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 995.

So he with difficulty and labour hard

Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1021.

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain,

This pendent world, in bigness as a star

Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051.

Hail holy light! offspring of heav'n first-born.

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 1.