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

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Diurnal, merely to officiate light

Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 21.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 43.

And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 47.

With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er,

Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 83.