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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The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.
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The starry cope of heaven.
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
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The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, interlunar cave.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill
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The troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming.
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The unsunned heaps / Of miser's treasure.
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Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers.
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Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.
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Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,/ The middle tree and highest there that grew, / Sat like a cormorant.
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution
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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!
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