"Cyclopaedia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cyclopoedia of English Literature" were in the city library, and I used them, making extracts from Chaucer and Spenser, to fix their peculiarities in my memory, though there was only a taste of them to be had from the Cyclopaedia. ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom
... I lived in a world of facts and figures, breathing nothing but dates and exuding mathematical and other data at almost every pore; so that, by the end of the month I felt myself transformed into a sort of portable human cyclopaedia, containing a heterogeneous mass of information of all kinds, as superficial ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... comprehending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scotland, that we must refer our readers to that heading. Their literature is principally the work of venal Scots.' - Stevenson's HANDY CYCLOPAEDIA. Glescow: Blaikie ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson |
