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• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

  John Milton

  Light, Darkness, Horror

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.94

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• Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

  John Milton

  Eye, Eternity, Ends

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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• Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

  John Milton

  War, Waste

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 783

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• Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

  John Milton

  Flower, Paradise On Earth, Rose

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 256

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• In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Lovely, Naked

  John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book I. - VI.]: 1”, p.283

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• Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

  John Milton

  Speculation

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.12, l.588-9.

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• Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Midnight, Revelry

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.186, Pearson Education

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• Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

  John Milton

  Life, Daughter, Father

  John Milton (1822). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...”, p.216

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• A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Men, Race

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• The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Despair, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 44

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• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Victory, Ifs

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.52

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• Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

  John Milton

  Saint, Saws, Late

  c.1658 Sonnets, no.19,'Methought I Saw'.

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• His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

  John Milton

  Power

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.370

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• And feel that I am happier than I know.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Feels, Knows

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 280

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• Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

  John Milton

  Men, Oracles, Wells

  John Milton (1853). “Milton's poetical works: with life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.59

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• No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

  John Milton

  War, Battle, Sound

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 4

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• The rising world of waters dark and deep.

  John Milton

  Dark, Water, Rising

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.70

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• Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

  John Milton

  Men, Cities, Towers

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 117

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• Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Dancing

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.66

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• Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

  John Milton

  Money, Honor, Realms

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.91

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• Death to life is crown or shame.

  John Milton

  Crowns, Life Is, Shame

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.1579.

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• Freely we serve,
  Because we freely love, as in our will
  To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

  John Milton

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 538

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• Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

  John Milton

  Men, Faults, Should

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.397, Penguin

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• Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

  John Milton

  Grief, Rivers, Joy

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• Who aspires must down as low
  As high he soar'd.

  John Milton

  Lows, Soar, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.147

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