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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.
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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
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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.
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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.
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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
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Behold now this vast city [London] a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons the fairest of her daughters Eve.
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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
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