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

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Of heaven.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 992.

Fled

Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 1014.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime

Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,

When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep

Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 1.