Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. ✨ John…

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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. ✨ John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books, p.86
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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. ✨ John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books, p.86

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