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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.
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"The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 220.
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"Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 240.
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"The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 244.
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"Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267.
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"Socrates . . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 274.
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"Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 327.
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"As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?"
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 330.
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"Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray."
Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 426.
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"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!"
Samson Agonistes. Line 80.
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"The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."
Samson Agonistes. Line 86.
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"Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."
Samson Agonistes. Line 129.
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"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all."
Samson Agonistes. Line 293.
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"What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?"
Samson Agonistes. Line 560.
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"But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seems,-- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?"
Samson Agonistes. Line 710.
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"Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd."
Samson Agonistes. Line 1003.
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"He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?"
Samson Agonistes. Line 1350.
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"For evil news rides post, while good news baits."
Samson Agonistes. Line 1538.
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"And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl."
Samson Agonistes. Line 1692.
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"Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble."
Samson Agonistes. Line 1721.
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"Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth."
Comus. Line 5.
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"That golden key That opes the palace of eternity."
Comus. Line 13.
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"The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger."
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"I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower."
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"Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine."
Comus. Line 46.
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"These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof."
Comus. Line 83.
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"The star that bids the shepherd fold."
Comus. Line 93.
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"Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity."
Comus. Line 103.
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"Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep."
Comus. Line 138.
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"When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain."
Comus. Line 188.
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"A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses."
Comus. Line 205.
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"O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!"
Comus. Line 213.
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"Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?"
Comus. Line 221.
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"Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?"
Comus. Line 244.
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"How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd!"
Comus. Line 249.
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"Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium."
Comus. Line 256.
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"Such sober certainty of waking bliss."
Comus. Line 263.
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"I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds."
Comus. Line 298.
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"It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them."
Comus. Line 303.
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"With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light."
Comus. Line 340.
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"The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure."
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"'T is chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel."
Comus. Line 420.
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"Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity."
Comus. Line 432.
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"So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape."
Comus. Line 453.
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"How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns."
Comus. Line 476.
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"And sweeten'd every musk-rose of the dale."
Comus. Line 496.
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"Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance."
Comus. Line 550.
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"I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death."
Comus. Line 560.
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"That power Which erring men call Chance."
Comus. Line 587.
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