"Now he belongs to the ages/angels" (Stanton on Lincoln, in The New Yorker)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> Did anyone see this? What do=C2=A0our quotations masters say? Why weren't th=
> ey interviewed for this New Yorker story?

I read this the other day; it's an extremely interesting article.
Gopnik's not finding any pre-1890 documentation of "now he belongs to the
ages" concurs with my own research; 1890 was the date of the evidence I
put in The Yale Book of Quotations.  I can't find any evidence for "now he
belongs to the angels."

Fred Shapiro


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