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“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction
John Milton Lycidas
Источник: Lycidas (1637), Line 64; comparable to: "Erant quibus appetentior famæ videretur, quando etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitur" (Translated: "Some might consider him as too fond of fame, for the desire of glory clings even to the best of men longer than any other passion"), Tacitus, Historiae, iv. 6; said of Helvidius Priscus.
“And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.”
Источник: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 49
“In mirth that after no repenting draws.”
To Cyriack Skinner, upon His Blindness (c. 1655)
“Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.”
To the Lord General Cromwell (1652)
Quoted by President Benjamin Harrison in his dedication of the Chicago Auditorium, and thereafter inscribed on the building, as reported in Dr. William Carter, "Progress in World's Peace Movement", California Outlook (1913), Vol. 14, p. 11
“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”
Источник: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 8
“That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.”
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.”
Источник: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 173
“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”
Sonnet to the Nightingale, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "That well by reason men it call may / The daisie, or els the eye of the day, / The emprise, and floure of floures all", Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
John Milton Paradise Regained
Book II: Lines 44-48
Paradise Regained (1671)
“License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.”
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
John Milton книга Paradise Lost
i.262-263
Paradise Lost (1667)
“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
John Milton книга Tetrachordon
Tetrachordon (1644–1645)
“He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,
With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”
John Milton Lycidas
Источник: Lycidas (1637), Line 188
“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654) p. 32 http://books.google.com/books?id=nbO6Zde06ocC&q=Non+%22caecitatem+non%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage
“Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.”
Tractate of Education (1644)
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!”
John Milton Lycidas
Источник: Lycidas (1637), Line 37
“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:
Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
John Milton Lycidas
Источник: Lycidas (1637), Line 192
“Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony.”
Источник: L'Allegro (1631), Line 143
“The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.”
Источник: L'Allegro (1631), Line 36
“His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.”
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!”
Источник: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 61
John Milton книга Eikonoklastes
Eikonoklastes (1649), 23
