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• Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

  John Milton

  Peace, War, Reason

  John Milton (1861). “The first book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.26

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• Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

  John Milton

  Woe, Stills, Eternal

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• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

  John Milton

  Society, Delight, Harmony

  1665 Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.383-4.

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• Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Flower

  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.164

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• The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

  John Milton

  Truth, Ignorance, Eye

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.387

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• What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

  John Milton

  Helping, God Help Me, Immortality

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• Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Justice, Pace

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.452, BookCaps Study Guides

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• God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

  John Milton

  Growth, Virtue, Vicious

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

  John Milton

  Air, Silence, Chamber

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 16

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• The teachers of our law, and to propose
  What might improve my knowledge or their own.

  John Milton

  Teacher, Knowledge, Law

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.27

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
  Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled;
  Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm
  Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

  John Milton

  Hurt, Trials, Unjust

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.33

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• The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Doors, Wind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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• Time, though in Eternity, applied
  To motion, measures all things durable
  By present, past, and future.

  John Milton

  Time, Past, Eternity

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.46

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• But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

  John Milton

  Song, Time, Blessed

  1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 27.

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• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  John Milton

  Men, Rose, Bird

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698-705.

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• With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

  John Milton

  Flower, Embroidery, Pansies

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

  John Milton

  Angel, Light, Thrones

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 600

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• God doth not need
  Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
  Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
  Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
  They also serve who only stand and wait.

  John Milton

  Ocean, Men, Land

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

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• By night the Glass
  Of Galileo ... observes
  Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

  John Milton

  Science, Moon, Night

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.371

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• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

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• A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

  John Milton

  Singing, Fancy, Poet

  John Milton (1872). “Autobiography of John Milton: Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words”, p.78

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
  With mask, and antique pageantry,
  Such sights as youthful poets dream
  On summer eves by haunted stream.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Sight

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

  John Milton

  Nice, Cabins, Holes

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.53

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• Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

  John Milton

  Mean, Law, Bars

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.345, Pearson Education

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• They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; 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, Tears

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

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