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.
Countries-America: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
America. America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. The Surface. L. 340.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.— BURKE — Speech on Conciliation with America. Works. Vol. II.
Young man, there is America-which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.— BURKE — Speech on Conciliation with America. Works. Vol. II.
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.— TIMOTHY DWIGHT — Columbia.
Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had been to their feet as a doorstep Into a world unknown, -the corner-stone of a nation!— LONGFELLOW — Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. V. St. 2.
Earth's biggest Country's gut her soul An' risen up Earth's Greatest Nation.— LOWELL — The Biglow Papers. Second Series. No. 7. St. 21.
In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?— SYDNEY SMITH — Works. Vol. II.
America. (Edinburgh Review, 1820.) America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Completion of
Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1843. Vol. I. P.— COUNTRIES — ENGLAND. 115
Lo! body and soul!-this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land, -the South And the North in the light-Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.— WALT WHITMAN — Sequel to Drum-Taps.
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd. St. 12. Egypt. Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.— BYRON — The Age of Bronze. V.
England. England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. The Surface. L. 376.
Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.— CHURCHILL — The Farewell.
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where, without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.— CHURCHILL — Ghost. Bk. I. L. 111.
The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.— GOLDSMITH — The Traveller. L. 356.
His home!-the Western giant smiles, And turns the spotty globe to find it ;- This little speck the British Isles? 'Tis but a freckle, -never mind it.— O. W. HOLMES — A Good Time Going.
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of Johnson. Vol. II. Ch. V. 1763.
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?— POPE — Moral Essays.
Epistle to Addison. L. 53. O England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart, What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do, Were all thy children kind and natural! But see thy fault!— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act II. Chorus. L. 16.