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“The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 44.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 141963987ca7063beb7130752ce74946f74768e5f197013990d16f10872c1f5e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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