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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

John Milton

Fighting, Dark, Fire

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

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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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

John Milton

Christian, Running, Race

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

John Milton

Loss, Lovely, Devil

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

John Milton

Education, Path, Firsts

John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.275

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

John Milton

Loneliness, Eye, Men

"The prose works of John Milton".

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

John Milton

Angel, Heaven, Soul

John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.27

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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

John Milton

Inspirational, Rolling, Cherubs

John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.14

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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

John Milton

Love, Two, Eden

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 505

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Angels contented with their face in heaven,
Seek not the praise of men.

John Milton

Angel, Men, Heaven

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 06”

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

John Milton

Fear, Loss, Way

John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.174

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

John Milton

Sheep, Looks, Hungry

'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

John Milton

Spirit, Easy, Intercourse

John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.218

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For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.

John Milton

Lying, Endure, Temper

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.296

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Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton

Weakness, Wickedness

John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

John Milton

Men, Earth, Spots

'Comus' (1637) l. 5

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

John Milton

Moon, Madness, Melancholy

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 485

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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

John Milton

Hands, Eden, World

Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

John Milton

Life, Nature, Strong

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

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Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

John Milton

Sight, Midnight, Caves

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 1

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O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

John Milton

Strong, Fall, Mind

1671 Samson Agonistes, l.52-7.

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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

John Milton

Truth, Science, Water

John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

John Milton

Law, Reason, Force

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

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

John Milton

Light, Flames, Darkness

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

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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt,
And by their vices brought to servitude,
Than to love bondage more than liberty,
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

John Milton

Liberty, Apathy, Ease

"The Poetical Works. A New Ed. Carefully Rev. from the Text of Thomas Newton. With Illustr. by William Harvey".

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Let no man seek
Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall
Him or his children.

John Milton

Children, Men

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 11”

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