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 John Wilson

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

A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun; A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow; * * * * * * Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow; Even in its very motion there was rest; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west.— filed under Clouds
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