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 ix. Line 239.

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For solitude sometimes is best society,

And short retirement urges sweet return.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249.

At shut of evening flowers.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 278.

As one who long in populous city pent,

Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445.