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 Rossiter Johnson

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

When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.— filed under Occupations-Undertakers
R. How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn. S.— filed under Rain
Rhythms. O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!— filed under Sows
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