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
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.
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C ONTENTSBibliographic Record Preface PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., 1880
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
