This interesting phenomenon, which always occurs after the appearance of a new edition of either of the books I have alluded to, is usually attributed to the influence of literature on the imagination.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde
He had neither talents nor abilities, nor even ordinary capacity for living like other people.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Only experience gives no example of it; according to experience all generation that we know is generatio homonyma .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
Nor can it be called an injustice to all of us who are not Englishmen of Queen Elizabeth's time that Shakespeare had that advantage and was thereby enabled to exist.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
I think his peevishness arises partly from bodily pain, and partly from a natural excess of mental sensibility; for, I suppose, the mind as well as the body, is in some cases endued with a morbid excess of sensation.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
They are near each other, and upon the same level.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo
But Irus his associates call'd the boy, Practised the common messenger to fly; Irus, a name expressive of the employ.
— from The Odyssey by Homer
To that ethereal throng Have not each one of us the right
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
She took off her cloak, and Bilson, with an understanding look, did not even open the drawing-room door for her, but ran downstairs.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy
Newcastle, Earl of, xiii , 147 .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
At the theater no effect of formal arrangement can give exactly the same impression to the spectators in every part of the house.
— from The Photoplay: A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg
No echoes of the world afar Disturb it night or day, But sun and shadow, moon and star Pass and repass for aye.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
The Conrector was now enjoying on Earth that Heaven to which his benefactress had ascended.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul
An Adventure Please do not think, because the girls of Kingfield High School resented being obliged to play rounders during eleven o'clock break, that they therefore were not enthusiastic on the subject of games.
— from Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
There was certainly no evidence of robbery or even of an attempt at robbery there.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
The union of Piedmont with France, and the junction of Parma, Tuscany and Rome, were, in my mind, but temporary measures, intended merely to guarantee and promote the national education of the Italians.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de
Eyes and tongues were too busy, and Mr. Ashley, realizing, probably, that the interest of all present would remain, for a few minutes at least, with this marvelous jewel so astonishingly recovered, laid it, with many expressions of thankfulness, in Mrs. Burton's now eagerly outstretched palm, and advancing toward us, paused in front of Miss Glover and eagerly held out his hand.
— from The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green
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