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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

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This is an excellent book full of great material. It was published in 1901 and has mostly English authors, plus a few from the Continent and America. The earliest author I found was Chaucer, and Shakespeare is quoted most frequently. There's no table of contents, but the quotes are printed alphabetically by topic- Abashed, Abbots, Abdication, so you can search for a topic you're interested in. You're told exactly where each quote comes from- e.g. Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. viii., line 561. The back of the book has an Index to Authors and an Index to Quotations. There are 2138 quotes in the book. And you can get this wonderful book for the price of... free!!!

This free book for amazon kindle owners has 2,138 quotations from 255 authors arranged alphabetically. The first is abashed, then abbots, then abdication. Shakespeare's Othello is used for absence - "Thou lost to sight, to memory dear Thou ever wilt remain" - a good quote to send to significant others when the two are parted. Other Shakespeare quotes are: Macbeth- "Wise men ne're sit and wail their loss, But cheerily seek how to redress their harms." Troilus and Cressida - "The world's a theatre, the earth a stage which God and Nature do with actors fill." From other sources: "Pleasure and action make the hours seem short" and "All things are ready if your minds be so." These examples show that the quotes can be very useful.

I didn't care for this book. I expected to get quotes that I had heard before or made sense to me. I didn't feel I got either.