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 William Browne

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

A rose as fair as ever saw the North, Grew in a little garden all alone: A sweeter flower did Nature ne'er put forth, Nor fairer garden yet was never known.— filed under Flowers-Rose
Well languag'd Danyel.— filed under Language
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. gg.— filed under Providence
The Happy Bird. Wren. But then as little wrens, but newly fledge, First by their nests hop up and down the hedge; Then one from bough to bough gets up a tree.— filed under Birthday
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