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“In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 597.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 64e276818a99d918fbdcf96ad88cf7d99d070442ebcb98aa6515c01af701f80e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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