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• Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Tractate of Educatio...
• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue
  stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages....
• Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato...
  . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate....
• In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasa
  it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth....
• I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble educatio
  laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming....
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  YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton -- born 1608 of John Milton, who was born in 1608, is the combination of beauty and power....
• I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
  -- John Milto...
• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them.
  They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit....
• And strictly meditate the thankless Muse. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 66