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John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)

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For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249.

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At shut of evening flowers.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 278.

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As one who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445.

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So gloz’d the tempter.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 549.

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Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 633.

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Left that command
Sole daughter of his voice. 1

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 652.

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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe
That all was lost.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 782.

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In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 853.

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A pillar’d shade
High overarch’d, and echoing walks between.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 1106.

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Yet I shall temper so
Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
Them fully satisfy’d, and thee appease.

Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 77.

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So scented the grim Feature, and upturn’d
His nostril wide into the murky air,
Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 279.

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How gladly would I meet
Mortality my sentence, and be earth
Insensible! how glad would lay me down
As in my mother’s lap!

Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 775.

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?—thus leave
Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 269.

Note 1.
Stern daughter of the voice of God.—William Wordsworth: Ode to Duty. [back]