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  • And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500
  • This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

    Kings  
    'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1
  • And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

    Nature  
    John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.577
  • But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

    John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.576, Modern Library
  • Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

    John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.145, Penguin UK
  • What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

    John Milton, “On Shakespear”
  • So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

    Men  
    John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book I. - VI.]: 1”, p.254
  • These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

    Angel  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 164
  • Antichrist is Mammon's son.

    John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.402
  • O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

    Men  
    John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365
  • Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

    John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.351
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