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 P. Whitehead

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

So, when a falcon skims the airy way, Stoops from the clouds, and pounces on his prey, Dash'd on the earth the feather'd victim lies, Expands its feeble wings, and, flutt'ring, dies. C.— filed under Birds-Falcon
Sea Coal. I. Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things, Who trip in this frolicsome round, Pray tell me from whence this impertinence springs, The sexes at once to confound?— filed under Corruption
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