said To, have struggled in the womb.
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete by Dante Alighieri
I know 'tis prized, And hold me happy that it met my eye
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan
This is Mr. Murray, Eileen.
— from The Straw by Eugene O'Neill
But though I pretend not to justifie, all that has been said in the strain of an Encomiast, or a Lover, yet I hop’d that I may much Extenuate, if not Excuse it, by representing such things as these.
— from Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, preface to Parthenissa (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, "Apologie for romances," prefixed to Aretina, the serious romance (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, preface to Bentivolio and Urania (1660) Robert Boyle, preface to Theodora and Didymus (1687) by George Mackenzie
Then I made my errand known.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The bark is split on one side, in a straight line along the tree, as long as the boat is intended to be; at the same time the bark is carefully cut from the stem a little way on both sides of the slit, that it may more easily separate.
— from American Scenery, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature by Nathaniel Parker Willis
This old hunger the individual man must each day meet and satisfy.
— from The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by David Starr Jordan
It was then translated into more modern English by simply exchanging 'Thou' s for 'You's, 'Art's for 'Are's, and so forth.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt
Methinks the monk left him in no good mood, But, spite of that, I must my errand risk.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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