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 Esaias Tegner

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

Sonnet XIV. He sat by her side and her soft hand he pressed; He felt, in the pressure returned him thrice blessed, Enraptured gazing On her whom he honored beyond all praising.— filed under Wooing
A glimpse of Breidablick, whose walls are light As e'en the silver on the cliff it shone; Of dark blue steel its columns azure height And the big altar was one agate stone. It seemed as if the air upheld alone Its dome, unless supporting spirits bore it, Studded with stars Odin's spangled throne, A light inscrutable burned fiercely o'er it; In sky-blue mantles, Sat the gold-crowned gods before it.— filed under Bias
A sense of justice is a noble fancy.— filed under Kisses
A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.— filed under Prosperity
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