Allusion in Paul's Case

This phrase is a direct quotation from William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood":

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:

A reference to John 21:15:

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” (English Standard Version)

This is a reference to Scheherazade's *A Thousand and One Nights *which contained stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad.

Also known as "Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux", it is part of Charles Gounod's opera Faust.

A four-act opera by Friedrich von Flotow which premiered in Vienna in 1874.

A three-act Opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The character of Rigoletto is that of a smart-mouthed court jester.