Furniture Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Furniture


Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver’s brain. Coleridge—Christabel. Pt. I.	1
I love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair? Eliza Cook—Old Arm-Chair.	2
Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion square or round. On such a stool immortal Alfred sat. Cowper—Sofa. Bk. I. L. 19.	3
Ingenious Fancy, never better pleased Than when employ’d t’ accommodate the fair, Heard the sweet moan of pity, and devised The soft settee; one elbow at each end, And in the midst an elbow it received, United yet divided, twain at once. Cowper—Task. Bk. I. L. 71.	4
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And Luxury the accomplish’d Sofa last. Cowper—Task. Bk. I. L. 86.	5
A three-legged table, O ye fates! Horace.	6
When on my three-foot stool I sit. Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 89.	7