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• But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

  John Milton

  Sight, Views, Black

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 12

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton

  Christian, Evil, Vices

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

  John Milton

  Stars, Night, Dawn

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.15

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• And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
  That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

  John Milton

  Kings, Lying, Wish To Die

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.414

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• Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Lying, Eye

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

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• Hide me from day's garish eye.

  John Milton

  Eye, Murmuring

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

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

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• So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

  John Milton

  Love, Life, Boyfriend

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.76

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• When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

  John Milton

  Wise, Men, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 1

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Spring, Book, Men

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

  John Milton

  Soul, Singing, Elysium

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.146

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• Where more is meant than meets the ear.

  John Milton

  Ears, Hearing

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 120

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• Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

  John Milton

  Work, Men, Mind

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.618-20.

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• There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

  John Milton

  Light, Earth, Return

  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.283

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• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  John Milton

  Men, Wings, Design

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629-32.

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

  John Milton

  Mother, Lap, May

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Virtue, Chimes, Stoops

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.

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• My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

  John Milton

  Heaven, Delight, Lasts

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 18

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• That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Couches, Malice

  John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.116

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• And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

  John Milton

  Fate, Men, Shears

  John Milton (1862). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.602

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• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  John Milton

  Life, Waking, Sober

  'Comus' (1637) l. 263

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• Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

  John Milton

  War, Fire, Hair

  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.145

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• If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

  John Milton

  Men, Weakness, Wickedness

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

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• Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

  John Milton

  War, Soul, Victory

  1652 'To the Lord General Cromwell'.

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