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Fruits of more pleasing savour from thy seed Sown with contrition in his heart, than those Which, his own hand manuring, all the trees Of Paradise could have produced.
Fruits of more pleasing savour from thy seed Sown with contrition in his heart, than those Which, his own hand manuring, all the trees Of Paradise could have produced.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1608–1674)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 148 · printed citation: Milton · subject: CONTRITION
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