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Quotes by Wm. Henry Burleigh

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

Stretches, for leagues and leagues, the Wire, A hidden path for a Child of Fire- Over its silent spaces sent, Swifter than Ariel ever went, From continent to continent.— filed under Electricity

Agriculture. Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold.— filed under Occupations-Acting

Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From the ice roof depending; and beneath, Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.— filed under Sows

All this for a song.— filed under Proverbs