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• For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

  John Milton

  Wise, Cheerful, Care

  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.213

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• From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

  John Milton

  Summer, Stars, Fall

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)

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• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Ocean

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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• Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

  John Milton

  Wise, Thinking, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

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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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• 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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• (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

  John Milton

  Cities, House, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Come and trip it as ye go
  On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Dance, Light, Ballet

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

  John Milton

  Keys, Hands, Golden

  'Comus' (1637) l. 12

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• In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

  John Milton

  Land, Share, Vain

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.482

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• Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Eclipse

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

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• Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Pace

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

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• Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

  John Milton

  Heart, Good Luck, Son

  John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

  John Milton

  Church, Doe, Firsts

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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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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• But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

  John Milton

  Truth, Integrity, Men

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.489

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• Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Eye, Water

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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• The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

  John Milton

  Gay, People, Sunbeams

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 7

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• Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

  John Milton

  Brother, Arrows, Nymphs

  John Milton (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton”, p.410

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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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• 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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• What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

  John Milton

  Light, Choices, Taste

  John Milton (1861). “Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc”, p.216

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• In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

  John Milton

  Change, Fear, Twilight

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

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• Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Wind, Deeds

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.154

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