Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Fast by the oracle of God.

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 10.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 16.

What in me is dark

Illumine, what is low raise and support,

That to the height of this great argument

I may assert eternal Providence,

And justify the ways of God to men.[223:1]

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.