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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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• There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end.

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• These two Emparadised in one another's arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss.

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• They looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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• Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High overarched imbower.

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• Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

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• This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the son of heaven'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.

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• This manner of writing [prose] wherein knowing myself inferior to myself . . . I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

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• Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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• Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.

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• Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

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• Thus sang the uncouth swain to th' oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals grey, He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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• Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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• To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church.

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• To excuse our faults on the ground of our weakness is to quiet our fears at the expense of our hopes. To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.

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• To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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• To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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• To live a life half dead, a living death.

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• To sit in darkness here Hatching vain empires.

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• Today deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth, that after no repenting draws.

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