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Roman incantatory prayer to fertility goddess: “Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus.” (1)
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Latin prose style of historians Sallust and Tacitus: “Universally that person’s acumen is esteemed very little perceptive” (7).
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Medieval Latin prose: “It is not why therefore we shall wonder if, as the best historians relate” (33).
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Anglo-Saxon alliterative prose of Aelfric: “Before born babe bliss had. Within womb won he worship.” (60)
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Middle English: “Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death” (107).
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Medieval travel stories from the 1400s: “And whiles they spake the door of the castle was opened” (123).
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Arthurian legend from the 1400s: “This meanwhile this good sister stood by the door and begged them” (167).
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Elizabethan history chronicles: “About that present time young Stephen filled all cups that stood empty” (277).
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Miltonian Latinate prose from the 1600s: “To be short this passage was scarce by when Master Dixon” (334).
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Religious Allegorical prose of John Bunyan: “But was Boasthard’s fear vanquished by Calmer’s words?” (429)
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17th century English diarists such as Pepys: “So Thursday sixteenth June Patk. Dignam laid in clay” (474).
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English journalist Daniel Defoe: “With this came up Lenehan to the feet of the table” (529).
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Irish satirist Jonathan Swift: “an Irish bull in an English chinashop” (581).
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Early 1700s periodical essays in Tatler and Spectator: “Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared” (651).
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18th century Irish novelist and clergyman Laurence Sterne: “Here the listener who was none other than the Scotch student” (738).
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18th century Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Oliver Goldsmith: “Amid the general vacant hilarity of the assembly” (799).
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18th century Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke: “To revert to Mr Bloom” (845).
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Dublin-born politician and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan: “Accordingly he broke his mind to his neighbor” (880).
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18th century satirist Junius: “But with what fitness, lest it be asked of the noble lord” (905).
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Philosophical historian Edward Gibbon: “The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the ceremonial usage” (942).
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Gothic novelist Walpole: “But Malachias’ tale began to freeze them with horror.” (1010)
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Nostalgic essayist Charles Lamb: “What is the age of the soul of man?” (1038)
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19th century English Romantic Thomas Dequincey: “The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence” (1078).
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Landor’s “Imaginary Conversations” essays: “Francis was reminding Stephen of years before when they had been at school” (1110).
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English essayist and historian Macaulay: “However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise” (1174).
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19th century English naturalist and evolutionist Huxley: “It had better be stated here and now” (1223).
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English novelist Charles Dickens: “Meanwhile the skill and patience of the physician had brought about” (1310).
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English convert to Catholicism Cardinal Newman: “There are sins or (let us call them as the world calls them)” (1344).
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English essayist Pater: “The stranger still regarded on the face before him a slow recession” (1356).
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Art critic Ruskin: “Mark this farther and remember. The end comes suddenly.” (1379)
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19th century Scottish essayist and satirist Thomas Carlyle: “Burke’s! outflings my lord Stephen” (1391).
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The prose disintegrates into dialect and slang: “All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.” (1440)