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

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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme,

The young men's vision, and the old men's dream![268:1]

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 238.

Behold him setting in his western skies,

The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.[268:2]

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 268.

Than a successive title long and dark,

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 301.

Not only hating David, but the king.