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 Charles Tennyson Turner

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

How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls! That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals, To warn us from the place of jeopardy!— filed under Bells
The lark sung loud; the music at his heart Had called him early; upward straight he went, And bore in nature's quire the merriest part, As to the lake's broad shore my steps I bent.— filed under Birds-Lark
O honey-throated warbler of the grove! That in the glooming woodland art so proud Of answering thy sweet mates in soft or loud, Thou dost not own a note we do not love.— filed under Birds-Nightingale
West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest; Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.— filed under Reading
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