{24} "SHOOTING NIAGARA."—I was at first roused to much anger and abuse by this essay from Mr. Carlyle, so insulting to the theory of America—but happening to think afterwards how I had more than once been in the like mood, during which his essay was evidently cast, and seen persons and things in the same light, (indeed some might say there are signs of the same feeling in these Vistas)—I have since read it again, not only as a study, expressing as it does certain judgments from the highest feudal point of view, but have read it with respect as coming from an earnest soul, and as contributing certain sharp-cutting metallic grains, which, if not gold or silver, may be good, hard, honest iron. {25} For fear of mistake, I may as well distinctly specify, as cheerfully included in the model and standard of these Vistas, a practical, stirring, worldly, money-making, even materialistic character.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The traceries of the windows, which in Northern Gothic only support the glass , at Venice support the building ; and thus the greater ponderousness of the traceries is only an indication of the 239 greater lightness of the structure .
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

O Mary with the dark brown hair, The rosy cheek, the beaming eye, I would thy shade were ever near; Then would I never grieve or sigh.
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

As one who is not guiltless of such attempts, and as one who is becoming accustomed to be charged with novelty in teaching, and disloyalty in practice to that which is undoubtedly and historically Anglican, I have been compelled to ask myself, "What is loyalty to the Anglican Church?
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry

But it will be said that in the first place this promise of immortality carries with it no guarantee of survival in time, and in the second place that it offers us, at last, only an impersonal immortality.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

Must be welcome to our British Taste, which is not grim or skittish; Rather Philistine, it may be.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various

Sicker, such a roundel never heard I none; Little lacketh Perigot of the best, And Willie is not greatly overgone, So weren his under-songs well addrest.
— from The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes by Edmund Spenser

What is not gold or shining glass is either light buff or delicate grey, and electric globes in profusion,
— from Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis

But my favourite ramble, eclipsing all others now in pleasant recollections of by-gone days, was through the Prebend’s Walk, bordered with its noble grove of stately lime trees and oaks and elms on either hand; and passing by open fields, that are, in spring, rich with yellow buttercups and star-spangled daisies, and, in summer, ripe with the aromatic odours of new-mown hay.
— from She and I, Volume 1 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson