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 W. D. Howells

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

Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?"— filed under Birds-Canary
The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook Blew the gold hair about her eyes, - A mystery of mysteries. So he must often pause, and stoop, And all the wanton ringlets loop Behind her dainty ear-emprise Of slow event and many sighs.— filed under Hair
Sonnet XIX. Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes? Does it blow so strong that she must fetch Her breath in sudden sighs?— filed under Months-October
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