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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

John Milton

Slave, Mills, Gaza

Samson Agonistes l. 40 (1671)

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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

John Milton

Faithful, Gates

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.381

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How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb

John Milton

Philosophy, Charming, Divine

'Comus' (1637) l. 475

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

John Milton

Death, Names, Caves

John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.148

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A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life.

John Milton

Death, Sleep, Immortal Life

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.446

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

John Milton

War, Fighting, Air

John Milton (1870). “Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule”, p.120

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Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

John Milton

Eye, Rivers, Clouds

c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

John Milton

Air, Voice, Singing

John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.286

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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

John Milton

Stars, Moon, World

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.154

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

John Milton

Future, Flight, Never Ending

John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

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Our country is where ever we are well off.

John Milton

Country, Philosophy, Home

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

John Milton

Melancholy, Frenzy

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

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

John Milton

Eagles, Two, Bird

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.349

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

John Milton

Hate, Remembrance, Sun

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

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

John Milton

Spirit, Function, Flats

1671 Samson Agonistes, l.594-6.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

John Milton

Dark, Eclipse, Bark

John Milton (1785). “Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin”, p.18

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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

John Milton

Father, World, Merit

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For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

John Milton

Men, Dwelling, Grace

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.62

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

John Milton

Quills, Various, Lays

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 186

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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

John Milton

Running, Moon, Done

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1011-16.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

John Milton

Long, Late, Paradise Lost Book 9

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 21

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

John Milton

Song, Thee, Wells

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

John Milton

Knowing, Tree, Grew

1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.218-24.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

John Milton

Reason, Sanctity

John Milton (1730). “Paradise Lost ... The author John Milton. The fourteenth edition, to which is prefix'd an Account of his life [by Elijah Fenton. With engraved plates]. MS. notes”, p.198

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

John Milton

Money, Honor, Realms

John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.91

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