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 Eliza O. Pierson

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

Ode LXVIII. All brilliant flowers are pale and dead And sadly droop to earth, While pansies chill in velvet robes Count life but little worth; But in these dark November days That wander wild and wet, Our thoughts are winged to summer hours On breath of mignonette.— filed under Months-November
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