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• These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

  John Milton

  Love, Two, Eden

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 505

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• Angels contented with their face in heaven,
  Seek not the praise of men.

  John Milton

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 06”

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• The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Looks, Hungry

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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• The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

  John Milton

  Spirit, Easy, Intercourse

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.218

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• Wickedness is weakness.

  John Milton

  Weakness, Wickedness

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• For no falsehood can endure
  Touch of celestial temper.

  John Milton

  Lying, Endure, Temper

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.296

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• Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

  John Milton

  Men, Earth, Spots

  'Comus' (1637) l. 5

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• Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

  John Milton

  Moon, Madness, Melancholy

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 485

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• By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

  John Milton

  Life, Nature, Strong

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

  John Milton

  Hands, Eden, World

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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• Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

  John Milton

  Law, Reason, Force

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

  John Milton

  Light, Flames, Darkness

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

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• Let no man seek
  Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall
  Him or his children.

  John Milton

  Children, Men

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 11”

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• But what more oft in nations grown corrupt,
  And by their vices brought to servitude,
  Than to love bondage more than liberty,
  Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

  John Milton

  Liberty, Apathy, Ease

  "The Poetical Works. A New Ed. Carefully Rev. from the Text of Thomas Newton. With Illustr. by William Harvey".

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• Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

  John Milton

  Rain, Eye, Judging

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 121

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• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

  John Milton

  Tears, Weakness, Noble

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1721

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• Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

  John Milton

  Would Be, Virtue, Conscience

  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.309

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• For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

  John Milton

  Glory, Fame

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.232

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• Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Men

  John Milton (1848). “The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings”, p.18

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• When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

  John Milton

  Light, Envy, Shining

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

  John Milton

  Bible, Song, Zion

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• But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

  John Milton

  Night, Embrace

  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.216

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• The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

  John Milton

  Clouds, Elements, Landscape

  John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.37

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• Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

  John Milton

  Night, Rose, Darkness

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1809). “The poetical works of John Milton: from the text of Doctor Newton with the life of the author”, p.325

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• A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

  John Milton

  Night, Reign, Chaos

  John Milton (1903*). “Poetical Works”

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