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• In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

  John Milton

  Nature, May, Steps

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.511-12.

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• Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

  John Milton

  Country, Dresses, Herbs

  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.396

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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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• 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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• Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

  John Milton

  Feet, Velvet

  'Comus' (1637) l. 897

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• And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

  John Milton

  Life, Tree, Middle

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 192

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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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• Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

  John Milton

  Men, Rocks, Wrecks

  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.71

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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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• And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

  John Milton

  Shepherds, Tales

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 63

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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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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• Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

  John Milton

  War, Heaven, Violence

  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.399

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• They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Joy, Drink

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.402

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• With thee conversing I forget all time.

  John Milton

  Time, Forget, Thee

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

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• His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

  John Milton

  Excess, Brightness, Ruins

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.42

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• The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

  John Milton

  House, Towers, Temples

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.289, Pearson Education

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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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• 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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• Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

  John Milton

  Children, Reading, Book

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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• But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

  John Milton

  Change, Art, Gone

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 37

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• Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

  John Milton

  Punishment, Wings, Add

  John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.43

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• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  John Milton

  Time, Years, Wings

  'Sonnet' 7 'How soon hath time' (1645)

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• The brazen throat of war.

  John Milton

  War, Throat, Brazen

  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.505

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• The starry cope Of heaven.

  John Milton

  Heaven

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.278, Pearson Education

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