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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

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

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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So many laws argues so many sins.

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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

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So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

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Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

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