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

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John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)
 
2672
    The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day. 1
          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.
 
Note 1.
The child is father of the man.—William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps up. [back]