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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

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