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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

2555 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2555
AUTHOR:John Milton (1608–1674)
QUOTATION:At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminish’d heads. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.
 
Note 1.
Ye little stars! hide our diminished rays.—Alexander Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 282. [back]