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“Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 667.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 997ff94cf0cff98ed246b6c3a38a889af7274a98df469dcb5775e3de163f8f0d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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