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Cities-Dresden: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Dresden. At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty.— HEINE — Book of Songs. Sonnets.

Dresden Poetry. Florence. Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 57.

London. A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head-and there is London Town, C.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto X. St. 82.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.— SAM'L JOHNSON — London. L. 93.

Naples. Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.— TUPPER — Proverbial Philosophy. Of Death. L. 53.

Nuremburg. In the valley of the Pegnitz, where, Across broad meadow-lands, Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremburg, the ancient, stands.— LONGFELLOW — Nuremburg.

Paris. Good Americans when they die go to Paris.— THOS. APPLETON — See also O. W.

Holmes. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI. When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, And to Versailles, although to go so far is A thing not quite consistent with your ease, And-but the mass of objects quite a bar is To my describing what the traveller sees. You who have ever been to Paris, know; And you who have not been to Paris-go!— RUSKIN — A Tour Through France. St. 12.