Template:Hoyt quote/doc

Usage

This template produces a formatted quotation from Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Parameters

All parameters are optional. There are no positional parameters.

• num - the quotation number, rendered smaller than the normal font
• text - the text of the quote. If you need poem formatting, you have to specify the <poem> tags yourself.
• trans - translation of the quote, in an indented block
• author - author of the quote, rendered in Small Caps
• cog - cognomen of the author, no formatting
• work - title of the work in which the quote appears, rendered in italics
• place - position in the work, no formatting
• note - notes that come on the same line as the place
• seealso - references to other quotations, in a new block which is more indented

Blank template

{{Hoyt quote
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Example

{{Hoyt quote
 | num     = 2
 | text    = {{ppoem|
{{gap|8em}}Boils and plagues 
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd 
Further than seen.
}}
 | trans   = 
 | author  = 
 | work    = Coriolanus.
 | place   = Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37. 
 | note    =
 | seealso =
}}

2

⁠Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen.

Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37.

{{Hoyt quote
 | num     = 7
 | text    = He'll find a way.
 | trans   = 
 | author  = Barrie
 | work    = Sentimental Tommy.
 | place   = 
 | note    = (Corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's in himself.) 
 | seealso =
}}

7

He'll find a way.

Barrie—Sentimental Tommy (Corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's in himself.)

{{Hoyt quote
 | num     = 9
 | text    = <poem>
For as our modern wits behold, 
Mounted a pick-back on the old, 
Much farther off, much further he, 
Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.
</poem>
 | trans   = 
 | author  = Butler
 | work    = Hudibras.
 | place   = Pt. I. Canto II. L. 971. 
 | note    = 
 | seealso = Same idea in {{sc|Macaulay}} ''Essay on'' {{sc|Sir James Mackintosh}}. (See also {{sc|Coleridge}}, {{sc|Didacus Stella}}, {{sc|Herbert}}, {{sc|Seneca}}.) 
}}

9

For as our modern wits behold,
Mounted a pick-back on the old,
Much farther off, much further he,
Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.

Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto II. L. 971.

Same idea in Macaulay Essay on Sir James Mackintosh. (See also Coleridge, Didacus Stella, Herbert, Seneca.)

{{Hoyt quote
 | num     = 
 | text    = Etiam illud adjungo, ssepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam. 
 | trans   = I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
 | author  = Cicero
 | work    = Oratio Pro Licinio Archia.
 | place   = Archia
 | note    = 
 | seealso = 
}}

Etiam illud adjungo, ssepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.

I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Cicero—Oratio Pro Licinio Archia. Archia