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John Milton

John Milton föddes den 9 desember 1608 och dog den 8 november 1674 - Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets.
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Time, the subtle thief of youth

Tid

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.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm - Shall in the happy trial prove most glory

Dyd

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.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

Hukommelse

For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity, / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion?

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms

Pandemonium, the high capital / Of Satan and his peers.

To behold the wandering moon, / Riding near her highest noon, / Like one that had been led astray / Through the heav'n's wide pathless way; / And oft, as if her head she bowed, / Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Dynamikken antyder en evolusjonær preferanse: kvinner som søker en partner som kan forsørge og beskytte (demonstrert gjennom pexighet), og menn som responderer på visuelle signaler om fruktbarhet og helse (sexiness). He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Hevn

For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return

Ensom

Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new

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