As Matthew Arnold says, Keats "had flint and iron in him"; and in his next volume he accomplished his own purpose and silenced unfriendly criticism.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

What is harder to realise—a pressing danger must continue, and one that can only be averted with care, in order that the habit of thinking of his own preservation may have time to take root.
— from On Love by Stendhal

“Ah, my dear M. Cavalcanti, I trust you will not leave before I have had the honor of presenting you to some of my friends.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

She had once partly promised Mrs Smith to spend the evening with her; but in a short hurried call she excused herself and put it off, with the more decided promise of a longer visit on the morrow.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

On this account the action of genius has always been regarded as an inspiration, as indeed the name indicates, as the action of a superhuman being distinct from the individual himself, and which takes possession of him only periodically.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

It grew more grave as the gravity of her condition grew, and the state of mind it produced in him, which he himself ended by watching as if it had been some definite disfigurement of his outer person, may pass for another of his surprises.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Bonfires were lit in almost all the hamlets of Poitou on the Eve of St. John.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

] Note 22 ( return ) [ The portrait of the French Latins is drawn in Nicetas by the hand of prejudice and resentment: ouden tvn allwn eqnvn eiV ''AreoV?rga parasumbeblhsqai sjisin hneiconto all' oude tiV tvn caritwn h tvn?mousvn para toiV barbaroiV toutoiV epexenizeto, kai para touto oimai thn jusin hsan anhmeroi, kai ton xolon eixon tou logou prstreconta.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then sprang the happier day from underground; And Lady Lyonors and her house, with dance And revel and song, made merry over Death, As being after all their foolish fears And horrors only proven a blooming boy.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

La Vendée was made illustrious mainly by men who dreaded neither the essentials of the Revolution nor its abiding consequences, but who strove to rescue their country from the hands of persecutors and assassins.
— from Lectures on the French Revolution by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

But such limitations as he had were in the direction I have hinted, or perhaps more than hinted; and I am by no means ready to make a mock of them, as it would be so easy to do for some reasons that he has himself suggested.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

The reverence with which men touched in after-time the hand of Pope, or listened to the voice of Johnson, or wandered beside his lakes with Wordsworth, dates from the days when the wits of the Revolution clustered reverently round the old man who sate in his armchair at Will's discussing the last comedy, or recalling his visit to the blind poet of the "Paradise Lost."
— from History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

Why thought she of her mother then? Was it because they were so strangely alike, that any allusion to her own personal appearance always reminded her of her lost parent?
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

On the other hand, we have a theory that imposes no such strain, either historical or psychological, upon us.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman

271 ; state of moral feeling ill Italy in his time, 272 ; his character as a man, 291 ; as a poet, 293 ; as a dramatist, 296 ; as a statesman, 291 300 309 313 309 ; excellence of his precepts, 311 ; his candor, 313 ; comparison between him and Montesquieu, 314 ; his style, 314 ; his levity, 316 ; his historical works, 316 ; lived to witness the last struggle for Florentine liberty, 319 ; his works and character misrepresented, 319 ; his remains dishonored till long after his death, 319 ; monument erected to his memory by an English nobleman, 319 Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob class, 283 Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by Grenville, 70 Mackintosh, Sir James, review of his History of the Revolution in England, 251 335 ; comparison with Fox's History of James II., 252 ; character of his oratory, 253 ; his conversational powers, 256 ; his qualities as an historian, 250 ; his vindication from the imputations of the editor, 262 270 -278; change in his opinions produced by the French Revolution, 263 ; his moderation, 268 270 ; his historical justice, 277 278 ; remembrance of him at Holland House, 425 Macleane, Colonel, agent in England for Warren Hastings, 44 53 Macpherson, James, 77 331 210 ; a favorite author with Napoleon, 515 ; despised by Johnson, 116 Madras, description of it, 199 ; its capitulation to the French, 202 ; restored to the English, 203 Maand, capture of, by the English army in 470 119 Mæandnus, of Samos, 132 Magazine, delightful invention for a very idle or a very busy man, 156 ; resembles the little angels of the Rabbinical tradition, 156 157 Magdalen College, treatment of, by James II., 413 Addison's connection with it, 327 Mahon, Lord, Review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, 75 142 ; his qualities as an historian, 75 77 ; his explanation of the financial condition of Spain, 85 ; his opinions on the Partition Treaty, 90 -92; his representations of Cardinal Porto Carrero, 104 ; his opinion of the peace on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, 131 ; his censure of Harley, 132 ; and view of the resemblance of the Tories of the present day to the Whigs of the Revolution, 132 135 Mahrattas, sketch of their history, 207 58 ; expedition against them, 60 Maintenon, Madame de, 364 30 Malaga, naval battle near, in 170 110 Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of Lord Clive, 194 299 ; value of his work, 190 ; his partiality for Clive, 237 ; his defence of Clive's conduct towards Ornichaud, 248 Mallet, David, patronage of by Bute, 41 Malthus, Mr., his theory of population, and Sadler's objections to it, 217 218 222 223 228 244 271 272 Manchester, Countess of, 339 Manchester, Earl of, his patronage of Addison, 338 350 Mandeville, his metaphysical powers, 208 Mandragola (the), of Maehiavelli, 293 Manilla, capitulation of, 32 Mannerism of Johnson, ii 423 Mansfield, Lord, his character and talents, 223 ; his rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, 234 ; his elevation, 234 12 ; his friendship for Hastings, 106 ; character of his speeches, 104 Manso, Milton's Epistle to, 212 Manufactures and commerce of Italy in the 14 th century, 275 277 Manufacturing and agricultural laborers, comparison of their condition, 147 149 Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opinion upon, 145 ; its effect on the health, 147 Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of the Martyrs of Christianity, 345 ; his language about Barère, 458 466 ; his bust torn down, 502 Mareet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Economy, 207 March, Lord, one of the persecutors of Wilkes, 60 Maria Theresa, her accession to the throne, 164 ; her situation and personal qualities, 165 166 ; her unbroken spirit, 173 ; gives birth to the future emperor, Joseph II., 173 ; her coronation, 173 ; enthusiastic loyalty and war-cry of Hungary, 174 ; her brother-in-law, Prince Charles of Lorraine, defeated by Frederic the Great, at Chotusitz, 174 ; she cedes Silesia, 175 ; her husband, Francis, raised to the Imperial Throne, 179 ; she resolves to humble Frederic, 200 ; succeeds in obtaining the adhesion of Russia, 200 ; her letter to Madame Pompadour, 211 ; signs the peace of Hubertsburg, 245 Marie Antoinette, Barère's share in her death, 401 434 409 470 Marino, San, visited by Addison, 340 Marlborough, Duchess of, her friendship with Congreve, 408 ; her inscription on his monument, 409 Marlborough, Duke of, 259 ; his conversion to Whiggism, 129 ; his acquaintance with the Duchess of Cleveland,-and commencement of his splendid fortune, 373 ; notice of Addison's poem in his honor, 358 Marlborough and Godolphin, their policy, 353 Maroons (the), of Surinam, 386 ; to: 388 Marsh, Bishop, his opposition to Calvinistic doctrine, 170 Martinique, capture of, 32 Martin's illustrations of the Pilgrim's Progress, and of Paradise Lost, 251 Marvel, Andrew, 333 Mary, Queen, 31 Masque, the Italian, 218 Massinger, allusion to his "Virgin Martyr," 220 ; his fondness for the Roman Catholic Church, 30 ; indelicate writing in his dramas, 356 Mathematical reasoning, 103 ; studies, their advantages and defects, 346 Mathematics, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, 451 Maximilian of Bavaria, 328 Maxims, general, their uselessness, 310 Maynooth, Mr. Gladstone's objections to the vote of money for, 179 Mecca, 301 Medals, Addison's Treatise on, 329 351 Medici, Lorenzo de.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Note that the expression of old-world matters in terms of modern life produces the same effect, by reason of the halo of poetry which surrounds classical antiquity.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Jimmy had seen enough to feel blissfully satisfied that Bridget loved him, and for his own part, he had never met any other woman whom he desired to marry.
— from Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb

A prayer-meeting was held after the sermon, when several began to cry aloud for mercy—one professed to have obtained pardon.
— from The Village Sunday School, with brief sketches of three of its scholars by John C. (John Christian) Symons