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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

John Milton

Book, Paradise, Down And

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

John Milton

Education, War, Men

"Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

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Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

John Milton

Fate, Yield, Judging

John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

John Milton

Stars, Dust, Gold

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.275

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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

John Milton

Stars, Cells, Heaven

c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

John Milton

Love, Wise, Mean

"I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

Truth, Air, Quiet

'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

John Milton

Iron, Soul, Tears

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

John Milton

Hazards, Equal, Enterprise

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 88

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

John Milton

Thinking, Joy, Delight

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.262

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

John Milton

Pairs, Honour, Mutual

1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.57-8.

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

John Milton

Love, Hue, Red

John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.197

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

John Milton

Spiritual, Memories, Law

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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

John Milton

Sweet, Self, Wings

'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

John Milton

Dragons, Order, Fowl

John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.592, Hackett Publishing

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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

John Milton

Death, Time, Stars

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

John Milton

Mind, Noble, Delight

"Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

John Milton

Tongue, Reason, Hollow

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.41

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With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.

John Milton

Time, Eye, Arms

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

John Milton

Memories, Despair, Slumber

John Milton (1831). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.76

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Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine,
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns
All patience.

John Milton

Pain, Evil, Perfect

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.182

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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

John Milton

Poetry, Age, Ornaments

"Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

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For men to tell how human life began
Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

John Milton

Life, Men, Humans

1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.250-1.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

John Milton

Book, Evil, Meat

John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.173

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

John Milton

Summer, Sweet, Book

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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