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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

John Milton

Experience, Prophetic, Strain

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 173

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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

John Milton

Sweet, Art, Sight

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 896

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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

John Milton

Should, Horrible, Famine

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.509

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

John Milton

Greatness, Doe, Done

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.495

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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

John Milton

Astrology, Rubrics

John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.80, BookCaps Study Guides

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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

John Milton

Peers, Satan, Pandemonium

Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 756 (1667)

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

John Milton

Angel, Voice, Ears

John Milton (1750). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.67

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

John Milton

Happiness, Farewell, Joy

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 249

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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given,
That brought into this world a world of woe,
Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,
Death's harbinger.

John Milton

Shadow, World, Woe

John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.125

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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

John Milton

Life, Queens, Twilight

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

John Milton

Flames, Light, Sight

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

John Milton

Lying, Flower, Glowing

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

John Milton

Hope, Fire, Despair

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.101

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Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

John Milton

Light, Essence, Heaven

John Milton, Sarah Siddons (1822). “The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons”, p.43

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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

John Milton

Faith, Angel, Wings

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.550

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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

John Milton

Halloween, Men, Names

John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.40

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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

John Milton

Fighting, Dark, Fire

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

John Milton

Crush, Sweet, Wine

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

John Milton

Christian, Running, Race

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

John Milton

Loss, Lovely, Devil

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

John Milton

Loneliness, Eye, Men

"The prose works of John Milton".

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

John Milton

Angel, Heaven, Soul

John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.27

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

John Milton

Education, Path, Firsts

John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.275

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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

John Milton

Inspirational, Rolling, Cherubs

John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.14

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

John Milton

Fear, Loss, Way

John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.174

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Born: December 9, 1608
Died: November 8, 1674
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