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 Christopher Smart

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

Irrepressible Conflict. Oct. 25, 1858. Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And, big with vengeance, beats the barberblack. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red; Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.— filed under Contention
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