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 Mary Mapes Dodge

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

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter! * * * * * * All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!— filed under Months-April
Hearing. Powers of Sound, etc. She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.— filed under Rain
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