THE BOOK OF FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. CHOICE POEMS AND LYRICS. CHOICE THOUGHTS FROM SHAKSPERE. Printed on toned paper, price 5s. each. LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO. PREFACE. -000 HE constantly increasing taste for devotional poetry of a high order of merit has suggested the compilation of this Volume, the contents of which, it is hoped, will insure for it many readers. The selections. are for the most part of a strictly sacred character, but occasionally they are interspersed with others having a religious tendency, if they do not absolutely come under the denomination of Sacred Poems. The object has not been to confine the extracts to any particular period, consequently some of our living poets will be found side by side with the illustrious dead. |