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"There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And grace that won who saw to wish her stay."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 43.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 47.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 83.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 163.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 173.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 192.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Liquid lapse of murmuring streams."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 263.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And feel that I am happier than I know."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 282.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?"
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 383.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 488.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 502.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The sum of earthly bliss."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 522.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 548.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 561.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Oft times nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag'd."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 571.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 600.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue."
Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 618.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"My unpremeditated verse."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 24.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 26.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 44.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 171.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 208.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 239.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"At shut of evening flowers."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 278.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So gloz'd the tempter."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 549.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 633.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Left that command Sole daughter of his voice."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 652.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 853.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between."
Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 1106.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?--thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?"
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 269.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 414.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 485.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 491.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 535.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 553.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A bevy of fair women."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 582.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The brazen throat of war."
Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 713.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive."
Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd."
Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 228.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise."
Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 56.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Elephants endors'd with towers."
Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 329.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain