Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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[277-1] There is a pleasure in poetic pains. Which only poets know.

COWPER: _The Timepiece, line 285._

[277-2] Lords of humankind.--GOLDSMITH: _The Traveller, line 327._

[277-3] Adore the hand that gives the blow.--POMFRET: _Verses to his Friend._

[277-4] Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.--EURIPIDES: _Hippolytus, 438._

[277-5] See Butler, page 211.

[277-6] The precious porcelain of human clay.--BYRON: _Don Juan,