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 Joseph Rodman Drake

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

Dispatch. Jan. 29, 1861. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.— filed under Flags
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air.— filed under Flags
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.— filed under Freedom
Bronx. Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.— filed under Rivers-Afton
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