Austen Sense and Sensibility|volume=III|chapter=VIII|pages=185–186|pageref=186|passage=“But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!†And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.
1840, Leigh Hunt, The Seer; or, Common-places Refreshed. By Leigh Hunt. In Two Parts Chapter XLVIII.—Twelfth Night. A Street Portrait. Shakespeare's Play, Recollections of a Twelfth Night., May a pleasant Twelfth Night have we passed in our time; and such future Twelfth Nights as may remain to us shall be pleasant, God and good-will permitting: for even if care should be round about them, we have no notion of missing these mountain-tops of rest and brightness, on which people may refresh themselves during the stormiest parts of life's voyage.
25 December 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, w:I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
