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"Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 79.
Il Penseroso. Line 79.
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"Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 81.
Il Penseroso. Line 81.
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"Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 97.
Il Penseroso. Line 97.
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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 / Il Penseroso. Line 105.
Il Penseroso. Line 105.
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"Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 109.
Il Penseroso. Line 109.
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"Where more is meant than meets the ear."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 120.
Il Penseroso. Line 120.
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"When the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves With minute drops from off the eaves."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 128.
Il Penseroso. Line 128.
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"Hide me from day's garish eye."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 141.
Il Penseroso. Line 141.
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"And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 159.
Il Penseroso. Line 159.
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"Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain."
John Milton / Il Penseroso. Line 173.
Il Penseroso. Line 173.
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"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
John Milton / Arcades. Line 68.
Arcades. Line 68.
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"Under the shady roof Of branching elm star-proof."
John Milton / Arcades. Line 88.
Arcades. Line 88.
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"O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly."
John Milton / Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough.
Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough.
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"Such as may make thee search the coffers round."
John Milton / At a Vacation Exercise. Line 31.
At a Vacation Exercise. Line 31.
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"No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around."
John Milton / Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 53.
Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 53.
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"Time will run back and fetch the age of gold."
John Milton / Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 135.
Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 135.
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"Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail."
John Milton / Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 172.
Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 172.
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"The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell."
John Milton / Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 173.
Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 173.
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"From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent."
John Milton / Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 184.
Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 184.
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"Peor and Baälim Forsake their temples dim."
John Milton / Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 197.
Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 197.
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"What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,-- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?"
John Milton / Epitaph on Shakespeare.
Epitaph on Shakespeare.
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"And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die."
John Milton / Epitaph on Shakespeare.
Epitaph on Shakespeare.
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"Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day."
John Milton / Sonnet to the Nightingale.
Sonnet to the Nightingale.
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"As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye."
John Milton / On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three.
On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three.
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"The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground."
John Milton / When the Assault was intended to the City.
When the Assault was intended to the City.
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"That old man eloquent."
John Milton / To the Lady Margaret Ley.
To the Lady Margaret Ley.
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"That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp."
John Milton / On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.
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"License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that must first be wise and good."
John Milton / On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.
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"Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war."
John Milton / To the Lord General Cromwell.
To the Lord General Cromwell.
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"Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones."
John Milton / On the late Massacre in Piedmont.
On the late Massacre in Piedmont.
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"Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait."
John Milton / On his Blindness.
On his Blindness.
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"What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?"
John Milton / To Mr. Lawrence.
To Mr. Lawrence.
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"In mirth that after no repenting draws."
John Milton / Sonnet xxi. To Cyriac Skinner.
Sonnet xxi. To Cyriac Skinner.
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"For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains."
John Milton / Sonnet xxi. To Cyriac Skinner.
Sonnet xxi. To Cyriac Skinner.
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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 / Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner.
Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner.
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"Of which all Europe rings from side to side."
John Milton / Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner.
Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner.
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"But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night."
John Milton / On his Deceased Wife.
On his Deceased Wife.
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"Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea."
John Milton / Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5.
Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5.
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"For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè."
John Milton / Iconoclastes. xxiii.
Iconoclastes. xxiii.
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"Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam."
John Milton / Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.
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"A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him."
John Milton / The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.
The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.
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"By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die."
John Milton / The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.
The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.
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"Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies."
John Milton / The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.
The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.
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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 / Apology for Smectymnuus.
Apology for Smectymnuus.
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"His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command."
John Milton / Apology for Smectymnuus.
Apology for Smectymnuus.
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"Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees."
John Milton / Tractate of Education.
Tractate of Education.
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"I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming."
John Milton / Tractate of Education.
Tractate of Education.
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"Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages."
John Milton / Tractate of Education.
Tractate of Education.
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"Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato. . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate."
John Milton / Tractate of Education.
Tractate of Education.
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"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."
John Milton / Tractate of Education.
Tractate of Education.
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