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 Epes Sargent

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

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep; Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!— filed under Ocean
The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!— filed under Sunrise
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