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Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night.
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Anon they move
In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders.
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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?
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For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace,
He for God only, she for God in him.
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…What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.
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The land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.
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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him
Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
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Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?
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Then lies him down the lubber fiend,
And stretched out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength.
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The sun...
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
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The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
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I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
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Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
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Calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire,
And airy tongues, that syllable men's names
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
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No light, but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe.
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Where there is much desire to learn, here of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Born:
December 9, 1608
Died:
November 8, 1674
(aged 65)
Bio:
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
Known for:
Paradise Lost (1667)
Lycidas (1638)
Milton's 1645 Poems
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
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