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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2480
AUTHOR:John Milton (1608–1674)
QUOTATION:His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
Of some great ammiral were but a wand,
He walk’d with to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle.
ATTRIBUTION:Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 292.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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