On the whole, Mr. Scanlan's letter was rather agreeable than the reverse, since he contrived to accompany all the inevitable ills of fortune by some side-wind consolations, and when pushed hard for these, skilfully insinuated in what way "things might have been worse."
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
I will love on, though love too may deceive me, remembering its consolations in the past, struggling for its rewards in the future.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He is elaborately and deliberately pathetic; he is always thinking of death, and calling upon the readers to sympathise with his sorrows and accept his consolations.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen