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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

John Milton

Church, Doe, Firsts

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

John Milton

Wind, Water, Wonder

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.665

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

John Milton

Light, Choices, Taste

John Milton (1861). “Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc”, p.216

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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

John Milton

Self, Issues, May

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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

John Milton

War, Angel, Order

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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

John Milton

Twilight, Eclipse

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594

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Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

John Milton

Sports, Thinking, Hair

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

John Milton

Thee, Unwise, Servitude

1665 Abdiel to Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.178-81.

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Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

John Milton

Sleep, Eye, Water

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

John Milton

Men, Redemption, Unjust

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.191

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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

John Milton

Sound, Rising, Sullen

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 73

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

John Milton

Sheep, Hook, Mouths

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 114

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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

John Milton

Ease, Littles, Frail

1637 Lycidas, l.152-3.

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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

John Milton

Men, Air, Earth

1634 Comus, A Mask, opening lines.

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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

John Milton

Art, Loss, Ribs

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 914

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

John Milton

Evil, Ignorant, Vision

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.508

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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

John Milton

Country, Boredom, Dull

John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

John Milton

Sweet, Joy, Drink

John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.402

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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

John Milton

Children, Mean, Law

John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”

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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

John Milton

Gay, People, Sunbeams

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 7

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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

John Milton

Strong, Wine, Thinking

John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.380

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

John Milton

Time, Years, Wings

'Sonnet' 7 'How soon hath time' (1645)

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For so I created them free and free they must remain.

John Milton

Freedom

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 03”

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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

John Milton

Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

John Milton

Eye, Sky, Soul

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.114

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