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

2675 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2675
AUTHOR:John Milton (1608–1674)
QUOTATION:Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
Shook the arsenal, and fulmin’d over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes’ throne.
ATTRIBUTION:Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267.