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 Calverley

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

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.— filed under Vii
To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, Or dissects the lucky pheasant-that, I think, were passing pleasant As I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.— filed under Matrimony
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