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• That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native sea
  descent and fall To us is adverse. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 75...
• The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 208...
• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 910...
• Their fatal hands No second stroke intend.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 712...
• The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 490...
• The palpable obscure. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 406
• To compare Great things with small.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 921...
• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 105...
• Gorgons and Hydras and Chimaeras dire.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 628...