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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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At whose sight all the stars<br />

Hide their diminished heads.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 34<br />

Warring in heaven against heaven’s matchless king.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 41<br />

A grateful mind<br />

By owing owes not, but still pays, at once<br />

Indebted and discharged.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 55<br />

Me miserable! which way shall I fly<br />

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?<br />

Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;<br />

And in the lowest deep a lower deep<br />

Still threatening to devour me opens wide,<br />

To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 73<br />

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,<br />

Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost;<br />

Evil, be thou my good.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 108<br />

So clomb this first grand thief into God’s fold:<br />

So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.<br />

<strong>The</strong>nce up he flew, and on the tree <strong>of</strong> life,<br />

<strong>The</strong> middle tree and highest there that grew,<br />

Sat like a cormorant.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 192<br />

Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,<br />

Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind<br />

Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true,<br />

If true, here only.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 248<br />

Flowers <strong>of</strong> all hue, and without thorn the rose.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 256<br />

Not that fair field<br />

Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers<br />

Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis<br />

Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain.<br />

‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 4, l. 268<br />

For contemplation he and valour formed,<br />

For s<strong>of</strong>tness she and sweet attractive grace,

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