The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Ann Radcliffe

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns; And as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes, through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed. "The— filed under Fate
But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail Bends to the storm?-Now sinks the note of fear! Ah! wretched mariners!-no more shall day Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!— filed under Shipwreck
Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roil, The loud, loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep- Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!— filed under Storm
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