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

Page 238

John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)

And happy constellations on that hour
Shed their selectest influence; the earth
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
Whisper’d it to the woods, and from their wings
Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508.

2633

The sum of earthly bliss.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 522.

2634

So well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 548.

2635

Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 561.

2636

Oft times nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well manag’d. 1

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 571.

2637

Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 610.

2638

With a smile that glow’d
Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 618.

2639

My unpremeditated verse.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 24.

2640

Pleas’d me, long choosing and beginning late.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 26.

2641

Unless an age too late, or cold
Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 44.

2642

Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 171.

2643

The work under our labour grows,
Luxurious by restraint.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 208.

2644

Smiles from reason flow,
To brute deny’d, and are of love the food.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 239.

Note 1.
”But most of all respect thyself.”—A precept of the Pythagoreans. [back]

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