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Quotation from The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes by John Milton

“And calm of mind all passion spent”

John Milton (spoken by Chorus)

The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Samson Agonistes, l. 1758 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works))

The last line of the tragedy, applying the preface's theory of catharsis to the Chorus itself.

Citation: "And calm of mind all passion spent" — John Milton, The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Samson Agonistes, l. 1758 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works)). (id milton-shorter-poems-and-samson-agonistes-q15)

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