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Short is the course of every lawless pleasure— Grief, like a shade, on all its footsteps waits, Scarce visible in joy’s meridian height; But, downwards as its blaze declining speeds, The dwarfish shadow to a giant spreads.
Short is the course of every lawless pleasure— Grief, like a shade, on all its footsteps waits, Scarce visible in joy’s meridian height; But, downwards as its blaze declining speeds, The dwarfish shadow to a giant spreads.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 445 · printed citation: Milton · subject: PLEASING—PLEASURE
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