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• Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 256...
• Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 105...
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• Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Hymn on Christ's Nativity, Line 135...
• How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible!
  how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap!...
• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iv, Line 244...
• Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 26...
• My unpremeditated verse. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 24
• Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 432...