The background against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has matured into a great master.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

I weene; His dwelling is low in a valley greene, Under the foot of Rauran mossy hore, ° From whence the river Dee ° as silver cleene, 35 His tombling billowes roll with gentle rore: There all my dayes he traind me up in vertuous lore.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Take of Hart’s-horn two ounces, the seeds of Citrons, Sorrel, Peony, Bazil, of each one ounce, Scordium, Coral-liana, of each six drams, the roots of Angelica, Tormentil, Peony, the leaves of Dittany, Bay-berries, Juniper-berries, of each half an ounce, the flowers of Rosemary, Marigolds, Clove Gilliflowers, the tops of Saint John’s Wort, Nutmegs, Saffron, of each three drams, the Roots of Gentian, Zedoary, Ginger, Mace, Myrrh, the leaves of Scabious, Devil’s-bit, Carduus, of each two drams, Cloves, Opium, of each a dram, Malaga Wine as much as is sufficient, with their treble weight in Honey, mix them according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

There is a difference of opinion as to whether the rise of temperature should be considered as truly scorbutic in nature, as “scorbutic fever,” or regarded merely as a condition grafted upon the nutritional disturbance.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The fear of raw material is shown in laboratory, manual training shop, Froebelian kindergarten, and Montessori house of childhood.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

"But you are fond of riding, Miss Brooke," Sir James presently took an opportunity of saying.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The firm of Radley, Mowbray, and Co., is a rising one; and will probably furnish in time a crop of members of Parliament and Peers of the realm.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

For one ravishing moment Italy appeared.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Just now I've ta'en the fit o' rhyme, My barmie noddle's working prime.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

We both know what it is to have our bright home in the setting sun; heigh?" "I think we Western men who've come East are apt to take ourselves a little too objectively and to feel ourselves rather more representative than we need," March remarked.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

The first is one of King Edward's in favour of 'Reinbold min preost', and is a confirmation to him of soc and sac, toll and team, etc., as his predecessors had enjoyed it 'on Cnutes kinges daie'.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Feeling of Railroad Men There is plenty of evidence, nevertheless, that railroad men felt very bitter that the Thurman bill should ever have been passed.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

We also possess relics of many great criminals; and as for our refrigerating machines—ah, monsieur, they are really in their way wonders!
— from The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Out of all my sea-going experiences I could not pick a fairer picture than was made [37] by the brig we were passing, clad as she was in moonlight, and rising in steam-coloured spaces to mere films of royals motionless under the stars.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

Montaigne was fond of reading minute accounts of the deaths of remarkable persons; and, in the simplicity of his heart, old Montaigne wished to be learned enough to form a collection of these deaths, to observe “their words, their actions, and what sort of countenance they put upon it.”
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

But, of all its associations, none rushed upon me so forcibly, or retained my imagination so long, as the accidental drama of which it was the scene during the three days of July.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

He is sufficiently punished by losing his command: to do what you propose will be ascribed to feelings of revenge more than to those of justice.
— from The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

Other visitors came into the Soleil d'Or and sought seats among their friends at the tables, while others kept leaving, bound for other rendezvous, many staying just sufficiently long to hear a song or two.
— from Bohemian Paris of To-day Second Edition by Edward Cucuel