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 Lovelace

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

Oh, could you view the melodie Of ev'ry grace, And musick of her face, You'd drop a teare, Seeing more harmonie In her bright eye, Then now you heare.— filed under Beauty
Stone walls doe not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.— filed under Content
Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face.— filed under Face
Man, and the Spirit. Fishes that tipple in the deepe, Know no such liberty.— filed under Fish
I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.— filed under Love
Years in Prison. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.— filed under Prison
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