This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ✨ John Milton (1824).…

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ✨ John Milton (1824). The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton, p.94
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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ✨ John Milton (1824). The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton, p.94

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