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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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And the sucking child shall play on the hole <strong>of</strong> the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand<br />

on the cockatrice’ den.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full <strong>of</strong> the<br />

knowledge <strong>of</strong> the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.<br />

Isaiah ch. 11, v. 7<br />

Dragons in their pleasant palaces.<br />

Isaiah ch. 13, v. 22<br />

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son <strong>of</strong> the morning!<br />

Isaiah ch. 14, v. 12<br />

Watchman, what <strong>of</strong> the night? Watchman, what <strong>of</strong> the night?<br />

<strong>The</strong> watchman said, <strong>The</strong> morning cometh, and also the night.<br />

Isaiah ch. 21, v. 11<br />

Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.<br />

Isaiah ch. 22, v. 13.<br />

Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes.<br />

Isaiah ch. 23, v. 8<br />

Howl, ye ships <strong>of</strong> Tarshish.<br />

Isaiah ch. 23, v. 14<br />

In this mountain shall the Lord <strong>of</strong> hosts make unto all people a feast <strong>of</strong> fat things, a feast <strong>of</strong><br />

wine on the lees, <strong>of</strong> fat things full <strong>of</strong> marrow, <strong>of</strong> wine on the lees well refined.<br />

Isaiah ch. 25, v. 6<br />

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from <strong>of</strong>f all faces.<br />

Isaiah ch. 25, v. 8<br />

We have as it were brought forth wind.<br />

Isaiah ch. 26, v. 18<br />

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a<br />

little, and there a little.<br />

Isaiah ch. 28, v. 10<br />

We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.<br />

Isaiah ch. 28, v. 15<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are drunken, but not with wine.<br />

Isaiah ch. 29, v. 9<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir strength is to sit still.<br />

Isaiah ch. 30, v. 7<br />

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.<br />

Isaiah ch. 30, v. 8<br />

Speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.<br />

Isaiah ch. 30, v. 10<br />

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.<br />

Isaiah ch. 30, v. 15

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