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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

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Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

Disdained, Higher, Highest, Steps, Thought

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

Add, False, Punishment, Thy, Wings

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

Becks, Dimples, Nymphs, Quips, Smiles, Wreaths

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

Celestial, Father, Gives, Giving, God

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

Excuse, Men, Plead, Thee, Weakness, Wickedness

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Brightness, Excess, Glory, Lost, Original, Ruins

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

Hard, Rough, Truth, Walks, Way

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Concord, Ends, Oft, Pleasing, Quarrels

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

Adding, Flames, Fuel, Gone, Words

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

Dispensation, Ends, Haply, Know, Providence, Quarrels

The rising world of waters dark and deep.

Dark, Rising, Water, World

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

Against, Eye, Hand, Heart, Stars, Tho

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Bondage, Brought, Gone, Liberty, Men, Strenuous

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

Atheism, Liberty, Men, Precious

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

Angel, Feminine, God, Men, Novelty, Wise

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

Dare, Day, Sweat, Toil, Work

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Art, Government, Lying, Persuasion, Restraint, Things

Antichrist is Mammon's son.

Antichrist, Son

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

Fighting, God, Honesty, Single, Truth

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

Gay, Isles, Sex, Tackle, Wind

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