But for the actual Shakspeare, since what he was he was, and since nothing greater can be imagined, it is now become a matter of little moment whether his course lay for fifteen or twenty years through the Humilities of absolute poverty, or through the chequered paths of gentry lying in the shade.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
Between this sunken pride and the towering Humilities of heaven there are, one must suppose, spirits of shapes and sizes.
"Orthodoxy"
G. K. Chesterton
No question of "Europe," for him, but a patriotic preparation for acquaintance with the South and West, or what was then called the West-he was to "see his own country first," winking at us while he did so; though he was, in spite of differences, so nearly and naturally neighbour'd and brother'd with us that the extensions of his range and the charms of his position counted somehow as the limits and the Humilities of ours.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James