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MILTON-Samson Agonistes. L. 80.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
MILTON-Samson Agonistes. L. 67.
These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot,
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year,
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.

f. MILTON-Sonnet XXII. L. 1.

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Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are,-they yet shall be.
8. MONTGOMERY-The Little Cloud.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 57. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 21.

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The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown. QUARLES-Esther.

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I know I am-that simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.

I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
BAYARD TAYLOR-Prince Deukalion.
Act IV.

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Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health.

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THOMSON-The Castle of Indolence. Canto II. St. 55.

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Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes. e. WM. R. ALGER-Oriental Poetry. Love Sowing and Reaping Roses.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.

The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;

They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,

And flare up bodily, wings and all.

f. E. B. BROWNING-Aurora Leigh. Bk. II. L. 732.

Blushed like the waves of hell.

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St. 12.

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And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus.

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Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3.
L. 228.

By noting of the lady I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions

To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames.

In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV.
Sc. 1. L. 160.

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And as for me, though than I konne but lyte,
On bokes for to rede I me delyte,
And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence,
And in myn herte have hem in reverence
So hertely, that ther is game noon,
That fro my bokes maketh me to goon,
But yt be seldome on the holy day.
Save, certeynly, when that the monthe of May
Is comen, and that I here the foules synge,
And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,
Farwel my boke, and my devocion.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

d. COLERIDGE-Literary Remains.

Prospectus of Lectures.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

0. EMERSON-Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the Printers have lost. p.

FULLER-The Holy and the Profane
State. Of Books.

Some Books are onely cursorily to be tasted

Bk. II. Canto V.

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FULLER-The Holy and the Profane State. Of Books.

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(Ed. 1891).

Ch. XXII.

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