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 R. H. Dana

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

Beach Bird. Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!— filed under Birds-Blackbird
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.— filed under Childhood
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