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• Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

  John Milton

  Knights, Forests, Fairy

  John Milton, Charles Dexter CLEVELAND (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland”, p.323

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• Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed,
  And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
  To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Tears, Cups

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

  John Milton

  Happiness, May, Pairs

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• The helmed Cherubim,
  And sworded Seraphim,
  Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

  John Milton

  Wings, Display

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.13

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• Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find
  Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

  John Milton

  Offering, Path, Ends

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• Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

  John Milton

  Farewell, Paradise Lost Book 9, Adieu

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Only add
  Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith,
  Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love,
  By name to come call'd charity, the soul
  Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath
  To leave this Paradise, but shall possess
  A Paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Names, Soul, Add

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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• Reason also is choice.

  John Milton

  Choices, Logic, Reason

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

  John Milton

  Christian, Tears, Done

  John Milton (1853). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.208

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• A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

  John Milton

  Memories, Men, Names

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.

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• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  John Milton

  Children, Book, Winning

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468

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• Then might ye see
  Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost
  And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads,
  Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
  The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft
  Fly to the rearward of the world far off
  Into a limbo large and broad, since called
  The paradise of fools.

  John Milton

  Sports, Wind, Rags

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 03”

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• Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Sports, Laughter, Light

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

  John Milton

  Fate, Strict, Left

  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.351

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• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

  John Milton

  Weed, Sea, Dropping

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.691

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• Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

  John Milton

  Earth, Woe, Losing

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 780

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• All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

  John Milton

  Grace, Despair, No Fear

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.169

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• Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

  John Milton

  Light, Holy, Hail

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.5-6.

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Philosophy

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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• All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

  John Milton

  Wells

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 617

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• But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

  John Milton

  Son, Paradise, Able

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.576, Modern Library

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• Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

  John Milton

  Morning, Light, Hands

  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.381

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• Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

  John Milton

  Math, Umpires, Decision

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

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• Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

  John Milton

  Men, Thinking, Way

  Samson Agonistes l. 293 (1671) See Housman 5; Milton 18

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• Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

  John Milton

  Love, Power, Strange

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1003

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