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And 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.

John Milton

Prayer, Cry, Incessant

John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

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Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.

John Milton

Hope, Peace, Doleful

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

John Milton

Shame, Cynicism, Cynic

David Garrick, Arthur Murphy, Edward Ravenscroft, William Shakespeare, Henry Fielding (1792). “A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage”, p.224

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Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

John Milton

Heaven, Looks, Gorgeous

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

John Milton

Pain, Hate, Grief

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

John Milton

Hate, Self, Liberty

John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition”, p.66, Broadview Press

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

John Milton

Passion, Ingredients, Virtue

1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

John Milton

Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

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.238

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

John Milton

Cells, Inspire, Pale

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

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

John Milton

Difficulty, Hard, Labour

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.170

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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

John Milton

Strong, Sleep, Eye

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

John Milton

Real, Accomplishment, Technique

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

John Milton

Ivy, Watches, Flaunting

John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.207, Pearson Education

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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

John Milton

Wrath, Heaven, Suffering

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 73

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

John Milton

Book, Men, Self

"Complete Poems and Major Prose".

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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

John Milton

Strength, Truth, Wind

Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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This is the month, and this the happy morn,
wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King,
of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
our great redemption from above did bring.

John Milton

Christmas, Mother, Kings

'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

John Milton

Brother, Nymphs, Steel

John Milton, “Comus”

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

Ifs

John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.37, Courier Dover Publications

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

John Milton

Character, Past, Men

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

John Milton

Italian, Numbers, Long

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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

John Milton

Beautiful, Coins, Bliss

'Comus' (1637) l. 739

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

John Milton

Wings, Thrones, Golden

John Milton (2013). “Samson Agonistes and Other Poems: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.20, Broadview Press

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Our reason is our law.

John Milton

Law, Reason

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 652

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As in an organ from one blast of wind
To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

John Milton

Music, Wind, Breathe

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.82

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