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Who would loose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night?
Who would loose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night?
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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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 214 · printed citation: Milton (Paradise Lost ii., 146) · compiler notes excluded
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