"For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return."

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"Imparadis'd in one another's arms."

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"When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain."

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"Till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray."

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"These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof."

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"The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."

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"Since call'd The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown."

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"So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he."

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"The starry cope Of heaven."

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"Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love."

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"Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."

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"Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,--wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse."

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"Such sober certainty of waking bliss."

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"Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd."

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"Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower."

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"Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease."

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"I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death."

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"Hell Grew darker at their frown."

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"Elephants endors'd with towers."

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"Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers."

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"Hail holy light! offspring of heav'n first-born."

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"Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle."

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"To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom."

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

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"Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium."

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"The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long."

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"Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."

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"Budge doctors of the Stoic fur."

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"Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence."

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"Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see."

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"Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble."

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"Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,-- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay."

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"Socrates . . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men."

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"Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest."

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"Liquid lapse of murmuring streams."

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"So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape."

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"The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear."

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"And grace that won who saw to wish her stay."

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"Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve."

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

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"That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge."

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"The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger."

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"Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell."

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"Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd."

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"Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light."

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"With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb."

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"The brazen throat of war."

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"And feel that I am happier than I know."

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"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all."

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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."

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