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"Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument."
John Milton / Tractate of Education.
Tractate of Education.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself."
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books."
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
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"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?"
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam."
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
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"Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"
John Milton / Areopagitica.
Areopagitica.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law."
John Milton / Tetrachordon.
Tetrachordon.
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"By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."
John Milton / The History of England. Book i.
The History of England. Book i.
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"Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?"
John Milton / The History of England. Book iv.
The History of England. Book iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain