“As when a hungry tiger near him hears Two lowing herds, awhile he both forbears; Nor can his hopes of this or that renounce, So strong he lusts to prey on both at once.”

“A similitude,” says Venturi, “of great poetic beauty, but of little philosophic soundness.”

“A similitude,” says Venturi, “of great poetic beauty, but of little philosophic soundness.”

When he recalled and interpreted the forgotten dream of Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel 2:10:⁠—

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