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Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

_Paradise Lost. Book xii . Line 645._

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

_Paradise Regained. Book ii . Line 220._

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

_Paradise Regained. Book ii . Line 228._

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

_Paradise Regained. Book iii . Line 56._

Elephants endors'd with towers.

_Paradise Regained. Book iii . Line 329._

Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, Meroe, Nilotic isle.

_Paradise Regained. Book iv . Line 70._

Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.

_Paradise Regained. Book iv . Line 76._

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.[241-1]

_Paradise Regained. Book iv . Line 220._

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

_Paradise Regained. Book iv . Line 240._

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

_Paradise Regained.