Template:RQ:James Thomson City of Dreadful Night/documentation
Usage
editThis template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote the work of James Thomson (born 1834) entitled The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (1st collected edition, 1880). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
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|1=
,|chapter=
, or|poem=
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or|stanza=
is used, specify the part or stanza number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals; the number will be preceded by the word "part" or "stanza".|2=
or|page=
, or|pages=
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|pages=110–111
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- Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:
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|3=
,|text=
, or|passage=
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Examples
edit- Wikitext:
{{RQ:James Thomson City of Dreadful Night|poem=The City of Dreadful Night|part=I|stanza=1|page=3|passage=The City is of Night; perchance of Death, / But certainly of Night; for never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy '''dawning'''’s cold grey air; {{...}}}}
; or{{RQ:James Thomson City of Dreadful Night|The City of Dreadful Night|part=I|stanza=1|3|The City is of Night; perchance of Death, / But certainly of Night; for never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy '''dawning'''’s cold grey air; {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part I, stanza 1, page 3:
- The City is of Night; perchance of Death, / But certainly of Night; for never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning’s cold grey air; […]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:James Thomson City of Dreadful Night|poem=The City of Dreadful Night|part=XIX|stanza=1|pages=47–48|pageref=48|passage=The mighty river flowing dark and deep, / With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides / Vague-sounding through the City's sleepless sleep, / Is named the River of the Suicides; / For night by night some '''lorn''' wretch overweary, / And shuddering from the future yet more dreary, / Within its cold secure oblivion hides.}}
- Result:
- 1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part XIX, stanza 1, pages 47–48:
- The mighty river flowing dark and deep, / With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides / Vague-sounding through the City's sleepless sleep, / Is named the River of the Suicides; / For night by night some lorn wretch overweary, / And shuddering from the future yet more dreary, / Within its cold secure oblivion hides.
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