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“O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost”

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John Milton

John Milton, born on December 9, 1608, in London, and died on November 8, 1674, was a renowned English poet and scholar. He is best known for his epic poem 'Paradise Lost,' which has had a profound impact on world literature. more

“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.”

Ends Light Sides Darkness Hell Sorrow Sight Rounds Horrible Flames Torture Visible Regions Shade Woe Dungeons Furnaces Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Doleful

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“Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.”

Eye Pleasure Mines Mountain Rivers Rounds Clouds Caught Wide Landscape Breasts Shallow Grey Flocks Lawns Brooks Barren Meadows Daisies Nibbling

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“That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.”

Knows Evil Virtue Promise Pure Vices Contemplation Rejects Followers Blank Whiteness

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