Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
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Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
Source: The Portable Milton
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.”
Source: Milton's Poetical Works
Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton
Source: Milton's Samson Agonistes and Lycidas: With Numerous Illustrative Notes, Etc., Adapted for Use in Training Colleges and Schools
“Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.”
Source: The Portable Milton
“The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.”
Source: Paradise lost
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction
“Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.”
Source: The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)
“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”
“He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office
“Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.”