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

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For who would lose,

Though full of pain, this intellectual being,

Those thoughts that wander through eternity,

To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost

In the wide womb of uncreated night?

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146.

His red right hand.[227:1]

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 174.

Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 185.