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

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John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)
 
2526
    Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 681.
2527
    Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 699.
2528
    So spake the grisly Terror.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 704.
2529
    Incens’d with indignation Satan stood
Unterrify’d, and like a comet burn’d
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In th’ arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707.
2530
    Their fatal hands
No second stroke intend.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 712.
2531
    Hell
Grew darker at their frown.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 719.
2532
    I fled, and cry’d out, DEATH!
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh’d
From all her caves, and back resounded, DEATH!
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 787.
2533
    Before mine eyes in opposition sits
Grim Death, my son and foe.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 803.
2534
    Death
Grinn’d horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be fill’d.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 845.
2535
    On a sudden open fly,
With impetuous recoil and jarring sound,
Th’ infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
Harsh thunder.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 879.
2536
    Where eldest Night
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise
Of endless wars, and by confusion stand;
For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,
Strive here for mast’ry.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 894.
2537
    Into this wild abyss,
The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
          Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 910.