_Paradise Lost, Book 8._


All things from her air inspired
The spirit of love and amorous delight.

_Paradise Lost, Book 8._


It is for homely features to keep home--
They had their name thence: coarse complexions
And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply
The sampler and to tease the housewife's wool.

_Comus._


With dispatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
What choice to choose for delicacy best,
What order, so contrived, as not to mix
Tastes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring
Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change.

_Paradise Lost, Book 5._


I do not think my sister ...
... So unprincipled in Virtue's book
And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever,