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
time revenge hate
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 .
sweet revenge long
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.
revenge may assembling
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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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In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.
cannot knows people talk
Everyone knows that you cannot talk about people by name,
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The bloody Piedmontese that rolled / Mother with infant down the rocks.
audience fit govern thou though
Still govern thou my song, / Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
against apology best deeds dishonest false honest silence words
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
highest middle sat tree
Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,/ The middle tree and highest there that grew, / Sat like a cormorant.
best gentle modest reluctant required sway sweet
Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
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None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants