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Die Kindheit zeigt den Menschen, wie der Morgen den Tag.
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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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High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope.
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Him the almighty power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms.
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Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
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His servants he, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind, all passion spent.
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His sleep Was airy light from pure digestion bred.
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but awand, He walked with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl.
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His words . . . like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbèd, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
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How soon hath time the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year!
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I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs.
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I fled, and cried out Death! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
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I owe no light or leading received from any man in the discovery of this truth.
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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.
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If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man . . . It will ask more than thework of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say. And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers?
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In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
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In me is no delay; with thee to go, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
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In solitude What happiness? who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?
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In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so.