Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.
Book viii. Line 488.
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
Book viii. Line 502.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be wooed and not unsought be won.
Book viii. Line 548.
So well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best!
Book viii. Line 600.
Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
From all her words and actions.
Book viii. Line 618.
To whom the angel, with a smile that glowed
Celestial rosy red (love's proper Hue)
Book ix. Line 249.
For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.
Book x. Line 77.
Yet I shall temper so
Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
Them fully satisfied, and thee appease.
Book xii. Line 646.
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
* * * * *
PARADISE REGAINED.
Book iv Line 240.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
Book iv. Line 267.
Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democraty,
Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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