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, canto iv. stanza 11.

[277:7] Give ample room and verge enough.—Gray: The Bard, ii. 1.

[277:8] Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.—Blair: The Grave, line 58.

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