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John Milton

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Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.


— John Milton


#immortality #life #literature #life

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.


— John Milton


#nature #soul #beauty

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.


— John Milton


#epic-poem #john #milton #paradise-lost #satan

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.


— John Milton


#etiquette-and-attitude #gratitude #kindness #manners #thankfulness

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.


— John Milton


#equality #freedom #god #liberty #religion

He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.


— John Milton


#honesty #john-milton #random #reason #truth

Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.


— John Milton


#paradise-lost #paradise-lost-book-iii #death

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.


— John Milton


#fall #sin #education

Frei ist, wer der Vernunft gehorcht.


— John Milton


#reason #freedom

ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKING BUT THE PRAISE OF MEN, HERE FIND FIT RETRIBUTION, EMPTY AS THEIR DEED


— John Milton


#paradise-lost #men






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His travels supplemented his study with new and direct experience of artistic and religious traditions especially Roman Catholicism. Otherwise at Cambridge he developed a reputation for poetic skill and general erudition but experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole. His own corpus is not devoid of humour notably his sixth prolusion and his epitaphs on the death of Thomas Hobson.

). William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest English author" and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language" though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which.

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