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“And storied windows richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light.
There let the pealing organ blow,
To the full-voiced choir below,
In service high, and anthems clear
As may, with sweetness, through mine ear
Dissolve me into ecstasies,
And bring all heaven before mine eyes.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 159

“Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy
In sceptred pall come sweeping by,
Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line,
Or the tale of Troy divine.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 97

“Herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 85

“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”

John Milton

Tractate of Education (1644)

“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 120

“Last came, and last did go,
The Pilot of the Galilean lake;
Two massy keys he bore of metals twain,
(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 108

“And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,
Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 45

“Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 100

“Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 117

“Or call up him that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 109

“This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King,
Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,
Our great redemption from above did bring;
For so the holy sages once did sing,
That He our deadly forfeit should release,
And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.”

John Milton

Tractate of Education (1644)

“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones
Forget not.”

John Milton

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont (1655)

“Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato… To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.”

John Milton

Tractate of Education (1644)

“When the gust hath blown his fill,
Ending on the rustling leaves
With minute drops from off the eaves.”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 128

“Peor and Baälim
Forsake their temples dim.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn. Line 197
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“Under the shady roof
Of branching elm star-proof.”

John Milton Arcades

Arcades (1630-1634), line 88

“Hence vain deluding Joys,
The brood of Folly without father bred!”

John Milton

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 1

“Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful jollity,
Quips and cranks and wanton wiles,
Nods and becks and wreathèd smiles.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 25

“Then lies him down the lubber fiend,
And stretched out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength.”

John Milton

Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 110