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 Geo. D. Prentice

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

'Tis Noon;-a calm, unbroken sleep Is on the blue waves of the deep; A soft haze, like a fairy dream, Is floating over wood and stream; And many a broad magnolia flower, Within its shadowy woodland bower, Is gleaming like a lovely star.— filed under Calmness
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunderroar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.— filed under War
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