Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 169.

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 174.

And heaven had wanted one immortal song.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 197.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,

And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.[267:4]

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 198.

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