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John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)

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In discourse more sweet;
For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.
Others apart sat on a hill retir’d,
In thoughts more elevate, and reason’d high
Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
Fix’d fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute;
And found no end, in wand’ring mazes lost.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.

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Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 565.

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Arm th’ obdur’d breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 568.

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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of fire.
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal’d,
At certain revolutions all the damn’d
Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes,—extremes by change more fierce;
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
Immovable, infix’d, and frozen round,
Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 592.

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O’er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp,
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 620.

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Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras dire.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 628.

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The other shape,
If shape it might be call’d that shape had none
Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
Or substance might be call’d that shadow seem’d,
For each seem’d either,—black it stood as night,
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,
And shook a dreadful dart; what seem’d his head
The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Satan was now at hand.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 666.

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