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John Milton
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    This is not John Milton's "Lycidas" (1637), not a classical elegy in which all nature weeps.  (source)
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    I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... John Milton, Paradise Lost  (source)
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    The poem is signed John Milton.  (source)
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    To think of Milton changing the words in that poem seemed to him a sort of sacrilege.  (source)
    Milton = English poet considered by some to be best after Shakespeare (1608-1674)
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    She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,—how could he affect her as a lover?  (source)
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    One of those pictures,' drawled Mr Halloway, looks like Milton Blumquist.†  (source)
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    Listen, all kidding aside Irma I've gotta get sucked, oh I've never flown this high, Jesus to get those sweet little gobbling lips to work right now, I mean somewhere under the blue sky and the burning maple leaves of autumn, fair autumn, and you'll suck my seed, suck my seed as thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallombrosa, that's John Milton ...†  (source)
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    I went to Milton, which was a wonderful experience for me.†  (source)
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    "William Blake," and "John Milton."†  (source)
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    Milton McMullen couldn't stop using Japanese terms, a habit that had been pounded into him.†  (source)
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    The next great author was John Milton.†  (source)
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    Returning to don Baithazar's teachings, I tried on the measured nobility of Milton's epic verse.†  (source)
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    Sir Henry Wotton[608] was born four years after Shakspeare, and died twenty-three years after him; and I find, among his correspondents and acquaintances, the following persons:[609] Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon, Sir Philip Sidney, Earl of Essex, Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Milton, Sir Henry Vane, Isaac Walton, Dr. Donne, Abraham Cowley, Berlarmine, Charles Cotton, John Pym, John Hales, Kepler, Vieta, Albericus Gentilis, Paul Sarpi, Arminius; with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others, whom doubtless[610] he saw,—Shakspeare, Spenser, Jonson, Beaumont, Massinger, two Herberts, Marlow, Chapman and the rest.†  (source)
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Bertha Sampson and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist choir had been asked to sing a duet; Milton Clark of Newbridge was to give a violin solo; Winnie Adella Blair of Carmody was to sing a Scotch ballad; and Laura Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley of Avonlea were to recite.  (source)
Milton = another person named Milton
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