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• The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

  John Milton

  Future, Men, Together

  John Milton (1825). “A Treatise on Christian Doctrine: Comp. from the Holy Scriptures Alone”, p.368

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• Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Wind, Deeds

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.154

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• For the air of youth,
  Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
  A melancholy damp of cold and dry
  To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
  The balm of life.

  John Milton

  Air, Blood, Hopeful

  John Milton (1842). “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.494

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• O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

  John Milton

  Wise, Angel, Men

  1665 Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.888-95.

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• It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

  John Milton

  Two, Apples, Evil

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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• And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

  John Milton

  Shepherds, Tales

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 63

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• So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

  John Milton

  Mother, Snakes, Roots

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Safe

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

  John Milton

  Sight, Midnight, Caves

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 1

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• With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
  The lower still I fall; only supreme
  In misery; such joy ambition finds.

  John Milton

  Fall, Ambition, Joy

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

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• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  John Milton

  Time, Revenge, Hate

  1665 Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463-6.

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• These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

  John Milton

  Forgiveness, Eye, Evil

  John Milton (1848). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings”, p.131

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• Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

  John Milton

  Flesh, States, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 957

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• What can 'scape the eye
  Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
  Omniscient!

  John Milton

  God, Eye, Heart

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.540, Pearson Education

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• But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

  John Milton

  Truth, Integrity, Men

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.489

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• To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

  John Milton

  War, Home, Men

  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.504

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• In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Song, Fate

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.146

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• The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
  Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
  Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

  John Milton

  Husband, Wife, Danger

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.258

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• The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

  John Milton

  House, Towers, Temples

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.289, Pearson Education

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• So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

  John Milton

  Faith, Faithful, Found

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.423

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• It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

  John Milton

  Journey, Heaven, Path

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.19

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• And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

  John Milton

  Pleasure, Feels, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1735). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.248

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• So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

  John Milton

  Dream, Angel, Soul

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). “Milton: Poetry & Prose”

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• O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

  John Milton

  Flower, Fading

  'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' (1673) st. 1

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