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

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The strongest and the fiercest spirit

That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 44.

Rather than be less,

Car'd not to be at all.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 47.

My sentence is for open war.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 51.

That in our proper motion we ascend

Up to our native seat: descent and fall