Of painful superstition and blind zeal ...
AIL the unaccomplished works of Nature’s hand,
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixed ...
The builders here of Babel ...
Others come single. He who to be deemed
A god, leaped fondly into Etna’s flames,
Empedoclês; and he who to enjoy
Plato’s elysium, leaped into the sea ...
Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars.
Paradise Lost, iii. 448 (1665).