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

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Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 803.

Death

Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear

His famine should be fill'd.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 845.

On a sudden open fly,

With impetuous recoil and jarring sound,

Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate

Harsh thunder.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 879.