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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

John Milton

Stars, Heart, Science

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

John Milton

Men, Jewels, Treasure

John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.101

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

John Milton

Stars, Eye, Heart

John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”, p.36

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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

John Milton

Feet, Velvet

'Comus' (1637) l. 897

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For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

John Milton

Sweet, Eye, Grace

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

John Milton

Night, Historical, Care

John Milton (1854). “Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston”, p.425

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

John Milton

Beauty, Grace, Peculiar

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton..Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner”, p.116

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

John Milton

Summer, Stars, Fall

Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)

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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

John Milton

Wise, Cheerful, Care

John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.213

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton

Morning, Stars, Ocean

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

John Milton

Happiness, Paradise, Shade

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.478

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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

John Milton

Keys, Hands, Golden

'Comus' (1637) l. 12

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The brazen throat of war.

John Milton

War, Throat, Brazen

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.505

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

John Milton

Earth, Mixtures, Divinity

'Comus' (1637) l. 244

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

John Milton

Letting Go, Tragedy, Divinity

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.425

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
By the known rules of ancient liberty,
When straight a barbarous noise environs me
Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

John Milton

Dog, Owl, Age

'Sonnet' 12 'I did but prompt the age' (1673)

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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

John Milton

Caring, Air, Pageantry

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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I must not quarrel with the will
Of highest dispensation, which herein,
Haply had ends above my reach to know.

John Milton

Quarrels, Providence, Ends

John Milton (1872). “Milton's Samson Agonistes and Lycidas: With Numerous Illustrative Notes, Etc., Adapted for Use in Training Colleges and Schools”, p.10

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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

John Milton

Truth, Science, Water

John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

John Milton

Men, Darkness, Clay

John Milton (1838). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.357

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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

John Milton

Strong, Love Is, And Love

John Milton, Matthew Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.306, Mercer University Press

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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

John Milton

Running, Lying, Cells

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.368

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

John Milton

Light, Order, Voice

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.94

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
But all to please and sate the curious taste?

John Milton

Nature, Hands, Sea

John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

John Milton

Grief, Loss, Dark

John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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