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“How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 775.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c5ebc0b688c1297714a9572bc5cef6dfc7f03b4637512ffed1405e6b11643820
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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