| 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. |
| —Lacon |
| Charles Caleb 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 | ||
| Abercrombie | to | Zimmermann |
| Featured Entries | ||
| 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 | ||