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

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Sweet the pleasure,—

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Alexander's Feast. Line 58.

Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain;

Fought all his battles o'er again;

And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.

Alexander's Feast. Line 66.

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,

Fallen from his high estate,

And welt'ring in his blood;