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 Morris

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

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.— filed under Months-March
O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.— filed under Birds-Thrush
Psalm XXXVII. From out the throng and stress of lies,. From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."— filed under Comfort
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