John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Dryden. (1631–1700) (continued) |
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| The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme, The young men’s vision, and the old men’s dream! 1 |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 238. |
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| Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. 2 |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 268. |
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| Than a successive title long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah’s ark. |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 301. |
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| Not only hating David, but the king. |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 512. |
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| Who think too little, and who talk too much. 3 |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 534. |
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| A man so various, that he seem’d to be Not one, but all mankind’s epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 4 |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 545. |
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| So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557. |
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| His tribe were God Almighty’s gentlemen. 5 |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 645. |
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| Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. |
| Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868. |
| Note 1. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.—Joel ii. 28. [back] |
| Note 2. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 661. [back] |
| Note 3. They always talk who never think.—Matthew Prior: Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana. [back] |
| Note 4. Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, Augur, schœnobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit (Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjurer,—he knew everything).—Juvenal: Satire iii. line 76. [back] |
| Note 5. A Christian is God Almighty’s gentleman.—Julius Hare: Guesses at Truth. A Christian is the highest style of man.—Edward Young: Night Thoughts, night iv. line 788. [back] |