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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 46ab7c4f60303dc5c01024ecef53423f4dd8bc5a34889c9f95c32680ffe07e00
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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