John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued) |
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| 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] |