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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)
 
2549
    Dark with excessive bright.
          Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380.
2550
    Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,
White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.
          Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 474.
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    Since call’d
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.
          Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495.
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    And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
          Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686.
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    The hell within him.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 20.
2554
    Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber’d,—wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.
2555
    At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminish’d heads. 1
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.
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    A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg’d.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.
2557
    Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 73.
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    Such joy ambition finds.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 92.
2559
    Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96.
2560
    So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good.
          Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108.
 
Note 1.
Ye little stars! hide our diminished rays.—Alexander Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 282. [back]