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Gott ist Licht.
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Literat, Gelehrter, Pädagoge, Dichter (England, 1608 - 1674).
John Milton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
John Milton wäre heute 415 Jahre, 4 Monate, 16 Tage oder 151.713 Tage alt.
Geboren am 09.12.1608 in London
Gestorben am 08.11.1674 in London
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scape By all his engines, but was headlong sent With his industrious crew to build in hell.
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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to heaven.
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Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain.
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Not to be beloved and yet retained is the greatest injury to a gentle spirit.
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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
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Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, / Comes dancing from the east.
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
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O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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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!
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O foolishness of men! that lend theirears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence.
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O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasioned, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring.
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
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O thievish Night Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
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O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature?
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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
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Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb.
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Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.