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 S. Tennyson

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

Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills, Like footsteps upon wool.— filed under Night
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. JOHN SHEFFIELD (Duke of Buckinghamshire)-An Essay on Poetry. L. 323. He that runs may read.— filed under Reading
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