Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Butterfly

Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel!
Pope.—Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 305.

Ocean into tempest wrought,
To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Dr. Young.—Night I. Line 153.