Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did…

John Milton
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748

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