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 iv. Line 241.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.[232:1]

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256.

Proserpine gathering flowers,

Herself a fairer flower.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 269.

For contemplation he and valour form'd,

For softness she and sweet attractive grace;

He for God only, she for God in him.

His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd