Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
John Dryden
Wisdom
Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
John Dryden
Absalom and Achitophel. Part ii. Line 413.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.