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• But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

  John Milton

  Moving, Misery, Miserable

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.369

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• Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

  John Milton

  Nymphs, Wreaths, Dimples

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 25

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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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• Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

  John Milton

  Moving, Numbers, Harmonious

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

  John Milton

  Nimble, Airy, Command

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55

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• He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

  John Milton

  Flames, Gone, Fuel

  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.217

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• God, who oft descends to visit men
  Unseen, and through their habitations walks
  To mark their doings.

  John Milton

  God, Men, Unseen

  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.522

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• Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers--
  If these magnific titles yet remain
  Not merely titular.

  John Milton

  Titles, Thrones, Dominion

  John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.249

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• His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

  John Milton

  Support, Steps, Burning

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 292

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Ballet, Maids

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Essence

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

  John Milton

  Summer, Retirement, Plato

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

  John Milton

  Men, Evil, Mind

  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.321

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• Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

  John Milton

  Equality, Splendor, Assuming

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

  John Milton

  Air, Play, Solitude

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.128

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• By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

  John Milton

  Fate, Greatness, Hands

  John Milton (1866). “Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton”, p.389

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• He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
  The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
  Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
  Against temptation.

  John Milton

  Temptation, Lasts, Corruption

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.526, Modern Library

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• For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

  John Milton

  Book, Evil, Meat

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.173

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

  John Milton

  Memorial, Mutual Love, Crowns

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.122

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• Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
  From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
  On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
  Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
  Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
  Of destined habitation.

  John Milton

  Views, Sea, Heaven

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 07”

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• Courage never to submit of yield.

  John Milton

  Courage, Yield, Submit

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• Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

  John Milton

  Peace, Agreement, Sloth

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 226

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• Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

  John Milton

  Life, Arms

  John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.288

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

  John Milton

  Spring, Genius, Pale

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.21

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