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• 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

  John Milton

  Book, Paradise, Down And

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

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• I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

  John Milton

  Education, War, Men

  "Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

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• All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

  John Milton

  Wells

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 617

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• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

  John Milton

  Fate, Yield, Judging

  John Milton (1866). “Milton's Paradise Lost”, p.34

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• A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

  John Milton

  Stars, Dust, Gold

  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.275

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

  John Milton

  Love, Wise, Mean

  "I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)

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• Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

  John Milton

  Truth, Air, Quiet

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

  John Milton

  Iron, Soul, Tears

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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• All hell broke loose.

  John Milton

  Hell, Broke

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

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• Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

  John Milton

  Names, Heaven, Satan

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 658

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• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Memories, Law

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• Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

  John Milton

  Art, Knitting, Hair

  'Comus' (1637) l. 859

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• Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

  John Milton

  Car

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.93

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• Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

  John Milton

  Knights, Forests, Fairy

  John Milton, Charles Dexter CLEVELAND (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland”, p.323

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• Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Paradise, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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• Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

  John Milton

  Light, Glowing, Rooms

  "Il Penseroso" l. 79 (1645)

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Philosophy

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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• But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

  John Milton

  Religious, Feet, Light

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.51, Modern Library

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• It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

  John Milton

  Children, Lying, Winter

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

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• And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

  John Milton

  Song, Larks, Nests

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton”, p.72

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• Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

  John Milton

  Ends, Quarrels

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1008

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• To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

  John Milton

  Night, Sky, Singing

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.139, Pearson Education

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

  John Milton

  Mind, Noble, Delight

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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