MISQUOTATION.
To the Editor. Sir,—lt is really extraordinary how few persons can quote the most fairfiliar lines correctly. A' writer to the Daily Thncs yesterday gave us “ Everything by turns, and ppthing long, ” and to-day Air Grant, in arj “ unexceptionable i! letter, tries to porrect him, and gives us as the “accurate” reading —“ All things in turn, and nothing long. As both are in error, Mr Grant inexcusably so, let me refer them to Dryden's “ Absalqn aud Aclutophel,” where they will find the welLkucwn couplet—- “ Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong ; Was everything 6y starts, and nothing long. ’ I am, &c., G. P. S.
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Evening Star, Issue 3059, 7 December 1872, Page 2
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105MISQUOTATION. Evening Star, Issue 3059, 7 December 1872, Page 2
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