John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2508 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2508 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | For who would lose, Though full of pain this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow’d up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146. |