John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued) |
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| Then purg’d with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 414. |
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| Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 485. |
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| And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay’d to strike, though oft invok’d. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 491. |
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| So may’st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother’s lap. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 535. |
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| Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv’st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven. 1 |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 553. |
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| A bevy of fair women. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 582. |
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| The brazen throat of war. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 713. |
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| Some natural tears they dropp’d, but wip’d them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand’ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. |
| Paradise Lost. Book xii. Line 645. |
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| Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. |
| Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220. |
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| Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck’d. |
| Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 228. |
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| Of whom to be disprais’d were no small praise. |
| Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 56. |
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| Elephants endors’d with towers. |
| Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 329. |
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| Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle. |
| Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 70. |
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| Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath’d. |
| Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 76. |
| Note 1. Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes (Neither fear nor wish for your last day).—Martial: lib. x. epigram 47, line 13. [back] |