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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

John Milton
Time, Morning, Children
Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

John Milton
Summer, Dream, Children
'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

John Milton
Summer, Dream, Children
'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

John Milton
Children, Reading, Book
John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

John Milton
Children, Men
John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 11”

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

John Milton
Children, Mean, Law
John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

John Milton
Children, Lying, Winter
'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

John Milton
Children, Native Language, Delight
John Milton (1748). “The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes”, p.58

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

John Milton
Children, Book, Winning
John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

John Milton
Children, Fancy, Sweetest
'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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