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  • Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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    'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

  • And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 620

  • As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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    John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.82

  • Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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    John Milton (1761). “L'allegro, Ed Il Penseroso: Set to Musick by Mr. Handel”, p.7

  • How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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    John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67
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John Milton

  • Born: December 9, 1608
  • Died: November 8, 1674
  • Occupation: Poet
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