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Cities-Delft: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 240.

Boston. The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart. So let each dweller on the Bay Fold Boston in his heart Till these echoes be choked with snows Or over the town blue ocean flows.— EMERSON — Boston. St. 20.

Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.— O. W. HOLMES — The Autocrat of the

Breakfast Table. VI. A solid man of Boston A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.— LONGFELLOW — New England Tragedies, John Endicott. Act IV.

Carcassonne. How old I am! I'm eighty years! I've worked both hard and long, Yet patient as my life has been, One dearest sight I have not seen- It almost seems a wrong; A dream I had when life was new, Alas our dreams! they come not true; I thought to see fair Carcassonne, That lovely city-Carcassonne!— GUSTAVE NADAUD — Quoted in Marvin

R. Vincent's In the Shadow of the Pyrenees. Ch. XVII. Cologne. In Köln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? S.— COLERIDGE — Cologne.

Delft. What land is this? Yon pretty town Is Delft, with all its wares displayed: The pride, the market-place, the crown And centre of the Potter's trade,— LONGFELLOW — Keramos. L. 66.