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

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Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 1005.

Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;

Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin,[269:2]

Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 413.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 463.

Men met each other with erected look,

The steps were higher that they took;

Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,