19th. RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, d. Aug. 11, 1885
I. The Brook-Side, 12:177-178
II. The Men of Old, 14:133-135
III. Lincoln’s Speech in Independence Hall, 5-Pt. I:71-73
IV. To the Workingmen of Manchester, 5-Pt. I:115-117
20th. I. Longfellow’s Hymn to the Night, 12:46-47
II. The Light of the Stars, 12:48-49
III. Daybreak, 12:49-50
IV. Seaweed, 14:88-89
V. The Village Blacksmith, 14:165-166
21st. HENRY GUY CARLETON, b. 21 Je. 1856
I. The Thompson Street Poker Club, 7-Pt. II: 116-121
II. Munkittrick’s Patriotic Tourist, 9-Pt. II: 47-48
III. What’s in a Name, 9-Pt. II:103-104
IV. ’Tis Ever Thus, 9-Pt. II:152
22nd. ALAN SEEGER, b. 22 Je. 1888
I. I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 15:215
II. O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi, 22-Pt. II:48
23rd. I. Longfellow’s The Day Is Done, 12:240-242.
II. The Beleaguered City, 14:249-251
III. The Bridge, 12:279-282
IV. Whittier’s Ichabod, 14:154-156
V. Maud Muller, 11:219-224
24th. AMBROSE BIERCE, b. 24 Je. 1842
I. The Dog and the Bees, 7-Pt. II:10
II. The Man and the Goose, 9-Pt. I:85
Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Je. 1314
III. Burns’s Bannockburn, 12:198-199
IV. My Heart’s in the Highlands, 12:36-37
V. The Banks of Doon, 12:146-147
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon
as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON.