Paradise Lost: Quotes from Book V

... and beheld
Beauty which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces
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Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever-new delight!
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Yet evile whence?
In thee can harbour none,
Created pure.
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Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames
All what we affirm or what deny, and call
Our knowledge or opinion; then retires
Into her private cell when Nature rests.
Oft, in her absence, mimic Fancy wakes
To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes,
Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams,
Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
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Raphael, the sociable Spirit, that deigned
To travel with Tobias, and secured
His marriage with the seven-times-wedded maid.
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... and such discourse bring on
As may advise him of his happy state—
Happiness in his power left free to will,
Left to his own free will, his will though free
Yet mutable. Whence warn him to beware
He swerve not, too secure:
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If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.
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