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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

John Milton

Death, Ready

John Milton (1872). “English Poems”, p.142

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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

John Milton

Song, Sweet, Bird

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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

John Milton

Heart, Men, Spirit

John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.413

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

John Milton

Men, Mind, Body

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

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

John Milton

Truth, Encounters, Truth And Falsehood

Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

John Milton

Dream, Truth, Distance

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.210

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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

John Milton

Sleep, Light, Digestion

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

John Milton

Deserving It, Missing, Age

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

John Milton

Truth, Father, Stones

John Milton (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Milton. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]”, p.574

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

John Milton

Envy, Sin, Lord

John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

John Milton

Cooking, Flow, Reason

John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.277

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

John Milton

Sex, Essence, Enmity

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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So many laws argues so many sins.

John Milton

Law, Arguing, Sin

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.444

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

John Milton

Confusion, Confusing, Ruins

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 995

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They also serve who only stand and wait.

John Milton

Patience, Waiting, Patience And Waiting

"When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

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The timely dew of sleep.

John Milton

Sleep, Dew, Timely

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

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

John Milton

Mean, Evil, Find Me

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 165

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Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

John Milton

Nature, Graves, Womb

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.160

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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

John Milton

Marriage, Husband, Study

1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232-4.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

John Milton

Daughter, Shapes, Cups

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.258

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

John Milton

Heart, Winning, Firsts

John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'D. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes, And Poems upon Several Occasions: 3”, p.154

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

John Milton

Jewelry, Train, Gems

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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

John Milton

Daughter, Son, Men

John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book I. - VI.]: 1”, p.254

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

John Milton

Life, Lying, Prime

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

John Milton

Music, Sweet, Bird

John Milton (1761). “L'allegro, Ed Il Penseroso: Set to Musick by Mr. Handel”, p.7

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