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• To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

  John Milton

  War, Home, Men

  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.504

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• Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Eclipse

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594

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• It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

  John Milton

  Two, Apples, Evil

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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• Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Night, Light

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.338

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• Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Hook, Mouths

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 114

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• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

  John Milton

  Sports, Laughter, Nymphs

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.59

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• The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
  Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
  Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

  John Milton

  Husband, Wife, Danger

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.258

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• The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

  John Milton

  Future, Men, Together

  John Milton (1825). “A Treatise on Christian Doctrine: Comp. from the Holy Scriptures Alone”, p.368

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• What can 'scape the eye
  Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
  Omniscient!

  John Milton

  God, Eye, Heart

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.540, Pearson Education

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• For the air of youth,
  Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
  A melancholy damp of cold and dry
  To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
  The balm of life.

  John Milton

  Air, Blood, Hopeful

  John Milton (1842). “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.494

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• With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
  The lower still I fall; only supreme
  In misery; such joy ambition finds.

  John Milton

  Fall, Ambition, Joy

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

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• And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

  John Milton

  Pleasure, Feels, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1735). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.248

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• Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Mind, Admiration

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

  John Milton

  Night, Clouds, Silver

  'Comus' (1637) l. 221

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• And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

  John Milton

  Eye, Sky, Soul

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.114

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• And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

  John Milton

  Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.261

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• 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.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

  John Milton

  Dream, Angel, Soul

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). “Milton: Poetry & Prose”

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• So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

  John Milton

  Faith, Faithful, Found

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.423

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• A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

  John Milton

  Night, Historical, Care

  John Milton (1854). “Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston”, p.425

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• Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

  John Milton

  Flower, Men, Rivers

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Rafters, Courtesy

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.92

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• I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

  John Milton

  Soul, Ribs, Ears

  'Comus' (1637) l. 560

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• For so I created them free and free they must remain.

  John Milton

  Freedom

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 03”

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• In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Song, Fate

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

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