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• Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

  John Milton

  Too Much, Taught, Drink

  John Milton (2003). “The Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.445, Hackett Publishing

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• What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

  John Milton

  War, Boots, Defence

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 558

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• Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

  John Milton

  Eye, Squares, Trials

  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.298

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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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• Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

  John Milton

  Rose, Fabric, Earth

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 710

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• What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

  John Milton

  Heaven, What If, Shadow

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 574

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

  John Milton

  Years, Wings, Age

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 44

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• And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

  John Milton

  Dragons, Order, Fowl

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.592, Hackett Publishing

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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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• O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

  John Milton

  Pairs, Honour, Mutual

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.57-8.

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  John Milton

  Justice, May, Mercy

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.283

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• Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

  John Milton

  Years, Ivy, Rude

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 1

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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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• Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

  John Milton

  Lying, Father, Mountain

  John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

  John Milton

  Temples, Christ, Force

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.142

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• Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

  John Milton

  Names, Wings, White

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.97

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• The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

  John Milton

  Fall, Sleep, Dew

  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.263

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• New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

  John Milton

  Priests

  'On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament' (1646)

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Sight, Enemy

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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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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• Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

  John Milton

  Light, Holy, Hail

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.5-6.

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• God shall be all in all.

  John Milton

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.228

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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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• Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

  John Milton

  Happiness, May, Pairs

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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