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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,—wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,—wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.
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