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Gib mir die Freiheit zu wissen, zu denken, zu glauben und frei, nach meinem Gewissen, von allen anderen Freiheiten sprechen zu können.
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Literat, Gelehrter, Pädagoge, Dichter (England, 1608 - 1674).
John Milton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
John Milton wäre heute 415 Jahre, 3 Monate, 19 Tage oder 151.685 Tage alt.
Geboren am 09.12.1608 in London
Gestorben am 08.11.1674 in London
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And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream.
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And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.
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And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird ages of lives.
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And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation.
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Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mode Of flutes and soft recorders.
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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight.
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As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.
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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the millwith slaves.
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Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns.
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At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
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At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
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Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their namethence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, andto tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?
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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
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Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court My mansion is.
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Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection.
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.