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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Nature, Graves, Womb

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

  John Milton

  Cooking, Flow, Reason

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.277

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• From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

  John Milton

  Stars, Laughter, Moving

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 76

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• Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

  John Milton

  Truth, Father, Stones

  John Milton (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Milton. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]”, p.574

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• The timely dew of sleep.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Dew, Timely

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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• Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

  John Milton

  Deserving It, Missing, Age

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• Temper justice with mercy.

  John Milton

  Forgiveness, Justice, Mercy

  John Milton (1754). “Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes”, p.317

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• Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

  John Milton

  Heart, Winning, Firsts

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'D. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes, And Poems upon Several Occasions: 3”, p.154

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• Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Sometimes

  John Milton (1847). “The Prose Works of John Milton”, p.288

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• So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

  John Milton

  Daughter, Son, Men

  John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book I. - VI.]: 1”, p.254

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• Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Husband, Study

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232-4.

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• Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

  John Milton

  Rags, Arms, Noise

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.439

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• O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

  John Milton

  Strong, Fall, Mind

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.52-7.

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• Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

  John Milton

  Wise, Thinking, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

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• Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

  John Milton

  God, Temptation, Taste

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.9

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• I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

  John Milton

  Soul, Ribs, Ears

  'Comus' (1637) l. 560

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• His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

  John Milton

  Excess, Brightness, Ruins

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.42

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• Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Mind, Admiration

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

  John Milton

  Change, Art, Gone

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 37

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• In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

  John Milton

  Nature, May, Steps

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.511-12.

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• Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

  John Milton

  War, Heaven, Violence

  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.399

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• What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

  John Milton

  Book, Dark, Men

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 22 (1667) See Housman 5; Milton 49

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• Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

  John Milton

  Failure, Earth, Pillars

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”, p.86

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• Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

  John Milton

  Moving, Heaven, Sound

  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.332

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