John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued) |
| 2488 |
| Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 549. |
| 2489 |
| His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear’d Less than archangel ruin’d, and th’ excess Of glory obscur’d. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 591. |
| 2490 |
| In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 597. |
| 2491 |
| Thrice he assay’d, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 619. |
| 2492 |
| Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 648. |
| 2493 |
| Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for ev’n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven’s pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy’d In vision beatific. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 679. |
| 2494 |
| Let none admire That riches grow in hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 690. |
| 2495 |
| Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 710. |
| 2496 |
| From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,— A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropp’d from the Zenith like a falling star. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742. |
| 2497 |
| Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. |
| Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 781. |