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.
2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.— filed under Woman
A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt. Recipe "To Make a Modern Fop." About 1770. A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage? Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress In metre, as Druids did the savages.— filed under Forgetfulness