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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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And when night<br />

Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons<br />

Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 500<br />

<strong>The</strong> imperial ensign, which full high advanced<br />

Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 536<br />

Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds:<br />

At which the universal host upsent<br />

A shout that tore hell’s concave, and beyond<br />

Frighted the reign <strong>of</strong> Chaos and old Night.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 540<br />

Anon they move<br />

In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mode<br />

Of flutes and s<strong>of</strong>t recorders.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 549<br />

That small infantry<br />

Warred on by cranes.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 575 (on the Pygmies)<br />

What resounds<br />

In fable or romance <strong>of</strong> Uther’s son<br />

Begirt with British and Armoric knights;<br />

And all who since, baptized or infidel,<br />

Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban,<br />

Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,<br />

Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore<br />

When Charlemain with all his peerage fell<br />

By Fontarabia.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 579<br />

As when the sun new risen<br />

Looks through the horizontal misty air<br />

Shorn <strong>of</strong> his beams, or from behind the moon<br />

In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds<br />

On half the nations, and with fear <strong>of</strong> change<br />

Perplexes monarchs.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 594<br />

Who overcomes<br />

By force, hath overcome but half his foe.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 1, l. 648<br />

Mammon led them on,

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