A COMPLETE DICTIONARY
OF
POETICAL QUOTATIONS:
COMPRISING THE MOST EXCELLENT AND APPROPRIATE PASSAGES
IN THE
OLD BRITISH POETS:
BY JOSEPH ADDINGTON.
WITH CHOICE AND COPIOUS SELECTIONS
FROM THE BEST
MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETS.
EDITED BY
SARAH JOSEPHA HALE.
Beautifully illustrated with Engravings. In one super-royal 8vo. volume, in various bindings.
The publishers extract, from the many highly complimentary notices of the above valuable and beautiful work, the following:—
“We have at last a volume of Poetical Quotations worthy of the name. It contains nearly six hundred octavo pages, carefully and tastefully selected from all the home and foreign authors of celebrity. It is invaluable to a writer, while to the ordinary reader it presents every subject at a glance.”—Godey’s Lady’s Book.
“The plan or idea of Mrs. Hale’s work is felicitous. It is one for which her fine taste, her orderly habits of mind, and her long occupation with literature, has given her peculiar facilities; and thoroughly has she accomplished her task in the work before us.”—Sartain’s Magazine.
“It is a choice collection of poetical extracts from every English and American author worth perusing, from the days of Chaucer to the present time.”—Washington Union.
“Its graceful editress, in her short preface, thus speaks, and most truly, of its contents: ‘Whatever is loveliest in sentiment and loftiest in aspiration is here represented: specimens of the varied forms in which gifted minds have contributed to the polish of wit, the beauty of wisdom, the sweetness of love, the power of patriotism, the holiness of piety—all that has most deeply stirred the soul of the Anglo-Saxon race for the last three hundred years, is here embodied.’ It contains copious selections from all the standard British and American Poets upon almost every subject within the range of thought. The subjects are arranged alphabetically, and a ‘Table of Contents’ at the commencement renders reference to them perfectly easy.”—New Hampshire Patriot.
“There is nothing negative about this work; it is positively good.”—Evening Bulletin.
SPLENDID LIBRARY EDITIONS.
ILLUSTRATED STANDARD POETS.
Elegantly Printed and Uniform in Size and Style.
The following editions of Standard British Poets are illustrated with numerous steel engravings, and may be had in all varieties of binding.
BYRON’S WORKS.
Complete in one vol. octavo.
INCLUDING ALL HIS SUPPRESSED AND ATTRIBUTED POEMS;
With Six beautiful Engravings.
☞ This edition has been carefully compared with the recent London edition of Mr. Murray, and made complete by the addition of more than fifty pages of poems heretofore unpublished in England. Among these there are a number that have never appeared in any American edition; and the publishers believe they are warranted in saying, that this is the most complete edition of Lord Byron’s Poetical Works ever published in the United States.