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Literat, Gelehrter, Pädagoge, Dichter (England, 1608 - 1674).

John Milton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Milton wäre heute 416 Jahre, 3 Monate, 26 Tage oder 152.057 Tage alt.

Geboren am 09.12.1608 in London
Gestorben am 08.11.1674 in London
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• Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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• Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.

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• Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers.

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• Such sober certainty of waking bliss I never heard till now.

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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 shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!

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• Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

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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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• Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.

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• Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know?

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• Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittiesall a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea.

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• That grounded maxim So rife and celebrated in the mouths Of wisest men; that to the public good Private respects must yield.

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• That like to rich and various gems inlay The unadornèd bosom of the deep.

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• The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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• The helmèd cherubim And sworded seraphim Are seen in glittering ranks with wings displayed.

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• The imperial ensign, which full high advanced Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.

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• The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind.

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• The land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendidwit can flourish.

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

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