Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
Charles Caleb
Colton
Colton
Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay
Authors, 544; Subjects, 572; Quotations, 8991
Compiled by S. Austin Allibone
These often lengthy selections from the best of English prose innovators satisfy the researcher looking for in-depth reflections and the writer looking for the best sentences ever written.
Contents
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., 1880
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
Category Index
Abridgments
to
Zeal
Featured Entries
Age, Authors, Authorship, Bible, Books, Children, Christianity, Conscience, Conversation, Criticism, Death, Drama, Education, England, Friendship, Futurity, God, Good, Government, Happiness, History, Infidelity, Knowledge, Languages, Law, Lawyers, Life, Love, Man, Manners, Matrimony, Morals, Oratory, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Religion, States, Style, Virtue, War, Woman, Words
Primary Author Index
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Addison, Atterbury, Bacon, Bentley, Browne, Burke, Carlyle, Charnock, Chesterfield, Coleridge, Collier, Colton, Dryden, Foster, Goldsmith, Hall, Hooker, Household Words, Johnson, L’Estrange, Locke, Macaulay, Milton, Montaigne, Pope, Raleigh, South, Steele, Swift, Taylor, Temple, Tillotson, Watts, Whately