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 Edna Dean Procter

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

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose, Bright with victory o'er his foes. Sing we lauding, And applauding, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! From the Latin of the 12th Century. Trans. by J. M. NEALE. I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!"— filed under Easter
The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn; And in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, So hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings If one should earthward fare.— filed under Easter
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