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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Hyperion

So excellent a king, that was, to this,
Hyperion to a Satyr.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (On his Mother’s marriage.)

“Hesperion curls, the front of Job himself!—
An eye like March to threaten at command!—
A station like Harry Mercury.”
Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2.