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.
5 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
Morgan!-She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her. Briggs of Turlumne owned her. Did you know Briggs of Turlumne?- Busted hisself in White Pine and blew out his brains down in Frisco?— filed under Animals-Horse
by Alexander Selkirk. Your voices break and falter in the darkness,- Break, falter, and are still.— filed under Bells
But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voice of the children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.— filed under Childhood
That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.— filed under Demosthenes
By scattered rocks and turbid waters shining, By furrowed glade and dell, To feverish men thy calm, sweet face uplifting, Thou stayest them to tell. The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.— filed under Flowers-Pansy