353 ordspråk av John Milton
John Milton
John Milton föddes den
December 9th 1608 och dog den 8 November
1674 - Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets.
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Store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and judge the prize.
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Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell.
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Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels
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Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie
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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds
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Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Tears such as angels weep.
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That power which erring men call chance
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The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
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The bloody Piedmontese that rolled / Mother with infant down the rocks.
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The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, / All now was turned to jollity and game,/ To luxury and riot, feast and dance.
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