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
courage revenge hate
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
revenge couches malice
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
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It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.
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Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.
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Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
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Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail!