John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
love nor permit short thou thy
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n
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The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
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Last came, and last did go, / The Pilot of the Galilean lake, / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
men ways
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men
enduring incapable miserable
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
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I was all ear / And took in strains that might create a soul / Under the ribs of Death.
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God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
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His tongue dropt manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason
adding fuel gone knows thy words
He's gone and who knows how he may report/ Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
country wherever
Our country is wherever we are well off
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Restless thoughts, like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging.
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God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of the Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen?
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He with new acquist / Of true experience from this great event / With peace and consolation hath dismissed, / And calm of mind, all passion spent.