How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensib…

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. ✨ John Milton, Paradise Lost: Book 10
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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. ✨ John Milton (1848). The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings, p.18
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. ✨ John Milton, Paradise Lost: Book 10

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