The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian erotic novel The Romance of Lust (1873) A classic Victorian erotic novel 1892 edition by Anonymous Contents VOLUME
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Impatience which would brook no opposition had been a part of John Pendleton's nature too long to yield very easily now to restraint.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

O, bid the turbulent informer hence; We have no vacant ear now, to receive The unseason'd fruits of his officious tongue.
— from The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

Any account of Italian prisons must thus centre about this grim old relic of the Cæsars,—“this massive mausoleum, by turns a tomb, a fortress, a prison and a palace, a chapel and a treasure-house; {2} now threatening the liberty of Rome, now defending its very existence; now the refuge of the Republic, now the hiding place of the Popes; through war and peace, from the Imperial days on through the Gothic and Mediæval epochs, down to the present hour never ceasing to be a living part of the history of Rome.”
— from Italian Prisons St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition by Arthur Griffiths

QUALITIES OF THE POPULAR SONG LYRIC Having read these eleven lyrics of varying emotions, note the rather obvious fact that 1.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

(Back to Main Text) Footnote 185: "Un des principaulx qu'il a avec luy que se nomme William Peto, theologien, luy a escript luy donnant conseil de non se marrier, et vivre en celibat; meslant en ses lettres plusieurs allegations du Vieux et Nouveau Testament, repetant x
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

Weep, soul, ah weep for thy most vile estate, Now that repentance need not come too late!
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

Tupper looked guilty; Jem Burton muttered, “I knoo hoo 'twould be”; while as for Long Kirby, he vanished entirely, not to reappear till three months had sped.
— from Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

He was, however, not expelled by edict, but under compulsion of the existing situation; and in order not to be a trouble to his friend, the Duke of Liegnitz, he went in 1529 into voluntary exile, never to return.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

This absoluteness is as distinctly implied by them, as the like was by the law of the Emperor Claudius, which imposed limitations upon the "jus vitae et necis" (the right of life and death) which Roman slavery put into the hand of the master.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

It is a splendid group of masonry, and stands very effectively near the river.
— from The Thames by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton