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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How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity!— MOORE — Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers. St. 52.
'Tis Noon;-a calm, unbroken sleep Is on the blue waves of the deep; A soft haze, like a fairy dream, Is floating over wood and stream; And many a broad magnolia flower, Within its shadowy woodland bower, Is gleaming like a lovely star.— GEO. D. PRENTICE — To an Absent Wife. St. 2.
The noonday quiet holds the hill.— TENNYSON — Enone. L. 2.
Pure was the temperate Air, an even Calm Perpetual reign'd, save what the Zephyrs bland Breath'd o'er the blue expanse.— THOMSON — Seasons. Spring. L. 323.
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