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 Roscoe

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

Chiefs of elder Art! Teachers of wisdom! who would once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you.— filed under Books
Geneva. Again thou reignest in thy golden hall, Rejoicing in thy sway, fair queen of night! The ruddy reapers hail thee with delight: Theirs is the harvest, theirs the joyous call For tasks well ended ere the season's fall.— filed under Monuments
The eastern hanging crescent climbeth higher; See, purple on the azure softly steals, And Morning, faintly touched with quivering fire, Leans on the frosty summits of the hills, Like a young girl over her hoary sire.— filed under Morning
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