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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

John Milton

Memories, Men, Names

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.

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Reason also is choice.

John Milton

Choices, Logic, Reason

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

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

John Milton

Hope, Writing, Frustration

'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) introduction, p. 16

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

John Milton

Dark, Night, World

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.206

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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

John Milton

Love, Sweet, Soul

John Milton, Thomas Keightley (1859). “Poems”, p.55

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Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

John Milton

Hope, Heart, Hands

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.534

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

John Milton

Children, Book, Winning

John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468

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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

John Milton

Kings, Sacrifice, Fire

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 01”

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Only add
Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith,
Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love,
By name to come call'd charity, the soul
Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise, but shall possess
A Paradise within thee, happier far.

John Milton

Names, Soul, Add

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

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Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works.

John Milton

Book, Heaven, Thee

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.286, Mercer University Press

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

John Milton

God, Father, Giving

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.342

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And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

John Milton

Holiday, Sunshine, Play

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 94

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The sacred influence of light appears.

John Milton

Light, Sacred, Influence

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.171

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Forget thyself to marble.

John Milton

Forget, Forgetfulness, Marble

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.412

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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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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth.

John Milton

Riches, Firsts, Wealth

John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.460, Pearson Education

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

John Milton

Men, Liberty, Gone

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

John Milton

Eye, Tree, Fruit

John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.127

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But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

John Milton

Judging, Infinite, Pardon

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt
To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

John Milton

Wise, Men, Fool

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.386

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

John Milton

Kings, Fighting, Men

John Milton (1847). “The Prose Works of John Milton”, p.517

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And what the people but a herd confus'd,
A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

John Milton

People, Tongue, Delight

John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

John Milton

Faith, Causes, Failing

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.391

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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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. . . for beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

John Milton

Beauty, Fall, Mind

John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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Born: December 9, 1608
Died: November 8, 1674
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