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 Falconer

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

Thou living ray of intellectual fire.— filed under Intellect
Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock; Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With strong convulsion rends the solid oak: Ah Heaven!-behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.— filed under Shipwreck
mus, and Galatea from the Thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. L. 165. High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.— filed under Summer
On the Ramparts at Angoulême. The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.— filed under Sunset
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