Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
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John Milton
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Areopagitica
Comus
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
Milton on Education, the Tractate of Education,: With Supplementary Extracts from Other Writings of Milton
Milton's Comus
Of Education
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
Samson Agonistes
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems and Major Prose
The Complete Poetry
The History of Britain; That Part Especially Now Called England, from the First Traditional Beginning Continued to the Norman Conquest
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In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled him angry, yet recalledTo life prolonged and promised race I nowGladly behold though but His utmost skirtsOf glory, and far off His steps adore.
I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.