"Ed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Latina, Vol. 50. Hallam calls the text "the celebrated rule." It is all now remembered of St. V. by most educated men. It is shown to be of no practical value in an able criticism by Sir G. C. Lewis, Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion, 2nd ed., 1875, p. 57. Mr Gladstone reviewed this work of Lewis, ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter
... While desirous of affording full scope to a talent for realistic description, we must protest against allusions bordering on personality.—ED.] ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... Merrill, "and as there doesn't seem to be one single prowler around, I guess I'll set out my cake." And of course the girls "oh"-ed and exclaimed over its tempting whiteness as she set it ...
— Mary Jane: Her Book • Clara Ingram Judson
... pathetic account of the examination and martyrdom of George Marsh in the eleventh section of Fox's Book of Martyrs, as I have just found (June 9, 1867). He went to Smithell's hall, among other places, to be questioned by Mr. Barton.—ED.]; and the tradition may have connected itself with the stone within a short time after the martyrdom; or, perhaps, when the old persecuting knight departed this life, and Bloody Mary was also dead, people who had stood at a little distance from the Hall door, and had seen George Marsh lift his ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... reproaches his companions for their cowardice. The disastrous consequences of Bewulf's death are then foretold, and the poem ends with his funeral.—H. Sweet, in Warton's History of English Poetry, Vol. II. (ed. 1871). Cf. also Ten Brink's History of ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
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