The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. ✨ Paradise Rega…

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. ✨ Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12
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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 226
Such sober certainty of waking bliss. ✨ 'Comus' (1637) l. 263
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. ✨ John Milton … ▶
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. ✨ 'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86
How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! ✨ 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. ✨ Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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