"Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void."

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"Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven."

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"Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?"

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"It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them."

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"So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent."

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"At shut of evening flowers."

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"Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine."

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"And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew."

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"And sweeten'd every musk-rose of the dale."

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"The star that bids the shepherd fold."

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"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!"

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"Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?--thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?"

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"Far off his coming shone."

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"Live while ye may, Yet happy pair."

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"Flowers worthy of paradise."

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"Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth."

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"Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper."

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"Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way."

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"Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower."

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"She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven 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."

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"Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness."

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"I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds."

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"Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?"

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"Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery."

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

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"There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot."

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"Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder."

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"My unpremeditated verse."

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"Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself."

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"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven."

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"Another morn Ris'n on mid-noon."

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"Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely."

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"Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won."

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"Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve."

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"They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy."

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"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good."

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"Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose."

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"Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?"

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"So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap."

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"A bevy of fair women."

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"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng."

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"Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise."

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"A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd."

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"Indu'd With sanctity of reason."

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"To compare Great things with small."

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"Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred."

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"A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars."

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"Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence."

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"Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance."

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"Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd."

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