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 Walter Savage Landor

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

When she kissed me once in play, Rubies were less bright than they; And less bright were those which shone In the palace of the Sun. Will they be as bright again? Not if kiss'd by other men.— filed under Kisses
Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.— filed under Name
Anglo-French Alliance. Past are three summers since she first beheld The ocean; all around the child await Some exclamation of amazement here: She coldly said, her long-lasht eyes abased, Is this the mighty ocean? is this all?— filed under Ocean
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.— filed under Philosophy
Shakespeare. Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech!— filed under Shakespeare
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