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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

John Milton

Fraud, Thrown, Perplexed

John Milton (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: with Life”, p.285

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

John Milton

Perseverance, Done, Sensitive

John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181

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To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

John Milton

Change, Woods, Morrow

"Lycidas" l. 192 (1638)

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt
To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

John Milton

Wise, Men, Fool

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.386

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth.

John Milton

Riches, Firsts, Wealth

John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.460, Pearson Education

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. . . for beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

John Milton

Beauty, Fall, Mind

John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

John Milton

Children, Fancy, Sweetest

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

John Milton

Heaven, Towers, Architecture

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748

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If by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Of him who all things can, I would not cease
To weary him with my assiduous cries;
But prayer against his absolute decree
No more avails than breath against the wind
Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

John Milton

Prayer, Wind, Bidding

John Milton (1844). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments”, p.247

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

John Milton

Night, Eldest

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 962

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Where shame is, there is also fear.

John Milton

Shame

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton

Modesty, Rich, Covetousness

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And what the people but a herd confus'd,
A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

John Milton

People, Tongue, Delight

John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

John Milton

Majestic, Sober, Demure

John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191

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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

John Milton

Song, Soul, Mazes

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 555

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Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

John Milton

Time, Night, Fire

John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.508, BookCaps Study Guides

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

John Milton

Passion, Judgement, Free Will

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.124

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton

Death, Mother, Sleep

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

John Milton

Thrones, Oratory, Fierce

John Milton, Henry John Todd, Thomas Newton, John Aikin (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.275

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

John Milton

Spurs, Spirit, Fame

"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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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

John Milton

God, Father, Giving

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.342

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But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

John Milton

Judging, Infinite, Pardon

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

John Milton

Nature, War, Night

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.159

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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

John Milton

Angel, Looks, Ruth

"Lycidas" l. 163 (1638)

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

John Milton

Men, Liberty, Gone

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